Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I had to laugh in agreement with Steve Benen’s opening statement on The Carpetbagger Report on the WaPo editorial today about whether Clinton should stay in the race. Benen said:
With about seven months to go before voters choose the next president, Democrats are not only divided over which candidate should get the nomination, they’re divided […]
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Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Will wonders never cease… The WaPo has a piece today that outlines how Barack Obama overstated the Kennedy’s role in helping his father come to the United States. Michael Dobbs reports:
Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his “very existence” to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which […]
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Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Gilbert Martinez
Via lambert, Suburban Guerilla quotes Eric Boehlert:
What’s happening online now is potentially dangerous: HRC has gotten dreadful press, not fair, “gotcha,” and so on — there’s a portion of the blogosphere that has ignored that and there’s a portion that has encouraged that.
It’s dangerous because the media criticism has to be consistent and relentless, and […]
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Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Among the must reads of the day, is a post from Steve Clemons on the HuffPo: “The World is Watching and Wants More: Clinton-Obama Race Should Go All the Way.”
Clemons says:
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Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
Professor Sean Wilentz of Princeton, who wrote “The Worst President in History?” for Rolling Stone last year, has a piece in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer–”Obama was the first to play the race card.”
Wilentz discusses not only the “race card” charges and their origins, but also some of the racial insensitivity shown by those in the Obama […]
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Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Listen up everyone – ”just relax.” Enough already with the moans and groans from Clinton and Obama supporters about who sould do what in this race.
“We just need to relax and let this happen. Nobody’s talking about wrecking the party,” [Bill] Clinton said. “Everywhere I go, all these working people say, ‘Don’t you dare let her […]
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Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I’ve grown weary of the calls for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race. I have grown weary of the claims by supporters in both the Clinton and Obama camps that they will not support the nominee. And I have had it up to hear with all the pitching of the various scenario’s of […]
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