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Don't get more Hoosier than John Mellencamp? (5.00 / 1) (#1)
by lansing quaker on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 09:39:38 PM EST
But I thought he was doing events for both campaigns?

They're hitting Mellencamp hard now, and "Hoosier values."

he's not endorsing Obama (5.00 / 3) (#7)
by Jeralyn on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 09:44:15 PM EST
He's playing at an event for both in a few weeks.

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Oh, I know, J! (5.00 / 2) (#10)
by lansing quaker on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 09:46:55 PM EST
Just the rhetoric was hitting Mellencamp so hard, as if it was indicative that he's so Obama.

When, in reality, he's not backing a candidate and just lending his music.

My question and comment were just rhetoric with a twist of snark. ;)

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See? (5.00 / 2) (#12)
by lansing quaker on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 09:48:09 PM EST
Obama just thanks Mellencamp.  It's a subtle spin that Mellencamp = Obama, as was the case with the intro comments.


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Tried to get on HRC.com (5.00 / 4) (#24)
by BarnBabe on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 09:52:15 PM EST
to donate, but it is jammed. Yea! Might have to wait until tomorrow. Even the diary below this is jamming at the end. Or, it is just me. What a ride tonight.

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I couldn't get on her site either :) (5.00 / 2) (#34)
by nycstray on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 09:54:50 PM EST
here's hoping she sets an overnight fund raising record!

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keep trying (5.00 / 5) (#49)
by Kathy on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 09:57:36 PM EST
half a mil in the hour after the polls closed.  She needs more!

(according to Brazile, Clinton needs to "win another big state."  Yeesh, when does Obama have to win a big state?)

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Right after (5.00 / 1) (#66)
by madamab on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 10:00:10 PM EST
he wins the nomination! Duh!

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Kind of kills BO's 'we won more states' argument (5.00 / 2) (#143)
by Ellie on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 10:20:49 PM EST
And how many of those were Repugs -- I mean Dems for a Day influenced? How many of his wins were by more than 10%?

Bill Schneider is saying that "nothing changed" in PA. So if BO had to outspend HRC by 3:1 just to stay in place, how is that a good thing for him?


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CNN....... (none / 0) (#182)
by kc on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 11:10:26 PM EST
makes me sick.

It isn't enough that they have Donna Brazile and Roland Martin faking being impartial, but they also keep moving the goal post. Everyone of them except Begala is in the tank and the margin that she has to win by, according to CNN, keeps getting bigger.

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Donna Brazile (none / 0) (#196)
by STLDeb on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 10:10:40 AM EST
I was YELLING at my TV last night wondering what she was doing on CNN last night.  

Did you notice 1 of the panel was labeled "Obama supporter".  I didn't notice any of the other panel members labeled "Hillary supporter".  What is up with that?  

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Just got on (5.00 / 1) (#50)
by BarnBabe on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 09:57:52 PM EST
I tried to go through her campaign site, but would not work. Then through Jeralyn's link. No. So I just got in to give some more to her. And the 2nd diary unfroze also. So try now.

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I donated no problem about 15 minutes ago (none / 0) (#82)
by Lil on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 10:02:19 PM EST


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Me too! (5.00 / 2) (#90)
by lansing quaker on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 10:04:20 PM EST
$25 more for Hillary!

How much longer until I'm on opensecrets.org?  ;)

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Google yourself. (none / 0) (#148)
by rooge04 on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 10:23:49 PM EST
I did and it came up on the Huffington post donations counter! Creepy!

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Send an e-transfer to a contact email address (5.00 / 1) (#114)
by Ellie on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 10:08:33 PM EST
Jeralyn or BTD:

If you have a secure contact email address -- or get one for e-transfers and wired donations -- for hillaryclinton.com, people who can't log onto the jammed site can still donate and the campaign pick the donations up later.

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Wow -- Once again I've been suckered... (5.00 / 2) (#80)
by Exeter on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 10:02:11 PM EST
...by an Obama intentional mischaractorization: I thought for sure Melancamp had endorsed.

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At least you've got the Intertubez (5.00 / 4) (#98)
by madamab on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 10:04:51 PM EST
to straighten you out.

Most of America doesn't.

That's why I can't stand Obama.

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The media reported that -- and now we have (5.00 / 3) (#110)
by Cream City on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 10:06:34 PM EST
incontrovertible proof that they make up stuff.  They make it up.  Clearly, no one asked Mellencamp.

Or they got it from the Obama camp and just ran with puffery without checking it.  Appalling reportage.

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But no retractions forthcoming from media (5.00 / 3) (#55)
by Cream City on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 09:58:33 PM EST
that reported, en masse last week, that Mellencamp was endorsing Obama.

No, he was just taking Obama's money for a gig.

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I doubt he got paid for it. (5.00 / 1) (#169)
by Iphie on Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 10:36:55 PM EST
He's a good guy. He does alot of work for progressive causes. He's not endorsing either of them (but clearly he's supporting the Democrats). It's not his fault that the media doesn't factcheck.

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That's cool, and it was no aspersion (none / 0) (#191)
by Cream City on Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 12:15:27 AM EST
on Mellencamp to say he got the gig -- but I would hope that at least his band's expenses are paid, unless that's his donation to both candidates.

My ire was for the media who presume an endorsement just because a musician likes to play for the people!


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