Hillary Responds To Oilmonger Barack

A press release from Hillary’s camp:

But, wait, there’s more:

Ahh, yes, those Pittsburgh politicians will have Hillary in the White House in a week or so.

Barack Obama’s New Ad

Whoa! Now Barack Obama is speaking directly to us like he’s Vince Fumo or Tom Knox or something. But it makes fun of Exxon! And, oh no, $3.50 for gas! And for some reason they’re going to pay a penalty for profits — and this is going to make them want to make less profit which is good for us, the consumer.

Obama would get us off foreign oil, though, as he is insistent all new cars made after 2009 run on hope.

Casey’s Endorsement: Payback!

Hey, Larry Kane has done an “analysis” for KYW 1060 on Bob Casey’s endorsement of Barack Obama! Apparently they’re good friends in the Senate (plus, uh, Obama is going to win and Casey can maybe land a sweet gig later).

And then there’s this!

But there’s an inside story of what happened here, and it goes back to 1982.

The late Robert Patrick Casey, governor of Pennsylvania at the time, asked for a few moments from the Clinton forces to speak at the Democratic National Convention in New York City about his pro-life views. He wanted to show that there were other views on abortion in the Democratic Party.

He was denied that access despite pleas from James Carville and Sen. Harris Wofford. Casey — father of the current senator — was bitter and angry, and he carried that bitterness to his death as he forged ahead with his pro-life views across the country.

That was never forgotten by the Casey family, and you could say that this endorsement is somewhat of a payback politically — but also a sincere endorsement on the part of the younger Bob Casey.

Hey, Zombie Robert Casey forced his son to endorse Barack Obama! It’s nice they’re at least listening to a dead man besides Jesus for once. Glad to see the elder Casey was bitter until his death, too.

Analysis: Casey’s Endorsement of Obama Has Deep Roots [KYW 1060]

Bob Casey Backs Barack Obama

Hey, remember Bob Casey? He’s the one everybody voted for last November because he was running against Rick Santorum. Well, apparently, he’s also a big Obama backer, as he endorsed the Big Changemonger today.

The Associated Press says this could be a big deal because now Catholics — also known as “Followers of Bob Casey” — are now allowed to vote for Obama. It also pits Casey up against Ed Rendell again, just like in that hilarious, fantastic 2002 primary nobody remembers. Ha ha, remember that dude who bumbled away the election and lost to a dude from Philly in the general election for governor? I don’t!

After the jump, part of Barack Obama on the view. Barbara Walters’ intro is, well, a bit much.

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Hillary Clinton To Never Stop Running

Whoo! With all the national attention on Pennsylvania, Will Bunch is picking up exclusives like it’s 2005 and norgs are all the rage.

And he even made a new friend in A.J. Daulerio, as in “I’ve been talking to some people today like my new friend A.J. Daulerio.” (Hey: Congrats on the new job!)

Bunch has had a lot of awful media coverage to work with recently, so things are going well out in the blogosphere. Anyway, Daulerio and Bunch both say that Hillary can’t win the election even if she wins every single vote anywhere ever and murders all of Obama’s pledged delegates. Bunch asked her about it and she essentially gave a nonsense answer that didn’t mean anything. I assume it means our new president is going to be John McCain.

Hillary Clinton To Level America

Here’s Hillary Clinton’s new just-for-Pennsylvania ad, where she speaks about how she’s going to level the playing field by banning special interests and probably violent video games, too.

Downtown Has $1.3M To Give Away

Hey! So Philadelphia Weekly has a new blog just for the Pennsylvania primary. It’s written by Alli Katz (who you may remember from the Wawa vigil video) and is called Independence Brawl.

So, yeah, go read it, add it to your RSS reader, whatever. Recently, Alli went to check out the top zip code for donations to presidential candidates in Philadelphia and, surprise, it’s in Center City. The 19103 zip code stretches for some reason between Rittenhouse and Logan Circle, but doesn’t include the tall buildings on Market or Chestnut. (That would be 19102, I believe. 19104 is West Philly and 19107 is the Gayborhood. I think. Man, this is confusing!)

The 19103 zip code brought in $1.3 million of donations to political candidates this election season. If you’re wondering, these people have more of an influence on the election that you do with your vote. But they have to give all their money to politicians, and voting don’t cost a thing, so it sucks to be them.

Where the Ballers at? [Independence Brawl]

There Is Only One Hillary

Whoops! Looks like the Tribune Chronicle of Ohio — “The Mahoning Valley’s first online newspaper,” the website says — made a little mistake.

It was incorrectly reported in Tuesday’s Tribune Chronicle that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton answered questions from voters in a local congressman’s office.

Reporter John Goodall, who was assigned to the story, spoke by telephone with Hillary Wicai Viers, who is a communications director in U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson’s staff. According to the reporter, when Viers answered the phone with ‘‘This is Hillary,’’ he believed he was speaking with the Democratic presidential candidate, who had made several previous visits to the Mahoning Valley.

The quotes from Viers were incorrectly attributed to Clinton.

The Tribune Chronicle has yet to correct its recent movie review, which claimed Senator Clinton did a bang-up job in The Lizzie McGuire Movie.

Information attributed to Clinton was incorrect [Tribune Chronicle]

Barack Obama On, Uh, 610 WIP

Barack Freaking Obama called in to the 610 WIP Morning Show and was interviewed by Angelo Freaking Cataldi today. I can only assume Obama’s on his way over to my place later today so we can watch some old Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. Oh, man, that would be sweet!

Obama even said he wanted to stop by the studios sometime! Plenty of softballs from Cataldi — he’s in Obama’s pocket!! — but he did ask him, “Why should we elect you president?” That’s a question I think commentators on TV don’t really ask, instead focusing on Barack Obama’s pastor and how he offended Pat Buchanan so much he stopped hating gays for a second.

So, yes, if I had a choice of the national TV news covering this election or Angelo Cataldi, it’s 610 WIP’s morning show hands down.

Obama To Speak On (Uh-Oh) Race

Today at the National Constitution Center, Barack Obama will give a speech about his race. Judging by how well Mitt Romney’s Mormon speech went over earlier in this campaign, I can only assume this will clinch the nomination for Hillary Clinton.

Obama is an excellent orator at times, even though we’re not allowed to say that because it might be racist. But can he actually speak about race in America without being called a racist? Some “professor of race and pop culture” at “the University of Southern California” told ABC News: “We’ve never really had a proper discussion about race and racism in this society so when comments come about as they have throughout this campaign we really don’t know how to act.” Ha ha, good luck, Obama!

All of this stems from the earlier race issues in the campaign, like when Bill Clinton said white people drive like this, and black people drive like that. But Obama’s pastor, Rev. Wacky, said some wacky things like we shouldn’t be throwing everybody in jail. Obama has apparently already “condemned” this quote: “The government gives them drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants to sing ‘God Bless America. No, no, no, not ‘God Bless America’ — ‘God Damn America.’” This makes sense, of course, as Barack Obama wants to keep putting black people in prison for drug crimes at a rate ridiculously higher than that of white people.

ABC News says Obama has a “postracial” appeal and his speech will be about moving past race. I fear that somehow this speech will end in only one thing: President John McCain. Ohh, WALNUTS!

Obama’s Race Speech to Stress Moving On [ABC News]