Tuesday, August 26, 2008CAMPAIGN NEWSObama-Clinton Rivalry Dominating Coverage Of ConventionThe Democrats may have hoped to show a unified party at their convention this week, but despite the best efforts of Barack Obama's campaign, the media's major focus is on the ongoing friction between the Obama and Clinton camps. In its lead story, NBC Nightly News calls the story "the subplot" as the convention gets underway: "Forces loyal to the Clintons are still active. All is not running entirely smoothly behind the scenes. Feelings are still bruised, and there are about three days left to heal them." Also in its lead story, ABC World News said last night "the unity of the Democratic Party was under the spotlight" in Denver, with "many supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton still bitter about her loss in the primaries." ABC World News added later in its broadcast that "there is a lot of concern...about whether this convention shows unity or disunity. There are some signs of disunity, discord. A lot of unhappy Clinton delegates."A widely-distributed McClatchy story says "signs of trouble for Obama persisted," as "about half of Clinton's supporters are still not sold on Obama, polls show, with some leaning his way and others saying flat out they'll vote for McCain." The Washington Post, under the headline "Not All Clinton Backers Feeling The Love From Obama," reports on Clinton supporters "who are threatening not to fully support Obama in his general election battle against" McCain, and they "have been nicknamed PUMAs 'party unity my [expletive].'" The AP reports Clinton and Obama "agreed Monday to limit a divisive roll call for president, giving delegates a brief but historic choice between a black man and white woman." However, "some Clinton delegates said they were not interested in a compromise, raising the prospect of floor demonstrations that would underscore the split between Obama and Clinton Democrats." In a front-page story titled "Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton Rift Persists," the Los Angeles Times reports, "some black delegates who are pledged to Obama are unhappy -- even seething -- at what they say is weak support from the former president and first lady in the wake of a bitter primary campaign." In his "Washington Sketch" column for the Washington Post, Dana Milbank writes Clinton and Obama aides are supplying "reporters with murderous anonymous quotes about each other -- one Obama partisan told Politico.com that aides to Clinton, who will address the convention Tuesday night, were acting like 'Japanese soldiers in the South Pacific still fighting after the war is over.'"Cable broadcasts also picked up the theme. Fox News referred to "the subplot here in Denver of the disunity and lingering potential resentment between the Clinton supporters and the Obama supporters." That rift, added Fox, "threatens to overshadow all that careful choreography." CNN's The Situation Room also said "Democratic strategists are concerned that disunity is the biggest threat to Obama making Denver a success."McCain Looking To Rub Salt In Wounds ABC World News notes that the McCain camp is working hard to exacerbate the rift between the two camps, reporting that "last week, Clinton's brother Tony Rodham met with some campaign officials for Sen. John McCain. And former President Clinton recently praised McCain for his leadership on global warming. Fissures in the party that Republicans are hoping to exploit in a glut of new TV ads reminding voters of what Clinton said about Obama just a few weeks ago." ABC played footage of the ad, which shows Clinton saying, "You never hear the specifics. Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign. I will bring a lifetime of experience. And Sen. Obama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002." ABC continued, "Another ad features a former Democratic delegate for Clinton." Debra Bartoshevich, former Clinton delegate: "She had the experience and judgment to be president. Now in a first for me, I'm supporting a Republican. John McCain." The CBS Evening News noted that "Clinton, calling on party unity, responded" to the ad featuring Bartoshevich "with a message of her own." Clinton was shown saying, "I am Hillary Clinton, and I do not approve that message."The New York Times adds Republicans "here are ready to exploit the divide, with Carleton S. Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive and one of Mr. McCain's economic advisers, seeking to meet with Clinton delegates."
I live in a county in PA that swung big for Hillary, and I can tell you first hand the CLinton voters here do not like Obama at all. I'd expect many to swing to McCain.
Good news on the election fronthttp://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_080826.htmI live in a county in PA that swung big for Hillary, and I can tell you first hand the CLinton voters here do not like Obama at all. I'd expect many to swing to McCain.
Fatman, what is that in your avatar?
Looks like GI Joe and his buddy just took out a top terrorist - in the disguise of a giant squirrel of course.
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