nytimes.com - 8/22/2008
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Many supporters of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton say they need a strong signal from her on whether to shift their allegiance to Senator Barack Obama. >
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Dems Encouraged By Obama's Aggressiveness
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
... I am very encouraged by the NYTimes story this morning that HILLARY needs to do more to help unify the party, not Obama, with testimonial quotes from HER voters. It's like the hamster started running again in the mind of his campaign and they're acting like desperate, scrappy street yard bulldogs not aloof Ivy Professors. ...
Clintonistas: Get Over It
Taylor Marsh —
Guest post by Psychodrew.
I never thought I would say those words.
Two stories today, one in the New York Times and the other in the (Sarasota) Herald Tribune, on Hillary’s campaign swing through Boca Raton, FL and her supporters who believe that her heart is not really in Obama’s corner.
My favorite cry-baby line was in the NYT piece: ...
Obama, No Longer Biden His Time
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... , Hillary Clinton had never even been vetted by the Obama campaign. Ouch. Which reminds me: The New York Times reported yesterday that although "national polls show that [Hillary's] supporters have been moving toward Mr. Obama," some of those supporters are growing resentful of her heretofore halfhearted support of the Democratic nominee, and others are "demanding a strong signal from her on whether to shift their allegiance." Whether to? And shift just where, exactly? If Hillary is to retain her presidential dreams of 2012 or '16, she had best get very ...
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