Correction: That is George Stephanopoulos - got his name wrong.

That live show by the way is on his show THIS WEEK coming to you LIVE from Indianapolis.

I wonder of George will let her off the HOOK again?

This news about the memo doesn't negate my blog entry immediately preceding yours, but on the other hand... It's about time God dropped a bombshell in Obama's favor just before a primary. Yes!

I was watching Hardball today when it was mentioned, but of course Chris Matthews did not bother to jump on the occasion...

I never seen so much bashing on one candidate...Since PA, it has been how Obama is weak, how Obama has lost the momentum, how Clinton is running an amazing campaign, how Obama can not close the deal, how Obama has lost the white vote...

Despite all of this, he is still ahead in NC, he will win NC, and he also has some good chances to win Indiana...

Go Obama 08

Not the alleged memo. This is a press release from his website...

http://bayh.senate.gov/news/press/release/?id=443414bf-cb32-42e8-b559-85e73002bcd7

"The report Bayh requested takes a critical look at the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which is responsible for reviewing the national security implications of foreign takeovers of domestic companies. In particular, the report argues that the way CFIUS interprets the legislation may limit its effectiveness. As an example, the report cites how the Treasury and some other departments that make up CFIUS use such a narrow definition of what constitutes a national security threat that as a result, they allow too many questionable purchases to take place without sufficient review.

Senator Bayh, along with Senators Shelby and Sarbanes, first requested the GAO report in 2003 after an Indiana company called Magnequench closed thanks to a 1995 decision by CFIUS to approve a Chinese consortium's takeover. At the time, Magnequench made 85 percent of the magnets used to guide U.S. smart bombs."

My favorite moment in that MSNBC video posted by minjo up there is when the Indiana pollster is talking about trade deals and they immediately cut to some random footage of Wright while he's talking. What did he have to do with that IN plant closing? What does he have to do with Bayh criticizing the Clintons? It makes no sense. Or maybe it makes complete sense.

Here in a nutshell is the fundamental flaw with harkening back to the good old Clinton years...it's a double-edged sword and Senator Clinton only wants us to remember the good times. But NAFTA turned out to be bad for jobs in the rust belt.

And she does not have the moral legitimacy or logical consistency to be an adequate critic of her husband's presidency. It's what propped her up, so why would she tear it down?

She's shown no leadership in tracing the subprime fallout to Glass-Steagall's supercession by President Clinton's signing of Gramm-Leach-Bliley (as Obama did in his speech at Cooper Union). She hasn't said a single honest thing about NAFTA. Now here she's acting like Little Miss Working Class in Indiana and the Bayh memo says what the true effect of NAFTA were on Indianapolis.

Why should we pretend for nostalgia's sake that the Clinton years were perfectly unblemished, just for the sake of her presidential ambitions?

No thanks. I choose to turn the page on all that.

Obama's wife was also connected with Walmart and EVERYBODY is guilty of profiting from the cheaper prices of gods imported from China. I pay more and privately boycott Chinese goods. Do you? Any consumer can "vote" with his wallet every time he or she goes shopping.

The cheaper imported goods and the labor-cheap production have lost jobs but lessened inflation. What does the voter do with that part of the equation?

Also, had Gore -- the vice president from the CLINTON administration -- been elected president, we would have already developed ecology-friendly industries which would have already absorbed a lot of lost jobs.

The Obama campaign will try to blitz Reverend Wright out of the voters' minds with this memo, but it isn't going to happen.

Hillary is really really mad at George W Bush for letting her husband, President Bill Clinton, sign over that Indiana Manufacturing Plant to China, and ship it out there.

Hillary Tuzla Clinton says: "Shame on you George W. Bush for not stopping my husband, when he was the president, from endangering our national security by sending our national security plant to China."

What are the chances that Stepenopolis would ask her about it?

I can't believe this isn't getting any traction. I guess Hillary's top surrogates are Teflon and cannot be discussed. I mean first Rendell is linked to Farrakhan after Hillary had attacked Barack about his churches link to Farrakhan, and now with Clinton and Bayh blaming the plant closure on the Bush White House now, which directly contracts his earlier memo that placed the blame solely on the feet of the Clinton White House.

ARGH!

ME BUCCANEERS! KEEP THOSE MAGNETS FROM OUR COMPASS!

WENCH HILLARY CAUSES US TO LOSE DIRECTION!

ACQUIRE! MERGE! MARAUD! DILUTE! DILUTE!

ARGH!

To Josh Marshall

Here is Candidate Clinton in 2005 on CBS using the same language McCain used in his 100 year gaffe. This was in an interview with Bob Scheiffer. Marc needs to find the video for this and then we can here how vetted she really is. How could McCain's 100 year remark be used against him if she is the nominee. You'll have her bashing McCain and then show her praising what McCain said.

What is amazing about candidate Clinton's candidacy is she is rising even though she is a neocon in an anti war party. Just shows America loves dynasties. I am convinced voters are voting for Bill Clinton and not her.

Here is candidate Clinton in her own neocon words.

Sen. CLINTON: If I could just add to what Senator Graham said, because I think it's really
important we underscore this.

Senator McCain made the point earlier today, which I agree
with, and that is, it's not so much a question of time when it comes to American military
presence for the average American; I include myself in this.

But it is a question of casualties.
We don't want to see our young men and women dying and suffering these grievous injuries
that so many of them have.

We've been in South Korea for 50-plus years. We've been in Europe for 50-plus. We're still in Okinawa with respect to protection there coming out of
World War II.
You know, we have been in places for very long periods of time.

And in recent history, we've
made a commitment to Bosnia and Kosovo, and I think what is different is the feeling that
we're on a track that is getting better and that we can see how the Iraqi government will begin
to assume greater and greater responsibility. The elections were key to that. The training,
equipment, equipping and motivating of the Iraqi security forces is key to that.

But so is our
understanding that if we were to artificially set a deadline of some sort, that would be like a
green light to the terrorists, and we can't afford to do that.

Dailykos poster had the scoop:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/3/11457/02274/191/508327

To all the Obama supporters out there.

Get this story out there. The vetted candidate is not vetted.

Posted by Samryan

Look, Obama people (I'm one of you) --don't get too bent out of shape over Indiana. Hillary is doing well among White voters right now and Obama has lost ground. That doesn't mean Obama won't pull it out. The super-delegates are not going to reward Hillary and Bill for working up White voters about Obama. I don't see them going against the traditional Black base. Not going to happen.