Please spend 23:41 minutes to witness the brillance of Obama. The last 8 years have been painful for anyone with brain cells and took a history class in high school. To watch President Bush and his cronies raise spin and manipulation of the media to an art-form and the media become willing transcribers of their idiocy, you often wonder if our country could recover.
Yesterday they saw that an Obama administration would end the circus seen in presidential press conferences and White House press briefing. Obama answered questions directly, honestly, forcefully, pushing his own vision while re-educating the press who have lived in the dark for the past 8 years.
I just watched Hardball and Chris Matthews went through a list of potential VP candidates for Obama with two Democratic strategist. After a list of about 8 candidates, both agreed that Chuck Hagel would be the best of those named.
I've had the same feeling for a few months. Chuch Hagel is a winning choice for Obama.
I thought I'd go through Hagel's positives and negatives.
It's a mailer attacking Obama on being anti-gun. He's not but whatever. It's not a big issue of mine. What I find curious and striking is the use of the rifle in the flyer. You have a picture of Obama's head at the near end of the gun. The more I look at it the more disturbed I am. Would this be even halfway acceptable if it was Hillary?
I thought that the Rocky analogy was great. But the same people who brought us Barack have now dubbed Obama the Luke Skywalker of presidential elections. It's a great mashup of recent events. We know who Darth Vader is...
The disreputable Drudge is headlining this w/ a blind quote from a rival network exec (most likely Fox)
An executive at a rival network mocked, "We look forward to ABC holding the next town hall meeting with President Bush, hosted by Karl Rove!"
How Blind is ABC that they did not see this? Or do they not even care? Most important part of this diary here:
I am calling on all Indiana kossacks to get a group together and balance out the voters in Townhall. If ABCNews attempts to stack the room with only Clinton supporters we'll know the true nature of this network. _______________________________________________________________________
Is this legal? Politico is reporting that "This Week" on ABC will hold a Hillary Townhall on Sunday with questions from voters in North Carolina and Indiana.
I'm not up on the election laws but previously Hillary paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for her townhalls broadcasts on obscure cable channels. Now ABC is handing her free airtime on their national network 2 days before the primary in Indiana and North Carolina.
I like it. I wish he would hit Hillary much harder on this issue. But I guess their sense is that the subtle hit will do the trick. I hope it does. The voters already don't trust Hillary and are likely to believe that she's selling some snake oil. All you really have to do is say she's lying and most people will believe it. Indiana voters are more friendly to Obama than than in OH and PA. Come on Indiana!!!
It's everything I want to see from the DNC and the Obama campaign. Make all those voters considering casting their lot with McSame think again. It's hard hitting, it's the truth.
I just heard her announce it at her rally in Indiana. It's clear she's broke and desperate for more attention but this might work.
No moderators, she didn't express where the questions would come from. 90 minutes of them engaging each other on the issues. She prefaced the whole thing by discussing how "Obama supporters" whined about the moderators and questions at the last debate.
So when I read the story this morning, I didn't feel good about Rev. Wright's interview with Bill Moyers. After Bittergate, it clear that the corporate media is in take-down mode and every phrase will be parsed to it's most cynical meaning. I knew this would occur with Rev. Wright poorly phrased reasoning that Obama was being a politician when giving his speech in Philadelphia.
But I'm think that something else may be at work here.
Join Barack and Michelle Obama at a rally in Evansville on Tuesday, April 22nd.
Rally with Barack and Michelle Obama
with special guest performance by John Mellencamp
Roberts Municipal Stadium
2600 Division St.
Evansville, IN 47711
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Doors Open: 7:30 p.m. CDT
The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required but an RSVP is strongly encouraged. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
For security reasons, do not bring bags and limit personal items. No signs or banners are permitted.
Completely insulting. I expect this treatment from mydd and hillaryis44.com but a member of the Democratic Party? Is the party really trying to bring new voters to the table or trying to shun them away?
Mark Halperin, not surprisingly a former ABC employee, who now works for Time is a full time hack. This morning he continues his work.
Today the Washington Post, conducted actual journalistic work and interviewed some small town PA residents to get the scoop on their response to Bittergate. Here is how Halperin describes the article on thepage.time.com
Some disagree, but many Keystoners are offended by Obama’s "bitter" comment
Former Senator Sam Nunn said, "America remains the strongest nation in the world, but we can only be successful in tackling our toughest problems if we gain cooperation at home and abroad. Our next president – working across party and economic lines – must restore and strengthen our national purpose, our credibility, our competence and our spirit.
"We need a president who has the temperament of a leader – a sharp, incisive, strategic mind, a rare capacity for self criticism, and a willingness to hear contrary points of view.
"Based on my conversations with Senator Obama, reading his book and his speeches and seeing the kind of campaign he has run, I believe that he is our best choice to lead our nation.
I was browsing Obama's website and came across one a blog entry which I hadn't paid much attention to:
In Indianapolis this morning, Senator Barack Obama called for swift passage of his legislation to require corporations to hold a nonbinding shareholders vote on compensation packages offered to executives. A new study produced by USA Today found that the top 50 CEOs made around $15.7 million last year – despite the fact that many of their companies have been falling behind.
Obama’s bill, the Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation Act, would restore a measure accountability and restraint to a system that has spun out of control in recent years. The bill would not limit executives’ compensation, but rather would ensure that companies disclose and justify the salary and benefit packages offered to executives by give shareholders a nonbinding vote on a company’s executive compensation plan.
On the same day that Obama's opponents keep their eyes peeled for outrage from small-town America, Bill Clinton is doing a marathon six-stop campaign day in rural eastern North Carolina, a swing billed by one supporter as a "Barbeque Tour."
