bammy loses 13 points in one week...in nc! and now 9 as well!

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 1:44pm

in a state he's supposed to run away with. when he's got a almost 3-1 cash advantage.

bammy cannot close the deal and goes from leading by 25 to leading by 12 in north carolina of all places.



pour some money in there, bammy

Updated On: 4/29/08 at 01:44 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 1:48pm

If I had Aladdin's lamp for only a day,
I'd make a wish and here's what I'd say:
Nothing could be finer
Than to be in Carolina
On the morning of May 7th!

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 12:46pm

and now according to rasmussen he's dropped 9 as well.
and this was before wright went mau mau

[Poppy]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 12:33am

Me thinks Obama has a problem...his good friend Rev. Wright. Wonder how the good Rev will react to Bammy's public condemnation. Stay tuned for the next chapter.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 10:28am

Of course the Republicans are enjoying this but I don't understand the intra-party gloating over the first brilliant and viable black candidate being brought down by another black man's ego. This is what the Democrats have come to? These are the ashes from which will rise Hillary's phoenix? I'm the first to acknowledge Obama's stalls re Wright and other mistakes. But what's the air of triumph about here? That those in "Obama-nation" will be brought to their knees? Denounce their naive idoltry? Finally recognize what fools they were to embrace this man? It's all just more chaos, division, and another reason to be sad.

Updated On: 4/30/08 at 10:28 AM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 10:46am

I do find myself gloating a little bit any time someone tries to use religion as a calling card only to find it bite them in the ass. That transcends race and party affiliation for me. As for the "gloating," perhaps it's been the months of hearing from folks within their own party how their candidate was a cold, calculating bitch who would stop at nothing to win the presidency. These are also people who've slung as many attacks as possible, barely masking (if at all) the misogyny that Hillary inspires in them, all the while crowing that with their candidate, it was "a new kind of politics."

What's with all the sourpussing with all the pro-Obama people? Do you all really think that nothing was ever gonna stick to him? Where was all this concern for intra-party unity when Hillary was trailing? Perhaps what's perceived as gloating is actually just the rueful reminder that some of us have known all along - that it HAS been politics as usual the whole time and that this is a very strong indication that the savior of the Democratic party is wearing no clothes.

Updated On: 4/30/08 at 10:46 AM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 10:48am

but they won't auggie. they won't.

and should this prove to be his undoing it won't be because of another black man's ego, it will be because of his own opportunism. his own character flaws. he chose that church to buy street cred when he was starting out as a harvard educated half-black from hawaii. when it threatened to derail his plans, he threw it away. he's just arrogant enough to have thought that his candidacy was enough to keep that uppity rev. quiet. but to quote the rev. he's reaping what he has sown.

he is the one who betrayed them not vice versa. the reverend hasn't changed, he's the same man he always was. but sudenly what was good for the new kid in town isn't good enough for the candidate. the church that gave him credibility in the black community isn't so popular among them white folks.

if you want to bemoan a tragedy about an ego, the star is not wright, but bammy. he's finding out that the world doesn't always do exactly what he wants it to simply because he's bammy. personally, that's one of the reasons i don't want him in the white house. arrogance is one thing, but when coupled with naivete as it is in him it can be deadly.

oct. 2009 - president obama, "i denouce what he has done and can say categorically that the man who unleashed a nuclear attack on israel today is not the same man who sat with me in the white house. the president ahmadinejad with whom we signed a non-aggression treaty and provided economic aid is not the man i see today. i am presonally taken aback by the disrespect this attack shos to me personally and plan to take this issue up with him when we meet again in january."

Updated On: 4/30/08 at 10:48 AM

[romantico]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 10:51am

Phyllis Rogers Stone, THANK YOU! I could not have said it better myself!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 10:59am

I'll just be damned if I'm gonna sit back and watch the pro-Obama people (I don't mean Auggie specifically, lest anyone try to misconstrue what I'm saying) try to indict the Hillary supporters here, especially since we've had to watch the first female candidate with a viable chance of being elected being reduced to a bitch and a **** and derided for her presidential ambitions, as though Obama was just lackadaisically meandering towards the candidacy that certain people seem to think he is owed.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 12:06pm

I'm thrilled that we have the first brilliant black candidate.

But I have never for one moment thought he was viable.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 12:09pm

Brilliant? Dim bulb might be more apropos given recent develpments

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 3:00pm

It's likely over for Obama.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 3:34pm

Howard Dean and Donna Brazile are working very hard to make sure Obama still gets the nomination.

Apparently, they don't believe he can beat McCain either, but they feel that if he loses the nomination, millions of AA voters will desert the party, endangering local elections all across the country.

So they would prefer to lose the presidency but keep Congress and the governorships--and that's what they've been telling the supers.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 3:40pm

OK - I'm dense - what's an aa voter?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 3:44pm

Alcaholics Anonymous!



No, African-American. And PJ, is this just mere speculation on your part?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 3:44pm

goddamn drunks, marc!

african-american

[romantico]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 3:45pm

PJ, where did you hear that? Man, if thats true I think its sad.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 3:55pm

Howard Dean is the one that needs to go away. What a loser!

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 3:57pm

how quickly the golden boy has fallen.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 3:58pm

Dean and Brazile are among the biggest Clinton Haters out there. If Hillary wins, their careers as heads of the DNC are over.

They have all sorts of statistics on the numbers of AAs who would leave the party and the inability of democrats to get elected without them.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 4:27pm

I highly doubt the majority of black voters will leave the party (or abstain) should Hillary get the nom. The Clintons have always been popular with the AA community.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 4:33pm

I just had the radio on and heard some guys agreeing that Obama and his pastor dreamed this whole thing up. They were saying that it wasn't feasible for Bammy to suddenly disavow Wright, so they decided that Wright would come out blabbing away so that Obama could easily break it off with him.

Who knows. Even if it's true, it may be too late.

[The Boy From Ohio]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 4:36pm

If he drops out (which I can't imagine) how could anyone be mad at the DNC? BTW, has Obama won any state (other than Vermont) since Rev. Wright became an issue?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 4:50pm

The Clintons have always been popular with the AA community.

The DNC doesn't think that will hold if Clinton gets the nomination over Obama.

They are determined that she should step down by the beginning of June.

The Wright mess was NOT "dreamed up by Wright and Obama"--it is an unforeseen and disastrous development for the Obama campaign and the DNC.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 4:53pm

I'm still wondering why Obama never denounced Wright all these 20 or so years, and waited until now, when he's virtually forced to.