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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Indiana Congressman Joe Donnelly Endorses Barack Obama
The superdelegate flow to Obama continues unabated.

Sunday, May 11, 2008
Bill Clinton Made The Mortgage Crisis
(4 comments) Bill Clinton's repeal of the law that banks could not be investment brokers, led to the mortgage crisis of today. Hope WV and KY are listening.

Monday, April 28, 2008
Rev. Wright Detroit NAACP Speech
(3 comments) Four videos comprising all of Rev. Wright's Sunday Speech to the NAACP in Detroit, plus a section of Lincoln's Second Inaugural and uncut Wright sermons.

Sunday, April 27, 2008
Governor Rendell Honors Farrakhan
(3 comments) How hypocritical is this? Ed Rendell embraces Louis Farrakhan while Hillary besmirches Barack with her special F word. She should be ashamed.

Friday, April 25, 2008
Stop Dissing Hillary?
(4 comments) Does criticizing Hillary Clinton add to women's anger and increase her gender-based vote totals?

Thursday, April 24, 2008
Unabashed Racism and Nice Guy Politics
Some good ways to deal with the attack from the Clinton-McCain forces and their lockstep effort to defeat Obama.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Actual Pennsylvania Primary Results
(5 comments) What difference does it make if Clinton won by double digits or only by 8.5 percent? Apparently none to our vaunted MSM.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Obama Corner -- Pennsylvania Primary -- April 22, 2008
This page will be progressively updated through the Pennsylvania Primary. Relevant news, notes and observations in reverse chronological order.

Saturday, April 19, 2008
My New Magic Obama Number -- 59
(1 comments) Question. How many Superdelegates does Obama need to win the nomination once he and Clinton have an even number of Superdelegates? Answer: 59.

Friday, April 18, 2008
Sam Nunn Endorses Obama
(2 comments) Sam Nunn. David Boren. Robert Reich. It looks as though the door is closing on thie primary contest with Obama gaining three big endorsements in one day.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Hannity > Stephanopoulos > Ambush Politics -- Part Two
Barack, PS Voters, bloggers, writers respond to what has been called the worst political debate in memory and to the ambush politics aimed at Obama with the collusion of Sean Hannity.

Monday, April 14, 2008
Mayhill Fowler Violated The Rules
Yep...Mayhill should not have gone on the record. Claims she did not know. Anyway she did Barack a favor. He's been helped and the opponents have egg on their face.

Sunday, April 13, 2008
Mayhill Fowler Should Come Clean
Seems Mayhill Fowler was not the only person who was in the room when Barack made small town America famous and bared political reality. She should come clean and tell all.

Saturday, April 12, 2008
Obama to McCain-Clinton: "People Are Fed Up!"
Sean Hannity is trying hard to dampen enthusiasm for Barack Obama. Now he siezes on Barack's remarks in California. But wait. Barack is right and he has the upper hand. Check it out.

Friday, April 11, 2008
To Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid : Impeach Bush & Co.
(2 comments) No one seems to care much that Bush & Co apparently micromanaged torture from the White House. Instead of Bush Fatigue I advocate Bush Impeach along with Condi, George Tenet, Cheney and others.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
What The End Is Going To Look Like
Iraq? A mess. The result of a calculated decision that whatever hell Iraq goes through, we have a hell of our own we need to extricate ourselves from.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008
As Predicted, Obama LEADS in PA
(2 comments) Here's the latest PPP Poll for PA and ig gives Obama a lead a week after PPP had him behind 26 points. The curtain may be coming down on the Clintons.

Monday, March 31, 2008
Chris Cillizza Assumes Much Too Much
Argues that the campaign will close out when the primaries are over and Obama hits 2025 with some Superdelegate assistance. If his opponent does not drop out first.

Monday, March 31, 2008
Barack's Opponent : Economic Woes Loom
Barack Obama's opponent faces disconsolate businesses waiting to be paid. Nothing compared to the problems in the Patty Solis Doyle days. Or is there more?

Monday, March 31, 2008
PPP Gives Obama A Big NC Green Light
Obama now leads in every part of the state except the Mountains, which has very few black voters. He has an advantage across every age group, and is up by double digits with both men and women.

Sunday, March 30, 2008
Kerner, Limbaugh, Wright, Obama & Race
We are at the crucial point now. Where the denouement takes place. Where Obama's opponent is less and less able to conceal the fact that this is a contest between Kerner-Limbaugh-Wright and Obama and a serious dealing with the final term in this quintuple reference.

Sunday, March 30, 2008
Mario Cuomo's Candidates-as-Running-Mates Idea
(1 comments) The only people who may like Mario Cuomo's candidates-as-running-mates idea are supporters of Barack Obama's opponent who are a) wanting to be nice or b) who see this as a dream ticket.

Sunday, March 30, 2008
More Obama Superdelegates on Deck
The Superdelegate Anarchy strategy looks to be continuing with at least three superdelegates on deck and a possible seven-superdelegate windfall from North Carolina. The Wall Street Journal has the story.

Friday, March 28, 2008
No One Is Adding Barack's Superdelegates
CNN, Real Clear Politics and Democratic Convention watch are hardly diligent when it comes to posting additions to Obama's superdelegate column. Someone needs to light a fire under these so-called premium campaign sites.

Friday, March 28, 2008
Bloomberg an Obama Veep? Three Options
Governor Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas is my early choice for an Obama running mate. But Bloomberg has a claim as well. A discussion of the options.

Friday, March 28, 2008
There Is No Surge in Iraq
(1 comments) There is no surge in Iraq. The only other thing people tend to agree on is that the most stupid thing we did after the stupid decision to invade was to disband Saddam's army and thereby give up the best home we might have had to impose some order on this country of resident enemies.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Obama Cooper Union Speech on The Economy -- Full Text
Obama's historic appearance at Cooper Union this morning -- and his speech about reclaiming an economy based on a unity between the interests of Wall Street and Main Street.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Bloomberg + Obama + Cooper Union + Today
Hold onto your hats. Barack is beginning to make some major moves. Like raising some buzz about a cordial Bloomberg relationship. Not an endorsement? We'll see.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
How Electable Is Hillary Clinton?
(1 comments) You can either read these quotes on how unelectable Hillary is or their sources or simply play my simple electoral college game. Either way she loses.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Hillary's Bosnia Lies Offend Military
Hillary's Bosnia lies prove to be not only truly lies but to have been highly offensive to the military. Here is an audio interview with the pilot of the plane that flew her in -- for the truth part. Then read the rest of this Daily Kos piece to see the offense given.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Two Keys To The Pennsylvania Primary
Barack's Campaign should: Compare Hillary with Laura Bush. Laura Did More. Get down with the Archie Bunkers of PA -- forge some significant ties with Hillary's "silent majority" constituency.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Laura Bush's International Achievements as First Lady
(2 comments) Laura Bush looks pretty good next to Hillary Clinton. These are just a few of LB's international accomplishments including visits to Afghanistan and Africa.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Hillary Clinton's Hate Speech
Hillary Clinton is shameless. She has re-raised the Wright issue just as it has begun to fade. Clever? We shall see. Shameless? Clearly.

Monday, March 24, 2008
LETTER FROM REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
A letter to the New York Times by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright written when Barack announced his Presidential bid.

Sunday, March 23, 2008
Bringing FOX to Bay: MoveOn Does Not Cut It
MoveOn has a petition. I believe the way to go at FOX is with a class action hate crime suit. Is there a lawyer out there who agrees?

Saturday, March 22, 2008
James Carville Loses It -- Judas Remark Over The Top
(3 comments) James Carville in today's New York Times has lost it, exposing the slender thread on which the Clinton campaign hangs. He has suggested not only that Bill Richardson is a Judas but that he has taken money to move to the Obama Camp.

Saturday, March 22, 2008
FOX Criminality Exposed -- The God Damn Sound Bite
FOX is guilty of an extended hate crime. I feel there are grounds for a class action suit based on proof that they edited Wright's sermons to tistort and defame the minister and his message. The damage done was and is incalculable.

Saturday, March 22, 2008
Did Hillary Lie About Bosnia Bravery?
(1 comments) The video shows a welcome ceremony. Ah, what time can do to memories. Or, what really happened?

Saturday, March 22, 2008
Barack, Stop Playing Hillary's Game
A note to the Obama Campaign -- there is a way to win this in the near term. Please heed.

Friday, March 21, 2008
FOX's Rape of Rev. Wright -- The Full Chickens Sermon
FOX has performed with Goebbels-like impunity editing the tapes of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I want you to LISTEN to and WATCH the sermon from which FOX extricated a statement our of context in order to bamboozle the American people. And even people like me (and Barack) bowed down to the lying and unconscion

Friday, March 21, 2008
FOX=Fraud -- Roger Ailes Needs to Apologize
CNN and MSNBC and all other Main Stream Media owe the public individual apologies for falling into lockstep behind FOX without delving into the context and recalling Ambassador Peck's seminal post-9/11 FOX interview referenced by Wright in his sermon.

Friday, March 21, 2008
An Obama Playbook for The Coming Weeks
How I would do things if I was running the Obama Campaign. IOWA all over again. On the ground. No frills. No glitz.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
State Department Violation of Obama: FOX and CNN Drop The Ball
(1 comments) FOX and CNN are not treating the State Department's breach of Obama's passport file as urgent news. MSNBC is.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
Foxes Deserve Better -- Save for FOX (Faux) "News"
Salvo. We'll bring FOX down. How? Easy. Boycott their advertisers. Ridicule them. Stop giving implicit credence to their bullying prevarication. Digg This To High Heaven.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
The Shift to Hillary is Mark Penn's Pipe Dream
A point by point rebuttal of Mark Penn's most recent memo trying to argue for Hillary Clinton's candidacy.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Obama, Clinton Nearly Tied in North Carolina
Since Pennsylvania is at the center, I am christening Barack ROCKY and suggesting the campaign take its cues from the hero of that seminal film.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Obama : Where We Are Now
Unity means that the low income person or family of any race, color, gender, persuasion needs to be united with his or her opposites, his or her scapegoats, his or her enemies, in order to test the waters against the real problem.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Stephen C. Rose Home: FOX Is Not A News Channel
FOX News had a slow day and devoted its noxious energies to trying to pul a Wright job on the Obama Blog. Here is their response.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Full Text: Barack Obama's Philadelphis Speech 18 March 2008
(10 comments) The text prepared for delivery of Barack Obama's speech on politics and race in Philadelphia this morning.

Monday, March 17, 2008
"The Lord's Prayer Song" by Stephen C. Rose
This is a rough demo of an original tune to which one could sing The Lord's Prayer as a smple and consistent spiritual discipline. Or write your own tune to the lyric.

Monday, March 17, 2008
Shabby Clinton Attack Exposed -- Obama Record Documented
Hillary Clinton chose wrong in decidint to attack Obama on the issie of military contractors in Iraq. Her hands are dirty. His are clean.

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Wrapping It Up for Obama -- It's in The New York Times
Barack the Hacks! The endgame of the campaign for the Democratic nomination is all there, by implication, in todays New York Times lead story.

Saturday, March 15, 2008
Obama Can Win Pennsylvania Like Rendell Did
A very smart article by Mark Silva called Obama Keys to the Keystone State offers a great strategy for winning the forthcoming Pennsylvania primary. All Obama needs to do is follow the strategy that was used by urban liberal Ed Rendell when he attained the governorship. Salient paragraphs are quoted below. If you are working for Obama in PS, I recommend you read the whole thing.

Saturday, March 15, 2008
Michigan & Florida Should Seat Delegations with Conditions
Holding new primaries is an invitation to chicanery and lawsuits and huge expenses and I do not believe it will happen. The alternative is to seat the admittedly imperfect and even outlaw delegations of the two states.

Friday, March 14, 2008
My Annotated Response to the Clinton Campaign PA Memo
I figured there was a tougher way to respond to the memo put out by the Clinton Campaign yesterday suggesing that Barack had to win PA to be the nominee. In their dreams.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Play The Obama-Clinton Electoral College Challenge Game
Play this simple Electoral College Game. How to play. I have given Obama 60+ votes more than he needs to win the required 270 electoral votes. Subtract any Obama wins you don't agree with. Add some states if you think he will win them. See if your final total is more than 270.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Angelo Dundee to Barack Obama: "Don't fight their fight."
Kevin Merida has written an interesting article in the Washington Post about the endgame of the Democratic struggle. The only problem is that the article proposes the context and the analogous games -- boxing and chess -- without going far enough.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Did David Axelrod Call Geraldine Ferraro a Racist?
I cannot find anything that indicates that David Axelrod called Geraldine Ferraro a racist, which is what she has been saying all over the media today.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Jean Shepherd (July 26, 1921 - October 16, 1999) on the Web
(4 comments) Welcome to a tribute and roundup of Jean Shepherd links on the web. Jean Shepherd was a well-known comedian-monologist who appeared for many years on WOR Radio in New York City. His humor was wry, descriptive and based largely on stories of his Midwestern childhood.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Wolf Blitzer -- Reportus Interruptus Ad Nauseam
The news producers at CNN should be, at least figuratively, shot. Their idea of how to keep me tuned in is to devote about one fourth of all the time they have available to promote what is coming after the next, no make that the next, no make that the next commercials (plural). Then what you are waiting for -- having been promoted three times -- may or may not be forthcoming.

Monday, March 10, 2008
A Superdelegate Freeze -- The Ultimate Hypocrisy
A Superdelegate Freeze -- The Ultimate Hypocrisy About | Most Popular | Superdelegates | Predictions | Polls Why, pray tell, is such vitriol directed at the seemingly fair notion that there should be a FREEZE on any additional superdelegate commitment to EITHER candidate? The idea is to wait until the primaries are over. Here's why.

Monday, March 10, 2008
Attn. Superdelegates, Hillary Clinton LOST Both Nevada and Texas
Hillary Clinton includes Nevada and Texas in her victories along with Michigan and Florida. The rules of the primary are that it is a matter of delegates. She has no delegates from either Michigan or Florida. She narrowly but definitively came in second in the delegate race in both Nevada and Texas.

Sunday, March 9, 2008
The Complex Psychology of Hillary Clinton
(1 comments) As an Obama supporter, I am deluged daily -- when I go to the Obama blog -- with shocked and angry expressions of dislike for Hillary Clinton. And there crops up, with clockwork regularity, a little piece by Clinton intimate turned Clinton enemy, Dick Morris, that implicitly and explicitly puts the worst of glosses on the New York Senator.

Saturday, March 8, 2008
Child in Hillary's 3:00AM Ad Now Grown Up & An Avid Obama Supporter
The chickens always come home to roost and it is time for Hillary Clinton to look into the eyes of the little child, now grown, who was used in her 3:00 AM video, which will go down in history as a net loss for her and her ill-fated campaign.