From the Obama campaign comes the news that the VP may be announced by text message. I've found the page on Obamas website.
Be the First to Know
Barack is about to choose a running mate, and he wants you to know first. You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be part of this important moment.
Sign up today and we'll send you an email announcing Barack's running mate.
Also an aricle in the La Times gives more detail.
Obama's VP choice imminent via website, e-mail, text message
Ben smith has a post about the "video rumor" that has been discussed so many times here,
A reporter asked Obama about the tape and got the following.
"We have seen this before. There is dirt and lies that are circulated in e-mails and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about it," Obama said to the McClatchy reporter during a press conference aboard his campaign plane. "That gives legs to the story. If somebody has evidence that myself or Michelle or anybody has said something inappropriate, let them do it."
Dean has been in the news and no one here on Kos is talking about him.
Lately, every time he speaks I cringe. On MTP he spoke carefully never putting one candidate above the other. He says the race is neck and neck and makes no bones about the fact that the Supers can overturn the whole thing.
This from Dean on "Meet the Press"
They're governors, senators. A lot of them are, are, are DNC members. There's 21-year-olds there, there's--50 percent are women and so on, and on, on it goes. So this should not be looked at as some bunch of cigar-smoking folks in the back room slapping each other in the back and electing the next president. It doesn't work that way.
The Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (English: Armed Forces of National Liberation, FALN) was a Puerto Rican clandestine paramilitary organization that, through direct action, advocated complete independence for Puerto Rico. At the time of its dissolution, the FALN was responsible for more than 120 bomb attacks on United States targets between 1974 and 1983. [1] The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) classifies the FALN as a terrorist organization.[2]
Seems like a lifetime ago. In fact it was about 24 years. Bill pardoned the killers of this man for political reasons.
OK I have been surfing all over the usual places since I got home this afternoon. I started here at Kos and read positive diaries about the inevitability of Obama. here, and here.
And others too. I felt as though we could start going up against McSame.
Felt good...
Then I went to HuffPost and saw "Media jumps Ship from Obama" More stuff about how the major media is back in Hillarys camp.
Next to TPM usually not a good choice and I wasnt disappointed. Some article, thinly veiled, from George McGovern.To be honest I did see some of the same things
From the WAPo and America blog comes this piece from Douglas Schoen who consulted for Bill Clinton and who is in the firm with Penn.
Hillary Clinton took an important step Monday toward winning the Democratic nomination by launching an ad targeting Barack Obama's recent comments about working-class voters clinging to "guns or religion." The ad is a marked change from her recent determination to use a positive message until the Democratic convention, but for Clinton to capture the nomination she needs to completely abandon her positive campaign and continue to hammer away at Obama
If there ever has been a doubt about Hillary destroying Obama , here it is in print.
In the last week Hillary has turned the narrative around to Obamas "bitter" comment. She and her campaign are riding high celebrating a "second wind" as someone said. An ad is out to proclaim Obama elitist.
Who is paying for the ad running in Pa? Who isnt getting paid because it is running?
Hillary made sure we all knew that there would be no race after Feb 5th. What about all the voters who wouldn't get to vote? All the states, she is now telling that Obama doesn't want them to vote. Why are they needed to vote now?
From Sundays WAPO comes this shot across the bow of all Obama supporters
NEW ALBANY, Ind., March 29 -- In her most definitive comments to date on the subject, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton sought Saturday to put to rest any notion that she will drop out of the presidential race, pledging in an interview to not only compete in all the remaining primaries but also continue until there is a resolution of the disqualified results in Florida and Michigan.
She goes on to defy Howard Dean and throw it all to her "wins" in FL and MI
The Clinton strategy is to keep the popular vote and delegate deficits as close as possible while trying to inflict sufficient damage on Obama that he becomes a non-viable national candidate. That, they hope, will lead to a broad consensus in the party that running with Obama simply isn't realistic and superdelegates flocking en masse to Clinton. The collateral damage of success on those terms would be vast. But there's some limited evidence that she's making progress on that front
I had to drive about an hour away today, and listened to Rush to see what he had to say after throwing the Ohio and Texas primaries to Hillary. he crowed long and loud about the effort to give her the election but then went on.
It may be the line the Republicans are taking for now but it was frightfully true. Rush went on to talk truthfully about how the Dems have screwed up their primary. How Hillary wont give up even though Obama cant be beaten now. He was accurate about how she plans to steal the election and reveled in how McCain can use this to his advantage.
He went on to say the if the Democrats cant even run an election how can they run the country! He repeated this over and over. How can the Dems manage health care if they cant run an election.
I didnt see another diary on what I heard at 2:30 this afternoon on Rush.
I was in the car and wondered what he was pontificating on and heard a rant that should have burned everyones ears.
He went off on blogs using Kos as an example. He called us everything awful he could muster, Kos the evil lib blog. Well, we are now running the Democratic party. He said that the party is consulting Kos before formulating their opinions. He mentioned Roberts and said that we, evil, despicable, slimy, commie(cant remember all) Kossacks have the Democrats in our grasp and that the party leaders will consult Kos to test the waters before voting.
I guess he didnt notice that many actually diary on this site.
Wonder what that says about our power?
Here are real photos of Roves hugging the counter protestors at Crawford.
With the disgraceful lack of compassion in New Orleans today after watching dead people on CNN and hearing black folks screaming for help, this feels like a punch in the stomach!
I hope this hasnt been posted but this piece from Think Progress got my attention. Since Roberts has been nominated, I have been torn both ways. He seems better than many wingnuts, but is he a far worse choice? He is extremely bright and hard to criticize that he has left the Dems in a quandry.
This is a personal account of Roberts, and is worth reading.
I have been reading Plame entries and wondered if Jeffie had something to say about this.
He wrote this before the latest breaking news.
Im kind of overwhelmed, after reading the Newsweek piece and even Drudge has weighed in to protect Rove.
June 30, 2005
Plame probe may reveal more than Bush critics want America to know
No crime has been committed in the Valerie Plame case. That is, none that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is looking into. His narrow focus is to determine who it was at the White House that mentioned Valerie Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak. This futile exercise, while it may ruin careers if anyone is indicted, will not result in a conviction.
