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(RuralDem on
Mar 29, 2008 11:03 PM)
Oh the divisiveness in this primary has already messed us up. However, it doesn’t help that we’ve got two lackluster candidates running. One who’s known for nothing more than giving a great speech, and the other who’s name brings rage when its mentioned in many areas.
Anyway, if the part in there about her district going 90-10 for Obama is true, well, can you blame them for being upset?
You can look at it two ways:
A) She should be booed for not supporting the candidate her district overwhelmingly supported.
or
B) She should receive applauds for supporting the only one of our two candidates who has a chance in November, and also will be least likely to tear our party apart!
(chris on
Mar 29, 2008 11:08 PM)
The problem with Cathy is that she didn’t support Mark after he won the primary, and that lent Perdue some credibility in his and the GOP’s attacks on Taylor. Clearly, if you look at the difference in Taylor and Martin’s votes, Taylor was failing to secure a lot of liberal metro voters who either crossed over for Perdue or voted for the libertarian. Taylor had no disadvantage compared to Martin in rural counties.
Yeah, yeah. Wouldn’t have made a difference ultimately (he’d have just lost by the same margin as Cagle) but it was a classless turn of events by Cox that I would imagine many primary voters won’t forget for some time.
I highly doubt either Clinton or Obama would do that to each other in a general election. Sure, some of their supporters are a little out of hand right now and maybe telling pollsters something that might not be true when the eventual loser tells their supporters “buck up and vote for the nominee”. I’m sure either one will.
(Smitty on
Mar 30, 2008 12:49 AM)
“What would I be if I went back on my word to an individual that I’ve worked with for more than a decade and sat down talked to me about her vision for America,” said Jackson Lee.
- what a novel idea — LOYALTY!
(innerredneckexposed on
Mar 30, 2008 9:33 AM)
are we fighting 06 again? Great.
All i am saying is, of all people, I have moved on.
(odinseye2k on
Mar 30, 2008 10:23 AM)
“One who’s known for nothing more than giving a great speech”
The guy may not have the decades of senior legislating that a Kennedy possesses, but witness here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/21/164117/783
In addition, he seems to have kept more than astride of important issues, including the prediction of our current economic predicament a year ago.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/obamas-year-old-letter-to-bern.php
It’s also not just that the guy makes pretty words (pretty though they are), but his words make sense. He’s not exactly the Pied Piper burying difficult problems with happy talk here - if you watch his recent economics speech for example, he does get it. There’s a lot wrong with the system. First, the fancy-pants hedge funds told us to deregulate our profits because it was just their own private play money. They subsequently integrated their shitty paper into the entire economy, and thus held the gun to *all* our heads. If they want to play this game, they come under the purview of the state, post-haste.
I’m also having the good fortune to read Dr. Drew’s book, (slowly I’ll admit) and Obama is keyed in. He’s not perfect on this score, but it’s amazing if you read the advice on dealing with race. You don’t let subconscious networks fester - you call them out on national television, which is exactly what Obama did.
Why I’m behind the man: With him in the bully pulpit, liberal ideas get their first decent airing for a good long time. JFK sent us to the moon with a pretty speech. LBJ brought civil rights forward with a pretty speech (and a gutsy-ass move in the face of known electoral dynamics).
Better wonks than Clinton have come and gone and died on the same spears (and many worse) she is currently taking. If we were a nation that cared first and foremost about reason and intellect, the policy advisors would be running the place, not the politicians.
Keep in mind that these are all the words of someone that is hyper-rational and can barely comprehend why anyone would listen to a guy that dresses funny on Sundays.
Now with all that said, it’s pretty f’ing retarded that people would boo a good representative just because of who she backs in this fight. It’s not as if she’s helping Republicans keep their seats, for pity’s sake:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/15/10612/7994
Finally, McCain’s a senile old man that can’t decide if he’s a Bush Republican or a Democrat. I’m starting to get hungry for a chance to sink him once and for all.
(BEZERKO on
Mar 30, 2008 10:41 AM)
Interesting post. 90%?
(odinseye2k on
Mar 30, 2008 11:10 AM)
Heavily gerrymandered urban Houston district. Pretty much the kind of place Axelrod lives for.
http://nationalatlas.gov/asp/cd_popups.asp?imgFile=../printable/images/preview/congdist/TX18_110.gif&imgw=750&imgh=452
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