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Are we witnessing the implosion of this campaign? (5.00 / 1) (#16)
by Iphie on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 11:19:32 AM EST
Serious question, I'm not trying to be hyperbolic. I can't really tell if these things resonate with the rest of the country the way they do with me, or I'm guessing, most of the people here who are paying such close attention to the political landscape. Each of these things appears to me to be damaging, but taken together, they seem devastating -- NAFTAgate, Rezko, Wright, Exelon -- they just create a picture of a candidate that is completely at odds with the image he is projecting. I wonder though, if it just seems that way to me because one, I'm supporting a different candidate and two, because I'm actually paying attention.

well the truth is more and more is (5.00 / 1) (#21)
by hellothere on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 11:25:19 AM EST
beginning to make it to the main stream media. and even they can't ignore it. i look for someone like lou dobbs to pick this up next week. morning joe was talking about it already. countdown will probably ignore it. and you can be certain this will come back even stronger if obama is the nominee.

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Yeah, (none / 0) (#44)
by Iphie on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 11:53:09 AM EST
and you can be certain this will come back even stronger if obama is the nominee.
This is what worries me most.

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I have the same question (5.00 / 1) (#33)
by Foxx on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 11:35:13 AM EST
I think perhaps so and I think perhaps that is why Hillary is laying low.

Are the party "leaders" leaning to or supporting Obama going to wake up and say, oops with this baggage he can't make it, we have to derail his now. Sit him down and say, um Barack this is not going to work.

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This has always been my point (5.00 / 1) (#38)
by MMW on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 11:43:55 AM EST
Because Democrats - fooled by left blogistan - did not vet their candidate, the Republicans will. Will the media run with these stories so the last few primaries get adequate info? I don't know, but the Republicans will in the GE. Yes, I think Clinton camp knew all these things, but they trusted their record and Democrats and they knew bringing this up would villify them. They never realized that they'd be villified any way for perceived racism.

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"vetted" (none / 0) (#121)
by diogenes on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 02:16:01 PM EST
Hillary and Bill and John McCain all have had much bigger scandals than Rezko.  All the Hillary folks keep saying that everything from Whitewater (for which people were also jailed) to $82,000 cattle futures to Monica and Hillary's passivity to Marc Rich pardon/Denise Rich donations to Hillary and everything in between are "old stuff".  A whole generation of voters didn't live through the "old stuff" and you can be sure that it will also be brought up in the presidential election.    


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Thanks (none / 0) (#123)
by Warren Terrer on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 02:21:51 PM EST
for bringing these old scandals up. Whatever would we do without Republicans like you? Now Deconstructionist will be happy.

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I'm Not Sure How Much Faith I Would Put (none / 0) (#76)
by MO Blue on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 12:25:56 PM EST
on the "party leaders." Pelosi was quoted yesterday as saying that the nominee will be determined by the delegate count. (Can't find the article - google deficient) Doesn't look like she is backing off her undeclared support of Obama even after the press barrage.

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Superdelegates ARE delegates, so that's a truism. (none / 0) (#113)
by cymro on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 01:56:23 PM EST
Pelosi was quoted yesterday as saying that the nominee will be determined by the delegate count.

Pelosi is cleverly saying nothing that we don't already know, except that she does not expect either candidate to withdraw. Of course the nominee will be decided by the final delegate count. That count will be known when all the delegates -- including the superdelegates -- vote, at the convention.

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