Barack Obama has raised over $5 million online since his win in South Carolina. This will enable him to air ads in all the February 5th states.
Category: President 2008 (Page 69 of 80)
The Clintons only care about winning, and they’ve been more than happy to use race in the past. Hitchens nails it.
They’re giving him way too much material to work with. George Will has had nothing but contempt for the Clintons for years, but now they seem to be determined to prove him right.
Then, last week, came the radio ad that even South Carolinians, who are not squeamish about bite-and-gouge politics, thought was one brick over a load, and that the Clintons withdrew. It was the one that said Obama endorsed Republican ideas (because he said Republicans had some ideas). The Clinton campaign also accused Obama of praising Ronald Reagan (because Obama noted the stark fact that Reagan had changed the country’s trajectory more than some other recent presidents — hello, Bill — had done).
The actions of Bill and Hillary Clinton in South Carolina should go down as one of the most pathetic political performances in history. He threw away what was left of his reputation, and she may have thrown away her chance at the presidency.
This is quite a story:
In his command of the US political stage over the past year, Barack Obama has inspired many a comparison to John F Kennedy. Both young senators brought a lofty message, an appealing young family and a movie-star aura to the presidential race. But the two men forged a less known link – before Obama was even born.
The bond began with Kenyan labour leader Tom Mboya, an advocate for African nationalism who helped his country gain independence in 1963. In the late 1950s, Mboya was seeking support for a scholarship program that would send Kenyan students to US colleges – similar to other exchanges the US backed in developing nations during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Mboya appealed to the state department. When that trail went cold, he turned to then-senator Kennedy. Kennedy, who chaired the senate subcommittee on Africa, arranged a $100,000 grant through his family’s foundation to help Mboya keep the program running.
I’m not sure it matters much who wins in Florida. The polls are fairly close, and the final results will probably be close as well.
Unless either one wins by a big margin, the GOP race should come down to a battle between these two candidates going forward. Joe Scarborough just reported that many Huckabee supporters are going for Romney because they don’t want to help McCain, and many war hawks are breaking from Giuliani to back McCain.
McCain probably needs a win more, but I think it will settle down to a battle between the two of them. Romney has more money, so he can weather a close loss better than McCain.
As I’ve been saying for weeks, McCain gives the GOP the best chance to win, but it’s also understandable why many Republicans can’t bring themselves to support him. Romney is a flake, but he’s a talented flake. He keeps changing his message and his positions, but the adjustments keep making him more acceptable to conservatives and primary voters. It’s actually funny listening to him talk about the three pillors of the Reagan coalition – economic conservatives, social conservatives and foreign policy hawks. He panders to each group as much as possible, regardless of anything he said in the past.
McCain looked pretty bad on Meet the Press on Sunday. He was basically caught in a lie about why he supported the tax cuts, and that is a deal breaker for many conservatives.
The fight on the Democratic side has been brutal, but the GOP fight is getting ugly as well. Both sides will have some challenges uniting their respective parties at their conventions.
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