Sunday Show Wrap Up, 5/11/08
Here's David Axelrod on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Axelrod does a good job of striking a balance between confidence, maintaining the campaign's talking points throughout, but not getting negative on Hillary at all. For example, when asked about Hillary's recent remarks that hard working white Americans are not going for Obama, Axelrod shrugs it off as honest misspeaking and factually incorrect. Axelrod also clarifies that the Obama campaign has absolutely no intention of paying for the Clinton campaign's debts.
When Wallace brings up Robert Novak's recent article, which declares that it's Michelle Obama that doesn't want Hillary on the ticket, Axelrod rejects that as well.
They wind down talking about the potential for joint town hall meetings between the Obama and McCain. Both sides seem to be interested. That's something I, and I think most voters, could look forward to.
Here's Terry McAuliffe with Tim Russert on Meet the Press yesterday. Terry is right in saying that "no one is the nominee." In discussing the fact that only 100,000 votes separate the two candidates, though, he does have to stretch the limits of honesty to fight off Russert's correct assertion that those numbers don't factor in that Obama was not on the ballot in Michigan.
McAuliffe is spot on in his declaration that Hillary is the better candidate for the Democratic party, and they have a good case to make for the superdelegates to consider that. I'd also like to give credit to Terry for making a great reference to the 1993 Buffalo Bills game against the Houston Oilers. Remember, it's not over until the lady in the pant suit says it is!
John Edwards was on Face the Nation yesterday, and he basically made the case that Obama's the likely nominee, the math is just about impossible for Hillary, and that he cares most about the little guy.
When asked about the costs of his initiative to cut poverty in half within the next ten years, Silky completely beats around the bush, not referencing a dollar amount at all.
