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I keep seeing more about how the Clinton campaign put all of its eggs in one basket, and that basket was "wrap up nomination on or before Super Tuesday":

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/us/politics/14clinton.html

Not just that, though, also a lot about superior organizational effort from Obama in general.

Oh, that's cool about Chaffee! Didn't know that, thanks. Certainly makes sense.

Fox News Radio's Tom Sullivan aired "side-by-side comparison" of speeches by Hitler and Obama
Fox News Radio host Tom Sullivan took a call from a listener who stated that when listening to Barack Obama speak, "it harkens back to when I was younger and I used to watch those deals with Hitler, how he would excite the crowd and they'd come to their feet and scream and yell." Sullivan then played a "side-by-side comparison" of a Hitler speech and an Obama speech. Sullivan later said he wouldn't play it again, then begged: "Can I, please, one more time? Just one more time? Then I won't do it again. ... Until the next time."

Fox News host Banderas called Obama a "Halfrican"

Laura Ingraham on Al Sharpton's visit to the White House: "I hope they nailed down all the valuables"

OUT FOR THEMSELVES.

The New York Times reports:

With every delegate precious, Mrs. Clinton's advisers also made it clear that they were prepared to take a number of potentially incendiary steps to build up Mrs. Clinton's count. Top among these, her aides said, is pressing for Democrats to seat the disputed delegations from Florida and Michigan, who held their primaries in January in defiance of Democratic Party rules.

Put another way: If Hillary Clinton does not win delegates out of a majority of contested primaries and caucuses, her aides are willing to rip the party apart to secure the nomination, to cheat in a way that will rend the Democratic coalition and probably destroy Clinton's chances in the general election. Imagine the fury in the African-American community if Barack Obama leads in delegates but is denied the nomination because the Clinton campaign is able to change the rules to seat delegates from Michigan, where no other candidates were even on the ballot, and from Florida, where no one campaigned. Imagine the anger among the young voters Obama brought into the process, and was making into Democratic voters. Imagine the feeling of betrayal among his supporters more generally, and the disgust among independents watching the battle take place on the convention floor. Imagine how statesmanlike John McCain will look in comparison, how orderly and focused the Republican convention will appear.

This demonstrates not only a gross ruthlessness on the part of Clinton's campaign, but an astonishingly cavalier attitude towards the preservation of the progressive coalition. To be willing to blithely rip it to shreds in order to wrest a nomination that's not been fairly earned is not only low, but a demonstration of deeply pernicious priorities -- namely, it's an explicit statement that the campaign puts its own political success above the health of the party and the pursuit of progressive goals, and one can't but help assume that's exactly the attitude they would take towards governance, too.

The (real) nastiness is ramping up...

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Fox News Radio's Tom Sullivan aired "side-by-side comparison" of speeches by Hitler and Obama
Fox News Radio host Tom Sullivan took a call from a listener who stated that when listening to Barack Obama speak, "it harkens back to when I was younger and I used to watch those deals with Hitler, how he would excite the crowd and they'd come to their feet and scream and yell." Sullivan then played a "side-by-side comparison" of a Hitler speech and an Obama speech. Sullivan later said he wouldn't play it again, then begged: "Can I, please, one more time? Just one more time? Then I won't do it again. ... Until the next time."

http://mediamatters.org/

On the February 11 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, in a report
about presidential candidates' "body language" and "why ... they
point" when addressing crowds, national news correspondent Jeanne Moos
said, "[S]ince we usually can't see who the candidates are pointing
at, we'll just have to use our imagination." Moments later, as noted
on the websiteblip.tv, video of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) pointing was
followed by a zoomed-in still of Osama bin Laden. Moos also suggested
that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) was pointing to Monica
Lewinsky and that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was pointing to right-wing
pundit Ann Coulter.



As Media Matters for America noted, on the December 11, 2006, edition
of The Situation Room, Moos said that "[o]nly one little consonant
differentiates" Obama and Osama. She then added, "[A]s if that
similarity weren't enough. How about sharing the name of a former
dictator? You know his middle name, Hussein." Additionally, on the
December 11, 2006, edition of The Situation Room, then CNN senior
political analyst Jeff Greenfield compared the similarity of Obama's
"business casual" clothing to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's
"jacket-and-no-tie look." Greenfield concluded the segment by saying:
"Now, it is one thing to have a last name that sounds like Osama and a
middle name, Hussein, that is probably less than helpful. But an
outfit that reminds people of a charter member of the axis of evil,
why, this could leave his presidential hopes hanging by a thread." He
later explained on the CNN website that he was making "a joke."

A December 19, 2007, post on The New York Times' Caucus blog,
headlined "CNN's Obama/Osama Habit" noted several instances in 2007 in
which CNN personalities or on-screen text "confused" Obama with bin
Laden:

The (real) nastiness is ramping up...

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Fox News Radio's Tom Sullivan aired "side-by-side comparison" of speeches by Hitler and Obama
Fox News Radio host Tom Sullivan took a call from a listener who stated that when listening to Barack Obama speak, "it harkens back to when I was younger and I used to watch those deals with Hitler, how he would excite the crowd and they'd come to their feet and scream and yell." Sullivan then played a "side-by-side comparison" of a Hitler speech and an Obama speech. Sullivan later said he wouldn't play it again, then begged: "Can I, please, one more time? Just one more time? Then I won't do it again. ... Until the next time."

http://mediamatters.org/

blatham wrote:

The (real) nastiness is ramping up...

Quote:

Fox News Radio's Tom Sullivan aired "side-by-side comparison" of speeches by Hitler and Obama
Fox News Radio host Tom Sullivan took a call from a listener who stated that when listening to Barack Obama speak, "it harkens back to when I was younger and I used to watch those deals with Hitler, how he would excite the crowd and they'd come to their feet and scream and yell." Sullivan then played a "side-by-side comparison" of a Hitler speech and an Obama speech. Sullivan later said he wouldn't play it again, then begged: "Can I, please, one more time? Just one more time? Then I won't do it again. ... Until the next time."

http://mediamatters.org/

The real nastiness on A2K is ramping up too.

What a sad day for A2K.