George McGovern, who lost at the convention, supports Barack Obama.
Sound bite: “I tell people who ask for my endorsement, all I can promise you is one vote, and that’s mine. And you won’t even get that if I forget to vote.”
Archive for May, 2008
“Message to Puerto Rico”
Obama says he was ”born on an island.” (Of course it wasn’t Puerto Rico but, hey, an islander is an islander.) He promises to “replace the 40,000 jobs that have been lost.”
Message to Puerto Rico (En Espanol)
Obama’s Spanish sounds pretty good.
“He Understands Us”
In this 30-second spot Obama emphasizes family and education.
“He Understands Us” (En Espanol)
Here’s Rupert Murdoch calling Barack Obama a “rock star” and saying that John McCain has “a lot of problems.” Expect to see Barack buddying up with Bill O’.
One more (last?) Hillary ad, this one bragging that she is the only candidate (how many are there?) who voted against the Bush energy bill and the only one who’ll get health care coverage for all.
Sundays are never dull at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Reverend Jeremiah Wright may have retired but Father Michael Pfleger picked up the slack last week when he took the pulpit as guest preacher. He talks about exposing “white entitlement and supremacy” and lays into Hillary Clinton.
Sound Bite: “I really believe that she just always thought this is mine. ‘I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white. And this is mine. I just got to get up and step into the plate.’ And then out of nowhere came ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama.’ And she said ‘Oh damn! Where did you come from? I’m white. I’m entitled. There’s a black man stealing my show.”
Judging by the standing ovation, the congregation seemed to enjoy the sermon.
Michelle Obama tells an audience in Puerto Rico that America will be a very touchy-feely place when her husband is president.
Sound Bite: “We will continue to build a relationship of trust and respect that only comes from interaction and it has to come . . . with Barack, with the administration that he will bring into Washington with a different view on how do you connect with people. And it’s with conversations. It’s with shared stories. It’s with hugs. It’s with kisses. It’s with meals. It’s with all that stuff that builds relationship.”
Mad Mike Gravel has posted a clip entitled “The Making of Helter Skelter X,” jam-packed with images of the 1960s: The JFK assassination, Malcolm X, Vietnam War atrocities, antiwar protests, LBJ, the Martin Luther King assassination, urban riots, RFK speechifying, the RFK assassination, the ‘68 Democratic Convention riots, etc. etc. etc. All this set to a pounding soundtrack featuring riffs from The Beatles “Helter Skelter.” And signifying . . . ? Now we know why Mike likes to throw large stones in ponds.
An Obama ad running in Montana decries the rising cost of living in the U.S. The candidate says he’s going to help folks achieve the American Dream. (Details, no doubt, to follow.)
Speaking in Las Vegas, Barack Obama blames “predatory lenders” for the “foreclosure crisis.” No details, of course, of how the couple he cites in his speech was bamboozled into buying a home they couldn’t afford and signing a document they didn’t understand, but no matter.
Obama notes that Nevada has a high rate of home foreclosures without mentioning that a lot of investors played that hot housing market and then walked away when they crapped out. (That messy detail wouldn’t fit the predatory lender narrative.) Always better when speaking to a union audience to blame Republicans, along with “Wall Street and K Street.” Oh yeah, lay out a whole buffet of tax breaks for “hard-working Americans.” That’ll clean up the mess.
Tucker Carlson says that Hillary Clinton is still the strongest Democratic candidate and argues that the A-word gaffe was a nonstory and a case in point in the argument that media are biased toward Obama.
Sound bite: “This is exactly the kind of story that makes people hate us. It is a story about nothing.”
Liz Trotta dug herself deeper and deeper on FoxNews when she said that some people were talking about “knocking off Osama” and then she corrected herself to say Obama and then she added, “both would be good.” Yikes. Even for Fox, that’s a bit strong.
And now she apologizes:
In a 30-second ad running in South Dakota, local boy and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle makes the case for Barack Obama.
Speaking from the back of a red pickup truck, Bill Clinton says Hillary’s “winning the general election today and he’s not, according to all the evidence.”
Sound Bite: “They’re trying to get her to cry uncle before the Democratic Party has to decide what to do in Florida and Michigan.”
Speaking to reporters on the campaign plane, Barack Obama called Hillary Clinton’s RFK assassination remark “unfortunate” but said “we should put it behind us.”
Sound Bite: “I don’t think that Senator Clinton intended anything by it.”
A lot of folks are upset about Tonya Harding’s, er, Hillary Clinton’s remarks referencing the RFK assassination when explaining why she’s staying in the race. But MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann is REALLY upset. Check out his nine-minute rant.
