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And now for a bit of happy hour comic relief. A group called the National Black Republican Association -- which previously achieved minor infamy for some really inflammatory and historically-inaccurate radio ads in the Maryland Senate race -- has set a new goal: Turn African-American voters against Barack Obama.
The Huffington Post's Sam Stein reports that the NBRA has unveiled a new set of radio ads that it plans to run in battleground states on black radio stations, but they haven't yet clarified exactly
Here's the McCain campaign's response to Obama's rejection of Wes Clark's comments about McCain's military record...
"Of course Barack Obama has called many times for a new kind of politics, but his campaign just hasn't lived up to it. We've learned we need to wait and see what Senator Obama actually does, rather than take him at his word."
Can you believe it? The McCain camp isn't accepting Obama's disavowal of Clark's comments!
I was certain that the McCain campaign would respond by saying: "Okay, w
The Obama campaign goes up with its second general election ad, a biographical spot that highlights his role moving people from welfare to work, his securing of tax cuts for workers, and his respect for the "dignity that comes from work"...
The ad will air in exactly the same 18 states that his last ad did, including deep red ones like Alaska, Indiana, and Georgia.
Full script after the jump.
I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message.
Announcer: He worked his way through college and Harvard
The Obama campaign has a new statement out condemning Wes Clark's comments in an interview yesterday in which he questioned whether John McCain's military service means he has the qualifications to be commander in chief.
"As he's said many times before, Senator Obama honors and respects Senator McCain's service, and of course he rejects yesterday's statement by General Clark," said Obama campaign spokeman Bill Burton.
But what did Clark actually say? In the course of arguing that military service alone
Uh oh. Looks like Joe Lieberman is experimenting with new and creative ways of amplifying the GOP message that if we elect Barack Obama president, we'll all die.
On CBS yesterday, Lieberman strongly suggested that we would be hit by a terror attack in 2009 -- and that this should make us pull the lever for McCain...
As a special bonus for all you Lieberman fans, also note that Lieberman cited Hillary's attack on Obama's commander in chief cred during the primaries.
Now, there' s nothing wrong with deba
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This is pretty novel. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe has filmed a new Web video of himself, using a laptop in his office, in which he rallies the troops with a PowerPoint about the campaign's strategy to win the general election.
The Obama campaign is emailing out the video to supporters. Give it a watch:
In it, Plouffe makes points similar to the ones he made in a PowerPoint presentation to reporters the other day, but with a new PowerPoint. Now the Obama camp wants it to get out to its broader
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The conservative Family Research Council goes up on the air with a new spot using Obama's own recent speech about fatherhood to question his pro-choice views...
The spot, which is airing first in Cincinnatti, followed by Dallas and Atlanda, opens with a clip of Obama during his recent Father's Day speech saying: "We need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn't just end at conception."
It continues with FRC president Tony Perkins, who's seated holding a toddler and asks: "If, as you say, fathe
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When you write an item about leading Hillary supporter Ed Rendell, you are required to describe him as "blunt." And here is Rendell again, being, well, blunt about Bill Clinton's alleged hard feelings towards Obama...
Bill has to "get over it," and "shake it off," Rendell says. Did someone say he's blunt?
Ben Smith noted yesterday that Obama's campaign has harmed Bill in some ways, because Obama has run an implicit campaign against his presidency. That said, who the heck knows if Bill is really "miffed
At a presser today, Obama weighed in again on the FISA cave, and suffice it to say that what he said won't make opponents any less unhappy about Obama's position than they were already.
Asked specifically why he's supporting the current FISA bill when he'd promised months ago to support a filibuster of an earlier version of the bill, Obama suggested flat out that "national security" overrides the question of telecom immunity...
It's true that Obama says mitigating things like we need to be "watching the
This is just brutal. Take a look at Obama communications director Robert Gibbs, who's a bit of a killer, stomping all over Ralph Nader's suggestion that Obama is sidestepping poverty issues such as predatory lending because he wants to "talk white"...
Meanwhile, Matthew Yglesias points out another pesky flaw in Nader's argument: Obama actually does advocate cracking down on predatory lending and other measures to stop financial exploitation of poor people.
Details, details.
