« Turnout On Tuesday | Main | Daily Clinton Talking Points: "Rhetoric v. Results" » Obama's In New York On Wednesday07 Jan 2008 09:48 am Where will Barack Obama go the day after New Hampshire? Right into the heart of Sen. Clinton's financial heartland, New York City. The campaign has scheduled a high-dollar fundraiser on Wednesday evening at the Grand Hyatt New York about Grand Central Station. One of the sponsors of the event is Jordan Tamagni, a former speechwriter for Bill Clinton. $2300 gets you a photo with the man himself. Comments (11)
For someone Hillary accuses of being inexperienced, Obama sure operates like a season pro. In every way he has run his campaign he impresses me as the one with true skills and ability to get things done. He has been the calm, composed one while Hillary always seems panicked and shaken. If the campaigns are any indication of how each candidate would run their administration if given the chance, then Obama is miles ahead of Hillary in this department as well. Obama is the total package: oratory and communication skills, charm and people skills, and executive leadership skills, all joined with sound judgement. 
Right into the heart of Sen. Clinton's financial heartland, New York City. This is a fairly ridiculous sentence. New York City is every major presidential candidate's financial heartland.
I disagree. I would say that Obama's financial heartland would be Chicago...
In sports there's a euphemism that says when you're in the lead to "step on your opponent's neck." That's exactly what Obama is doing here. He'll win tomorrow, suck up the remaining money from New York and look for him to be in California sometime next week. That Feb. 5 Clinton "firewall" will melt from the momentum as well. If he wins tomorrow he cannot and will not be stopped. Hillary may do the super delegate thing and try to make the convention a contentious issue, but she will forever damage herself politically for doing that and will go down as purposefully weakening a Democratic nominee before the general. She will have effectively ended her political career if she takes that strategy.
The real question regarding Barack is this, What has he done in the Senate that has brought real change in the lives of the people he respresents?
"The real question regarding Barack is this, What has he done in the Senate that has brought real change in the lives of the people he respresents?" About as much as Hillary has for her constituency. (Nothing.)
"The real question regarding Barack is this, What has he done in the Senate that has brought real change in the lives of the people he respresents?" Not just in the Senate, but before: Obama helped laid off steel workers get re-trained and find jobs, he worked at a civil rights law firm to fight for blacks who weren't allowed to vote, he spoke against the war in the beginning when it wasn't popular. He did all this despite graduating from Harvard and becoming first African-American to head the Harvard Review and could pick any millionaire-club job offer. If Hillary asks Obama about his inexperience, here's what Obama should answer: "I'm just as experienced as Sen. Clinton. We both married a brilliant and accomplished spouse, and I learned a lot from my wife Michelle." So there.
He also accomplished a few things as a State Senator. Obama was the main force behind a bill that now requires all police interrogations with suspected murderers to be recorded in Illinois.
When all the hooplah is done, what matters most is the person's ability to lead. I started out last summer as a Hillary supporter, but as I've heard more and more about arm-twisting and raising money through shady characters, I'm reminded of just how good a choice the Soprano's parady truly was. I'd rather have someone in the high office with the ability to inspire than a thug whose experience consists of one term in senate and 35 years of getting her way through dirty tactics. We had "experienced" Nixon already. If it comes down to that choice, I'll choose Obama in a heartbeat.
Obama is the future of our country, and for the first time in a long time, I'm proud of our country.
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LOL. He's going to win New Hampshire by 15+ points and then fly straight to New York and rake in the cash. I love it. I don't think anything can stop Obama now.
Posted by Jenna | January 7, 2008 10:13 AM