June 4, 2008
Barack Obama is currently 12 delegates away from officially becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for the president of the United States. Obama need 2118 delegates to secure the nomination. Thanks to a carefully choreographed rollout of super delegates, he will go over the top when ...
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May 27, 2008
This morning Hillary Clinton has an op-ed in the Daily News. In it she remains unapologetic about her RFK assassination comments. Instead she says that those who were offended took her "entirely out of context". She is "dismayed and disturbed" that we would misconstrue her commen...
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Liz Trotta of Fox News slips up. Hillary Clinton offered the permission slip. Others are using it. Below is the entire segment on Fox News: BONUS UPDATE: Howard Wolfson, Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, this morning on CBS’s Face The Nation circling the wagons: fox news ...
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Yesterday Liz Trotta of Fox News made a dangerous mistake on air. Today she apologized. Unlike Hillary Clinton, she did not say she "regretted" if "anyone was offended". She said she was "sorry". That is how it is done. Contrast her apology with Hillary Clinton’s...
go to article »May 26, 2008
Hillary Clinton has a habit of planting suggestions into the political landscape. Today she suggested that Barack Obama might be assassinated, with her waiting in the wings to take up the Democratic nomination. She invoked Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination in June 1968 during the Democratic p...
go to article »May 21, 2008
Barack Obama needs approximately 15 super delegates to win the Democratic nomination. With today’s results in Kentucky and Oregon Barack Obama has 1961 total delegates according to DemConWatch. There are still 17 more delegates outstanding from Oregon according to CNN’s count. Obama wil...
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I didn’t want this to pass without noting that Barack Obama drew an incredible 75,000 people at a rally in Portland, Oregon yesterday. These are unprecedented numbers in a political rally in the United States. (Note to the Clinton campaign: that’s a lot of white people at that rall...
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This is truly distressing news: U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, doctors treating him at Massachusetts General Hospital said Tuesday. Kennedy, 76, was hospitalized Saturday morning after suffering a seizure at his family’s compound at Hyannisport, Massachusetts. "...
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The polls close in a few hours in Kentucky and the mail-in votes in Oregon will start reporting at 11PM Eastern time tonight. I usually post these earlier but I couldn’t find the time. Tonight Barack Obama will earn enough delegates to get a majority of pledged delegates and pretty much seal t...
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