Barack Obama Elected President!

[DaytimeFan]

Well I was a die hard Hillary supporter...but go Obama! Joy Behar (of The View) was on Larry King last night and she said that she feels women will come around to Obama with or without Hillary after mulling over John McCain. I agree with Joy, the Oprah vote will go a long way in that regard. Bill Richardson is a guy I like, he's full of good old common sense.

I also think Michelle Obama is going to be a key player (just as Hillary was for Bill)...she has a distinct personality, for better or for worse. I think women could get to like Michelle Obama whereas I think Cindy McCain is just not going to cut it. Her overly lifted/Botox injected face, the severe hair, the cagey look of her...nothing seems like able. She's not 'mumsy'/tough like Laura Bush, smiley/tough like Hillary Clinton, matronly/tough like Barbara Bush, glamorous/tough like Nancy Reagan or even drunk/tough like Betty Ford. There is something 'off' about Cindy McCain, she's weak. I think she will be a weak link in the McCain campaign. Of course, she'll have her supporters, but those voters wouldn't have even given Michelle Obama a passing thought, so they're a lost cause.

[Jess]

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[Jess]

Cindy McCain is a pretty successful businesswoman. She runs a huge Budweiser distributorship. She also seems like a very decent woman. She's very involved in a group that provides medical care to underprivileged children in impoverished countries. But she does not seem comfortable at all on the campaign trail. I know she had an addiction to prescription pain killers at one point because of some really bad back problem she had. It was during the time of the Keating Five scandal and she was under a lot of stress. I think the campaign is going to be tough for both of these women, but I do think that Michelle Obama may be stronger. Both of them seem like good women though. I'm glad Michelle Obama is getting campaign help. I think it's very tough on people to get involved in campaigns, particularly the spouses. I don't know that I agree the Cindy McCain is the weak link, but it does not seem that she's comfortable in the campaign at all.

[DaytimeFan]

I don't disagree that Cindy McCain is probably a perfectly nice, lovely woman. I just think she comes across as weak and very uncomfortable. She's not '2008'...she's more like 1948. The other thing with her, like Theresa Heinz Kerry, is that Cindy inherited her wealth. There's a big difference between earning it and being a member of the lucky sperm club.

[Jess]

I know what you mean about her not being 2008, and she did inherit her wealth. Theresa Heinz Kerry at least was tough and blunt spoken. Cindy McCain comes off as almost afraid and a little fragile when I see her on television. Michelle Obama comes off as energetic and really very happy.

[Ryan]

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[Wales2004]

I think they've gotten the hang of it and respond more swiftly now. I saw the footage on Dan Abrams' show last night depicting John McCain saying variations of how he didn't fall in love with America until he was deprived of her company on different occasions.

One of the interesting things about this is it revealed that the Republican strategists/analysts that they invite on these shows seem to have an ability to admit that their side might be wrong about anything. Their argument was that McCain's statements were made in a different context although they said the context in which Michelle Obama spoke made no difference. And of course John McCain served his country which makes it alright to take the words of others out of context.

The reason this was an issue on yesterday's show was that they discovered this while researching the point they wanted to make about Cindy McCain. They contrasted how Laura Bush was kind in her comments about Michelle Obama's statement and Cindy McCain pointed out how she had always been proud of her country and did so in rehashing the statements again while in Vietnam yesterday. Then they showed clips of John McCain and pointed out that there was nothing wrong with what he said but how easily one could make it sound as if he never loved his country until a certain point in his life.

[Roman]

Brad Blakeman has to be one of the biggest idiots Verdict keeps getting. It's almost like DA keeps bringing him on in the hopes that he'll either admit something his party did was wrong or that he'll catch himself in something.

[EricaKane70]

Obama and Clinton scheduled to campaign together next week

June 21, 2008

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will take the next big step in unifying the Democratic Party Friday, campaigning together for the first time, Obama's campaign announced yesterday.

In a conference call with reporters, communications director Robert Gibbs declined to provide details of the joint event - such as what city it will be in - saying that the logistics are still being worked out. Thursday, the two are scheduled to appear in Washington with some of Clinton's major financial supporters. One of the key unresolved issues is how much help Obama will give Clinton to repay the $19.5 million she owed at the end of April, including $10 million she loaned her own campaign.

The two senators went at it for nearly a year and a half before Obama clinched the nomination after the final primaries June 3, they met privately two days later, and Clinton formally conceded and endorsed him on June 7.

John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, is aggressively courting Clinton supporters, particularly women who have suggested to pollsters that they might defect from the Democratic Party to register their anger over how she was treated.

FOON RHEE

The article is from the boston globe.

I still say hillary is at the top of obama's list because 1) Why is hillary laying so low? 2) Why did obama defend her so adamantly at his rally when al gore's gave him his endorsement? 3) They are now campaigning together????

Now that may just be nothing but time will tell. An they may just be testing the waters with #3.

[Wales2004]

Al Gore defended her too. It was stupid of the MI governor to have brought her name up in the first place but Gore and Obama had to defend her since they're pushing for party unity? According to the media she took a vacation....maybe she was tired from campaigning and needed down time. For now, they are campaigning together to push party unity and to try to undo some of the damage of the primaries. The GOP is using a lot of the negative things she said about Obama in their campaign so she is best suited to tell those of her supporters who are still disgruntled that she turned the page and not to be swayed by John McCain's kissing up to them.

His station's love affair with Pat Buchanan is what gets me. DA was shaky all last week with some of his non liberal guests. There were a couple of panels one that included a conservative radio talk show host and another that featured a cigar toting man along with Pat Buchanan both of whom had difficulty staying on the topic. It was disastrous both times and I don't know what made DA and his staff think they would be at all rational. He at least had an honest conservative radio talk show host on who owned that she was no journalist and had no need to adhere to any standard and would stick to the objective of getting a win for her party. DA was trying to make a case that it was unfair to attack the Obamas for the same things for which the McCains could be attacked.

[GHJunkie4Life]

Again do you really expect the top Dems in the party to OPENLY chastise her horrible behavior this election cycle?

Sorry but politics doesn't work that way.

They're playing nice, make up and kiss, etc, etc....

I hate that he's going to be campaigning with her but its a necessary evil in order to please her rabid supporters. Not to mention it will probably give her that lil boost of attention she so desperately craves.

The AP is reporting that Edwards is at the top of his list. To me he's not really that big a deal. He's almost as bad as Clinton in some ways.

[Southofnowhere]

Edwards should help Obama with the working class folks but imo he should go with Gov Bill Richardson or a woman. However you can't get any more WHITE than Edwards and his Family. They would look really good on stage together. Not my first choice but i talked myself into it.

[Wales2004]

I'm sticking to my belief that a VP doesn't bring in votes (at least not anything significant) but can cost votes if people are strongly against the choice. The candidate is the one who is going to reel them in for whatever reasons that prompts people.

I don't get the black and the white thing as far as who is more or less of either. If people don't like Barack Obama because of his racial background then the VP will make no difference at all. I think Obama/Edwards will be aesthetically appealing and I think a lot of people make their decisions based on looks and whatever specific issue is most important to them.

[Southofnowhere]

Obama was a real problem with white working class voters and Edwards can reach that voter. For Obama his running mate if very important. That being said Obama wouldn't need the white working class vote as much if he picked Gov. Richardson who imo would bring in the hispanic vote in a HUGE way.

Obama and Edwards and their Lawyer Wives and beautiful kids would all make McCain look very OLD!

[Wales2004]

IA with what you said about the game of politics. I don't really care that he has to campaign with HC because it's all a part of politics and I don't think she craves the attention, but it does give her the "power" she seeks. I think it's more illusion than anything else though.

The one area that I don't care for is how some of her supporters still think he needs to grovel whereas those same people wouldn't think she needed to get her knees for his supporters were the situation reversed. He has to reach out to women period and not just to Clinton supporters who feel he robbed because she didn't win. Those who are die hard Democrats have moved on. Those who might need a little more time to get over her loss will take it and move on. Those who hate him and aren't going to change their minds won't be won over anyway.

I find it ridiculous that people who were never behind him in the first place want to dictate his actions when they don't care how it may impact some of his supporters. I read earlier that Diane Watson wants him to play subservient and I suppose she's trying to flex because she's been sitting in politics for decades and something new probably threatens whatever she's built over the years. If she's not holding HC accountable for things she said then she should back off Obama and at least demonstrate that she doesn't use double standards but then that wouldn't be true.