Republicans are ecstatic . It’s a new race today.
Democrats are blindsided and scared, and the Obama campaign went straight into attack mode .
Republicans say it’s noteworthy that, on the week commemorating the 88th anniversary of women getting the right to vote — with McCain, making a groundbreaking VP pick — the Obama campaign’s first response was to attack, not congratulate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, or acknowledge the historic nature of her selection.
It was just yesterday that McCain ran a TV ad congratulating Obama on his historic achievement.
Upon further reflection, Sens. Obama and Biden issued a more carefully considered response:
“We send our congratulations to Gov. Sarah Palin and her family on her designation as the Republican nominee for vice president,” said the Democratic ticket in a joint statement. “It is yet another encouraging sign that old barriers are falling in our politics. While we obviously have diff...
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President-elect Barack Obama unveiled his national security team today, nominating Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state and choosing Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to stay on as Pentagon chief.... more
Chicago, 1 Dic (Notimex).- El presidente electo de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, anunció hoy la designación Hillary Clinton, quien fuera su rival por la candidatura presidencial del Partido Demó leer más ... more
If there is one message President-elect Barack Obama's transition team has broadcast about Cabinet picks, it is that ethnicity and gender will not be the first considerations when filling the slots. Credentials over tokenism, after all, was a fundamental principle of Obama's presidential...... more
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin implored Georgia Republicans to back Sen. Saxby Chambliss in his hotly contested Senate runoff, telling a cheering crowd Monday that the first step in rebuilding the GOP begins with the Southern state.... more
Palin rallies crowd at first of four rallies
Sarah Palin is on a barnstorming tour of the state of Georgia
today, campaigning for fellow Republican Saxby Chambliss. The
incumbant senator faces a runoff election tomorrow against
challenger Jim Martin, his Democrat challenger. With votes still
being recounted in the Minnesota senate contest between Al Franken
and Norm Coleman, the outcome of Tuesday’s Georgia runoff could
determine the size of the Democrats’ majority in... more
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin urged Georgia voters to back Sen. Saxby Chambliss in Tuesday’s runoff in an election eve appeal that underscored her popularity within the Republican Party and the GOP’s efforts to stave off erosion of its shrinking Senate numbers.... more
Barack Obama - “Now, all of us recognize that we must do more than look back - we must make a judgment about how to move forward. What is needed? What can best be done? What must be done? Senator McCain wants to talk of our tactics in Iraq; I want to focus on a new strategy for Iraq and the wider world.”
This is the crux of Obama’s Iraq problem. He doesn’t want to look back, but he has based his campaign on his original statement against the Iraq War; yet he’s shown no particul... more
Barack Obama quote, “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” YouTube Clip
This was slipped into a speech addressing public service, and I’m going to have to confess that I’m dumbfounded. What in the world is he proposing? A non-military security force th... more
The Wall Street Journal Reports…
The Obama camp said they canceled the event after the Pentagon ruled it was a campaign event, and needed to be funded from the senator’s election kitty.“Senator Obama did not want to have a trip to see our wounded warriors perceived as a campaign event when his visit was to show his appreciation for our troops and decided instead not to go,” Obama advisor, retired Gen. Scott Gration, said in a statement.
How about visiting the troops witho... more
Obama the Vagabond From: mccain.blogsforvictory.com Post Date: 2008-08-04 22:42:30
David Brooks is out with an interesting op-ed asserting that Sen. Obama is not ahead of Sen. McCain at the moment to any discernible extent because, essentially, voters can’t put their finger on him:
There is a sense that because of his unique background and temperament, Obama lives apart. He put one foot in the institutions he rose through on his journey but never fully engaged. As a result, voters have trouble placing him in his context, understanding the roots and values in wh... more
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