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Bob Carr’s strange take on Obama at Hillary Clinton On Best Political Blogs — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:56:28 +0000

...] Bob Carr’s strange take on Obama … former NSW Premier Bob Carr retells the case for choosing Senator Hillary Clinton over Senator Obama namely she is white with a nice white sounding name:. The brutal truth is that Obama’s was not the ideal biography for someone … [...

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Hilary Clinton On Best Political Blogs » Bob Carr’s strange take on Obama — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:50:32 +0000

...] Bob Carr’s strange take on Obama … former NSW Premier Bob Carr retells the case for choosing Senator Hillary Clinton over Senator Obama namely she is white with a nice white sounding name:. The brutal truth is that Obama’s was not the ideal biography for someone … [...

By: michaeldeangelos

michaeldeangelos — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:02:30 +0000

Carr was the first to identify ethnic gangs in NSW, much to the alarm of community leaders and then in true Hanson style, fanned the dismay that followed as he was given the royal treatment by the Daily Telegraph and Alan Jones. He’s always been an embarassment to true Laborites but a clever enough politician to use any issue, no matter who was hurt in the process, to deflect from his dreadful failures in managing NSW. Is it any wonder that Labor was urging him to oppose John Howard in a federal election. Like attracts like and water reaches it’s own level.

So according to Carr we should never try the new and his anti-Obama points show how shallow this man is. He should stick to his US hobby, the Civil War as today’s politics have moved on since then. Why the ABC sent this dill off to interview Gore Vidal who even in his dottage demonstrated his mind was a million miles ahead of this fool is a mystery. The most embarrassing TV moment ever as Vidal looked on at this loony in pity. Just shows how far Fairfax standards are plummeting to commission an opinion piece from this political has-been ( and probably banker has-been soon when Macquarie wakes up to what a waste of money he is).

By: matt

matt — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:38:50 +0000

Your post nails the failures in Carr’s argument. It’s a continuing mystery to me why people like Bob Carr continue to be held up in the Australian media as experts on US politics when they are not as well informed or plugged in as they would like us to think. If you want more reasons as to why Obama is leading the race to the White House, check out the latest issue of the ‘Economist’ and its column on the ‘Obamacons’ – the conservatives who have abandoned the GOP. You also can’t get away from the fact that the McCain campaign has become increasingly shrill, hysterical and off-beam in its attacks on Obama.

By: albertross

albertross — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:10:27 +0000

The so called “Bradley Effect” is mentioned on Faux News a lot. It’s almost as though they are attempting to say to white folks “Look it’s OK if you don’t want to vote for a black man. It’s not your fault, it’s just the Bradley Effect”.

By: Trevor Cook

Trevor Cook — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:58:20 +0000

I think you can only sustain a “Hilliary would have been better” argument by deliberately downplaying or ignoring Obama’s real strengths as a candidate and a campaign.

By: ltep

ltep — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:47:21 +0000

Whilst I’m not sold on Obama (yet) I acknowledge that Clinton would be doing no better at this stage. I don’t see any grounds to support that assertion.