The Candidates
Mark Halerpin has the excerpts:
“She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her.”
Insists he does relate to small-town Americans, and mocks Clinton’s sudden vocal support for gun rights.
“Hillary Clinton is out there like she’s on the duck blind every Sunday. She’s packing a six-shooter. Come on, she knows better. That’s some politics being played by Hillary Clinton.”
Clinton spokesman Singer responds: “The shame is his.”
Obama also goes after McCain on housing.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Also, in the forum on CNN tonight with the two democratic candidates talking about faith in their lives, Barack Obama said that he didnt know when life begins when asked the question if he thinks life begins at conception. Yea good job there Obama, your gonna win some votes with that answer! sigh….. I think Obama just might be an easy defeat for us in November.
McCain/Pawlenty 08
April 13th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Bryan,
Did you see when Hillary and Obama crosses paths on stage in between their respective segments? They shook hands and I overheard Hillary say “Hello Barack,” they then kind of gave each other an icy stare and Hillary walked off stage. The hate between them was palpable.
This is an amazing election. I doubt I will ever see anything like it for the rest of my life and it’s still from over! Here’s to hoping Hillary wins PA by 15-20 points, which would not only guarantee a prime time floor fight, but it would make it a lot more likely that McCain prevails in November.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Yeah, I was surprised when Barack claimed he doesn’t know when life starts. I guess he just decides to error on the side of caution and abort them all, because that makes a lot of sense. Given his record on the infanticide bill I suspect he has an idea of when life starts but he knows it’s so out of step with the rest of the country he feigns ignorance.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Let the circular firing squad continue!
April 13th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
And say goodbye to a unity ticket.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
I await Obama’s 15-20 Pennsylvania destruction with much glee!
April 13th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Do you guys remember 2000 when the press scrutinized whether McCain was enthusiastic enough in campaigning for Bush in the general. Well, whoever wins the Dem nomination, take that times 50. The division in the Democrat party will continue, and if Obama wins the nomination, McCain has an opportunity to tear the Democratic party apart for a long time if he selects a VP that will help his appeal to Reagan Democrats. I think the Reagan Democrats would walk away from Obama in a heartbeat.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Ironically, Hillary is relying on what’s left of the old Roosevelt Democrats to rescue her, when her husband’s coalition of New Democrats and the DLC was willing to leave those people behind to pursue…………..
……the type of folks flocking to Obama.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:09 am
I really enjoyed watching the Romney campaign go down in flames but watching the Democrats self-destruct is more satisfying, and by a couple of light-years!
April 14th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Kavon, a 20 pt loss is too much. That would really scare the super delegates and give Hillary a huge delegate boost of her own.
The best thing is for to win by between 10-15%. A big win and enough for her to make her point, but not quite enough to get the Super Delegates to bail on Obama or change the outcome in states down the road.
The more important #s are the exit polls for whites, white men, white women, catholics, and seniors. We want these #s to pretty much echo the results in Ohio.
A 20 pt lead could really be the end for Obama. A 12 pt win by contrast is a nice win, but doesn’t really change the game in any fundamental way. It’s like a team scoring a late TD to cover the spread or tip the over/under. The 20 pt win is like David Tyree catching a 50 yd 4th down hail mary that wins the Super Bowl.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:12 am
This speech was given literally IN the township I grew up in. Steelton, while being located in central PA, is actually the epitome of western PA. It’s not surprising to hear plenty of angry Democrats cheering about the lost jobs. The old Bethlehem steel mill shut down almost completely back in the 1970’s and 1980’s. It’s still running, but barely. That town has been in its death throes for decades, and the only thing bailing it out is the resurgent economy of Harrisburg.
Voters in Steelton are going to have a hard time deciding between Hillary and Obama. I don’t know how the race/gender card will fall out. As an example of how Steelton works, consider this: when the longtime Catholic bishop got promoted to Archbishop of Baltimore, and new bishop was appointed. Steelton had four Catholic churches (it might have been 3 or 5, I was pretty young). Each was a “national” Catholic church. Serbs in one. Croats in one. Slovenians in one. Poles in one, etc. The new bishop consolidated them all into one church. I was 12 at the time - fistfights were going on in and around the church for a while after the consolidation.
I say this to make the point - identity politics will play in Steelton, and in other Appalachian regions like it. The town next door has zero catholic churches, but 3 protestant churches. Steelton, as far as I can recall (I’ve been out of the area for 10 years) may not have a single protestant church (it does have one - or two - bars per block). This place is the epicenter of PA Democrat identity politics. I’m dying to see who wins in Steelton. My guess is Hillary by a bunch - but who knows, there is a large black population in Steelton, so it could balance out.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Speaking of the Romney campaign, I do find it ironic that a lot of conservatives and Republicans I see bashing Obama for his recent idiotic comments are the same ones who were so high on Mitt.
That’s the same Mitt who’s worth upwards of 250 million, who went to Harvard, who was a venture capitalist, whose 5 sons have all abstained from joining the military, whose work on his campaign he analogized to military service in Iraq, etc…
I mean, they’re all ripping Obama for being elitist and out of touch. Romney is the very definition of the elite. It’s the reason btw, why he lost the same types of voters to Huckabee. Because as Huck put in arguably the most devestating quip of the election, the one that cost Mitt Iowa and any chance he had of winning the nomination, “I’m the guy they work with and he’s the guy who just laid them off”. Funny all those Republicans and Conservatives didn’t seem to have a problem with elitism and being from the Ivy League and all that stuff when it came to Romney.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:57 am
12, Nobody has a problem with being Ivy league, nobody has a problem with
not haveing served in the military, nobody has a problem with their children not serving in the
military, nobody has a problem with being a millionaire. The problem which you seemed to miss was
Obama saying that xenophobic country people cling to their guns and to their religion out of
bitterness. He could have graduated from a community college as a poor kid and served in the militaryk
and there would have been the same reaction. I don’t recall Romney ever saying that people hold
their religous beliefs, or their belief in gun rights out of desperation.
BTW, I’m not a Rombot, but you seem to have totally missed what this whole snobgate is about.
April 14th, 2008 at 2:32 am
Obama: I am the first to admit that some of the words I chose I chose badly.
Liar. He was too busy slamming McCain and Hillary to admit any wrongdoing. Maybe what he meant to say was that he was the first to respond to any internal polling.
April 14th, 2008 at 2:57 am
I’m watching the whole video. Man, what a long-winded self indulgent boring guy this Obama is. It takes him 5 minutes to make the simplest of points…. snooozzeeeee…..