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RENO — Sen. Barack Obama just had a press conference. He opened by imploring his own supporters to refrain from distortion and divisive attacks on Sen. Clinton and said he hopes the Clintons will do the same.
"Over the last couple of days we've seen a tone on the Democratic side that is unfortunate. We share the same goals," he said of his Democratic opponents.
When asked if the Clintons have shown a racial tone-deafness, he said the Clintons have always been on right side of civil rights issues and lauded their record on that score.
So while the Clintons fire away, he's trying to be all high-minded. He's going back to an earlier theme: That Americans want a different kind of politics, not the type of negative back-and-forth we've grown accustomed to. Whether he's right is an open question. And he said if his record is distorted, he'll respond.
He again attacked the lawsuit against the at-large caucus sites, and said he'll do well with Latinos in Nevada once they know his record.
I'll pipe down if the Clintons stop distorting Obama's record. Hillary Clinton went on MTP and lied about his Iraq record, lied about his state senate record, and lied about her voter suppression efforts in NH and NV. There's a ridiculous amount to criticize even after you put aside the racial issues.
Obama is arrogant at best. The country is seeing through the hype and is starting to look for substance.
John Edwards has the character,fire,courage, and vision to bring OUR COUNTRY back to the people.
only the truly lost would not give the man even the benefit of the doubt
Obama - once again taking the high road -- I don't think John Edwards would want his supporters to behave that way
Edwards is a good man
Obama has a history of making bad choices....check out his background and judge him only on "his" actions. The country must see through the hype.....hope will not change our country....
The first candidate who brought us health care and fiscal responsibility....the one man who has the courage, fire, vision, and the character to bring OUR COUNTRY back to the people.
John Edwards for President.......feel the momentum
Edwards is a good man but Obama is an inspirational good man. Hillary has slimed the Democrats and given women a bad name.
Ha ha ha ha!
well, who do we have here? OurCountry - Mr. "Choices" - I remember him from the DMR blog. The most unreasonable Edwards supporter in the blogospere. His exchanges with Obama supporters on the DMR provided the most exciting moments.
He makes the same argument everywhere - that Obama makes bad choices, yet he supports Edwards who has made the most bad choices of any presidential candidate in Democratic politics - Yucca mountain, Iraq war, Patriot's act, NAFTA, No-Child-Left-Behind, Riele Hunter (questionable!), chosing politics over looking after Elizabeth, etc.
This blogger - OurCountry - supported Edwards before and after he lost Iowa, supported Edwards before and after he lost NH, is still supporting Edwards before his NV, SC, NC and every single state loss. "Choices" voter seems to have a problem chosing a winning candidate.
I love Obama. He is a wonderful good man.
I just have to add that companying against the Clintons is like a bad marriage. In the long run a spouse can only behave as good as the other does, unless you want to be walked all over
The Hillary and the Republicans
(Adaptation of the crow and the Fox)
Senator Clinton, on a winning position,
Held in her hands the NH victory,
Master Republican, by the odor attracted,
Held her with almost this language:
"Well hello, Senator Clinton.
You are so pretty! You seem to me beautiful!
Without lying, if your speech
Is comparable to your experience,
You are the Phoenix of the Democrats."
At these words, the Hillary was overcome with joy;
And to show his beautiful speech,
He opened her mouth wide, insert race in the race and dropped the presidency.
The Republican seized it, and said: "My good Senator,
Learn that every Divisive person
Lives at the expense of those who listen to him.
This lesson is well worth the US presidency without doubt."
The Senator, ashamed and embarrassed,
Swore, but a little late, that she would never be taken again.
But it was too late, a republican president was elected again.
Senator Obama has asked his supporters to stop the negativity against Clinton. And now there's foolishness coming from Edwards' supporters against Obama? So, AMERICA thinks to win a nomination---YOU MUST destroy the opponent with lies and hateful remarks? Well. I think Nevada will assess each candidate's platform and make a sound decision. In the meantime, overlooking the bickering between supporters----LET'S NOTICE THE CANDIDATE WHO ISSUES THE BEST POLICIES TO TAKE THIS COUNTRY FORWARD.
Obama is only doing this after his campaign instigated these absurd accusations because the boy who cried wolf act is bringing his numbers down in the polls, even in South Carolina.
It's not racism when someone questions your voting record, or when people in NH go back to the original voting intentions they've had all year. It's just not. Accusing the Clinton's, who've spend decades dedicated to black causes of racism and the voters of New Hampshire wasn't getting him very far.
Pulling yourself out of the gutter isn't the high road. It's just the road.
Once again Obama shows his Chicago playbook. While he talks about getting along and playing nice, he sits by and watchs his supports and campaign staff perform voter fraud and Union intimidation. This is Chicago politics. Look at the fliers the culinary union is sending out and tell me that Obama cant stop that? You all need to wake up a smell what Obama is shoveling.
The lawsuit filed by Clinton allies in Nevada against planned "at-large" caucusing Jan. 19 on the Las Vegas Strip is beginning to look a lot like voter suppression. As we know, the plan was drawn up and approved unanimously early last year by the Nevada Democratic Party leadership, with input from the presidential campaigns, to enable caucusing by Strip workers unable to leave work to caucus in their home precincts. Indeed the plan's creators include several of those who are now plaintiffs against it. What changed their minds? Barack Obama's endorsement Jan.9 by the 60,000-member Las Vegas Culinary Workers' Union changed their minds. When the plan was approved, Hillary Clinton was presumed to be the "inevitable" Democratic frontrunner. Iowa changed all that, and Obama's subsequent endorsement by the culinary workers has brought a Clinton win in Nevada into serious question. Since it is largely members of this union who would be caucusing in the casinos, the plan is clearly no longer in Clinton's best interests. Hence the lawsuit against the plan, filed just two days after the Obama endorsement and scarcely a week before the caucus by Clinton allies from the leadership of the Nevada State Education Association (NSEA), on the grounds that it would be unfair to workers in other areas. Why didn't they think it was unfair earlier? After all, the plan was approved nearly a year ago in the very name of fairness, to enable participation by those who would otherwise be unable to caucus. The answer is simple: Because the lawsuit has nothing whatsoever to do with fairness, and everything to do with stacking the deck in favor of Hillary Clinton. The Clintons themselves are not official parties to the suit, but both Hillary and Bill Clinton have spoken in support of it despite the fact that their campaign and others were included in the at-large caucus plan from its inception. They, like their friends in the NSEA, have had more than ample time to consider and reconsider the plan, but appear to have deemed it unfair only since the culinary workers endorsed Obama. While the judge in this case obviously has every reason in the world to throw it out of court, I don't expect that even if it prevails the culinary workers will allow it to prevent their members' caucusing. In fact I wouldn't be at all surprised to see chartered buses from the union shuttling members between the Strip and their home precincts to caucus, a lot of pressure on Strip employers to comply, and a lot of anger at the Clintons and their allies for this seedy attempt to change the rules at the last minute. The whole affair seems likely indeed to do the Clintons far more harm than good in Nevada; and as we know, what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas.