Entries from April 2008 ↓

John Heilemann in New York Magazine, reports that today at 1pm, former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration and 40-year long friend of both Bill and Hillary Clinton, will endorse Barack Obama for president on his blog. Heilemann’s column provides a sneak peek into Reich’s motivation, quoting Reich at length:

“I saw the ads” — the negative man-on-street commercials that the Clinton campaign put up in Pennsylvania in the wake of Obama’s bitter/cling comments a week ago — “and I was appalled, frankly. I thought it represented the nadir of mean-spirited, negative politics. Continue reading →

Last night’s Democratic debate raises the question: What does Hillary Clinton have on George Stephanopoulos? Why else would he spend all his energy doing Hillary’s dirty work for her during the debate’s opening 50 minutes? Not that Charlie Gibson was any better, and he doesn’t have a long personal history with Hillary, so maybe we’re just letting our imagination run wild here. Nonetheless, it was clear to most observers that ABC/Stephanopoulos/Gibson had an agenda, and the agenda was to get tough on Obama. Read the Washington Post’s Tom Shales on the debate.

Hillary Clinton’s latest ad has managed to even shock Andrew Sullivan, no small thing considering that Sullivan considers himself a “proud holder of the view that Senator Clinton is one of the ghastliest examples of pure political cynicism and opportunism in public life, an empty, reverberating shell of a human being, a case study in how power and the search for it do indeed in the end corrupt absolutely.” Continue reading →

Let us parse Senator Obama’s comments which have caused such a firestorm over the last four days, fueled so artfully by Hillary Clinton and John McCain. When discussing his own difficulties in winning over working class voters, Obama reflected on their frustrations with current economic conditions: “It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Continue reading →

Hillary Clinton has found her constituency, and it’s good ole boys with guns. In the latest example of the Clinton machine adopting Republican tactics against Obama — for the good of the Democratic party, of course — Clinton has turned up the volume in the echo chamber Continue reading →

In an interview with a Nigerian newspaper during a recent visit to Africa, former President Jimmy Carter said this:

“My children and their spouses are pro-Obama.”

“My grandchildren are also pro-Obama.”

“As a superdelegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for, but I leave you to make that guess.”

Well, we can.  Time to move another superdelegate from Undecided to Obama.

Here is the transcript of Hillary Clinton’s new Red Phone Ad:

It’s 3am and your children are safe and asleep.
But there’s a phone in the White House and this time the crisis is economic.
Home foreclosures mounting. Markets teetering.
John McCain just said the government shouldn’t take any real action in the housing crisis.
He’d let the phone keep ringing.
Hillary Clinton has a plan to protect our homes, create jobs…
It’s 3am.
Time for a president who is ready.

Here is the ad itself.

Here is McCain’s response, which was posted on YouTube only six hours after Hillary’s ad.

DNC Chairman Howard Dean must know the history. In 1980, he was already a serious young man, a doctor even, and had left his days of living large as a ski bum in the Rocky Mountains far behind him. He may even have noticed at the time that the Democratic primary season had been an electric one, pitting a challenger to a sitting president! Continue reading →