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David Plouffe, campaign manager for Sen. Barack Obama, told Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza at The Fix this afternoon that Sen. Hillary Clinton is the prohibitive favorite to carry Nevada “due to her strong support within the state party establishment and her large lead in early polling.
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Obama Aide: Clinton Is ‘Prohibitive Favorite’ in Nevada
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OUR NATION, OUR FUTURE, OUR CANDIDATE - HILLARY '08
As state Democrats prepare to hold their Saturday caucuses, cynical Republicans might well encourage them to choose Sen. Hillary Clinton, figuring her high "negatives" -- the unusual number of Americans who tell pollsters they'd never vote for her under any circumstances -- would virtually guarantee a GOP victory in the fall.
That's why it's a good thing for Democrats that freshman Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has managed to challenge the perception of Sen. Clinton's "inevitability."
The Clinton campaign cites Sen. Clinton's "experience." In fact, she's a one-term-plus-a-year senator whose lackluster legislative record rivals Sen. Obama's. Other than that, the "experience" in question must surely refer to her presence as a witness and enabler during her husband's presidential terms.
Suffice it to say there are dozens of issues that Americans happily dismissed as "water under the bridge" as the Clinton era came to a close, but which would quickly ensnare Sen. Clinton and her party in a presidential race that would soon look like a struggle to escape the La Brea tar pits.
For starters, imagine Sen. Clinton and "co-president" Bill Clinton invited onto a "This is Your Life" talk show where they're joined by Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky……
As Nevada Democrats head to their caucuses Saturday, they might ask themselves whether they really want to spend two months later this year watching a re-run of the horror movie "It Came From Little Rock," with the sound turned up much too loud -- or if they'd rather make it a real contest this fall.
If they prefer the latter, they're better off backing Barack Obama on Saturday.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/13832767.htm...
To the Las Vegas Sun writers, editors, and readers:
The power that you have at the Las Vegas Sun is amazing. You have the power to enlighten and inform your readers with what you write. You also have the power and the free-will from the Constitution of the United States of America for free-speech. One of the greatest things we as Americans sometimes take for granted. What you think and feel is exactly that, what YOU think and feel. It might not necessarily be the same ideals that your readers are having. Whatever your personal beliefs might be coming from your writers, you must look at what is best for your community and the communities surrounding you in this great nation. No longer are you dealing with people who will sit by and let a powerful force such as the media sway them into thinking one way, yet voting another. I am so proud to be an American, but so disheartened that you might think you will change the viewpoints of some of your readers by clearly favoring one candidate over the other. I feel sorry for you for thinking that your words would have the power to cure this Obama-fever. This "epidemic" of sorts is nothing more than a fire (Obama said that first). A fire that is burning inside the hearts of the young, the old, every race, religion, or thinking American that has seen exactly what Obama and his supporters have seen: That it is truly time for a change. I truly feel sorry for the people of Nevada for having put up with your obvious display of favortism within your articles and I hope that you will be more diplomatic in the future, because we are in fact a d-e-m-o-c-r-a-c-y that is one Nation under God.
May God Bless the people of Nevada.
May God open your hearts and minds to clear-thinking and choice making in the days to follow.
and May God be with us all as Americans.
Thank you all...
(obviously) Obama '08 single mama and clear thinker,
kelly
"Ask not what your country can do--ask what YOU can do for your country"
Remember that America...
Hillary was very powerful in the debate last night..All those anti-hillary people show their true character in the use of filthy name-calling,,They are in for a real awakening
Regarding the first post...you obviously don't know anything about Chicago politics. Barack Obama ran against the Chicago political establishment when he ran for the US Senate nomination. The establishment only came onboard after he won.
The bottom line: Obama can win in the general election because he unites people. Hillary can't win because she divides people. It's a simple fact -- folks love or hate her, not a prescription for a winning campaign in the fall.
Up to you Nevada
Status Quo or Change
Establishment or the people
If you are happy with how things are then go with Hillary Clinton --
If you want change - change that can succeed - change that can matter
Obama '08
(to post Jfnikki: the ONLY candidate of the three trying to engage in Union Busting is Senator Clinton in having her supporters sue to reverse the caucus places they in fact supported a few months earlier-- should be a good lesson to all that the Union ONLY matters to the Clintons when it is in their pocket)
Obama is a LOSER and a REPUBLICAN.
Um, check your facts. Obama was the ONLY name on the Illinois ballot. He ran against NOBODY.
Is Barack Obama, then, the ideal Democratic candidate for president? Hardly. His policy recommendations -- when he can be convinced to get any more specific than "I represent change" -- are the opposite of "change." They're old-line, welfare-state solutions that haven't spent enough time in the microwave to appear even superficially appetizing.
Sen. Obama is a relatively young man with relatively little of the kind of real-world experience that prepares a candidate to stand firm against urgent advice to, say, bomb some remote population of defenseless civilians to "send a message," or plunge the economy into a dark night of unforeseen consequences by crippling the free market in the name of "fighting greed."
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/13832767.htm...
Dear Friends,
I lived 7 years in Illinois. Obama won the elections because he had the money... Not because he had any solid record.
Looking at him talking, I can only hear few words obsessively repeated "hope", "change", "we". I cannot hear anything about his true convictions. Is he a puppet in Oprah's hands?
We know Hillary, based on her record. Sure, she did some mistakes, but she shows that she has learnt from them. She fought for universal health care and she has learnt how to win next time.
Obama, even if looks smart, will have to go through the same mistakes before he will have any chance to defeat the Republican machine.
Between the two there is no-brainer to vote for Hillary. Unless you have a below 50 IQ.
Obama, like Bush, is good at rhetorics. We need results.
Mike.
I guess Obama is also voting "no comment" , like he did on so many crucial issues as he did as an Illinois state legislator, on the issue of his church giving controversial Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan an award. The Obama campaign has stated that he "doen't need to comment" on the issue. Why not? He is supposedly running a campaign based on "uniting the nation" beyond race, but yet he sits tacitly by while a church of which he is a member bestows praise on a racist who claims America deserved 9/11, that the holocaust was imaginary, that Israel should not exist, and has made racist remarls about Latinos. If Obama is the uniter he claims to be.. then how can he sit by and not comment on this outrage??
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
this is a complete lie ObamaTruth
As a Jew I take GREAT umbridge with your inaccurate post
Barack Obama made an immediate statement denouncing Farrakhan - and seven leaders of the US Jewish Community issue a letter (in the NY Times today) clearly asking people to stop lying about Senator Obama)
I will make the heroic assumption you are simply uniformed and here are both documents
"Obama knocks Farrakhan
Richard Cohen in the Post made Louis Farrakhan --a former State Senate constituent of Obama's, and the honoree of a publication by his church --an issue today, and Obama has a comment out now:
I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan. I assume that Trumpet Magazine made its own decision to honor Farrakhan based on his efforts to rehabilitate ex-offenders, but it is not a decision with which I agree.
That's a pretty sharp statement on a subject that can cause a bit of a headache for Obama in his Chicago backyard, but should help settle something that was whispered for months before Cohen wrote it."
here is link:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0...
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and now letter from Jewish leaders:
"Jewish leaders fight back on Obama smears"
January 15, 2008
An Open Letter to the Jewish Community:
PLEASE USE LINK AS TOO MUCH TO POST
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0...
Obama only made the statement today.. after the criticism from the post... not back when it happened. Obama is also the cousin and actively supported Odinga in the Kenyan presidential elections. Odinga, who is of the Luo tribe actively pandered to Islamic extremist factions and even suggested of instituting Islamic Sharia Law in Kenya if elected. Odinga has also used harsh rhetoric condemning Israel. After Odinga's loss.. his supporters, mostly muslim, began rioting and atacked mostly non-muslim tribes people. The country is in chaos. Obama has reportedly been in close communication with his cousin Odinga in Kenya... even interrupting campaigning in New Hampshire to get in touch with Odinga.. and has been in close communication ever since. Though there are certainly legitimate questions over the validity of the Kenyan elections there are should also be legitimate concerns over Odinga's support of instituting "Sharia" Law and making anti-semetic statements. Will it take an editorial by the POst to get Obama to take stand on this issue?
Dear Katy,
Change for what? For the worse most probably.
Obama has to finish his high-school in politics and pass the exams, before one would have any idea if he is credible and can even graduate.
He can mumble any words he wants ("change", "hope"),he can fool the naive.
Nobody is promoted CEO before he can show real achievements!
Would you elect your mom president just because she can say nice things? Think more!
She 'leart' from her mistakes? And then poster questions the IQ of Obama voters?
ROTFLMAO!!!!
The GOP will kill her. She energizes the GOP more than the 70% IA and 61% of Dems in her own party who hate her.
She is Georgina McGovern...
ROTFLMAO!
ROTFLMAO =
"A chatroom abbreviation used mainly by imbeciles, usually in response to something mildly, often very mildly, amusing. People who use this type of shorthand should be avoided like the Spanish flu."
Source: http://www.urbandictionary.com
So this proves my statement on IQ.
I am an independent and your argument that "61% of Dems in her own party who hate her" is nonsense. That's why GOP wins, because many democrats vote for "cheap talk" puppies like Obama, not for candidates who could win the final election. Clinton, compared with Kerry (Obama new friend:-)) won it two times.
Latest CNN poll still gives Hillary the best chance to win.