Political Pandering
So why are McCain and Clinton doing this? Because when they learned that Obama had supported a similar suspension of the Illinois gas tax in Springfield, Ill., before realizing it was a bad idea, they saw an opening. It was like Hillary's whiskey shot in the bar, only sleazier. Try to show that the guy just doesn't get it.
Of course, McCain and Clinton do get it. They get that people are hurting and want some relief, even if this form of it makes no sense. They get that voters have been conned into believing that both candidates are responsible public servants because they're not as bad as some others, so they can trade on that reputation. They get that smacking Obama is more important than anything else on the planet right now, and that for Obama to respond by calling them panderers will take Obama about as far as it took Paul Tsongas in 1992 when he leveled the same charge at Bill Clinton.
In sum, McCain and Clinton get that the media will let them get away with this. You can't forgive them on this one, Lord, for they know exactly what they do.
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Posted By: kristinkare @ 05/20/2008 2:04:02 AM
Comment: Clinton takes Indiana by a ???razor??? and Obama wins North Carolina by a huge margin. Nevertheless, Kentucky, Montana and West Virginia are still to come.
The Democratic race for nomination is still very much alive ??? and most likely to be decided by superdelegates
If you???re tired of waiting around for those super delegates to make a decision already, go to LobbyDelegates.com and push them to support Clinton or Obama
If you haven't done so yet, please write a message to each of your state's superdelegates at http://www.lobbydelegates.com
Obama Supporters:
Sending a note to current Obama supporters lets them know it's appreciated, sending a note to current Clinton supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Obama, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Obama. It's that easy...
Clinton Supporters too ???. !
It takes a moment, but what's a few minutes now worth to get Clinton in office?! Those are really worth !
Sending a note to current Clinton supporters lets them know it's appreciated, sending a note to current Obama supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Clinton, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Clinton. It's that easy...
Posted By: dawei @ 05/12/2008 12:05:54 AM
Comment: I think all three candidates are worthless. Abama and Clinton will not handle terrorists correctly, all three will not handle China corrcetly, and McCain is an idiot in understanding Economics. Two of the top five qualifications should be Economics and military action. Not reserves or just service in the Army, Navy or Marines. I mean action in a war and probably nothing less than Captain. I saw a new blog site that is good. www.stopthenonsensenow.blogspot.com. I don't know hoe long until he gets to todays issues but he is writing about the liars in the white house during the 80's and the elite killers and terrorists, the CIA. His mission statement says he wants the people of the US to revolt and take back the government. He is right.
Remember something. Clinton said she wanted to bring this country back to old traditional family values. What did she do as junior Senator for the last six years? Her husband was an adulterous whore and nobody talked about him being a role model. All the people they interviewed on TV in bars, which shows how stupid the media is, never talked about him being the president and saying he should be ashamed. They only said it was their personal business. That is when I really knew my predictions were correct. This country is the sh**hole of the world. Nobody cares because nobody is standing up to the government and forcing them to change things. We do have the power. They are only how many senators and Congressmen? We are 6- million voters. How stupid americans are!!
Posted By: lamm01 @ 05/06/2008 9:11:30 AM
Comment: Th eonly real pandering that has been going on is yours Jonathan "I worship at Obama's" Alter.... Out of all of the "so called" journalists, you have been the absolute worst. What are you going to do with yourself (I have a few ideas) when Obama is obliterated in November......