There are 3 areas where I think Barack Obama would be a centrist in governance; areas that while working towards a Democratic nomination he hasn’t been able to explain his actual position on, for fear of driving away primary voters. 1) NAFTA. The infamous memo making the rounds today doesn’t really clarify much to my …
Free For All Open Thread
Eyes on the prize, guys. Play nice.
Courage
Obama spoke to a crowd of around 2,000 people in Beaumont yesterday. What I found interesting is not the fact that he was the first candidate to personally visit in over 30 years, but rather the tone of his speech. Speaking to mostly an African American crowd, (and a religious one at that), Obama didn’t …
Round 1
The 527’s come out to play. The American Leadership Project has unveiled the first ad, aimed at the same blue collar Dems won over by Clinton’s last attempt. It’s not entirely an attack ad, save for the first sentence: “If speeches could create jobs, we wouldn’t be facing a recession,”
Getting Lee Greenwood
I’m up late thinking politics after the evening’s events. Specifically I’m thinking about being a patriot, or rather, how proud I am to be an American. I can identify with Michelle Obama (aside from the slight not-being-a-black-woman-in-America thing). In 2004, I went to a Houston Texans football game. It was the only nationally televised game …
Obama From the Back Row
I attended the Obama rally tonight at Houston’s 20,000 seat Toyota Center. On the news they said 16,600 attended, but several thousand with Standby tickets couldn’t get in — I know because my girlfriend was among them. The scene from the Toyota Center’s southwest corner 2 hours before the doors opened: Obama, moments into his …
First Class Attitude
Fuck You Very Much Joel Ferguson. The Co-Chair of Hillary’s Michigan Campaign (in a state they pledged not to campaign in) and superdelegate if Michigan is seated had this to say: “”Superdelegates are not second-class delegates,” Ferguson said. “The real second-class delegates are the delegates that are picked in red-state caucuses that are never going …