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Senator Barack Obama is coming back to New York City today, for some late TV night face time AND to raise even more money. While Senator Hillary Clinton's camp is playing it cool and Clinton strategist Howard Wolfson telling the Daily News, "We're thrilled with our hometown support," the Post lists all the former Clinton donors who are now supporting Obama.
Obama has two fundraisers on his agenda and he'll be appearing on Late Night with David Letterman tonight. Pollsters and consultants say that as much money as Obama raises in New York, Clinton is sure to win the state primary. Which is true - but he can just take the NY cash and spend it elsewhere. And one of Obama's fund-raisers want him to go to Harlem to, as the Post suggests, "[seek] a beachhead in the neighborhood where Bill Clinton keeps an office."
Obama had a series of successful fund-raisers in the city last month, and it was revealed that he raised $25 million in the first quarter - about a million shy of what Clinton raised. New York magazine notes that with so much money raised, the "promises to be an all-out ad war." And the Daily News inspires all sorts of thoughts with its Bill Clinton metaphor: "Besides this week's Manhattan events, Camp Clinton is unholstering the Bubba gun for a trip to California next weekend; a rare, low-dollar hat-passer the following week at Pier 94, and then events in Nassau and Westchester counties in early May."
Photograph of Obama at a Veteran's Home in Iowa by Charlie Neibergall/AP
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you mean "for some late-night TV face time AND to raise even more money."
Gee, the Post taking glee in a problem for a Clinton. Whodathunkit?
The sad truth is that the U.S., bulit on the backs on African slaves, is still very much a racist country. Oprah Winfrey herself, probably the successful and admired African-American woman alive was called a "n***** bitch" on her recently televised cross-country trip. Big cities, though diverse, aren't immune to the problem (Rodney King, Sean Bell) but convincing the Great American White Heartland to mark a ballot for Obama seems an impossible task, even in the 21st century. I'm not talking about inbred cross-burners---but middle and working class whites who say publicly that they are not racist and yet, when alone in the voting booth, cannot bring themselves to vote for an African-American candidate. Private racism, not public, will be the doom of Obama's candidacy for President. I wish it were not so but this country has not come far enough yet from the sins of the past for it to be otherwise.
so we should have our decisions be guided by passive racists and defer to them?
Hal - get with the times dude. Turn off Don Imus and Limbaugh and wake up!!!!
Word to #4.
Get with the times? Don Imus' recent rant is a perfect example of the current racism that runs through the country. For the record, I'm a lifelong Democrat, not a Ditto-head, who thinks that after 8 years of the most fascist administration in US history, we need to nominate a candidate that actually stands a chance of winning the general election or face 4 more years (at least) of the same under Bush/Cheney's successor. Given those 8 years of the right-wing rule, 2008 is not the time to hold an experiment at the polls to see if America is still racist. Get real--It is. Democrats need to get serious about victory in 2008---it's too important not to.
I said it before, we need to get off this hillbama dream. It's too important not to lose this next one.
Let's get our party in first, then try for the daily double. Didn't they learn anything from the past?
Get Edwards/richardson in. Have Edwards show his cute children, let Richardson appeal to the hispanic vote.
couldn't agree more with 7&8, These two are already polling far behind each republican hopefuls. If that doesn't send the message the party is hopeless,
What we need is a president with HAIR.
I know that sounds overly simplistic but we have to think in generalizations in this reality TV American Idol age.
Has there ever been a current president who's bald?
That's why I'm going to say Mitt Rommey has a very good chance. Even better than Fred Thompson if he decides to get in the GOP race. Fred Thompson looks like the eagle muppet character.
Of course, the Democratic party has plenty of candidates with Hair.
Now that that's out of the way. Rule number two, don't have your spouse act aloof. Middle American will see that as elitist.