Bill, small-town ambassador

tom Los Angeles — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:10:45 GMT

The Clinton's made the Democratic Party - Obama is destroying it - Obama drop out before you whimp out - MORE.

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Girls from UCF — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:12:03 GMT

Bill is the Best ever!

Go Hillary!!

Hillary/08!!!

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garyd, amherst, nh — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:12:45 GMT

Bill must be from the country ...he's so full of bull.

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Sick of corruption, sick of the Clintons — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:12:52 GMT

So, who said they didn't want Bill to be in the country. I am OK with him being there. I just don't want him and his corrupt wife in the White House. They pardoned enough terrorists already. Stay in the country, Bill. No problem!

Obama in 2008. Integrity matters and the Clintons have none.

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Jill — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:13:16 GMT

It's never to late..hillaryclinton.com . Come for a free trial offer visit today.Operators are standing by.

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Go Obama — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:13:28 GMT

2 more supers for Obama, dangit msnbc, do I have to do your job for you ...
Lol, so much for getting this posted

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Two_MD_supers_for_Obama.html

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Lisa, New Britain, CT. Proud working class supporter for Obama — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:13:49 GMT

Is there an MSNBC reporter covering Obama. The Bill Clinton reporter is giving Bill Clinton more coverage than either candidate...but clearly this is a media advantage for Hillary Clinton, the candidate. I'm not one to expect things to be even but this seems more than a little one-sided.

And also driving the point home with how much more BILL can we take??!!

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Hillary Rodham Clinton — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:13:53 GMT

I'm sorry, but the majority of this country is not made up of "RURAL AMERICA" I am getting sick and tired of feeling like I should be a LOW CLASS, NON-EDUCATED, STRAW-CHEWIN', REDNECK!!!!! I was raised with class and dignity, went to the finest schools, and like the millions of other people in this country should have a voice.

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More Hillary Talking Points: Where's The News — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:14:51 GMT

If you think the media is being unfair to Obama, you have to read this. Al Hit the Nail on the Head!

An excellent article by Al Giordano,

I turn on the TV, read the political columnists (and a significant number of analytically-challenged bloggers, too) and all I hear is a bunch of white folk prattling on about their favorite narrative: "Obama's losing white voters!"

They've swallowed the Clinton racially-obsessed spin, hook, line and sinker. Some, because they are gullible, haven't an original idea in their little pea brains, and follow the pack of what everybody else is talking about. Others, because they like to toss around knowing falsehoods. Nary a superdelegate can go on Fox News without being berated by an anchorperson screeching (this is pretty close to an exact quote): "But your duty as a superdelegate is to select the most electable and that's Hillary Clinton!" That these anchorpersons are Republican partisans openly cheering for Senator Clinton is our first clue of the game afoot. One of the major successes of Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos is that it has got all the right-wing pundits and reporters marching lockstep behind the effort to give Clinton enough oxygen to keep slashing away at Senator Obama, who remains the prohibitive likely Democratic nominee.

And when Clinton wins state primaries that, because of demographics, she was always going to win - last week, Pennsylvania and next week, Indiana - they then wave that event up like a blood-soaked flag as proof of their narrative: See? See? We told you so! White people won't vote for Obama!

So imagine my pleasant surprise this morning to see a New York Times columnist, Charles Blow, who did what none of these chattering lunkheads have done. He looked at the hard data of how voters, white and black, view the two Democratic candidates - favorably or negatively? - and how those views have progressed over time. The data is based on multiple CBS-New York Times polls (among the most respected survey outfits among competing pollsters) over two years and more. Check it out:

Nobody - not blogger, nor superdelegate, nor cable news anchor - should open their mouths with another word about this contest until they've studied those graphs and the numbers upon which they are based. Blow explains:

Since January, the Clintons have pummeled Barack Obama with racially tinged comments and questions about his character...
The question is this: Have white Democrats soured on Obama? Apparently not. Although his unfavorable rating from the group is up five percentage points since last summer in polls conducted by The New York Times and CBS News, his favorable rating is up just as much.

Wait. The numbers show that the cynical effort to turn the 2008 campaign into a race riot has hurt the popularity of one candidate among an important demographic, and it's not Barack Obama:

On the other hand, black Democrats' opinion of Hillary Clinton has deteriorated substantially (her favorable rating among them is down 36 percentage points over the same period).
So, to sum up: Look at the damn graphs. You can see that Clinton is in a staggering free-fall among African-American voters, her favorability is down 36 points while 17 percent view her more negatively than before, while Obama's favorable and negative ratings among whites have paired at five point increases. You can even see the small dip - about two percentage points - in his popularity among whites that can be attributed to the news cycles about his ex-pastor, and see that it has leveled out and is now on a straight horizontal line (meanwhile, Clinton's numbers among blacks continue on an extreme downward precipice). The greater context is that even including Obama's slight dip, he's more popular today among white voters than he ever was prior to February.

Not since Ronald Reagan has an American presidential candidate withstood such an assault in the media and seen his popularity not hurt by it, but, rather, galvanized by it. That's what is meant, in politics, by the term "Teflon."

Those facts won't stop many media (and Internet) talking heads from continuing - whether out of gullibility or intentional dishonesty - to prop up the "white voters" narrative, but it ought to inoculate you, kind reader, from believing it.

Don't let yourself get upset when some idiot repeats the false media narrative. Don't plead with them to tell the truth (they won't; remember, they're either stupid or dishonest). Mock them. Ridicule them. Expose them as the lightweights they are showing themselves to be, with all the confidence that understanding the hard data ought to provide you.

Let Operation Anti-Chaos begin!

Bill, small-town ambassador

Tammy, Virginia — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:16:03 GMT

When are you all going to bother covering Michelle Obama? Or is Bill the only spouse worth watching?

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C A, Tuscaloosa, AL — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:16:04 GMT

Obama will win NC by 12% +

Obama will win Indiana by 4% +

Wednseday morning we will see a flood of undeclared Superdelegates endorsing Obama.

This race was and is over.

Bill, small-town ambassador

Joe Bob Halley, Floydada, TX — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:16:49 GMT

Where are the quotes from Michelle Obama to balance out this spouse-related coverage? She gave a terrific speech Friday night in NC. Why not share parts of it with readers here, under a similarly fawning headline?

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RD, Alexandria, VA — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:16:59 GMT

BILLARY can't stand the fact that they might not get back in the White House. They already had EIGHT YEARS TO SCREW THINGS UP... putting in motion all of the conditions for our economic woes today. INDIANA, NORTH CAROLINA PLEASE PUT OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!

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Hillary supporter — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:18:03 GMT

Tell it like it is Bill.

It is time to elect a filly and let her run.

Bill, small-town ambassador

Paul B Chgo,Il — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:19:16 GMT

I didn't think Bill was running for president again.
With all these glowing reports on Bill from First Read, I thought he was...

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mud — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:20:24 GMT

When did Bill start running for President again?

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Andress — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:20:57 GMT

If I had Millions of Dollars and wanted to win Indiana, I would pay for everyones gas for fee, for a day at the pumps.

Of course, I know how to pump gas.

Pandering= Gas tax holiday!

Don't trust a woman who trusts Bill Clinton--remember!

Obama 08

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jill, indi — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:21:55 GMT

Oh yeah, it won't be a duel presidency. Ha. People are so blind. It's Bill vs. Barack now. I'm ashamed to be a woman because apparently it takes a husband to drag his wife over the finish line in order to be President.

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C.K. Steele Fort Lauderdale, FL — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:23:15 GMT

Wow. Bubba sure can lie with such ease. This thing is over and he and his wife know it. The math is not in their favor. http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/delegatecalculator/index.html

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GW , Vancouver, Canada — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:23:23 GMT

Surprise, surprise, 4 stories about Cllinton, none about Obama, and again Obama is ahead in the Gallup daily tracking poll by 5 points, when Hillary was ahead by one it was a lead item on First Read. You could at least pretend to be fair

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plumbobb — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:24:29 GMT

************MSNBC*******************

Come one, give us our SUPERDELEGATE update.

Obama's up by 4 today. What's the holdup?

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Tired of Being Tired — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:25:29 GMT

Who cares? This is a campaign. The candidates, surrogates and there supporter campaign to get elected. Been this way for some time now. One might even suggest the more campaign stops you make, the more you can get your message out. This isn't news!

Bill, small-town ambassador

Vicki in the sky with Cubic Zerconia — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:27:16 GMT

It's so funny how Hill-Billy ignored the working class rural white voters FOR YEARS, and now the $100 million dollar couple is practically begging them for support so they can stay politically relevant.

My, my, my how the tables have turned.

Wake up America, and get these Clinton Clown out of here.

Bill, small-town ambassador

the Pajama Pundit — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:28:25 GMT

"'I'm sorry we are gonna give it to the caucus states that are going Republican in November?.’ No."

Umm... yes. If Obama wins the delegate count, he wins the nomination. Check it out. DNC rules.

http://thepajamapundit.com/

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Eric, Salinas, CA — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:29:15 GMT

Bill is working hard now because Hillary "Republican" Clinton screwed up her campaign so bad before February 5th that she's turned from inevitable winner to inevitable loser. Now he suffers from daily foot-in-mouth disease with his numerous verbal gaffes. Hillary can only win by clinging to Bill's coattails and hoping people have forgotten his many past screwups while president.

Go Obama!

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ErosionOfTheBlackVotes — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:30:13 GMT

I listen to Bill Clinto of late , and wonder ? How in the Hell could I have ever voted for this man and saw greatness in him? What happen to the Bill Clinton that I saw? Are all of my Republican Friends right ? that that is the same old Bill just his shine has worn off. I dont know . I do know that I am not impressed with him at all anymore.He pulled the woll from my eyes and threw salt in them instead. Peace Out Bill !!!!!!!!

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exhausted blogger — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:30:24 GMT

I've been blogging everyday, all day, since shortly after Mississippi. This Bubba article makes me tired beyond the pale. I'm gonna take a nap.

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Carol, Long Valley NJ — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:32:14 GMT

Do these potential "Hillary voters" even understand that Bill Clinton will NOT be president, but rather first Bubba with WAY too much time on his hands?

Give me a break, she needs over 77% of the remaining votes and super delegates to win.

Game over, the fat lady has sung, it's time to unite behind the winner and fight together against the Republican nominee.

No matter how the "values" voters vote, the gay population will still be 5-10% of the population and they will be living among us as tax paying productive members of society.

No matter how the "values" voters vote, abortion will still be available, for the poor it will be "back alley" and risky, for the rich it will be overseas. The goal is to make it rare by sensibly teaching prevention along with morals.

No matter how the "liberal" voters vote, prayer will still be said in school, especially before tests and sporting events.

No matter how the "liberal" voters vote, the second amendment will still allow lawful gun ownership.

So this time, Vote with your head, vote for the economy, vote for the environment, vote for jobs.

Vote Democratic 2008 -- don't let the corporations and their Republican stooges win again.

Bill, small-town ambassador

Mark Thieme — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:33:52 GMT

Right now Bill is sitting in a doctor's house in a tiny place in NC... didn't get the name. Get it on the way out.

I am there.

He's been doing his white-boy routine since nobody in the house or yard is black.... oops... the black folks are in the yard!

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White House Interns — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:34:49 GMT

Go Bill!! We love you!!

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Hillary08 — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:36:09 GMT

Shows all people are important to Hillary even when her opponents try to say otherwise. Bill is doing a super job and in spite again as some would say quite a few still think he is great.The clintons worked there lives for all the people. Didnt get everything down but they are still at it.They dont stand and whine when it is said otherwise they just keep doing all they can. When Obama had things go bad and had to take a weeks vacation Hillary gave important speeches and rallies and got hardly no mention but she worked for all anyway. Now the media is realizing maybe it hasnt been quite so fair afterall.Better late than never i Guess. Keep the pedal to the metal Bill.

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Pete - Albany, NY — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:37:20 GMT

"And what are they gonna say if she wins the popular vote? 'I'm sorry we are gonna give it to the caucus states that are going Republican in November?.’"

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Carrying on your theme, "Inconvenient Truth of the Week":

With Indiana and North Carolina on the docket this week I did a little research. The last time a Democrat carried either state was when Jimmy Carter won Indiana in 1976. Since then, both states have been stuck on "Red".

Mr. President, you didn't even win either state!