ZED!

Hi, Christy!

This is quite a revelation. Can you provide some interpretation (i.e., wild-ass guesses) about what this signals concerning the Clinton campaign? Do we know anything about how these two managers are likely to differ in approach?

Why does it not surprise me that the first to go is a hispanic.

Christy, Do you think that this will help or hurt her campaign?

CHS, do you think that this is only because of yesterday or can the super long primary season be burning out a lot of people?

Oh, my – please don’t go there.

Obama is doing pretty darn good in Maine right now. Here’s some numbers from Turn Maine Blue:

http://turnmaineblue.com/showD…..d=779#4220

Obama wins Rockport, carrying 8 delegates to Hillary’s 3.

Obama takes Fryeburg 67 to 17
Obama takes York 414 to 225
Clinton takes Rumford 52 to 37
Clinton takes Dixfield 16 to 14
Clinton takes Mexico 27 16
Clinton takes Byron 1 to 0
Obama takes Hanover 6 to 2
Obama takes Gardiner 129 47 with 2 uncommitted
Clinton takes Old Orchard Beach 134 to 128
Obama takes Hampden 179 to 70
Obama takes Wilton 87 to 30
Obama takes Cape Elizabeth 550 to 217
Obama takes Deer Island 6 to 1
Obama takes Winterport 7 to 4
Obama takes Machiasport 2 delegates to 1O
Obama takes Ellsworth 184 to 100
Obama takes Bristol 7 to 2
Obama takes Bangor (District 15) 16 to 8
Obama takes Presque Isle 63 to 60
Obama takes Stonington 48 to 24
Obama takes Scarborough 401 to 283

My town (very red) also went to Obama:

http://whitenoiseinsanity.word…..ama-today/

Is Hillary blaming her campaign manager for her not doing well this weekend? Makes you wonder if Solis Doyle is stepping down rather than being fired…

Something about the Hispanic remark seems off the mark. After all who hired the Hispanic in the first place? A shake up is a shake up. Of course, I cannot even be sure what your implication is. But seems alittle premature, maybe not well founded.

And I will also add, OT, that it really saddens me that Angela Seabrook delivers NPR weekend news. She has yet to elucidate anything.

Quick reminder — I’ll be on with Sam Seder at 5 pm ET/2 pm PT.

OT.
IANAL, so I ask those who are:

Does reporting false primary results constitue wire fraud?

er, treading dangerous waters…

Kos reports –

The knives inside the Clinton campaign were out for Patty Solis Doyle, and her enemies finally succeeded. …

I liked Patty. It’s rare to have high ranking Latinos anywhere in politics, and rarer still to see Latinas in positions of real power and influence. Reports have suggested she was too much of a micromanager, and discontent over her leadership has leaked into news reports ever since Clinton’s Iowa defeat. Once Williams joined the campaign, this transition appeared to be inevitable. Williams was Clinton’s chief of staff when she was First Lady.

EPU’d from last thread.

Unofficial caucus results from Turn Maine Blue indicates that Mainers are going for Obama by about 63% to 37% with a few odd undecideds and supporters of Edwards and Kucinich still about.

Note the results are very unofficial…just my number crunching the data submitted by attendees. Most precincts are going for Obama, and those supporting Clinton are usually small or very close.

Turnout consistently is reported as very high, sometimes 5-10 times the previous caucus.”

I suspect the shake-up is due to the fact that her team failed to predict that Obama would do really well in a) caucuses, and failed to establish a counter strategy to those efforts, b) Mid-West and NW states and failed to prepare a strategy to challenge for those States.

Obama is currently picking off unprotected pawns all over the board as the bishops pull back to protect the queen. If he goes into the Convention with a majority of normal delegates it’ll be very hard for them to allow in Hillary’s challenged delegates from Florida or Michigan.

The only deal that might be struck is if the Super-Delegates jump to allow Obama a win while seating those two delegations. Or they need to quickly allow a revote/caucus in those States to affirm a valid delegation according to the rules.

Boy, I am going to hate McCain before this is over.

He’s running the “Democrats will surrender in Iraq” shit up the flagpole on CNN.

Bite it you crusty warmonger.

-G

Regardless of the reasons, this has the appearance of a desperation move. To make a change right in the middle of a highly contested primary schedule doesn’t bode well for Hillary.

Interesting news Christy, thanks

Unfortunately for clinton her negatives have always been high and now we can see that voters may well be accepting obama as an viable, alternative, pc, candidate and are turning his way.

I, as an Edwards supporter, would like her earlier rather than later departure from the race. I think that it will allow obama to refine his issues, such as his careless health plan, and bring in some of the other dropped out candidates. Richardson and Edwards joining the campaign would certainly make me feel a lot better about the obama naivete problem.

Air America, right! Also there.

From MyDD –

Steve Clemons uses the term “fired” to describe this action, though I have not yet seen that term in other reports (which tend to put the emphasis of the story on Solis Doyle “stepping down” or “quitting”).

Either way, this is pretty big news. Campaigns that believe they’re moving in all cylinders in the right direction don’t generally see shakeups at their highest ranks — particularly not in the middle of balloting. That is not to say that this news necessarily spells trouble within the Clinton campaign.

Thanks so much for this, Cinnamonape. I’m going to post it over on my blog if you don’t mind. :-)

There is definitely a feeling in the air that Mainahs (and the rest of the Democrats across the nation) don’t want more of the same and are coming out in droves to make sure Hillary doesn’t get in, which to most of us does mean more of the same.

It’s not over, but it’s a very close race. Yikes.

I stated it before – Obama is a gigantic powerful wave that just can’t be stopped. It may having nothing to do with Hillary’s negatives or staff. Hillary has busted her a.. This woman works hard. It’s hard to stop a powerful movement.

from kos

solis doyle statement

I have been proud to manage this campaign, and prouder still to call Hillary my friend for more than sixteen years. I know that she will make a great President.

This has already been the longest Presidential campaign in the history of our nation, and one that has required enormous sacrifices from all of us and our families.

During the last month I have been working closely with my longtime friend, Maggie Williams.

This week Maggie will begin to assume the duties of campaign manager. I will serve as a senior adviser to Hillary and the campaign and travel with Hillary from time to time on the road. Maggie is a remarkable person and I am confident that she will do a fabulous job.

1,753 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Hardin Smith and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Please give us your best, always informed, speculation as to what this means especially since Solis Doyle delivered the California Hispanic folks BIG TIME to Mrs. Clinton…are we lookin’ at a guerrilla campaign now to staunch the bleedin’ and try and get this thing into the backrooms (read that as “board rooms” of the corporations) in Denver? It would appear that all Terry McAuliff’s (sic) hard work in greasin down the primary track was really fucked up by our man Howard Dean when he took Florida and Michigan outta play for the early run.

What do you hear from your well placed contacts, Sister Hardin Smith, there are a lotta good progressive folks who have been jammed up to this point by the arm twistin’ to get their commitments early…now they’re locked outta any influence (and potential jobs) in an Obama presidency.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION THE CORPORATISTS AIN’T DEAD YET!!

On hold for the Seder Show…

Go ahead Kay…BTW the Turn Maine Blue site is the one where I got the data. It was at 2801 Obama to 1662 Clinton the last I checked (though I wasn’t sure if people were reporting the actual votes or delegates at times).

Wow. How cool is that, Christy! I’m going to see if I can live stream it.

Here’s Christy! and friends

Oh. I’m sorry! Did you post those results already? OMG…I’ve got to calm down! I had such a blast today at my town’s caucus. I’m still on a high if you know what I mean.

I’m one of the 6 delegates for Obama too. Looking forward to the state convention as well!

Is it true you are caucusing at a Marden’s?

-G

I don’t know. Could be a couple of things. A year is a long time to be running full speed ahead. Also, by showing a shakeup she could be signaling some big money supporters that she’s making needed changes. Or maybe as you say it really is a desperation move. I just remember last year when Kerry was on the ropes and he made some big changes that he went from nowhere to winning the nomination.

Deer Isle 6-1 Obama! Wow. I know it’s only a small part of the vote, but speaks volumes to me.

I think that Hilda Solis (and a number of other Hispanic politicians) were more influential in California going for Hillary. I’m unsure if Hilda is related to Patti Solis Doyle.

Patti is from Chicago, and has a brother there who is an alderman and part of the Daley machine. Not neccessarily a link, familially or even spiritually, to California Hispanics.

Interesting quote:

“I can’t imagine running for president without her by my side,” Clinton has said of Patti Solis Doyle, her campaign manager for two successful NY Senate runs.

christy, I was listening to tom Hartman today and the right wing has already produced a swift boat movie about Hilary which she is fighting in court to keep from being released as she claims it’s intention is to affect the election

the producers are arguing for freedom of speech

I sure hope Hillary is prepared to deal with the movie whether or not it’s released, people will see it and it will be distributed regardless of the court decision

she has not been as throughly as she thinks,they have been working on this for 7 years and they are gonna have some duzies, true or false, they don’t care

Kay…don’t worry! I didn’t post the precinct results. Only my data crunching of them to get some very rough % of self-reporting precincts in the State. It’s quite cool, really!

“I should have bought it when I saw it at Mardens!”

LOL Nope. We’re caucusing at the Full Belly Deli (my cousin’s husband owns it). Just kidding…

Obama takes Stonington 48 to 24 another wow!

You may be right. I’m just conjecturing.

It does bother me a little, because her reasoning (wanting to spend more time with her family) doesn’t ring true. Who signs on for a presidential campaign without making a full commitment to run with it all the way until the end? This makes me think there’s some kind of problem there.

It does make one wonder doesn’t it. Oh, to be a fly on the wall…

OK, the two-Christy thing is very confusing! John just referred to “Chrisy Two”.

Valley Girl, there are lots of WOWS! today! I’m loving it too…this coming from the girl (moi) who said she was going to vote for Kucinich and then for the 2nd vote as “uncommitted”. Well, when I got in there and sat with mainly Obama supporters, I knew I had to vote for him…especially when I saw quite a few going into Hillary’s corner!

christy, I was listening to tom Hartman today and the right wing has already produced a swift boat movie about Hilary which she is fighting in court to keep from being released as she claims it’s intention is to affect the election

Perris~ This movie is trash. It’s by the same folks that put out that film that supposedly countered “Farenheit 911″. Some YR acquaintances of mine said they had seen trailers of it that mainly had comments by Ann Coulter, Limbaugh, and others making the typical extremist claims about Clinton killing their Chief of Staff, the Travel Office scandal, the FBI personnel files, etc.

1,753 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ OMN AND ON AND…

Citizen nomolos and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

“…Richardson and Edwards joining the campaign would certainly make me feel better about the obama naivete problem.”

The best thing Obama could do right now is to go to Al Gore and promise him that he would be another Dick Cheney VP…it would not only get rid of “the naivete” problem but would lock up the nomination and provide assassination insurance because that is my biggest worry now with an Obama candidacy. As for the “naivete”, don’t ever underestimate Barak Obama as “naive”…every single statement and position or non-position has been carefully crafted for maximum political ambiguity. Obama’s political syntax reminds me of the descriptions of the development of slave patois…folks can carry on a conversation with three or four people with 2 or three levels of meanin’ in the same sentence. I ain’t convinced completely about Obama but I know he ain’t naive…no black man gets to where he has got to by bein’ naive.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, WE GOTTA GET THIS GUY’S BACK, HE’S ALL WE GOT!!

I bet Doyle resigned today. Just a feeling I’m having. I doubt Hillary would fire her, though, you never know. If she fired her, then she will come across as the woman whom Americans would work for, whereas, Obama is the candidate people would work beside. (Huckabee said something similar to this and I think it’s spot on when we choose our candidates)

Thanks so much for the posts giving the flavor of the Maine caucuses. I’m out of the U. S. and this spontaneous news is so exciting and welcome.

It always amazes me when people think he is naive. I think it would be hard to rise that far in Chicago politics without knowing the score.

As the Maine comic George Hamm says: Marden’s is a great place if you can find the other fu*king shoe.

-G

Kay- I’m no Mainer, but this is really interesting- I homed in on two relatively “rural” areas I know. I will be watching for other places I know. An FDLer who is in the BH/ Sedgewick area said he was seeing mostly Obama bumper stickers, with a few for Ron Paul. “Time for a change?” – sure hope this translates into getting rid of SuzieQ too!

Why isn’t Mark Penn toast? Solis Doyle has been with Hillary a long, long time. My guess is that Solis Doyle fell on her sword so to speak.

Kay, What time do the caucuses end? I heard that they close at 8.

Yes indeed, choochmac, and that is the one big question that keeps eatin’ at my gut…what does he owe to whom and when are we gunna find out.

And, frankly, I don’t care who he’s lifted for in the past as long as there are no pictures…I’m more afraid of an assasination. I think that Obama has got himself here by usin’ those who think that they were usin’ him and when they find out …well, if he’s inta the Chicago folks we’re gunna hafta bring ‘im to the inaugration in an APC.

Yeah it does signal problems. Thing is, these states are perfect for Obama. Washington state has a lot of the creative class(as Bowers calls them) voters. Did anyone see if Buffett voted yesterday in Omaha? ;-)

Patti we hardly knew ye.

I think they close after a few speeches, pledge of allegience, description of the process and two votes. Many finished up after an hour or two. Some of the bigger ones may go on a bit longer, but now that it’s really down to two candidates these things go faster than with four or five.

Kay- another question- when is the “primary” for ME-01? Caucus or other?

Maine update: 44% reporting. Obama 57%, Clinton 42%.

JPL9- here’s a dairy from TMB from one of the ME-01 candidates. Really gives a great picture of what’s going on.

http://www.turnmaineblue.com/s…..iaryId=787

My quick scan of the first 50 comments failed to find any references to Frank Rich | Next Up for the Democrats: Civil War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021008A.shtml

The New York Times columnist Frank Rich asks: “What if a presidential candidate held what she billed as ‘the largest, most interactive town hall in political history’ on national television, and no one noticed?”

His basic point seems to be that the Clinton campaign has been trying to use identity politics to beat Obama, but instead, the wheels are coming off. How did Patti figure in that strategic debate? Does this presage a change in strategy regarding identity politics?

Bob in HI

Not impossible that she burned out.

Why would you say that?

This is good news for Republicans.

Isn’t everything? *g*

Hey Christy, nice job on Air America today!

Maine Delegate Results – 59% Reporting
Barack Obama 1,305 57%
Hillary Clinton 956 42%

Hi Christy- sorry to have gotten carried away with the Maine stuff.

But, I have been reading the reports at TMB. Looks like the D caucuses (so far reported) had huge turnouts- way more than ever before, with a lot of new delegates. I’m just hoping that this new Dem energy in ME translates into a win for Tom Allen in the Senate race against Collins. That would be sweet.

Barack Star T-shirts, for those interested.

Thanks, Bob! It’s always fun to do Sam’s show.

No problem — I’ve been looking at tea leaf reading on them all dayas well. Very interesting dynamic the last few days, I have to say…

Just as I thought I was understanding this Democratic byzantine, complex parade of caucuses and primaries, I found out that several states have both caucuses and then come back sometimes more than a month later and the same states hold primaries.

Then I found out yesterday who my Super Delegates were, and that until March 1, the DNC could replace some of them who aren’t in the House and Senate.

I found out that Hillary Clinton of Chicago, Little Rock, Chippaqua wants to tell Marcy Wheeler how things should work in Michigan and she wants to dictate how votes should count in Florida, even though there was no campaigning in Florida. That isn’t going to happen (votes just count in those two states for her) but there will probably be a re-vote in Michigan and Florida. I’ll be fine with a revote there, because in every state where Obama campaigns, even with the Clinton old fashioned machine trying to dictate votes, he wins.

I guess (I dunno) Debbie Dingle gets her cake and gets to eat it too in Michigan) because they moved up in a half=assed way, and then they would have an election at the end as well. Then it’d be “Herrrrrre’s Michigan and months later Herrrrrrre’s Really Michigan.”

There are seven states according to one of the articles below that hold caucuses and then hold primaries:

Alaska, Colorado, Iowa (who knew?) Minnesota, Nevada, and North Dakota.

So after deciding I might never fully understand the two step process of 1) Caucus—–>2)Primary I found these two articles somewhat helpful:

Media and Candidate Methods of Counting Delegates Vary and So Do Totals

Neck and Neck Democrats Woo Superdelegates

796 Insiders May Hold Democrats’ Key: The Superdelegates

Does anyone knows how the Tim Allen of Maine
campaign against Susan Collins is going…haven’t
seen any reports lately.

If my candidate doesn’t win, sure I’ll be very disappointed, over the top disappointd.

But at least if he doesn’t win because of the byzantine parade of caucuses and primaries, and caucus/primary hybrids that’s one thing. I know for example that the primary African American vote in California could have been considerably more substantial–and that might have helped Obama–as the same phenomenon might have helped in other states.

But if anythng were to happen where Michigan and Florida don’t revote, and the Clinton machine is able to steal the nomination by grabbing the Super Delegates with their machine after these primaries and caucuses elect Obama, that would be beyond the pale unfair and I view that it would be unfair either way.

Sure there will be armies of lawyers who volunteer to litigate for both sides, but I’m doubtful much helpful would come out of the court system to lititgate the primary.

The lawyer who heads up the DNC here has already explained those scenarios.

How ‘dat?

As of one hour ago, Obama is leading the polls significantly in Maryland:

Barack Obama, 53 percent Hillary Rodham Clinton, 35 percent

Alecia- I haven’t seen any thing lately either. But, surely it will heat up again close to Nov. But, the huge turnouts at the D caucuses in ME, are to me a very very good sign that Mainers really are ready for a change. It will be really interesting to get more reports from the Maine caucuses.

Hillary is sinking. It remains to be seen if she leaves the race with dignity after she faces what appears to be inevitable.

If she wants to fight hard, let her fight for democratic principles.

I’ve seen a fund raising report in Maine Today.

Collins raised about $4.5 million as of Dec. 31 while Allen took in $3 million.

We’ll see about that, SanderO.

Does anyone knows how the Tim Allen of Maine
campaign against Susan Collins is going…haven’t
seen any reports lately.

Last I saw, Allen was a bit back in the polls. The reason given was that the “success” of the surge had made his Iraq stance less important to the voters, and the question was raised of whether he could find an issue to hang Susie on (this was in the Bangor Daily News, a few weeks ago IIRC but haven’t found it online). More recently there was an article about the record amounts that are being raised in this race. They are roughly equal in funding., but she is a bit ahead.

I think the big states of Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania are going to be formidable for Barack because Clinton has such a well organized intense machine in all of them but since they are not until March 4 for Texas and Ohio and April 22 for Pennsylvania so that is a whole lot of time to phone bank, campaign repeatedly like hell, and use those small contributions that total big bucks to blanket the airwaves with ads.

MARCH 2008
• March 4: Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont
• March 8: Wyoming (D)
• March 11: Mississippi

APRIL 2008
• April 22: Pennsylvania

MAY 2008
• May 6: Indiana, North Carolina
• May 13: Nebraska, West Virginia
• May 20: Kentucky, Oregon
• May 27: Idaho (R)

JUNE 2008
• June 3: Montana, New Mexico (R), South Dakota

The Superdelegate Lists are going to hit the internet and pressure will really mount on the Super Delegates not to screw the voters. I already have the superdelegate list and the potential for the DNC to add one here.

Just to get back on topic for a minute, what kind of reputation does Maggie Williams have? I mean management style, etc. (not personally, I know she is well liked).

TurnMaineBlue reports that NBC is projecting Obama the winner in Maine (58/42 with 69% reporting)

It seemed a bit wierd/cold today for Russert to refer to Shuster as “that MSNBC reporter has been suspeneded” without even calling him David. Boy when you’re a bit down, friends can sometimes sure get scarce can’t they? I mean Shuster has done (for my money/IMHO) stellare reporting–he was great on Libby considering the time he had to explain Libby on TV and he does a solid job sometimes with little time to get ready before he goes on the air.

A machine or ground game can only do so much. People are now largely influenced by the media and they are aware of the Obama “surge” (sorry for the word).

Those who were not sure can be moved by their awareness of the momentum regardless of the number of workers in the campaign. You are not going to convert every citizen JUST because you have lots of partisans working there for you.

Answer for yourself… What informs your votes? Your opinion about the candidates?

I liked Denis’s message and then was for Edwards because I thought he had a real chance. He got boxed out by the media.

The media left us with a black man and a white woman ex first lady with all sorts of baggage/experience.

Now we are left with… the old guard vs a bit of hope for an “outside” to come in and shake things up. Wouldn’t that be great! Obi is no lefty, but Hill ain’t either. I don’t care for the company Hill keeps… so I am now supporting Obi… but not enthusiastically. Either can do the job. Bush proved anyone can. Obi is offering new people hope. That’s good.

That will get new people to vote in all the coming primaries. Watch.

When she served as Chief of Staff in the White House she was a major, major player and sometimes at the intersection of some very important situations in the Clinton White House. She’s been a very important “go-to” person for both Clintons when Bill was President.

Williams is Assistant to Both Clintons

It’s amazing to me that the so-called insiders who are planning the Republican general plan to get down to the bottom line of “security security security.” What the Democrats need to do in the general is carve up that very false notion of “more security with McCain” and absolutely drown him with the debacle that foreign policy and Iraq/Afganistan have been in a myriad of ways under Bush and to drive home McCain would absolutely be a 3rd term for the shrub.

60 Min has the 2 Dems.

MSNBC projects Obama to win.

Sorry! I’ve been blogging all over the place tonight and am just getting back here.

GregB! I love George Hamm and Bob Marley! Theyah wicked funny comedians. :-) So right about Marden’s….never can find the matching shoe!

Obama is the projected winner tonight in Maine. 57% – 42% so far.

Here’s the delegate breakdown for Obama & Hillary:

http://www.mainedems.org/2008M…..sults.aspx

If I’m not mistaken, Maine no longer holds primaries. We caucus. Our state convention is at the end of May. The republicans caucused last Sunday.

Most were done by 5pm but legally they can be held until 8pm. Portland hasn’t tallied their votes yet. South Portland, however, went to Obama. Nice, huh? As did Auburn & wards in Lewiston (the 2nd largest cities in Maine under Portland).

The dems need to posit a completely different narrative for our time. We have no threats to our nation. Terrorism is a nuisance and will not happen if we act properly on the world stage and route out mischievous people in our country.

Our problem is the nation is not well, our people don’t have health care, our infrastructure is crumbling, our schools are under performing, our people need work with living wages, and secure retirements, our rights are under assault by our government. The threats are right here a not from a foreign land.

Change

Si Se puede

Okay, one more thing! LOL (I’m feeling an empty room echo in here at the moment)

Maine’s population is made up of 4% blacks, so this means mainly whites voted for Obama today throughout our state. Wonderful! It reflects who we are up here very well. A commenter on AMERICAblog tried to say one night that Maine is one of the most racist states in the Union. Such hogwash!

I’m so proud of us tonight. I really am. If the vote goes to Hillary after all of this in the middle of the night suspiciously, I’m going to be livid.

well well…looks like a resignation out of the schuster deal…but it is on clinton’s side and not nbc. penn is the problem but doyle was #3 and falling so got out. penn’s playing of the schuster card late last week in an poor attempt to steal the news cycle when obama slammed them to the wall. all weekend was a major backfire but sh@t rolls downhill and doyle ends up odd one out….and after this weekend drumming it does not look good that this resignation happened…gives the appearance of the wheels coming off especially with the washington area votes coming and polling heavily for obama.

almost like the high up rats leaving the ship….not a good image

Obama Won Maine!

This is the way I like to see the weekend go. 4/4.

Maine Caucus Results

I’m very late getting to this site today–but I am thrilled that Barrack won. I am in Massachusetts and I was very unhappy with how the vote went here last Tuesday. However, Tom Menino has an incredible organization in Boston and he received 2 calls last weekend from both Hillary and Bill. By Monday, he had a 1,000 phonebanking and on Tuesday–1,500 getting the vote out.

Regarding Clinton’s campaign move–this seems a very desperate measure to me and not the message she wants to be sending. This strikes me as a campaign that is absolutely panicky. If she had canned Mark Penn that would have made sense. Trust me, this woman did not leave the campaign voluntarily–she was pushed.

Also, it was Howard Wolfson who called MSNBC not Penn. Politico has the orignal messages that were going back and forth between the campaign, Shuster and then Capus. You’ll love this nugget–RUSSERT acted as the mediator between the campaign and NBC. Of course, this may have something to do with the fact that all the networks are in the middle of February sweeps and they saw the numbers CNN posted in LA with the last debate and are dying thinking they could lose that opportunity.

What makes no sense to me is what message is she trying to send when she cans a woman who is hispanic? None of this makes sense going into Texas, especially.

However, it is the Clinton campaign–so there is that to consider.

Obama Wins Maine, Giving Him 4 Victories in Weekend

You are not allowed to write comedy yet-solidarity. And there is nothing comedic about republicans..except uh, oh boy it’s a long list, retire my previous statement.

Si se puede
When is payday

Exactly -

I don’t know what networks have which debates booked, but if Clinton cancels a debate opportunity (I’m not as enamoured with her debating abilities as her campaign is) I think she cuts off her nose to spite her face. Strategy wise I think it would never happen–she wants the publicity bad regardless of how she is perceived to perform in the debates.

For Clinton’s cash strapped campaign any TV exposure is good exposure–and they’ll get as much milage out of any story as they can.

I look forward to seeing Shuster back soon.

I thought Russert’s mention of Shuster not by name but as “our reporter” was as disigenuous as when Russert and NBC tried to resist testifying in the Libby trial with an affidavit June, 4, 2004 asserting confidentiality after Russert had already talked to FBI agent Jack Eckenrode November, 2003 where he discussed his conversation with Libby on the phone.

The Shuster comment for Clinton’s campaign was just another opportunity to get some exposure–I think that’s how they saw it. Chelsea’s friends use the word the same way Shuster meant it and I still say if you got to look at the Ipods of the Rutgers ball players they were full of rapp lyrics that demean women beyond the pail as would the Ipods of the Spellman College women that Oprah’s best friend Gayle King interviewed on the show where they discussed rap lyrics with rappers.

The Clinton campaign blew a 30 point advantage over the last few months. Obama’s rise has to be blamed on a failure of Hillary’s campaign. And to me that would be the camapign manager. I would say some heads needed to roll a while ago.

I know that Obama’s rise as the bipartisans’ messiah has something with her decrease in polls, but the game was Hillary’s to lose and she apparently is trying to fix whatever has gone awry. She is the only campaign to give an Hispanic that kind of post to begin with, and she is being replaced by an African American. Hillary may be accused of a lot of things, but she is not a racist.