If Obama and Hillary were TV shows, which ones would they be?
Frank’s take:
Barack Obama is American Idol.
Hillary Clinton is The West Wing.
What would your picks be?
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Bill Clinton’s anti-Obama rap
A self-proclaimed “bleeding heart Deaniac” has some problems with Bill Clinton’s choice of words:
Bill and Hillary Clinton, in their desperation to gain power through any means necessary have stooped to dividing to conquer…. Clinton said he had gotten a “bum rap”… calling the notion that he had unfairly criticized Obama in South Carolina as [...]
Read More..>>How Obama influenced who will be Knox County’s next school superintendent
Sandra Clark says “The Obama Factor” meant one candidate for Knox County School Superintendent never had a chance:
Dr. Donna Wright, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, did everything right. She raised two smart kids, motivated Powell High social studies students as a teacher and brought an inner-city school back from the grave as principal at [...]
Read More..>>The Hillary Clinton Experience (Is she experienced?)
Hillary Clinton’s been taking some heat for her willingness to claim her experiences as First Lady as the kind of experience that qualifies her to be Commander-in-Chief.
Aunt B. says no on this:
If this turns into a contest about who is the most “qualified,” we’ve got a young U.S. senator who wrote a couple of good [...]
Harold Ford, Jr damns the Dems with faint praise
Via Sean Braisted, we hear what Ford had to say at Vandy last night about the now-three-way race among Clinton, Obama and McCain:
Ford said that he has been impressed with Hillary Clinton’s “fight” and said that in some ways she has more experience than either John McCain or Barack Obama. But whatever happens, the country [...]
Read More..>>Hillary needs to Do The Right Thing
White’s Creek appeals to Clinton’s patriotism:
The only thing the Hillary Clinton does by staying in the race, from this point forward, is to help John McCain’s chances of continuing the devastating policies of George W. Bush. She cannot honestly win the Democratic nomination for President. It will be difficult for her even if she breaks [...]
Racism, meet sexism
Wow. It takes some…uh…well…something to create a political “cartoon” that manages to be sexist, racist AND exploit a little kid all at the same time.
(I wonder how this child’s parents would feel if they knew their daughter’s photo was being shared around online by self-professed family values bloggers, very likely without parental consent and [...]
Questions raised by Elliot Spitzer’s “situation”
If you were his wife, would you do - or be able to do - the Hillary Clinton/Dina McGreevey / Gayle Haggard thing and stand passively at his side as he admitted cheating on you with a hooker? Why do political wives seem so able to take this abuse and keep on keepin’ on?
And $5,000 [...]
Tennessee’s superdelegation
There’s a very informative round-up of which way Tennessee’s superdelegates are swaying over at Tennessee Journalist:
As of March 9, four of Tennessee’s superdelegates support Obama and four support Clinton. The rest officially remain uncommitted.
After originally supporting Sen. John Edwards, Elisa Parker of the state DNC announced that she will support Clinton shortly after Edwards [...]
Questioning Hillary on “the experience thing”
Carole Borges says Hillary Clinton’s claims to international peacemaking prowess are overblown:
All week Hillary has been hyping her great prowess as a politican who can solve international problems. Maybe she really believes she “brought peace to Ireland” and other amazing feats during her short trips abroad during the Clinton administration, but some prominent people who [...]
Hillary drops another hint
Clinton hinted again today that a joint ticket with Obama could be a possibility:
Hillary Rodham Clinton hinted at the possibility again today as she campaigned in Mississippi.
Clinton told voters that she’s had people tell her “I wish I could vote for both of you.” She went on to say that “might be possible someday,” but [...]
I want the Huckabee popcorn-popper-slash-squirrel-fryer
Political Nanny is talking about all the campaign-related merchandise now available, like this Hillary laughing pen and the Obama finger puppet:
There’s something so compelling and fun about all the opportunistic junk that’s out there and related to this campaign — Political Nanny wants one of everything. Is it advances in technology that make it all [...]
Read More..>>Pot, meet kettle
Over at the enthusiastically, rather famously HillaryHappy blog, Tennessee Guerilla Women, they’re excited about the fact that the Clinton campaign has apparently been exonerated of the charge of purposely darkening Obama’s skin in certain photos:
The Daily Obama is fast becoming Lunatic Central, and that goes for Obamablog too. It just goes to show that [...]
Is Karl Rove secretly advising Hillary?
That’s what White’s Creek is asking:
A thoughtful person can only wonder if the person behind Hillary Clinton’s campaign strategy is actually Karl Rove?
Hillary came out slightly ahead in last Tuesday’s primaries on the wings of a Rovian style attack on Barack Obama. She accused him of lying about his NAFTA stance on the basis of [...]
The ultimate futility of Hillary’s campaign
Silence Isn’t Golden says Hillary Clinton simply cannot win - not the nomination OR the general election:
She cannot win this thing just on pledged delegates. You can give her 55% of all remaining delegates (a near impossibility), and Obama is still ahead in pledged delegates. So her only hope is to either force the DNC [...]
Race trumps gender
Over at Facing South, they’re breaking down the numbers from Texas:
Sen. Hillary Clinton squeaked out a winner in the Texas primary showdown yesterday for lots of reasons, including strong organization and a slew of hard-hitting attack ads that drew blood.
The exit polls show four overlapping constituencies were largely responsible for the Clinton victory: seniors, Latinos [...]
Hillary gets dirty
Carole Borges is unimpressed with the way Clinton got her wins last night:
It was a little shocking last night to see how easy it is to put the fear of God in so many American voters and how naive they are when it comes to mudslinging, destructive innuendos, and lies. Yes, Clinton stopped Obama’s momentumn [...]
Read More..>>Limbaugh: vote for Hillary in Texas
Rush Limbaugh has apparently been telling listeners that keeping Clinton in the race provides “good soap opera:”
Limbaugh has been actively urging his Texas listeners to cross over and vote for Clinton in that state’s open primary Tuesday, arguing it helps the Republicans if the Democratic race remains unsettled for weeks to come.
“I want Hillary to [...]
Howard Dean: maybe Florida should get a do-over
Will Florida Democrats get to re-vote? The buzz is growing:
New York Senator Clinton beat Illinois Senator Barack Obama in the Florida contest Jan. 29, though neither campaigned there in accordance with the party’s decision. Clinton won in Michigan after her rivals withdrew from the ballot.
Clinton said Jan. 25 that delegates from Florida and Michigan should [...]
Hillary Clinton is stupid because she has female staffers and likes Grey’s Anatomy?
This op-ed piece from the Washington Post is so sexist, and so poorly written and organized that I can’t quite believe it actually got published in a major newspaper.
It’s all over the place in its generalizations about the sexes:
What is it about us women? Why do we always fall for the hysterical, the superficial and [...]
