As Hotair.com put it: Obama gets will.i.am and Jessica Alba, Hillary gets this.
Bill Clinton on experience (VIDEO)
McCain and Romney: Mitt’s moment – at last?
A McCain-Romney ticket makes political sense for the GOP.
John McCain and Mitt Romney fought bitterly as presidential candidates and don’t seem to like each other very much.
But, to quote Vice President Dick Cheney in his recent interview with ABC’s Martha Raddatz: “So?”
A presidential nominee doesn’t need another best friend. He needs a ticket-balancer – and from the ridiculous to the sublime, his ex-rival fits the bill.
Romney has hair; McCain has much less; Romney is robotic; McCain is temperamental. Romney shifts positions with enthusiasm; McCain does it without any. Romney is a very wealthy man who invested $45 million of his own money in his presidential campaign; McCain is rich, but not that rich. He took out a $3 million line of credit to subsidize his campaign.
But seriously – and I mean it – Romney offers much to McCain’s presidential bid.
So says Joan Vennochi in the Boston Globe.
Among his assets to the ticket:
ENERGY: Romney is 61 – A decade younger than McCain. He’s a tireless campaigner, a good speaker, and strong debater. He dominated several of the showdowns between Republican contenders, and won their last debate in California.
CONSERVATIVES: Conservatives love him, they trust him more than McCain to be right wing on taxes and having Romney as veep would “put conservative pundits and talk show hosts behind it, with passion instead of resignation.”
STATE GRAB: Even if Massachusetts is more than a long shot, Romney might help McCain snatch New Hampshire from the Democrats. Romney could also be helpful in Michigan, the state where he was born and beat McCain; and in Nevada, which has a large Mormon population
Fan Video: It’s Raining McCain!
Painful to watch? Or creative good old fun?
Bill Richardson on endorsing Obama and Hillary’s reaction (VIDEO)
N.M. Gov Turns On Old Friends, Says He’ll Work to Win Obama Superdelegates
From ABC News:
“I think Obama is a once-in-a-lifetime leader and I felt, by stepping in, I might bring some kind of party unity or a message to others that we have to come together,” the former presidential candidate said on “Good Morning America Weekend” today.
At an Obama rally in Oregon yesterday, Richardson gave the junior senator from Illinois his highly coveted endorsment and described him as “a president who would bring this nation together.” The announcement gave the Obama campaign a shot in the arm after a week of unwanted headlines and dwindling poll numbers.
Since dropping out of the race two months ago, and with both the Obama and Clinton camps actively seeking his support, Richardson maintained that he wanted to “stay loose.”
McCain Gains from Clinton-Obama Feud
Campaign Sniping Has More Democrats Saying They’ll Vote McCain If Their Candidate Loses:
Polls now show words from both camps are causing serious damage. An increasing number of Clinton supporters say they would not vote for Obama in November and vice versa.
According to a new Franklin & Marshall College poll of Pennsylvania voters, only 53 percent of Clinton backers say they’ll vote for Obama should he become the nominee. Nineteen percent say they’ll vote for McCain and 13 percent say they won’t vote, the poll found.
The poll said that 60 percent of Obama backers said they would go for Clinton should she win the nomination, with 20 percent opting for McCain, and 3 percent saying they wouldn’t vote at all.
That’s what ABC News found in talking to voters on the street.
“I think I’d have to vote for McCain,” Laura Courson, New York woman who supports Clinton told ABC News, when asked what she would do if her candidate were not the Democrats’ nominee.
“I’d have a hard time voting for Hillary Clinton in this election … I might go for a third party candidate,” said Kevin Mills, a Los Angeles man who supports Obama.
The early months of the campaign were reasonably cordial. But as the race has gone on and on, it has also grown nastier.
I Want You Miss Clinton (VIDEO)
A love song to Hillary Clinton…
The Ferraro Factor in Obama’s Speech
In Obama’s speech yesterday, Ferraro was raised in an interesting way..
Ferraro, a former vice presidential nominee, was quoted last week saying Obama wouldn’t be where he is were he white.
Obama today described her assertions as “the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it’s based solely on the desire of wild and wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap.”
“Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Rev. Wright made in his offending sermons about America — to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality,” Obama said, to an auditorium packed with invited guests and the media at the National Constitution Center. The small forum for the speech was intentional, the campaign did not want this speech to have the rah-rah feel of a rally.