Eric Florack on March 7th, 2008

Hume, last night:

Two Ohio Democrats tell The Politico newspaper that superdelegates in the state are banding together to get what they want – withholding their endorsements from Obama and Clinton until they receive what is called a concrete proposal

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  • hrc4pres.jpgIt strikes me as amusing indeed that the plan that Hillary Clinton is using to win the Democratic Party primary is the very same plan Al Gore used back in 2000, in his attempt to win the election.  Namely, challenge

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Eric Florack on March 6th, 2008

Much is being made just now, of the possiblity of the DNC making a ‘do-over’ in Florida and Michagan.  If I considdered oward Dean a principled man, I’d suggest he wouldn’t do it on the basis of principle. But these

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When pols power is under threat, all that crap goes away to be replaced by sleeze and attack. I note a story this morning at MSNBC, which reports on the comments from Barrack Obama Campaign manager David Plouffe, who

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davidl on March 6th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleCandidates is glass houses, the Obama campaign on the Clintons’  campaign, via MSNBC:

“As it relates to ethics and transparency,” Plouffe said, “we’re surprised that they would want to have an extended conversation about contributors and land deals and

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  • fromparcol20002imagefile.jpgThey’re waking up, sorta. Drum, today:
  • VITRIOL….Atrios:

    The campaigns and candidates themselves may not get nasty, but I get the sense that supporters of the various candidates are getting angrier at the other camp. Sure a lot of

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OK, so, Hillary Clinton did win Texas and Ohio, which places the Democrat race at essentially all equal. Which once again, leaves the Democrats hanging on Florida.  You do know that’s going to come up again, right? It seems

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  • Billy notes a comment at Wonkette, complaining about smoke stacks:

    “We should start bombing North Carolina.”

    … and notes:

    That’s exactly what all the false equivocations of the thing add up to.

    Exactly so. And I think I can

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Eric Florack on March 4th, 2008

Today’s the day.

Hillary Clinton either wins it all, or fails one of the several tests today, and is forced within a week or two to leave the race. THe latter happening, I cannot say I will complain about, though

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Eric Florack on March 3rd, 2008

This buisness is just getting comical:

WESTERVILLE, Ohio -FOX- Clinton campaign officials have accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of making a ‘flub’ during an Ohio speech in which he described the Iraq war vote cast by a leading senator who

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Eric Florack on March 3rd, 2008

jdm at Protein Wisdom is coming to the conclusion I mentioned some weeks ago about McCain; THe one thing that can push him (And myself) to vote for McCain, is his Democrat party opponents.

Humorless (but confusing sarcasm for funny),

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Eric Florack on March 2nd, 2008

Joe Donnely, Congressional Democrat is part of our energy problem, not the solution.Let’s take a moment to look at the Democrat response to the President’s weekly radio address… where Energy is the issue.

Good morning. This is Congressman Joe Donnelly of Indiana’s Second Congressional District. Today it is my pleasure to talk

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Eric Florack on March 1st, 2008

 

First, the premise, at OTB:

America’s top military leader is warning about rapid withdrawal from Iraq.

The Joint Chiefs chairman has a word of warning to Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton: A rapid of withdrawal from Iraq

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Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush said Thursday the country is not recession-bound and, despite expressing concern about slowing economic growth, rejected for now any additional stimulus efforts. “We acted robustly,” he said.

“We’ll see the effects of this pro-growth package,”

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davidl on February 29th, 2008

Words, mere words, Barack Obama’s stock in trade.   Obama has been campaigning in Ohio trashing NAFTA, whiile his campaign tells the Canadian government to ignore Obama’s words, CTV News(CA):

Allegations of double talk on NAFTA from the Obama and

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