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By David Knowles - Politics DailyI think there's one thing we can all agree upon about this year's Democratic primary for president: It wasn't boring. In fact, if it was a novel, you'd have to term it a page-turner, and one with no lack of drama. A dizzying number of sub-plots and bit players filled out the narrative: Norman Hsu, Bosnia, Reverend Wright, Bill Clinton, Tony Rezko, the media, 3 a.m., Florida, Michigan, inevitability, assassination, "sweetie", Geraldine Ferraro, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Penn, and the DNC. When you step back from this thing for a moment and consider that the bulk of this happened over a mere six-month ...
Thrill Is Gone in Democratic Race
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailyThe American people have had enough of the election drama between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. A Pew Research Center poll found: Interest in what the public perceives as an excessively negative presidential campaign declined in the days leading up to the Pennsylvania primary. Just 29% of Americans say they paid very close attention to news about the presidential campaign last week, the lowest percentage recorded since December 2007. By comparison, 43% said they were following campaign news very closely during the weekend leading up to the March primaries in Texas and Ohio. Interest in the ...
Clinton Backer Takes Foul Shot at Obama
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailyThe race for the Democratic nomination cannot seem to get beyond race. Bob Johnson, owner of the Charlotte Bobcats and a Clinton backer, says, hey, Geraldine Ferraro, was right. Johnson told the Charlotte Observer: What I believe Geraldine Ferraro meant is that if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called `Jerry Smith' and he says I'm going to run for president, would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote? And the answer is, probably not... .Geraldine Ferraro said it right. The problem is, Geraldine Ferraro is white. This campaign has such a hair-trigger on anything racial ... ...
John Kerry Thinks He's Helping
By Dave - Politics DailyTip to Hotline: John Kerry is emphatically not helping in the only way that John Kerry can: NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli reports that Kerry says Obama "has an ability to help us bridge the divide in religious extremism, to maybe even give power to moderate Islam." The reporter asks him why he'd say that, "What gives him credibility on that score." Kerry answers immediately: "Because he's African American. Because he's a black man." Wow. This is Geraldine Ferraro, take two. Will someone from the Obama campaign complain about this? Logically there's no difference. Come on guys, Obama's blackness is ...
The Not-so-Civil War
By David Knowles - Politics DailySuddenly, the cracks in the facade are apparent to anyone with eyes. With each passing day the Democratic party grows less and less structurally sound. While Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton continue their Civil War, John McCain's predicted rise is becoming a reality. Despite assurances by all the principle actors, party chiefs, and sympathetic pundits about huge Democratic fundraising advantages, overwhelming primary voter turnout, and the nation's steady disdain for all things Bush, it doesn't take a wild imagination to envision the Dem's doomsday scenario: A house divided against itself ...
Obama Plans Major Speech on Race
By Dave - Politics DailyIn an apparent move to settle this Wright and Ferraro mess once and for all. Barack Obama is planning on a major speech tomorrow on the issue of race in this campaign: The speech could offer Obama an opportunity to move past the controversy over his pastor, and to turn the conversation to a topic he'd rather focus on: his Christian faith. But the speech also guarantees that the Wright story will continue to dominate political headlines. Mitt Romney's attempt directly to address his Mormonism last year never decisively put the issue to rest for some voters. ...
Carville: Stop Campaign Suicide
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyWhile researching another story, I came across the headline to a James Carville editorial that read, "Halt the political hara-kiri", and my heart skipped a beat! I got that feeling creeping up my leg like Chris Matthews. Carville, an outspoken Democratic strategist and longtime Clinton loyalist, has finally come around to my way of thinking, and is urging Hillary Clinton to stop campaigning against Barack Obama on issues where she herself is vulnerable to John McCain! Carville has a lot of influence with Clinton, she'll have to listen to him. It's not too late! Then I read the piece. Not so ...
Update: Keith's Special Comment: Hillary Clinton
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyKeith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's "Countdown" and creator of the Special Comment segment of that show, is set to deliver his first-ever commentary directed at a specific Democrat. Reports Huffington Post:On last night's "Countdown," Keith Olbermann announced that tonight he'd be delivering another of his "Special Comments" - his impassioned, angry monologues fueled by outrage and usually addressed to President Bush and the Bush administration. Tonight, his special comment will be directed at Hillary Clinton - and, for the first time, his special comment will be directed exclusively at a ...
Ferraro: No, I Won't Apologize
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailyThe fallout from Geraldine Ferraro's racially divisive comments about Barack Obama continues. While Hillary Clinton has distanced herself from Ferraro's remark, she has rejected calls to dump Ferraro from her campaign.Ferraro effectively has told Obama, "You're not the boss of me." In an interview on Fox News, she said: "Every time this comes up, every time there is something to - some opportunity to play the race card - and this is being done by David Axelrod, who knows better, he's his (Obama's) campaign manager - every time they have an opportunity to do it, they do it. They did it against ...
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