Comments on: Soros, Barack And Abu Ghraib

By: Cynical

Cynical — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:50:58 +0000

Ummmm it’s University of Chicago, not Chicago University. Easy to make the mistake…

There’s plenty of real issues out there to talk about.

By: OneMan

OneMan — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 19:21:36 +0000

Lynn Sweet wrote an absurd story months ago about Obama not being honest on his real position at Chicago University. — Umm that was an acurate point she made there is a BIG difference in the academic world of lecturer vs. professor.

It’s interesting to see the reaction anytime anyone questions the ‘holier than thou’ viewpoint on Obama.

By: ArchPundit

ArchPundit — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 02:35:32 +0000

Obama did make a mistake in the mailing–whether Barack saw it or not is a good question–he is not a tenured professor and that is a mistake. A friend of mine running for Congress had to be careful about the same thing because he was an Instructor and not a professor.

I think Sweet likes Obama actually–she just wants to point out his weaknesses like a skeptical reporter–its just that with Keyes in the race, Obama’s faults are pretty minor.

By: James

James — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 02:25:23 +0000

This all seems like a desperate attempt to cause “drama” in a race where everyone knows who will win. Lynn Sweet wrote an absurd story months ago about Obama not being honest on his real position at Chicago University. Then she wrote a story about his not being honest about his book. She thinks that if she calls him a liar often enough, then Alan Keyes will get more support. That also seems to be Berkowitz’s reasons for raging — because papers that he apparently sees as liberal (cause all those liberal papers endorse George Bush) did not kiss up to Alan Keyes often enough. These people are upset that they don’t have a reliable Republican shill to batter Obama around with, so they have to do the heavy lifting themselves.

Obama is doing nothing wrong, and there’s no real reason to inform people on his website all about where he travels. If he did, then GOP shills like Sweet and Berkowitz would spend even more time wringing their hands about how they have been kicked in the stomach and Obama is an awful liar.

By: Cynical

Cynical — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:50:37 +0000

The problem with having a clean image is that any speck of dirt shows up better, not that Soros is dirt. People don’t like the “foreign-sounding” name, to start, which makes him easy to paint as a Dr. Evil. If his name was Joe Smith, his funding would be less in question.

And isn’t the word of the day “shadowy” rather than “fringe” .

My solution is every time they say Soros, we say Scaife.

By: ArchPundit

ArchPundit — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:18:03 +0000

And that is probably why it is unwise to handle it this way, Cynical. He can’t be hurt electorally at this point–so why not avoid these issues. Not a huge deal, but why even bother with it. I get the campaign’s reasoning (or what I’m assuming it is)–it takes away from message, but now it is doing it anyway.

By: ArchPundit

ArchPundit — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:16:01 +0000

And I think that is the problem they aren’t quite realizing–the Dean model works really well in primaries, but in the general election you need to–not just can–but need to raise money from lots of sources.

To me the Crane issue isn’t so much the out of state money–but the PACs. Certainly raising money from PACs is acceptable, but that is most of what he can do right now. More of a sympton of his long time in DC than anything. He doesn’t have significant networks left to support him.

As I’ve said for some time–Obama is going to raise a lot of cash outside of the state and that was before the Key Note.

By: Cynical

Cynical — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:10:51 +0000

Obama could sit in a chair in a darkened room for the next 60 days, all staff let go, all checks returned, website taken down, no news conferences, no tv ads, no travel, and he’ll still get at least 60 percent of the vote. Money and hype doesn’t count for everything.

By: OneMan

OneMan — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:10:36 +0000

He is trying to have it both way however, trying to come off as the small upstart and rasing money all over the country.

It will be interesting to see how his fundraising breaks out for this quarter. They give Crain a lot of flak (and rightfully) for raising so much out of state. It would be nice to see if Obama is anywhere close to his %’s for out of state cash.

The B-Rock the house is nice and plays to the whole Dean Dozen thing and all of that, but I am suspecting such things are now tip change to his guys.