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Posted at 1:29pm on Apr. 26, 2008 Obama, lobbyists, and the DNC
Will the DNC repudiate Obama's core message?
By Soren Dayton
Barack Obama and Howard Dean have been attacking John McCain for not being able to controlling the NC GOP. Let's see if Obama and Dean can control themselves.
Obama's central message has been the reform of Washington by not accepting money from lobbyists. But reports from USA Today makes clear that the message is a fraud:
Although Obama refuses direct campaign contributions from "Washington lobbyists," he takes money from lobbyists' spouses and holds fundraisers at the offices of law firms that lobby Congress. He won't touch money from PACs or lobbyists representing big oil and drug companies, but he happily accepts huge amounts of money from executives at those companies and many others. In fact, he's relying on two oil company executives to raise $50,000 apiece for his campaign.
This is old news, but it looks like Obama and Dean may have crossed a line. You see, the other day, they created a joint fundraising committee. So what?
The question for reporters will be this. Will Obama's first action as the de facto leader of his party will be to repudiate his fundamental message in the primary? See, here's the fundamental question. Will that committee take money from lobbyists? The DNC has made quite a lot of money of lobbyists, but let's see how bad this could be.
Read on.
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Posted at 6:55pm on Apr. 20, 2008 Obama: McCain better than Bush
There goes the message
By Soren Dayton
You've heard the Democrat's message. John McCain is John McSame. Third Bush term. Blah, blah, blah. It is dishonest, but Barack Obama and the DNC don't have a problem with that.
But today, Barack broke the talking point. What did he say? According to AP's Liz Sidoti:
"You have a real choice in this election. Either Democrat would be better than John McCain," Obama said to cheers from a rowdy crowd in central Pennsylvania. Then he said: "And all three of us would be better than George Bush."
Ooops. The Politico's Ben Smith describes this as a "break with the core of the Democratic Party's strategy." But you know, it's tough when the "core Democratic Party strategy" is to convince the public of something that even Democratic candidates don't believe.
Back to the drawing board. And try to be honest this time...
If you know how.
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Posted at 1:05am on Feb. 9, 2008 It Begins
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
Now that John McCain is going to be the Republican nominee for President, the Democratic National Committee has prepared various lines of attack that are designed to cut them down to size. However, as Winston Churchill might have said, the DNC's charges are unfortunate in their inability to coincide with the truth.
Another triumph for the "reality-based community," which will doubtless warn about "swiftboating" once it finishes repeating these very discredited charges.
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