Raising The Roof On The Week That Was

Bob Schieffer On Primary Wins, Endorsements, Appeasement And Bad Jokes

(CBS)  Weekly commentary by CBS Evening News chief Washington correspondent and Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer.

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Anyway you cut it, this had to be some week - or maybe it was a year. No, it just seemed like a year but it was really only a week.

Let's review: In West Virginia, Hillary Clinton beat the stuffing out of Barack Obama - in this goofy year, a case of too much too late, apparently.

The next day, she suddenly became available for interviews on all the evening news programs - but before the interviews had aired, they were outdated, as John Edwards rushed in to endorse Obama.

While people debated whether that really mattered, President Bush went to Israel and upstaged the rest of them by bringing up Hitler and accusing Obama of appeasing terrorists - or not accusing him of anything, depending on whose version you believed.

John McCain, who had been trying to separate himself from the President and his unpopular policies, rushed to side with the President - which gave Obama a chance to tie them together and denounce them both. Senator Clinton took a deep breath and stood up for Obama.

Republicans lost another special election and vowed to find a better campaign slogan, and Mike Huckabee made an assassination joke that defied explanation.

For all of it, there was one nice thing: Both Barack Obama and John McCain expressed hope to raise the level of the campaign.

For sure, it won't take much to raise it beyond where it seems to be right now.

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[guysdigdirt]

And you war mongering morons who are for the bush brothers George W and John be careful what you wish for because you will never ever see it
Posted by sandysguy

If obsama gets into office everyone will wish for bush again.

[rational_1]

Hillary Clinton won big in Indiana and it matters. The endorsement Obama received from Edwards means about as much as Edwards'''' campaing: Nothing.
Posted by ERoosevelt08 at 12:09 AM : May 19, 2008

And contrary to what everyone may have told you, Obama not Shrillary won Texas (look at the primary + caucus delegate counts).

Basically it all comes down to numbers of delegates because that''s the way the system was set up by the Dems to pick their nominee. Number of states won, which states, popular vote, pantsuit color, whatever, those mean zip - ultimately it''s only the number of delegates a candidate has that matters. So Clinton can try to re-invent mathematics, but it''s a futile effort.

[hober_mallow]

Y''know all of those fires blazing in Florida?

That''s punishment from God for throwing the 2000 presidential election to Bush.

[rushlimpdrug]

So what happens with florida?

[sandysguy]

I get so sick and tired of you people trying to do idiot hillary math
Obama has a 700,000 vote lead in the popular vote no matter how you spin it
and delegates and super delegates and in states won

And to the moron that said hillary won big in Indiana she won by a lousey 21,000 votes out of millions and Our next President won by 120,000 votes in white dominated north carolina

And you war mongering morons who are for the bush brothers George W and John be careful what you wish for because you will never ever see it

[trohunt00]

MCCain said meeting with HAMAS was fine a few years ago, so how is it worse if Obama meets with Iran At least Iran is a country..sort of. HAMAS is a terrorist group that won an election. Talks work better than fights. The only time fighting worked better was when we dropped the A-Bomb, and we don''t have the guts to go something like that anymore.

Also, Hilary doesn''t have the popular vote. IF you had a freethrow shooting contest and was told that the first 2 shots wouldn''t count, and you hit them anyway,guess what? THEY STILL DON''T COUNT! If the knuckleheads in Florida and Michigan hadn''t decided to break with party rules they wouldn''t even be in the mess they are in now. Don''t seat ''em is what I say.

[sjc_1]

"...a case of too much too late, apparently."

Pledged Delegates:
Obama: 1,418
Clinton: 1,352

It depends on whether you count what counts. If you do fuzzy math you end up with wrong conclusions.

Have read a lot of the above opinions on here and see you folks bashing our Pres. time after time. I have to give Mr.Bush credit, if he ever reads or hears any of this garbage, for having the courge to keep trying his best for this country, which is a lot more than I can say for you complainers.It is easy to sit in front of your computer and write all these things and what should be done, but you''re not in political office are you? I have listened to Mr.Scheiffer and others on the news media also.What did any one of you do when al Qeada or one of the other terroist organizations bombed our embassys,blew a hole and killed 19 sailors on the USS Cole,when they took down the twin towers right here in America and all the other crimes against American''s??? When I think of all the men and women who have died, who have suffered the loss of someone they loved,thru all the WARS to protect this land and the freedoms we are supposed to have, it''s a wonder they don''t all stand up and kick everyone out of here today. IT makes me sick to see how so many American''s today want to "LET
the COMMUNIST TAKE OVER ALL CREATION" to borrow a phrase from Gen.MacArthur.You want to let American''s go hungry to give illegal aliens jobs,you don''t seem to want to push Congress to build the fence and protect our borders, Congress - a good percentage(like 98%) maybe, seems so busy lining their own pockets- they take money from Soc.Sec. all the time-they can not do the job they are supposed to be doing.

[eroosevelt08]

Hillary Clinton won big in Indiana and it matters. The endorsement Obama received from Edwards means about as much as Edwards'' campaing: Nothing.

[eroosevelt08]

I wouldn''t be so quick to count Senator Clinton out.

Senator Clinton has won the popular vote, not Obama. Plus, many Obama supporters have changed their minds after Rezko, Wrignt, Alice Parker and the continuing vetting process. Unfortunately, they cannot go back and vote their new opinions in the caucuses or primary elections. Many Democrats plan to stay home on election day if Obama is the nominee.

Once the first vote is over at the Democratic Convention, then the delegates are free to vote for the candidate who looks like she can win in the November election. Senator Clinton has a very real chance to win the nomination.