Political Punch

y'all heard about how obama supported himself in 2000 through what amounts to money laundering, imho - doing political favors for a table tennis (ping pong) company, saying he was doing legal work, although there is nothing to indicate such work - then hiding the name of the company is a huge list of client names of his law firm, even though this was a side deal he had and not part of the firm. check out the la times.

What Obama has made clear, if anyone asks him hard questions, they are attacking him. He is a whiny politician and worst than the average politician.

As expected, Chris Wallace asked Cooper Anderson type questions that allowed Sen. Barack Obama explain away every mistake or every lie that the Senator from Illinois has made since starting his Presidential campaign. Any American enters a room or goes to a restaurant and a terrorist is in that room is not the same as a known terrorist holding a private party to raise monies for ones political campaign. Does the Senator from Illinois believe that all Americans are idiots? The bottom line is that all cable news networks will not ask the Senator from Illinois any difficult thought provoking questions.

At the same time, these same news networks will ask well-prepared questions that allow the Senator from Illinois to explain away any mistake that he should ever make during his political career.

Now all Americans can turn on Fox News and CNN news and see Pastor Jeremiah Wright and the NAACP further explain away their racist remarks. In my view, Sen. Obama has made race the primary factor. Obama has forgotten his White heritage that he clearly shows over-and-over he finds nothing by contempt for his White heritage in the first place. The Senator from Illinois continues to represent one race and instead continues to tear our nation apart. I for one am not inspired by a shaking rock star yelling pastor singing Amen on national news. Finally, if the NAACP as Pastor Wright stated that they represent all races, I fail to recall one time that the NAACP has taken up a visible fight for Hispanics, Asian or other American races.

Pastor Wright did say one thing correctly. His prejudice and attack on America fail to unite our nation in the same manor as the Senator from Illinois. Obama and Wright seem to only discuss one race and not all races. I know that White and Brown poor children suffer in the same manor as any child regardless of the race label given by these two individuals. Both are clear about their one sided message. For someone that attacks the rich, both of these men love the rich lifestyle and live off their people in the same manor.

I think Obama's campaign has created a whole new generation of race based voters....actually they are just anti-Obama voters....it's more about judgement than race.

Summer Simmons: I don't care what race you are, the battleground states that Hillary won did not want Obama as the president of this country. Yes, you probably voted for Bill Clinton but now that there is a half black candidate running all the blacks are going to vote for him. They don't care what kind of church he goes to, if he isn't christian, if he had a prison record as long as he is part black. Therefore the white race should vote for only their own people also. Right is right and wrong is wrong but its this generation of college students that don't which way the wind is blowing and don't understand real politics that would vote for a candidate like Obama. And his wife Michele, run of the mouth, now she likes America. Give me a break.

summer: You better get your facts together. Obama squeaky clean? Absolutely not a chance. Since when is a candidate so clean that he goes to a racist church with a racist white hating pastor. If that's clean we all must be dirty. And his association with Rezko the crooked businessman that purchased the home Obama lives in. We shouldn't forget about Ayers the underground dog who laid three bombs here and lives next door to Obama who had dinner with him at one time. Plus Farrakhan and Ayres. What a background and what low class friends Obama chose. I don't know of any other candidate that chose friends like Obama did.

Can it be that the racist few that would rather vote for Maccain than Obama should Hillary not be the nominee
are actually Republicans who registered Dem to give Hillary last stand some support because they know their candidate (Mccain) cannot beat Barack Obama. Huh !!! They know a clinton they can beat. Barack is obviously sqeaky clean...so they play on associates in his life ...that they somehow dictates his opinion of people...life..the world ...and of course his ability to lead. No one every talked about George Bush being an acholic& drug user or the the many racist we have put in office and today have a senate suite in washington named after a known racist and taxpayers money in going toward his praise for his lifes work of oppression of a people.

I am an african american female and a supporter of Barack Obama...while we are talking about Hillary demographics and why Barack can't seem to get their vote...the same should apply to Hillary were the African American voters, Young voters & the affluent. Please don't assume anything...the African American vote has been a dependable block in the demo party...given this race that to can change. You are not dealing with the same attitude of the 60's.

How is it that Clinton supporters can run around squawking about this when it simply rephrases what Ed Rendell said about Pennsylvania voters? It was inelegant, but haven't Democrats assumed for thirty plus years that they will lose the racist vote to the Republicans? I for one consider it a point of honor. The problem is the racism of the voter, not the race or the positions of the candidate. The Clintons would have us pander to xenophobia by talking about nuking Iran. Barack would like to move people past it.

I hope no one is being fooled-the one person who needs this "RACE" conversation to continue is
BARACK OBAMA
it keeps us from talking about the issues that face us.

As in most of his recent statements, Barack Obama is substantially flawed in his assessment of white voters.

A more accurate statement would be that the white, race-based voters will not vote for Obama in November regardless of who the opposition may be.

However the race of these voters is not the primary consideration in their choice. The continued emphasis on race by the Obama campaign is what will ultimiately determine how these votes are cast as they will determine the outcome of the Novmeber election.

The most important consideration in choosing a Democratic nominee that will win the electoral college in Novmeber remains winning the key states dominated by white, working-class voters . And, that should be what the process is about. We know that the Republican party considers nothing else.

This much is certain: Whoever that candidate is that will receive the white, working-class (or, as Obama puts it, "based on race" voters), he/she is not Barack Hussein Obama.

It is absolutely true, the only people who would vote across party lines if Clinton were to not get the nomination would be doing so because of race. If no other issue is at stake, you are going to be voting to continue the war in Iraq or end it. If you want the war to end you vote for Obama, if you want it to continue you vote for McCain.

If Obama is the nominee, this campaign is not going to be about health care or the economy, it will be about race and who is or isn't a racist, Wright, Ayers, small town values, lapel pins and pride. Hillary did not "manufacture" these issues--Barack and those with whom he chose to associate did.
Team Obama wants us to believe he already has the nomination in the bag. Now that Obama is just abother disappointing politician, it's about the math.Don't buy it. There is still a slim chance to avoid the unmitigated disaster of an Obama nomination--let's take it. This country needs a president to focus on practical solutions to real and serious problems, not vacuous promises of hope/change.

The Obama camp is simply throwing any lie at the wall to see what sticks.

I am really doubtful that any "race based voter" whether they be Black or White will make the difference in the election in Nov,

Whether the Obama camp believes it or not there are a lot of White voters that are not voting for him because of his flawed judgement and whinning.

I really do doubt that Obama's current strategy of trying to say all Hillary's voters are too old or too racist or too stupid to make a difference in Nov. is going to do much to bring the party together.

This is not elitism it is terrible judgement.

Making voters "bitter" one vote at a time.

What Plouffe said is nonsense. There are plenty of voters in both parties who will vote based on race, and there are voters in both parties for whom race is not an issue. In any case, the key question is, how will race affect the contests in the battleground states?

Well, I think it's a shame, all the money that Clinton and Obama are spending, Millions upon top of Millions. I am a white woman and I wouldn't vote for Hillary or Obama, not that he's black and not that she's white. Now if Mrs. Condalisa Rice were running now I would vote for her. She's smart,intelligent,not a big mouth like the Dem's we have running. That carry's a lot of clout.

John McCain is a hypocrite and a superficial hot-head. He now supports the very things he once rejected. Like Hillary Clinton, he has the heart of a prostitute. They will do and say anything for money and power. Isn't it amazing that the two never attack each other? It seems that those two old birds are in bed together.

Geevil,

For some reason I also have suspected that Obama is really a weak man. He doesn't seem to know how to choose his direction.. unless he is really a pro-Islamic anti American. If that's the case then suddenly things Obama has done actually make sense.

I liked the guy, even voted for him in the primary, but that was before the pastor came to light, or Ayres....and apparently there is more to come.

He isn't what I thoght.

pt:

how can you tell the people of Florida to vote for the person who chooses the have their votes disenfranchised.

ebony,
Obama is a weak, unqualified deeply flawed candidate, yet many black voters are voting for him despite the fact that Bill Clinton bent over backwards to help black citizens. So yes, they are voting solely on race.

Folks, the Obama campaign will continue to beat the race card drum again and again and again. That is all they have left: accuse people (in overt and covert ways) of being racists for not voting for BO. Ridiculous.

Further proof that Obama is not ready for Prime-Time.

Come on, everybody. What he's saying is this: the voters who don't want to vote for a black man because he is black will most probably vote for a white man. It's pretty simple and logical. If someone won't vote for Obama because he is black, he can't change his race, so they consequently will vote for McCain.

OBAMA CLINTON WHO CARES AS LONG AS IT A DEMOCRAT THIS TIME!!McCAIN YOU ARE STUPID AND YOU SPENDING YOUR MONEY IS JUST PROOF!!

Basically what David Plouffe is saying that whoever not vote for Obama is a racist.

Why Obama campaign always play the race card? People do not vote him because of his inexperience candidate not because of race. Let focus on the real issues instead of the race, people are tired on this.

Obama and his apostles are blowing smoke once again. Obama is bad for America and an embarrassment to the Democratic Party.

at "at get real, get a grip" pt

If your guy obama wants to in his words
wants to "restore the moral authority of the us with the rest of the world"
he is going to have to assist the dnc deal with fl and mi. you say fl and mi will come around-and mc will get trounced? you see this is what I think obama has spread among his followers to have them listen to the flowery speeches, and not ask any questions, let me give a little bit of what I think is the big picture
as HRC said "this is not a game"
the dnc cannot punish by disinfranchising two whole states of voters-you are talking about peoples lives and the issues that they face and them having a say in how those issues are dealt with. Now unfortunately, the majority of my black brothers and sisters have not bothered to check the issues-to really see in barack is the one-that is going to address the issues that are of importance to them. If they had questioned a bit-they may have decided he did not have their best interest at heart. the same with the people of fl and mi. appartently the voters of fl (in a big way decided that
barack was not the one to help them
now couple that with the dnc punishing them for wanting to have a say in this election-and saying "you did wrong, you are on punishment-your votes don't count"-
PT-let me ask you how will the trampled trounce?
not to mention the disinfranchisement of the Sen. Clinton supporters.
who will trounce?
if obama gets the dem. nomination-the dems will not win.
I believe the american people when we go to vote in nov. (and I really do believe this) will go with mcwar-knowing the consequences, than go with an unknown that has a questionable short politcal resume'-we do not know what we will get with obama. No one has really asked "What kind of change are you talking about-and exactly how will you start-and what will the american people see-with this Change he is talking about?" as HRC said-if obama wins the washington establishment are not going to just pack up and leave town.and it will not be "his way or the highway" No obama will go to wash. and be even more entrenched with the wash est. esp the dem. est. because they will have put him there (they are all ready pulling for him) and he will owe
everybody.

are the dems going to go to their convention in denver with a 48star flag?

what a sham
so good-night "get real, get a grip pt"
oh yes, and start trying to get your mind around the fact that obama will not be POTUS in 2008

ebony, I guess black people were wrong because they voted for Bill Clinton. Now they say he is the worst person in the world.

OBAMA WANTS CHANGE. DOES US BELIEVE IN CHANGE ? DOES US BELIEVE IN OBAMA ? IF BOTH ANSWRS ARE IN AFFIRMATIVE, VOTE OBAMA. THERE IS NO QUESTION OF RACE.

WHAT HILLARY CLINTON AND McCAIN ARE NOW SAYING AND DOING IS POLITICS - A PATH TO LEAD TO WHITE HOUSE AND THEN OCCUPY IT FOR 8 YEARS IF POSSIBLE !

I've seen a few comments that suggest that black people are ONLY voting for Obama because he's black. Does that mean that prior to Obama black people were voting for other Presidential candidates because they were white? It seems to me that black people in general have a pretty good track record that shows their ability to vote for reasons other than race.

Anyone who won't for McCain in November based off race is already voting for Obama.

jgaw, get a grip. The rest of the world could care less about FL & MI. The DNC was right to discipline these 2 states. Hopefully like a punished child they will learn, and also other states will learn to follow the rules. FL & MI votes will come around once they see the choice we have in the fall. mc-more-war will get trounced. Obama 2008!!

I am so sick of Obama and his cronies turning everything into a racist situation. People are getting tired of it and it will backfire.

Plouffe makes a really bad electablility argument for Obama.
So tell, me...we should nominate Obama so he can get destroyed in the General Election?

yes, obama has shown he can be the best candidate money can buy.
but here is something real for you.
Obama will not be POTUS 2008.
I will grant he has had some good favor
during his short political career.
voting present as a rep.
being hand picked by chicago est. dem.
to replace her.
and winning his position-not because he was the best candidate-but because the others has their own scandals.
what mr. obama has shown is he has had the good grace to just happen to be the last man standing-I think this is different from winning fair and square.
but this time around he is not the smartest candidate. and the longer we go the more it looks as if he will not be the last man standing this time.
Obama is not the better candidate to be president this time around.
I will grant he will most likely win nc
because the black people intelligent and the lead will vote for him-and some will not know one thing that he stands for-or except change.
but he will not win the rest of the primaries
and I do not care what his supporters dean, pelosi, and co. say
fl and mi will have to be resolved in some way other that what they are preposing now.
if we do not deal properly and honorably with fl and mi. this country and its political system will continue its decline in the eyes of the rest of the world.

Obama campaign: Everybody out there who does not vote for the Messiah Obama is a racist. It's getting sickening. It amazes me how many people can still support this man to be President.

Plouffe calls them racist; Chris Matthews already called them Archie Bunkers. Are we united yet... is this the part where Obama unites all of us? Oh, I'm seeing the light... he's uniting all of us AGAINST him. Got it!

jgaw, get real. If Hillary were proactive her campaign would not be in debt. Anyone would agree that Obama has run a much better campaign (in the black) and is ready for the long haul. He seems much more "pro-active" and prepared to get this country out of debt and clean up the whole freakin mess bush/cheney has caused. I agree that Hillary and Obama are miles aheahd of mc-more-war, but Obama is the right person for the right time. Obama 2008!

i must say, if obama and co. were as smart,experienced and seasoned as they have been telling us:
someone,somewhere in the planning of this campaign should have known things like this were bound to come up.
just as he and his people should have know the rev. wright issues would come up. and they should have had answers to these issues. whatever happened to being proactive?
I say they are inexperienced and not ready to be POTUS
or
i say they are very foolish and not ready to be POTUS

obama should not be the president of the united states

Sen. clinton is the only one between the three who has solutions for the issues that the us faces today.
obama only copies
and john mccain (?):)

Dennis, I'd be careful who you FL voters put in office. You guys screwed up the 2000 election, and your elected officials (republicans) moved your primary up illegally so that your delegates were eliminated. Let's all hope you FL voters don't screw up again in November....Obama 2008!!!

toby, for starters he will get us out of this war in a careful way. That will save this country billions upon billions. People don't realize that this war will end up costing us $3,000,000,000,000.....that's trillion. mcmore-war will certainly keep us there much longer, costing us, our kids, grandkids, and great-grand-kids. Obama has the solid judgement to keep us out of future wars. (Those with kids need to really think about that when they say they will cross over and vote for mccain.) Look who the bush-league has benefited the last 7.5 years....the top %5. Isn't it time for the average american to share in this country's wealth. Obama 2008!

I have already stated over and over, I, and many of my friends and acquaintances will never vote for obama, even if it means breaking off with the Democratic party. We will vote for McCain if obama is nominated. To further this, we will then start campaigning against the "supers" in our state in their upcoming elections, volunteering and working for their election competitors. In the event that DNC pushes Hillary Clinton to step down, you can be sure we will vote against Pelosi, Reid and Dean - in a heartbeat. So these dems should be made aware that there are a lot of Dems out there that will go to break up the party if obama is nominated. So make a choice then.

Anybody inspired by the empty, filthy
rhetoric that comes out of Obama's mouth???

"I think the race is going to come down to the perception in the last six or eight races of who the best opponent for McCain will be. I do not think in the long run it will come down to the popular vote or anything else," said Dean.

Who has the most electability???

Obama supporters want the democratic party to return back to the 90's, which we are not going to do.

Obama has disrespected Hillary ever since she pulled ahead of her in PA . He is weak ... Being a sore loser is a terrible character trait ...

Hillary 08!!!!

I know Hillary speaks for me.

pt
what will he do to bring america out of the recession?

I know he didnt have the answer in the debate last week.

No they are not republican's those are the people keeping Hillary in the race. His campaign is sounding like GWB white house were they ignored segments of the populations also.

Frankly, Obama is not presidential
material.

Any person who interprets David Plouffe's remarks as implying that anyone who doesn't vote for Obama is a racist is a fool and an idiot. At the very least, they are uninformed or cannot read. Ploufee's comments are, exactly, "the vast, vast majority of voters who would not vote for Barack Obama in November based on race are probably firmly in John McCain's camp already."

Do you now read the "base on race" part?

If we want to debate if there are members of the Republican party that are racists, fine, let's do it. But to twist words to make flippant points against Obama is just ignorant.

Not everyone has to like, support or vote for Obama. But let's stop the lying and instead let's debate actual quotes and contexts.

I think it's time to start calling out the numskulls on both sides of the aisle.

Undecided 08

Wow, another example Obama is trying to misleading American again: Whites voting for McCain are racist?????

The truth is that Obama is the best qualified person to lead this country out of the mess caused by the bush-league over the last 7.5 years. People really need to listen to what he says. All these donors giving money (most less than $100) are amazing, they see something great, something genuine in the man. He will be the democratic nominee and then the Nov. election won't even be close. Obama 2008

Race, Race, Race, things are not alwalys black and white, and I think the latino voters will be reminding everyone that they are the key to the presidency this year. I may be just a working class white voter from PA with a HS education, but I am smart enough to remember that forgotten fact.

MY. My go back and read the statement.

Obama08

Typical of the Obama campaign...slamming anyone who doesn't vote for him as racist. I am so fed up with him and his supporters and their breathtaking arrogance! They are getting a little worried after PA, despite what they say, so out comes more spin. How anyone can doubt his campaign has caused the whole race controversy is beyond me....they just did it in a "devious way", to quote Rev. Wright on how people took his disgusting quotes out of context. That's another thing with Obama's campaign...everytime Clinton's are slammed in the media for a quote, it's racist. Obama's and his associates remarks, however, are always "taken out of context." Double standards,positive press coverage, creative spin, excuses, and playing on white guilt,that's how he's winning the nomination. It sure isn't because of his record, experience, or even his mantra of change and new politics, as evidenced by how well he plays the game of the old politics he claims to repudiate.

Hillary Clinton supporters want the democratic party to return back to the 90's, which we are not going to do.

She wants to change the rules to suit her own personal ambitions. If the situation was reversed and Obama was behind in delegate count, states won and popular votes, she would be calling on him to withdraw. Hillary has disrespected Obama ever since he pulled ahead of her in this primary contest. She has accused him of being weak because he won't have a dirty mud fight with her. Being a sore loser is a terrible character trait but she doesn't care. It's all about Hillary.

With a Racist attitude like that. Might make people not vote for him just for that.

Obama seems to thing it is all about race. Because the wants to guilt people into voting for him.

It is All about Competency!!!!!!!!!!

Which obama does not have

Correction...David Plouffe downplays the impact Obama's race will have on any November match-up, saying "the vast, vast majority of voters who would not vote for Barack Obama in November based on race, would have voted for Hillary. We see 98% of a group voting for Obama based on race but they are our oldest solid Democrats and will vote for Hillary.

I can be black, and say I openly support Obama because he is black, and I would be applauded for being progressive. But if I am white, and say that I will vote for McCain or HIllary because they are white, I am a racist. The double standard politically correct dictionary, courtesy of BH Obama. Is this what you want in our whitehouse? Don't you see how Obama will tear our country apart? We have come so far to unite since the 1960's, and in one fell-swoop, Obama tears us along racial lines all over again with his race card politics. This will destroy our country. Keep this terrible man out of our white house!

So, whites will vote for McCain because they are racist. But 90 percent of blacks vote for Obama, but that's not racist. I don't get it.

I have already stated over and over, I, and many of my friends and acquaintances will never vote for obama, even if it means breaking off with the Democratic party. We will vote for McCain if obama is nominated. To further this, we will then start campaigning against the "supers" in our state in their upcoming elections, volunteering and working for their election competitors. In the event that DNC pushes Hillary Clinton to step down, you can be sure we will vote against Pelosi, Reid and Dean - in a heartbeat. So these dems should be made aware that there are a lot of Dems out there that will go to break up the party if obama is nominated. So make a choice then.

It baffles me how many people interpret something like "racists won't vote for Obama" as somehow meaning "all people who won't vote for Obama are racist." That's two completely different things, and no one has said the second.

This might be a wrong assertion, but I really don't think it's egregiously wrong. I imagine Plouffe has assumed (probably correctly) that an aversion to voting for a black candidate correlates with a bit of social conservatism, and social conservatism is found more readily in the Republican party.

Which isn't to say it's non-existent in the Dem party electorate, or that all Republicans are so socially conservative they'd never vote for a black person. I tend to think those numbers are so small so as to not affect the overall race.

No brainer......The real question is how McCain plans to stir up his 'base'? Hmmmm who's a reliable race baiter? Ahhhhh Hannitity for campaign chair!!!!

I guess if you don't vote for Obama you are a racist. It couldn't just be that he is a jr. senator and we don't think he is ready for prime-time.

"the vast, vast majority of voters who would not vote for Barack Obama in November based on race are probably firmly in John McCain's camp already."

Plouffe also says Obama's going to be the Democratic nominee -- he's wrong about that, too.