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Now, here’s something new: Barack Obama’s campaign has announced that it will notify supporters of his vice presidential pick via text message.
“You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be the first to know his choice,” campaign manager David Plouffe told supporters in an e-mail.
Yeah ... either that, or Barack Obama, the former community organizer, is at work.
Witness the intersection of professional experience and political opportunity maximization: Not only is Obama continuing his record of taking advantage of modern technology to fuel his campaign and the hype surrounding it; he’s using this information to put together an entirely new database of people who can be contacted on a moment’s notice.
True, the signees will include people who aren’t necessarily supporters. But most of them will be. And that will come in mighty handy as the general election campaign heats up and the attacks between Obama and McCain intensify. Obama can—and will!—use the text message database to reach supporters to spread the campaign’s message of the day, refute anything John McCain says and even remind people to vote on Election Day.
Don’t think it will make a difference?
Ask yourself: How much do you think John Kerry would have given for a database that offered quick-strike, instant rebuttal capability—especially once the Swift Boat Veterans took to the airwaves in 2004?
Regarding the timing of Obama’s selection, look for the VP text sometime between Thursday and Monday nights. If the campaign wants to give the No. 2 nominee two shots at the Sunday morning circuit, it’ll be late this week; if not, look for the ticket to be rounded out late Monday.
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David Brody reports that the Democratic Party is going to try to tweak the abortion plank in its platform during the upcoming convention in Denver.
Read the proposed new language—and the existing language—here.
The Democrats at the national level just don’t get it.
Either life is something sacred and worth fighting for and worthy of protection, or it isn’t.
All this flowery language may sound good to some folks. But it’s designed to obscure the reality, which remains in the plank and permeates the party: There is no underlying principle that life has intrinsic value.
And that’s why pro-life voters won’t buy it.
I’ll take this opportunity again to tell you about a group called Democrats for Life. Their mission?
Democrats for Life of America exists to foster respect for life, from the beginning of life to natural death. This includes, but is not limited to, opposition to abortion, capital punishment, and euthanasia. Democrats for Life of America is one of over 200 member organizations of Consistent Life: an international network for peace, justice and life.
Now, ask yourself: What makes this language so difficult for the national party to embrace?
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Let’s get the John Edwards loose ends out of the way first.
There are lots of new angles on the Edwards/Hunter story, now that the mainstream media finally feels the green light to cover it:
Incidentally, Edwards insists that he was telling “99 percent” of the truth before coming clean Friday in a confessional interview.
That’s one GIANT 1 percent lie.
And, isn’t 99 percent of the truth a 100 percent lie anyway?
I’d add one more inconsistency to this list: Edwards admits that he was at the Beverly Hilton a few weeks ago when he ran into a men’s room to escape National Enquirer reporters who were questioning him about Hunter.
But if Edwards broke off the affair in 2006 and that baby girl isn’t his, then why was he even there?
Paul Begala (my least favorite pundit) offers his opinion from—well, we don’t know exactly where he is, but judging from his perspective, he’s nowhere here on Planet Earth.
SIDEBAR: I still don’t understand how those two—Carville and Begala—ever worked together. It’s like Mozart and that guy who plays the saw at the entrance to the subway. END SIDEBAR
“My gut tells me that had Senator Edwards dropped out of the race or had this become public prior to Iowa that we would have done better in Iowa,” said Wolfson, whose candidate placed a close third behind Edwards in the Jan. 3 caucuses. “At the end of the day you can play the what-if game endlessly, and you can play both ways you know. If Senator Clinton hadn’t gotten teary eyed in New Hampshire I think Senator Obama would have won New Hampshire and he would have been the nominee in January. So there are a thousand different ways you can play the what-if game but I do believe that the result would have been different had this become public a year ago.”
Riiiiight. Except that according to Fox News, a Washington Post poll taken after the caucuses showed 43 percent of voters who backed Edwards would have chosen Obama as a second choice ... not Clinton.
Never mind that. Hillaryland has strict guidelines against acknowledging facts.
And wait a minute ... is Wolfson saying that Clinton’s crying is what won her New Hampshire? It sure looks like it!
“I’ve only met her once,” Hunter told Newsweek reporter Jonathan Darman in late 2006 during a lunch in which she mistakenly cast him as a friend. “She does not give off good energy. She didn’t make eye contact with me.”
Hunter’s likely telling the truth. Because if Elizabeth Edwards had made eye contact with her, it’s likely that she would have been giving off a lot more bad energy—and that she would have shared it with Hunter.
Political tip for Hunter: If you’re trying to build credibility or empathy among the public, it’s generally a bad idea to bad-mouth a cancer-stricken wife whose husband is a lying cheater.
Especially if you’re the mistress.
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... although since it’s been so long since I’ve posted, I’m sure it seems like it.
It was a busy weekend, and yesterday was the first day of school. Between those things, I’m a bit behind. (I know; imagine that!!) But I’m catching up.
So, refresh, refresh, refresh ... there’s lots coming your way today.
Thanks for hanging in there!
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