So Who Are The Middle Class, According To Obama?

Depending on when you ask Obama it peaple who make under $250,000 or $200,000

If you ask Joe Biden, it’s under $150,000.

If you ask Obama surrogate Bill Richardson, it’s under $120,000.

In the end. the only thing we can count on is that if you pay taxes now, Obama would have you pay more, so he can spread the wealth around to those who don’t pay any taxes at all.

Tags: Bill Richardson, Joe Biden

48 comments October 31st, 2008

Candidates on Coffee

The AP had an interesting piece this evening on the coffee tastes of the presidential candidates. As serious coffee addict, I had to check it out…

DEMOCRATS:

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: Sometimes black, sometimes with cream

Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards: Doesn’t drink it

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama: Black, but rarely drinks it

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson: Cream

REPUBLICANS:

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani: Splenda, Sweet’n Low or Equal, whichever is available

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: Splenda

Arizona Sen. John McCain: Cappuccino or coffee with cream and sugar

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney: Doesn’t drink it, has been known to have hot chocolate

Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson: Cream

Myself… my day must begin with a venti cup of drip coffee from Starbucks, with half-and-half. What really amuses me about this is that most of the answers were consistent. Most either like it black, with cream, or with sugar (or a sugar substitute)… and then there is Hillary who said she has her coffee sometimes black, and sometimes with cream.

Sounds like her ridiculous answer to Tim Russert’s question about which team she would root for if the Cubs and the Yankees ever met in the World Series. Hillary said, “I would probably have to alternate sides.”

It seems like this is another typical have-it-both-ways response from Hillary. Over something as trivial as a coffee preference.

Tags: 2008 Campaign, Bill Richardson, coffee, Fred Thompson, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani

11 comments December 12th, 2007

Wheels Coming Off the Hillary Express?

Polls are weak reeds, especially this far out - but any hint of vulnerability on the part of Hillary Clinton will put her entire campaign plan at risk:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton trails five top Republican presidential contenders in general election match-ups, a drop in support from this summer, according to a poll released on Monday.

Clinton’s top Democratic rivals, Barack Obama and John Edwards, still lead Republicans in hypothetical match-ups ahead of the November 4, 2008, presidential election, the survey by Zogby Interactive showed.

Clinton, a New York senator who has been at the top of the Democratic pack in national polls in the 2008 race, trails Republican candidates Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John McCain and Mike Huckabee by three to five percentage points in the direct matches.

In July, Clinton narrowly led McCain, an Arizona senator, and held a five-point lead over former New York Mayor Giuliani, a six-point lead over former Tennessee Sen. Thompson and a 10-point lead over former Massachusetts Gov. Romney.

The narrative for Hillary Clinton is that she is unstoppable in the Democratic primaries and this is mostly because she is the one Democrat who supposedly can win the White House for the Democrats - I’ve never bought either part of this narrative, and with her flubs in debates, her flip flops on immigration/border security, the left’s distaste for her continued quasi-support for the campaign in Iraq, Obama’s possible lead in Iowa and now this poll showing her being beaten by all five of the top GOP contenders, I think that a lot of Democrats will question the narrative as well.

Time will tell, of course - but I think that both Obama and Edwards have obvious openings here…but, additionally, some good moves by the second tier (Richardson, eg) can have an impact. And, finally, a hint of Hillary collapse could bring both Kerry and Gore into the race as late entrants who are more credible than any of the other non-Hillary Democratic candidates.

Tags: 2008 Campaign, Al Gore, Bill Richardson, John Edwards, John Kerry

5 comments November 27th, 2007