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Declaring Victory: Remember, Florida And Michigan Will Count In November | 227 comments (227 topical)
Fitting (5.00 / 14) (#1)
by JavaCityPal on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:10:00 AM EST
and in character with the campaign he has run. I hear pundits refer to it as organized, but I see it as a bully campaign. Every episode like this speaks to which of the two candidates truly has the "entitlement" attitude, and diminishes the likelihood he will be able to move that 50% of Clinton supporters who say they can't vote for him.
Agree! (5.00 / 7) (#13)
by Molly Pitcher on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:17:09 AM EST
Obama has no understanding of people, no intuition.  There is black, white, and nothing in between.  (It is fitting that the sentence could refer to both race and the nuances of life.)  He'd better concentrate on McCain, because he won't be getting any help from the old crones!  I hope Hillary goes on as I read she started, ignoring him also.

from one of the old crones

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Old crones (5.00 / 3) (#81)
by vigkat on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:45:11 AM EST
The Obama campaign manages to disrespect and alienate large numbers of potential voters with every move it makes. It's a puzzling approach to unity, this deliberate burning of bridges and stubborn inability to see the forest for the trees.  Judgment?

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don't you see the SCOTUS? (5.00 / 2) (#97)
by Salo on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:48:56 AM EST
the SCOTUS!

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The Supreme Court (5.00 / 4) (#108)
by stefystef on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:52:42 AM EST
is important, but what is more important is the Dems keep picking the WRONG candidate.

You can fight a bad Supreme Court choice, it's been done before.  Get a strong Congress and you can tie the hands of McCain easily.  Bush got away with as much as he did because of the Republican Congress.  But that has changed.

The SCOTUS is no excuse to put a mediocre president.

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and McCain (5.00 / 1) (#173)
by cawaltz on Thu May 08, 2008 at 10:13:23 AM EST
MCCain.........100 years in Iraq boogedy, boogedy boo!

I despise terror tactics. Cowardice is unbecoming.

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no way (5.00 / 2) (#232)
by moll on Thu May 08, 2008 at 11:54:58 AM EST
the SCOTUS!


It won't work.

Obama's nominee for SCOTUS will be just as bad as McCain's.

If the Dems let him get away with this, we will have two Republican parties in America, and nobody left to represent the people.

Unify behind the candidate means "vote for a new coalition Democratic party" - one with no place (and no representation) for what used to be the core of the Democratic party.

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i want to run to the bath and barf (5.00 / 2) (#226)
by hellothere on Thu May 08, 2008 at 10:33:17 AM EST
when i hear pundits claim obama ran a brilliant campaign. this diary makes some points on that score. when obama loses the ge(almost assured), the people who write about this campaign later won't be so suck up about it. they can compare it to jesse jackson's rainbow coalition, and it will not compare well.

this campaign has essentially broken the democratic party. the donkey is running on life support and doesn't even seem to know it. good luck with that.

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Same Old Game (5.00 / 10) (#14)
by Athena on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:17:26 AM EST
When Obama says he's running to "change the game" - I think he means after it got rigged to give him the nomination.

He's been way content to let heavy-handed powerbrokers in the MSM and the states distort the process so he can be a nominee without scrutiny and without votes.

Not enough scrutiny?  Not enough votes?  No problem for The One.

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Obama is digging his own grave. (5.00 / 6) (#83)
by stevenb on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:45:27 AM EST
I just want to say this: if Obama and Axelrod are ACTUALLY THIS STUPID to deny MI and FL a full voice (especially considering his numbers are so good and he is the likely nominee), Obama deserves to lose in November.

The arrogance to make a statement such as actual votes not being an accurate metric is THE MOST anti-democratic statement that he could possibly make.  They are insane, and the government he will setup will be ugly.  

It is amazing that everyday some idiotic shocker comes out of the Obama campaign and very few people in the MSM actually take it up.

No wonder the Clinton Campaign is tearing its hair out...

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Unfortunately most of MSM (5.00 / 3) (#149)
by Benjamin3 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 10:04:50 AM EST
will happily go along with him.  Any mention of MI and FL is done in the context of the Clinton campaign trying to use "new math," "changing the rule" or "moving the goalposts." [sigh]  Sometimes I really feel like we're living in a Banana Republic.


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My God (5.00 / 6) (#84)
by Kathy on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:45:56 AM EST
How many of us remember Bush "declaring victory" when Florida was still in turmoil?  That f-ing smirking monkey.

The freaking arrogance.  It is gobsmacking.

As for myself, I am phone banking Oregon every spare minute I have.  Has no one considered the possibility that her wins in WVA and KY could steamroll into an Oregon win?  Even if he eeks by, to declare victory at that point is extremely dubious.  The last polls showed tightening, if I remember right.

This is like Russia planting a flag on the bottom of the ocean and claiming it for their own.  Reminds me of that Eddie Izzard skit:  "But, we have a flag."

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Darth Vader in the canteen (none / 0) (#101)
by Salo on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:50:29 AM EST
on the Death Star.

"This tray is wet!"

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Hmmph (5.00 / 1) (#124)
by litigatormom on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:57:08 AM EST
I said several times yesterday, here and elsewhere, that I would vote for Obama in the fall, despite my disappointment with  many aspects of his campaign.

But this is beyond disrespecting Hillary Clinton.  He is disrespecting the voters of MI and FLA.

And he is disrespecting me. Because he obviously doesn't want my vote.

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If he loses people (none / 0) (#203)
by Lahdee on Thu May 08, 2008 at 10:21:02 AM EST
such as yourself, those who hope despite all, then McBush it will be.

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He is the carbon copy of Bush---doh! (4.50 / 2) (#172)
by MarkL on Thu May 08, 2008 at 10:13:20 AM EST
And just like Bush, he is the candidate who is intended to be the elites' errand boy.
Bush was a bit of  a Pinocchio though. I expect Obama will have a better sense of his real prerogatives.

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Declaring Victory: Remember, Florida And Michigan Will Count In November | 227 comments (227 topical)

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