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Posted at 5:05am on Jul. 3, 2008 Obama Says NO…. Yes…. maybe to Same-Sex Marriage

By smartprimate

What a difference a few weeks make. Here’s part of an Obama interview
with Jake Tapper with ABC on June 16, 2008:

TAPPER: You oppose same-sex marriage.
OBAMA: Yes.
TAPPER: Do you think that the fact that this is now going on in California, does that cause you to re-think your pledge to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act?

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Posted at 12:08pm on Jun. 11, 2008 Hell Hath No Fury...

By smartprimate

Some Dem women have not gotten the message that Barack Obama is the presumptive nominee. From PUMA USA, a new PAC dedicated to Hillary and taking back the DNC:

Some of us will stay home. Some of us will vote for a third-party. Some of us will write-in Clinton. Many of us will vote for John McCain. This is a protest. Whatever option our members choose, it does not make us Republicans. Those who vote for John McCain will do so as a strategy, a protest. Those of us who withdraw from the Democratic Party and become Independents are still Democrats in our hearts. We are all Democrats. This is our party. The leaders did us wrong. They did Hillary Clinton wrong. They did our country wrong. But it’s still our party.

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Posted at 3:37am on Jun. 4, 2008 Message from Obama from St. Paul, MN

By smartprimate

Here's Obama's latest email missive on the night when he clinches the presumptive Dem nomination:

I'm about to take the stage in St. Paul and announce that we have won the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

It's been a long journey, and we should all pause to thank Hillary Clinton, who made history in this campaign. Our party and our country are better off because of her.

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Posted at 7:14pm on May 14, 2008 Edwards Endorses McCain

By smartprimate

Edward's endorsement makes today one day closer to a McCain presidency. Edwards will not help with the white working class voters… how could any blue-collar worker identify with a guy who has a $400 haircut; a 28,000 sq. ft. palatial mansion; and whose fantasy job is (get this) a mill supervisor?

African Americans will vote overwhelmingly for Obama, which will worry white working class voters and Hispanic voters too. The Dems have been playing a zero-sum with these groups for so long that they feel that if one wins, the others lose. Up until this nomination, Dem candidates have been able to make promise to all these interests groups simultaneously. But, it will be a hard sell for Obama to convince blue collar whites and Hispanics; the ghost “identity politics” coming to haunt the Democrat Party.

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Posted at 5:31am on May 7, 2008 Golf Pros Weigh-In On Dem Presidential Nomination

By smartprimate

Golf Pros were polled a series of questions including:

If you were forced at gunpoint to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate, whom would you choose?
Barack Obama: 53%
Hillary Clinton: 16%
I'd take the bullet: 31%

http://www.golf.com/golf/gallery/article/0,28242,1735913-8,00.html

Credit: Carolyn Kaster/AP

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Posted at 8:49pm on May 1, 2008 Joseph Andrew Switching from Wrong to Wright

By smartprimate

Super delegate Joseph Andrew, National Chairman of the DNC from 1999-2001, has dumped his endorsement of Hillary and jumped on the Obama off-ramp to nowhere. He says, “I have been inspired!” He was placed in his former chairmanship by Bill himself so his defection, like Richardson’s endorsement, is a call to the other Supers to “stop the madness” and get it over with. His pained six page reasoning starts off with the same tedious line that the choices are just so good:

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Posted at 9:00pm on Apr. 26, 2008 Battleground California - Really!

By smartprimate

The two Democrat nominees have fought each other to a pyrrhic standstill or as Real Clear Politics’ Reid Wilson calls it the “purgatory of nomentum”. The winner, as these two pugilists go at it – Wright jab here and Bosnian uppercut there, is Sen. John McCain. The longer they fight; the better the electoral calculus for the Arizona Senator. But there will be a contender eventually, and unless an anvil falls on the good senator from Illinois, Obama looks like the bruised nominee John McCain will be facing. Battered though Obama may be, he will not be toothless – he will enter the race with a likely two or three to one fundraising advantage and a host of young followers.

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Posted at 9:59pm on Apr. 25, 2008 Bob Beckel Says McCain Can't Win – Good News!

By smartprimate

This past week, Bob Beckel says McCain doesn’t have a chance, even as Obama and Clinton are slugging it out and bruising each other before the GE. Beckel says in a RealClear Politics Op Ed piece:

”Yet with all these calm political winds in his sails, John McCain will not be elected president. What lies before McCain are the gathering forces of a perfect political storm that is quietly building into a Category 5 giant. Yet his campaign advisors and the Straight Talk press corps, basking in the calm eye of this storm, seem oblivious to the intensity of the political maelstrom just over the horizon.”

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Posted at 6:31pm on Apr. 19, 2008 Stevens v. Scalia – Lethal Dose of Opinions

By smartprimate

In Baze v. Rees, delivered on April 16, 2008, the top court affirmed lethal injection using a three-drug combination does not violate the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment”. The petitioners argue that the three-drug protocol if not effectively administered “will induce a terrifying conscious paralysis and suffocation” and “will inflict excruciating burning pain as it courses through the veins.” The issue before the court was not whether capital punishment is unconstitutional rather whether the method of the execution was subject to a heightened likelihood of pain and suffering and therefore unconstitutional. The 7-2 judgment of the court disagreed with that assertion. The opinions also laid out the Justices’ inclinations on the death penalty itself.

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Posted at 3:22am on Apr. 17, 2008 From My Cold Dead Paws

By smartprimate

You might have missed it, but Obama had a surprising endorsement on April 16, the day of the Great Debate Part XXIV. Obama got a boost from a gun enthusiast group. While this may help him deflect his “bitter” comment suggesting that small-town voters cling to guns, religion and xenophobia, the timing is perplexing. It is delivered on the anniversary date of the V-tech incident and at the same time the day of a new verbal slug-fest between Obama and Hillary. Why wouldn’t a “gun group” wait until after the hoopla so they can actually make an impact? As the ABC Blog notes in “Obama Endorsed by Gun Group on Anniversary of V-Tech Killings”, timing is everything. But then again, for some members of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), press timing may not be their strong suit. Enter, Jody Powell, Co-Chair of the Board of Advisors of AHSA.You may remember that as Jimmy Carter’s Press Secretary, Powell was the “deep throat” of that administration’s Bunnygate... which asks the question “when is a bunny not a bunny?” Powell unfolds the incident in his book the Other Side of the Story:

“...the President volunteered the information that while fishing in a pond on his farm he had sighted a large animal swimming toward him. Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a rabbit. Not one of your cutesy, Easter Bunny-type rabbits, but one of those big splay-footed things that we called swamp rabbits when I was growing up.

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