Obama made the comments. Obama expressed "deep regret" because of them. Blame Hillary all you want, but Obama self-inflicted this wound. He's in damage control now. Doesn't Obama get any of the blame for his campaign problem?

Posted at April 13, 2008 2:33 PM in response to Geoffrey Garin: Obama's Small-Town Comments Would Damage Him In General Election -- And Super-Dels Should Consider Them

Didn't Obama already express "regret" about his choice of words? Sounds like Obama himself wishes he had not made these comments. So why all the defensiveness at TPM? Clinton will take advantage of a self-inflicted Obama wound. So will McCain. So would any opponent in a political contest.

Obama will survive this latest brouhaha, but I wish he would pick his words more carefully. He needs more than TPM votes to win in November.

Posted at April 13, 2008 9:16 AM in response to Geoffrey Garin: Obama's Small-Town Comments Would Damage Him In General Election -- And Super-Dels Should Consider Them

MichaelWeaver,

Your prediction of Obama's political death are premature. The Clintons survived the Republican attack machine and Obama can too. All he needs is the spine for counterattack; the spine that eluded both John Kerry and Al Gore. From what I see, Obama is learning how to play the negative counterattack game very well. He needs more seasoning but the candidate has a good right jab and left hook. He's learning.

The Hillary Haters at this site will one day turn their guns on McCain. When that day comes--and it will come sooner than you would like--the fun part of this election season will commence. I hope you stick around; you'll get all sorts of attention now focused on Hillary supporters. And so will a decrepit 72 year old warmonger named John McCain.

Posted at March 26, 2008 8:44 PM in response to Poll Sheds Light On Impact Wright Is Having On Obama

Apparently, more than a few Obama supporters on this thread are prepared to vote for McMeToo (or stay home which is a vote for McMeToo too). The bitterness cuts both ways as the poll indicates and many comments on this thread prove.

Posted at March 26, 2008 1:58 PM in response to Poll: Twenty-Eight Percent Of Hillary Supporters Would Back McCain If Obama Wins

Looks like Obama has a 49 state strategy now.

Posted at March 22, 2008 10:55 PM in response to Rasmussen: McCain Beating Hillary In Arkansas, Swamping Obama

Strange poll. Like others, I wasn't aware that Clinton lead Obama by only 6% last month in Pennsylvania. How did that one slip through the cracks?

In any case, I don't see how anyone can spin a doubling of PA support for Clinton in three weeks as good news for Obama. Worse still, the poll, which is now at the Quinnipiac University website, shows a widening gap between PA black and white voters.

Obama's big speech on race relations may be a reaction to polls like this one moving in the wrong direction.

Here is the poll:

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1327.xml?ReleaseID=1158

Posted at March 18, 2008 11:31 AM in response to Poll: Hillary Widens Lead In Pennsylvania

But Ferraro added "women (of any race)" into her comments. She spoke about gender discrimination, not blacks spefically. Read the entire quote in the context of the interview.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/lifeandculture/ci_8489268

Posted at March 11, 2008 6:41 PM in response to Clinton Campaign Manager Suggests Obama Campaign Is Playing Race Card With Ferraro Comments

Ferraro:

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.”

In the next sentence she says this:

"And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position."

My question: If Ferraro's primary message was about race, why did she include "women (of any color)" in her remarks?

Ferraro was talking about gender discrimination in the interview.

Original Quotation:

http://www.dailybreeze.com/lifeandculture/ci_8489268

Posted at March 11, 2008 6:28 PM in response to Clinton Campaign Manager Suggests Obama Campaign Is Playing Race Card With Ferraro Comments

Those who believe the Vice Presidency is some ceremonial do-nothing post haven't watched the career of Dick Cheney too closely.

Hillary will take it if offered. Obama will offer the job to avoid a nasty convention fight. All depends on what happens in the remaining primaries.

For now, the issue is on the back burner, slow boil.

Posted at March 11, 2008 6:13 PM in response to Why Hillary Will Take the Vice-Presidency

Let me explain it to you, Berwynboris. Powers left the door open for Obama to renege on his campaign promise to withdraw troops from Iraq should "circumstances in January 2009" warrant the change. Obama never made that statement in any speech I'm aware of. Clinton and McCain can now ask, "Well, Barack, what circumstances do you envision for breaking campaign promise? And please be specific." It just leaves another hole that Barack must plug when he could be doing better things--like making Hillary the issue again.

Powers put the entire campaign on the defensive needlessly. I'm glad she's gone for now. Barack needs to tell his staff in no uncertain terms to BE CAREFUL around reporters. It's Politics 101.

Look forward to Wyoming and Mississippi and hope these self-inflicting wounds don't occur again.

Posted at March 7, 2008 7:42 PM in response to Obama: Don't Be Confused, I'm Serious About Ending War