You want Clinton in a knife fight

Newsweek:

Presidential elections do not turn on the issues—a sad reality Democrats have yet to fully absorb. There’s a reason Hillary connected with voters when she got teary in New Hampshire and why her message is gaining traction now, while she’s fighting so hard. People want to see passion, toughness, and determination in a president.

Carville takes the view that the longer Obama is out there under scrutiny, the more the voters see his vulnerabilities. “Everything that’s happened to him is not because of her. She hasn’t laid much of a glove on him other than just being there,” Carville says.

Obama didn’t have much choice in deciding to take on Wright. It was a fight he did all he could to avoid, acting only when it threatened to destroy his candidacy. “The Republicans will eat him alive” is what the Clinton campaign is telling the superdelegates. Hillary is the tougher of the two, the candidate you want on your side in a knife fight, a gender reversal that prompts Carville to indulge in some ribald humor: “If she gave him one of her cojones, they’d both have two.”

If she gave him one of her cojones, they’d both have two

Carville Says Obama Short on ‘Cojones’

Of the comparable toughness between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Clinton adviser James Carville tells Newsweek: “If she gave him one of her cojones, they’d both have two.”

No, if she gave him one of her cojones, he’d have one.

Paul Gibson, the president of a local steelworkers Union in Indiana, announced support for Clinton, saying it’s “going to take an individual with testicular fortitude” to deal with the nation’s problems.

Jack Nicholson announced that “Hillary is the best man for the job.”

In relaying this to crowds, Clinton changed this to “real men vote for Hillary.”

On Electability and How the Presidential Race Has Changed

TalkLeft:

Obama knew back in Feb. he needed to work to convince the rural and blue collar voters of Ohio and PA and was unable to do so. Those states are critical in November. Why should the superdelegates believe he can take them in November?

Newsweek:

Eyeing those Reagan Democrats, the McCain camp believes that if Obama wins the nomination, the Republicans might have a shot at some states considered to be safe Clinton territory, like New York and New Jersey. Those big former industrial states—Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan—could all go Republican if the Democrats pick Obama. On the other hand, the Obama advisers argue that by appealing to independents and registering new young voters, Obama could take states in the West like Colorado and Nevada that seem unreachable to Clinton. By energizing his black base, Obama could even take away two or three Southern states—Virginia and the Carolinas, perhaps—from the GOP. The Obama-ites also predict that once the hard fighting of the primaries finally ends, the Democratic Party will come together, and Democrats alienated by all the feuding will come home.

Obama’s promise of success depends on more than soothing the Democratic base, however. He will not be able to re-create the magic of those huge, idolatrous rallies in January and February by drinking beer chasers and eating more waffles. What he had—and what he has lost, at least for the time being—is something more ineffable, a hope of changing politics as commonly understood, and disdained, by voters of all classes and races.

To get the Democratic nomination, and to win the presidency, Obama has to show that he is not just a rock-star speechifier—or a worn-down pol trying to limp over the goal line without saying something that could possibly be used against him. He has to show voters who he really is. Most of them still don’t know.

TalkLeft:

My thought on the electability part: No matter how many new and black voters Obama brings to the polls, there are only so many electoral votes in the southern and western states conceivably at play: Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Virginia, the Carolinas.

The votes in those states don’t compare to Ohio, PA, Florida and Michigan. And if Obama might also put New York and New Jersey at risk, how can superdelegates possibly view him as the better candidate? He seems to me to be the riskier candidate in November by miles.

Candles For Clinton Across America

It’s about our country.

h/t Taylor Marsh

One Hillary

h/t That’s me on the Left!

Did he really say that?

Obama on Meet The Press:

“My father is from Africa. It’s in my DNA to bring people together.”

“It’s one of my faults, being concerned with others’ feelings.”

“I don’t think the race is over until Sen. Clinton decides she is getting out”

*This is the a variation on the standard answer to the “flaws” question from job interviews and is often cancelled out by the reference letter that says, “You will be lucky to get Obama to work for you”.

Stay classy, Obamaites!

VastLeft:

Hillary and Obama appeared at a Democratic Party event in North Carolina. Guess whose supporters turned out to be dicks? Hillary is plainly wrong. There will be no unity in the party, given the juvenile divisiveness that has become a trademark of the Obama camp. Sad to see how little difference there is between so many Democrats and the “iron my shirt” crowd.

bostonboomer:

You are exactly right. That is why I began to wonder about Obama when I saw how his supporters behaved at the Cheetos place. At any point during this campaign, Obama could have made a statement saying that he wouldn’t accept sexism and race-baiting in the campaign and that his supporters should not use intimidation tactics. He never once spoke out these tactics or about the media treatment of Hillary. On the other hand, Hillary has made numerous efforts to reach out to Obama, to praise him in the debates, and to argue that Democrats should support the nominee of the party. Obama’s campaign has taken its cue from Axelrod and from Obama himself. I well remember when Axelrod tried to blame Hillary for the Bhutto assassination. That was way back before the Iowa caucuses. The entire tone of Obama’s campaign has been negative, although the media has tried to pin the blame on Hillary.

Obama gave speeches on racism, homophobia and anti-Semitism. Why hasn’t he given a speech on sexism? Because the first three involve men and sexism involves women.

James Wolcott:

If I were an Obama supporter, I’d spend less time making jokey parallels about yesterday’s Kentucky Derby and more time trying to defend/explain away the startling, unflattering contrast between Hillary and Obama on the Sunday morning talkshows: She, so commanding and “up” on ABC’s This Week; he, so slumped forward, beleagured-looking, and low-energy on NBC’s Meet the Press. Because he sure isn’t carrying himself with the aura of a winner.

Oh, burn

Clueless anti-racist male: To address the issue of how women should behave and dress you must see the nature of men. Which is dominating and violent. You can’t change nature my friend. You can change youself. This the main reason why Allah order all mulim women to cover themselves so that the chances of such hideous incidents become minimun.

Response: The hijab doesn’t prevent rape. I was wearing hijab when I got raped. Women get raped in their homes in Saudi Arabia. Women get raped by their fathers and brothers. The hijab does not protect.

Watch the misogyny, guys

Five Hillary write-ins and one McCain on a single feminist blog thread, Media Bias: Why Media Pundits Prefer Obama to Hillary. Watch the misogyny, guys, Obama isn’t getting the angry women’s vote:

I can’t believe all this misogyny. It’s a total crock of shit. The only way we can fight back is to vote against Obama. Send a clear message that women aren’t going to take their shit anymore. Thats the recoarse we have. If the pundits believe we will vote against him and know we mean business and that we will vote against Barrak they might sit up and take notice. Thats the only play left in our playbook ladies. Jus completely shut down on Obama. I’m going to if he wins. No way in hell I’m voting for Obama. oh and another thing Obama won’t win without us women

I have no intention of voting Obama if he gets the nomination. Not voting for McCain as an alternative but will write in Hillary for the top spot.

And FYI, I WILL NOT VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA AND I ENCOURAGE ALL FORMER DEMS WHO ARE DISGUSTED BY THIS PROCESS TO TELL THE DNC TO KISS YOUR A$$.

No where is this more obvious than on the cable boy news channels. I’ve had it. If Hillary gets cheated out of this by the fraternity, I’m writing her in

I am a 53 yr old black female and i will never vote for Obama. i am supporting Hillary Clinton financially and e-mailing superdelegates and pundits for thier mysoginistic views this is WAAAAAR.

I plan to write in Hillary should she be robbed of this nomination, and I do mean robbed. I think fraud and intimidation have been rampant, particularly in the caucus states.

I got this post idea from a comment at Tom Watson’s. People are very angry pundits compared her to a euthanized filly:

I’m a Hillary suporter, but I would be for Obama if he is the nominee — if it wasn’t for his internet supporters who are every bit as mean-spirited and hateful as any right-winger you can name. Maybe it’s not fair to hold his supporters’ hatefulness against him, but I can’t separate the two. I won’t vote for Obama.