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Posted at 12:43pm on Jul. 10, 2008 Video from Obama's Unity Gaffe.
Normally I'd just update, but this is prime stuff.
By Moe Lane
Via AoSHQ, via Ed Morrissey, watch this video from the gaffe I mentioned earlier. Remember, this is for a event specifically designed for Unity:
Contra Ed, I'll call the MSNBC coverage a wash: fawning introduction, yes, but they were also kind of mean in their commentary while watching the clip in question. Not that I blame them for not resisting temptation: that was such a dumb error to make. We expect a certain professionalism from our professional politicians, yes?
Moe Lane
PS: Given that Obama is telling his people that fundraising efforts are going a "little slow" right now, and that Clinton's campaign debt needs to go away, just why is he being so sloppy?
Actually, the real question there is whether anybody knows the answer to that.
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Posted at 10:14am on Jul. 10, 2008 Yeah. He's *Really* into this entire Unity thing.
It shows.
By Moe Lane
Call me nuts, but when you throw together an event explicitly designed to try to convince your supporters to give money to retire a former opponent's debt - isn't it a good idea to not forget to put that request in your actual speech?
Apparently not:
Obama briefly forgets to urge help for Clinton
By BETH FOUHY – 11 hours agoNEW YORK - It was all part of a careful arrangement: Democrat Barack Obama would get fundraising help from his erstwhile rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in exchange for his help retiring about $10 million of her campaign debt.
But Obama momentarily forgot his part of the deal at a major New York fundraiser Wednesday night, forcing him to retake the stage after he had concluded the event and said goodnight to the audience.
The Illinois senator spoke to about 1,000 donors in a Manhattan ballroom, all of whom had paid at least $1,000 to attend. Many were Clinton supporters until she dropped out of the race last month.
Read on.
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Posted at 8:04pm on May 13, 2008 Hillary meets Barry on the Senate floor
Ice, ice, baby.
By Mark Kilmer
Dem Presidential nominee, presumptive, Barack Obama and Hillary met on the Senate floor today, and CG Beyond the Dome blogger David Nather tells us about it.
Les us see, Ken Salazar moderated a "half hug" between the two. Each of them met separately with Michigan Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow regarding what the DNC is gonna do with all that junk, all that junk inside their trunk. (Michigan Dems want give Hillary 69 delegates and Barry 59, just to get the delegation seated, but Hillary evidently said nyet last week. She wants the world and she wants it now!) They each met with Florida's lone Dem Senator, Bill Nelson, about the junk down there.
Don't ask me what the Dems are going to do. My analysis stops when the other side goes FUBAR.
As for the Massachusetts delegation, each candidate chatted with a different member thereof. Obama talked to JF Kerry, and Nather observes that Barry got a lecture from the Zen Master:
Obama also had a lengthy conversation with Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and now one of Obama's supporters, in a scene that looked like a tutorial from a veteran presidential candidate to a student who is probably about to go through a general election himself.
Considering that Kerry was the worst major party Presidential candidate of any of our lifetimes, this must have been an hilarious site to see.
But below the fold, the word for which we've all been waiting. What happened when Hillary spoke to Obama supporter Senator Ted Kennedy? (Hint: He didn't buy her a drink.)
Read On…
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Posted at 8:49am on Feb. 11, 2008 MI Morning Update: Party will Unite - CPAC was Great Success - Dems Snub MI Voters...AGAIN!
By saul anuzis
269 Days until Election Day
MORNING UPDATE:
I’ve received a lot of emails this weekend about “uniting our party” and others expressing “frustration” over how the process is developing. My advice…keep the faith.
The process is moving forward, we all work for the candidates we support in the primary…and then work hard to unite behind our nominee. McCain, Huckabee and Paul are still in the race, it’s working itself out…we’ll know more after Tuesday.
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Posted at 9:16am on Nov. 5, 2007 Giuliani No Better Than Hillary On Abortion? I Don't Think So ...
The Choice Here For Pro-Lifers Is Ultimately Between More Abortions & Less Abortions.
By Martin A. Knight
For what it's worth, I'm already on record as not a Primary supporter of Rudy (even if this is my second somewhat "pro-Rudy" post in as many weeks), but in the general, I would happily pull the lever for the man because he will be many times better than the alternative. Even on life issues. Believe it or not, the truth is, from all indications, I don't think Rudy gives that much of a damn about abortion. That makes him much easier to sway than someone who passionately upholds it as a sacrament (Hillary). And if, as he must, he picks a pro-lifer to be his Vice President, when his term(s) is/are done, we will have successor in line for the White House who is pro-life.
Will we get that with Hillary? Does anybody believe that the Press Corps will do anything that will jeopardize President Hillary being succeeded by her equally rabidly pro-abortion Vice President? Understand this, the Press now knows from 2006 that they can control the mushy middle (not by building up Democrats, but by tearing down Republicans) and they're going to make sure she has an eight year honeymoon if she wins - corruption and scandals are going to be spun, covered up and even pinned on Republicans, until her successor is safely inaugurated.
Never forget this; defeat does indeed have consequences. And they could last decades. Upon decades. Imagine three (or more) 40 year old Ginsburgs and Breyers on the Court - and one of them could be replacing Justice Scalia.
More below ...
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