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Just one week after John McCain finally generated as much campaign coverage as Barack Obama, the parity proved to be short-lived. For the eighth time in nine weeks, the presumptive Democratic nominee substantially outdistanced his Republican opponent in the competition for exposure, according to PEJ’s Campaign Coverage Index. Obama was a significant or dominant factor in 78% of the campaign coverage from August 4-10 compared with 53% for McCain.

A group of Hillary Clinton supporters has bought an ad in an influential Washington, D.C. publication warning against turning the Democratic convention in Denver into what they call a “coronation” of Barack Obama. The ad states: “If Democratic processes and principles are not respected, then the party will have a much bigger problem – a genuine revolt of more than 18 million voters.” That’s how many votes Hillary garnered during the Democratic primary campaign. The ad was paid for by the Denver Group, whose demands for the convention include a roll call vote and speeches in favor of Clinton’s candidacy....

Will Hillary outsmart Obama and take the nomination at the last minute? Many of us familiar with Hillary Clinton's approach to achieving her goals refused to believe that she ever gave up all hope of winning the nomination and the presidency. Her words and actions on the subject of the convention itself always left the door open for a return, should Obama falter or suffer some calamity.  Her artful evasions were enough to lull journalists and (more importantly) Obama and his supporters into the presumption of inevitability. No further rumblings of a mass protest in Denver should the first black candidate be denied his...

Barack Obama and John McCain are running neck and neck. Impossible? It would seem so. Republican President Bush still has less than a 30% approval rating. Headlines blare that unemployment and inflation are up — even if we aren't, technically, in a recession. Gas is around $4 a gallon. Housing prices have nose-dived. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has been indicted — another in a line of congressional Republicans caught in financial or sexual scandal. Meanwhile, the GOP's pending nominee, John McCain, is 71 years old. The Republican base thinks he's bland and too liberal. So everyone is puzzled why the...

Senator Hillary Clinton asked the question herself on the night of the last primaries in early June: “What does Hillary want?” That’s still a bit of a mystery, particularly as she and Senator Barack Obama negotiate over her role, and possibly that of her husband, at the Democratic convention in Denver and beyond. Mr. Obama has given Mrs. Clinton a speaking role on the Tuesday night of the convention. But she made it clear in a recent chat with supporters — which is now on YouTube — that she is steeped in negotiations over how to salve the wounds...

WASHINGTON - Egged on by die-hard supporters, Hillary Rodham Clinton is giving every indication that she will not go quietly or meekly into the Democratic National Convention in Denver later this month. Even as she heads to Las Vegas Friday in her first solo trip to campaign for Obama, Clinton is holding out the prospect of a drawn-out nominating vote at the convention that experts say at best would be a distraction and at worst a disaster. Though Barack Obama is to be formally nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate in just three weeks, Clinton Thursday refused to say whether...

It Ain’t Over ‘Till The Fat Lady Sings - - And She Just Hired New Songwriters The Washington – New York news phones lines were buzzing last night and again this morning. The news is considered so volatile two national news producers were telephoned after 11:30 last night for their input. The story? Hillary Clinton is removing her support (such as it was) from Barack Obama and plans for a knock-down floor fight for the nomination at the Democrat Convention in Denver. The reason for this is simple, she thinks she can win the nomination, and only she can win...

Will Hillary outsmart Obama and take the nomination at the last minute? Many of us familiar with Hillary Clinton's approach to achieving her goals refused to believe that she ever gave up all hope of winning the nomination and the presidency. Her words and actions on the subject of the convention itself always left the door open for a return, should Obama falter or suffer some calamity. Her artful evasions were enough to lull journalists and (more importantly) Obama and his supporters into the presumption of inevitability. No further rumblings of a mass protest in Denver should the first black...

Those comments — now playing in clips on YouTube—speak to not only the bruised feelings of Clinton's many supporters. Embedded in those remarks, say friends and advisers, are hints of Clinton's own feelings in the aftermath of a race in which she fought so hard and still fell short. In public, Clinton is doing everything she is asked — and then some — to help the man who defeated her get elected to the White House. She raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Obama from her extensive network of donors and has spoken to many of the groups, including...

Diehard Hillary Clinton backers stepped up a campaign Wednesday to get their heroine onto the nominating ballot alongside White House hopeful Barack Obama at this month's Democratic convention.

Hillary Clinton supporters will march through Denver during the Democratic National Convention to show appreciation for the New York senator's historic primary run and urge the party to place her name in nomination.

The Clintons and their allies may forgive Barack Obama for beating Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primary, but there’s one sore point they’re not quite ready to absolve: leaving the impression that Bill and Hillary Clinton have a race problem.“I am not a racist,” Clinton said Monday in a testy interview with ABC News in Monrovia, Liberia, in response to a question that wasn’t quite related to that subject. "I've never made a racist comment, and I never attacked [Obama] personally."Obama himself never suggested that the Clintons harbored racial animus, though his campaign did at least once make that...

Despite saying that he believed Mr Obama would defeat Senator John McCain, his Republican rival, in the election in November, the former president refused to say that the presumptive Democratic nominee was ready for high office. "You can argue that nobody is ready to be president," Mr Clinton told ABC News. "You can argue that even if you've been vice-president for eight years, that no one can be fully ready for the pressures of the office." Asked the question again, he responded: "I never said he wasn't qualified. The constitution sets qualification for the president. And then the people decide...

Would that strengthen liberal chances for the WH? Would it tear the party apart? Would Obamuh believers support Hillary! ?

On Fox this morning... a Hillary supporter/officiant was interviewed regarding the upcoming Dem Convention. When questioned about how Barack would be crowned, this guy insisted that, instead, there had to be a roll call vote of all delegates. While not saying that Hillary plans to try and take the nomination, he did insist that the nomination process had not yet been completed and said several other things that suggested that Hillary and her people have not given up. As Obama sinks under the weight of 'saving 80 billion barrels of oil by over-inflating car tires,' suggesting that a President Obama...

Every day...we keep hearing how "Obama is not doing well"... About "he should be 15 points ahead"..."the democrats picked the wrong nominee.. and so on. The fact is (at this point in time), that the "one" is NOT winning over the majority of voters in this country. He is either just ahead of, tied, or even a few points behind John Mccain at this point in time. And, given the "Bradley effect" even many pundits are saying that "unless Obama is 15 points ahead of Mccain near the election, he will NOT win most likely. Take all of this into...

Bill Clinton, given golden opportunity, fails to endorse Barack ObamaBY MICHAEL McAULIFF DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Updated Monday, August 4th 2008, 1:58 PM WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton regrets some things he said - and didn't say - on the campaign trail. But one thing he still can't bring himself to utter: Barack Obama is ready to be President. "You can argue that nobody is ready to be President, the former President told ABC. "I certainly learned a lot about the job in the first year," Clinton said from Rwanda. "You can argue that even if you've been vice president for...

While The Chosen One spent a week and a half hobnobbing with the Euro Hoi Polloi, McCain remained home and ate Obama’s lunch. The lap-dog press waxed rhapsodic over Obama’s ability to speak as an equal with foreign leaders like Germany’s Andrea Merkel and France’s Sarkozy, but unlike Obama, those two actually won their elections! The closest analog might have been England’s Gordon Brown, who gained his office through internal party machinations and who came into power with high ratings that have since tanked on broken promises and a string of humiliating electoral defeats. Sound familiar? Now Obama’s poll numbers...

In the turbulent wake left by Barack Obama’s world tour – his campaign to be loved by all, less a significant percentage of the American people – it seems something has slipped the minds of David Axelrod and David Plouffe; Hillary Clinton didn’t quit her campaign, she suspended it. This becomes increasingly significant as more Americans – more Democrats, Progressive-Leftists and especially Democrat superdelegates – realize that Barack Obama is less about substance and more about marketing; more about “flash.” In light of the shameful snubbing Barack Obama inflicted upon the wounded US military personnel at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center...

Well, they got her.Debra Bartoshevich, the duly elected Democratic Party delegate for Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin who vowed undying loyalty to the former first lady, has been dumped by the state party and barred from attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver next month.According to the Associated Press, the state party's administrative committee has officially whacked Bartoshevich from the 92-member delegation.(snip)"No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her," Bartoshevich told a local journalist. "That's by Susan B. Anthony."

Guys we have to make this an issue. This guy is not a citizen according to some pretty good investigating. Check out these links about his fake Birth certificate. Maybe this is Hillary's ace in the Hole! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBgkDSw-wQ0 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050103/posts http://www.nowpublic.com/world/barack-obama-birth-certificate-dubbed-fake

OBAMA VISITS WESTERN WALL IN OLD CITY JERUSALEM... ARRIVES AT 5:08 AM LOCAL TIME [10:08 PM ET]... SUNRISE... SHOUTING MAN: 'JERUSALEM IS NOT FOR SALE, OBAMA'... MOB SCENE... CHAOS... BOWING HIS HEAD IN PRAYER... PLACES NOTE IN WALL... POSES FOR PHOTOS... LOTS OF SHOUTING... LEAVES 5:20 AM... DEVELOPING...

Debra Bartoshevich received e-mail notification Monday evening about a conference call to decide her fate as a delegate. Rachel Strauch-Nelson, communications director for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, said the group also tried to reach Bartoshevich by phone Monday afternoon. The conference call will take place Friday and Bartoshevich will have an opportunity to explain why she should remain a delegate despite her reported endorsement for Republican presidential candidate John McCain. ORIGINAL STORY: Members of Wisconsin’s Democratic Party will vote Friday on the delegate status of Debra Bartoshevich, a Democratic National Convention delegate from Waterford who has publicly supported Republican...

Lifelong Democrat Caren Turner doesn’t plan to vote for Democrats out of a sense of nostalgia. In fact, she’s not sure she’s going to vote Democratic in the coming presidential election. Turner, a Hillraiser who worked as part of the powerhouse New Jersey fundraising arm called the Group, was among those Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) holdouts who yesterday took part in a feel-out session with a surrogate of Sen. John McCain’s (D-AZ). Of the group formerly known as "The Group," Michael Kempner last month indicated his absolute adherence to the Obama campaign, as did the Rev. Reginald Jackson; John Graham...

Big news folks - it looks like our efforts in contacting those Superdelegates are starting to pay off, so keep on writing to them (ok, maybe Donna B's a waste of time). There are unconfirmed reports, based on phone banking efforts to reach out to Super Ds, that eight previously Obama SDs expressed that, given the opportunity, they would vote for Hillary at the convention. I heard about an interview Will Bower of PUMA did recently, where he said delegates are starting to say they'll vote for Hillary in Denver if the DNC did the right thing and ran an...

Top Colorado Hillary supporter just on Fox News (first name Heidi; didn't get last name). According to her, the Dem Party is in "disarray" and she is part of a group that intends to nominate Hillary as the Dem presidential candidate at the Dem convention. Reporter noted that 'it would be great tv,' to which she replied that 'it would be good for the party and the country.' As Osama self-destructs, let the games begin!

Barack Obama told a potential donor to his campaign that Hillary Rodham Clinton is on his list of possible vice presidential running mates, but that her husband's status as a former president makes matters "complicated." Jill Iscol, a faithful Democratic donor who was an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, said Obama reached out to her because he heard she was unhappy about the way the New York senator had been treated by the Democratic Party and the media. Obama replied that she is on his list, Iscol recounted, and that it would be a mistake not to have...

Will Bower: We don't need Barack Obama. We raised approximately $10 million dollars over the 4th of July weekend. The debt is less then $5 million dollars away from being paid off. PUMA is aiming to have all of this paid off by THIS FRIDAY. Compare this to Barack Obama's top fundraisers who only raised $100,000.

Limbaugh Begins Second Phase of 'Chaos' July 09, 2008 3:19 PM ABC News' Steven Portnoy Reports: Rush Limbaugh, opening the second phase of his “Operation Chaos” campaign to make mischief within the Democratic Party, called on his millions of listeners Wednesday to take part in the Sen. Barack Obama campaign’s effort to democratize the party platform. In announcing his latest “orders from headquarters,” Limbaugh called “all forward position troops in the 50 states – make that 57 states” to alert. (During the primary campaign, Obama mistakenly said that he had visited “57 states.”) Limbaugh, who is now referring to the...

Actor Donald Sutherland: Obama's Being 'Gutted' for Hillary By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive) July 7, 2008 - 20:45 ET As far as conspiracy theories go, the one actor Donald Sutherland posited at the Huffington Post Monday certainly doesn't rank very high. After all, there's a long line of political pundits predicting the Clintons are conspiring to steal the Democrat presidential nomination from Barack Obama. But, coming from Kiefer's dad, and the original "Hawkeye" Pierce from "M*A*S*H," the entertainment value is, well, delicious (photo courtesy NYT). Get out the popcorn, folks...you won't be disappointed (emphasis added, h/t NBer Gary Hall):...

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Bill Clinton says Barack Obama must 'kiss my ass' for his support By Tim Shipman in Washington and Philip Sherwell in New York Last Updated: 5:02PM BST 28/06/2008 Bill Clinton is so bitter about Barack Obama's victory ...that he has told friends the Democratic nominee will have to beg for his wholehearted support. Bill Clinton is still very bitter that Barack Obama beat his wife Hillary Mr Obama is expected to speak to Mr Clinton for the first time since he won the nomination....campaign insiders say that the former president's future campaign role is a "sticking point" .... The Telegraph...

RUSH: How about this show that's going on between Hillary and Obama in, of all places -- how stupid do they think we are? -- in Unity, New Hampshire. How much energy did it take for both of them to fly to Unity, New Hampshire, for a photo-op? We all know this is a staged thing, anyway. They could have done it in Washington at a hotel room, the Eliot Spitzer hotel room at the Mayflower. They could have done it any number of places because somebody's going to get screwed in this deal. And look at this. You...

Hillary Clinton returned to the Senate today with cheers from her Democrat colleagues. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) led the way with chants of “we need you!” Mikulski was not alone in her praise as fellow New Yorker Chuck Schumer was part of the small contingent of senators that welcomed back their junior colleague. Striking was that Clinton made her entrance on the east side of the capital in the door that is rarely used. Not even good ole Dick Cheney uses that door! As the Politco reported today Clinton was greeted with a standing ovation during the Democrats weekly luncheon...

Former president Bill Clinton gave terse backing to Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama Tuesday, as his wife returned to politics for the first time since her agonizing primary defeat.

WASHINGTON: Bill Clinton has given terse backing to Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama, as his wife returned to politics for the first time since her agonising primary defeat. Timed to coincide with Hillary Clinton's reappearance in the Senate, Bill Clinton issued a one-sentence statement through his spokesman to put a lid on months of fireworks on the party's nominating campaign trail. “President Clinton is obviously committed to doing whatever he can and is asked to do to ensure Senator Obama is the next president of the United States,” spokesman Matt McKenna said. Hillary Clinton said the Democrats must unite...

Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to Congress Tuesday for the first time since suspending her presidential campaign, to a loud round of applause and hugs from Democrats as they try to bridge the rifts left by a long, bruising presidential primary. The return of the New York senator had been much anticipated since she suspended her race for the White House earlier this month after Barack Obama clinched the necessary number of delegates to secure the party's nomination. "Glad to be here, my friends, glad to be here," she said as she entered the building, adding later: "We have a lot...

Barack Obama may want to rethink his position on public financing after all. Not only did he lose most of the contests over the last three months of the primary, his fundraising numbers declined during the same period. In just-released figures, Obama had his weakest fundraising month of 2008 in May, outraising John McCain by only a million: Democrat Barack Obama raised $22 million in May for his presidential campaign, his weakest fundraising month this year, and ended the month with $43 million cash on hand, the campaign reported Friday. That puts him behind McCain, after spending $5 million more...

Barack Obama tells Hillary Clinton supporters to 'get over it' By Toby Harnden in Washington Last Updated: 7:20PM BST 23/06/2008 Senator Barack Obama has angered senior allies of his vanquished Democratic rival Senator Hillary Clinton by telling them to "get over it". Barack Obama is trying to woo Hillary Clinton's supporters At a meeting with members of the Congressional Black Caucus last week, reported by ABC News, Mr Obama urged women who had backed Mrs Clinton to support him against John McCain, the Republican nominee. "If women take a moment to realise that on every issue important to women, John...

Clinton Campaign $22.5 Million In Debt at the End of Last Month By Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, June 21, 2008; A06 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to return to Senate politics next week, now that her run for the Democratic presidential nomination is over, but a campaign finance filing made plain last night that the effects of that losing effort will continue to weigh on her political future. Clinton's campaign was $22.5 million in debt at the end of May, $3 million more than a month earlier. More than half of the latest debt ($12.2 million)...

But in 2005, Noonan broke with President George W. Bush's administration over the Iraq war, among other things, and it gave her an air of cross-partisan credibility going into the current presidential season. Then, as Clinton stumbled in the Democratic primaries, Noonan found herself being embraced by an unlikely coalition of Obama supporters and disaffected Republicans to whom she was no longer a boilerplate conservative, but an iconoclast who'd turned on President Bush and been vindicated by anti-Clinton sentiment that was growing among Democrats. What's more, being a woman gave Noonan a freedom to write critically about Clinton with little...

The bottom line is that Limbaugh does not care if McCain wins in November, in fact, it would be counter-productive to the possibility of revitalizing his career. If Obama wins Limbaugh will have better ratings and earn more money. So, congratulations "ditto heads", you have achieved Rush's goal…the only cost to you is victory in November ......... The last four months was a welcome back to “fifteen minutes of relevancy” for Rush Limbaugh. The king of the talk radio movement of the 1990’s has had a very tough eight years in the wilderness of relative invisibility. "Operation Chaos" was successful...

THE hostilities of the Democrat primary process were reignited yesterday when dumped former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle was appointed as chief of staff to whoever is eventually tapped to be Barack Obama's vice-presidential running mate. While Senator Obama's spokesman, Bill Burton, insisted nothing should be inferred from the appointment, many Clinton supporters were outraged at what they perceived as a deliberate snub to the former first lady. One supporter called it the "biggest 'f..k you' I have ever seen." There is also intense speculation in Democrat circles that Ms Solis Doyle was the source behind much of...

<p>A former bundler to Hillary Clinton just called in to tell me that Barack Obama's selection of Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to the campaign's eventual vice presidential nominee is the "biggest fuck you I have ever seen in politics."</p>

Hillary Exits; Promises a Sequel By Kathryn Jean Lopez It may not be a presidential campaign, but we will be seeing Hillary again in all the old familiar places. At the National Building Museum on Saturday, Hillary Clinton promised her supporters: “You’ll always find me on the frontlines of democracy fighting for the future.” Put another way: “I’ll be back.” Throughout the Clinton campaign, I’ve had this pang of anger that Barbara Olson couldn’t weigh in on Hillary’s run for the White House. Barbara could see the “Hillary for President” signs. There were too many signs in Hillary’s life pointing...

[The following is an optical character recognition transcription of the PDF file] the Committee wishes to bring to your attention information we have received evidencing a premeditated and predesigned plan by the Obama campaign to engage in systematic corruption of the Party’s caucus procedures. Compounding this blatant distortion of the caucus rules was an egregious effort by the Obama campaign to manipulate the voter registration process in its own favor, thereby disenfranchising countless voters. Finally, the Committee has received a vast number of reliable reports of voter suppression and intimidation by the Obama campaign or its allies....Senator Clinton and the...

Hillary Rodham Clinton ended her historic bid for the White House on Saturday and enthusiastically endorsed Barack Obama. Yeah, right. She actually suspended her campaign, allowing her to hold on to her delegates and technically remain a candidate. She does so in the hope that something might happen which would change the minds of the superdelegates that have fallen over like dominoes for Obama. And what, pray tell would make that happen? Another scandal, perhaps. One so devastating to the Obama camp that it would cripple his candidacy. There are rumors of a DVD which may soon surface, purportedly of...

Activists who plan to protest at the Democratic National Convention this summer are splitting with the umbrella organization, Re-create 68, because of concerns over its rhetoric and tactics... The new coalition, called Alliance for Real Democracy, is a network of local and national groups, including Code Pink, United for Peace and Justice, the American Friends Service Committee, the Green Party of Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Colorado Street Medics, and Students for Peace and Justice. “We’ve separated ourselves; we’re not part of Re-create 68,” said Claire Ryder, chairwoman of the Denver Green...

The balance of party identification in the American electorate now favors the Democratic Party by a decidedly larger margin than in either of the two previous presidential election cycles. In 5,566 interviews with registered voters conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press during the first two months of 2008, 36% identify themselves as Democrats, and just 27% as Republicans. The share of voters who call themselves Republicans has declined by six points since 2004, and represents, on an annualized basis, the lowest percentage of self-identified Republican voters in 16 years of polling by the Center.

Clinton is expected to throw her support behind Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign during an event at noon ET Saturday at the National Building Museum in Washington.