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Countdown Friday: Clyburning Questions

Posted: Friday, April 25, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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The Clyburn Interview:  It has been Senator Clinton's strategy to make Senator Obama seem unelectable in the general election... Yet what if her plan were not just to create an illusion of unelectability... but to actually guarantee that he cannot win in November... all so that she might run again in four years? In our fifth story on the Countdown: internet speculation is one thing. Public suspicion... voiced to and now by a prominent Democratic politician and uncommitted Super Delegate... is something else all together. Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina, the House Democratic Whip, telling Reuters, quote: "There are African Americans who have reached the decision that the Clintons know that she can't win this. But they're hell-bound to make it impossible for Obama to win" in November... a sentiment he repeated in another interview with the New York Times. Presently Congressman Clyburn, tells us more...

You Say Dubai, I say Hello: With Senator Obama's response to the Clyburn Interview taking exactly 34 seconds... And Senator Clinton's having not yet occurred, if ever it will... The actual news in the campaign came from DNC Chairman Howard Dean... via a British newspaper. Our fourth story on the Countdown: he says explicitly that nothing in Committee rules would prevent Super-Delegates from overturning the delegate, or popular vote... but he still doesn't expect to see it happen... unless the margins are extraordinarily close.

ODDBALL: The worlds greatest diet coke and mentos splash down, and an alligator raids the fridge.

McCain's Memory:  After seven years of a certain President's attempts to deny what's already out in the public domain - this friendly reminder to his would-be successor. If you say something anywhere within spitting distance of the media - it will be written down and recorded and taped and then archived and filed and preserved. Accessible to anyone who knows how to use "the google". Our third story on the Countdown -- Senator John McCain's latest memory loss.

Worsties...see below.


WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: The Mighty Internets, Bill Hemmer, and Ercon Corporation vie for tonight's top honors.

I Predict a Riot:  After Rush Limbaugh dismissed U-S troops who oppose the Iraq War as being not "real soldiers"... it should come as no surprise that he places "id"eology over country... emphasis on "id." But in our number-one story tonight, the Republican Party's most popular spokesman has now joined the worst of America's enemies... admitting on air that he is working toward the "objective"-- his word -- of American bloodshed in an American city.

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Story #5: Clyburn comments-What if this whole thing is a stragegy drummed up by the Obama campaign to damage Hillary?  From a political point of view, it's brilliant.  However, it turns my stomach and I for one would not put it past their campaign to do so.  By the way, Obama is the one to unite the Democrats? By what virtue?

Ro Delhi, NY (Sent Friday, April 25, 2008 9:16 PM)

Mr. Clyburn, speaks in precise high volumes and sentiments for the Black American and the assassination by the Clinton's.
We see you.
I have written our Nancy Pelosi,Howard Dean and etc,
regarding ths shameful stabotage of Mr Obama's presidency. However I am sure they will not step in and stop this behavior by the Clinton's; and the Clinton's will prevail in total irreparable damage to the democratic party.

Celia Rawlins (Sent Friday, April 25, 2008 9:37 PM)

Why does it seem that ther is nothing critical about obama.  Is the following true?  From Audacity of Hope:   I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
If true it would seem tha this would deserve countdown attention.

T. D. Collinsworth (Sent Friday, April 25, 2008 9:37 PM)

Can we start up a sign up web page to get Rush OFF THE AIR ONCE AND FOR ALL?  How come he can spew his views which are so hateful and no one can stop him?

Jodee, Cortland, NY (Sent Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:13 AM)

It's not just blacks who are concerned.  I am an older white woman and if such a back room deal is done, I will be forsaking the democrats for a long time.  Democratic Super delegates have waited way too long to endorse Obama.  They have left him alone to fend off GOP attacks when they should have rallied around him.  I'm pretty disgusted by this whole  situation.

Bonnie (Sent Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:52 AM)

Rush Limbaugh is a big fat blow-hard idiot.  Anyone who listens to him is a nut job.  He should be brought up on charges for insighting a riot.  What a windbag!  That just shows you what right wing goofs are thinking.

JoAnn, Moundsville, WV (Sent Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:58 AM)

hey guys, how come NOBODY discusses the fact of crossover voting by republicans to give hilary the false allusion she won ohio,texas,or even pennsivania????

donald doornbos,Three Oaks,Michigan (Sent Saturday, April 26, 2008 7:24 PM)

Mr. Olbermann, as an African American Veteran and just a hard working joe trying to feed my family, and pay my bills, I would like for you to ask Hillary Clinton, Why is it that as long as blacks are supporting her she claims to have such an excellent record which I also fail to see. Now its time for her to support a black candidate that is truly able to win the presidency she is doing everything she possible can to see that this does not happen. My question to Mrs. Clinton: Is this her way of saying she does not want a black man in the White House? I hope you have the honesty to ask this question because there are many black Americans who would like to hear the answer.

W. Scott Virginia Beach, VA (Sent Sunday, April 27, 2008 9:41 AM)

Keith, You need to watch the Fox news show that was on Sunday morning. About 8:50 am (pt) Liz Trotter was interviewed about Rev. Wright's comments on Bill Moyers Show. She said something to the effect that Rev. Wright was doing an imitation of a white man. Fox just keeps getting meaner and meaner. That Bill Moyers show showed me that the Reverend is a very intelligent man who deserves to be heard -in context. Thanks for your wonderful show.

Carol Apache Jct Az. (Sent Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:15 PM)

Obama needs to separate Wright's religious views from political.

Wright's religious guidance was important to Obama, and he is grateful as he should be...

BUT!!!

Obama needs to more clearly and strongly condemn Wright's outrageous political views.

Separate church from state.

Sal Capo, San Francisco, CA (Sent Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:53 PM)

KO, I am confused by Hillary Clinton's campaign officer Terry McAuffle statement that the campaign "raised $10 million immediately after Pennsylvania primary" but when you go to the FEC's website you see that the Clinton campaign received $10 million transferred from prior campaigns.  Was that another case of the Clintons "inventing" momemtum and claiming $10million came in post Pennsylvania when in fact it may have come from funds left over from another campaign?

Please clarify.

Carlos Dennis, New York, NY (Sent Sunday, April 27, 2008 8:02 PM)

I would suggest that Barack Obama WON'T win the general election this year. There are far too many doubts about this guy .. but his chances may change should he try again in 2012 and/or 2016, IF nothing else questionable surfaces.

Full Moon (Sent Sunday, April 27, 2008 8:30 PM)

So Rush  wants to see Denver go up in flames next August. It is hard for me to undestand, how this type of dialogue is protected by the First Amendment. This man is inciting a riot, where people could be killed or receive life long injuries. Seems strange that we can launch a premptive war but cannot launch a premptive arrest of a mad man.

Steivie SLC Utah (Sent Sunday, April 27, 2008 9:35 PM)

I think that Hillary and McCain calling Obama "elitist" is a way of saying he should "stay in his place" a racist way of trying to keep him down. Hillary and Bill are the elites with their money and affiliations, McCain won't even give his wife's money and affiliates and his "private jet" value to the FEC. It's about time the media stop playing these clips over and over to hurt Obama and the democrat party.

Freda Drew Hermon, ME 04401 (Sent Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:27 PM)

keith,someone needs to correct the job news media has done about rev.jerimiah wright.after watching his speech to naacp this weekend i realized this is a good man & he has a very unique way of getting his point across,which can be used against him.why hasnt someone in the news done this.---john qualls

JOHN QUALLS (Sent Monday, April 28, 2008 9:31 AM)

Thanks Keith, you most certainly give an unbiased view of the news.  I am so happy that Sen. clyburn is finally speaking out about the grave injustice they are doing to Sen. Obama. I have a nephew who teaches in a Cathoic high-scool in Chicago and also involved in politics.  He knows Sen. Obama personally and sees all of the good work he has done in the slums of that city. He sums Obama by saying, "he is the real deal-what he says is what he does". Can anyone say that about Hillary???

Sister James Ann Germuska, Brownsville, PA 15417 (Sent Monday, April 28, 2008 10:35 AM)

Shame on you, Roger Clemens. Taking advantage of country star Mindy McCready. No wonder she's been in and out of trouble the last few years.

Full Moon (Sent Monday, April 28, 2008 4:50 PM)

"Obama is the one to unite the Democrats? By what virtue?" -- Ro Delhi, NY

By not being divisive of course

nuanced (Sent Monday, April 28, 2008 5:28 PM)

Concerning Limbaugh, I see we have the "am not, are too" mentality appearing once again on the Newshole.
Rush is right 99.9% of the time, by his own admission. See, nobody's perfect.

Full Moon (Sent Monday, April 28, 2008 6:01 PM)

Carol Apache Jct and John Quall
Oh thank you, I am not alone in my persecption of Jeremiah Wright. I too watched the interview with Bill Moyers and the Reverand's remarks at the NAACP convention. He is a good man. Reverand Wright is in good company. The Old Testament Jeremiah was called a traitor by his county men, and now we hear this courageous man of God being trashed because he dares to tell the truth.

Stevie SLC Utah (Sent Monday, April 28, 2008 6:45 PM)



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