Category: Democrats (Page 46 of 57)

Lincoln Chafee rips Hillary Clinton for her Iraq War vote

January 30, 2008 / Gerardo Orlando

Lincoln Chafee, former Republican Senator from Rhode Island, discusses the vote t authorize the Iraq War in his new book:

“I find it surprising now, in 2008, how many Democrats are running for president after shirking their constitutional duty to check and balance this president,” writes Chafee…
“They argue that the president duped them into war, but getting duped does not exactly recommend their leadership. Helping a rogue president start an unnecessary war should be a career-ending lapse of judgment.”

Exactly. In my view Hillary’s war vote is a deal breaker. The fact that she stuck by that vote for years when it was obvious to everyone that the war was a tragic mistake only compounds her error.

I’m looking forward to seeing Chafee hit the talk shows and explain his disdain for Democrats who supported this war.

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Obama closes the gap in Gallup poll

January 30, 2008 / Gerardo Orlando

The national Gallup tracking poll now has Obama trailing Clinton by just 6 points.

Barack Obama has now cut the gap with Hillary Clinton to 6 percentage points among Democrats nationally in the Gallup Poll Daily tracking three-day average, and interviewing conducted Tuesday night shows the gap between the two candidates is within a few points. Obama’s position has been strengthening on a day-by-day basis. As recently as Jan. 18-20, Clinton led Obama by 20 points. Today’s Gallup Poll Daily tracking is based on interviews conducted Jan. 27-29, all after Obama’s overwhelming victory in South Carolina on Saturday. Two out of the three nights interviewing were conducted after the high-visibility endorsement of Obama by Sen. Edward Kennedy and his niece Caroline Kennedy.

UPDATE – Obama is also within six points in Massachusetts in the new Rasmussen poll. Last week he was down 37 points in a separate poll! Looks like the Kennedy endorsement made an impact.

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The Clintons’ hatchet man

January 29, 2008 / Gerardo Orlando

The New York Times profile of Howard Wolfson rings true now that we’ve seen the deplorable campaign being run by the Clintons.

In many ways, Mr. Wolfson’s bare-knuckle brand of politics is reminiscent of the tactics of Karl Rove, President Bush’s chief political adviser — and a man whose skills Mr. Wolfson admits to admiring. While other Democrats tend to run campaigns that largely focus on issues, Mr. Wolfson is more than willing to make an opponent’s character the central theme of a race.

Is this the genius who decided to run an ad in South Carolina basically saying Barack Obama supported Reagan’s agenda just becuase Obama said Reagan had a transformative presidency?

This kind of crap will continue to dominate our politics until the voters finally reject candidates like Hillary Clinton to hire hatchet men like Wolfson.

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