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The campaign on Monday barred cameras from a large gathering of African-American civic leaders Mr. Obama attended. It recently refused to provide names of religious figures with whom Mr. Obama met in Chicago and directed some of them to avoid reporters by using a special exit
Does anyone has the list of attendes or a movie of this event?
"Change I can believe in" doesn't include a cancer cure by 2012. Actually, I thought it meant the end of this kind of political masturbation.
Obama and McCain told the 527 groups to not spend ad money on such things, because the average voter is turned off by such utter B.S. and as a result doesn't go to the polls.
It's NOT OK to say the opposition is not just wrong, but evil. The opposition includes most people's friends and relatives. Winning requires one to get actual votes from them.
If Obama loses, it will be because of crap like this.
"Obama and McCain told the 527 groups to not spend ad money on such things"? Apparently Floyd Brown, the man behind the Willie Horton adds from 1988, didn't get that message - he's at it again with anti-Obama ads. Undertoad, do you suppose McCain might lose because of "crap" like the ads Brown has already or might produce?
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The campaign on Monday barred cameras from a large gathering of African-American civic leaders Mr. Obama attended. It recently refused to provide names of religious figures with whom Mr. Obama met in Chicago and directed some of them to avoid reporters by using a special exit
Does anyone has the list of attendes or a movie of this event?
Posted by: AG | June 20, 2008 at 08:48 AM
@AG - I hear Sam Donaldson does, as well as transcripts from the event. Apparently he has access to every meeting that pertains to Obama
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5205505&page=1
Posted by: poptop | June 20, 2008 at 09:45 AM
Nice effort, but for me it was just meh.
Posted by: skylights | June 20, 2008 at 11:07 PM
"Change I can believe in" doesn't include a cancer cure by 2012. Actually, I thought it meant the end of this kind of political masturbation.
Obama and McCain told the 527 groups to not spend ad money on such things, because the average voter is turned off by such utter B.S. and as a result doesn't go to the polls.
It's NOT OK to say the opposition is not just wrong, but evil. The opposition includes most people's friends and relatives. Winning requires one to get actual votes from them.
If Obama loses, it will be because of crap like this.
Posted by: Undertoad | June 21, 2008 at 06:39 AM
"Obama and McCain told the 527 groups to not spend ad money on such things"? Apparently Floyd Brown, the man behind the Willie Horton adds from 1988, didn't get that message - he's at it again with anti-Obama ads. Undertoad, do you suppose McCain might lose because of "crap" like the ads Brown has already or might produce?
Posted by: Noizboy | June 23, 2008 at 08:22 AM