Comments on: Is Obama Really Ahead in Iowa?

By: leftdcin72

leftdcin72 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:11:51 +0000

Look at the current crop on the Supreme Court. Not one has any trial experience except Alito. Thomas may claim he argued an administrative law case and roberts oral arguments. But none of this carries the weight or close to it of the trial experience of Earl Warren, Hugo Black, etc.

Warren was a former prosecutor who knew the score for criminal defendants and he attempted to even the playing field.

You can surely predict the views of scalia, thomas, roberts, alito, ginsberg before appointment. These people are academic technocrats.

By: jongold

jongold — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:12:15 +0000

Incredible. Progressives have been complaining for the last 4 to 8 years about the bad campaigns run by Kerry and Gore in ‘04 and ‘00 respectively. Now when Obama states the obvious – that we need a candidate who doesn’t have built-in negatives, like HRC, he gets plastered by the same people who’ve been picking at Gore’s and Kerry’s campaigns. The central reason not to support HRC is that she has negative ratings of 38 to 50%. Many of these people would never support her in a million years. Neither Edwards nor Obama have this problem. What is wrong with Obama pointing this out and how was it a slam on Kerry or Gore?

By: desklifh230

desklifh230 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:56:11 +0000

The voters in Iowa will continue to see, and understand, how Barack Obama wants to change the nature of politics and bring REAL change to Washington.

By: joejoejoe

joejoejoe — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:06:40 +0000

100% of the votes for Obama (or any candidate) in the Iowa caucus will be Democratic votes. You have to change your registration to the Democratic Party to participate. Once upon a time Wes Clark, Markos Moulitsas, and Hillary Clinton were all Republicans. Then, like Iowa caucus voters, they changed their voter registration and became Democrats.

Good for any Democratic candidate that is attracting new people to power the party.

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:05:54 +0000

Officials involved in Libby Scandal(excludes media like Russert, Mitchesll):

23 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:39:11 +0000

If you think that Kennedy wasn’t part of something that would have made what you’re calling a “Chicago Machine” for Obama look like a parade of choirboys, you need to reread some history of the Kennedy family and JFK’s ascent to the White House.

Obama’s support for Leiberman was probably driven by loyalty. It wasn’t “good judgement,” I’d certainly agree, but I can conjure up a score of poor decisions by HRC, and she represents a continuation of many of Bush’s policies. I don’t want her anywhere near the general.

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:15:28 +0000

yet selected one of the biggest if not THE biggest hawk in the US Senate as his mentor after two years of war when it was obvious that the invasion and occupation were ba

Whatever reasons Obama was associated with Leiberman, and I know it bleeds off the walls of Liberal and Conservative blogs, Leiberman’s Chenesque perception of foreign policy wasn’t one of them.

And shots like “he’s not the second coming of any of the Kennedy’s or pretty cheap.” Obama has plenty of potential to be a fine president in general, and in particular if you look at who else has a viable shot from either party.

We both agree the Republican candidates are so horrendous, and we could both articulate long and hard as to why and probably substantively, there is no contest there.

I think it’s unfair to dredge up Lloyd Benson’s “I knew John Kennedy” yada yada as ammunition against Obama. It’s a cheap shot.

I also believe that Kennedy is over-rated as a saint because tragically, he was shot. He was every bit as venal and calculating a politician, and for that matter Obama doesn’t have a figure as cruel and calculating or as much of a law breaker on several fronts as Daddy Joe Kennedy was in JFK’s equation and Presidency.

If you think you can find a candidate for U.S. House or Senate who isn’t calculating, get back to me, but I’m not holding my breath.

By: shergald

shergald — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:06:37 +0000

Kusinich?

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:04:28 +0000

I only “harp on Lieberman in the equation of Obama” as to how it shows Obama’s judgment, or lack thereof. Obama has bragged about how he was against the invasion and occupation of Iraq from the very beginning yet selected one of the biggest if not THE biggest hawk in the US Senate as his mentor after two years of war when it was obvious that the invasion and occupation were bad. THAT shows poor judgment to me. Compounded by his wholehearted support for Short Ride in the CT senate race in ‘06 when it was even more obvious how disastrous the policies that Short Ride supported had become. That also shows poor judgment.

Believe me, if Obama somehow captures the Dem nomination, I will vote for him as every Dem candidate, regardless of the flaws that I see in them, is superior to the Rs running. But he is not the second coming of JFK or RFK or MLK or Eugene McCarthy or George McGovern. He is a calculating politician out of the Chicago machine. Nothing more. Nothing less.

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:01:50 +0000

If you think it’s such a big deal, why aren’t you in Iowa and doing the talking head thing, trying to use it against Obama.

It’s a non-ssue. And I hate the fact that Leiberman is in the Senate. He’s abominable, and one of my candidates for the top ten worst Senators. Leiberman isn’t stupid, but many on my list are–Imholfe, Kyle, the Maine Bobsie twins Snow and Collins come quickly to mind.

Lieberman has no significant influence on Obama. People who are Hillary suckers or obsessed with Edwards (and Edwards would be fine with me, damn fine compared to what else has a chance on either side besides Obama) are afraid that Obama can attract Reupblicans who can participate in the Democratic caucauses in Iowa or first time participants/or voters apparently.

You might appeal to the Iowa legislature to change the law, but it won’t happen.