There's nothing to suggest that Clinton can possibly get the string of 60-40 wins she'd need to make this competitive again in the delegate race.
He has taken the hardest shots that the Vast Clinton Surrogate Conspiracy has to offer, and he's still standing and thriving. And she just doesn't have the CoH to match what he's going to be able to do on field and GOTV in these next few states.
Lets keep things friendly. I'm an Obama supporter, and very happy with how he's weathered this storm. But there's no reason to imply that it was in any way the Clinton campaign's doing.
No reason? You think these tapes just magically appeared thanks to the crack Fox News research team?
And, also, all of the crap out of Penn's and WJC's mouths ...
Come on! Be a little rational. Would you wait until yourself is far behind in the delegate count to do something like that? I find it simply absurd that some people are so willing to think ill of Hillary Clinton while refusing to cast a tiny bit of doubt on Obama. I also find it unbelievably offensive that some people would call the Clintons are racists.
I'm not saying the Clintons haven't crossed the line before. I think they have, and that's how they lost my support. But no good can come of blaming them for this situation.
The fact is that the Wright thing would have popped up eventually, and this is really the best possible time. If it had hit earlier, it might have severely hurt Obama in the primaries. If it had hit later, it would have hurt him for the general election. As it stands, it hit in the biggest lull in the primary schedule--after he has the nomination cinched on delegates. And it's a month out from a contest that he was expected to lose anyway. This gives his campaign enough time to do damage control while inoculating against this in the general. Finally, he capped the week off with a major endorsement coup that's totally changed the media narrative.
The timing and expert handling of this situation turned it into a blessing in disguise. So, lets not dwell on unfounded accusations when we need to heal the party wounds and get our candidate elected in November.
Actually, yes, I think they did. It's been in the media that there are highly questionable types of Wright for a couple months. There's no reason to attribute this to the Clinton campaign (and I don't mean that in a Clintonesque "there's no reason to believe that" sense).
There's no evidence for that and there's plenty of reason to believe this was FOX News doing their job.
There's plenty -- plenty -- of real stuff to blame the Clinton campaign before. Don't go blaming them for stuff it's highly likely they didn't do.
Nah, I doubt it was the Clinton camp. The timing's all wrong.
A day or two before an election day would make sense, because he wouldn't have time to respond. But a month before an election? As good as his campaign has been, they couldn't have expected it to hold him down for THAT long.
It hurt him, but I really don't think it came from the Clintons.
The Obama campaign has known that Wright was a problem way back when the campaign started:
CHICAGO, March 5 -- The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of the popular Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and spiritual mentor to Senator Barack Obama, thought he knew what he would be doing on Feb. 10, the day of Senator Obama's presidential announcement. After all, back in January, Mr. Obama had asked Mr. Wright if he would begin the event by delivering a public invocation. But Mr. Wright said Mr. Obama called him the night before the Feb. 10 announcement and rescinded the invitation to give the invocation. "Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack," Mr. Wright said in an interview on Monday, recalling that he was at an interfaith conference at the time. "One of his members had talked him into uninviting me," Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obama's campaign advisers. Some black leaders are questioning Mr. Obama's decision to distance his campaign from Mr. Wright because of the campaign's apparent fear of criticism over Mr. Wright's teachings, which some say are overly Afrocentric to the point of excluding whites.
After all, back in January, Mr. Obama had asked Mr. Wright if he would begin the event by delivering a public invocation.
But Mr. Wright said Mr. Obama called him the night before the Feb. 10 announcement and rescinded the invitation to give the invocation.
"Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack," Mr. Wright said in an interview on Monday, recalling that he was at an interfaith conference at the time. "One of his members had talked him into uninviting me," Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obama's campaign advisers.
Some black leaders are questioning Mr. Obama's decision to distance his campaign from Mr. Wright because of the campaign's apparent fear of criticism over Mr. Wright's teachings, which some say are overly Afrocentric to the point of excluding whites.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/us/pol itics/06obama.html?_r=2&oref=slogin& amp;oref=slogin
Didn't Fox News buy those tapes from the church, by the way?
