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LIGHTNING ROUND: MC-MAKING-THINGS-UP.
- Obama gave a big speech on Iraq today which included a bunch of sharp hits at McCain.
- McCain has actually said, falsely, that al Qaeda and Iran are working together four times -- a mistake akin to saying the John Birch Society and the Weathermen were close allies in the sixties.
- Reverend Wright is defended by ... Mike Huckabee, and quite ably too.
- Clinton hires a second pollster which apparently fulfills a Penn-t up desire among some of her staff.
- Obama's speech yesterday may become the most-watched political speech on YouTube ever.
- Al Sharpton announces that he's secretly working with Obama. Yes, that makes about as much sense as you think.
- Now you too can find out what Hillary Clinton was doing every day she was First Lady. Thrilling, I know.
- Clinton is hitting Obama as hard as she can on his opposition to a re-vote in Michigan, arguing that failing to allow it is a betrayal of the principles of the civil rights movement.
--Sam Boyd
COMMENTS (3)
Too much should not be made of Sharpton's work for the Obama campaign. Several weeks ago, I saw a program on NBC that touched on the subject. It seems Sharpton has mostly been deployed as a researcher and good-will ambassador (a bit incongruous) to far-flung and quite obscure corners of the world.
Posted by: Ace and Gary | March 19, 2008 7:50 PM
please include all relevant details on a story like this. the proposed re-do would be funded almost entirely by Clinton, and Obama's campaign and many Michigan Democrats aren't comfortable with this, for what should be obvious reasons. if you're going to allege that Obama is throwing up 'roadblocks', you should at least highlight and cite what exactly they are supposed to be.
Posted by: onceler | March 20, 2008 7:08 AM
Perhaps someone can explain why the media and right wingers attack Barack Obama's ties to Rev. Wright while ignoring John McCain's ties to the likes of Pat Robertson, Jerry Fallwell, and Thomas Hagge? Obama has denounced and rejected Wright's hateful remarks, and did so in a widely reported speech that also aimed to open a much needed national dialogue on race relations. McCain, meanwhile gets a free pass, especially regarding the post 9-11 remarks of Fallwell and Robertson.It was these 2 hate mongers who blamed 9-11 on "left wingers, pro-abortionists, gays and lesbians". McCain, who in 2000 spoke against these "agents of intolerence" never spoke out against those remarks and now embraces the support of his campaign by both men. He even delivered the commencement address at Fallwell's Liberty University. It's time for people to carefully look at how McCain, formerly of the "straight-talk express, now is in cahoots with the extreme, hatefull, rightwing!
Posted by: Richard Von | March 20, 2008 2:36 PM