Archive for January, 2004
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Saturday, January 31st, 2004Dean’s new campaign manager lobbied for a major Republican contributor.
Bush Highlights FY 2005 Budget
Saturday, January 31st, 2004Let’s see the basics and priorities funded… and the overall spending go down.
Clark Sought Support from Suspected Terror Groups
Friday, January 30th, 2004The same Wesley Clark who claims he would have found Osama bin Laden by now claims to have been unaware that a Muslim group he sought political support from is under investigation by the FBI for possible ties to terrorism.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark sought the political support of a Muslim group that is under FBI investigation for terror ties, sources told the Daily News.
The Democratic presidential candidate’s videotaped message was played Dec. 27 in Chicago for the annual conference of the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Circle of North America - a Queens group being probed by the FBI counterterrorism agents, said two federal law enforcement officials.
How could Clark have been oblivious to this? The groups mentioned above have held “conferences featuring speakers accused of terror ties” and have also published materials supporting suicide bombings against Israel.
Matt Bennett, Clark’s campaign spokesman, said that they were “unaware of the allegations or the FBI probe.”
“I wish I could be there with you in person,” Clark said in his four-minute video. “I hope I will have your support in the months and years ahead.” An audiotape of the Clark speech was provided by terrorism investigator Steven Emerson and first aired on MSNBC.
Two past conference speakers face terror-related indictments and a third is identified in FBI reports as a Hamas terror leader. In March 2002, American Muslim magazine - described as “the voice of [the Muslim American Society]” - interviewed assassinated Hamas leader Abu Bakr’s wife, who said she was “willing to give my life and the lives of my children” and advocated “standing beside the families of the martyrs.”
I will say that I doubt Wesley Clark sought support of these groups with the knowledge that they were suspected of having ties to terror – however, for Clark and his campaign to be completely oblivious of the fact these groups are under investigation says a lot.
Clark wouldn’t have found Osama bin Laden by now – he maybe would have unknowingly sought political support from him.
Hat tip to Michael Turner of Curiouser and Curiouser for bringing this to my attention.
Cross-posted on Blogs For Bush.
Smashing Dean’s Piggy Bank
Friday, January 30th, 2004Whatever happened to that “largest grassroots campaign in presidential history?”
Whatever happened to those “record numbers of small individual contributions?”
Whatever happened to the big piggy bank of the Howard Dean campaign?
Howard Dean’s record campaign fund has dropped from $41 million to around $5 million, forcing him to cut costs as new front-runner John Kerry’s fund-raising fortunes rise.
A source directly familiar with Dean’s finances, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Dean had about $5 million on hand after all bills were paid. A second source, a senior campaign official, confirmed that Dean’s cash on hand had fallen to seven figures.
Contributions slowed dramatically in the hours after Dean replaced campaign manager Joe Trippi on Wednesday, but Dean supporters were heartened by a fund-raising pickup on Thursday. His Web site showed he was raising money at a clip of about $10,000 per hour, with more than $1 million in online donations since last Saturday
Perhaps Dean fired the wrong person. Maybe he should have fired himself and let Joe Trippi run instead.
All things considered, I wish Dean was doing better. Nothing would please me more than to see him win the nomination and get destroyed by Bush in November. The past few months, I’ve seen Deaniacs go on and on and on about how they are “real grassroots” and “will win easily” etc. etc. You know something? I am just as glad to see these people shrug their shoulders and say “What happened?” “Where did we go wrong?”
The pro-Bush bloggers have been right all along… We said Dean was imploding. We were absolutely correct. We knew it. Deaniacs were in denial or just completely oblivious to Dean’s extremism.
And Dean is the one who’s “changed politics” or “energized new voters?”
Where were they in Iowa?
Where were they in New Hampshire?
Dean is losing it. He’s spinning out of control, and we are witnessing the implosion of Howard Dean. Howard Dean, who once counted on winning Iowa and New Hampshire ( and other states afterwards) is now discounting the necessity to win primaries at all:
Returning to the road with an emboldened attack on Washington politicians, including his opponents in the Democratic presidential contest, Howard Dean on Thursday rebuffed the notion that he must win in one of the states voting on Tuesday, saying he is concentrating instead on collecting delegates, perhaps with an eye toward a convention challenge.
At the same time, Dr. Dean and his new campaign chief, Roy Neel, tried to reassure 100 of the campaign’s largest donors, in a 40-minute conference call, that they planned to quickly reduce heavy spending by cutting staff members, among other things.
Dean is a loser. This battle was his to lose, and he lost it big time. His pathetic attempt to save face just isn’t working. We laughed at John Kerry when he shook up his campaign, firing people and reorganizing… but that worked him. Dean was the frontrunner - and now he’s the “underdog.” Restructuring his campaign isn’t going to accomplish anything now - not after the two big primaries.
Looks like Howard Dean is going to be unemployed very soon.
Perhaps Howard Dean will go back to work for Planned Parenthood, giving abortions to 12 years on demand without telling their parents…
What A Long Strange Trippi It’s Been
Wednesday, January 28th, 2004Dean’s campaign kicks the bucket. Joe Trippi is canned.
It’s Wictory Wednesday!
Wednesday, January 28th, 2004It’s Wictory Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Now Quit Your Bitchin’
Monday, January 26th, 2004Would the reparations movement just go away?
Can Dean Ketchup to Kerry?
Monday, January 26th, 2004Is Kerry losing his post-Iowa bounce? Does Dean have a shot to pull it off tomorrow?
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