Obama Sweeps South Carolina Primaries
Jan/26/08 22:10 Filed in: Politics
He didn't just win. He didn't just get the majority. He got two votes for every one of Hillary's. 55 to 27, with about 18 for Edwards. And then he makes his victory speech, which is pure Obama:
If you can watch this and not have tears well up in your eyes, you're either dead or you had the sound turned off. Here's another link with the speech written out, if you like to follow along.
If you can watch this and not have tears well up in your eyes, you're either dead or you had the sound turned off. Here's another link with the speech written out, if you like to follow along.
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On Hillary
Jan/21/08 11:57 Filed in: Politics
Over at the politburo diktat, Stephen (formerly The Commissar) points to a NYT op-ed by Nicholas Kristof about the experience issue. It's a good op-ed piece, and Stephen raises a good point about Hillary's numbers. But what really struck me comes in the first comment by one "markg8," a "51 year old Democratic precinct committeeman":
I can't stress this enough: Hillary is incredibly divisive. Not only will Republicans rally against her, she will drive away large numbers of independents and Democrats.
After what her people pulled in IA trying to disenfranchise college kids, trying to disenfranchise Vegas strip workers in Vegas that as it turns out would have cost her the caucuses, Bill’s disgusting attacks on Obama, her putting America’s misogynist pimp Bob Johnson on stage with her to allude to Obama’s teenage drug dabbling and then lie about it, I’ve had it, that’s just disgusting. I expect that kind of crap from Republicans not Democrats.
Now she says in her ads she’ll be my “voice in Washington”. Nobody speaks for me who campaigns the way she and her people do. If she wins the nomination using those tactics she’ll have to find someone else to turn out the vote for her in my precinct. I won’t do it.
I can't stress this enough: Hillary is incredibly divisive. Not only will Republicans rally against her, she will drive away large numbers of independents and Democrats.