Comments on: Tuesday Open Thread: What’s Up, People?

By: TruthSeeker

TruthSeeker — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:12:00 +0000

Malveaux of CNN is such a tool.

John’s magic map??!!! Yippee! Got me all hot and bothered!

By: N. Mahana

N. Mahana — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:11:00 +0000

Keith said it...

"5 electoral votes are 5 electoral votes"

que sera sera, West Virginia!

By: Pamela

Pamela — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:35:00 +0000

Oh and since the polls have closed it’s John King’s Magic Map time! Tonight I may tune in to see if Obama won any district.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:18:00 +0000

Just so you all know Terry “I’m Looking for a Book Deal” McAuliffe just said the Hillary will be giving one of the greatest speeches EVER tonight. MSNBC is having fun with that claim. “Better then I have a Dream? Better then stuff in the Bible? Better then Lincoln’s 2nd Inaguaration speech? 2000 years, thats a lot of speeches.”

By: rikyrah

rikyrah — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:13:00 +0000

Kovner: Democratic Fight Is Over, On to the Main Event

This is a main Clinton fundraiser.

The Legend of Barack Obama

Story about Valerie Jarrett

By: andyfrombrooklyn

andyfrombrooklyn — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:00:00 +0000

b-serious, rachel maddow spent most of march giving equal blame to both obama and clinton for the food fight. so…i don’t always get her…plus she was loathe to encourage keith o in declaring victory last tuesday. it so happens that keith o solicited the big statement from russert moments before or after rachel’s cold water…so again i don’t always know where she is at. popular vote fails to count colorado, minnesota, washington, iowa. obama might not have won by 30 but he would have won by 10 and that would translate to 100,000 more votes in each at least. so either she accepts her loss by delegates or she must revote those other states in a primary. garbage argument like everything else from her.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:23:00 +0000

Pamela–I don’t think they have anything on her. She is one of Clinton’s national co-chairs and may have been promised huge rewards on the back end.

Someone mentioned BOB JOHNSON..WTF!!! This is a billionaire for christ sakes!! Someone told me that he is heavily leveraged and the Clintons have him by the balls.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:05:00 +0000

Tubbs-Jones makes me upset. Every time she is on
I end up calling my sister and saying “is she kidding, is she delusional, what do the Clinton’s have on her?” It’s not so much that she supports Clinton, a lot of people do, so that’s not the odd thing. It’s the lengths she goes to spin situations that makes me so frustrated. She is so happy read the script hoping to move the goal post as if she never heard that Michigan and Florida were out of play, never considered the importance of the delegate count and happily downplays large diverse states that went for Obama because they did not vote for Clinton (well she actually says they aren’t important in a general election unlike the pro-Hillary states). And okay I do have a problem with Tubby-J coming out talking about how important West Virginia is and how Hillary will take it right after Clinton’s whole hard working white American and uneducated white Americans (I’m paraphrasing) comments were made. It didn’t feel right. But to each there own. If she didn’t seem like she were a Clinton puppet I would like her more, but I feel like I haven’t heard any of her own true views, just Clinton sound-bites, throughout this election.

By: N. Mahana

N. Mahana — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:43:00 +0000

This lady on Hardball is nuts! She looks like a fool talking about the environment. If I was the RNC I’d tell her never to get on television again, representing them.

By: N. Mahana

N. Mahana — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:39:00 +0000

McCain is getting an independent bump with his talk on the environment. There needs to be more focus on him or else he’s going to move stealthly all the way to the Presidency.

If Dems keep fighting till Aug or Clinton and Obama…you better believe the reckoning is coming.

By: B-Serious

B-Serious — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:35:00 +0000

Ok. . . I've had many a rant about Obama's "give her space" strategy to allow Hillary to exit with grace.

I don't think "grace" and "Clinton" fit in the same sentence.

Now, Rachel Maddow thinks tonight will spark a turning point in how Obama treats Hillary. Basically, she thinks Hillary's gonna run up the score and rub it in Obama's face.

I happen to agree with Maddow on this. I think Hillary takes a bunch of shots at Obama during her victory speech. I think her campaign goes even more negative than it has the past week.

They will push the "he can't win (*ahem. . . white votes*) argument like never before.

Lanny Davis and Howard Wolfson will be on steroids tonight.

So here's the question. . . Does the media take the bait? Does the media switch narratives? If so, is it a bump in the road or will it have a lasting impact?

Obama's gonna have to FORCE Hillary out of this race. And it will be all the more clear by about 8:30pm tonight.

Don't worry, this nomination is his. But he's gonna have a few more headaches on his hands if he's not careful.

And PLEASE. . . find a way to kill the "popular vote" nonsense coming from camp Hillary.

By: Craig Hickman

Craig Hickman — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:28:00 +0000

I was wondering when something like this would happen:

Crow Nation and Fort Peck Tribes in MOntana

By: Craig Hickman

Craig Hickman — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:22:00 +0000

Barack Obama in Charleston, West Virginia

Keeping Our Faith With Veterans

I don't guess this qualifies as patriotism.

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:07:00 +0000

saw this info at fivethirtyeight.com which is her argument about West Virginia.

"Tuesday, May 13, 2008
West Virginia Preview: Clinton by 39 points, 105,000 votes

Since Washington, DC earned its first electoral votes in 1964, no Democrat has won the White House without carrying that jurisdiction. And yet, Hillary Clinton lost the District's primary by 52 points. How can she claim to be electable if she can't win in the most reliably Democratic Congressional District in the country?"

By: Ruthdfw

Ruthdfw — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:59:00 +0000

also Bob Johnson

By: Progressive for A Better America

Progressive for A Better America — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:50:00 +0000

So many Clinton sycophants, so little time.

But I can't stand McAuliffe or Davis or Carville or Billy Jeff.

Then there's Clinton herself.

By: RuthDFW

RuthDFW — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:39:00 +0000

rik,
Last week Lanny Davis made me want to walk to Atlanta for the joy of slapping him…LOL.

Not a fan of Tubbs either – she BETTER be just as strong for Barack.

By: andyfrombrooklyn

andyfrombrooklyn — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:26:00 +0000

one last thought about hillary. i wish to thank her for being such a terrible self destructive candidate because if she wasn’t , she would have won. and we would have been deprived of the greatness that we are about to witness. so i guess i love her for being so hateful.

By: andyfrombrooklyn

andyfrombrooklyn — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:21:00 +0000

worst hillary surrogate…none of them equal the queen bitch herself. die an unpleasant political death hillary. i loathe you.

By: D.

D. — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:19:00 +0000

…and cue the apology from Rev. Wright.

Don’t worry, I’ll wait.