Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary clinton
There was yet another sign of racial disharmony in the Democratic Party today, as the leader of the influential black online advocacy group ColorOfChange.org lashed out at Hillary Clinton, calling her claim to owning the white, blue-collar vote "race baiting."
"The politics of division now seems to be her core strategy" to overcome Barack Obama's lead in the primary, said James Rucker, a co-founder of ColorOfChange who once worked for the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org. "It's a strategy where everyone loses; we can do better and we sh [ READ MORE... ]
Barack Obama
There's an old saying in politics that a "gaffe" occurs whenever a politician accidentally says what he really thinks.
In that context, Barack Obama committed the ultimate political gaffe last week.
He said because small-town, working-class folks resistant to Obamamania are under constant economic stress: "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment ... as a way to explain their frustrations."
Obama said this to a friendly audience a [ READ MORE... ]
Barack Obama, Hillary clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama can both find something to like in a new Quinnipiac University poll that finds she might have stopped the hemorrhaging and that his own wounds might not be as severe as feared.
Democratic Party leaders, on the other hand, might not be as overjoyed by results that suggest the dragged-out primary fight for the Democratic presidential nomination could prove costly to the party in November. Nearly one-fifth of Obama supporters say they will vote for Republican John McCain rather than Clinton if she is [ READ MORE... ]
Barack Obama
Mark Davis has released him vise-grip on him rifle and him Bible long enough to address five questions about the current Barack Obama "bitter" imbroglio:
1. What was so awful about what he said?
It seemed to characterize voters who cherish faith and gun rights as somehow mentally unhinged, seeking desperate solace anywhere in the midst of rough economic times. This is a colossal insult to a wide spectrum of voters who want Mr. Obama to know that their visits to church or the pistol range are not a frenzied attempt to drown economic so [ READ MORE... ]
