It’s nice to see Hillary Clinton stumping for Obama and making up with Bill Richardson, even if it is all part of a quid pro quo to pay off her campaign debt. Ick.
Robert Borosage and Katrina vanden Heuvel spell it out for you:
…[T]his election features a stark ideological contrast. Although marketed as a trustworthy maverick, McCain accurately describes himself as a “foot soldier in the Reagan revolution” and attests that “on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.” He is committed to the full Bush catastrophe: continued war in Iraq, more tax cuts for the wealthiest, more corporate trade deals, more deregulation, more hostility toward labor, more conservative social policies and reactionary judges. Indeed, he’s Bush on steroids. McCain seeks not only to privatize Social Security but also to unravel employer-based healthcare, leaving people to negotiate alone with insurance companies liberated from regulation. His bellicose posturing on Iran and Iraq is as disastrous as his pledge of impossibly deep cuts in domestic programs. He embraces the corporate economic and trade agenda that has so devastated the American middle class. If he is defeated, it will mark the end of the Reagan era.
I like it. John McCain: Committed to the Catastrophe. Let’s make bumper stickers.
I have a funny feeling that Barack Obama will pick Tim Kaine as his running mate on Wednesday night or sometime Thursday. Obama will be appearing on Wednesday in Martinsville, Virginia with senate candidate Mark Warner. Notice: no mention of Tim Kaine being in attendance, even though Kaine set the whole thing up. Here’s a key point:
Obama is expected to make stops in other parts of Virginia this week as well, though no locations have been announced.
Another stop might be in Richmond, where Gov. Kaine once served as mayor. And from there, the two could embark on a bus tour through West Virginia, Kentucky, southern Indiana, and on to Chicago, before heading through Iowa, Nebraska, and on to the convention. They’d have just enough time to arrive in Denver for the first day of the convention. I smell a bus version of the whistle-stop.
Before this rumor gets out of control, I’d like to say that Gore would be an inspired pick. I say that as a life-long critic of Gore as a politician and I have no expectation whatsoever that Gore would want or take the job. But if Obama begged him, maybe he would.
I have this horrible feeling of doom that McCain is going to win. As I have said many times, I am not even remotely a supporter of Obama, based mainly on foreign and military policies. However, McCain would be, if anything, a bigger catastrophe than Bush was. He strikes me as erratic, impulsive, and not all there much of the time.
the campaign against McCain has just began and he’s going to keep it civil.
No more hugs as Obama tears intoMcCain
As Obama pulls in $8 million dollars in one evening’s fund raising, he tells the crowd “I’ll win” and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is confident.
You have no idea how happy I am that he’s going to Martinsville-Henry County. Anyone who’s concerned that Obama’s not talking about the economy enough should be over-the-moon about this. M-HC has been hit, and I mean hit hard, by trade policies.
Please, please, please read the article that Booman linked to. It only scratches the surface of their struggle there, but you will get a sense of things in that part of the world. I know there are other places like M-HC but for many reasons, I am biased about this place as it is special to me.
(Also–Del. Ward Armstrong initially backed Edwards before switching to Obama, and Rep. Rick Boucher endorsed Obama too, which is important. He’s also following the advice that Gov. Doug Wilder gave him: go Southwest, young man! OK, southwest Va. It worked well for Wilder to become the first elected African American governor–when the demographics were far less kind.)
Another stop might be in Richmond, where Gov. Kaine once served as mayor. And from there, the two could embark on a bus tour through West Virginia, Kentucky, southern Indiana, and on to Chicago, before heading through Iowa, Nebraska, and on to the convention. They’d have just enough time to arrive in Denver for the first day of the convention. I smell a bus version of the whistle-stop.
I agree. He’d be literally following in Wilder’s footsteps in some ways, esp. if he kicks off his trek to Denver with Kaine as his VP.
I actually heard that he’s going to be in Richmond last week, so I told Mom and Dad to keep their ears to the ground.
If they actually come closer to my hometown, then I might call in sick. 🙂
I have a very bad feeling about Denver in general, frankly.
But Kaine? I could live with that.
I, too, think it will be Kaine, primarily because all the other short list candidates have speaking slots and the convention, and Kaine doesn’t.
Don’t forget, Kerry announced Edwards as his running mate in Pittsburgh. So I don’t buy the Kaine thing. Besides, I’ve read that Kaine isn’t that popular in VA right now.