Beat the Press: High-flying Obama plays to win
"Vibe," Obama guessed correctly.
Many clues touched on politics. Campaign aide Jen Psaki asked about something President Bush said on an aircraft carrier, and Obama quickly answered "mission accomplished." Close, but another aide and teammate, Reggie Love, later got the right answer: "mission control."
When Obama was giving clues, he ventured: "Thomas Jefferson called for it once in a while." Seeing the blank looks, he admitted, "that's too obscure." He then tried, "the Beatles did a song about it," and a teammate correctly answered, "Revolution."
Love, a former football and basketball player at Duke University, took a turn at giving clues, asking for a mall store "where gays go to buy clothes."
"Abercrombie and Fitch," answered Obama. Wrong. "The Gap," teammate Samantha Tubman correctly answered.
Obama fared no better when Tubman somewhat nervously gave clues for a type of men's and women's underwear. He incorrectly guessed "garters," while Love nailed it with "G-string."
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Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 05/13/2008 6:29:02 PM
Comment: there was no agreement by any of the candidates with the DNC rulling.
Read the article. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/25/AR2007082500275_3.html
This is what the agreement Iowa, NH and SC required candidates to sign. It says nothing about the delegates or votes in FL and MI not counting.
WHEREAS, over a year ago, the Democratic National Committee established a 2008 nominating calendar;
WHEREAS, this calendar honors the racial, ethnic, economic and geographic
diversity of our party and our country;
WHEREAS, the DNC also honored the traditional role of retail politics early in the
nominating process, to ensure that money alone will not determine our
presidential nominee;
WHEREAS, it is the desire of Presidential campaigns, the DNC, the states and
the American people to bring finality, predictability and common sense to the
nominating calendar.
THEREFORE, I _______________, Democratic Candidate for President, pledge
I shall not campaign or participate in any state which schedules a presidential
election primary or caucus before Feb. 5, 2008, except for the states of Iowa,
Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina, as ???campaigning??? is defined by the
rules and regulations of the DNC. It does not include activities specifically
related to raising campaign resources such as fundraising events or the hiring of
fundraising staff.
Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 05/13/2008 6:28:37 PM
Comment: These sound like pretty obvious clues to me, I guess he's getting the rules interpreted in his favor in this competition too.
Seat all the delegates, count all the votes, AS THEY WERE CAST, not some special rule to benefit Obama.
Posted By: Doctorate @ 05/12/2008 2:54:17 PM
Comment: Dear Chris Matthews:
Hardball consistently lands woefully behind same time slot programs on Fox News in the Nielsen ratings. Your popularity is down. You use the privilege of a mass media platform to spout your personal rantings and irrelevant diatribes. You have no feasible chance in heck of ever overtaking your competition, whether it's CNN, CNN Headline News or Fox News. Likely, the Home Shopping Network even beats you out. You should really stop bloviating. Just stop. Please resign now and put us out of our misery. Resign now. Just resign. You can't catch up. RESIGN!
Sincerely,
At Least Half of All Democrats - and Probably a Heck of a Lot More, Depending on How We Are Counted And Who Does the Counting And at What Hour.