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LIGHTNING ROUND: VERO POSSUMUS.
- Hillary Clinton will officially begin campaigning on behalf of Barack Obama starting next week. In a conference call with her top donors yesterday, Clinton urged them to open their wallets for Obama and took responsibility for the money she loaned her campaign during the primaries while bluntly asking for help with her other debts.
- In light of yesterday's announcement that he will forgo public campaign financing, Obama has taken some heat for going back on an earlier promise to accept public funding if both he and John McCain were the nominees. This doesn't seem to be bothering the campaign, however, with one Democratic strategist suggesting that it would not be impossible for Obama to raise upwards of half a billion dollars.
- Jonathan Martin looks for 527s targeting Obama and doesn't find much.
- New York mayor Michael Bloomberg forcefully denounced the "whisper campaign" against Obama, urging Jewish voters to reject the smear that he is a "shadow Muslim."
- David Leonhardt has three questions about John McCain's economic agenda in the NY Times today.
- The Wonk Room applies McCain and Obama's tax plans to the candidates' families with amusing results.
- Nate Silver tears apart the notion that putting Tim Pawlenty on the Republican ticket will "deliver" Minnesota and Wisconsin to McCain this Fall.
- Sick of wild polling fluctuations? Tough. Rasmussen has Obama up 50-39 in New Hampshire, McCain up 45-42 in Nevada, and Obama down to 43-41 in Colorado. In Georgia, Insider Advantage shows Obama only behind McCain by one point, 44-43, with Bob Barr getting six percent of the vote.
- And finally, Obama unveiled a wicked quasi-presidential seal at a meeting with Democratic governors today.
--Mori Dinauer
COMMENTS (10)
Thanks for keeping me updated. this page really has good quality links. My view, from Australia, is very positive regarding the Obama campaign. I believe the American people appreciate his "http://alistairdark.com/the-best-foreign-policy-is-completely-naive/">"naivety" - and I wish him all the best.
Posted by: Alistair Dark | June 20, 2008 7:13 PM
The Tim Pawlenty fivethirtyeight.com article that you attribute to Nate Silver was written by his contributor Sean Quinn.
Posted by: Jack | June 20, 2008 8:37 PM
Bloomberg seems to be actively vying for a spot in a hypothetical Obama administration. Actually, he'd probably make a good Sec. of Transportation.
Posted by: rufustfyrfly | June 20, 2008 10:57 PM
Strike that--he'd make a really, really good Secretary of Transportation. He's better on transit than pretty much all of the Dems, and he is a guaranteed confirm because:
A-Republicans couldn't vote against one of their own and
B-David Broder would suck the blood of anyone who voted against him.
Obama would be crazy not to be thinking about him.
Posted by: rufustfyrfly | June 20, 2008 11:04 PM
Vero Possumus??
Is Senator Obama perhaps a George Jones fan?
Posted by: John in Nashville | June 21, 2008 5:32 AM
If JohnMcCain came up with a seal like BHO's, this site would wheel out their local NixonExpert to launch into a stock spiel. But, when BHO does it, it's "wicked good".
I wonder, how far could he go before the contributors to this site would object to something? Perhaps a proposal that we change our underwear every hour and wear it on the outside so that it can be checked? Or, will we have to wait for the coronation for that?
Posted by: TLB | June 21, 2008 7:02 PM
His logo looks like FDR's NRA logo.
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&q=National+Recovery+Act&btnG=Search+Images
Posted by: JS in Texas | June 21, 2008 7:52 PM
um, didn't obama promise only to discuss with mcsame opting in to the public financing scheme?
which isn't the same as promising to accept public financing. right?
brooks, gerson, et al are really digging deep if campaign finance reform is the only pearl-clutching moment they can point to in the obama campaign.
heavens to murgatroid!!!
Posted by: mencken | June 22, 2008 10:54 AM
Of course Obama rejects the traditional motto "E pluribus unum" because the progressives' obsessions with identity politics have destroyed any unity Americans once enjoyed, having set the various aggrieved groups of perpetual victims at each other's throats (check out what happened in the Dem primaries). No common humanity left, no shared values, no concern for others, no civilization....
Posted by: Anonymous | June 23, 2008 8:38 PM
Obama's campaign seal becomes a laughing stock. He's definitely clueless on what the real meaning of that latin phrase. It then roughly can be translated: "Yes, we are trully possums." (just kidding)
He even sat proudly behind that seal during a session in Chicago and that shows how arrogant he is. He is not genuine and not inspiring at all. Do you know where he got that catch phrase? It is from Bob the Builder animation. The full phrase is "Can we do it?" - "Yes, we can!"
I start to wonder who are those people that powerful enough to spoon-fed him. It is sad to see another puppet becomes presidential candidate.
Posted by: Therese | June 26, 2008 12:33 AM