Barack Obama: "We're Ready For The Rough And Tumble"

AP:

Barack Obama talked of introducing some Chicago smackdown to his politics of hope Wednesday, seeking a rebound after Hillary Rodham Clinton grasped victory in the New Hampshire primary. In the wide-open Republican contest, John McCain pressed to build on his New Hampshire win and named experience, knowledge and judgment as his calling cards in the races ahead.

Clinton pored over election strategy in the first blush of her surprising success and indicated she'd compete in every big Democratic contest coming up this month rather than try to cherry pick her way to the nomination.

Read the whole story: AP

Comments

[Orikinla]

08:19 AM on 01/10/2008

I am not an Obama-nut, because I am not nuts over Obama. His re-phrased cliches cannot make me weep like Chris Matthews.


His best idea on foreign policy caused a riot in Pakistan where the US Flag and his effigy were burnt.

Everything about him seems contrived.

The records of his performance as a state legislator and first term junior senator are not convincing and the debates showed his shortcomings.

What has been propelling his presidential campaign are the power brokers from the anti-Clinton political bloc, investing millions of dollars on him to oppose the nomination and election of Senator Hillary Clinton as the next President of the United States of America.
That is why Barack Obama’s hypocritical opposition to the war in Iraq is shallow.
Is it not ironical that the major beneficiaries of the war in Iraq are among the major donors and sponsors of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama?

Senator Barack Obama knows that he is not really a true African American, but more of a Kenyan American.
An African American is a descendant of American negros from the slave era who have been working in the vineyard of liberty since the days of the founding fathers and not the son a Kenyan student named Barack Hussein Obama, who only came to the US for studies and fathered Barack Hussein Obama, Jr, in 1961. The wish of the late Barack Hussein Obama, Sr, is for his son to return to his fatherland in Kenya and join in the nation building of the East African country, but when Barack Hussein Obama, Jr, visited his fatherland, he was afraid of the poverty and abandoned the African heritage of his Kenyan family for the prosperity of his Caucasian American mother.

Barack Obama is not different from any other African immigrant with a green card in America. He should be proud to be identified as a Kenyan American and not claiming to be an African American to curry the favour of bona fide African Americans in the pursuit of his American presidential ambition.

[IkeChicago]

07:44 PM on 01/09/2008

Bill Clinton made an ass of himself with his womanizing and we elected him president.Bill Clinton made an ass of himself by having an illicit affair in the Oval office with an intern and we forgave him for that.Bill Clinton is making an ass of himself on the campaign trail by lying and blatantly misrepresenting Sen. Barack Obama"s record and calling him a "Fairy tail person".
When is America going to wake up and recognize Bill Clinton for what he really is, an over educated Jackass.

[wildhorse]

07:32 PM on 01/09/2008

OBAMA PLAYING THE RACE CARD!

YEAH, HE'S GOT THE RIGHT STUFF TO BE PRESIDENT!

OBAMAS NOT ONLY A JOKE HE'S PATHETIC!

[williamg]

07:11 PM on 01/09/2008

I am very much looking forward to the Nevada debate on Tuesday. I get the feeling that Hillary and Obama are going to feel very comfortable in the debate. We all know that John Edwards is going to come out screaming and yelling.

[lovethesinner]

06:53 PM on 01/09/2008

Why, Senator Clinton?
We ask Clinton why she voted for an amendment that could be used as support for attacking Iran

Thursday October 18th, 2007:
On September 26th, Senator Clinton voted for the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment, which designates the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. She was the only Democratic Presidential candidate who voted for the resolution.

"This isn't our present policy of keeping the military option on the table. It is, for all practical purposes, mandating the military option."

-Senator Jim Webb

https://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=485&thisview=item

Can we know the truth, and speak it? Yes, we can. Can we hear the music of democracy in spite of the noise of partisanship?

Yes, we can.

Obama in '08

[gotalife]

06:52 PM on 01/09/2008

Yes, Obama should counter President Clinton's attacks and stop with the unity bs.

They are going to attack his voting present and his experience.

[cruisepuppy7452a]

06:49 PM on 01/09/2008

Nobody should be claiming victory at this point. Hillary dodged a bullet, Obamma barely got second, and Edwards came in at a dismal third. The real losers in all of this are the Public. We will be at the mercy of one of these people, and we better hope and pray they are on the side of the middle class or the poor. Talk is cheap. The public is going to be voting thier wallets, by thier lack of health insurance, the high numbers of dead soldiers and who is going to put a stop to this blood bath asap. Those are the issues folks. Make no mistake. Its not about religion like the evangelicals assume it to be. Its not about who is moral or who isn't. This is about the people, who is going to do what has to be done to get us out of this mess Bush put us into. If you notice I don't mince words here. Its not about the race card, I don't care if Obamma is chartruesse, so long as he gets us out of this mess. But someone has to speak up for us, defend us, work for US, not them or thier cronies. And to the guy who said he would hurt the party who voted against big business? Um sir, i have these words for you, you are screwing yourself, by outsourcing our jobs. If we vote against Big business, you deserve it.

[gigorgei]

06:47 PM on 01/09/2008

I was amazed to hear of the intiative Obama has taken with the political instability in Kenya. Outstanding leadership!

[Superfelo]

06:45 PM on 01/09/2008

It needs to be said as fodder for the cannon:
Hillary Clinton did not read the report that justified, or would have justified a vote for war. People should be reminded of this over and over. If as a Senator of this great country, she could not read, or had no time to read a report crucial, to many for it was a vote for War; and which was given as a justification for war, then what will she do, when the problems of being president, everyday, drop in her lap? The presidency
is a grind and few are built to wistand it.
After failing to read the report; she refused to admit that she made a mistake.
She is not running for first wife; she is running for president. People that are constitutionally unable to admit that they have made a mistake, have deep emotional
Problems. It is an act of nobility to admit that one has made a mistake. None of us is infallible.
Hillary and Bill Clinton had eight years, when it was cheaper, and more palatable to people, to pass a solid Health Care Plan.
They failed miserably; and she was the architect and leader of the task force that met to make it possible. Results? Experience?It did not seem to have done us any good then;
and it won’t do us any good now.
They failed miserably.
New Hampshire gave the death knell for secret balloting-it should be either Iowa-type of voting or the internet. The secret ballot has become obsolete...From Florida, to Mexico,
to Kenya, to Ohio.
Enough said.

[Maifmart]

06:44 PM on 01/09/2008

Whoever claimed Obama is not experienced, missed the Iowa caucus, his campaign called all the lesser candidates supporters to inform them that if they didn’t meet the threshold vote Obama, Richardson denied issuing such instruction, my brother got such a call from someone claiming to be from Kucinich, one wonders how many people who chose Obama as a second choice received such phone calls?

As far as Hillary goes I’ll never vote for someone so sold out, she like hubby got caught taking Chinese money, talk outsourcing, Walmart.

[msmaggie]

06:37 PM on 01/09/2008

Gosh, one close lose and it's time to 86 all that "people are tired of negativity and are looking for a positive message" crap, huh? Gee, it was swell while it lasted.

SS,DD

[AuntieChrist]

06:36 PM on 01/09/2008

Let's ALL of us know our enemies.

From TPMmuckracker:

Alarmed at the increasingly populist tone of the 2008 political campaign, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is set to issue a fiery promise to spend millions of dollars to defeat candidates deemed to be anti-business.
"We plan to build a grass-roots business organization so strong that when it bites you in the butt, you bleed," chamber President Tom Donohue said....

Although Donohue shied away from precise figures, he indicated that his organization would spend in excess of the approximately $60 million it spent in the last presidential cycle. That approaches the spending levels planned by the largest labor unions....

"I'm concerned about anti-corporate and populist rhetoric from candidates for the presidency, members of Congress and the media," he said. "It suggests to us that we have to demonstrate who it is in this society that creates jobs, wealth and benefits -- and who it is that eats them."

Full article in LA Times: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/005038.php

It's time for America to have it's very own French Revolution.

Let the head rolling commence.

Auntie Christ

[williamg]

06:35 PM on 01/09/2008

"Maybe I have liberated us to actually let women be human beings in public," said Clinton, the former first lady, reflecting on a memorable moment of emotion the day before she gained her own New Hampshire victory.

I guess she enjoys talking about this subject.


http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080109/D8U2KIGG2.html

[CaliforniaMike]

06:34 PM on 01/09/2008

Mittens is going to turn this race around. He has just purchashed a time machine that he will use to go back and ask his father to stop being a Muslim.

George Romney will instead be a snake-handling, tongues-speaking Pentecostal, so that his boy Mittens can win the Iowa caucuses.

Hate to say it, BJ, but that may be Mittens' only hope.

Aw heck, I don't really hate to say it.

[oneeyedodin]

06:32 PM on 01/09/2008

WTF?

The Obama "camp" says they are "sure" that race played no part in thr NH results.

Translation: race is what beat us but we are not going to say it out loud.

I not going to mention that most people think your full of shit.