Great suggestion for Axelrod and Plouffle..they have inDEED done an AWESOME job!!

Posted at May 9, 2008 5:45 PM in response to Obama's dream cabinet pool

Hillary is the one stereotyping. SHE is the one saying vote for me on the basis of race, that Obama can't win because he isn't white. Hillary is the one polarizing the electorate on the basis of race. Even though her facts are totally wrong. The demographic she is yammering about did not vote for Clinton, Gore or Kerrey. She as usually spins the truth to shape the world for her own delusional ambitions. Her as President would be a catastrophe for the country based on that mental deficiency alone.

No matter what Hillary says these are the true facts:

According to CNN's 1996 exit poll, Bill Clinton lost the white vote (Dole 46%, Clinton 43%, Perot 9%). He lost the white male vote by an even larger margin (Dole 49%, Clinton 38%, Perot 11%). And he lost gun owners badly (Dole 51%, Clinton 38%, Perot 10%). However, Clinton won the popular vote overall 49%-41%-8%, and he won 70% of the electoral votes.

In 2000 -- when Al Gore won the popular vote by half a million votes -- he lost white males to Bush by a whopping 60%-36%, according to CNN's exit poll. He lost men overall 53%-42%. He lost whites overall 54%-42%. He lost gun owners 61%-36%. He lost small-town voters 59%-38% and rural voters 59%-37%. He lost the Midwest overall 49%-48%.

I'm saying it's a myth that Democrats had Joe Sixpack in their back pockets until that snooty arugula-eater Barack Obama came along, and it's a myth that they suffer crushing defeats when bowlers and boilermaker-drinkers aren't on board.

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:54 PM in response to It Is Not Racism

The piece was really biased too by including Brazile's remarks without noting that she was responding to Begala saying 'my democratic party cannot be a coalition of eggheads and africanamericans, that is just not a winning coalition'

Obama will and has been reaching out to ALL Americans every since his campaign began. He has stated that 'politics did not not lead me to the working class, the working class led me to politics'

And as far as Krugmans advice about focusing on economic issues independent of race he must not have listen to Obama's victory NC speech where he said that very thing...
that we cannot allow the political focus of the media to play on our fears to exploit our differences for political gain and turn us aagainst each other on the basis of race, economics or working class status.
Obama also said that security, opportunity and compassion are not conservative or liberal values they are AMERICAN values.

Krugman jsut has a bug up his butt about Obama that prevents him from seeing the forest for the trees.

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:49 PM in response to It Is Not Racism

oh...and Eric Holder for AG

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:40 PM in response to Obama's dream cabinet pool

Boxer is jewish and many people feel that this is too much to have on the ticket...just like Obama and Rendell or Obama and Richardson...Democrats traditionally have not been able to get the blue collar ethnic vote so Rendell, Boxer and Richardson make that demographics votes even harder to get.
Although if hispanics voted for Richardson and we were able to get TX, FL, CA, and NY...the WH could be ours due to the hispanic vote coming out for Richardson.

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:39 PM in response to Obama's dream cabinet pool

Cohen was all for going to Iraq and the surge. He got it wrong and is part of an entire group that got it wrong who presently serve as Hillary's foreign advisory team...and she now wants to obliterate and defend every OPEC country in the ME.

Cohen and Albright can go home and never darn be allowed to work on foreign policy again if we want whats best for America.

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:34 PM in response to Obama's dream cabinet pool

VP- Sebelius or Strickland (OH)
Sec of State, Susan Rice
Sec Defense, Sam Nunn
National Security Advisor Biden/Powers/Graham(FL)
Joint Chief of Staff, Zakaria
Sec of HUD, Dodd
Sec of Energy. Lovins
EPA Kucinich
Homeland Security, Rockefeller Jay/Waxman

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:30 PM in response to Obama's dream cabinet pool

Precisely!

They need to tell ALL the facts. Does anyone know Rachel Maddow or Olberman's or Cris Matthews e mail? They need to start telling the WHOLE WHITE VOTER truth:

Just a reminder, since everyone seems to be forgetting:

According to CNN's 1996 exit poll, Bill Clinton lost the white vote (Dole 46%, Clinton 43%, Perot 9%). He lost the white male vote by an even larger margin (Dole 49%, Clinton 38%, Perot 11%). And he lost gun owners badly (Dole 51%, Clinton 38%, Perot 10%). However, Clinton won the popular vote overall 49%-41%-8%, and he won 70% of the electoral votes.

In 2000 -- when Al Gore won the popular vote by half a million votes -- he lost white males to Bush by a whopping 60%-36%, according to CNN's exit poll. He lost men overall 53%-42%. He lost whites overall 54%-42%. He lost gun owners 61%-36%. He lost small-town voters 59%-38% and rural voters 59%-37%. He lost the Midwest overall 49%-48%.

I'm not saying these are goals to aspire to. I'm saying it's a myth that Democrats had Joe Sixpack in their back pockets until that snooty arugula-eater Barack Obama came along, and it's a myth that they suffer crushing defeats when bowlers and boilermaker-drinkers aren't on board.

*****

And while we're talking about voting blocs: Since it's now an article of faith that Barack Obama will lose every voting bloc to Republican John McCain that he lost to fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton by essentially the same margin, shouldn't we extend that rule to Clinton as well? Following that logic, shouldn't we assume that she'll get less than 10% of the black vote against John McCain, just as she does against Obama?

Posted at May 9, 2008 11:49 AM in response to ABC: Obama Overtakes Hillary Among Super-Delegates

can't get the song to play from your link

Posted at May 7, 2008 11:26 AM in response to Donna Brazille takes on Paul Begala on CNN

TELL IT!!!!!!!!!!

Outstanding post Cher.

the VP candidate you are describing is Sam Nunn.

Posted at May 7, 2008 11:06 AM in response to Donna Brazille takes on Paul Begala on CNN