With friends like these...

[FMCoug]

If the Dems can't manage to win the white house this time around, it will be one of the most colossal screwups in political history. What's GWB's approval rating, 20% or so?

Pathetic.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by FMCoug

If the Dems can't manage to win the white house this time around, it will be one of the most colossal screwups in political history. What's GWB's approval rating, 20% or so?

Pathetic.

Don't worry. The dems will continue to clean house in the House and Senate.

[myboynoah]

Originally Posted by YOhio

IMO, that's just bluster from people caught up in the emotion of a campaign. When it comes down to it, few of them will make good on their promise to sit it out or vote for the other party.

Shun the unbeliever, shun the unbeliever.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by YOhio

IMO, that's just bluster from people caught up in the emotion of a campaign. When it comes down to it, few of them will make good on their promise to sit it out or vote for the other party.

Perhaps. But in a tight election, it doesn't have to take many to sit home to make a decisive difference.

Regardless of who the Dem nominee turns out to be, if self-identified conservatives show up in numbers approach that of GWB, I will be very surprised. There may be a similar pattern among racial/gender groups in the Democrat party.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Don't worry. The dems will continue to clean house in the House and Senate.

You sure about that?

Isn't the Congressional approval rating hovering around 11-12%

I'm with FM. If the Dems don't win the White House this time, it will be a gargantuan failure on their part.

And I would love it.

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

Hillary has said she is proud to have run an issues-based campaign and it is "regrettable" that her supporters' comments might have taken a personal turn against Senator Obama, who is probably not really a Muslim and is actually only half black.

I believe she said "Senator Hussein Osama..."

[BarbaraGordon]

Olbermann's open statement this evening to Hillary regarding Ferraro's comments about race and politics. This is well done, and the beginning and end are especially strong.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540...01329#23601329

"Your own advisers are slowly killing your chances to become president. Their words and your own are now slowly killing the chances for ANY Democrat to become president...This is not a campaign strategy. This is a suicide pact...This is your campaign and this is your name. Grab the reins back from whoever has led you to this precipice before it is too late."

[exUte]

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

Have you guys been following the remarks from Geraldine Ferraro? She's a friend and supporter of Ms. Clinton, and has been trying to explain why the DNC should make sure she gets the nomination.


[/INDENT][INDENT]"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she continued. "And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."

As you can imagine, these remarks resulted in some, um, criticism. So she was asked today what she thinks about the negative publicity:


"Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls [the Obama] campaign down and says, 'Let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world,' you're accused of being racist, so you have to shut up," she told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, California. "Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white."


You know, if I were Hillary I would ask this woman to stop talking. Like now.

is brought up. As if we couldn't tell he was black.

Why was Mississippi a foregone conclusion. Because of the heavy black population. Even the media mentions it but if a politician mentions it, they go nutzo!

[exUte]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Don't worry. The dems will continue to clean house in the House and Senate.

up port barrel projects...........and the pork is greater than it's ever been. So much for their promises. the voters just need to be reminded. Plus, now Obama is hedging on pulling out of Iraq. Brilliant!

But then the rural, high school educated American can't figure that out. Selective listening or just plain stupidity.

[exUte]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

You sure about that?

Isn't the Congressional approval rating hovering around 11-12%

I'm with FM. If the Dems don't win the White House this time, it will be a gargantuan failure on their part.

And I would love it.

are that low..........but thanks to the strength of incumbancy, most will keep their jobs. After all, it's the other congressman that has the low ratings, not mine. Stupid Americans.