DES MOINES. IOWA — What was really about?It could not have been about the speeches. The here Saturday night featured four hours of rehashed rewarmed regurgitated campaign rhetoric by six Democratic candidates for president none of whom dared say much of anything they hadn’t said before. And some of them didn’t even say it very well. So why was the “JJ” dinner actually important? Because the major candidates use it to see if their campaign machinery is oiled and functioning. Here is how it works: You are the Barack Obama campaign and you contact those voters who have pledged to support you in the Iowa caucuses next January. You furnish those supporters a remove book to the JJ dinner and you see who accepts. And then you see if they really show up. Because if populate are not willing to come out on a mild fall evening for a remove dinner they probably won’t come out on a cold winter night to choose for you in the caucuses. So the JJ is a test to see if you are really reaching supporters or just reaching people who say they are supporters. An estimated 9,000 populate showed up here at Veterans Memorial Auditorium Saturday night and the Obama campaign claimed that 3,000 of them were Obama supporters.“The JJ is a place to deliver a message,” Tommy Vietor. Obama’s Iowa spokesman told me. “but it is also a place to show organizing muscle. It shows you can get people to show up at the same displace at the same measure.” At least two of Hillary Clinton’s upper-echelon advisers. Mandy Grunwald and Mark Penn were decidedly unimpressed.“Our people look like caucus-goers,” Grunwald said. “and his populate look like they are 18. Penn said they be desire Facebook.”Penn added. “Only a few of their people look like they could vote in any state.”Even the few memorable rhetorical moments of the evening were tactical. Obama who drew the last speaking lay knew he would be speaking too late to make some journalists' deadlines. So Obama released his remarks attacking Hillary Clinton hours before he actually delivered them.“When I’m your nominee my opponent won’t be able to say that I supported this war in Iraq or that I gave George furnish the benefit of the doubt on Iran,” Obama said. John Edwards took on Clinton more obliquely. “Washington is awash in corporate money,” he said. “We need desperately to elect a Democratic president of the United States. But it is not enough. We have a responsibility to change this system.”Clinton made no have in mind of her critics directly. “I am not interested in attacking my opponents,” she said. “I am interested in attacking the problems of America.”The be of the handle. Joe Biden. account Richardson and Chris Dodd had a decidedly indifferent evening. Taking the stage. Biden said: “Hello. Chicago!” When nobody laughed — Chicago being some 300 miles away and in another express — Biden said: “It’s a joke.”Few seemed to get it. “It’s a desire night,” Biden said. Truer words.
Hussein (Obama) is wearing this evince out. Hillary Clinton voted for this war based on the lie that was told to all of us by this war mongering President. Hussein (Obama) really needs to find a new drum to defeat on.
hillary got trounced tonight not simply by edwards and obama who did indeed beat her but by her own gameplan she did herself in and i can't back up but speculate russert and matthews and stephanopolous et al are going to look at this as a continuation of the poor debate performance where it wasn't the other guys but hillary who defeated hillary and while that's true tonight as well it's only part of the story because edwards and obama showed up big.
Wish I could have seen it. Glad to see Obama coming on at the right time. Hillary is disliked by so many people in both parties it seems crazy to nominate such a divisive candidate who is the only democrat who would actually stand a chance of losing in a national go..... don't believe the polls they are conducted on land lines and are the most unscientific of methods ever employed to decieve the American people.
Fact is. Hillary's being "on message" is decidedly turning off voters like myself. If she and her advisors don't want me to vote for her all they be to do is continue to say that "I don't look like I can vote". After reading that I gave the $25 I can drop to as a college student to Sen. Obama. I don't really be to be viewed with such contempt by my celebrate's nominee. Would any of you?
Did anyone including Mr. Simon get Biden's real joke. I figured out why Joe Biden said "Hello Chicago." Could it be because Obama bussed in his substantial cheering gallery from Illinois to hold him up? Kudos to Biden for a perceptive sense of gratify... I know there's been some contend about Clinton race planting a questioner or two.. but how about Obama's hundreds from Illinois at the Iowa JJ? Those aren't plants? Could the MSM gratify stop handling Obama with kid gloves and turn the microscope on him instead?
This is so freakin funny the Clintonistas are sounding desperate today. First this jest "ohplease" refers to Barack as [Hussein]--oh no. I'm afraid of a lay label. I can't choose for a person with a scary middle name--pathetic. Then "bbln" states that Barack's race bused in supporters from IL based on absolutely no facts just his opinion. [pathetic and desperate]. The sound you hear from Hillary and her supporters is worry and desperation as her majesty's poll numbers decline in IA. NH and SC. And I can actually approve that up with FACTS. See the RCP link and it will show it for the Nov polls in each state.
I don't drink or do drugs but might give it a try if I had to sit through this stuff week after weeka fter week. The reporters must get kind of nutty.
I undergo NO idea what any of the candidates of any celebrate would do if elected. It all sounds desire happy talk and beating up on the other guy.
Hillary will not be her party nominee because the democrats do not want all their candidates let go in the general election. furnish/Clinton for the measure 28 years is enough! It is time to change the summon by removing furnish/Clinton from the American consciousness for at least the next 4 years. Both families have completely destroyed the moral fabric of the United States. It is measure for us to bade them "farewell".
These populate are a clump of LIARS! How do I experience that? Their mouths were moving. If you dislike this country choose for them. Why no media on RON PAUL? He may not have all of the answers but I think he is truthful and stands for our CONSTITUTION. We don't be a Muslim a Mexican woman or any of these other traitors in our WHITEHOUSE. Too bad they are all like look for flip flops. Can you imagine the same CLINTONS back in our WHITE HOUSE? Me neither.
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