Obama is the next phase of the Democratic party’s return to national party status (phase one was Dean becoming chairman and the 2006 election)
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is planning to unveil a “massive” voter registration drive, one that will reach all 50 states and seeks to boost confidence in him as a potential general election candidate.
A senior campaign official is expected to provide details about the effort in a conference call Friday.
The Obama campaign is also entering into an agreement with the DNC for joint fundraising. According to the linked story the Clinton campaign has not gone that far yet in their negotiations with the national party. But then, we know they historically don’t play well with others.
Sounds to me like Obama is basically telling the SD’s to put up or shut up. This will endear him to most state party chairs. Especially ones that fall outside the swing states.
Yes yes yes, but when will he apologise for every black person ever?
There are Democrats in all 50 states, therefore, the Democratic party should compete in all 50 states. This may not result in more EC votes, or even more seats in the Legislative branch. But it could result in winning more sears at the state level and the local level, and that helps the part in the future.
OW, all,
Man…it’s been ages since I’ve posted here on this blog, or anywhere, for that matter. Disillusionned by the whole political scene and our inability to do anything about anything.
However, I couldn’t help but notice a recent poll in the very “conservative” state of Massachusetts notes that if Obama wins the nomination, he may actually lose in my state. A state which hasn’t gone to a GOP nominee since…well, at least in my lifetime. Maybe never.
Must be something wrong with the poll, you say? Well, not when you consider that MY voting record in the State of MA., in the last 7 elections goes like this: Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton I and II, Gore Kerry……and if Obama wins the nomination, I will proudly cast my vote for John McCain.
I didn’t always feel this way. Two words: Reverend Wright. I can’t get past it. You can’t hang with a guy for two decades and not be either affected or influenced by him, or knowingly support his racist hatred.
Yes, I believe Obama shares some of the same sentiments expressed by his buddy. Sue me.
So, I would strongly support and endorse an attempt by the Clinton folks to wrestle the nomination away from Obama based on the very credible argument that HE CAN NOT BEAT JOHN McCAIN. He just won’t. Heck, I don’t even think he’d beat Bush if Bush could run for a 3rd term. Frankly, I’d probably stay home and not vote if that were the matchup, or hold my nose and vote for W.
Barack Obama is not right for this country. Think folks, think.
JK
“small states are like a venereal disease”-Hillary
“So, I would strongly support and endorse an attempt by the Clinton folks to wrestle the nomination away from Obama based on the very credible argument that HE CAN NOT BEAT JOHN McCAIN. He just won’t. Heck, I don’t even think he’d beat Bush if Bush could run for a 3rd term. Frankly, I’d probably stay home and not vote if that were the matchup, or hold my nose and vote for W.
Barack Obama is not right for this country. Think folks, think.
JK”
JK, I am sure you mean well, but your rant smacks of subversive media conditioning and perhaps has been tainted by closeted racist tendencies that are lodged deep in your subconscious.
For every Reverend Wright out there, there are 100 white preachers who deliver messages far more caustic and incendiary than anything the Rev. Wright has belted out. The anger that Rev. Wright feels is real and shared by many folks, both white and black. Just because you don’t agree or find comfort in his words does not and should not cloud your view of Mr. Obama. Barack Obama is his own man, and makes his own decisions irregardless of Rev. Wright.
You just can’t be religious and politically correct at the same time. Every single religious pathway, good and bad, has its own quandary, and every belief system has a distinct point where if you wish to believe you must concede hard undeniable facts, like dead people rising from the grave. You must suspend common sense to be a true believer.
That being said, many folks attend church. Do you honestly believe that just because a man or woman attends a church, is involved in a church community, and donates to keep their local church alive and well believes and endorses every single word the pastor of said church states as the word of god? I think not. People have been going to church and making their own decisions outside of religious doctrine since the very beginnings of man’s slip into religious control. For reference, check out Ben Franklin’s autobiography. Ben Franklin was probably America’s first atheist, but attended church for social and career aspiration. His purchased seats in the Philadelphia church he attended were often empty.
The use of Rev. Wright’s words as a political club in this presidential primary was brought out by the Clinton camp during their scramble to throw the kitchen sink at Barack Obama. The point of the attack was to weaken the Obama campaign, and it might work.
If she can convince the super delegates that she has
damaged Obama enough to keep him from winning in November, she’ll have her chance. Furthermore, Obama can’t get enough delegates before the convention to tie up the nomination either. Time is on her side. Her goal is to stay in and hope Obama makes a fatal gaff.
But I personally believe that she’s angling for 2012 by handing McCain the most damaged opponent she possibly can. I don’t think it will work, but I think that’s what she’s doing.
It’s now or never for her. She’ll be 68 in 2016, which will be her next opportunity to run if Obama takes the White House.
if Obama wins the nomination, I will proudly cast my vote for John McCain.
I didn’t always feel this way. Two words: Reverend Wright.
Take comfort in the separation of church and state.
I got two words for you, too. John Hagee. Here’s some more: Jerry Falwell (still counts), Pat Robertson, Ted Haggard, Pat Buchannan, ad nauseum.
Which statements do you think are more incendiary? Rev. Wright essentially said 9/11 happened because of government policy and interference in the affairs of the middle east. John Hagee said 9/11 happened because of teh gays.
Come on, man. You need to let that shit go and look at the man in front of the man. Don’t let CNN and the media do your research for you.
if Obama wins the nomination, I will proudly cast my vote for John McCain.
I really hate to see stuff like this. A German Shepard would be a better president than John McNovocain. And you know it. If you are a democrat, you should vote for the democrat.
“Must be something wrong with the poll, you say? Well, not when you consider that MY voting record in the State of MA., in the last 7 elections goes like this: Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton I and II, Gore Kerry……and if Obama wins the nomination, I will proudly cast my vote for John McCain.”
So?
We knew there would be people like you. Folks who find an excuse not to vote for the most accommodating (but proud) black man that could be nominated. If it wasn’t Wright, it would be something.
Also, I am quite sure that the closet racist constituents have been taken into account by Obama’s strategic team.
So vote McCain, dude.
One of the reasons they’re known as Massholes ’round these parts.
No disrespect..
Quite honestly I question the sanity of someone who wouldn’t vote for Sen Obama based on something his pastor – not him – said. I further question that person if they choose to vote for McCain.
I came into this election favoring Obama but quite fine with Sen. Clinton. For years I’ve been a fan of hers and a strong defender of the Clintons. No more. They care only about their own personal gain and not the Democratic party. What they have actually done makes Rev. Wright’s nutty diatribes look like child’s play by comparison. The Clintons have practiced the sort of gutter politics I historically associate with the Republican party.
I also don’t discount the role race is playing in all of this. There are some people who are now turning their backs on the spirit of the Democratic party because the candidate is likely to be a black man. I’m calculating that the OMG TEH BLACK vote can be offset by an increase in the young and black vote.
The only way to save this country is to vote for Barack Obama. Anything else and you are dooming it to failure for the near future.
“Yes, I believe Obama shares some of the same sentiments expressed by his buddy. Sue me.”
OK, let’s suppose you are right in that Obama shares some of the same sentiments. Then what? Is Obama going to disband the FBI and CIA and put the FOI in their role? Is he going to require high steppers in place of military march cadences? Is he going to put whitey in jail, or even better enslave whitey? Is he going to replace the American flag over the White House with the Black Power flag? What exactly do you think will happen? Is “Fight the Power” going to be the new National Anthem?
Grow up and stop buying into to this identity politics nonsense. I want to say vote for McCain, you deserve him if you buy into this, but I live in the same country and I DON’T deserve it.
Two words: Reverend Wright. I can’t get past it. You can’t hang with a guy for two decades and not be either affected or influenced by him, or knowingly support his racist hatred.
Obama gave one of the most sincere, honest, and frank speeches on race this country has seen in more than a generation. Did you even pay attention, or were you too busy listening to the pundits tell you what to think?
I’ve seen video of Rev. Wright’s actual sermons – not just sound bites – and watched Bill Moyer’s interview last night, and I’m quite confident the man is not a racist. But even if he were I wouldn’t judge Obama’s character based on that of his preacher. Get real.
Anyone, “Democrat” or not, who can choose McCain over Obama allegedly because of Rev. Wright, all the while ignoring the likes of Hagee et al., is looking for an excuse to vote against Obama anyway.
I want to say vote for McCain, you deserve him if you buy into this, but I live in the same country and I DON’T deserve it.
Amen, brother. This country needs an enema.
“Yes, I believe Obama shares some of the same sentiments expressed by his buddy. Sue me.”
JK, can you explain in more detail just what sentiments you think Obama shares with Wright and how those sentiments are reflected in the policies he’s proposed? What actions are you convinced President Obama will take, based on these shared sentiments, that we should all be so afraid of?
If you oppose Obama because of his association with Wright, and so opposed to him on that basis that you are willing to vote for McCain if Obama is the dem nominee, don’t you owe us more of an explanation than the vagaries you have so far put forth?
I don’t mean to put you on the spot but most of the negative response to Obama’s association with Wright has amounted to little more than an ambiguous “unease” and ill-defined suspicions. On the basis of fears they can’t quite explain — “There’s just something I don’t trust about the guy now” — people are willing to make emphatic and stark decisions: “I’d vote for McCain before I’d vote for Obama.” When pressed, the best I’ve seen anyone offended by Wright’s comments come up with is that Wright raises doubts about Obama’s judgment. Yeah, well, I question the judgment of people who are willing to make serious, consequential decisions — like casting their vote for president — based on little more than vague feelings they can’t actually explain or define. Especially when they have something concrete to examine, like Obama’s actual proposed policies and public statements.
Plus the fact I have never seen a presidential candidate with so little to offer than John McCain. The man doesn’t even support his own legislation these days.
More war, less jobs, fuck the poor. mmmhmmm. Cut me off a piece o’ that.
>> Do you honestly believe that just because a man or woman attends a church, is…endorses every single word the pastor of said church states as the word of god…
Brother. You don’t read for comprehension, do you? I said….sigh….deep breath..(no wonder why I have been idle for so long)….
I said that he obviously has been either affected or influenced, to some extent by the Rev.’s ideology. I believe he SHARES those sentiments.
There’s so much I could respond to here, and I will if y’all want…but I’ll just sum it up by saying that come Janunary 20, 2009, I don’t believe that Barack Obama is even remotely the person that we want to “preseve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.” Frankly, I’m not so sure I’d even want him in a foxhole next to me if the BS came down. Putting aside all of his questionable associations, let’s not forget that he can’t even handle a few tough moments in a national debate without whining in public about unfair treatment. “That’s not Fair.”
Well..Barack…let me clue you in on something while you take that boppy out of your mouth….uh…life’s not fair. Dig it?
Jonn McCain served 5 years in a Vietnamese prison camp. Nuff’ said. It’s not even close.
JK
JK, I think I might speak for everyone when I say, if this is your contribution to a discussion, your presence was not missed.
JK: “I said that he obviously has been either affected or influenced, to some extent by the Rev.’s ideology. I believe he SHARES those sentiments.”
Show me any evidence for this. Show me where Barack Obama has said ANYTHING that suggests he shares sentiments with Reverend Wright that you describe as “racist hatred.” I love your use of the word, “obviously,” in this spot… Obama supporters must be a bunch of idiots, huh? To not see something so abundantly obvious to a thinker like you?
JK: “Putting aside all of his questionable associations, let’s not forget that he can’t even handle a few tough moments in a national debate without whining in public about unfair treatment. “That’s not Fair.””
What are you talking about? I have absolutely no idea what you’re referring to here.
JK: “Jonn McCain served 5 years in a Vietnamese prison camp. Nuff’ said. It’s not even close.”
What does this have to do with Obama’s deficiencies as a potential President? Should this issue this matter with respect to your vote? Is POW time really the most important criterion to consider when electing a President? (Hopefully, you realize that I think that all the answers to these questions are… ahem… obvious.)
Listen, man, if you want to vote for McCain because of these reasons, that’s your right. However, I want you to know that your reasons are fucking stupid. You haven’t given a single good reason as to why you don’t trust Obama, other than vague accusations of “questionable associations” and your ability to see into the soul of the man and see that he shares Rev. Wright’s “racist hatred.”
In short, either give a SUBSTANTIVE reason for your mistrust of Obama re: Rev. Wright (impossible); admit that you don’t want to vote for Obama because of irrational reasons – irrational disliking for the man, racist tendencies, whatever it is (eminently possible, but doubtful that you’ll do it); or please shut the fuck up (I sure hope you take this option.)
“Brother. You don’t read for comprehension, do you? I said….sigh….deep breath..(no wonder why I have been idle for so long)….”
And the break hasn’t helped you any.
You clearly said you would rather vote for John McCain over Obama because of Reverend Wright. So you would condemn Obama because of Reverend Wright, but you are willing to forgive McCain for Hagee, Fawell, and others.
You talk about racial hatred, and I believe you. I believe you are racist. It’s the most likely conclusion based on the evidence. You are scared of angry black men.
“I said that he obviously has been either affected or influenced, to some extent by the Rev.’s ideology. I believe he SHARES those sentiments.”
As others have pointed out above, you have no evidence that he shares these sentiments, and in fact you have a very publicized speech on race in America in which Obama very distinctly says that he rejects the specific comments in question, even as he points out that Wright has said and done a lot of things that most people would understand to be positive and beneficial.
Wright is not the hatred-spewing demagogue that the media clip would have you believe, but clearly you swallowed this b.s. whole.
As to “McCain served five years in a Vietnamese prison camp,” how on Earth does this possibly qualify him for the job of President? I appreciate his sacrifice and will to survive under those conditions, but they did not, in any way, prepare him to lead the country. Doubtless you’re stretching some kind of comparison of “stresses,” as if being a POW and dealing with delicate world diplomacy and domestic issues exist on the same spectrum.
If that were the case, why bother with candidates at all? Let’s find the American who has endured the most hardship of any kind–say, a lifetime of surgeries to correct a congenital birth defect–and just give the Presidency to that person.
People who were never going to vote for someone will try to boil it down to a single reason. JK points to Rev Right; I point to the lack of major policy difference between McCain and bush. As a heathen, I pretty much ignore what candidates do in church, as long as they place the Constitution in higher regard than the teachings of thier church or snippets from sermons. I believe Obama is capable of doing this. To date the Fox-GOP attack machine has come up with little against Obama (after all, Obama wasn’t AWOL, did no inside trading, wasn’t arrested for DUI, and didn’t have his parents pay for an uderage girl’s abortion). But as long as they find those like JK, Fox will keep slinging what little they do have.
“Brother. You don’t read for comprehension, do you?”
Maybe you should try writing for comprehension, JK.
I said that he obviously has been either affected or influenced, to some extent by the Rev.’s ideology. I believe he SHARES those sentiments.
So what? Putting aside the fact that in his speech he specifically said he did NOT share those sentiments, what difference does it make? Is Reverend Wright going to be Obama’s chief of staff? No.
“McCain served five years in a Vietnamese prison camp,”
I’m not sure “served” is the term you’re groping for here,guy. And it is a non sequitor anyway.
Just come right out and say it. You know as well as everybody here John McNovocain is not right to lead this country.
I said that he obviously has been either affected or influenced, to some extent by the Rev.’s ideology. I believe he SHARES those sentiments.
Here’s another news flash for you, JK. Not all of those sentiments are bad ones.
Good Lord, all you BO supporters are lost! We are not racist because we want the electoral college fixed and the super-delegates to disappear, we do not need anyone telling the American people who we should cast our votes for.
It is for us to decide whom we think would best represent the United States. Not for a group of self-imposed leaders. It is the American people who decide that BO is too big a risk for us to take. We will not risk the security and safety of our country on BO. We must vote for the most qualified candidate, that is Hillary Clinton, that is how we voted, and we were told our 18 million votes didn’t count! We want to put an end to this.
We want to put an end to super-delegates altogether. They do not speak for the people! They do not represent the people! If they had, Hillary would be our nominee. We want to put an end to favoritism, sexism, etc. We want our rights as American citizens respected! That is what we are fighting for. We are not racists, we are a group of democrats, republicans, Independents, and Unaffiliated, who want to preserve the rights our forefathers gave to us. All of Us, including you.
We don’t want dead people registered to vote, we don’t want felons registered to vote, we don’t want pets registered to vote. We want our system respected, and respected by those that are running for office! If they cant respect the way our voting system is, they can get out of public office. We the people pay their exorbitant salaries, and if they cant respect they way we do things here they can get the hell out. This is supposed to be a democracy, and they are trying to push one candidate who is unqualified, down our throats! We aren’t buying it, BO was unqualified before the DNC pushed him on us, and he still remains unqualified. That is just the truth.
Now will you mark me a racist for speaking up about our rights? Will you call me offensive names because I believe in democracy?
If that is all you have bring it on!
For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be a democrat.
Our party completely failed us, yet we will keep up the good fight, we can vote each and every one of you, who either took bribes, in the form of political contributions, pressured other super delegates, and pushed BO onto the American people, before our convention in Denver. We will not be pressured into voting for a man who is not qualified to run a hot dog stand let alone a country.
I don’t want to listen to lie after lie, this man tells, I don’t want to hear his lame justifications for flip flopping all the time, its always somebody else’s fault. Excuses, Excuses, Excuses. That is the change this man offers? Flip-Flop, change my mind, changed it again, and again. Real Change? Right.
I feel for this country, and I fear for this country. I believe with all my heart that this man will be exposed for who he truly is, he cant buy off every reporter and every paper, the truth will come out. The whitey tape is real, cant buy it online at the church’s website anymore, but you can still buy other videos. So there is no question in my mind that it exists. The republicans wont bring it out until after the convention in Denver, and if the DNC comes to its collective senses by then, and nominate Hillary, the republicans wont even need it!
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