Dem: Clinton Vs. Obama Is A "Tea Party"

Political Players: Pa. Party Chairman, Clinton Supporter Says Primary Hasn't Been Negative Compared To Republican Attacks

(CBS)  Political Players is a weekly conversation with the leaders, consultants, and activists who shape American politics. This week, as the two Democratic candidates prepare for next Tuesday's potentially decisive contest in Pennsylvania, CBS News' Brian Goldsmith talked with the state's Democratic chairman, T.J. Rooney, a supporter of Senator Clinton, about whether Senator Obama has been covered--and tested--in the same way as his candidate.

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CBSNews.com: You’re chairman of the state party--and you’ve endorsed Senator Clinton. Most of the state chairs, and the state parties, are neutral. Why is Pennsylvania different?

T. J. Rooney: Well, there's nothing in our rules or bylaws that precludes me from endorsing. As I've expressed my personal opinion, I've said that the party itself has been scrupulously neutral. But you know, at the end of the day, I don't think I should be held to any standard that's different than any other Pennsylvania Democrat.

I have a strong preference. I've seen fit to express it. And there's nothing that says I can't or shouldn't.

CBSNews.com: What are you doing on her behalf?

T. J. Rooney: Well, I've been traveling the state, primarily with President Clinton, to small towns throughout Pennsylvania. I’m doing a lot of things, like speaking to good folks like yourself.

CBSNews.com: Let’s talk about some of what’s made news recently. Obviously, there’s the statement in San Francisco from Senator Obama. But does this really hurt him?

T. J. Rooney: Well, I think it's beginning to really manifest itself in terms of the damage that's been done. I'm sure Senator Obama had nothing but good intentions. But they were expressed really poorly and, most people would suggest, inappropriately.

You know, as I just mentioned, I've been traveling around the state with President Clinton. And we've heard about this in these small towns, and unsolicited. I mean, the president has not brought it up. I think one time he brought it up, a couple of days ago. But, unsolicited, people have come up, and they say, "Hey, listen. We want to make it clear. We are not a bitter people."

I mean, those folks who are deeply passionate about their religion, or deeply passionate about hunting and owning firearms, it's not out of some frustration. But rather, it's part of something in our culture. And it has been for generations.

So, while I know Senator Obama has a good heart, and probably didn't necessarily mean what he said, I think it just was kind of--for most Pennsylvanians that fit that description, that live in those small towns--I think it was kind of like a cold bucket of water being thrown on them. You know, many people were just taken aback.

And they're saying to themselves, you know, maybe what they're seeing along the campaign trail isn't what is real. And whether that's there or not, it's not for me to pass judgment. It's just an observation from traveling these last few weeks in these areas.

CBSNews.com: And what do you think the impact of the Reverend Wright scandal will be in Pennsylvania?

T. J. Rooney: Well, in the primary, it hasn't really been an issue. But I think where the Reverend Wright controversy could show up and do perhaps much more damage than has already been done would be in the fall election.

This Democratic race has been rather genteel. I mean, the criticism hasn't been nearly what it will be in the fall campaign. So, with respect to Reverend Wright, with respect to the comments that Senator Obama made in San Francisco about Pennsylvanians in small towns being bitter, I think the real damage from those remarks can really come in the fall.

CBSNews.com: Do you worry that these Democratic attacks on Senator Obama make the Republicans' job easier for them?

T. J. Rooney: With all due respect, the negative attacks really haven't been all that negative. And they really aren't attacks. There's been no mudslinging. I mean, this is a tea party compared to what the Republican attack machine is going to do to our nominee be it Senator Obama or Senator Clinton.

So pointing out facts like, Senator Obama’s got an ad up in Pennsylvania with millions of dollars behind it, saying he doesn't take money from oil companies. Well, you can't. I mean, for a hundred years, you can't take money from oil companies.

So, I pointed that out, that it was misleading, and the Obama campaign was quick to criticize me for being negative. My word. I mean, if that is considered a negative attack, what is going to come in the fall may come as a great surprise to some of these folks. This has not been, by any standard, a nasty primary campaign in our state.

[truth-hurts]

Obama supporters should start preparing

themselves for the worst. And remember,

The Presidency is not an Entitlement Program.

[b-easy63]

On the premise that Clinton and her campaign are only toughening Obama up and doing what the GOP will do in the future:

it reminds me of when I counseled a little girl who had been raped by her own father. She said his words before he did it was "to prepare her for what other men would do to her later, anyway" Great defense. Heinous and unconscionable in the extreme.

[omaar-101]

Clinton Adviser Quits over China Rhetoric

Source: Politico.Com (Today)

They Keep Existing & at such a Crucial Time (PA)Union State USA !

Baum, a Top Expert on China Ressigned After Clintons Harsh Anti-China (Rhetoric).

Richard Baum, a Political Science Professor at the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA, resigned in light of what he called %u201CGrossly Misguided Accusations%u201D made by Clinton about China.

%u201CAs a Lifelong Democrat, it Saddens me that Sen. Clinton has chosen to take the LOW ROAD in her Effort to gain our party%u2019s Presidential Nomination,%u201D Baum said in an e-mail to Politico.

The Clinton campaign declined comments to Politico.


H. Clinton: %u201CI%u2019m the ONLY CANDIDATE who isn%u2019t just Talking about Cracking Down on China but I have a specific plan on how to do it,%u201D

She told Union Members at the (AFL-CIO%u2019s Building) Trades National Legislative Conference on Wednesday.

%u201CChina should be our trade Partner, Not our Trade Master.%u201D


Note: Led by Susan Shirk %u2014 who served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2000 %u2014 the group of a Dozen or so Advisers has given the campaign input on issues affecting U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia.



Clinton, however, took a different approach.

[omaar-101]

Call me, when Clinton EVENS or SURPASSES Barck Obama..Please !!

But until that Mystical, Majical Majestical Moment Happens...

You Clinton Die Hard Cronies...Are Blowing Sand out of your A!!''s

NUMBERS NEVER LIE...BIAS, DESPERATE @ THE END OF THEIR ROPE & HOPE PEOPLE ALWAYS DO !!

BUT NUMBERS NEVER LIE..OBAMA WILL DO BETTER THAN EXPECTED, LIKE TEXAS AND WIN BY A LANDSLIDE IN (NC)!!



Total Delegate Count

Democrats | 2,025 Needed to Clinch

OBAMA 1,638

CLINTON 1,498
EDWARDS 18

Republicans | 1,191 Needed to Clinch

MCCAIN 1,241

HUCKABEE 231
ROMNEY 149

CBS News estimates. Includes super delegates.

[omaar-101]

http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainm

entNews/idCASP11129220080326


Reuters: The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in Boston on Wednesday released a study in which it traced the family trees of all Three Presidential candidates to find they all had Famous Relatives, both Dead and Alive.

It found Illinois Senator Barack Obama, whose mother is from Kansas, can claim at least SIX U.S. Presidents as distant cousins, including George W. Bush and his Father, Gerald R. Ford, Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry S. Truman, and James Madison.

But other cousins include British Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill) -- and Brad Pitt who is a Ninth cousin linked back Edwin Hickman who died in Virginia in 1769.

"Obama''s maternal ancestry includes the mid-Atlantic States and the South," said Christopher Child, a genealogist with NEHGC that dates back to 1845 and describes itself as the United States oldest and largest non-profit genealogical organization.

[andersenme]

DISPATCHES FROM THE GROUND WAR ...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS ...

"Vast right-wing conspiracy" leader''s paper backs Clinton

PHILADELPHIA: Could it be the "vast right wing conspiracy" is having second thoughts?

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed Sunday by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, whose owner and publisher, billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, personally funded many of the investigations that led to President Clinton''s impeachment in 1998.

It was one of a handful of endorsements the New York senator has received from Pennsylvania newspapers before the state''s primary Tuesday. Most of the state''s major papers have endorsed Barack Obama. ....


HILLARY COULD STEAL THE OLD BUTTER-NUT COFFEE SLOGAN--"RICH, BUT NEVER BITTER"--EXCEPT IT WOULD RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THE CLINTONS HAVE BECOME SO RICH IN SO LITTLE TIME ...

AND WHY THE PEOPLE SHE USED TO EXCORIATE AS FANATICAL EVIL RIGHTWING CONSPIRATORS PREVENTING HER AND HER HUSBAND FROM DOING THE PEOPLE''S WORK ARE NOW SUPPORTING HER!

[jgunther7]

We finally have a chance to get out of the quagmire and get our country going again. The big business lobbyist and established political empires have been sapping our country until their is little left. We''ve had twenty years of Clinton and Bushes with little to show for it. Now is our chance for change and we are going to take it. Obama 2008

We are getting close to the finish line and the dirty tricksters are crawling out of the swamp. Karl Rove is one of the most evil people on the planet, Hillary Clinton one of the most corrupt, and George Stphenopolis a complacent stooge. As we get close to the finish they will be trying every dirty trick imaginable. However this time we have got them out foxed. We have a well organised popular campaign that is driven by the strong desire of the people and that is financed by the people, so that there is no chance our support will be pulled out from under us by the political establishment. The media can''t even thwart our efforts as we communicate by the Internet and we expose their every ploy. Get thy Satin behind us, we are moving forward. We will not be stopped. Obama 2008

[jgunther7]

rowdytexan2, "I would bet for a child molestor"
Sounds like you are a Bill Clinton person.

[ranger1948]

andreaf6
I hope you do write in Mickey mouse, that will be one less vote for obama.

[ranger1948]

rowdytexan2
I agreed with you until now. I would bet for a child molestor before i woud vote for obama.

[whitepicks2]

T. J. Rooney......PA surrogate.......specializing in The Politics of Fear.

Coming to a town near YOU.

[ksh1022]

Hillary is smarter, stronger, more experienced and more capable than Obama. If we select Obama we will lose against McCain. Obama will be framed as the far left liberal inexperienced senator who''s aligned with racist anti-american minister and has pro arab sentiments. Obama will not beat the war vet POW experienced senator even if the guy is ancient. Hillary can win. She has proven her love for America. She has the support of "real democrats" and will be able to get crossover voters because she is a moderate democrat. Do we want another Mondale, Dukakis, Kerry repeat? Or do we want another Clinton victory and success story?

[vmcneal2]

HILLARY4US...Now why would Obama respond to some crack head. You must be on crack yourself if you think Larry Sinclair has any credibility. Even most Obama haters know this is BS.

Here is a wild"rumor" for you to check out. While he was President Bill Clinton was getting BJs in the White House from a young intern.

How about this "rumor" McCains wife was busted for stealing drugs from her own charity.

Let us know what you find out.

[vmcneal2]

RowdyTexan2. Here is a fact for ya. McCain wife is a thief and a druggy. She will make a great First Lady.!!!!!!!

[hillary4us]

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE LARRY SINCLAIR STORY, LARRY HAS JUST BEEN NOTIFIED BY WORDPRESS THAT THEY ARE SHUTING DOWN HIS WEB PAGE ABOUT HIS ALLEGATIONS ABOUT OBAMA. SEEMS THE HIT SQUAD HAD DEEMED IT NECESSARY TO SHUT LARRY UP. WHY??? IF OBAMA DOESN%u2019T KNOW LARRY, HAS NEVER BEEN WITH LARRY, DID NOT SMOKE COCAINE WITH LARRY IN 1999, THEN OBAMA JUST SAY SO! LARRY IS LOOKING FOR ANOTHER PLACE TO SET UP SHOP. WHY IS THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN SO ANXIOUS TO SHUT THIS STORY DOWN?? { HERE IS MY E-MAIL TO WORDPRESS: } I WOULD LIKE AN ANSWER TO MY QUESTION ABOUT LARRY SINCLAIR%u2019S WORD PRESS WEB PAGE AND WHY IT IS BEING SHUT DOWN BY YOUR COMPANY?? LARRY%u2019S WEB PAGE IS DOING A GREAT SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY IN EXPOSING BARACK OBAMA AS LYING ABOUT HIS DRUG USE. IF BARACK OBAMA KNOWS THIS TO BE AN OUT-RIGHT LIE ABOUT HIM THEN ASK YOURSELF, WHY HASN%u2019T HE FORMALLY DENIED HE EVEN KNOWS LARRY SINCLAIR? WHY THE BACK-ROOM, MAFIA-TYPE HIT JOB ON HIS WEB PAGE??? YOU, BY CANCELLING HIS WEB PAGE, ARE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF COVERING UP A NATIONAL STORY. IT WILL COME OUT AND WORDPRESS WILL BE KNOWN AS THE INTERNET HOST WHO TRIED TO SHUT THIS STORY DOWN. MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS STORY WILL NOT GO AWAY THROUGH THREATS AND INTIMIDATION. ALL OBAMA HAS TO DO IS DENY THESE ALLEGATIONS. THAT%u2019S ALL! WHY WON%u2019T HE????? RESPECTFULLY, i have removed my name

[vmcneal2]

The information I have read on Senator Obama''''s race indicates he is 50% Caucasian from his mother''''s side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father%u2019s side.


Huh

[libra127]

HILLARY CLINTON PULLS AHEAD OF OBAMA IN NATIONAL POLL !!

April 19, 2008
Gallup Daily: Clinton 46%, Obama 45%
General election races remain tight

PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup Poll Daily tracking shows that Hillary Clinton now receives 46% of the support of Democrats nationally, compared to 45% for Barack Obama, marking the first time Obama has not led in Gallup''s daily tracking since March 18-20.

These results are based on interviewing conducted April 16-18, including two days of interviewing after the contentious Wednesday night debate in Philadelphia and the media focus that followed. Support for Hillary Clinton has been significantly higher in both of these post-debate nights of interviewing than in recent weeks.

[texaslj]

mvcneal2: "The republicans are going to have a sure and swift road to the WH if this half-black guy(I call him half-black guy because he wants to call hisself "BLACK" even though her''''''''s half-white,That is serious denial)is the nominee."


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Posted by rjudy3 at 02:39 PM : "Apr 18, 2008
Speaking for all of the half black/white people of the world you''''re full of sh*t just like Hillary"


The information I have read on Senator Obama''s race indicates he is 50% Caucasian from his mother''s side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father%u2019s side.

[Lai K W]

The liberal activists, the Left-wing in the party is so powerful that they have done a job on the media:

OBAMA can do nothing wrong and Hillary can do nothing right even when Obama lies about lots of things like survey forms, oil money, REZKO connections and contributions. Remember it took him 3 times to total REZKO''s contribution to $250,000. What kind of scandal would it be if it were to happen to Hillary. He also lies about Kennedy''s funding to help his father. Ted Kennedy is really nothing comparing to Bob. OBAMA constantly makes up new rules to promote himself even twisting meanings, taking words out of context.

None but the former speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich has described more thoroughly about the exceptional phenomenon about OBAMA.

OBAMA did not grow up in Kansas. He went to the most expensive prep school in Hawaii. He spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, and this is not bad.

The closest he gets to a slum at that stage is Columbia University. He then goes to Harvard Law School and becomes the top-ranking person, editor of the law review.

This guy has the perfect liberal elitist scorn for middle America and is out of touch with rural Americans or else he wouldn''t have made remarks that he wish could have retrived.

[rowdytexan2]

Obama goes out after the debate in which he fell on his face like a cheap empty suit, and shoots his opponent the finger like a juvenile class clown, then in his arrogance tries to sluff it off like dandruff!

Your presidential candidate at work! Claims he''''s above politics as usual when he''''s dirtier than a pig sty!

He needs to be sent back to Chicago to play with his corrupt buddies over there, spend some time in jail with them. Then maybe he''''ll GROW UP!