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Settle Down, Austin

by BooMan
Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 09:20:41 AM EST

Obama in Texas:

He also told the crowd that McCain was "lassoed" to the policies of George W. Bush. Explaining why he was "tough enough" to run against McCain, he delivered his winning line of the night.
"I wouldn't be here if I wasn't tough,” Obama said. “Nobody gave me…Listen I'm a black guy named Barack Obama running for president. You can’t tell me I ain't tough. Shoot!"
The crowd screamed loudly while Obama went on the attack against McCain, and he shouted out to them, "Settle down Austin!"

Yeah, I always figured that he would have answered the experience and toughness questions adequately if he won the nomination. I think he has. Meanwhile, his newest challenge is to fight off the media's attempt to turn him into Jim Jones.

If the argument that a cult of personality has developed around Obama's campaign, tonight's event in Austin was a case in point. People in the crowd held up large cardboard signs with his face painted on them. The shops along the streets had posters with Obama's face and the word "HOPE" on them.
Obama acknowledged the criticism of the enthusiasm that's risen in recent weeks. "And ya know what? Well they make fun of you all too by the way,” Obama said.

I think Obama's feeling a little giddy.

Settle Down, Austin | 8 comments (8 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Settle Down, Austin (none / 1)

SO far, he's exceptional at deflecting what opponents throw at him. Told one rally that McCain has placed lobbyists in charge they run their bus fron the Straight Talk bus. TPM covered the lobbyist calling clients from McCain's bus.

Hope Obama continues to do well as GOP begins to throw mud.

Newest twist: Conservatives questions Obama's patriotism because he refuses to wear a lapel pin.

Did Reagan?

wonder what patriotism was like before 9/11 or before lapel pins were an idea.

Oh my. they'll find some more.

Btw, Nader has announced his quadrenial run.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 09:41:39 AM EST

Re: Settle Down, Austin (none / 1)

"oops:" that should read they run their business from the Straight Talk bus.

the lobbyist thingy will follow McCain. Thinkprogress has more details.

Uber-Lobbyist Who Serves As McCain's Chief Political Adviser Considers McCain His `Client'

a good line for Obama to keep hammering on.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 09:50:47 AM EST
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Re: Settle Down, Austin (none / 1)

A more important question concerns the "Support the Troops" magnet. Does O'bama have the magnet on his car?
Its obvious the Republican are going to run on the same old tired soundbite bullshit.
If you want to have decent international relations then don't come across as the nazi super-patriot. Our economy and well being depend on someone who can see that fact. The world has many reasons to resent and hate us. The last thing they want to see is the US flag all up in their face. They have had eight years of that selfish shortsighted crap.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Salunga on Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 10:13:08 AM EST
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Re: Settle Down, Austin (4.00 / 2)

Good point.

"support the troops buttons, pins, magnets" what have you, an equally a dumb idea.If we support the troops give them the assets to manage and succeed in the mission.

Obama supports the troops, he wants to bring them home.

In Thursday night's debate, Obama's example of the Captain in Afghanistan scrounging for assets triggered the real argument. This anecdote just was not true roared the GOP.

Sen. Warner wants an investigation. Pentagon denied it but ABC and NYT confirmed the authencity.

"U.S. soldier in Afghanistan: `We scrounge for everything.'
In last week's Democratic debate, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) said he was told by an Army captain that his platoon's resources in Afghanistan were shortchanged because of the Iraq war. Seeking to turn Obama's remarks into a political attack, Sen. John Warner (R-VA) immediately questioned the authenticity of the statement. But ABC News contacted the Army captain, who backed up Obama's story. And now the New York Times reports that soldiers in Afghanistan are still strapped for resources:
And they felt eclipsed by Iraq. As Sgt. Erick Gallardo put it: "We don't get supplies, assets. We scrounge for everything and live a lot more rugged. But we know the war is here. We got unfinished business."

pathetic

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 10:47:15 AM EST
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Of Course he's giddy (none / 0)

That's because, as MoDo so helpfully points out, Obama is actually a woman.

when historians trace how her inevitability dissolved, they will surely note this paradox: The first serious female candidate for president was rejected by voters drawn to the more feminine management style of her male rival.
[snip]
Hillary was so busy trying to prove she could be one of the boys -- getting on the Armed Services Committee, voting to let W. go to war in Iraq, strong-arming supporters and donors, and trying to out-macho Obama -- that she only belatedly realized that many Democratic and independent voters, especially women, were eager to move from hard-power locker-room tactics to a soft-power sewing circle approach.
Less towel-snapping and more towel color coordinating, less steroids and more sensitivity.

And here I was betting on a "McCain can still get it up" column.

MoDo: one trick pony...

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

by brendan on Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 10:02:35 AM EST

Ehh .. Ready on Day One? (none / 1)

File a full slate of convention delegate candidates for Pennsylvania's April 22 primary?

(Philly.com) Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign failed to file a full slate of convention delegate candidates for Pennsylvania's April 22 primary ... and despite a Rendell-ordered extension of the filing deadline that could be viewed as more than just coincidental.

It appears Clinton came up 10 or 11 candidates short across a number of congressional districts, including two in Philadelphia. That's close to 10 percent of the 103 delegates to be decided by voters.

It appears the shortage would've been double that if Rendell hadn't extended last week's candidate filing deadline by a day and a half, ostensibly due to bad weather.

This at a time when Clinton's campaign, like Barack Obama's - which did file a full slate in the state - hoards delegates like diamonds.

Clinton's faux pas is more of an image problem than a practical one.

Under Democratic Party rules (and does any organization on the planet have more rules or more complex rules?) a presidential candidate winning in a congressional district gets delegates from that district (assigned at a later date) whether he or she files slates delegates or not.

Still ...

For a national campaign stressing competence, experience, "ready-on-day-one", one might expect a full slate in what could be a key state. Especially given the backing of big-shot party leaders.

"The Clinton people had the support of the ward structure here in Philadelphia," says Philly attorney Seth Williams, Obama's eastern Pennsylvania coordinator. "We just had grass-roots volunteers."

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 10:24:57 AM EST

Re: Ehh .. Ready on Day One? (none / 1)

It's the Can't do campaign from BushCheneyRumsfeld's playbook

Frank Rich's Op-Ed in The Sunday New York Times:

The Audacity of Hopelessness

WHEN people one day look back at the remarkable implosion of the Hillary Clinton campaign, they may notice that it both began and ended in the long dark shadow of Iraq.
It's not just that her candidacy's central premise -- the priceless value of "experience" -- was fatally poisoned from the start by her still ill-explained vote to authorize the fiasco. Senator Clinton then compounded that 2002 misjudgment by pursuing a 2008 campaign strategy that uncannily mimicked the disastrous Bush Iraq war plan. After promising a cakewalk to the nomination -- "It will be me," Mrs. Clinton told Katie Couric in November -- she was routed by an insurgency.
The Clinton camp was certain that its moneyed arsenal of political shock-and-awe would take out Barack Hussein Obama in a flash. The race would "be over by Feb. 5," Mrs. Clinton assured George Stephanopoulos just before New Year's. But once the Obama forces outwitted her, leaving her mission unaccomplished on Super Tuesday, there was no contingency plan. She had neither the boots on the ground nor the money to recoup.
read on

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 10:55:09 AM EST
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Re: Settle Down, Austin (none / 1)

Being likable is now the evil.

Isn't this sick. Because we have a candidate that can put a sentence together. And get people excited about voting. This is a bad thing.

I'm sorry. Say cult a thousand times over, does not make it true.

But if we want, let's play the game. How brainwashed do you have to be to think, hey, her name is also Clinton. If we elect her, we can go back in time to the nineties, and everything will be beautiful.

Worked so well electing a Bush.

Patriotism and religion, like whiskey, is best used in moderation. Mark Twain

by skeeters2525 on Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 02:35:15 PM EST

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