Political Punch

You can tell that the republicans are salivating at the prospect of an Obama nomination because Fox News this past week has stepped up its attacks on Clinton.

Will the DNC be able to focus on winning in November or will they promote Obama - who will be responsible for the third straight presidential loss - in an election that would have been the Democrats to lose. We'll see.

jake51...

McCain knows exactly what he is doing....Hillary has not been allowed to attack Obama or question him on anything..media bias..McCain does not want to get in the same position..

He is setting the tone. Obama insisted on Federal Financing...broken promise.

Everytime Obama attacks and it will be every day just like he attacks Hillary every day...McCain will shake his head and say...."Barack this is not the "politics of hope" I'm disappointed"....McCain is the adult...Obama is the petulant child..STRATEGY

Then McCain turns the Republican attack machine lose on him in September...and he'll shake his head and say...I warned him to stop these attacks and keep his promises now the dogs are lose..And McCain will shake his head and say I really tried early on to stop Obama from these shoddy and false attacks.I am totally against these types of attacks, but since Obama didn't take them seriously when they were against me...I can't stop them when they are against him.....Strategy

The Republicans are thrilled that it looks like Obama may get the nomination...they know the story that is not getting told in the mainstream media...they can't wait to start the ball rolling.

Did McCain and Hillary vote for the War?

Did Obama make the statement?

Answers 1st question: yes 2nd question: no

Let's be accountable for our actions; shall we?

Obama already made the statement that he disagrees with Rockefeller, to apologize for Rockefeller would be making a statement that Rockefeller was speaking for him which is not the case.

Nothing rude in my statement if they want to vote like they did then should be able to take the criticism. Nothing like personal responsibility.

Why do I have to respect these guys anyway.

@ thinking

That is just rude and very disrespectful. I think Obama should apologize for every time he has said he has always been against this war and this war shouldn't have be waged because he was singing a different tune in his book and when Kerry was running for President.

Talk about pandering for votes!
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McCain and Hillary have to give personal apologizes but Obama sends his spokesperson to do his job!

@ thinking

That is just rude and very disrespectful. I think Obama should apologize for every time he says this was shouldn't be waged because he was singing a different tune in his book and when Kerry was running for President.

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McCain and Hillary have to give personal apologizes but Obama sends his spokesperson to do his job!

McCain wants a personal apology, perhaps McCain, along with Hillary ought to give a personal apology to the families of the over 4000 men and women killed, and over 30,000 wounded, and the all the military that keep going back 3-4 rotations, riping apart their families, for a war of choice.

Did you read older people are going to vote for Obama because their children and grandchildren are twisting their arms? Now that's a great way to pick a president,
elder abuse.

I detest Bill and Hillary Clinton. But, I do have to admit, she is getting the short straw in media coverage. So much is out there about Obama that isn't being reported. So very much.

But at least Hillary is staying in and, in so doing, is shredding the party. Good news for people who care about issues rather than assertions.

Kevin claims to be a staunch Obama supporter, but also claims he'd vote for Clinton, according to one of his posts yesterday. He pretty much did the same thing yesterday, deteriorating into a blabbing fool and then checking out.

In all seriousness, how do people hang on to the idea of hope, change and a new kind of politics but can't seem to engage in healthy debate and avoid denigrating everyone and their brother who is not in support of Obama? Are they listening to their candidate at ALL?

LOM - You know Kevin may support Obama. Hard to tell. What do you suspect?

I'm a kid :) and don't write such foul stuff here. It doesn't make for a very compelling argument for anything to be so angry. Quite the opposite actually.

LOM,
He's just a kid.
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Hillary stands up for all the voters!
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"Can some one recall how many times Obama's surrogates have made "unneccessary" comments and apologized again and again?"

True Truth -- It's BO's MO! They are following his lead..."What I meant to say..."

WCM - Kevin. Such a soft spoken boy, that one. So elegant in his support. So masterful with words. So beautiful in his presentation, Wright?

Can some one recall how many times Obama's surrogates have made "unneccessary" comments and apologized again and again?

Maybe this type of pattern would not end for a while...

When people looks near the top of world, they just can't control themselves.......

Kevin seems to falling apart at the seams. He is exhibiting some real frustration. I wonder if that means there is finally some realization that this contest isn't over and Clinton actually does have a chance of winning the nomination??? Why would you lose your cool otherwise?

Jackt51,
It doesn't take a Republican to give pushback against rank stupidity which is what Rockefeller's statement represents. I hope Clinton condemns Rockefeller for his statement.
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Obama, too arrogant to apologize?
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East Coast Air Farce:

Just what we need, an alter ego for West Coast Mess!!!

Glad you're thinking ahead to Obama in November, though, unlike WCM and Dogbreath, who are still "stuck on hillary."

But anyone who is deluded enough to think that McCain will win in November should take a nap now! The times, they are a changin'!!!

Obama 2008 -- Yes, WE CAN!!!

Anyway folks, it was fun. I'm out. We'll do this again tomorrow if i have a little time.

WestCoastMessenger

I have no idea what a typical Obama supporter is supposed to be like. All i know is that i am Kevin and there is no other person like me.

Dogsoldier

You are right. I am a shining example of change. No more patience for bullshit. How about that? Grownfolks need to start acting like grownfolks, not wasting time disecting bullshit. Whining and crying like a bunch of f*ckign babies. I mean, McCain the warrior is crying about old man Rockefeller bruising his feelings and you suckers are agreeing with that bullshit. So what is he exactly? A warrior or a bitch?

Rockefeller's statement was not a good one, and it will likely hurt Obama a bit. Not enough to matter, though, if it remains isolated.

The McCain push-back is what concerns me. Seems they think that ANY criticism of their candidate by ANYONE entitles them to get all whiney and crotchety. It was a simple statement that should not have been made. But bringing up again the Ed Schultz statement that McCain is a warmonger -- which he certainly is according to the definition -- may hurt McCain in the long run.

There are any number of reasons why McCain should not be president, including his age and his inflexibility, along with his quick adoption of Bush/Cheney politics in the run-up to this campaign.

As a Vietnam Veteran -- and a Veterans for Kerry coordinator locally in the last election -- I would prefer that Senator Obama and his surrogates not take pot shots such as the one Senator Rockefeller took today, no matter how much of it was justified. It just encourages push-back that we don't need.

It would be better for all of us if the candidates and their surrogates stick to the issues.

Obama 2008 -- Yes, WE CAN!!!

True Truth - We think Kevin is the best example of Obama's change he's bringing to America. Come on Kevin, more. More! More! You are so intelligent. More examples. Encore! Encore!

Kevin - Big speech to say you agree with Rockerfeller. Why not just say it then? So, your writing is an example of your intelligence?

Kevin,
You are putting a whip to our behinds? What are you doing, hitting the keys extra hard? Ouch, ouch. Oh, hurt me some more. How does that help your candidate Obama? Oh, yeah, you must be one of those unconventional threats that Rockefeller will be dispatched to deal with.
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Is Obama too arrogant to apologize?
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Please don't play dirty to your opponents....

Anger and hatred only show how ugly you are indeed.....And both are committed SINS under the name of God..

So please be polite and nice anytime...

Kevin,
I don't understand why you even blog here. You've previously declared that Obama has already won and Hillary has already lost. Did you not mean that? Why don't you prove you meant it? Why don't you just take it easy for the next few months until Obama needs for you to step up to the plate again? Just relax, go take a long nap. You deserve it.
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Obama, too arrogant to apologize?
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Jackt51 - I have no problem defending McCain from so ugly a statement as Rockerfeller's. Perhaps Rockerfeller hurt Obama more than McCain and I actually think you may suspect that yourself.

I can't wait to see the WHIPPING Obama and the Dems are in for in November.
These jerks never learn!
Seem to have amnesia about the last election every 4 years!

New Yorker,
I see you have not spared the competitor McCain of your venom either, and I quote you as follows:

New Yorker blogged: "However, John McCain is getting UP THERE IN AGE; so may be that is his excuse for pandering his military experience of ALMOST TWO GENERATIONS AGO!"

OK, let's recount: You attack based on gender, you attack based on age, based on military service? These are the politics of change?
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Are Obama and New Yorker too arrogant to apologize? We're waiting......"
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Limbaugh - Having swiftboat flashbacks to the Kerry campaign?

Hey DogSoldier,
This is what the hypocritical New Yorker said about Ferraro:

"Maybe Mondale did select the congresswoman on the basis of her gender. Little wonder he lost, it was obviously a dumb choice!"

But New Yorker wants us to disregard what Obama's surrogates say. Hmmm, do you think New Yorker is trying to pull a fast one?
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Obama, forget what he says!
Hillary all bad, Obama all good!
Where's the koolaid?
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LT,
He's trying to change the way Washington does business. Historically, Washington has not done business with Obama. He wants to change that. He wants Washington to do business with Obama. He's going to partner with the Washington outsider, Rockefeller, to achieve this.
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Obama and Rockefeller, partners in handling unconventional threats of all sorts
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And Obama and his supporters have the nerve to say anything about Hillary or McCain when he has people around him like Rockefeller.

New Yorker - Obama avoids personal attacks? That's simply because he's such a coward Obama has to get his surrogates to do the heavy lifting for him.

New Yorker,
Nice try. Weren't you on the bandwagon railing about Ferraro too? It's payback time, as Dogsoldier says.
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Obama and New Yorker, too arrogant to apologize?
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This political correctness is meaningless and absurd.

Rockefeller owes no apology. McCain does not deserve one. The Obama campaign is foolish to even engage. This entire commentary is what's known as freedom of speech and the tolerance to allow it.

Everyone needs to enroll in Rhetoric 101 to distinguish between real, imagined, fabricated and false public discourse and fact. Most of these comments are worthless.

To quote Wm. F. Buckley and JFK: Move forward.

One SENATOR makes a comment about another SENATOR and then apologized.
END OF STORY!

Obama HAS ALWAYS made policy statements, and HAVE ALWAYS AVOIDED critical personal statement about opponents!
Moreover, Barack Obama has made that policy clear from the start.

Over the campaign cycles, American politicians have been nasty to each other.

And that momentum of personal attacks has carried over to this campaign by supporters (from ALL sides) who are having problems changing their ways to match the more dignified stance of Senator Obama's!

Obama is too arrogant to apologize to McCain because obama thinks he does no wrong and if one of his endorsers or supporters "misspeaks" then so be it. The words didn't come out of obama's mouth so he feels he doesn't have anything to apologize for.
This so called person is the most arrogant SOB that has diddled this country in a long time - I think that G.W. Bush is more honorable that this piece of creepy horse pucky.
A president of the US who actually condones insults to the US veterans, who have given their lives for this country.
obama wasn't even in the military - he doesn't even say the Pledge of Allegiance -
This "person" cannot become the President of the USA. He will not be elected because he is unpatriotic, hates the white population, takes advise from the Reverend Wright and is totally Un-American.
John McCain is the next President of the USA.
Obama continues to divide not only the Democratic Party, but he has divided this Nation and put us back post MLK and before the Civil Rights Movement. Nice job obama - if you become president, how far back will you put the USA? You will put this country's needs behind those of your favorite African Country.
Get out of this race obama - you are not wanted here nor needed.

LT - That's not fair to the Obama side. Why thinking on their own is so . . . so foreign to them.

That is how Obama will change the way Washington works. It is also the way how he changed Jeremiah Wright. The millions outhere that are bying the whole "change the Washington" message could do little bit of their own thinking.

Thinking - Hope you're not including you and me on the loose cannon thing?

Did Obama dennounce Rockefeller's comment yet????????

a southerner i have voted republican only once in 1972. but i am going to vote for mccain this year. obama is an unknown, frightening little man.
of the southern states, i predict obama will not carry one. the democrats shoot themselves in the foot again. hillary would win arkansas and florida. bye bye obama.

Rockefeller is an idiot, it seems both Campaigns have drawn their share of loose cannons.

All we have to do is look at these blogs.

I think this seals Obama's fate. It's over for Obama.

I think this will bring out republican voter turn out more than Hillary could only dream of.

Jackt51 - Ferraro apologized and you guys ripped her apart. You all blamed Hillary for Ferraro's remarks, remember? And you're smart enough to know this will be in the republican playbook for years to come at a screen near you and often. Bet Fox will have some fun with this tonight, don't you?

West Coast Mess:

You left the facts business a long time ago. Your continued rants and drivel are insulting to the political process!

Rockefeller apologized. The Obama Campaign reiterated their respect for McCain's military service and the inappropriateness of the remarks.

Enough said!!!

Obama 2008 -- Yes, WE CAN!!!

manda - Recall Ferraro? Its payback time.

@Roger Miller
"Barack Obama should first renounce Rev. Wright"

Haha - where have you been?

Simply because Sen. Rockefeller endorsed Obama he is suddenly transformed into an Obama surrogate?!

What kind of a distorted view is THAT?

Barack Obama should first renounce Rev. Wright. Otherwise, anything else he says is BS.

So, Obama people are saying the men and women in the armed forces don't have sensitivity to human life.

I think there are enough idiots in this country who will support Obama even if Obama says he supports 9/11 attacks on USA.

Do people lose their so easily that they don't see that Sen. Rockefeller insulting Sen. McCain has nothing to do with Sen. Obama?

Sen. Obama should 'apologize'?! That would be another insult - to Sen. Rockefeller, who is not some little kid shouting things from under a junior Senator's wings... Come on, please keep your brains working, folks.

Tommy can you hear me...what's wrong with Obama's voice. Lets hear it from him. Not quite as sincere coming from you!

BKMC,
Anyone who thinks that Hillary Clinton is going to try to score points by insulting a former prisoner of war who was tortured in a Vietnamese prison is nothing but a big fool. That is the act of an extreme politicial lightweight.

No apology indeed. This isn't about militarism, it's about dignity and human respect.
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Obama, is he too arrogant to apologize?
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Barack Obama,
Seems like a pattern.
- no salute to the flag.
- puts down wearing flag pins
- associates with pastor that says God D--- America,
- has surrogate that insults a prisoner of war
- has wife that grew up hating America
- opposes inclusion of all voters in the Democratic voting process
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Has Obama ever done anything that is pro-American and pro-Democracy?
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Being Barack Obama is never having to say you're sorry.

WestCoastMessanger, and all HillLovers, please do not expect an apology from anyone, there is no need for one here. Militarism is a no option in US foreign policy and America's leadership in the world. Hill the Bosnian General will say the same thing today or tomorrow, she will say that she has bombarded from the sky, follow closely the news. God bless america and God bless Obama.OBAMA08.

Obama & his people found a quote from Geraldine Ferraro in paragraph 12 of an obscure newspaper and couldn't get outraged fast enough.

But Obama never apologizes for anything. He's got a God complex. And he's going to lose BIG in the general election. And it's going to be fun watching the open jaws of disbelief on Obamaniacs faces when it happens. 2004 all over again. Can't wait.

Jackt51,
We're just in the facts business today.
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FACT: Obama surrogate insults a former prisoner of war.
FACT: Obama does not denounce this!
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This is just plain stupid. I've got a great idea. Every night all three candidates should go on television and be told what their supporters said during the day and then give them a chance to denounce the statement. When is this going to stop. Sen. Rockefeller is not a surrogate, he wasn't speaking as a surrogate and calling Obama to denounce the statement is just playing the victim.

Mark,
Nice try with your update. Obama doesn't agree. Obama needs to condemn Rockefeller's remarks strongly, and distance himself from this "politics as usual" tactic. Doesn't matter if he does, though, he's already got what wanted out of it, courtesy of a Senator who was willing to fall on his sword for Obama. What's in that koolaid anyway?
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Fall on your sword for Obama!
He's the man! He's perfect!
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I live all around democrats and I don't know ANYONE voting for Obama.

WestCoastMess:

So DRAMATIC!!! ROFLMAO!

Obama 2008 -- Yes, WE CAN!!!

Thinking.not,
Why not leap to your feet and defend all things Obama on this one? Also, I'm still waiting to hear from you on how, specifically, this is Hillary's fault. We all know that Obama is not responsible.
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Obama is not responsible!
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bet rockefeller never served in the military. i can see why he supports obama. liberal democrats have a hard time with the patriotism thing: they skirt being america apologists--they are embarrassed of this country.
what a shame. God bless Mccain for doing the hard work of war and for suffering for 6 years in a prison camp. where was rocky for that?

Wow, those Obama supporters are a class act, eh? NOT.

Say no to hate and divisiveness. Say no to Obama.

Roxanne, Obama has to apologize because if you are going to gain the benefit of someone making a sales pitch for you, you have to be responsible for what that person says. McCain very responsibly denounced a conservative radio host (who at the time supported him) in Cincinnati a while back because he made a big deal about Obama's middle name. If Obama is not able to denounce the comments by Rockefeller, which are much more offensive, then to me that establishes him as someone who has less character in this respect than McCain.

Don't hold your breath waiting for an Obama apology. The man never apologizes for anything.

When are Obama supporters going to wake up and see him for the phony that he is. He plays dirtier politics than anyone I have seen in a very long time. The politcs of hope, change and a different atmosphere in Washington are a joke. Hey Obamaites - you've been bamboozled,the old okey doke has been pulled on you.

His arrogance is amazing for someone with NO experience to be President. Look at his comments about a possible VP pick.

I will never vote for this man.

As always the media will make it nice for Obama. Keith Ogre-man will be working overtime.

Anyone who wears a flag pin will never vote for Obama.

People with "deep respect" don't make extended comments like those. His statements do not lend themselves to, "I said something slightly different than what I meant." It wasn't a poor choice of words for Rockefeller, it was a poor choice of votes that put him into a position where he could say something so stupid.

Seriously, is his head so in the sand that he doesn't know about McCain's time up close and personal with the enemy? If nothing else, McCain should know what the repercussions are on our service men and women for being in harm's way.

Obama and his team of loons will stoop to the lowest levels.

Their hope is once a negative is stated
that it remains there.

Have you ever noticed Obama will not offer up apologies himself ever.

Why do any presidential candidate have to apologize for the remarks of others? We have something called the freedom of speech and unless the candidate says something out-of-line, they shouldn't have to constantly make any sort of concessions. What Rockefeller said is probably true and I am certain that McCain suffers from sort of psychosis (AS ANYONE WOULD!) for not only dropping bombs, but being tortured. He needs to be evaluated by psychiatrists and I am not trying to be condescending...how many times (he did it again today) does it take to confuse sunni and shia before we all realize that he is mentally unstable? God bless him!

Obama's surrogates are sure doing a lot of dirty work for him. Too bad these politicians did not do as much to stop Bush and all the wrongdoings. They are all phony and despicable! I do not recognize my country anymore.

Obama better get used to apologizing because these are the types of statements that are going to be spewed in the general election towards McCain,
this type of stuff and of course that McCain or everyone around him is a racist.

Senator Rockefeller’s definition of “deepest respect” for Senator McCain’s service is a product the Bizzaro Land dictionary.

We now know why Rockerfeller is not running for President

And to think -- these (grownups?) are US senators.