Democrats agreed to shake up tradition Saturday by wedging Nevada between Iowa’s leadoff caucuses and the New Hampshire primary in the 2008 presidential nominating calendar and adding South Carolina soon afterward. (Washington Post)
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You white boys gave us John Kerry. Now you’re going to pay for your mistake.
“We are a party that gravitates toward front-runners.” (New York Times)
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McCain is going to have to rely on being a perpetual front-runner because the party faithful will turn on him in a second if he shows any weakness in the polls.
“Well, if I were Joe and I was running as an independent, that’s what I’d say, too,” Clinton said. “But that’s not quite right. That is, there were almost no Democrats who agreed with his position, which was, ‘I want to attack Iraq whether or not they have weapons of mass destruction.’” (ABC News)
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Stop trying to hang on to my political coattails like a leach Joe. I won’t be dragged down just because you’re too stupid. Last time I do a charity apperance for an old friend…
When reporters pressed Mr. Snow on whether the President supported his own party’s candidate, he responded: “There may be — there are a whole host of reasons the president — I’m just not going to play.” (New York Times)
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Let’s see how much havoc we can cause in general in this race.
“I would never want to demean him as an individual. I do apologize if he’s offended by that. That was no way the point.” (Washington Post)
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I know what I said. Hopefully this will blow over in the mainstream media…but I’ll secure the rural racist vote in the meantime.
“I am going to work for the Democratic nominee…I contributed to him as of today. And I told him that I would do whatever I can and whatever he wants me to do to help him in his election.’’ (New York Times)
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I will only put forth enough effort for Lamont to shut the netroots up.
If Lieberman loses today it will hurt the standing in the Democratic party of both Bill and Hillary Clinton. Call them liberal, call them conservative, call them triangulators, just don’t call them losers…
The former senator from North Carolina told reporters America should “make it clear (to Iraqis) we are leaving, and the best way is to start leaving. We should take 40,000 combat troops out now.” (AP)
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I’m going to keep moving more anti-war, little by little. As long as I stay ahead of the other major candidates on the issue, I get credit for my position. And by saying something a little knew every once in a while, I keep my name in the news.
“The impact of Katrina was profound,” said former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer. “It caught a tired White House staff off guard and turned out to be one of the most damaging events of his presidency.” (Washington Post)
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The implication is we were too exhausted by Democratic attacks on Iraq to focus on Katrina. I hope that readers understand this, I’m used to talking in deliberately misleading phrases.
“Yes, we hear a lot of happy talk and rosy scenarios, but because of the administration’s strategic blunders and, frankly, the record of incompetence in executing, you are presiding over a failed policy.
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You hear that anti-war people…I can criticize the war effort with the best of them. I’m no Joe Lieberman!
