Here is the quote to that Obama comment by Romney.

"Actually, just look at what Osam -- Barack Obama -- said just yesterday. Barack Obama, calling on radicals, jihadists of all different types, to come together in Iraq. That is the battlefield. ... It's almost as if the Democratic contenders for president are living in fantasyland. Their idea for jihad is to retreat, and their idea for the economy is to also retreat. And in my view, both efforts are wrongheaded."

Sick. Just sick. We need to tear him down before he has a chance. He would never be President under my watch. Sick.

Romney is not a decent human being at all

Lori -- hate to break it to ya, but NONE OF THE REPUGS ARE DECENT HUMAN BEINGS!

Wow! Hillary will pick up the AFSCME endorsement next week.  That's awesome, lori.  :)

Romney is so creepy to me but I know he has no chance of winning that nomination.

Wild speculation, eh?  ;)

Before we go on, when you say "touting" do you mean support? Because, Morris does not support Clinton, by far.

If you mean tout as pushing her to be the nominee because he thinks she can easily be defeated, then that is right. But Morris does not support Clinton. Not since he worked for them.

You're absolutely out of your mind on this.   Dick Morris has a case of Clinton hate that is absolutely unparalleled.  All you need to do is Google him and see how many Hillary bashing articles he's written. I know you want everyone to believe that the whole world is conspiring to help Hillary, or some convoluted nonsense about Rethugs helping her get the nomination, but you're flat-out wrong.  I don't know what shows you've been watching, but you apparently weren't listening when he spoke.

Try this:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,3010 36,00.html

And this:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/amer icas/article3015299.ece

And this:

http://pundits.thehill.com/2007/10/08/hi llary-will-trigger-stock-crash/

And this:

http://mediamatters.org/items/2007100200 08?f=h_latest

Shall I go on?  Dick Morris hates the Clintons, period. And one more item:

Hillary is the best candidate to run against for the repugs.  

I have no doubt that Dick Morris has his orders from Rove, and the other repug establishment to keep the good news going for Hillary.

This is patently untrue, as been diaried here and everywhere else extensively over the past weeks.  But you can feel free to keep saying it, it won't get any closer to being true.

There you go again, posting LIES and FALSEHOOD.

We can expose your LIE very easily.

I live in Massachusetts and georgep lives in Florida.  The blog moderator can very easily verify our IP addresses and ping for our respective physical locations.

What??? Do you mean georgep?  This person's writing style isn't even remotely similar to georgep's?  And what need does georgep have for a sockpuppet, when he is one of the most widely respected posters here under his own user name?

Address the diary on its argument ... extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and in particular, charges of sock-puppetry tend to require catching someone red-handed (well, blue-handed if its a Democratic sock puppet).

Silver Spring posted a general match-up poll for NC this morning.  Hillary is surprisingly competitive in this red state.  Considering the fact that she hasn't campaign there, her general match-up poll number will only get better as people there get to meet her and know her better.

Hillary winning NC!?

LOL!!!!

Crack kills, y'all.

... unless of course it is the first poll by that pollster, which should be stated. If the MOE not available in the source, that should be stated:

NC-Pres, Civitas, Oct 9 to 14 (Sept ??), MOE 3.7%:

• Clinton 31 (20)
  
• Obama 18 (19)
  
• Edwards 18 (22)
  

I believe that you are wrong to give so much credit to Dick Morris for the direction Bill Clinton took. Dick Morris is nothing more than a pollster for Bill Clinton.  I persoally don't think that polling is a bad idea.  It is a quantitative way for those in the administration to get to know what people care about and want.

I hate Dick Morris too.  Hillary never liked him; she despised him.  She is the one that fired him in 1996.

Hillary is NOT Bill.  She is more liberal than Bill. Her reply to Tim Russert on the torture issue is a defining moment.  She will be her own person.  

Mark Penn is the best pollster around.  But, he is only a pollster.  Hillary will use polling data to get a quantitative feel for what voters care about and what they want her to do.  That would be all.  She will receive the bulk of advice from her cabinet and policy advisers and she would make the final decisions, which should be what is best for the country and its people, as she has always done.  As you know, her voting records are far more progressive than Edwards' for the same reason. I can list the differences if you wish. This has been posted extensively here and elsewhere.  

I personally know many right-wing rconservative scientists whose political views I personally detest. But I would be unfair and dishonest to dismiss the relevance of their work and not to give credit for their good scientific work when credit is due.  Similarly, I would not dismiss Dick Morris's polling work for the same reason. I personally would take an objective view of his polling work.  It's not smart not to -- I'll be burying my head in the sand if I refuse to take his work into consideration.

Paul. You've got to let the 20th century go, man. It's a new millenium.

Dick Morris is a little, corrupt man who likes to suck on toes.

oh Derek, that's just tmi.

Morris worked two brief stints as pollster for Bill Clinton.

1) He  first worked with Bill and Hillary Clinton during Bill Clinton's successful 1978 bid for Governor of Arkansas. Morris is credited by many with engineering Clinton's re-election to the Arkansas governorship after a defeat at the end of Clinton's first term.

2) He is best known for managing Bill Clinton's successful 1996 bid for re-election to the office of President of the United States.  His tenure on that campaign was cut short two months before the election.

The fact that he was credited for those two winning campaigns attest to the fact that he is a very good pollster.  

After 1996 Morris went on to become pollster for many more campaigns the most recent of which include:

- Work with the United Kingdom Independence Party in their campaign before the 2004 European Parliament election. The party, which advocates withdrawal from the European Union, won 12 of Britain's 78 seats.

- In 2004 and 2005, he acted as campaign consultants to the successful Yushchenko Presidential campaign in Ukraine. Morris reports that he insisted on the use of exit polls as a means of potentially exposing ballot tampering. He argues this played a significant role in forcing the government of then President Leonid Kuchma to acquiesce to a new poll when the official results of the first varied materially from the exit surveys.

- Mexico 2004; Morris outlined the strategy of the negative campaign that would be used against the PRD and AMLO: "The PRD would be a disaster for Mexico, the country would go in the same direction as Chávez and Castro." That is to say, López Obrador would be "a danger to Mexico," as Rob Allyn said in an article published on April 3, 2006, published in the New York Post.

- Morris has recently signed on as the head strategist for Billy Harper's campaign for Governor of Kentucky during the 2007 election cycle.

Morris has also written many books including Behind the Oval Office: Winning the Presidency in the Nineties (ISBN 1-58063-053-7), a retrospective of his work with the Clintons that was published soon after his resignation from the campaign due to scandal. Other books include Power Plays: Win or Lose--How History's Great Political Leaders Play the Game (ISBN 0-06-000444-4), The New Prince (ISBN 1580631479 ) and Vote.com: How Big-Money Lobbyists and the Media Are Losing Their Influence, and the Internet Is Giving Power Back to the People (ISBN 1-58063-163-0).

He also writes a weekly column for the New York Post which is carried nationwide, and he appears regularly on the Fox News Channel for political commentary. He is also President of VOTE.com.

So, Bill Clinton was not his last big job.  He had many more big jobs after that.

A good pollster is indispensible for a campaign.  Obama has one and Edwards has one.  Pollster are not evil.  They crunch numbers like statisticians.  These numbers are crucial tools for campaigns.  Morris wasn't right all of the time, but he has been right many times before.

Well, there is nothing too astonishing with what he said here.  The NC polls, the general election polls, and polls about women's presidential preference are pointing to similar conclusions.

There you go again with this junk.  He advised BILL CLINTON.  But, running for the nomination is HILLARY CLINTON.  If you have problems keeping that separated, no wonder you have problems making arguments that "stick."

Well, there is really nothing too astonishing with what he has said here.  The recent NC poll, the general election match-up polls, and polls about women's presidential preference are all pointing to similar conclusions.

When many polls are pointing to the same conclusion, it is more believable than if Morris is the only one saying it.  For me it is just another data point.  ;)

Absolutely right, Pravin.  He's true nutjob, and a very strange individual, what with the toe sucking and all. For which he was apparently willing to pay $200 per hour. He really was a good pollster, but I don't trust that freak at all. Not to mention him letting his hooker listen in on calls with the President.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Morris