which donors...? the 20 who signed the letter or the nearly 2 million on Obama's website?

Posted at March 26, 2008 6:08 PM in response to In Letter, Top Clinton Donors Chastise Pelosi For Statements About Super-Delegates

Perhaps if we had let the Repugs impeach Bill, she could have taken notes?

Posted at March 26, 2008 6:05 PM in response to In Letter, Top Clinton Donors Chastise Pelosi For Statements About Super-Delegates

Aimey May,

I wrote to the DNC three months ago and told them that I would never vote for Hillary under any circumstance. Now you think about the nearly 2 million people contributing to Barack Obama's campaign and the 20 some maxed out supporters of Hillary on that list? (Clarence Avant, shame on you!) Who do you think the party is going to listen to?

I find the people on the list not unlike Bush's campaign supporters. Accepting of any behavior as long as it leads to a win. This is a new day...and those guys are outta step with the times.

Posted at March 26, 2008 6:00 PM in response to In Letter, Top Clinton Donors Chastise Pelosi For Statements About Super-Delegates

Well Bret, we will simply cancel each other out. Because there is no way I would vote for someone who obfuscates, manipulates, and plays victim within the inth degree simply because she thought her candidacy was inevitable. Had someone told me two years ago I would not be voting for Hillary Clinton, I would have laughed in their faces. My oh My how silly I would have looked. I voted for Bill Clinton twice and if I could only get those votes back. At least McCain fought and was tortured for his country. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a travesty of poor choices the first being the man she chose to marry!

Posted at March 26, 2008 5:53 PM in response to In Letter, Top Clinton Donors Chastise Pelosi For Statements About Super-Delegates

Greg you don't throw the baby out with the bath water. A President does not have to misuse that authority and you never want to preclude the opportunity to do some good...just because everybody else has misused it.

Posted at February 27, 2008 12:58 PM in response to Lanny Davis: It's Hard To Criticize Obama "Without Being Accused Of Playing Race Card"

Kensdad... You can believe that Clinton's campaign dropped that photo. One of the things civilians don't know about campaigns like Clintons...is that staff never ever ever gets involved that way in a campaign unless told to do so /with instructions to deny deny deny until or unless there is proof...then prepare to be sacrificed as the candidate (Hillary) shows shock and chagrin.

One of the first things you learn as a staffer on major campaigns is that your career is toast if you ever presume to do anything on behalf of your candidate that has not been sanctioned. Civilians like to believe that overzealous staffers do these things. Forget it...politicians MUST have loyalty or all of their careers would be down the drain. Loyalty is valued over competence or intelligence. once identified as loyal...you quickly learn that if you muck up you're on your own. However, you also learn that more than likely if you come out of a Marc Penn camp, you will be instructed to muck up and to also be prepared to be sacrificed if caught...but they will get you a good job down the line, when the campaign is over.

Case in point...the whole rap about Hillary's campaign manager, Doyle-Solis mismanaging Hillary's $100 million campaign budget was bull! The fact was Hill and Bill were so arrogant they thought by Feb 5, they would have the nomination in the bag...so they tapped their fundraisers for the max amount and didn't give online fundraising a thought. Then Barack Obama blew their campaign strategy to smithereens in Iowa...Hillary's vaunted experience was now on the line...they underestimated an opponent. Something every freshman legislator is told never to do. Hillary simply could not take the rap for this fundamental catastrophic miscalculation on so many important fronts. So they called Solis-Doyle in the room and told her she had to be the loyal goat in this fiasco! She was going so Hillary could save face. The only way a $100 million gets blown is that it doesn't. Every dollar in that campaign was accounted for...what was not accounted for was that Obama turned out to be the opponent of their nightmares. He had a smarter better financed campaign than the Clintons. The irony is quite a few of Obama's staffers once worked for Bill. Anybody wonder why they chose Obama over Hillary????

Posted at February 27, 2008 12:55 PM in response to Lanny Davis: It's Hard To Criticize Obama "Without Being Accused Of Playing Race Card"

Tell me wwjb...how many people do you know who have a kneejerk/negative response anytime Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton is mentioned? Slick Willie Clinton's subtext in SC was that this guy(Obama)is just like Jesse Jackson politically. When just the opposite is true... Jesse and Al dismissed Obama like everybody else until he kept winning, then as they have done with every white Democratic candidate...they jumped on board. None of these players want to be totally left out in the cold if Obama wins...so they all suck it up and come with their tails tucked. What they find when they get to him is that he doesn't need them, but they need him if they want to be relevant in the current political atmosphere.

They are all pissed at Obama because if he wins t he will not be beholding to anyone but the people/voters who have supported him. Few endorsements have garnered him more than an opportunity for folks to stand still long enough to listen to him and then HE wins them over. The way politics works is you sell your soul early to big donors that as president you are paying back favors your entire tenure in office. The only people who get to pull Barack Obama's coattails are those who voted for him (we presume that those that gave him their money will also vote for him)...and that is as it should be!

Posted at February 27, 2008 12:35 PM in response to Lanny Davis: It's Hard To Criticize Obama "Without Being Accused Of Playing Race Card"

Liam....you hit the nail on the head...this is the same tactic that Bob Kerrey, Shaheen and the poor man's Karl Rove, Marc Penn, pulled out of their butts after I0WA...this is an attempt to use the subtext of race as a rallying cry for folks who only see race...it is such a cowardly act by these so-called Democrats...But that is Hill and Bill's tortured win at any cost consciousness. They will do anything no matter how much everyone around them has to hold their noses.

Posted at February 27, 2008 12:19 PM in response to Lanny Davis: It's Hard To Criticize Obama "Without Being Accused Of Playing Race Card"

hahahaha...not so hard...if you use the N word then you're racist...if you say he's incompetent, then you're wrong..but you can say it. However we will show you Hillary's campaign strategy and prove you're wrong...

For those who are naive enough to think that Bill and Hill have not used nuanced subtext around Obama's race or the race of some of his supporters...you need a few more years of living in the real world. They both counted on their long time relationship within the black community to quell any such observations...but hey if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...guess what?

Posted at February 27, 2008 12:13 PM in response to Lanny Davis: It's Hard To Criticize Obama "Without Being Accused Of Playing Race Card"

Not true! HERALDSQUARE...we are talking about folks who get online and give bucks to the campaign and they are not purchasing a product, but helping an ethical and honorable candidate win the Democratic Party's nomination!

Posted at February 27, 2008 12:02 PM in response to Obama Campaign Passes One-Million Donor Watershed