Obama, not so much.  Hillary is working hard to get herself right up there next to broccoli, though...

...who were willing to use racial divisiveness to gain and keep power.  We called them "Dixiecrats."  During the long march from Hubert Humphrey's civil rights speech at the 1948 Convention in Philadelphia to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and beyond, they gradually defected to the Republican Party, like Strom Thurmond, or eventually saw the light and changed their ways, like George Wallace.

The price we paid for our principles was Nixon's Southern Strategy, but the price for the other way would have been our souls.

Damn it, my father, out of his own meager pocket, paid poll taxes for black voters in Texas in 1966.  I will not stand for this vile shit in my party.

They both have

a lifetime of experience that [they] will bring to the White House.

the get some gain by using it to purge the party of DLC asswipes.
Send a message - don't send us a damn Centrist - this is FDR's party and he wants it back.

As my mother used to say, "Handsome is as handsome does."

I approach all the TV and print ads the same way -- if a Republican would have made the ad, would it have been different? If not, then the ad is not a Democratic ad.

This system served me well in the Maryland primary, with the recorded phone calls from Al Wynn against Donna Edwards, and it serves me well when I see ads like this.

Not to mention that the subcommittee he heads deals with Europe, and Afghanistan is nowhere near being in Europe. So the text is as misleading as the photo.

One more reason for the Obama campaign. The problem we will have with politics as usual will be that it may take something akin to 'politics as usual' to get elected, so fundamental change will be that much harder. In order for a leopard to change its spots, it must still survive, and his spots make that more possible.

I'm not sure how this all will work out, but we need the struggle, we need the upheaval, we need the movement -- not just a campaign -- and we need the victory, the office, the power and authority to make the changes.

It's going to be a tough year (as if it weren't already a tough century -- they don't call these the 'oh-ohs' for nothing).

Ed

Not republican, circa 2008, but Republican nonetheless.

She's fundamentally misrepresenting the role of the subcommittee.  I wish I could find this old news story, but I recall it said this was a subcommittee that rarely ever met unless there was a major event in foreign policy in Europe that required ongoing Senate involvement.  

I would say it is common knowledge that he is not in charge of fighting al Qaeda.

But that's exactly what she's suggesting in her ad: that he's in charge of fighting al Qaeda and he's not showing up to do it.  That's not just a lie of omission, it's a huge glaring in-your-face lie.

Obama's response doesn't concern me at all, except that I wish he'd been more mindful of how the sound bite could be abused by Hillary's dishonest smear artists.  He has been a remarkably prolific senator compared to others during the campaign season, and he's been involved with the Foreign Relations Committee, which apparently conducts most of its business as a full committee rather than subcommittees.  Most notably he worked with Dick Lugar on preventing nuclear proliferation, and he's been active on issues outside of Europe, too.

Hillary has provided no evidence that Obama in any way shirked his duties by not holding subcommittee hearings.  So, no, I'm not concerned.

    As she always tells campaign crowds, she is a member of the Senate armed services committee. In February the committee held two hearings on Afghanistan. On February 8, it focused on appropriations for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was a witness. Eight days later, the committee zeroed in on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, holding a two-part hearing examining recent reports on Afghanistan. Key witnesses included senior officials from the State Department and the Pentagon responsible for the administration's Afghanistan policy.

   Clinton attended neither of these hearings. She was on the campaign trail.

h/t Andrew Sullivan.

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