The Huffington Post broke this little gem yesterday afternoon at 2:21 p.m. Since ABC was running the best "gotcha" debate I’ve ever witnessed, why did George Stephanopuolos not drill Clinton endlessly on this issue? Since Sean Hannity was giving Stephanopuolos questions before the debate yesterday, timing cannot be an excuse.
In January 1995, as the [...]
Statement issued last night from David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager:
“Tonight we saw a real choice between the old politics of point-scoring and distraction and a politics that focuses on bringing us together to actually solve the challenges we talk about every single election. Continuing the theme of her campaign, Senator Clinton used every single [...]
ABC’s Democratic debate in Philadelphia was absolutely awful. It might as well have been a Republican Party sponsored event with Sean Hannity and Brit Hume serving as interrogators and Hillary Clinton as their cheerleader and No. 1 fan.
For 40 to 50 minutes, Charlie Gibson and and George Stephanopuolos hammered Barack Obama on: [...]
Of course no one can say for sure until after the Pennsylvania primary, but this negative strategy seems to fly in the face of the overwhelming narrative conveyed in the poll released today.
In most of Pennsylvania’s markets, the only TV ad Hillary is running right now is a negative one — the spot hitting [...]
John McCain Hillary Clinton launched an ad in Pennsylvania yesterday, attacking Barack Obama on his "elitist" (Clinton description, not mine) remarks on April 6. As expected, the Crown-Royal-chugging Duck Hunter opens her attack with "Barack Obama said people in small towns ‘cling to guns or religion as a way to explain their frustration…’ [...]
Addressing steelworkers in Steelton, Pennsylvania, Obama levied the strongest attack on The Duck Hunter that I’ve heard him deliver the entire campaign. He referred to her as Annie Oakley (from the musical Anne Get Your Gun) and said she is out there talking "like she’s on the duck blind every Sunday."
Not losing sight of [...]
Some duck hunters aren’t too happy with The Duck Hunter according to First Read:
In this afternoon’s conference call sponsored by the Pennsylvania Sportsmen and Sportswomen for Obama, small-town politicians said the latest attacks from the Clinton campaign are shameless, aimed at creating divisions in their communities.
“Trying to turn small-town Pennsylvanians against each other for political [...]
Since Friday, Hillary Clinton has been hammering Barack Obama about his "elitist" values and on how his beliefs are "not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans." But today responding to a question about the last time she fired a gun or went to church services, Clinton said it "is not a relevant question [...]
The Scranton, Pennsylvania Times-Tribune endorses Barack Obama. It is also worth noting, as the editorial board did, that Scranton is the hometown of Hillary Clinton’s father.
In a nomination campaign that has defied convention, Mr. Obama has energized an entire generation of voters that, for the most part, otherwise had checked out of political participation. That, [...]
Pathetic.
From TPM:
The distribution of "we’re not bitter" stickers to her campaign rallies is the height of over-the-top crudity, and the reports are that very few audience members seem to have much enthusiasm for this nonsense. Not surprisingly, people cannot see the reasons for so much fuss.
I have intentionally not commented on the meltdown Hillary is trying to force because I wanted to see what would transpire today. It is as I expected. Several weeks ago I discussed the logic behind Hillary’s ranting and raving. Her long-standing strategy has been to destroy Obama using Lee Atwater’s "demonizing the opponent" strategy.
David Sirota [...]
This is a video of Barack Obama in Terre Haute, Indiana responding to criticism from Hillary Clinton and John McCain on Obama’s “bitter” comment.
A full transcript is after the jump.
Hillary Clinton asserted today that voters can trust what she says, but claimed voters cannot trust what Barack Obama says.
After Gov. Ed Rendell subtly presented his money-spin on Meet the Press today (mentioned here), he argued that four states — OH, FL, PA, and MI — and the Electoral College system are the factors that should and will govern how the Democratic Party selects its presidential nominee. Interestingly enough, Tim Russert actually challenged the [...]
If Pennsylvania has the equivalent of a Hatch Act, Gov. Ed Rendell has a problem.
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