Obama 's awesome chutzpah against Republicans !

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Friday May 30, 2008 · 3:12 PM PDT

2008/05/30 · 15:12

OK This is a short diary but here is.

You remember when we were told Obama didn't have it in him to fight Republicans and he wasn't tough enough and all that.

Well the "nitpicking" debate of today proves he is willing to go down and dirty and fight HARD against McCain.

But in a tremendous act of huge chutzpah, Obama has made the most awesomely vicious move of this whole campaign and I love it.

BenjaminOMeara

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Wednesday May 14, 2008 · 2:03 PM PDT

2008/05/14 · 14:03

Obama campaign has announced they will announce a major endorsement at 6 30.

Well ...

Sources confirm JRE boarded the following flight to MI

http://flightaware.com/...

More in a moment

BenjaminOMeara

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Saturday May 10, 2008 · 5:03 PM PDT

2008/05/10 · 17:03

PLEASE READ THE DIARY BEFORE WHINING ABOUT NOT EVERY CRITICISM OF OBAMA IS NOT RACIST. I SAY AS MUCH IN THIS DIARY. SO READ IT BEFORE YOU COMPLAIN.

One of the big mysteries of this primary season for me has been how the canard that Obama does not have much substance has been able to sustain itself.

Obama is a constitutional law professor, considered by everyone to be stunningly intelligent and charismatic. His program is as detailed as Hillary's and he never - as far as I know - has been caught not knowing something about an issue.

Sure, his rhetorical emphasis is more on broader themes and he is hurt by running against Clinton who is a master of the minutae. But when McCain who has barely released anything concrete about his plans takes the meme over and pounds on the substance issue, and journalists who have been following this campaign for 18 months, saw him campaign in IA where candidates are asked about the most obscure of issues, read every release and plan and speech he made, repeat it, I have to wonder why the idea sipped in so easily in the zeitgeist.

BenjaminOMeara

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Tuesday May 06, 2008 · 8:43 AM PDT

2008/05/06 · 08:43

Let's play a game of gathering up the tidbits I read all around the net that may give us some clues as to what is going on in NC and IN.

BenjaminOMeara

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Monday May 05, 2008 · 2:16 PM PDT

2008/05/05 · 14:16

I don't know if I am the only one who has noticed it but for the past couple of weeks, there has been an explosion in the numbers of diaries whose title is misleading.
From cheeky to downright misleading.

And I have to say ENOUGH.

Yesterday I was watching a TV show about when do TV shows jump the shark.
One of the answers in the countdown was "dream sequence"
That's exactly right. If your diary does not attract people on its own, it just isn't good enough. You should not have to say "X" and then "Just kidding" or "If you do this and this this could happen". NO. TITLE YOUR DIARY ABOUT WHAT IT FEATURES.

And let me add this. Some good diaries are not being read because once one realizes it is not what I thought it would be, I just get annoyed and don't read the whole thing.

BenjaminOMeara

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Sunday May 04, 2008 · 10:53 AM PDT

2008/05/04 · 10:53

Yesterday, an infuriating diary by the normally very very shrewd and intelligent Matt S. quoted Jerome Armstrong as saying Gallup tracking polls movement showed Obama was "tanking" because of his "poll-driven" denunciation of Obama.

Matt, who is angry at Obama for appearing on Fox (fair enough as I agree), proceeded to develop a much smarter and nuanced critique of Obama that basically posited that Obama should have stayed his ground and refused to "cave in" to Republican attacks on Wright.

Now I understand his point about our Democratic politicans caving in to often to right-wing frame but in this case, it is not because he was attacked by conservatives and the MSM on Wright that he should not have denounced Wright because, well, what Wright said needed to be denounced.

In any case ...

BenjaminOMeara

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Monday April 28, 2008 · 2:29 PM PDT

2008/04/28 · 14:29

Ouch is all I can say.

http://www.breitbart.com/...

A person close to North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley tells The Associated Press he will endorse Hillary Rodham Clinton for president.

Easley is a Democratic superdelegate who has served as the state's governor for two terms. His decision comes despite several recent polls showing Clinton trailing rival Barack Obama ahead of the state's May 6 primary.

Easley would be just the second superdelegate from North Carolina to endorse Clinton. Six of the state's 17 superdelegates have endorsed Obama.

A former state attorney general, Easley has focused largely on education programs during his eight-year tenure. He's called on both of the presidential candidates to take more about he issue.

BenjaminOMeara

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Tuesday April 22, 2008 · 2:28 PM PDT

2008/04/22 · 14:28

I think we need a new open thread to share results, rumors, exit polls and rant about the PA results.
Exit polls should be coming up soon (CBS reports lowest number of late deciders ever this season - which is good news for Obama supporters I would think).

BenjaminOMeara

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Sunday April 20, 2008 · 10:23 PM PDT

2008/04/20 · 22:23

I am reading BEFORE THE STORM by Rick Perlstein which tells the story of the rise of Goldwater conservatives within the Republican party.
It is very very interesting and surely plenty would need to be said.
But as I was finishing a chapter about the 1960 convention, I read the speech Goldwater gave there when some of his supporters, upset at the inclusion of civil rights in the Republican platform and at some concessions Nixon made to more liberal Rockfeller, were clamoring for him to turn this into a floor fight.

Read below. Please.

BenjaminOMeara

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Thursday April 17, 2008 · 8:26 PM PDT

2008/04/17 · 20:26

SF Kossacks may remember my diary of two days ago where I was calling on turning Hillary's SF baiting against her by sending messages to Mayor Newsom.
Well it seems either that or the math may have done some subtle political damage with our ambitious mayor.

http://www.sfbg.com/...

This morning I attended the grand opening ceremony of the pretty incredible-looking Hotel Essex, an 84-unit rehab completed by Community Housing Partnership and Mercy Housing that now houses 84 formerly homeless people in their own apartments (complete with kitchenettes!), with on-site counselling, recovery, and job-training services available.

BenjaminOMeara

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Tuesday April 15, 2008 · 7:57 PM PDT

2008/04/15 · 19:57

OK gals, guys and anybody in between.

This diary shall be short for now but I hope you can help me thicken it with information, links to what I am referring to and ideas.

Let me get to it

As you know, Hillary Clinton has jumped on Obama's comments at a recent SF fundraiser to bash him and try to tarnish him what we will call blue-collar small town whites. Among the offensive ways she has taken to using it against him (Annie Oakley, elitist), one stings me personally: she has been dropping San Francisco at every turn, fully knowing the bait effect the name of our good town has on certain demographics.

BenjaminOMeara

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Sunday April 13, 2008 · 9:43 AM PDT

2008/04/13 · 09:43

Well the Politico just published a shockingly idiotic - while interesting - piece about what "Hillary" cannot say about BO but want to.
Let's go through it, shall we ?

http://www.politico.com/...

(DISCLAIMER: I am not a Politico hater. I generally like their reporting, even when it pisses me off).

Why, ask many Democrats and media commentators, won’t Hillary Rodham Clinton see the long odds against her, put her own ambitions aside, and gracefully embrace Barack Obama as the inevitable Democratic nominee?

Here is why: She and Bill Clinton both devoutly believe that Obama’s likely victory is a disaster-in-waiting. Naïve Democrats just don’t see it. And a timid, pro-Obama press corps, in their view, won’t tell the story.

READ: ONLY ME CAN WIN ! NOONE ELSE CAN WIN !

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