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John Edwards is on Leno tonight, so everyone will be trying to read the tea leaves.
(WSJ) Obama's Wright problems freeze superdelegates. (However, Ambinder says, "it's hard to find a level of panic among them.")
(TPM) 111,000 new Democrats registered in Pa. (3% of the 4 million registered Dems.)
And, if Obama's looking for an in with the white male working class, appearing on sportsradio may be a very good way to do it.
Plus, with the release of the White House schedules, they're back to attacking Clinton on Nafta.
(WSJ) Obama's Wright problems freeze superdelegates. (However, Ambinder says, "it's hard to find a level of panic among them.")
(TPM) 111,000 new Democrats registered in Pa. (3% of the 4 million registered Dems.)
And, if Obama's looking for an in with the white male working class, appearing on sportsradio may be a very good way to do it.
Plus, with the release of the White House schedules, they're back to attacking Clinton on Nafta.
posted by mikevotes at
2:07 PM
6 Comments:
Interesting piece on the connection between the Clintons and Rev Wright:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Jeremiah_Wright_was_White_House_guest.html
All this confirms that Rev Wright was and continues to be a very respected individual in the religious community and not a traitor or Clinton-Hater...
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Anonymous, at 8:44 PM
And yet Ferraro is still at it, digging her bigoted, twisted reality, hole deeper.
"To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable,"
What a piece of work.
Actually, all kidding aside, she's of the same generation as Wright, and like Wright is the product of the ugly racial environment of her youth. We will be better off when the venom (repressed or otherwise) has passed.
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-epm, at 8:53 PM
Yeah. I thought about linking both of those, but neither seemed that they would really advance the conversation.
Anon, there's also a bunch of Clinton 90's fundraiser stuff bubbling up out of the schedules.
EPM, I just couldn't do it. I just can't give her a platform even in criticism.
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mikevotes, at 9:51 PM
But do you see how she's proving Obama's point? About how the Black community feels put upon by, well, the "white" power system...? And how people of a certain generation are trapped in the racial prejudices and anger of that generation?
It's just really sad...
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-epm, at 10:17 PM
My question for the night would be,
"Is there any black person Hillary Clinton would say is more electable than she is?"
And I did put it all up tonight.
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mikevotes, at 10:31 PM
Is there any white person she would say is more electable than she is?
If a white Democratic candidate had close ties to a racist pastor, would you expect her to keep quiet about it?
And about Ferraro... she is right(this time). What she said about Obama originally does not come CLOSE to what Rev. Wright has said. It was a bogus comparison on Obama's part (as was the "white grandmother" comparison)
and illustrative of his speech's downside. His analysis of race in America was insightful and even inspirational; his attempt at deflecting blame was artful but hardly admirable.
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Anonymous, at 3:10 AM
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