Bill is giving genuine comments and compliments. Obama IS NOT great yet, how could he be?? Ridiculous. He is giving an honest and very positive set of comments about Obama. What a bunch of wimpy whiners you are

Posted at September 28, 2008 7:35 PM in response to Bill Clinton on MEET THE PRESS. He Sure Loves McCain

He signed a pledge that he would accept public financing

Posted at July 5, 2008 12:33 PM in response to The Brooks Article: Point by Point Rebuttal

Even though TPM doesn't say so anywhere in the information pages, apparently you are supposed to be an avowed unquestioning obamatron to participate without being called names around here. scary thing is, that's really the same kind of support bush enjoyed among his base back when it started.

Posted at July 5, 2008 12:30 PM in response to NYTimes Getting a Bit Squirrely About the New, General Election Edition of Barack

the coverage of all those "scandals" was all only on fox, and then on msnbc and msm outlets it was about how ridiculous the coverage was and how obama shouldn't be subjected to it. olberman, stephanie miller, randy rhodes, mathews, russert, dowd, brian williams etc were effectively arms of his campaign.

You say hillary wasn't challenged on anything that mattered, but then you compare to obama and a bunch of crap that doesn't matter, lapel pins etc. That is similar to ripping hillary for things like her cleavage and her laugh. only difference is, she didn't have entire news networks supporting her to say how stupid it was. what they should have challenged him on was that he voted for all the war funding despite "having the judgment to be against it" and how in 2004 he said he could be for kerry b/c he wasn't sure how he would have voted had he been in the senate. It's just ridiculous. He represents an idea that people like apparently with nothing whatsoever to back it up.

Plus, now on top of it all, he's proving to be uncommitted to all these idealistic positions he on which he won the nomination. Like i said, it's really cynical politics at its worst since he pretended to be something he clearly isn't.

Posted at July 5, 2008 12:06 PM in response to The News and the People Who Report It

Who said I was an Obama supporter? I will probably have to vote for him, but I'm not a supporter.

Why am I a troll? Is it because I'm not a part of the obamatron echo-chamber? just checking...

Posted at July 5, 2008 11:39 AM in response to New and Not Improved--Krugman was right, again...

Yeah, actually they were extremely unfair to hillary. Dowd dedicated 28 of 44 columns since January to beating her up. Mathews/Olberman and Russert were extremely hard on her. The rest of the punditocracy followed suit. Obama got a major pass during the primaries, and now many of us democrats are stuck holding the bag with an unvetted nominee.

Posted at July 4, 2008 11:37 PM in response to The News and the People Who Report It

Typical cult of personality view.

Obama's not stupid, nor is he as special as he would have had you all believe. He's the most polticial of them all in the sense that he got your hopes up for something different, only to turn out to be what some of us suspected, not that there is much consolation in saying "I told you so"

Why are people that don't follow the "accepted" view around here called "trolls'? How can I be a troll--I at least have my photo up even!

Posted at July 4, 2008 11:31 PM in response to NYTimes Getting a Bit Squirrely About the New, General Election Edition of Barack

Yeah, now you know how Hillary got treated during the primaries. I predicted this over and over. As soon as it was over they would turn on Obama. Of course, he is much less adept at handling it. I don't know who's more annoying the media or all the people who fell for it during the primaries.

Posted at July 4, 2008 1:41 PM in response to The News and the People Who Report It

I'd say all of MSNBC was pretty hard on Hillary, Schuster and the pimp business, Russert, KO, Mathews--and then all their talking heads, rachel maddow...etc. They are all pretty blatantly pro-Obama. They still are. They have been falling all over themselves "tingling" up their legs and so forth for obama. Same with Dowd. I don't recall any positive spin from fox for hillary. In fact, hannity was engaged in his "stop hillary express". However, I don't watch fox much so I don't really know.

Campaign finance is such a core issue. For him to opt for placing strategic political caluculations above this issue, which is central and almost thematic to his campaign significantly undermines his credibility. Oh well. Uninspired democrat here, so probably will want to take what I say with a grain of salt...

Posted at June 22, 2008 7:51 PM in response to The Brooks Article: Point by Point Rebuttal

Re. public financing: This was a big disappointment. How can Obama have based his entire campaign on a "new kind of politics" and then when the calculation shows him to have a financial advantage, he completely goes back on his word? And to respond by comparing him to McCain is a very low standard. I thought he was supposed to be "different"? His explanation was very weak too. A transparent bold faced lie. It would have been much more honest and respectful to simply say: he changed his mind, and in the interest of being a different, honest kind of politician, while it may not look good, he has decided not to adhere to his pledge to use public financing or meet with McCain about the issue.

As for the media, they were basically an arm of his campaign against hillary, so you can't say he's had unfair media coverage. Very weak.

Posted at June 22, 2008 7:05 PM in response to The Brooks Article: Point by Point Rebuttal