Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Politics

With Obama pulling even futher into the lead with victories in both Wisconsin and Hawaii, Hillary seems to be getting desperate. In the last several days she has accused Barack of everything from plagerism to not being qualified to be President of the United States. It seems she continues to be a bad sport and will be pushing even harder to discourage people from giving him the nomination! ha. like that will work.....but then again you never know what a woman is capable of doing. we are such decietful creatures, full of sin, and manipulation . . .

"On Monday, Mr. Wolfson accused Mr. Obama of plagiarizing the remarks of Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts from a 2006 campaign appearance. Mr. Obama acknowledged that he should have credited his friend Mr. Patrick in speech on Saturday in Milwaukee, but he said the Clinton campaign was “carrying it too far.”"

"“Today, Senator Clinton told us that there was a choice in this race and you know, I couldn’t agree with her more,” Mr. Obama said. “But contrary to what she’s been saying, it’s not a choice between speeches and solutions, it’s a choice between a politics that offers more of the same divisions and distractions that didn’t work in South Carolina and didn’t work in Wisconsin and will not work in Texas.”
“Or a new politics of common sense, of common purpose, of shared sacrifice and shared prosperity,” he added. “It’s the choice between having a debate with John McCain about who has the most experience in Washington or having a debate about who’s most likely to change Washington.”"

"If you listened in on a nearly hour-long conference call with Senator Hillary Clinton’s campaign officials this morning, you could see at least an eight-point strategy for trying to bounce back after 10 straight losses to Senator Barack Obama:

1. Use two upcoming debates between now and March 4 to draw a strong contrast with Mr. Obama. “We’ve seen dramatic changes when that’s happened,” said Mark Penn, her chief strategist and pollster. (Translation: expect her to unload everything she has on him.)

2. Hope “new information” about Mr. Obama will emerge and discourage voters from supporting him. (Translation: see above.)

3. Repeat those bits of “new information” that have already emerged: that Mr. Obama has “lifted” portions of his inspirational speeches from other politicians; that he backed out of a promise to take public financing for his campaign; that after a year of not remembering the details, Mr. Obama did recall that before he bought his home in Chicago, he toured it with Tony Rezko, a fund-raiser who was known to be the subject of a grand jury investigation, to get his opinion of the property.

4. Replay repeatedly an embarrassing television clip
of a supporter of Mr. Obama being unable to name any legislative achievements by Mr. Obama.

5. Hope that Senator John McCain, the all-but-certain Republican presidential nominee, can raise serious doubts about Mr. Obama’s experience and readiness to be commander-in-chief.

6. Have Mrs. Clinton focus intensely on the economy and drive home her plans to create jobs and jump-start the economy in an attempt to retrieve the blue-collar voters who form her natural constituency but who have been deserting her in the last few contests.

7. Explain previous losses by saying the Obama campaign outspent them and use this as a plea for more money — even $5, which she asked for today.

8. Not be drawn into the Obama camp’s assessment that Mrs. Clinton needs to win 65 percent of the vote in Ohio, and not even saying that they have to win Ohio, only that it is “critically, critically important.”"


(all information from nytimes.com)
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however it seems people are beginning to follow Obama more and more everyday!
60% of White Men will vote for him!
50% of All Women will vote for him!
those numbers are huge.....and critical
it offers a majority. he may just be able to do it!

i shall keep everyone updated on this!
im so excited! :D

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