Remnants Of The Best Democratic Primary EVER
Posted at 9:57pm on Jun. 24, 2008 Question and answer time: The Great Obama Clinton Debt Bailout of 2008
Again, I'm not going to call it a Guide to the Perplexed.
By Moe Lane
Q. So, what's going on?
A. Senator Obama is going to ask his donors to help retire Senator Clinton's debt.
Q. Well, isn't that nice of him?
A. Not especially, no.
Q. Do you mean that it's mean of him?
A. No, I mean that it's pretty much required of him.
Q. Required? Do you mean, legally?
A. Nope. He's under no contractual obligation at all. Although he'd prefer to be.
Q. Why?
A. You can go to court sometimes and break a contract. Obama's merely over a barrel.
Read on.
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Posted at 1:42pm on Jun. 24, 2008 Hold on, Variety: back up there. Haim Saban's -not- meeting with Obama on Thursday?
That's not *burying* the lede. That's dumping the lede under twenty tons of quick-setting concrete.
By Moe Lane
Yes, I understand, superficially this article is supposed to be about the glitterati coming out for Senator Obama (Via Jake Tapper):
Sugar Ray Leonard and Jennifer Beals are the latest boldfaced names expected on Tuesday afternoon for Barack Obama's fund-raiser at the Los Angeles Music Center.
Also on the guest list are Dennis Quaid, Heidi Klum, Sidney Poitier, Cedric the Entertainer, Will.i.am and Kal Penn, as well as industry names like Ari Emanuel and Ron Meyer. Seal is scheduled to perform.
Very nice, I'm sure that Seal will do well performing his Song That Everybody Knows... and the rest of his repertoire. Celebrities a go-go tonight; all very well, and Obama should get a decent hunk of change out of it. But that's not the story. This is the story:
Obama is expected to reach out to others, like media mogul Haim Saban, who raised more than $1 million for Clinton's campaign. Asked by the Los Angeles Times whether he planned to attend a meeting that Obama and Clinton are hosting on Thursday with her top money men, he sent back a terse reply: "No."
[Bolding mine.]
Let me summarize the below-the-fold for you: if Barack Obama leaves California without a firm commitment of support from this man, then Barack Obama's trip was a failure.
Read on.
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Posted at 10:31pm on Jun. 23, 2008 I'm not sure, but I think that she was blinking something in Morse Code.
I *think* that it was the word "hostage."
By Moe Lane
But it's been a while, so I'm rusty. Via Hot Air - and call me nuts, but I think that it may be a while before Senator Obama sees that donor list of hers*.
Moe Lane
*Although we actually do have some people reading this blog now who presumably were on Senator Clinton's donor list. Have any of you folks been getting "give money to Senator Obama" email requests from them?
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Posted at 6:40pm on Jun. 14, 2008 The Defectors
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
Consider this story:
As an avid supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries, Debra Bartoshevich is not alone in her frustration over Clinton's defeat.
She's not alone in refusing to support Barack Obama.
And she's not entirely alone in saying she'll vote this fall for Republican John McCain instead.
But what makes her unusual is that she holds these views as an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver this summer.
"I'm sure people are going to be upset with me," said Bartoshevich, a 41-year-old emergency room nurse from Waterford in Racine County, and convention delegate pledged to Clinton.
Joe Wineke, chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, reacted with disbelief when first told Friday afternoon that one of his state party delegates is now a McCain supporter.
"Not a delegate? To the national convention?" said Wineke, who was getting ready for the start of the Wisconsin state party convention Friday in Stevens Point.
"We have a Clinton national (convention) delegate who says she's voting for John McCain?" Wineke repeated, for clarification. "I've never heard of such a thing."
Well, now he has. And just imagine: If this is the way a delegate to the Democratic National Convention has decided to act, then how many non-delegate Democratic voters might decide to either sit on their hands or vote for John McCain.
Probably not a lot, to be sure. But in an election this close, "not a lot" may yet be enough to help swing the election John McCain's way.
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