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Re: Biden? Really???

Sombody_took_my_username — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:03:28 -0000

Thanks, Angela.

Re: Biden? Really???

Angela1 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:47:43 -0000

it was a quote in an article over at politico.com titled Obama on Biden "He Gets It"

"He knows McCain better than anyone else. He intimidates McCain more than anyone else. He can call McCain out better than anyone else on some of his positions," said Biden’s pollster, Celinda Lake, in a recent interview."

Re: Biden? Really???

Sombody_took_my_username — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:24:15 -0000

Got a link, perchance?

:)

Re: Black Reaction Online to Joe Biden as VP

Angela1 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:15:38 -0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPev5sEdTjg&feat...

Re: Biden? Really???

Angela1 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:56:29 -0000

I read elsewhere on the internet that McCain is intimidated by Biden.

Re: Barack Obama Pounds 'No Change McCain'

Angela1 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:28:39 -0000

Found at www.rightwingwatch.org

This is the guy who wrote Obama Nation. Looks like he didn’t like McCain either.

August 19, 2008
Jerome Corsi, McCain Basher
Current New York Times best-selling author and proven liar Jerome Corsi has been lavished with attention by the likes of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for his slanderous new book about Barack Obama.

But before Corsi put Obama in his crosshairs, he plied his wares in the GOP presidential primary. Fox and Limbaugh treat Corsi like he’s a legitimate political commentator, so we’ll trust they’ll have Corsi back on to discuss his groundbreaking work on McCain:

Group tied to al-Qaida backs McCain for prez
March 02, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi

McCain fortune traced to organized crime
February 26, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi

Influence peddling claims dog McCain
February 15, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi

John McCain funded by Soros since 2001
February 12, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi

McCain aide touts 'Mexico first' policy
January 25, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi

Re: Remember . . . This is What We’re Up Against!

Angela1 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:59:16 -0000

This is interesting the same guy who wrote Obama Nation the anti Obama book (Jerome Corsi) apparently wasn't always a fan of McCain either.

found over at www.rightwingwatch.org

August 19, 2008
Jerome Corsi, McCain Basher

Current New York Times best-selling author and proven liar Jerome Corsi has been lavished with attention by the likes of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for his slanderous new book about Barack Obama.

But before Corsi put Obama in his crosshairs, he plied his wares in the GOP presidential primary. Fox and Limbaugh treat Corsi like he’s a legitimate political commentator, so we’ll trust they’ll have Corsi back on to discuss his groundbreaking work on McCain:

Group tied to al-Qaida backs McCain for prez
March 02, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi

McCain fortune traced to organized crime
February 26, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi

Influence peddling claims dog McCain
February 15, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi

John McCain funded by Soros since 2001
February 12, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi

McCain aide touts 'Mexico first' policy
January 25, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi

Re: Prisoner Of War Forgets How Many Homes He Has. Let’s Not Give Him The Big White One.

CraigHickman — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:38:26 -0000

I loved it. McCain should know how many properties his wife owns. He should know about all his wife's assets, really.

He's not just out of touch with Americans, he's out of touch with his own life.

That's the subtext to all of this.

And our campaign needs to nail the points home without relent.

It won't hurt McCain directly, athough it might, but it will at least make him bring out all of his attacks at once, leaving him to resort to another wag the dog crisis in October.

It won't work.

Re: Prisoner Of War Forgets How Many Homes He Has. Let’s Not Give Him The Big White One.

Angela1 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:29:02 -0000

Keith Olbermann was great with this tonight.......he really pushed the "houses" and he added in a $1 million dollar parking lot, the plane. What was really hysterical is he kept flashing the cover of Architectural Magazine with John and Cindy McCain on the cover when they redid one of their houses (nah! no elitism here).

Re: Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones Passes Away

Angela1 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:48:54 -0000

Bottom line....this woman did things...it doesn't matter if you agreed with her choices...
we all have lives where we agree and disagree. It isn't rocket science.

Prayers for her family and she will rest in peace.

Re: On the attack

Angela1 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:24:22 -0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5ENwej0fpc
its mccain talking and caught stating Putin was the president of Germany.

Re: Wed Open Thread

Sombody_took_my_username — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:08:25 -0000

Thanks for the heads-up, Angela.

I was actually reading that site the other day. I am stunned by the hatred of McCain by vets.

Re: Wed Open Thread

CraigHickman — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:41:53 -0000

Those who know McCain, who have served with McCain are the ones who need to call McCain's "honor" into question. They're the only ones who can do it.

Re: Wed Open Thread

Angela1 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:39:26 -0000

Have any of you looked at www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com? The videos are amazing....if that group can get their videos on the msm alot of people will see McCain in a very negative light. Included in the video are criticisms from two Republican representatives, Bob Dornan (CA) and Bob Smith (NH) and some ex military personnel. McCain's character doesn't look so hot.

I'm surprised the anti McCain people haven't done a better job in getting these made more public. I was really taken aback when I viewed them, its all about McCain succeeding in keeping records on the Vietnam pow/mia's top secret and why. They are basically accusing McCain of blocking the release of these records to protect his own reputation.

Re: On the attack

Angela1 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:32:44 -0000

Have any of you looked at www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com. The videos are amazing....if that group can get their videos on the msm alot of people will see McCain in a very negative light. Including in the video are criticisms from two Republican representatives, Bob Dornan (CA) and Bob Smith (NH). McCain's character doesn't look so hot.

I'm surprised the anti McCain people haven't done a better job in getting these made more public. I was really taken aback when I viewed them, its all about McCain succeeding in keeping records on the Vietnam pow/mia's top secret and why.

Re: Why Biden’s Racist Behind Ain’t Gonna Be VP

Sepia — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:21:33 -0000

Speaking of hidden relatives, where are McCain's children from his first marriage? Are they on the campaign trail with him?

Re: Why is McCain suddenly downplaying 'Cross in the dirt'?

Angela1 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:52:59 -0000

Apparently they lie about a whole lot things............check this from www.npr.org

Cindy McCain's Half Sister 'Angry' She's Hidden
by Ted Robbins

Ted Robbins/NPR
Kathleen Hensley Portalski displays newspaper clippings of her father in World War II, as well as snapshots of herself as a child with her father.

Read the original profile on Cindy McCain.

Courtesy Nicholas Portalski
Portalski is shown with her late father, Jim Hensley, who also was Cindy McCain's father.

Ted Robbins/NPR
Nicholas Portalski, whose mother is McCain's half sister, says it's "very, very hurtful" that he and his mother haven't been recognized.

All Things Considered, August 18, 2008 · Last Tuesday, NPR broadcast a story about Cindy McCain's business and charity work. In it, Ted Robbins described McCain as the only child of Jim Hensley, a wealthy Arizona businessman. The next morning, NPR received an e-mail from Nicholas Portalski of Phoenix, who heard the story with his mother.

"We were listening to the piece about Cindy McCain on NPR, All Things Considered, and it just struck us very hard," Portalski said.

His mother, Kathleen Hensley Portalski, is also Hensley's daughter.

The Portalski family is accustomed to hearing Cindy McCain described as Hensley's only child.

She's been described that way by news organizations from The New Yorker and The New York Times to Newsweek and ABC.

McCain herself routinely uses the phrase "only child," as she did on CNN last month. "I grew up with my dad," she said then. "I'm an only child. My father was a cowboy, and he really loved me very much, but I think he wanted a son occasionally."

McCain's father was also a businessman — and twice a father.

"I'm upset," Kathleen Portalski says. "I'm angry. It makes me feel like a nonperson, kind of."

Who Is Kathleen Hensley Portalski?

Documents show Kathleen Anne Hensley was born to Jim and Mary Jeanne Hensley on Feb. 23, 1943. They had been married for six years when Kathleen was born.

Jim Hensley was a bombardier on a B-17, flying over Europe during World War II.

He was injured and sent to a facility in West Virginia to recuperate. During that time, while still married to Mary Jeanne, Hensley met another woman — Marguerite Smith. Jim divorced Mary Jeanne and married Marguerite in 1945.

Cindy Lou Hensley was born nine years later, in 1954.

She may have grown up as an only child, but so did her half sister, Kathleen, who was raised by a single parent.

Portalski says she did see her father and her half sister from time to time.

"I saw him a few times a year," she says. "I saw him at Christmas and birthdays, and he provided money for school clothes, and he called occasionally."

Jim Hensley also provided credit cards and college tuition for his grandchildren, as well as $10,000 gifts to Kathleen and her husband, Stanley Portalski. That lasted a decade, they say. By then, Jim Hensley had built Hensley and Co. into one of the largest beer distributorships in the country. He was worth tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars.

Sole Inheritor To Hensley's Estate

When Hensley died in 2000, his will named not only Portalski but also a daughter of his wife Marguerite from her earlier marriage. So, Cindy McCain may be the only product of Jim and Marguerite's marriage, but she is not the only child of either.

She was, however, the sole inheritor of his considerable estate.

Kathleen Portalski was left $10,000, and her children were left nothing. It's a fact Nicholas Portalski says his sister discovered the hard way.

"What she found in town — on the day of or the day before or the day after his funeral — was that the credit card didn't work anymore," Nick says.

The Portalskis live in a modest home in central Phoenix. Kathleen is retired, as is her husband. Nicholas Portalski is a firefighter and emergency medical technician looking for work.

They say it would have been nice if they were left some of the Hensley fortune.

They also say they are Democrats, but Nicholas Portalski says he had another reason for coming forward.

"The fact that we don't exist," he says. "The fact that we've never been recognized, and then Cindy has to put such a fine point on it by saying something that's not true. Recently, again and again. It's just very, very hurtful."

Kathleen Portalski says she'd like an acknowledgment and an apology.

NPR asked the McCain campaign — specifically, Cindy McCain — to comment or respond. Neither replied.

Re: Why Biden’s Racist Behind Ain’t Gonna Be VP

Angela1 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:34:11 -0000

fyi from www.NPR.org

Cindy McCain's Half Sister 'Angry' She's Hidden
by Ted Robbins

Ted Robbins/NPR

Kathleen Hensley Portalski displays newspaper clippings of her father in World War II, as well as snapshots of herself as a child with her father.

Courtesy Nicholas Portalski
Portalski is shown with her late father, Jim Hensley, who also was Cindy McCain's father.

Ted Robbins/NPR
Nicholas Portalski, whose mother is McCain's half sister, says it's "very, very hurtful" that he and his mother haven't been recognized.

All Things Considered, August 18, 2008 · Last Tuesday, NPR broadcast a story about Cindy McCain's business and charity work. In it, Ted Robbins described McCain as the only child of Jim Hensley, a wealthy Arizona businessman. The next morning, NPR received an e-mail from Nicholas Portalski of Phoenix, who heard the story with his mother.

"We were listening to the piece about Cindy McCain on NPR, All Things Considered, and it just struck us very hard," Portalski said.

His mother, Kathleen Hensley Portalski, is also Hensley's daughter.

The Portalski family is accustomed to hearing Cindy McCain described as Hensley's only child.

She's been described that way by news organizations from The New Yorker and The New York Times to Newsweek and ABC.

McCain herself routinely uses the phrase "only child," as she did on CNN last month. "I grew up with my dad," she said then. "I'm an only child. My father was a cowboy, and he really loved me very much, but I think he wanted a son occasionally."

McCain's father was also a businessman — and twice a father.

"I'm upset," Kathleen Portalski says. "I'm angry. It makes me feel like a nonperson, kind of."

Who Is Kathleen Hensley Portalski?

Documents show Kathleen Anne Hensley was born to Jim and Mary Jeanne Hensley on Feb. 23, 1943. They had been married for six years when Kathleen was born.

Jim Hensley was a bombardier on a B-17, flying over Europe during World War II.

He was injured and sent to a facility in West Virginia to recuperate. During that time, while still married to Mary Jeanne, Hensley met another woman — Marguerite Smith. Jim divorced Mary Jeanne and married Marguerite in 1945.

Cindy Lou Hensley was born nine years later, in 1954.

She may have grown up as an only child, but so did her half sister, Kathleen, who was raised by a single parent.

Portalski says she did see her father and her half sister from time to time.

"I saw him a few times a year," she says. "I saw him at Christmas and birthdays, and he provided money for school clothes, and he called occasionally."

Jim Hensley also provided credit cards and college tuition for his grandchildren, as well as $10,000 gifts to Kathleen and her husband, Stanley Portalski. That lasted a decade, they say. By then, Jim Hensley had built Hensley and Co. into one of the largest beer distributorships in the country. He was worth tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars.

Sole Inheritor To Hensley's Estate

When Hensley died in 2000, his will named not only Portalski but also a daughter of his wife Marguerite from her earlier marriage. So, Cindy McCain may be the only product of Jim and Marguerite's marriage, but she is not the only child of either.

She was, however, the sole inheritor of his considerable estate.

Kathleen Portalski was left $10,000, and her children were left nothing. It's a fact Nicholas Portalski says his sister discovered the hard way.

"What she found in town — on the day of or the day before or the day after his funeral — was that the credit card didn't work anymore," Nick says.

The Portalskis live in a modest home in central Phoenix. Kathleen is retired, as is her husband. Nicholas Portalski is a firefighter and emergency medical technician looking for work.

They say it would have been nice if they were left some of the Hensley fortune.

They also say they are Democrats, but Nicholas Portalski says he had another reason for coming forward.

"The fact that we don't exist," he says. "The fact that we've never been recognized, and then Cindy has to put such a fine point on it by saying something that's not true. Recently, again and again. It's just very, very hurtful."

Kathleen Portalski says she'd like an acknowledgment and an apology.

NPR asked the McCain campaign — specifically, Cindy McCain — to comment or respond. Neither replied.

Re: http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/08/sunday-open-thread-13/

Sombody_took_my_username — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:06:07 -0000

So, we have a similar story from an author that McCain is a big fan of....

Fabulous, Angela!

McCain: liar, cheater, hothead..

Now, lets see if in the coming days anyone from the media questions him about these fabrications.

Re: http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/08/sunday-open-thread-13/

Angela1 — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:59:20 -0000

from democraticunderground.....

What do you think the MSM would be doing tonight if this story broke on Obama...they would call in their top anchors for 24/7!

Edited on Sun Aug-17-08 04:31 PM by yourguide
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/17/122......

Long story short. In 1973, a russian author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, wrote about his time in in the book "The Gulag Archipelago" and relayed exactly the same story.

From the book:

"As he waited, head down, he felt a presence. Slowly he looked up and saw a skinny old prisoner squat down beside him. The man said nothing. Instead, he used a stick to trace in the dirt the sign of the Cross. The man then got back up and returned to his work.

As Solzhenitsyn stared at the Cross drawn in the dirt his entire perspective changed. He knew he was only one man against the all-powerful Soviet empire. Yet he knew there was something greater than the evil he saw in the prison camp, something greater than the Soviet Union. He knew that hope for all people was represented by that simple Cross. Through the power of the Cross, anything was possible."

And here is a nice long excerpt from John McCain's book "Hard Call: The Art of Great Decisions " released in 2005, reprinted in the NY Sun, about what a big fan he is of Alexander Solzhenitsyn writings...

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/solzhenitsyn-at-wo... /

Edited to add, apparently in 1973 he wrote a very detailed 12,000 word account of his time in Vietnam that was published in US News and world reports and wouldnt you know it, no mention of the cross in the sand...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/17/153......

Re: Just who the hell do they think John McCain is?

Angela1 — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:24:33 -0000

I wonder how McCain's comment that you wouldn't be rich unless you had $5 million will go over in working class America. Will those voters identify with Mr. $500 dollar shoes and 6 or 7 homes? Reminds me of when Bush Sr. showed how of touch he was when he did an economic pr stunt and bought some tube socks and he couldn't get over the price scanner device!!!!

Re: http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/08/sunday-open-thread-13/

Angela1 — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:31:32 -0000

I saw this over at theCarpetbaggerReport.com. It is good.....McCain described rich as having an income of $5 million. Wonder how all those blue collar voters will feel now when they find out Mr. $500 dollar shoes and 6 or 7 homes defines rich. This is as clear of being out of touch as Bush's dad was when he went on a pr stunt and bought tube socks and couldn't get over the price scanning device!!!!

Angela

August 17, 2008
The candidates define ‘rich’
Posted August 17th, 2008 at 9:35 am

At last night’s forum at Saddleback Church, the Rev. Rick Warren asked a nearly identical set of questions to Barack Obama and John McCain, but one of the more memorable inquiries was just two words: “Define rich.”

Obama started with a joke at Warren’s expense — “You know, if you’ve got book sales of 25 million….” — which got plenty of laughs. Obama added that those making more than $250,000 a year are in the top 3% or 4% of the population. He added, “Now, these things are all relative and I’m not suggesting that everybody that is making over $250,000 is living on easy street, but the question that I think we have to ask ourselves is if we believe in good schools, if we believe in good roads, if we want to make sure that kids can go to college, if we don’t want to leave a mountain of debt for the next generation, then we’ve got to pay for these things. They don’t come for free.” Obama concluded by saying those who make $150,000 or less will see a tax cut under his administration, and those making more than $250,000 or more will see a “modest increase,” as part of the broader effort to “create a sense of balance and fairness in our tax code.”

McCain was asked the exact same question, and I want to republish his response in full, because I think it offers a peek at McCain’s way of thinking.

“Some of the richest people I’ve ever known in my life are the most unhappy. I think that rich is — should be defined by a home, a good job and education and the ability to hand to our children a more prosperous and safer world than the one that we inherited. I don’t want to take any money from the rich. I want everybody to get rich. I don’t believe in class warfare or redistribution of the wealth. But I can tell you for example there are small businessmen and women who are working 16 hours a day, seven days a week that some people would classify as, quote, ‘rich,’ my friends, who want to raise their taxes and raise their payroll taxes. Let’s have — keep taxes low. Let’s give every family in America a $7,000 tax credit for every child they have. Let’s give them a $5,000 refundable tax credit to go out and get the health insurance of their choice. Let’s not have the government take over the health care system in America.

“So I think if you’re just talking about income, how about $5 million. But seriously, I don’t think you can — I don’t think, seriously that — the point is that I’m trying to make here seriously — and I’m sure that comment will be distorted, but the point is — the point is — the point is that we want to keep people’s taxes low and increase revenues. And my friend, it was not taxes that mattered in America in the last several years. It was spending. Spending got completely out of control. We spent money in a way that mortgaged our kids futures. My friends, we spent $3 million of your money to study the DNA of bears in Montana. Now I don’t know if that was a paternity issue or a criminal issue, but the point is — but the point is it was $3 million of your money. It was your money.

“And you know, we laugh about it, but we cry and we should cry because the Congress is supposed to be careful stewards of your tax dollars. so what did they just do in the middle of an energy crisis when in California we are paying $4 a gallon for gas, went on vacation for five weeks. I guarantee you, two things they never miss, a pay raise and a vacation. And we should stop that and call them back and not raise your taxes. We should not and cannot raise taxes in tough economic times. So it doesn’t matter really what my definition of rich is because I don’t want to raise anybody’s taxes.”

Oh my.

Now, McCain’s been around politics a long time, and he’s learned how to use these interviews to his advantage. He knows to ignore the question asked, and offer the preferred answer, whether it makes sense or not. People will remember what you have to say, not whether you answered or dodged the question.

In this case, it was a two-word question: “Define rich.” Obama answered it. McCain rambled a bit about richness in our lives, which transitioned to misleading rhetoric about small businesses, which transitioned to bizarre complaints about a government take-over of the healthcare system. Before long, we were into bear DNA, congressional recesses, and energy prices. McCain didn’t really like Warren’s question, so he told us all about the various other issues on his mind. The audience didn’t seem to mind.

But somewhere along the line, we got to the answer: $5 million. As far as McCain is concerned, if you make $4.9 million a year, more than 99.9% of the population, you’re not quite rich.

Just how out of touch is John McCain? On the one hand, he’s running ads talking about how “tough” times are “for the rest of us,” but on the other, McCain, one of Congress’ wealthiest members, thinks people who make millions of dollars a year aren’t quite rich, and he doesn’t want to bother them with taxes anyway.

If anything from last night comes back to bite McCain on the butt, it’s this.

Re: http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/08/sunday-open-thread-13/

taritac — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:25:55 -0000

Angela1,
I'm going to try to explain linking again. Feel free to ask questions!

1) When you are on the page of the article you'd like to link to, highlight, then copy the page's web address in the address bar at the top of your browser.

2) Go to the comment area on Jack and Jill. Paste the web address there. In front of the link type: < a href= (remove the space before the a).

3) At the end of the address, type: > then type the words you'd like to show in red as the link title.

4) After typing the link title, you have to "close the tag", so type: < /a> (again, remove the space before the "/")

That's it!

Your code will look like this:
< a href=http://www.website.com/more/1234.html>Obama Wins the Election!!< /a>

Re: http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/08/sunday-open-thread-13/

Angela1 — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:31:08 -0000

I still don't know how to link articles..........sorry! But here is the
whole thing.

Angela

BACKGROUND: Supporters of Hillary Clinton are still planning a variety of
protests at the party's national convention, despite concessions by the
Obama camp.

CONCLUSION: Convention planners have been sufficiently accommodating to the
Clintons, and her supporters need to back off.

A memo to the supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential bid: Get
over it. She lost. No amount of foot stomping or hand pounding at the
convention is going to change the delegate math.

Continued efforts to promote Clinton and undermine the presumptive nominee,
Sen. Barack Obama, will play into the hands of the Republicans in the fall
election and could sour Democrats on the Clintons forever.

Given the role of the former president and first lady in national politics
since the early 1990s, it would be a shame if their lasting legacy was to
disrupt one of the best chances the Democrats had at gaining the White House
since the Clintons departed.

It's hard to believe that Clinton supporters continue to balk at pleas for
party unity in the wake of Sen. John McCain's surge in late-summer polls.

A commanding lead by Obama has now become a statistical dead heat. The
margin for error is slim, as we have seen in the past two presidential
elections. If Clinton supporters would rather see McCain in the White House,
they are doing all the right things.

The Obama forces control the convention planning and have been more than
accommodating. Clinton's name will be put into nomination. She and her
husband will enjoy prime-time visibility. Other than forfeiting the
nomination, there's little else Obama could do to mollify Clinton
supporters.

Nonetheless, according to The Associated Press, "they are itching for a
fight and plan to wage one in Denver."

Their plans include papering the city with pro-Clinton and anti-Obama
fliers; promoting a video claiming "irregularities" in the nominating
process; and unleashing and endless torrent of online vitriol through a
corps or recruited bloggers.

Newspaper ads were purchased demanding a roll-call vote on Clinton for the
nomination even before Obama's camp had a chance to resolve the matter in
her favor.

It's hard to understand where all this bitterness toward Obama originates.
Clinton supporters feel she was treated unfairly during the campaign, but
their wrath should be directed at the media, which was arguably more
favorable in its Obama coverage. For his part, Obama was mostly respectful
in the debates and throughout the campaign.

Have the Democrats learned nothing from their past mistakes. American voters
have shown historically that a party not organized enough to manage its own
convention is often considered not well-suited to manage the nation - the
catastrophic Democratic convention of 1968 being the most often cited
example. It probably cost Hubert Humphrey the White House in a very close
election with Richard Nixon.

The divisive primary campaign has given the Republicans plenty of ammunition
to use already. GOP-funded television ads with Hillary Clinton and other
Democrats criticizing Obama are already on the air, and more are certainly
forthcoming. Providing footage from their own convention certainly won't
help.

The party needs to unite behind Obama unequivocally or run the risk of
bringing new life to the famous quote by Will Rogers: "I belong to no
organized party. I am a Democrat."

Re: http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/08/sunday-open-thread-13/

taritac — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:41:49 -0000

Also, Angela, could you link to the specific article? You only linked to the home page.