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Originally Posted by nittanyalum
Ah, now I see why our GOP friends are in a frenzy, I've been buried for a couple of days and have only caught tidbits of news here and there, am just catching up today -- just stopped by here for the first time in a while: Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll |
Check out
FiveThirtyEight.com. Even more reason to be worried there.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
I think we're both thinking of influence in different terms. Perhaps that's my fault for imprecise wording?
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Well, surely you're not suggesting it's my fault?!
But I see what you're saying.
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As for what Nelson said, politicians say the craziest things and for the craziest reasons. An Illinois Republican state elected official saying very nice things about the probable future president which might substantially improve his standing in the eyes of the doubting public might possibly have motives beyond giving the public a truthful account about how everyone feels about former domestic terrorists.
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Politics does indeed make for strange bed-fellows. (But she's a former State Senator, not a current one. FWIW)
Still, though, her point still stands. So far as I can tell, pretty much everyone who dealt with Ayers (who is a professor at U of Illinois-Chicago -- I know, insert joke here), whether Democrat or Republican, treated his WU activities as part of the past and did not view them as impediments to dealing with him now. I can't help but take that into account when the charge is made now that Obama should have had nothing to do with him.
As I said, politics makes for strange bed-fellows.
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