Posted on 05/15/2008 2:07:14 PM PDT by Mike Bates
The Nation's Campaign '08 blog features an entry by John Nichols on the endorsement of Barack Obama by John Edwards, "Obama-Backing Edwards Elbows Aside Clinton."
One observation was of particular interest:
No one missed the fact that Barack Obama and John Edwards looked right together. "They looked fantastic together," gushed Jill Zuckman, the Chicago Tribune's able political writer. "They looked like a ticket."
Ms. Zuckman is a Chicago Tribune national correspondent and her gushy enthusiasm may strike readers as something less than what would be be expected from an unbiased, detached reporter. Although it's not the first time Ms. Zuckman's conveyed her appreciation for the combo.
In her June 28, 2007 dispatch, "Fighting the 'Who?' factor - Candidates considered outside the top tier struggle to get even a once-over from voters," she writes of:
Obama, an electrifying orator and the most formidable African-American presidential hopeful in history; and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, a handsome Southerner and his party's most recent vice presidential nominee.
Certainly Barry Obama gives good teleprompter, but I don't know that qualifies him as an electrifying orator. He sometimes looks as though he's viewing a tennis match. And John Edwards might be a handsome Southerner, but would the Chicago Tribune's national correspondent ever refer to Hillary Clinton as a beautiful Midwesterner? I mean, if that were in fact the case. I doubt it, Sweetie.
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Betraying the US? Raising taxes?
That too.
This one too, but the black vote is Obama’s only hope of victory. There are plenty of blacks who would vote for McCain if Obama wasn’t also on the ballot (and the first black nominee for a major party). And plenty of blacks who don’t usually bother to vote at all who would get off their duffs to vote for black candidate for President who actually has a chance of winning. Both groups would be seriously turned off by Edwards, and the McCain campaign would certainly exploit that — and the Silky Pony always serves up plenty of ammunition on a silver platter, so an opponent doesn’t even need to get his hands dirty by “digging up dirt”.
Watch him, you'll see.
The ObamaBaby crowd is going to cause a run on diapers and Depends in their excitement. Maybe condoms, tampons and other plastic pants, too.
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