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Remembering Bill Clinton’s Primary Highs And Lows

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Democrats, Hillary, History, Video

MTP puts together some clips and makes the strongest case yet for why Hillary shouldn’t get the VP slot…and it has little to do with her own skills.

Can anybody seriously imagine Obama picking Hill and Bill just staying silent and not coming out on the trail? I think it’s possible, but highly, highly unlikely. Because [...]

June 8th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

How Helpful Is Bill Clinton?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Democrats, Hillary, History

(Note: I originally posted this on March 1st, but it’s even more relevant today…especially my advice to Obama about keeping Bill far away from the campaign trail.)
The common wisdom on Bill Clinton is he’s an invaluable asset to any campaign. Reasons given…he’s a beloved President, draws large crowds, draws large money, and it’s therefore assumed [...]

June 4th, 2008 | Permalink| 3 Comments »

Could Bill Prevent Hillary From Getting VP Slot?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Democrats, Hillary, Money, Veep

WSJ explains why:
[...] close advisers to Sen. Obama signaled an Obama-Clinton ticket was highly unlikely. People in both camps cited what several called “a deal-breaker” — Bill Clinton may balk at releasing records of his business dealings and big donors to his presidential library.
Remember, many feel (including myself) that the financial records of politician’s spouses [...]

June 4th, 2008 | Permalink| 5 Comments »

Hillary’s last last really last stand?

By donar | Related entries in 2008 Election, Billary, Cartoons, Elections, Hillary, News, Political Graffiti

June 3rd, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Hillary’s Last Stand

By donar | Related entries in 2008 Election, Billary, Cartoons, Democrats, Elections, Hillary, Montana, Pledged Delegates, Political Graffiti

June 2nd, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Bill Clinton Demeans Caucuses

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Democrats, Hillary

Here’s what he said…
“And the party will have to decide whether they believe the caucuses — where you get about one delegate for 2000 votes — are more important than the primaries where you get one for 12,000.”
What to make of this?
Well, as soon as they started losing caucus state after caucus state, those contests [...]

May 28th, 2008 | Permalink| 16 Comments »

Bill Clinton On 1992’s Race

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Billary, Democrats, Hillary, History

From his own book My Life comes this excerpt via Political Wire:
He writes: “On April 7, we also won in Kansas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. On April 9, Paul Tsongas announced that he would not reenter the race. The fight for the nomination was effectively over.”
So not only was her reference to RFK’s assassination not a [...]

May 27th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Shotgun Wedding

By donar | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Cartoons, Elections, Gender, Political Graffiti

May 27th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Starbucks or Cracker Barrel?

By donar | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Cartoons, Democrats, Political Graffiti

After winning in Kentucky, I realized that Hillary has taken all the states that Cracker Barrel dominates. For those of you unfortunate not to have a dining experience at Cracker Barrel, it’s a good ol’ fashion country restaurant that blue collar, good ol’ folk eat at. I love the pancakes! I remember Cracker Barrel when [...]

May 21st, 2008 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

No Hillaries!

By donar | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Cartoons, Elections, Hillary, McCain, Political Graffiti, Washington

May 20th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Hillary Breaks the Bank

By donar | Related entries in 2008 Election, Billary, Cartoons, Democrats, Elections, Political Graffiti

May 19th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

It’s over Hillary

By donar | Related entries in Billary, Cartoons, DNC, Elections, Political Graffiti

May 15th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Bush Hurts McCain More Than Wright Hurts Obama?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Bush, Democrats, Hillary, McCain, Polls, Republicans

That’s what a recent Gallup poll suggests.

Some details…
The nature of the relationships is clearly different — Wright was Obama’s former pastor, while Bush and McCain were rivals for the 2000 presidential nomination but Bush has endorsed McCain in the 2008 election. But both present problems for the candidates — Wright for his incendiary sermons and [...]

May 12th, 2008 | Permalink| 3 Comments »

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men…

By mw | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Boy Was I Wrong, News

It’s over.

May 7th, 2008 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

Andrew Sullivan Suggests A “Hate-Filled Dream Ticket”

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Democrats, Hillary

Sully’s scared she’ll damage him too much.
I have a similar concerns, but is choosing her for Veep really the way to go?
From TimesOnline:
It is for many in the Obama camp an unthinkable thought. But politics is sometimes the art of adjusting today to what seemed inconceivable yesterday. I’m talking about the possibility â€” and [...]

May 5th, 2008 | Permalink| 8 Comments »

Barack Begets Boomer Backlash

By mw | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Blogging, Democrats, Hillary

It very well may be time for Barack and the next generation to take the reigns of power. But not if he or his supporters expect Boomers to step aside and hand it to him. If he wants the reigns now, he is going to have to rip it out of their hands.

May 1st, 2008 | Permalink| 7 Comments »

Grand Theft Obama

By donar | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Cartoons, Elections, Hillary, Political Graffiti

With Grand Theft Auto being released this week, I couldn’t help but illustrate how Hillary would “jump” at the chance to car jack the nomination.Â We’ll see this next week.

May 1st, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Hillary Gloom

By donar | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Cartoons, Democrats, Pennsylvania, Political Graffiti

Six more weeks of negative vibes :(

April 23rd, 2008 | Permalink| 16 Comments »

Video: Bill Clinton Says Democratic Primary System Not Fair

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Democrats, Hillary, Republicans, Video

Isn’t this the same guy who accused Obama of whining last week?

Now, for whatever reason, the audio cut out on this video about halfway through me watching it, so in case the same happens for you, here’s what he said:
“If we were under the Republican system, which is more like the Electoral College, she’d have [...]

April 21st, 2008 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

Carl Bernstein On Hillary

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Democrats, Hillary, History

He appears to have been a fan. Not anymore.
From Anderson Cooper 360:
In A Woman in Charge, I wrote about her ability to evolve, observable especially in the years before she met Bill Clinton and in the Senate: to learn from her mistakes. Events have proven me wrong on that count.
The 2008 Clinton campaign, in fact, [...]

April 12th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »