March 2008

(Via Huffington Post.)

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) is calling on presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) to sign on as a co-sponsor to his GI bill, which would improve educational benefits to veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“McCain needs to get on the bill,” Webb told reporters after a Christian Science Monitor breakfast meeting on Wednesday. He said legislation mirroring the post-World War II GI bill should not be considered a “political issue.”

(Via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire.)

“Entering a new phase of wrangling over Florida’s disputed presidential primary, state Democrats are pitching formulas to seat at least half of the state’s delegates based on the Jan. 29 election,” reports the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

The proposal: “Seat half of Florida’s 188 pledged delegates based on the Jan. 29 results and half based on the national vote. Florida’s 22 so-called superdelegates, who are among the 800 party insiders and elected officials who get a vote at the convention, also would be counted.”

(Via American Prospect.)

There is no doubt that working class whites harbor resentments against blacks. But wealthy whites are more likely than working-class whites to use the race card in the voting booth.

(Via .)

A new Franklin & Marshall poll in Pennsylvania shows Sen. Hillary Clinton way ahead of Sen. Barack Obama, 51% to 35%

Key finding: The poll shows the percentage of Democratic voters who view Obama favorably plunged by 10 points since last month’s poll. His unfavorable rating jumped from 16% to 25%.

(Via Americablog.)

More of what happens when we let business self regulate and decide what’s best for America. Unfortunately, there’s going to a lot more of this coming soon enough.

(Via Newsvine - ObamaVine.)

Is anyone at the wheel over at the Democratic National Party headquarters? One might wonder, given his stupendous bungling of both the Florida and Michigan primaries, is it time for Howard Dean to step aside for the sake of his party?

(Via Newsvine - Democrats.)

Pennsylvanians are rushing in record numbers to sign up as Democrats so they can vote in the April 22 presidential primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

(Via CNN.)

Sen. Barack Obama told CNN on Wednesday the recent uproar over his former pastor’s sermons has reminded him of the odds he faces in winning the White House.

(Via CNN.)

Sen. Hillary Clinton has scheduled a last-minute campaign stop Wednesday in Detroit, where she is expected to push for a revote in Michigan and blame Sen. Barack Obama’s camp for holding up efforts for a new primary.

(Via MyDD.) I’ve said this before in the context of clean government and ethics reform, but the Democrats simply must not concede the issue of national security to John McCain. First of all, it’s fairly clear that either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama would be better stewards of America’s foreign policy and national security than McCain, who wants to leave American forces mired down in Iraq for a century and who continues to use hawkish language that could get us involved in an outright conflict with Iran. Secondly, and more important in the short run, giving McCain a pass on national security makes it a whole lot harder to beat him in a general election.With this all in mind, compare these two messages coming out of the Clinton and Obama campaigns just one day after McCain all but admitted he has no idea what’s going on in Iraq. First, here’s Reuters: 

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama belittled Republican John McCain on Wednesday for misidentifying Iraqi extremists, saying he fails to understand the war has emboldened U.S. enemies.   

First Read: 

Bill Clinton told voters in Northeastern Pennsylvania today that his wife is the only Democratic candidate “who can stack up against Sen. McCain on the national security issues,” and that a victory in this state could pave the way to her winning the nomination.  

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