It's of a piece with McCain suspending his staffer for 'improperly' sending out those black power/obama videos. McCain and his campaign want the smears out there, and then they want the press love for 'denouncing' those smears. Same old bullshit.
Where Ron1 and i might differ (don't know for sure) is that I am so disgusted about the coverage and the opportunistic groveling in the Fixed News Muck that is the candidacy of that same Obama opponent from our side of the aisle. She and her campaign people, have taken negative campaigning back to the level of the brutal negative attacks on Max Cleland and Howard Dean. Obama's campaign won't even be dented by this stuff in the long run. Indeed some recent polls show the public has accepted his explanation and agreed he did a good job explaining (71%). The remaining 29 percent is lost to us anyway. No big deal.
But the party might be irrevocably ruined by this opponent who continues to blame Obama for the dissension she and her campaign create. How she can argue that the campaign that is causing this is the solution to our problems defies logic and decency. I have kept quiet even as this stuff worsened by the day. I know that RK and its readership prefer us to hang together and not criticize other Dems. And so I have hung back for a while. But we all need to let our party leaders know we have had enough of this.
Finally, how she can argue that the super-delegates should defy the public vote and defy the committed delegate count, how she can call for committed delegates to switch course, shows the depths to which she'd take us. Couching all of this in "civil rights," she shamelessly parleyed (or tried to) her fraudulent agreement to bypass Michigan and Florida, only to have crossed her fingers and not meant it at all. With that kind of deception up front, and with the pathetic pitch for claiming these states as her own, when the other candidates kept their agreements, defies logic and ethics. She is the one who caused the Michigan and Florida problem. Had she not broken her commitment and run, the two states would have had to move their dates and no one would have been disenfranchised. As it stands, Hillary's duplicity caused the entire problem.
Again, we must let our leaders hear from us this message: Enough!
There is no scenario by which Hillary Clinton can win this without literally stealing this from Obama. The time has come for these desperate pitches by her to stop. Enough! Enough! Enough!
Bill Clinton: "I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country," said Clinton, who was speaking to a group of veterans Friday in Charlotte, N.C. "And people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics."
The more things change, the more they stay the same
He was about as non-serious a reporter as it gets. Every time I see him on Fox News, I can only think of that....
I don't watch Faux, so I didn't know he was now a hack. Too bad, I liked him.
"You guys," "I love you" to quote Mr. Matthews... love you for what? I guess Mr. Matthews wants to keep his lovely job, but whoever those other three pieces of plastic were, I neither know nor care.
One piece of male-plastic did admit they neglected two other "talking points" because they got so tangled up bashing, I mean, discussing Obama. "Balanced" means clearly far far right, middle right, and bottom fishing right; no one I could hear said anything approaching defense of Obama or the Democrats. It was all about how offensive was Obama: very much, somewhat less, and sorta. Nobody asked any balanced questions: is Rev. Wright justified? Do white preachers like Falwell or Buchanan or Hegge make similar remarks against blacks? Didn't one of the right wing preachers say God was punishing America on 9/11?
I suppose if Fox is your sole window to what's happening in the world, you end up with a mind and world view as distorted and shallow as Fox, the tabloid sexational news channel. It's discouraging to think a lot of people know no better---- I do not find Fox News worthy of being called news; it is not even entertaining. (Why did not Soros buy a television network?)
Priceless.