i think the ones that have it now are trying to hold it back till oct. i am thinking someone else will find it and release it before then. http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/06/whats-on-michelle-obama-rant-tape.html
OBAMA'S VP SEARCH MISTAKE By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN "On his first day as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama made his first clear, serious mistake: He named Eric Holder as one of three people charged with vice-presidential vetting. As deputy attorney general, Holder was the key person who made the pardon of Marc Rich possible in the final hours of the Clinton presidency. Now, Obama will be stuck in the Marc Rich mess. If ever there was a person who did not deserve a presidential pardon, it's Marc Rich, the fugitive billionaire who renounced his US citizenship and moved to Switzerland to avoid prosecution for racketeering, wire fraud, 51 counts of tax fraud, evading $48 million in taxes, and engaging in illegal trades with Iran in violation of the US embargo following the 1979-80 hostage crisis. Seventeen years later, Rich wanted a pardon, and he retained Jack Quinn, former counsel to the president, to lobby his old boss. It was Holder who had originally recommended Quinn to one of Rich's advisers, although he claims that he did not know the identity of the client. And he gave substantive advice to Quinn along the way. According to Quinn's notes that were produced to Congress, Holder told Quinn to take the pardon application "straight to the White House" because "the timing is good." And once the pardon was granted, Holder sent his congratulations to Quinn. In 2002, a congressional committee reported that Holder was a "willing participant in the plan to keep the Justice Department from knowing about and opposing" the Rich pardon. It is one thing to reach back to Obama's pastor to raise doubts about his values. But it is quite another to scrutinize the record of his first appointee. It couldn't be a bigger mistake."
Much up nothing IMO....but hey, i thought the Rev. wright stuff was the same and would just blow over.
Dick Morris the great Toe sucker that was a successful republican senatorial campaign manager. Later he morphed into a Bill Clinton Lapdog when the checks were good.. Only to become yet another iteration of a squealing Fox News dogs again once the Clinton checks werenât rolling in Quite a source that Morrisâ¦almost as good as the great satirist Coulter.
dick morris' claim to fame was masterminding the clinton 92 victory... only one problem there, ross perot sucked away major support from crime boss gwhb and allowed the serial assaulter to win. other than that.. dick morris is wrong about everthing.
Dick "toe sucker" Moriss's claim to fame was getting Jesse Helms and Trent Lot elected. He was just cashing Clinton's checks
I haven't gone through this entire thread so someone may have already touched on this but I believe it would be unwise for Obama to pick Hillary for the VP spot. First Hillary made a fatal error by not conceding the race on the day Obama garnered enough delegates to be declared the presumptive nominee of the democratic party. This was her way of putting a gun to Obama's head and saying - You'd better pick me or face the consequences of not doing so. She's also got her cronies running around openly canvassing for her like that BET guy. Obama will be seen as a weak individual if he succumbs to these devious ploys and picks the porcine senator from New York as his running mate. Lo and behold if he picks her and ends up winning - Clinton's supporters will say that he won because of Hillary and that won't be the end of it. The Clintons carry a lot of baggage. To wit: I can envision old Bill stalking the west wing or east wing or whichever wing of the White House trying to screw both Obama's and Hillary's interns. The man just can't put his penis in his pants and walk away. Never has and never will. Obama's constant message has been "change". He can't do that with old White House veterans in the form of the Clintons. It will be counter productive. Obama has to pick somebody that he is comfortable working with and can trust. There is too much animosity and History between him and the lady in the pant suit for that to happen. There are many other factors but these will suffice in the interests of brevity.
Poll finds majority of Dems want Obama-Clinton ticket * Story Highlights * Poll shows 54 percent of Democrats want Hillary Clinton as VP candidate * 43 percent of Democrats polled think Barack Obama should choose someone else * Women favor Obama-Clinton ticket by 60 percent; 51 percent of men oppose it * CNN/Opinion Research poll finds economy is most important issue to voters From Paul Steinhauser CNN Deputy Political Director WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A majority of Democrats think Barack Obama should select Hillary Clinton as his running mate, according to a new national poll. Fifty-four percent of registered Democrats questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Friday think Obama should name his rival as his running mate; 43 percent disagreed. The poll is the first national survey conducted since Obama claimed the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, at the end of the primary season. Clinton is expected to announce Saturday that she's suspending her campaign and backing her Senate colleague. Men and women don't see eye-to-eye on the question. Sixty percent of Democratic women said Clinton should be Obama's running mate, but only 46 percent of male Democrats agreed, while 51 percent of them said no. " 'What do women want?' Sigmund Freud famously asked," said Bill Schneider, CNN senior political analyst. "The answer appears to be Clinton on the ticket. It's pretty clear that many Democratic women are miffed and that Obama has to be very careful how he deals with Sen. Clinton." See the poll results » Twenty-four percent of those polled said that even if Obama names someone else as his running mate, Clinton should try to override that decision at the Democratic convention in Denver in August. But 75 percent said that would not be a good idea. "Democrats would like Barack Obama to choose Hillary Clinton as his running mate, but they seem to recognize that it is his choice to make," said Keating Holland CNN polling director. "Some will be disappointed if Obama does not pick Clinton, but not disappointed enough to want a floor fight at the convention." See some other Democratic vice presidential possibilities » The survey also found that the economy remains the top issue in the minds of a plurality of Americans. Forty-two percent of those polled said the economy will be the most important issue in their decision on the presidency. Iraq remains in second place, selected by 24 percent as the most important issue for them, while health care was selected as most important by 12 percent. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted Wednesday and Thursday, with 921 registered voters, including 435 registered voters who describe themselves as Democrats or independents who lean Democratic. The sampling error for most results is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.