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Ear to the Ground

Clinton and Obama Share a Laugh

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The Senate turned into a bit of a schoolyard Wednesday as the Democratic presidential rivals gathered with their cliques, assembling to vote on the economic stimulus package. It was all in good spirits, though, as Sens. Obama, Kennedy, Feinstein, Clinton and others joked. As Sen. Claire McCaskill explained: “I think they were having fun at Ted’s expense. ... But everyone is good-natured about it.”

(h/t: Political Wire)


Wall Street Journal:

Clinton laughed, as the group joked about Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama, and Clinton’s subsequent win of his home state, Massachusetts, on Super Tuesday. Clinton remarked to Obama about “a big sigh of relief when he endorsed you.”

“You know, a little ribbing,” Feinstein said when asked about the exchange. “It was all good-hearted though.”

“I think they were having fun at Ted’s expense,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill. She said Kennedy told her it’s been a hard month. First there was the Super Bowl, where the supposedly unbeatable New England Patriots lost. Then the election, which is dividing Democrats—including the Kennedy family—between the Clinton and Obama camps. “But everyone is good-natured about it,” McCaskill said.

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By Jeffrey Zahn, February 9, 2008 at 5:10 pm #
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Forget the pundit-desired intra-party battle: start the campaign for the Presidency against the presumptive Republican nominee McCain right now!
 
We’ve seen Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton debating and campaigning against each other for nearly a year.  They both acknowledge their policies differences are slight, but they both have enormous differences with the Republican candidates.  Why not take this golden opportunity to show the voters in the remaining primary states how each candidate will campaign for the Presidency itself against the Republicans.  This is a new way, a new data point, for Barack and Hillary to display any differences they might have, campaign style, without having to go after each other.

It helps the party by promoting a sense of unity instead of playing into the media chorus for a schism.  It improves the Democratic message by yielding two simultaneous and powerful voices against the Republican machine.  And it puts the Republican presumptive nominee in a more difficult position by having to battle not one candidate, but two.

Many have been trying to convince the Democrats that not having a nominee by now puts us at a disadvantage, but nothing could be further from the truth.  The Democrats are actually an enviable position.  Add to this the fact that John McCain needs to spend the next several weeks to months moving to the right to shore up his base, thus making him an even easier target for the Democratic candidates, and Democrats can comfortably realize they should all be thrilled they have two potent candidates still actively on their side.

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By DennisD, February 8, 2008 at 5:27 pm #
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The last laugh as usual will be on us once all those campaign IOU’s come due.

The corporate lobbyists and their employeers have been the only ones really laughing for decades at how easy it is to con an American voter into thinking they actually have a choice as to what’s going to happen to them.

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By Maani, February 7, 2008 at 9:02 pm #

TB:

ROFLMAO!

Peace.

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By Thomas Billis, February 7, 2008 at 8:19 pm #

Yeah it was all good natured.Hillary asked if his endorsements were better than his driving.Ted responded with a hearty laugh and remarked that her husband would rather get oral sex from an intern than touch her.Obama not to be left out chuckled and said"I cannot believe the moron Americans are buying my Kombaya message”.They all laughed took their daggers out of the other one’s back and left.A good time was had by all.

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By Maani, February 7, 2008 at 8:07 pm #

Oh no!  They actually LAUGHED together?  What is this world coming to?!

Next thing you know, we’ll all be singing Kumbaya…LOL.

Peace.

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