Barack Obama’s victory speech after his 29-point win over
Hillary Clinton in South Carolina.
** OBAMA TRUTH SQUAD FORMED, CAMPAIGNS DUEL OVER PHONE BANKS. Barack Obama’s campaign in California has just formed a “truth squad,” announced via conference call, to counter the sorts of attacks that Hillary Clinton’s campaign has leveled in recent weeks. On the call were squad members Bay Area Congressman George Miller, LA Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, Oakland Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and LA County Labor Federation chief Maria Elena Durazo, now a national co-chair of the Obama campaign. Also on the squad are Silicon Valley Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, LA Congressman Adam Schiff, state Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero, Assembly Majority Leader Karen Bass, and, of course, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris.
Miller, one of the top congresional Democrats as head of the House Democratic Policy Committee and chairman of the Education & Labor Committee, noted that the truth squad was formed to deal with a threat that may or may not exist any longer. “We don’t know yet,” he said. “The Clinton campaign may have learned its lesson from South Carolina,” where voters mostly rejected the Clinton tactics, as exit polls make clear. Will former President Clinton, historically popular in California, be a problem for Obama in the nation’s largest primary? “I think there is a rethink underway about what he is doing.”
For her part, Durazo, one of the leading Latina labor leaders in America, acknowledged that Clinton has had the edge to date with Latino voters, but noted that the more they get to know about Obama’s background as a community organizer in Chicago, and his views on stimulating the economy, the better he does. And that “the support of Senator Kennedy, and we hope it comes, would be very important.” Kennedy is definitely for Obama, but she was deferential to his formal announcement at a rally tomorrow at the American University in Washington, D.C., with Caroline Kennedy and Barack and Michelle Obama.
Meanwhile, the Obama and Clinton campaigns had dueling statewide phoning “parties” over the weekend, and claimed hundreds of thousands of completed calls to voters between them. As Obama California co-chairman Steve Westly, one of the Illinois senator’s earliest backers and biggest financial supporters, pointed out going into the weekend, the Obama effort has focused heavily on independent voters. The public polls in California, in which Obama trailed prior to his 2 to 1 South Carolina victory over Clinton, by significant margins, have had relatively low independent turnout scenarios.
Incidentally, on one of the Sunday chat shows today — and I forget which one offhand, as this begins to blur and I should be taking a brief break — Hillary Clinton tacitly acknowledged her husband’s untoward behavior in the campaign. She chalked it up to love for her and sleep deficit. However, I can tell you that, according to well-informed sources, the Kennedys, now coming out heavily for Obama today and tomorrow, are distinctly unamused by the Clintons’ mode of campaigning. Not just in South Carolina — because that Caroline Kennedy essay in today’s New York Times was not really written and placed yesterday — but for the past several weeks.
UPDATE: Ted Kennedy will appear with Caroline Kennedy tomorrow at an already scheduled Barack Obama noontime rally at the American University in Washington to make public his support for the freshman Illinois senator’s presidential candidacy. This is a thunderclap for the Clintons. You’ve already read the endorsement below of Caroline Kennedy, JFK’s daughter, from this morning’s New York Times, entitled “A President Like My Father.” Ted Kennedy, of course, is JFK’s brother, and the Senate’s liberal lion.
** TED KENNEDY TO ENDORSE OBAMA. The rumor, circulating for weeks, appears to be true. ABC News has just reported that Senator Ted Kennedy will endorse Barack Obama for president.
** CAROLINE KENNEDY. From Caroline Kennedy’s essay in the Sunday New York Times, “A President Like My Father:” Over the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people who’ve told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama.
My reasons are patriotic, political and personal, and the three are intertwined. All my life, people have told me that my father changed their lives, that they got involved in public service or politics because he asked them to. And the generation he inspired has passed that spirit on to its children. I meet young people who were born long after John F. Kennedy was president, yet who ask me how to live out his ideals.
Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.
We have that kind of opportunity with Senator Obama. It isn’t that the other candidates are not experienced or knowledgeable. But this year, that may not be enough. We need a change in the leadership of this country — just as we did in 1960.
I’ve met and talked with Caroline Kennedy. She’s a private, dignified, and lovely person who does not run around making endorsements, or go out of her way to trade on her father’s name. Her endorsement is already resonating with opinion leaders, many of whom have notably soured on Bill and Hillary Clinton. The disdain for their tactics, for example, from everyone on this morning’s Meet The Press panel was palpable.
** CTA MEMBERS REBUFF LEADERSHIP ON CLINTON ENDORSEMENT, OBAMA WINS BECERRA ENDORSEMENT. The most powerful union in California politics is, by far, the principal teachers union in the Golden State, the California Teachers Association. Its endorsement committee, dominated by its leadership, unanimously recommended the endorsement of Hillary Clinton. CTA delegates normally rubber stamp leadership recommendations on endorsements.
But the 800 delegates representing the membership rebelled yesterday in LA, voting overwhelmingly against the Clinton endorsement. It was a remarkable inside baseball coup for the Barack Obama campaign in California. This occurred before Obama’s landslide win over Hillary in South Carolina. CTA is neutral in the race.
In another boost for Obama’s California campaign, the freshman Illinois senator has just picked up the endorsement of LA Congressman Xavier Becerra, another good get for a campaign struggling with the Latino vote. (Which has been much discussed on NWN.) Becerra is assistant to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
** FLORIDA TRACKING POLL: MCCAIN-ROMNEY DEAD HEAT. The battle in Tuesday’s Florida Republcian primary remains tight, with the latest Zogby tracking poll for Reuters showing a dead heat. Here are the numbers: John McCain 30%, Mitt Romney 30%, Mike Huckabee 14%, Rudy Giuliani 13%. Saturday polling is notoriously tricky, for obvious reasons.
McCain yesterday blasted Romney for equivocating on the US military surge in Iraq, saying at a critical moment last April, Romney favored a secret “timetable” for US withdrawal. Romney said McCain was lying.
This morning on Meet The Press, McCain was asked at the top of the show about the controversy. He responded by pulling Romney’s quote from April 2007 out of his pocket and reading it aloud. Romney already has a reputation as a flip-flopper which has Democrats chomping at the bit.
Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger had this to say about Romney: “The next President of the United States must be a leader of courage, not a weather vane who shifts in the wind. John McCain will not waver in the face of the enemy. He’s been tested under fire in war and did not wilt on Iraq when the polls went south and the drumbeat for withdrawal grew louder. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Governor Romney. When it came to unequivocally advocating and supporting the successful surge in Iraq, John McCain was rock solid while Governor Romney sought political cover by indicating his support for ’secret’ withdrawal timetables. At a critical moment, John McCain proved that he was ready to be Commander in Chief. Unfortunately, Governor Romney didn’t. Governor Romney failed the test of leadership on the most crucial national security issue facing the United States with American combat forces in the field; he wilted. John McCain stood tall.”
John McCain sings Streisand, by popular demand of the ever
charming NWN posters. From Saturday Night Live, 2002.
** 24/7 LIVE TV NEWS FEED FROM RUSSIA TODAY. Russia has re-emerged as one of the world’s great powers. Click here for a live TV news feed on your computer, bringing you English-language, jargon-free, fast-paced coverage of global and Russian news from the new Russia Today channel.
You probably already know about CNN International, BBC World, and Al Jazeera. Russia Today, which also features culture, entertainment, and sports, is based in Moscow and is owned and operated by the TV Novosti division of Russia’s state news agency, RIA Novosti.
While it’s quite foolish to expect to see, say, criticism of Vladimir Putin on Russia Today, the channel is very interesting nonetheless. The NWN live link to RT does not constitute an endorsement of the channel’s views. It’s presented as an otherwise unavailable new media window.
** TRACK GLOBAL AND U.S. ENERGY PRICES IN NEAR REAL TIME VIA BLOOMBERG ENERGY MARKET WATCH. Crude oil closed at $90.71 per barrel, as fears of a global economic meltdown recede, at least for the moment. Energy markets are closed on the weekend.
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Jonas Blane:McCain is really funny, I love the guy.
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:23 am Jonas Blane:McCain is really funny, I love the guy.
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:23 am four waters:msnbc pointed out yesterday that the number of Obama’s votes in SC was nearly equivalent to the total number of votes cast in the SC ‘04 Dem Primary — continuing the trend of vastly increased voter turnout.
and i have to say, his speech was a hard act to follow last night. HRC, i think, was tactically correct to let it go…. as Colbert says, “movin’ on..”
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:36 am Capitol Boy:More tactics. Where was the grace with the Clintons last night? Nothing but denial and more cynicism.
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:54 am Capitol Boy:More tactics. Where was the grace with the Clintons last night? Nothing but denial and more cynicism.
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:54 am Jonas Blane:That is another incredible speech by Obama.
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:54 am Jonas Blane:That is another incredible speech by Obama.
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:54 am James- The Historian:That McCain video is real laugh out loud piece. Very entertaining.
The Kennedy endorsement is indeed meaningful.
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:57 am four waters:CB… on a human level, i agree with you.
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:14 am four waters:CB… on a human level, i agree with you.
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:14 am Ann:Obama is so good. McCain is a good man, too, and funny. Are we that lucky? Nah. lol
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:24 am Hap Hazard:It seems that white guys are the soccer moms of this election.
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:28 am Bill Bradley:How so?
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:39 am Bill Bradley:How so?
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:39 am Bill Bradley:We’ll see who’s lucky and good. Some people have luck that runs out.
>Ann :
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:39 am Bill Bradley:Obama is so good. McCain is a good man, too, and funny. Are we that lucky? Nah. lol
Jan 27, 2008 09:24 AM
McCain is a very entertaining guy.
>James- The Historian :
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:40 am Bill Bradley:That McCain video is real laugh out loud piece. Very entertaining.
The Kennedy endorsement is indeed meaningful.
Jan 27, 2008 08:57 AM
Not his best, but it more than rose to the occasion.
>Jonas Blane :
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:41 am Bill Bradley:That is another incredible speech by Obama.
Jan 27, 2008 08:54 AM
Sometimes, the best tactics are the wrong strategy.
>four waters :
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:42 am Bill Bradley:and i have to say, his speech was a hard act to follow last night. HRC, i think, was tactically correct to let it go…. as Colbert says, “movin’ on..”
Jan 27, 2008 08:36 AM
Sometimes, the best tactics are the wrong strategy.
>four waters :
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:42 am Bill Bradley:and i have to say, his speech was a hard act to follow last night. HRC, i think, was tactically correct to let it go…. as Colbert says, “movin’ on..”
Jan 27, 2008 08:36 AM
One reason why he is the most formidable Republican, by far.
>Jonas Blane :
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:43 am Bill Bradley:McCain is really funny, I love the guy.
Jan 27, 2008 08:23 AM
“Grace under pressure.”
Who looks more like JFK?
>Capitol Boy :
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:44 am Hap Hazard:More tactics. Where was the grace with the Clintons last night? Nothing but denial and more cynicism.
Jan 27, 2008 08:54 AM
It seems to me that HIllary’s biggest challenge is getting the vote of white men. The only white guy I know who will vote for Hillary used to work for Bill. So if she is the candidate, the white DTS, GOP and Dem voters go with McCain or Romney, I would think. If Obama wins then the white guys are in play, and I could easily see many voting for him, but it seems that they would be the demographic that both he and McCain or Romney would be angling for in November.
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:50 am Hap Hazard:It seems to me that HIllary’s biggest challenge is getting the vote of white men. The only white guy I know who will vote for Hillary used to work for Bill. So if she is the candidate, the white DTS, GOP and Dem voters go with McCain or Romney, I would think. If Obama wins then the white guys are in play, and I could easily see many voting for him, but it seems that they would be the demographic that both he and McCain or Romney would be angling for in November.
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:50 am Bill Bradley:Oh, you mean with regard to Hillary in a general election.
Romney is a very problematic candidate for Republicans.
You saw the success the Clintons had making Obama appear a flip-flopper, and he’s consistent.
Romney is not.
It’s as though I announced that I am now convinced by everything on the Flash Report …
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:53 am Bill Bradley:Oh, you mean with regard to Hillary in a general election.
Romney is a very problematic candidate for Republicans.
You saw the success the Clintons had making Obama appear a flip-flopper, and he’s consistent.
Romney is not.
It’s as though I announced that I am now convinced by everything on the Flash Report …
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:53 am Hap Hazard:Oh, you mean with regard to Hillary in a general election - definitely, but even if Romney made it to the general, it seems to me that white guys would be an important vote to target (in his probable losing effort to win the election)
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:58 am Bill Bradley:Oh, sure. But she could some white guy votes against Romney. After the Clinton machine turned him into a pretzel.
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:01 am Bill Bradley:Oh, sure. But she could some white guy votes against Romney. After the Clinton machine turned him into a pretzel.
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:01 am Kandy Kid:Bill and Hillary Clinton must have both thrown up their breakfast after reading today’s New York Times. Their hometown newspaper printed three serious indictments of their co-candidacy in the same issue. Above Bill reports on Caroline Kennedy’s Barak-is-like-Dad endorsement. Clearly Obama’s ability to inspire voters was more important than Hillary’s ability to manage serial womanizing.
In addition, these two brutal pieces warrant my NWN friends Sunday morning attention – Frank Rich’s “The Billary Road to Republican Victory”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin and Bob Hebert’s “Questions for the Clintons” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/opinion/26herbert.html?em&ex=1201582800&en=84b2cf6bda22fa2c&ei=5087%0A
Tough stuff from the nation’s most prominent, opinion leading newspaper on the same morning the Clintons are healing from their South Carolina whooping. In fact, to help boost morale, Republicans for Hillary is having a statewide conference call at noon to sing a hopeful chorus of “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow”.
Solon, I am going to introduce a good-wine-worthy friend to the Lynmar pinot noir tonight. We will also try the 2005 BV Rutherford cabernet. At $19/bottle (Costco), the good year should make this a very good mid-priced wine, possibly case storage material.
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:10 am four waters:http://www.electoral-vote.com/index.html
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:12 am Hap Hazard:has a good breakdown of yesterday’s voter demographics
After the Clinton machine turned him into a pretzel - that is for certain. For one thing, he certainly couldn’t argue that she doesn’t stand for anything.
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:23 am Hap Hazard:After the Clinton machine turned him into a pretzel - that is for certain. For one thing, he certainly couldn’t argue that she doesn’t stand for anything.
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:23 am four waters:i don’t don’t think they “throw up” — rather i think darts are involved.
“Bill and Hillary Clinton must have both thrown up their breakfast after reading today’s New York Times. Their hometown newspaper printed three serious indictments of their co-candidacy in the same issue. “
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:30 am four waters:from the votemaster site:
Now onto the exit polls. Obama got 54% of the men’s vote and 54% of the women’s vote. Clinton got 23% of the men’s vote and 30% of the women’s vote. By age, Obama won all age groups, but was strongest in the 18-29 year-old segment (67%) and weakest in the 60+ segment (38%). Clinton came in second in all age groups and came closest in the 60+ group with 35% of the vote. Education didn’t seem to matter; college-educated and noncollege-educated broke the same as the statewide totals. By income, Obama did best among the voters making less than $50,000 (57%) and worst among those making over $100,000 (46%). Surprisingly, Edwards did worst (15%) among the people below $50,000 and roughly the same in all the other categories (22-26%). For a guy running a populist campaign, that must be disappointing. Here he is shouting himself hoarse about how he wants to help the Americans who need the most help and they don’t like him.
Now the biggie: race. An astounding 55% of the voters were black and 78% of them went for Obama, 19% went for Clinton (likely black women), and a mere 2% went for Edwards. Among white voters, Edwards won the primary with 40% of the vote to Clinton’s 36% and Obama’s 24%. Thus among the white voters, 76% went for Clinton or Edwards. These data explain the surprising way the voters broke by income. A large number of poor blacks voted. Did they vote for the black candidate or the candidate who wants to help the poor? They voted overwhemingly for the black candidate, even though he tends to draw most of his support nationally from well-educated, upper-income white voters. In other words, race trumps income.
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:30 am Ann:Are we that lucky? lol
Bill Bradley :
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:35 am marcus:We’ll see who’s lucky and good. Some people have luck that runs out.
>Ann :
Obama is so good. McCain is a good man, too, and funny. Are we that lucky? Nah. lol
Jan 27, 2008 09:24 AM
Jan 27, 2008 09:39 AM
The worm is turning on the worms named Clinton.
This is worse for them than Iowa because the world is seeing them for what they are.
It gets worse with the Kennedys coming for them.
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:42 am marcus:The worm is turning on the worms named Clinton.
This is worse for them than Iowa because the world is seeing them for what they are.
It gets worse with the Kennedys coming for them.
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:42 am Capitol Boy:The Kennedys against the Clintons! I love it!
Jan 27, 2008 - 11:14 am marcus:And now the Kennedys are coming to smash the Clintons for their dirty politics.
I thought Bozo Bill was supposed to be the new JFK.
Jan 27, 2008 - 11:23 am Ann:I think Bill’s having a bad hair day. lol
Jan 27, 2008 - 11:32 am Ann:I think Bill’s having a bad hair day. lol
Jan 27, 2008 - 11:32 am Jack Aubrey:This is what I call poetic justice.
Jan 27, 2008 - 11:35 am Sacramento Solon:KK,
Hope your friend enjoys the wine. I will look for the Rutherford cab.
Think you will be pleased to read that I will be joined fellow NWNer, Brasky, in casting my vote for Senator Obama. I have a great deal of respect for John Edwards, however must vote to stop the Clintons and only Brack seems able to do that.
Okay, time now to turn my attention to Tiger as marches to victory in San Diego…and in the process ties Arnold Palmer with 62 career victories.
Jan 27, 2008 - 11:59 am carole w:My grandmother loved T. Kennedy but, I am not my grandmother…so don’t get too excited yet.
Jan 27, 2008 - 12:15 pm carole w:My grandmother loved T. Kennedy but, I am not my grandmother…so don’t get too excited yet.
Jan 27, 2008 - 12:15 pm Len:It’s about damn time “leaders” in the Democratic Party started standing up against their own sleazy Karl Roves. They tried to do to Obama in South Carolina what Rove and W. Bush did McCain in South Carolina in 2000. They will say and do anything to belly up to the power trough.
Jan 27, 2008 - 12:17 pm Len:It’s about damn time “leaders” in the Democratic Party started standing up against their own sleazy Karl Roves. They tried to do to Obama in South Carolina what Rove and W. Bush did McCain in South Carolina in 2000. They will say and do anything to belly up to the power trough.
Jan 27, 2008 - 12:17 pm Brasky:And the remaining knights of Camelot ride to the rescue.
Bill makes a good point about the value of the Caroline, as Ted has grown increasingly characturish. Although Ted is a Senate colleague and likely still has some pull among the older liberal Dems that are still enchanted by the “Hear Me Roar” Candidacy of Hillary.
I’m singing the Name Game at home…Obama, Obama, Bo-Bama… Banana-fana fo-Fama…Fee-fi-mo-mama…Obama!
Jan 27, 2008 - 12:45 pm four waters:SS,
i am wondering if you would join me for tea some time? (of course you’d be welcome to enjoy the libation of your choice : ) if you would not mind sharing some of your perspective, i would very much appreciate it.
Jan 27, 2008 - 12:53 pm four waters:SS,
i am wondering if you would join me for tea some time? (of course you’d be welcome to enjoy the libation of your choice : ) if you would not mind sharing some of your perspective, i would very much appreciate it.
Jan 27, 2008 - 12:53 pm marcus waldron:It would appear evident that Hill/Billy’s tactics are backfiring. When will Al Gore endorse Obama?
Jan 27, 2008 - 12:55 pm Wilbur:“JFK reincarnate” is a powerful, resonant theme. I wonder if these endorsements have been on tap for awhile and timed for max effect?
Jan 27, 2008 - 1:11 pm carole w:“Hear me Roar candidacy of Hillary”
Jan 27, 2008 - 1:15 pm Capitol Boy:Well, since there are some many independents now days…there is always McCain.
So many choices and a lot of time for the activists to help me choose another party.
Where are the capitol hacks to back Hill a la Phil?
Jan 27, 2008 - 1:55 pm Capitol Boy:Where are the capitol hacks to back Hill a la Phil?
Jan 27, 2008 - 1:55 pm Ann:Phil Angelides. lol
Jan 27, 2008 - 2:16 pm Bill Bradley:Oh, please.
Jan 27, 2008 - 3:52 pm Bill Bradley:New lyric: “I am woman, hear my hubster roar …”
>carole w :
Jan 27, 2008 - 3:53 pm Bill Bradley:“Hear me Roar candidacy of Hillary”
Well, since there are some many independents now days…there is always McCain.
So many choices and a lot of time for the activists to help me choose another party.
Jan 27, 2008 01:15 PM
I know Kerry’s was. Ted Kennedy’s has been long rumored. Caroline Kennedy’s NY Times piece did not get written and slotted in one hour …
>Wilbur :
Jan 27, 2008 - 3:54 pm Bill Bradley:“JFK reincarnate” is a powerful, resonant theme. I wonder if these endorsements have been on tap for awhile and timed for max effect?
Jan 27, 2008 01:11 PM
I know Kerry’s was. Ted Kennedy’s has been long rumored. Caroline Kennedy’s NY Times piece did not get written and slotted in one hour …
>Wilbur :
Jan 27, 2008 - 3:54 pm Bill Bradley:“JFK reincarnate” is a powerful, resonant theme. I wonder if these endorsements have been on tap for awhile and timed for max effect?
Jan 27, 2008 01:11 PM
Well, have been hearing about that for a long time. Just spoke to a friend of Gore’s. Nothing to report now.
>marcus waldron :
Jan 27, 2008 - 3:55 pm Bill Bradley:It would appear evident that Hill/Billy’s tactics are backfiring. When will Al Gore endorse Obama?
Jan 27, 2008 12:55 PM
The knights of Camelot. I like it. Though there seems to be a very major princess in there …
Jan 27, 2008 - 3:57 pm Bill Bradley:>Brasky :
And the remaining knights of Camelot ride to the rescue.
When pols deal with a popular former president of their own party, it gets dicey. It’s remarkable how many establishment figures are rejecting the Clintons already.
>Len :
Jan 27, 2008 - 3:58 pm Bill Bradley:It’s about damn time “leaders” in the Democratic Party started standing up against their own sleazy Karl Roves. They tried to do to Obama in South Carolina what Rove and W. Bush did McCain in South Carolina in 2000. They will say and do anything to belly up to the power trough.
Jan 27, 2008 12:17 PM
I’m not surprised, Solon. After all, you’re a Tiger Woods fan.
>Sacramento Solon :
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:00 pm Bill Bradley:KK,
Hope your friend enjoys the wine. I will look for the Rutherford cab.
Think you will be pleased to read that I will be joined fellow NWNer, Brasky, in casting my vote for Senator Obama. I have a great deal of respect for John Edwards, however must vote to stop the Clintons and only Brack seems able to do that.
Okay, time now to turn my attention to Tiger as marches to victory in San Diego…and in the process ties Arnold Palmer with 62 career victories.
Jan 27, 2008 11:59 AM
I’m not surprised, Solon. After all, you’re a Tiger Woods fan.
>Sacramento Solon :
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:00 pm Bill Bradley:KK,
Hope your friend enjoys the wine. I will look for the Rutherford cab.
Think you will be pleased to read that I will be joined fellow NWNer, Brasky, in casting my vote for Senator Obama. I have a great deal of respect for John Edwards, however must vote to stop the Clintons and only Brack seems able to do that.
Okay, time now to turn my attention to Tiger as marches to victory in San Diego…and in the process ties Arnold Palmer with 62 career victories.
Jan 27, 2008 11:59 AM
The Eastern religions have other names for it.
>Jack Aubrey :
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:01 pm Bill Bradley:This is what I call poetic justice.
Jan 27, 2008 11:35 AM
This has got to be a rough day in the Clinton household. (s)
>Ann :
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:01 pm Bill Bradley:I think Bill’s having a bad hair day. lol
Jan 27, 2008 11:32 AM
The famous “Man From Hope” video by the Hollywood couple whose name escapes me, showed the Arthurian hand-off of the sword from JFK to Bill Clinton. Which amounted to a handshake at Boys State or Boys Nation.
This is, mmmm, a bit different.
>marcus :
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:03 pm Bill Bradley:And now the Kennedys are coming to smash the Clintons for their dirty politics.
I thought Bozo Bill was supposed to be the new JFK.
Jan 27, 2008 11:23 AM
The famous “Man From Hope” video by the Hollywood couple whose name escapes me, showed the Arthurian hand-off of the sword from JFK to Bill Clinton. Which amounted to a handshake at Boys State or Boys Nation.
This is, mmmm, a bit different.
>marcus :
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:03 pm Bill Bradley:And now the Kennedys are coming to smash the Clintons for their dirty politics.
I thought Bozo Bill was supposed to be the new JFK.
Jan 27, 2008 11:23 AM
That’s a big storyline.
>Capitol Boy :
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:07 pm Bill Bradley:The Kennedys against the Clintons! I love it!
Jan 27, 2008 11:14 AM
Darts?
>four waters :
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:08 pm Bill Bradley:i don’t don’t think they “throw up” — rather i think darts are involved.
“Bill and Hillary Clinton must have both thrown up their breakfast after reading today’s New York Times. Their hometown newspaper printed three serious indictments of their co-candidacy in the same issue. ”
Jan 27, 2008 10:30 AM
And it gets much worse with tomorrow’s big Kennedy rally.
>Kandy Kid :
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:10 pm Bill Bradley:Bill and Hillary Clinton must have both thrown up their breakfast after reading today’s New York Times. Their hometown newspaper printed three serious indictments of their co-candidacy in the same issue. Above Bill reports on Caroline Kennedy’s Barak-is-like-Dad endorsement. Clearly Obama’s ability to inspire voters was more important than Hillary’s ability to manage serial womanizing.
In addition, these two brutal pieces warrant my NWN friends Sunday morning attention – Frank Rich’s “The Billary Road to Republican Victory”
[www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opini…] and Bob Hebert’s “Questions for the Clintons” [www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/opini…]
And it gets much worse with tomorrow’s big Kennedy rally.
>Kandy Kid :
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:10 pm Sacramento Solon:Bill and Hillary Clinton must have both thrown up their breakfast after reading today’s New York Times. Their hometown newspaper printed three serious indictments of their co-candidacy in the same issue. Above Bill reports on Caroline Kennedy’s Barak-is-like-Dad endorsement. Clearly Obama’s ability to inspire voters was more important than Hillary’s ability to manage serial womanizing.
In addition, these two brutal pieces warrant my NWN friends Sunday morning attention – Frank Rich’s “The Billary Road to Republican Victory”
[www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opini…] and Bob Hebert’s “Questions for the Clintons” [www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/opini…]
Bill,
I’m a fan of greatness. That’s why I watch Tiger and enjoy spending time here!
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:12 pm Sacramento Solon:Four Waters,
Be more than happy to hook-up with you. Perhaps we could get together at Old Soul for a cup of coffee/tea?
How does that sound?
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:14 pm Capitol Boy:Whose getting contacted by Presidential campaigns?
I’ve been contacted by Obama 3 times.
Clinton 1 time.
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:34 pm Sacramento Solon:Capitol Boy,
Zippo here.
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:37 pm Sacramento Solon:Capitol Boy,
Zippo here.
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:37 pm carole w:I am sitting in the middle of a huge Blizzard and it is awesome!
Jan 27, 2008 - 4:55 pm Sacramento Solon:Carole W:
I am sitting in the middle of a huge Blizzard and it is awesome!
Jan 27, 2008 - 5:00 pm carole w:Sacto,
LOL
Actually, I went for a walk earlier and got caught out in the weather. I froze my derriere and learned a lesson.
Bill,
Jan 27, 2008 - 5:07 pm carole w:“Hubster roar”..very nice humor…very cute….lol
Sacto,
LOL
Actually, I went for a walk earlier and got caught out in the weather. I froze my derriere and learned a lesson.
Bill,
Jan 27, 2008 - 5:07 pm Sacramento Solon:“Hubster roar”..very nice humor…very cute….lol
Carole,
Sounds nice. Been inside all day watching me cat. Pleased to say he seems to be doing better…sleeping a lot, but eating well and all the other important things. He acutally wanted to go outside this afternooon, but is restricted until tomorrow.
Time for dinner…
Jan 27, 2008 - 5:29 pm Bill Bradley:Why does this make me think of the movie White Christmas?
Jan 27, 2008 - 5:33 pm James- The Historian:Given the Gore - Clintons relationship, would it not seem that Gore will back Obama before too long?
Jan 27, 2008 - 5:34 pm Bill Bradley:Well, was talking with a friend of his, and he won’t be backing Clinton. But these are complex calculations at that level.
Jan 27, 2008 - 5:36 pm Bill Bradley:Well, was talking with a friend of his, and he won’t be backing Clinton. But these are complex calculations at that level.
Jan 27, 2008 - 5:36 pm Johnnie Rico:Nuke ‘em.
Jan 27, 2008 - 5:45 pm Capitol Boy:Bill Clinton needs a “Truth Squad” to go to the bathroom.
Jan 27, 2008 - 6:13 pm Ann:lol
Sorta.
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:06 pm Ann:lol
Sorta.
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:06 pm Brasky:Obama’s campaign called a couple of times. They called just prior to Nevada and I told them to bank my vote for Obama if Edwards couldn’t win.
No calls from anyone else and the only mail I see is from the tribes.
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:10 pm four waters:SS.
thank you! my contact info. is on my website (hotlinked to my name because Bill is cleaver that way).
call at your convenience.
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:23 pm Sacramento Solon:Four Waters,
Thanks, will do.
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:28 pm Sacramento Solon:Four Waters,
Thanks, will do.
Jan 27, 2008 - 8:28 pm Jonathan Hemlock:May the Kennedys help destroy the Clintons.
Once and for all.
Enough is enough.
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:32 pm Jonathan Hemlock:May the Kennedys help destroy the Clintons.
Once and for all.
Enough is enough.
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:32 pm Jonathan Hemlock:Sorry for the double- posting.
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:37 pm Jonathan Hemlock:Sory for the double- posting.
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:40 pm Jonathan Hemlock:Sory for the double- posting.
Jan 27, 2008 - 9:40 pm Sam Loomis:JFK’s daughter and brother say they knew JFK; JFK was a good friend of theirs, and Obama is like JFK. Bill Clinton says Barack Obama is like Jesse Jackson. This is totally silly.
As lovable as Barack is, at some point attention will switch to Barack’s plans, which are way further left of nearly everyone else.
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:54 pm Bill Bradley:Let me get this straight, Dr. Loomis.
You think it is “silly” for the only surviving brother and child of JFK to discuss JFK.
Very interesting …
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:58 pm Bill Bradley:May, ah, Crom hear your prayer …
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:59 pm Bill Bradley:>Jonathan Hemlock :
May the Kennedys help destroy the Clintons.
Once and for all.
Enough is enough.
Jan 27, 2008 09:32 PM
May, ah, Crom hear your prayer …
Jan 27, 2008 - 10:59 pm Bill Bradley:>Jonathan Hemlock :
May the Kennedys help destroy the Clintons.
Once and for all.
Enough is enough.
Jan 27, 2008 09:32 PM
I’m confident he can find it.
>Capitol Boy :
Jan 27, 2008 - 11:00 pm Bill Bradley:Bill Clinton needs a “Truth Squad” to go to the bathroom.
Jan 27, 2008 06:13 PM
I’m confident he can find it.
>Capitol Boy :
Jan 27, 2008 - 11:00 pm Barbara:Bill Clinton needs a “Truth Squad” to go to the bathroom.
Jan 27, 2008 06:13 PM
I hope Maria Shriver and her good girlfriend Ophrah help Obama in California! …
Bill and Hill/and Billary for Prez make me ill…They are toxic…she is the female Angelides…he is what he is…what he always was … but now it is more obvious as he is without his charm, not aging gracefully and displaying this desperate angry arrogant grasp for power …I was with serious policy people this past week from Europe and ME, who found Bill’s tactics of attacking Obama, and even his appearance deeply disturbing even shocking…California is so health concious …I hope everyone understands how unhealthy Bill and Hill are to operate they way they do…so everyone should run in the opposite direction from them…their anger arrogance divisiveness is catching…it will be a huge mistake and another setback to elect Hillary and Bill AGAIN.
Jan 27, 2008 - 11:03 pm Bill Bradley:Well, Maria is not going to help Obama — for obvious reasons, and notwithstanding the fact that much of Arnold’s young staff is for Obama — though the Kennedy family is clearly for Obama.
Jan 27, 2008 - 11:14 pm Bill Bradley:Well, Maria is not going to help Obama — for obvious reasons, and notwithstanding the fact that much of Arnold’s young staff is for Obama — though the Kennedy family is clearly for Obama.
Jan 27, 2008 - 11:14 pm Capitol Boy:The extreme right wing are such presumptuous asses. Who else would pretend they had the right to tell the Kennedys what they think about what the Kennedys think? This pompous idiot belongs on the rocket to nowhere.
Bill Bradley :
Jan 27, 2008 - 11:21 pm sergei:Let me get this straight, Dr. Loomis.
You think it is “silly” for the only surviving brother and child of JFK to discuss JFK.
Very interesting …
Jan 27, 2008 10:58 PM
The family of Kennedy understand Kennedy.
Jan 28, 2008 - 12:14 am Bill Bradley:Probably so.
Jan 28, 2008 - 7:05 am Bill Bradley:Probably so.
Jan 28, 2008 - 7:05 am Bill Bradley:Incidentally, NWN passed 49,000 comments sometime in the past week.
Jan 28, 2008 - 4:20 pm