Obama gets big Kentucky endorsement
April 29th, 2008
LOUISVILLE, Ky. | Kentucky bigwig Ben Chandler, a new U.S. rep and grandson of a former governor, will endorse Barack Obama today, Obama’s state campaign director said.
The endorsement would give Obama the support of Kentucky’s two Democratic congressmen — who represent the state’s most urban areas — leading into the state’s May 20 primary.
Carolyn Tandy, Obama’s campaign director in Kentucky, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Chandler will announce his support for Obama at a late-morning news conference in downtown Louisville.
Chandler represents a central Kentucky district that includes Lexington. He entered Congress in early 2004 after winning a special election to fill the seat of Republican Ernie Fletcher, who defeated him in the state’s 2003 gubernatorial election. Chandler is also a former attorney general and state auditor.
The Chandler name is one of the most famous in Kentucky politics. Ben Chandler’s grandfather, A.B. “Happy” Chandler, was twice elected governor, served in the U.S. Senate and was commissioner of baseball.
By The AP
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April 29th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Hmm..sarcasm??
April 29th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Say, there are a fucking lot of elephants in this room, aren't there?
April 29th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Perhaps. I stand by my assessment that using “rap” and “blast” as synonyms for “criticize” sounds clumsy and affected. Try it with your friends. “My friend Bob rapped my suggestion for where to eat last night.” “Charlotte blasted my thoughts about the movie.” Contrived and strange.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
there are an infinite number of foreign policy that can be worse or the same as bushes, the fact that bush disagrees with something in no manner elevates, or validates anything.That doesn’t mean I think that Obama’s FP is bad, (I actually am a firm supporter of it), but rather that Bushs opinion on it is immaterial to its quality
April 29th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
BTW, this is a great little book that provides glimpse into Cuban society from a rather unusual point of view.http://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Diaries-American-Housewife-Havana/dp/0767914848
April 29th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
FTA- “He said the actions of Raul Castro, brother of ailing former President Fidel Castro, amount to “nothing more than the extension of what his brother did, which was to ruin an island and imprison people because of their beliefs.”His position was similar to that of New York Sen. Clinton, who argued at a debate with Obama last week in Texas that there should be no talks with Cuba until it makes progress on releasing political prisoners and improving human rights.”how ironic indeed that he complains about imprisoning people for their beliefs when we are imprisoning people for no reason what-so-ever on the very same island…they need to work on improving human rights? at the same time as “1 in 99 americans is behind bars: most in history” article is on the front page of reddit?dare we call african-americans who are behind bars for crack cocaine “political prisoners”?no, we don’t have poltical prisoners. thats because we call it the “rule of law”, which roughly translates into “we, the powerful will tell you what to do and what not to do, and we will call it a law so you have little choice but to accept it. don’t like that? you can tell it to a judge, who just happens to belong to the country club”
April 29th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
How helpful would you consider sources such as Chomsky's book about the U.S. embargo for shedding light on the situation?What other books could you recommend for U.S. citizens eager to better understand what the struggle is all about?
April 29th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I want what you’re drinking.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
True, though I’d be curious how we would have historically dealt with China had they been just 90 miles off our coast, or sharing a boarder with us. Nixon opened relations w/ China in order to exploit the tension that would cause b/t China and the USSR. Would we have even gone that route if they were over here, and not on Russia’s flank?
April 29th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
bushadministration’s beatnik foreign policy:”we’ve tried NOTHING, man and we’re all out of ideas.”//lousy beatniks
April 29th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
A regular shitload of Republicans, I’d say.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
That hasn’t been the policy for 50 years. There are several examples of misguided summits causing catastrophe:JFK met with Krushchev, which caused the Cuban Missile Crisis.Clinton met with Arafat, which sparked the second intifada.Obama is so very wrong on this point.You’re right that embargos usually do far more bad than good, but misguided summits can be far worse than no summit at all.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Yes, Hillary is a much more beatable opponent for the GoP. She’s Bush/McCain light, a wannabe neocon, but not b/c she has any neocon convictions (none at all in fact), but b/c that’s how the wind has been blowing the past few years. All McCain has to do to beat her is to make the accurate argument that he is more of what she is in every important respect - real military and PoW, longer time in government, better able to protect America b/c of that, etc. etc. She’s got nothing on him except that she loves children.All Hillary knows is ‘recreating’ her image in the guise of whatever is currently popular. Unfortunately for her, she can never see when the winds are changing until they’ve left her in the dust and she has to ‘recreate’ herself again to catch up. Which is what’s happening right now with Obama.Obama on the other hand at least offers a contrast to Bush and McCain, he hasn’t been trying to pathetically ride their coattails the past 8 years. If the country still agreed with Bush, he’d be in trouble. But the country gave both houses of Congress to the Dems in 2006 b/c it no longer agreed with Bush. But the Dems just settled in and didn’t change much, and now their approval ratings are lower than Bush’s. 2008 will see the same thing - status quo out, contrast - Obama - in.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:39 am
The other elephant in the room is that we’re so openly dealing with China, which is hardly different in its policies towards people who think too much.
April 30th, 2008 at 2:29 am
3 years ago I went to Cuba. I brought 3 things for a Cuban friend - a 1-kilo bag of coffee, some heart medicine for her mother and a kind of a girdle to keep her hernia from popping out [she was amazed - had never seen anything like it and didn’t know they exist]. Aside from a tip in U.S. dollars, I left the maids in the hotel rooms I occupied something else highly prized - a toothbrush.