Moving On
To non-sordid Dem news. Obama starts mocking Hillary. This is a great new development for the Change-Hoper. Bloomberg:
March 10 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama touted his front- runner status in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination today and rejected rival Hillary Clinton’s recent suggestion he might be her running mate.
“With all due respect, I won twice as many states as Senator Clinton. I won more of the popular vote than Senator Clinton. I have more delegates than Senator Clinton,” Obama said while campaigning in Mississippi, which is holding a primary tomorrow. “I don’t know how somebody who is in second place is offering the vice presidency to somebody who is in first place.”
No respect due, Obie. More like this please.
And here we go. Obie accuses Hill of Republican tactics!
“When in the midst of a campaign you decide to throw the kitchen sink at your opponent because you’re behind,” he said, “and your campaign starts leaking photographs of me when I’m traveling overseas wearing the native clothes of those folks to make people afraid, and then you run an ad talking about who’s going to answer the phone at three in the morning, an ad straight out of the Republican playbook, that’s not real change.”
This is great. He can smear and claim the high road.
About that veep thing, here’s a lefty who suggests that train may have a different locomotive, and it’s pulling out of the station without Obie. Eight more years of fear-mongering! I’m going to miss this primary when its over. Meanwhile, Powerline notes it wouldn’t just be second banana, but third. With strong likelihood of being mashed when one Clinton or the other slips on a peel.
Can’t we all just get along? Pelosi is doling out political advice. Why anyone would want to take it from her, I don’t know, but here it is. SF Chron:
“I would encourage both of them, as I have, to remember we have to keep our eyes on the prize, which is the general election in November,” Pelosi said …
“We are all very passionate about our politics and the issues we believe in, but we have to be very dispassionate about how we approach winning … We have to lift the debate to a place that does not turn off the American people … I do have concerns that the negativism can diminish our prospects for the general election.”
Not clear how much she actually knows about winning, given her urges to turn victory into disaster, in Congress and elsewhere, but she knows of what she speaks on negativism and bickering.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:30 pm on Monday, March 10, 2008
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March 11th, 2008 at 10:26 am
I’ll give it to Billary: she (they) are consummate politicians and they know they’re not going to beat Obama in the primary. He’ll win the Democratic nomination, and lose the election, so they’re hedging their bets and putting their support behind McCain, maybe yes, with an eye toward the vice presidency. I would just as soon Billary disappear from political life altogether, but you can’t fault them on strategy.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Barack gets style points for his comments yesterday on their mumblings (including Bill C. in Mississippi) on an Obama Vice- Presidency.
As if the king and queen and their court jester (Howard Wolfson) were dangling a plum from on high.
Ignoring the fact that Hillary is in second place in both delegate and popular vote count.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
This Democrat primary season is a quagmire. I can’t believe they all haven’t supported their troops and withdrawn.