Friday, February 29, 2008
"We are the Ones". New video of support for Obama.
This is a very beautiful and moving endorsement for Barack Obama.
And it has Jessica Alba.
You know it is going to get some attention now don't you?
Somebody needs to remind Hillary that she is a Democrat and that Democrats don't use Neo-con political ads.
I have had enough fear mongering from this administration to last me a lifetime.
If I had not already decided not to support Hillary this would have been the final straw for me.
As usual Obama's response is calm and cool and it turns Hillary's attack right back on her.
If I had not already decided not to support Hillary this would have been the final straw for me.
As usual Obama's response is calm and cool and it turns Hillary's attack right back on her.
Obama is moving past Hillary in Texas and getting closer in Ohio.
Barack Obama holds a slight lead on Hillary Clinton in Texas and has almost pulled even in Ohio before contests that could decide their Democratic presidential battle, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll released on Friday.
The contests on Tuesday are crucial for Clinton, a New York senator and former first lady fighting to halt Obama's streak of 11 consecutive victories in their battle for the Democratic nomination for the November 4 presidential election.
It seems pretty clear that Obama is going to take Texas, at least the majority of delegates if nothing else.
And the race in Ohio is going to be so close that Hillary will not get enough new delegates to help her in any significant way.
We need to keep a sharp eye on what happens in these two races, especially Ohio. If any dirty tricks are going to take place this is where they will occur. After New Hampshire we must be ever vigilant of any illogical outcomes.
The contests on Tuesday are crucial for Clinton, a New York senator and former first lady fighting to halt Obama's streak of 11 consecutive victories in their battle for the Democratic nomination for the November 4 presidential election.
It seems pretty clear that Obama is going to take Texas, at least the majority of delegates if nothing else.
And the race in Ohio is going to be so close that Hillary will not get enough new delegates to help her in any significant way.
We need to keep a sharp eye on what happens in these two races, especially Ohio. If any dirty tricks are going to take place this is where they will occur. After New Hampshire we must be ever vigilant of any illogical outcomes.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Barack gives Ellen Degeneres credit for helping him get his poll numbers up. By making him dance?
Now if you check the link you will see Obama dance yet again with Ellen.
Which brings up an interesting point.
Do you think that other African Americans will not support Obama since he clearly cannot dance? I mean we all know that the stereotype demands that a black man be able to "bust a move". And Barack is not terribly impressive in that area.
I cannot give Barack too much grieve however because I noticed that when he dances he sticks his tongue out, which is something that I have also been told that I do. Which by definition makes it cool.
However, for the record, I can dance WAY better then Mr. Obama. I am sure that he will be a much better President then I would make, but I know I could dance circles around him.
With my tongue proudly sticking out for the world to see.
Which brings up an interesting point.
Do you think that other African Americans will not support Obama since he clearly cannot dance? I mean we all know that the stereotype demands that a black man be able to "bust a move". And Barack is not terribly impressive in that area.
I cannot give Barack too much grieve however because I noticed that when he dances he sticks his tongue out, which is something that I have also been told that I do. Which by definition makes it cool.
However, for the record, I can dance WAY better then Mr. Obama. I am sure that he will be a much better President then I would make, but I know I could dance circles around him.
With my tongue proudly sticking out for the world to see.
Alleged 9-11 hijacker had future flights scheduled.
Newly-released records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request contradict the 9/11 Commission’s report on the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and raise fresh questions about the role of Saudi government officials in connection to the hijackers.
The FBI released the 298-page “hijacker timeline” Feb. 4.
The FBI timeline reveals that alleged hijacker Hamza Al-Ghamdi, who was aboard the United Airlines flight which crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, had booked a future flight to San Francisco. He also had a ticket for a trip from Casablanca to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
The FBI timeline reveals that Al-Ghamdi, the alleged United hijacker, was booked onto several flights scheduled for after the 9/11 attacks, a piece of information not documented in the Commission’s final report. According to the FBI timeline, Al-Ghamdi was booked on another United Airlines flight on the very day of the attack.
Supporters of the 9-11 Report, and of the governments version of the events on that fateful day, will undoubtedly say that the reason this person had other flights planned was simply to throw off suspicion. But that explanation does not hold water since, according to the government, nobody was even close to uncovering this plot.
But for those of us who find the official story to be full of holes and lacking in credibility, this just adds fuel to our theories about what really took place that day.
When this administration is out of the way I desperately want a new investigation to be launched and the truth to be uncovered. I think it will shock many Americans.
The FBI released the 298-page “hijacker timeline” Feb. 4.
The FBI timeline reveals that alleged hijacker Hamza Al-Ghamdi, who was aboard the United Airlines flight which crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, had booked a future flight to San Francisco. He also had a ticket for a trip from Casablanca to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
The FBI timeline reveals that Al-Ghamdi, the alleged United hijacker, was booked onto several flights scheduled for after the 9/11 attacks, a piece of information not documented in the Commission’s final report. According to the FBI timeline, Al-Ghamdi was booked on another United Airlines flight on the very day of the attack.
Supporters of the 9-11 Report, and of the governments version of the events on that fateful day, will undoubtedly say that the reason this person had other flights planned was simply to throw off suspicion. But that explanation does not hold water since, according to the government, nobody was even close to uncovering this plot.
But for those of us who find the official story to be full of holes and lacking in credibility, this just adds fuel to our theories about what really took place that day.
When this administration is out of the way I desperately want a new investigation to be launched and the truth to be uncovered. I think it will shock many Americans.
White House missing e-mails will probably never be recovered.
After promising last year to search its computers for tens of thousands of e-mails sent by White House officials, the Republican National Committee has informed a House committee that it no longer plans to retrieve the communications by restoring computer backup tapes, the panel’s chairman said yesterday.
The move increases the likelihood that an untold number of RNC e-mails dealing with official White House business during the first term of the Bush administration, including many sent or received by former presidential adviser Karl Rove, will never be recovered, according to House Democrats and public records advocates.The RNC had previously told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that it was attempting to restore e-mails from 2001 to 2003, when the RNC had a policy of purging all e-mails, including those to and from White House officials, after 30 days. But Chairman Henry Waxman, Democrat of California, disclosed during a hearing yesterday that the RNC has now said it “has no intention of trying to restore the missing White House e-mails.”
“The result is a potentially enormous gap in the historical record,” Waxman said, including the time leading up to the start of the Iraq war.
The idea that this administration can simply refuse to comply with the laws that govern its behavior is absolutely infuriating. We know they have lied to us repeatedly, and broken innumerable laws, and are going to cover that activity up by simply "losing" the evidence.
And this is yet another reason that I want Barack Obama as my next President. He is open about his mistakes and faults, and I doubt he would ever flout the law the way that the Bush administration has. With Hillary we still see the same kind of secrecy that we have come to loathe over the last seven years.
The move increases the likelihood that an untold number of RNC e-mails dealing with official White House business during the first term of the Bush administration, including many sent or received by former presidential adviser Karl Rove, will never be recovered, according to House Democrats and public records advocates.The RNC had previously told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that it was attempting to restore e-mails from 2001 to 2003, when the RNC had a policy of purging all e-mails, including those to and from White House officials, after 30 days. But Chairman Henry Waxman, Democrat of California, disclosed during a hearing yesterday that the RNC has now said it “has no intention of trying to restore the missing White House e-mails.”
“The result is a potentially enormous gap in the historical record,” Waxman said, including the time leading up to the start of the Iraq war.
The idea that this administration can simply refuse to comply with the laws that govern its behavior is absolutely infuriating. We know they have lied to us repeatedly, and broken innumerable laws, and are going to cover that activity up by simply "losing" the evidence.
And this is yet another reason that I want Barack Obama as my next President. He is open about his mistakes and faults, and I doubt he would ever flout the law the way that the Bush administration has. With Hillary we still see the same kind of secrecy that we have come to loathe over the last seven years.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Sure people talk about the problems with Global Warming but how many people are willing to sue over it? Alaskans are.
A tiny Alaska village eroding into the Arctic Ocean sued two dozen oil, power and coal companies Tuesday, claiming that the large amounts of greenhouse gases they emit contribute to global warming that threatens the community's existence.
The city of Kivalina and a federally recognized tribe, the Alaska Native village of Kivalina, sued ExxonMobil, eight other oil companies, 14 power companies and one coal company in a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco.
Kivalina is a traditional Inupiat Eskimo village of about 390 people about 625 miles northwest of Anchorage. It is built on an 8-mile barrier reef between the Chukchi Sea and Kivalina River.
Sea ice traditionally protected the community, whose economy is based in part on salmon fishing plus subsistence hunting of whale, seal, walrus, and caribou. But sea ice that forms later and melts sooner because of higher temperatures has left the community unprotected from fall and winter storm waves and surges that lash coastal communities.
You know for the record I have known about Global Warming since the seventies. Not because I am smart, though I am, but because it has been affecting Alaska for many decades.
The native population, which has close ties to both the sea and wildlife, has been having to make lifestyle choices to survive since at least the mid sixties.
It is hard to ignore something that forces you to pick up your entire village and move it off of an island that your people have lived on for over a thousand years. That sort of thing leaves an impression.
The city of Kivalina and a federally recognized tribe, the Alaska Native village of Kivalina, sued ExxonMobil, eight other oil companies, 14 power companies and one coal company in a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco.
Kivalina is a traditional Inupiat Eskimo village of about 390 people about 625 miles northwest of Anchorage. It is built on an 8-mile barrier reef between the Chukchi Sea and Kivalina River.
Sea ice traditionally protected the community, whose economy is based in part on salmon fishing plus subsistence hunting of whale, seal, walrus, and caribou. But sea ice that forms later and melts sooner because of higher temperatures has left the community unprotected from fall and winter storm waves and surges that lash coastal communities.
You know for the record I have known about Global Warming since the seventies. Not because I am smart, though I am, but because it has been affecting Alaska for many decades.
The native population, which has close ties to both the sea and wildlife, has been having to make lifestyle choices to survive since at least the mid sixties.
It is hard to ignore something that forces you to pick up your entire village and move it off of an island that your people have lived on for over a thousand years. That sort of thing leaves an impression.
What to say the next time somebody asks you what Barack Obama's accomplishments have been and why he should be President.
I received this in my e-mail box today and thought I would pass it along.
"Barack has held elected office for twelve years.
During the first eight years, sponsored over 820 bills, including233 regarding healthcare reform, 125 on poverty and public assistance,112 crime fighting bills, 97 economic bills, 60 human rights andanti-discrimination bills, 21 ethics reform bills, fifteen gun control bills, six billsregarding veterans' affairs, and many others. Inhis first year in the U.S. Senate, Barack authored 52 bills andco-sponsored another 427.
These bills included:
1. The Government Transparency Act (became law)
2. The Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons ThreatReduction Act (became law)
3. The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (passed the Senate)
4. The Government Ethics Bill (became law)
5. The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill (nowin committee), and many more.
After graduating from Columbia, Obama went to work with churches that organized job training and other programs for residents of a massive housing project in Chicago. He persuaded the city to provide summer jobs, remove asbestos, repair toilets, pipes and ceilings.
He went door to door, offering help for three years, then went to Harvard Law School.
Obama returned to Chicago to lead Project Vote, which signed upabout 150,000 new African-American voters. He also joined a big law firm.
Obama began teaching at the University of Chicago, where he wouldcontinue to lecture for 11 years. I mention teaching because I consider it anaccomplishment in the service of others.
During Obama's time a s an attorney in Chicago, he became a husbandand father of two daughters. He entered the Illinois Senate in 1994.
As a member of the minority party of the Senate for six of his eight years there, Obama wrote a health insurance law that covered an additional 20,000 children, a welfare reform law, an earned-income-tax-credit law forworking-poor families, and death penalty reform that passed unanimously.
During his last two years in the majority, he sponsored 780 bills,280 of which became law.
Since Obama entered the U.S. Senate in 2004, he has joined Republican Richard Lugar in writing a law that funds the destruction or securing of loose nuclear and conventional weapons (shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, for example) throughout the world. He also introduced the first bill, that soon became law, to fund and address pandemic flu preparedness.
In one inspiring discovery, Obama and Clinton teamed up to pass alaw that helps hospitals disclose medical errors. It goes a long way toward serving patients while reducing malpractice claims.
Well there you have it. The next time somebody says that Barack Obama has not accomplished anything you now have a rejoinder.
"Barack has held elected office for twelve years.
During the first eight years, sponsored over 820 bills, including233 regarding healthcare reform, 125 on poverty and public assistance,112 crime fighting bills, 97 economic bills, 60 human rights andanti-discrimination bills, 21 ethics reform bills, fifteen gun control bills, six billsregarding veterans' affairs, and many others. Inhis first year in the U.S. Senate, Barack authored 52 bills andco-sponsored another 427.
These bills included:
1. The Government Transparency Act (became law)
2. The Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons ThreatReduction Act (became law)
3. The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (passed the Senate)
4. The Government Ethics Bill (became law)
5. The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill (nowin committee), and many more.
After graduating from Columbia, Obama went to work with churches that organized job training and other programs for residents of a massive housing project in Chicago. He persuaded the city to provide summer jobs, remove asbestos, repair toilets, pipes and ceilings.
He went door to door, offering help for three years, then went to Harvard Law School.
Obama returned to Chicago to lead Project Vote, which signed upabout 150,000 new African-American voters. He also joined a big law firm.
Obama began teaching at the University of Chicago, where he wouldcontinue to lecture for 11 years. I mention teaching because I consider it anaccomplishment in the service of others.
During Obama's time a s an attorney in Chicago, he became a husbandand father of two daughters. He entered the Illinois Senate in 1994.
As a member of the minority party of the Senate for six of his eight years there, Obama wrote a health insurance law that covered an additional 20,000 children, a welfare reform law, an earned-income-tax-credit law forworking-poor families, and death penalty reform that passed unanimously.
During his last two years in the majority, he sponsored 780 bills,280 of which became law.
Since Obama entered the U.S. Senate in 2004, he has joined Republican Richard Lugar in writing a law that funds the destruction or securing of loose nuclear and conventional weapons (shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, for example) throughout the world. He also introduced the first bill, that soon became law, to fund and address pandemic flu preparedness.
In one inspiring discovery, Obama and Clinton teamed up to pass alaw that helps hospitals disclose medical errors. It goes a long way toward serving patients while reducing malpractice claims.
Well there you have it. The next time somebody says that Barack Obama has not accomplished anything you now have a rejoinder.
One of the points of pride that I have as an Alaskan is our impressive number of criminal masterminds.
A man accused of attempting an armed robbery with what appears to have been a spork was arrested Monday night, when police say they placed him at the scene of the crime through the use of KFC bags, according to Anchorage police.I don't know who to be more embarrassed by here. The guy who used a plastic eating utensil to rob somebody, or the person who felt threatened by the five inch piece of plastic with no sharp edges.
Where are the REAL Alaskans? I have seen disagreements over studded tires vs chains settled by an ass kicking in the alley behind a bar. I have seen women picking up sled dogs and shoving them into a tiny kennel, one after the other, without breaking a sweat. Real Alaskans are not threatened by a spork!
Hell real Alaskans will not even EAT with a spork!
If this kind of thing keeps up I may have to move.
Jon Stewart takes on the many faces of Hillary.
It is so good to have the Daily Show back!
We need as much insightful humor as we can get to navigate through the months ahead while fighting to retain our sanity.
We need as much insightful humor as we can get to navigate through the months ahead while fighting to retain our sanity.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Did you watch the debate? Do you want to give your opinion? Go to MSNBC and tell them what you thought.
As I post this the majority of participants say that Obama won the debate with 65% of the vote.
Hillary got 22% and Neither won got 13%.
Hillary got 22% and Neither won got 13%.
Diebold machines accidentally reveal the winner of the 2008 Presidential election early. This is brought to you by the Onion.
Hopefully you realize that this is satire.
However it should also make you a little uncomfortable since it may also be very close to the truth.
However it should also make you a little uncomfortable since it may also be very close to the truth.
Hillary supporters may be the uncoolest people on the planet. Check out this video by a "supporter".
(I need to give a hat tip to WeaponXRC, who e-mailed me the above YouTube video. Thanks buddy.)
Wow, that is just terrible.
If you have not seen the other Hillary video, you can find that here.
Now just for comparison's sake take a look at what some talented Obama supporters put together to support him.
In your opinion who is more loved by their supporters?
Argument over Presidential candidates result in family stabbing.
The 41-year-old Shurelds, an Obama supporter, told Ortiz that the Illinois senator was "trashing" Clinton (apparently in regard to recent primary and caucus results). Ortiz, a Clinton supporter, replied that "Obama was not a realist." While not exactly fighting words, the verbal political tiff led to some mutual choking and punching. And, allegedly, a stabbing in the abdomen.
I would like to point out that it was the Hillary supporter that decided to use deadly force.
(I just love the Smoking Gun!)
I would like to point out that it was the Hillary supporter that decided to use deadly force.
(I just love the Smoking Gun!)
Monday, February 25, 2008
Two teens sent home from school for belonging to a gang. The Christian gang.
A pair of Albany teenagers suspended for "gang-related behavior" because they were wearing crucifixes say they were only wearing gifts from their mothers.
Jaime Salazar, 14, his friend Marco Castro, 16, were suspended from South Albany High School recently after they refused to put away the crucifixes they were wearing around their necks.
Salazar said Principal Chris Equinoa saw his necklace and told him to put it away. "I was like, why?" Salazar said. "He says it's related to gangs."
I have to agree with the Principal on this one. I mean if he does not nip this thing in the bud the next thing you know this gang will have built meeting places all over the world, find a way to push their moral beliefs on the rest of the populace, and infiltrate our government with their followers.
I know it seems far fetched, but mark my words, it will happen!
Jaime Salazar, 14, his friend Marco Castro, 16, were suspended from South Albany High School recently after they refused to put away the crucifixes they were wearing around their necks.
Salazar said Principal Chris Equinoa saw his necklace and told him to put it away. "I was like, why?" Salazar said. "He says it's related to gangs."
I have to agree with the Principal on this one. I mean if he does not nip this thing in the bud the next thing you know this gang will have built meeting places all over the world, find a way to push their moral beliefs on the rest of the populace, and infiltrate our government with their followers.
I know it seems far fetched, but mark my words, it will happen!
Obama easily slaps away another Republican attack.
The Republicans, who are all about symbols and not substance, have decided that since Obama is not wearing his American flag lapel pin that makes him unpatriotic.
I would happily rip these name calling bullys a new one, but it turns out that Barack is quite capable of handling it himself.
About not wearing an American flag lapel pin, Obama said Republicans have no lock on patriotism.
"A party that presided over a war in which our troops did not get the body armor they needed, or were sending troops over who were untrained because of poor planning, or are not fulfilling the veterans' benefits that these troops need when they come home, or are
undermining our Constitution with warrantless wiretaps that are unnecessary?
"That is a debate I am very happy to have. We'll see what the American people think is the true definition of patriotism."
Didn't Hillary make the claim that Obama could not stand up to the Republican attack machine in the general election? Well it seems he can handle both the Republican and Hillary attack machines at the same time!
I would happily rip these name calling bullys a new one, but it turns out that Barack is quite capable of handling it himself.
About not wearing an American flag lapel pin, Obama said Republicans have no lock on patriotism.
"A party that presided over a war in which our troops did not get the body armor they needed, or were sending troops over who were untrained because of poor planning, or are not fulfilling the veterans' benefits that these troops need when they come home, or are
undermining our Constitution with warrantless wiretaps that are unnecessary?
"That is a debate I am very happy to have. We'll see what the American people think is the true definition of patriotism."
Didn't Hillary make the claim that Obama could not stand up to the Republican attack machine in the general election? Well it seems he can handle both the Republican and Hillary attack machines at the same time!
Obama points out flaws in Hillary's health care plan so she responds with a picture of him in African garb. Nice to see her being so mature.
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe accused the Clinton campaign Monday of “shameful offensive fear-mongering” by circulating a photo as an attempted smear.Plouffe was reacting to a banner headline on the Drudge Report saying that aides to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) had e-mailed a photo calling attention to the African roots of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
“The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat front-runner dressed as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya,” the Drudge Report said.
The Clinton campaign did not deny the charge, but did not comment further.
Who is the voter this is designed to inflame? It seems that the average Democrat, especially if they were African American or bi-racial would not find this in any way upsetting. It is not unusual for a visiting foreign dignitary to wear the local garb. (Remember Bush in Vietnam?)
So this must be aimed at the less educated Caucasian blue collar worker, who may not consider themselves racist but still have doubts that a person of color can run this country. In other words she is trying to make Obama's ethnicity a divisive factor in this primary. Telling the white Democrat voter that it is them against the black Democrat voter.
And that is indefensible! The Hillary Clinton campaign might as well stop all of the "we support the African American community" garbage and put on their white sheets so we can all finally see their true nature.
Hillary made a reference to Obama using "Rovian" techniques in his mailers. But all he did was point out their policy differences, what she has done would make Karl Rove as giddy as a school girl.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Hillary Clinton's campaign is getting ugly.
The video at Huffington Post shows Hillary mocking Obama's style.
"Let's just get everybody together, let's get unified. The sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect."
I guess the message is that Barack cannot simply change the world through hope and charisma alone.
I agree. If I thought that Obama was all style and no substance I would not be a supporter.
But he is not. He is smart, competent, and he does have charisma, which is always very helpful in dealing with the leaders of other countries. (Hey it worked for Bill Clinton!)
But what is really telling about this video is how spiteful and catty Hillary has become.
This looks all the world like the unpopular girl trashing the Prom Queen to make herself feel better about not being chosen.
I think that Hillary may actually self destruct during the next debate. I need to remember to make popcorn.
"Let's just get everybody together, let's get unified. The sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect."
I guess the message is that Barack cannot simply change the world through hope and charisma alone.
I agree. If I thought that Obama was all style and no substance I would not be a supporter.
But he is not. He is smart, competent, and he does have charisma, which is always very helpful in dealing with the leaders of other countries. (Hey it worked for Bill Clinton!)
But what is really telling about this video is how spiteful and catty Hillary has become.
This looks all the world like the unpopular girl trashing the Prom Queen to make herself feel better about not being chosen.
I think that Hillary may actually self destruct during the next debate. I need to remember to make popcorn.
Apparently Ralph "I am the reason George Bush is in office" Nader has announced that he wants to run for President in 2008.
Is there any less relevant man on the planet then Ralph Nader?
There was a time when what he said mattered, but he traded all of that away in deference to his gigantic ego and love of the limelight.
There was a time when what he said mattered, but he traded all of that away in deference to his gigantic ego and love of the limelight.
SNL is back! Here is their take on the Democratic debate between Obama and Hillary.
I think the guy playing Obama is a little stiff, but Amy Poehler as Hillary is a joy to behold.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Greatest Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton comic of all time!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference makes this an instant classic!
Olbermann shows us the Bush Nexus of Politics and Terror.
Keith once agian reminds of tht he may be one of the few real newsmen left in the MSM.
Obama mailer gives Hillary ammunition for attack.
Obama needs to realize that this campaign is his to lose and if he makes these kind of pedestrian mistakes he will help Hillary find the chink in his armor.
These mailers are too reminiscent of those Republican attack mailers that call Obama a Muslim, or once claimed that John McCain had a love child. Obama does not need them and should not use them.
David Shuster says he "was thrown under the bus for the sins of the father". He is right and Daddy Matthews owes him big.
"Does it bother me that I was thrown under the bus to pay for the sins of the father? No," he says in an exclusive interview. "As somebody who's covered politics for a while, I understand all the forces that were in play."
Sen. Hillary Clinton's forces pressured MSNBC to punish Shuster after he used the p-word in reference to Chelsea Clinton's presidential politicking for her mother. He was slapped with a two-week suspension, which ends today with his return to Hardball.
"I'm aware of the long list of complaints the Clinton campaign had about people from MSNBC" (like Hardball host Chris Matthews), says Shuster. "Tensions were clearly building. I was at the wrong place at the right time, or the right place at the wrong time. I don’t know which."
In my opinion Shuster should never have been punished. I think it shows just how thin skinned and vindictive Hillary can be, and that does not demonstrate the kind of Presidential timbre that is required for the job she is seeking.
I have to imagine that if this same incident had occurred with Obama that he would have expressed his fatherly displeasure but would have left it at that.
Sen. Hillary Clinton's forces pressured MSNBC to punish Shuster after he used the p-word in reference to Chelsea Clinton's presidential politicking for her mother. He was slapped with a two-week suspension, which ends today with his return to Hardball.
"I'm aware of the long list of complaints the Clinton campaign had about people from MSNBC" (like Hardball host Chris Matthews), says Shuster. "Tensions were clearly building. I was at the wrong place at the right time, or the right place at the wrong time. I don’t know which."
In my opinion Shuster should never have been punished. I think it shows just how thin skinned and vindictive Hillary can be, and that does not demonstrate the kind of Presidential timbre that is required for the job she is seeking.
I have to imagine that if this same incident had occurred with Obama that he would have expressed his fatherly displeasure but would have left it at that.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Pimping out poor little Chelsea did not help at all.
Jason Rae, the 21 year old gay superdelegate, decided to support Barack Obama today, despite the breakfast he had with Chelsea Clinton where she tried to use her "feminine wiles" to get him to vote for her mother.
I am not sure just how intelligent Hillary and her campaign staff are if they don't understand what "gay" means.
And good for Jason Rae for voting with his brain and not allowing all of the pressure from the Clinton's to make his decision for him.
I am not sure just how intelligent Hillary and her campaign staff are if they don't understand what "gay" means.
And good for Jason Rae for voting with his brain and not allowing all of the pressure from the Clinton's to make his decision for him.
Super delegates are moving toward Obama.
The Democratic superdelegates are starting to follow the voters _ straight to Barack Obama.
In just the past two weeks, more than two dozen of them have climbed aboard his presidential campaign, according to a survey by The Associated Press. At the same time, Hillary Rodham Clinton's are beginning to jump ship, abandoning her for Obama or deciding they now are undecided.
Just more evidence that the battle is lost and it only remains for the defeated to accept the reality of their situation.
In just the past two weeks, more than two dozen of them have climbed aboard his presidential campaign, according to a survey by The Associated Press. At the same time, Hillary Rodham Clinton's are beginning to jump ship, abandoning her for Obama or deciding they now are undecided.
Just more evidence that the battle is lost and it only remains for the defeated to accept the reality of their situation.
I almost could not believe this was real. Hillary Clinton may be the most desperate Presidential candidate in history.
Hillary Clinton's increasingly desperate campaign team held a phone-in yesterday for supporters to offer their advice on how to defeat Barack Obama.
The "helpline to Hillary" came as the former First Lady prepared for a televised debate with her rival for the Democratic nomination in Austin last night, where she needed a strong performance to revive her bid for the White House.
Damn this is getting pathetic!
Well clearly her helpline did not work.
I wonder if that Xerox line came from one of these phonecalls. Because that thing blew right up in her face.
The "helpline to Hillary" came as the former First Lady prepared for a televised debate with her rival for the Democratic nomination in Austin last night, where she needed a strong performance to revive her bid for the White House.
Damn this is getting pathetic!
Well clearly her helpline did not work.
I wonder if that Xerox line came from one of these phonecalls. Because that thing blew right up in her face.
The Shuster is back!
I just watched a report from David Shuster on Hardball, reporting on the John McCain lobbyist scandal.As you may remember Shuster got suspended from reporting on MSNBC after he made a remark about the Clinton's pimping their daughter Chelsea out in an effort to get the support of the super delegates.
I have previously stated that I felt Shuster was treated poorly and that MSNBC let the Clinton's bully them into backing off what was a very valid criticism of how they were using their only child. I am glad to see David back on the air and I look forward to seeing more of his reporting on Countdown.
Update: He did indeed show up on Countdown. Still covering the McCain story.
Security lapse during Obama speech concerns Dallas Police.
Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.
The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a lapse in security.
Dallas Deputy Police Chief T.W. Lawrence, head of the Police Department's homeland security and special operations divisions, said the order -- apparently made by the U.S. Secret Service -- was meant to speed up the long lines outside and fill the arena's vacant seats before Obama came on.
"Sure," said Lawrence, when asked if he was concerned by the great number of people who had gotten into the building without being checked. But, he added, the turnout of more than 17,000 people seemed to be a "friendly crowd."
"Friendly crowd"? Need I remind everybody that Mark David Chapman asked John Lennon for his autograph right before he ended his life? I am sure he seemed friendly right up until he made his horrible decision.
Barack Obama is going to be he first black man elected to the highest office in the land. It is simply a given that there are racists who are beside themselves with anger at the very thought.
In a country where the people who best represent hope and peace are the most vulnerable to attacks (John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and of course John Lennon), we should quickly recognize that Obama is somebody who must have the very best protection that can be offered. He is the very manifestation of hope right now.
This is inexcusable and the people responsible should be removed from his security staff.
That moving speech Hillary gave at the end of last night's debate? Stolen.
Clinton Tonight: "You know, whatever happens, we're going to be fine. You know, we have strong support from our families and our friends. I just hope that we'll be able to say the same thing about the American people. And that's what this election should be about." - Democratic Debate, 2/21/07
John Edwards: "What's not at stake are any of us. All of us are going to be just fine no matter what happens in this election. But what's at stake is whether America is going to be fine." [Democratic Debate, 12/13/07]
John Edwards: "I want to say this to everyone: with Elizabeth, with my family, with my friends, with all of you and all of your support, this son of a millworker's gonna be just fine. Our job now is to make certain that America will be fine." [Edwards Speech, 1/30/08]
She who lives by the charge of plagiarism, dies by the charge of plagiarism.
Of course this is all about the "silly season of politics" as my man Barack Obama pointed out last night.
John Edwards: "What's not at stake are any of us. All of us are going to be just fine no matter what happens in this election. But what's at stake is whether America is going to be fine." [Democratic Debate, 12/13/07]
John Edwards: "I want to say this to everyone: with Elizabeth, with my family, with my friends, with all of you and all of your support, this son of a millworker's gonna be just fine. Our job now is to make certain that America will be fine." [Edwards Speech, 1/30/08]
She who lives by the charge of plagiarism, dies by the charge of plagiarism.
Of course this is all about the "silly season of politics" as my man Barack Obama pointed out last night.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Grassroots mom looks into both Hillary and Obama's Senate record and has her mind blown.
I am not going to offer a synopsis of Grassroots Mom's discovery.
It is very carefully researched and deserves to be read carefully.
(Or if you are like me you can scroll to the bottom to find out what her conclusions were. Hey I have things to do!)
It is very carefully researched and deserves to be read carefully.
(Or if you are like me you can scroll to the bottom to find out what her conclusions were. Hey I have things to do!)
The Peace sign turns fifty years old.
He does not look a day over 30 to me.I am hoping that in the next several years he gets much more attention then he has had in the last seven years.
At this point we all know that FOX News is completely lacking in journalistic integrity, but is there any justification for hiring a bimbo like this?
This Courtney Friel chick could not be any more vacuous. (If you doubt me then scroll down to her conversation about horse genitalia).For instance I don't mind the journalists on television being attractive, in fact I rather enjoy it (I am talking about you Zain Verjee), but I also want them to be intelligent enough to actaully know what they are reading off of the cue cards. (CNN's Mika Brzezinski springs to mind.)
Let's face it, the only way any thinking human male could really enjoy watching the FOX News eye candy is with the volume turned off. Maybe then we could fantasize that she is actually saying something smart.
Hillary Clinton campaign ends January with 7.6 million, in debt.
Hillary Clinton ended January with $7.6 million in debt – not including the $5 million personal loan she gave to her campaign in the run-up to the critical Super Tuesday elections, according to financial reports released Wednesday.
In contrast, Democratic rival Barack Obama’s campaign’s finances continued to be robust. He reported raising nearly $37 million and spending nearly $31 million. His cash balance was $25 million, of which roughly $20 million can be spent on the primary.
He reported a comparatively small $1 million in debts, owed largely to just three vendors.
According to the reports, Clinton raised about $20 million in January, including her loan. She spent nearly $29 million during the month.
She reported a cash balance of $29 million. But more than $20 million of that is money dedicated to the general election. Her personal loan accounts for more than half of the remaining approximately $9 million, leaving just about $4 million in cash raised from donors.
But even that money is illusionary when measured against the reported $7.6 million in debts.
More than $2 million of the red ink is owed to chief consultant and adviser, Mark Penn. But the lengthy laundry list of IOUs also includes unpaid bills ranging from insurance coverage, phone banking, printing and catering at events in Iowa, New Hampshire and California.
The more we learn about this campaign the more that we realize it is a campaign in free fall.
The only thing keeping this campaign afloat is the giant egos of Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton. And they are putting their personal interests above the interests of the country.
It is time for Hillary to step aside and let Obama take his rightful place as our nominee for President.
In contrast, Democratic rival Barack Obama’s campaign’s finances continued to be robust. He reported raising nearly $37 million and spending nearly $31 million. His cash balance was $25 million, of which roughly $20 million can be spent on the primary.
He reported a comparatively small $1 million in debts, owed largely to just three vendors.
According to the reports, Clinton raised about $20 million in January, including her loan. She spent nearly $29 million during the month.
She reported a cash balance of $29 million. But more than $20 million of that is money dedicated to the general election. Her personal loan accounts for more than half of the remaining approximately $9 million, leaving just about $4 million in cash raised from donors.
But even that money is illusionary when measured against the reported $7.6 million in debts.
More than $2 million of the red ink is owed to chief consultant and adviser, Mark Penn. But the lengthy laundry list of IOUs also includes unpaid bills ranging from insurance coverage, phone banking, printing and catering at events in Iowa, New Hampshire and California.
The more we learn about this campaign the more that we realize it is a campaign in free fall.
The only thing keeping this campaign afloat is the giant egos of Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton. And they are putting their personal interests above the interests of the country.
It is time for Hillary to step aside and let Obama take his rightful place as our nominee for President.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Breaking news! McCain is being linked to female lobbyist Vicki Iseman. There is talk of a potentially inappropriate realtionship.
Apparently the New York Times is getting ready to break this story.
Is this a great year for politics or what?
Okay I have more now.
Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers.
A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, in his offices and aboard a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.
When news organizations reported that Mr. McCain had written letters to government regulators on behalf of the lobbyist’s clients, the former campaign associates said, some aides feared for a time that attention would fall on her involvement.
Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship. But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate committee Mr. McCain led threatened the story of redemption and rectitude that defined his political identity.
Hmm, I am not sure how I feel about this story.
From an ethical point of view it looks like McCain may not be so lily white about not being cozy with lobbyists. But as for it being a romantic relationship? For me this does not completely pass the smell test. It might indeed be true, but it may also be some especially dirty politics.
For now I will personally withhold judgment. And to be honest I usually don't give two shits about somebodies sex life, unless they are one of those holier then thou conservatives who are always telling the rest of us how to conduct ourselves.
Update: I read the whole article and there are some fairly troubling parts that may cost McCain support from those very important evangelical voters.
Mr. Black said Mr. McCain and Ms. Iseman were friends and nothing more. But in 1999 she began showing up so frequently in his offices and at campaign events that staff members took notice. One recalled asking, “Why is she always around?”
That February, Mr. McCain and Ms. Iseman attended a small fund-raising dinner with several clients at the Miami-area home of a cruise-line executive and then flew back to Washington along with a campaign aide on the corporate jet of one of her clients, Paxson Communications.
By then, according to two former McCain associates, some of the senator’s advisers had grown so concerned that the relationship had become romantic that they took steps to intervene.
A former campaign adviser described being instructed to keep Ms. Iseman away from the senator at public events, while a Senate aide recalled plans to limit Ms. Iseman’s access to his offices.
In interviews, the two former associates said they joined in a series of confrontations with Mr. McCain, warning him that he was risking his campaign and career. Both said Mr. McCain acknowledged behaving inappropriately and pledged to keep his distance from Ms. Iseman. The two associates, who said they had become disillusioned with the senator, spoke independently of each other and provided details that were corroborated by others.
This does not look good for McCain.
Is this a great year for politics or what?
Okay I have more now.
Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers.
A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, in his offices and aboard a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.
When news organizations reported that Mr. McCain had written letters to government regulators on behalf of the lobbyist’s clients, the former campaign associates said, some aides feared for a time that attention would fall on her involvement.
Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship. But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate committee Mr. McCain led threatened the story of redemption and rectitude that defined his political identity.
Hmm, I am not sure how I feel about this story.
From an ethical point of view it looks like McCain may not be so lily white about not being cozy with lobbyists. But as for it being a romantic relationship? For me this does not completely pass the smell test. It might indeed be true, but it may also be some especially dirty politics.
For now I will personally withhold judgment. And to be honest I usually don't give two shits about somebodies sex life, unless they are one of those holier then thou conservatives who are always telling the rest of us how to conduct ourselves.
Update: I read the whole article and there are some fairly troubling parts that may cost McCain support from those very important evangelical voters.
Mr. Black said Mr. McCain and Ms. Iseman were friends and nothing more. But in 1999 she began showing up so frequently in his offices and at campaign events that staff members took notice. One recalled asking, “Why is she always around?”
That February, Mr. McCain and Ms. Iseman attended a small fund-raising dinner with several clients at the Miami-area home of a cruise-line executive and then flew back to Washington along with a campaign aide on the corporate jet of one of her clients, Paxson Communications.
By then, according to two former McCain associates, some of the senator’s advisers had grown so concerned that the relationship had become romantic that they took steps to intervene.
A former campaign adviser described being instructed to keep Ms. Iseman away from the senator at public events, while a Senate aide recalled plans to limit Ms. Iseman’s access to his offices.
In interviews, the two former associates said they joined in a series of confrontations with Mr. McCain, warning him that he was risking his campaign and career. Both said Mr. McCain acknowledged behaving inappropriately and pledged to keep his distance from Ms. Iseman. The two associates, who said they had become disillusioned with the senator, spoke independently of each other and provided details that were corroborated by others.
This does not look good for McCain.
The Presidency of George Bush has finally hit rock bottom as only 19% of Americans approve of the job he is doing.
As always when I read these things I simply cannot imagine what those 19% of Americans are thinking.
I almost feel sorry for those people who actually voted for this President. I said almost.
I almost feel sorry for those people who actually voted for this President. I said almost.
PrairieView A&M students in Texas march en masse to vote for Obama.
Oh my God! Can you believe this?
This is a revolution my friends. You are watching history being made here.
This is a revolution my friends. You are watching history being made here.
New poll shows Obama with 14 point lead over Hillary.
The poll showed Obama with a 14-point edge over Clinton, 52 percent to 38 percent, after being in a statistical tie with the New York senator last month.
Obama's new lead follows a string of 10 wins in February for the Illinois senator, who has moved ahead in the battle for pledged delegates who vote on the party's nominee at the August convention.
"Obama has the hot hand and you can clearly see his momentum in the national numbers," pollster John Zogby said. "This is what happens when you win a bunch of primaries in a row -- or maybe this is why you win a bunch of primaries in a row."
Everything is falling into place for Obama. If there is no huge misstep, and I highly doubt there will be one, Obama is going to be the next President of the United States.
Obama's new lead follows a string of 10 wins in February for the Illinois senator, who has moved ahead in the battle for pledged delegates who vote on the party's nominee at the August convention.
"Obama has the hot hand and you can clearly see his momentum in the national numbers," pollster John Zogby said. "This is what happens when you win a bunch of primaries in a row -- or maybe this is why you win a bunch of primaries in a row."
Everything is falling into place for Obama. If there is no huge misstep, and I highly doubt there will be one, Obama is going to be the next President of the United States.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Obama wins Wisconsin! For those who are keeping track, that is nine in a row!
The victory marks the ninth consecutive win for Obama over rival Hillary Clinton since a split-decision on Super Tuesday two weeks ago.
"The change we seek is still months and miles away," Obama said Tuesday night in Houston, Texas.
"It is going to take more than big rallies. It is going to require more than rousing speeches ... it is going to require something more because the problem that we face in America today is not the lack of good ideas. It's that Washington has become a place where good ideas go to die," he said.
Does the population get any whiter then in Wisconsin?
I think we can put the "black candidate" rhetoric behind us from now on.
Obama transcends race, and partisanship, and gender, he is taking this country to places it has never gone before.
And I for one am happy to buckle up for the ride.
Update: Obama takes Hawaii! With 76% to Clinton's 24% it appears that Obama is simply unstoppable at this point. By the way the turnout in Hawaii was HUGE!
"The change we seek is still months and miles away," Obama said Tuesday night in Houston, Texas.
"It is going to take more than big rallies. It is going to require more than rousing speeches ... it is going to require something more because the problem that we face in America today is not the lack of good ideas. It's that Washington has become a place where good ideas go to die," he said.
Does the population get any whiter then in Wisconsin?
I think we can put the "black candidate" rhetoric behind us from now on.
Obama transcends race, and partisanship, and gender, he is taking this country to places it has never gone before.
And I for one am happy to buckle up for the ride.
Update: Obama takes Hawaii! With 76% to Clinton's 24% it appears that Obama is simply unstoppable at this point. By the way the turnout in Hawaii was HUGE!
Clinton desperate plagarism charge has backfired magnificently!
So somebody on the Hillary campaign found a similarity between an Obama speech about words being important, and a speech his friend Deval Patrick made on the same issue.So the campaign, which is looking more and more desperate, decided that this constituted an act of plagiarism.
Unfortunately for the Clinton campaign the words that Obama used were taken from a speech given by one of his best friends and ardent supporters, Deval Patrick who had this to say about the issue: Nobody's great policies by the way end up on the sides of monuments or buildings in Washington. It is those words, ability to inspire. I think that is a tremendous power of Barack Obama. I'm neither surprised nor troubled that he used the words that I asked him to use of my own.
So Obama used words written by his very good friend, who then encouraged him to use them when he found himself attacked for using rhetoric. That fails the test to be called plagiarism in my book. So the charge is completely unfounded and seems spiteful and mean spirited.
And if that is not bad enough we then find that Hillary has not only also been guilty of plagiarism, but that she has actually borrowed from the very person she is attacking for borrowing, Barrack Obama himself.
This simply makes the Clinton campaign seem pathetic.
I predict that this little stunt will cost them even more support in upcoming primaries and caucuses.
Ben & Jerry endorse Obama.
The founders of Ben & Jerry's endorsed Barack Obama on Monday, and lent his Vermont campaign two "ObamaMobiles" that will tour the state and give away scoops of "Cherries for Change" ice cream.
"If there was ever a need for real change, and if there ever was a candidate to inspire us and make that happen, it's now," said Ben Cohen.
Added Jerry Greenfield: "Barack is showing that when you lead with your values and follow what you have inside that good things will happen."
Well this thing is simply over now. I mean if you get the endorsement of the people who make the most delicious ice cream on the planet there is simply no stopping you.
Obama did not just get the endorsement of Ben. He did not just get the endorsement of Jerry. He got the endorsement of BOTH Ben AND Jerry!
How is Hillary going to beat that? Maybe she is hoping to get the endorsement of Haagen and Dasz?
Yeah good luck with that.
"If there was ever a need for real change, and if there ever was a candidate to inspire us and make that happen, it's now," said Ben Cohen.
Added Jerry Greenfield: "Barack is showing that when you lead with your values and follow what you have inside that good things will happen."
Well this thing is simply over now. I mean if you get the endorsement of the people who make the most delicious ice cream on the planet there is simply no stopping you.
Obama did not just get the endorsement of Ben. He did not just get the endorsement of Jerry. He got the endorsement of BOTH Ben AND Jerry!
How is Hillary going to beat that? Maybe she is hoping to get the endorsement of Haagen and Dasz?
Yeah good luck with that.
There is nothing that the Hillary campaign will not stoop to in order to steal this election.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination.
This strategy was confirmed to me by a high-ranking Clinton official on Monday. And I am not talking about superdelegates, those 795 party big shots who are not pledged to anybody. I am talking about getting pledged delegates to switch sides.
Clinton spokesman Phil Singer told me Monday he assumes the Obama campaign is going after delegates pledged to Clinton, though a senior Obama aide told me he knew of no such strategy.
But one neutral Democratic operative said to me: “If you are Hillary Clinton, you know you can’t get the nomination just with superdelegates without splitting the party. You have to go after the pledged delegates.”
I would like to comment on this story but I suddenly feel dirty and I feel I need a shower.
This kind of Rovian politics is exactly what the majority of Americans are sick and tired of dealing with. We want to rise above this sort of thing.
Disgusting.
This strategy was confirmed to me by a high-ranking Clinton official on Monday. And I am not talking about superdelegates, those 795 party big shots who are not pledged to anybody. I am talking about getting pledged delegates to switch sides.
Clinton spokesman Phil Singer told me Monday he assumes the Obama campaign is going after delegates pledged to Clinton, though a senior Obama aide told me he knew of no such strategy.
But one neutral Democratic operative said to me: “If you are Hillary Clinton, you know you can’t get the nomination just with superdelegates without splitting the party. You have to go after the pledged delegates.”
I would like to comment on this story but I suddenly feel dirty and I feel I need a shower.
This kind of Rovian politics is exactly what the majority of Americans are sick and tired of dealing with. We want to rise above this sort of thing.
Disgusting.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Republican party sharpens its knives to go after Obama in the general election.
Focusing on Barack Obama’s “inexperience” and “undisciplined messaging” are two ways to ensure that the senator from Illinois doesn’t get to be president, according to honchos at the Republican National Committee.
That's it? That is all they have to go after Obama on?
Who the hell is experienced to be President of the United States? What job prepares somebody for the hardest, most stressful job on the planet?
Governor? Like Governor George W. Bush?
Vice President? Like Vice President Richard M. Nixon?
Surely nobody is suggesting that being married to a former President is any preparation.
I don't think that ANYBODY could ever really be prepared for the job of President. I believe that rather then focusing on experience we should instead focus on judgment. How about that?
I think it is clear that the Republicans had convinced themselves that things were going to work out a certain way. And they were prepared for that. Need proof?
“We all dislike Hillary,” declared Southern California Rep. Ken Calvert, from the Inland Empire east of Los Angeles, echoing thoughts of the roughly 75 attendees at a Sunday morning RNC session. “Forgetting who will be the easiest to beat, I've got to tell you, a President Hillary doesn’t scare me nearly as much as a President Obama.”
The Republicans have no damn idea what to do against Obama. And they are shitting bricks over it.
Still need a reason to support Barack Obama?
That's it? That is all they have to go after Obama on?
Who the hell is experienced to be President of the United States? What job prepares somebody for the hardest, most stressful job on the planet?
Governor? Like Governor George W. Bush?
Vice President? Like Vice President Richard M. Nixon?
Surely nobody is suggesting that being married to a former President is any preparation.
I don't think that ANYBODY could ever really be prepared for the job of President. I believe that rather then focusing on experience we should instead focus on judgment. How about that?
I think it is clear that the Republicans had convinced themselves that things were going to work out a certain way. And they were prepared for that. Need proof?
“We all dislike Hillary,” declared Southern California Rep. Ken Calvert, from the Inland Empire east of Los Angeles, echoing thoughts of the roughly 75 attendees at a Sunday morning RNC session. “Forgetting who will be the easiest to beat, I've got to tell you, a President Hillary doesn’t scare me nearly as much as a President Obama.”
The Republicans have no damn idea what to do against Obama. And they are shitting bricks over it.
Still need a reason to support Barack Obama?
If this website is any indication Hillary's vaunted female vote is going the way of the Dodo.
I have never bought into the idea that Hillary had that big of an advantage with female voters anyway.
Pre-school politics.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s campaigns each accused the other of plagiarizing portions of their campaign speeches Monday, with the Clinton campaign accusing Obama of borrowing from a close supporter — and the Illinois senator’s campaign accusing his rival of lifting from Obama himself.
On a conference call with reporters, Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said it was clear Obama had “lifted rhetoric” from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Portions of Patrick’s speeches during his gubernatorial run resemble some of Obama’s addresses this year.
“If you’re going to be talking about the value of words, the words ought to be your own,” said Wolfson.
In a statement this morning, Patrick said the two men often shared ideas and language with each other.
The Obama camp also said Clinton had a pattern of borrowing some of the Illinois senator’s signature phrases, including “Yes, We Can” and “Fired Up, Ready to Go.”
"Mommy! Billy's copying me!"
I am sorry but this is a ridiculous argument. It is one of the most common occurrences in politics for candidates to "borrow" from each other's platforms.
And as for the charge of "plagiarism" that is hardly accurate if you have the originator's permission to use their words. Besides nobody thinks that every word that Obama utters is completely original to him. I mean these candidates have speech writers and researchers on their payroll for a reason.
But if we are going to start pointing out some of the most audacious of political ripoffs that have occurred during this campaign, it would have to be the term "change", which has been borrowed from the Obama campaign by Hillary, Kucinich, Paul, Huckabee, and Romney.
And by the way Hillary borrowed "hope" as well. As if any of us have any real "hope" of "change" under a Hillary Clinton presidency.
Perhaps we can now return to a conversation about inspiration and policies if you all don't mind.
On a conference call with reporters, Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said it was clear Obama had “lifted rhetoric” from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Portions of Patrick’s speeches during his gubernatorial run resemble some of Obama’s addresses this year.
“If you’re going to be talking about the value of words, the words ought to be your own,” said Wolfson.
In a statement this morning, Patrick said the two men often shared ideas and language with each other.
The Obama camp also said Clinton had a pattern of borrowing some of the Illinois senator’s signature phrases, including “Yes, We Can” and “Fired Up, Ready to Go.”
"Mommy! Billy's copying me!"
I am sorry but this is a ridiculous argument. It is one of the most common occurrences in politics for candidates to "borrow" from each other's platforms.
And as for the charge of "plagiarism" that is hardly accurate if you have the originator's permission to use their words. Besides nobody thinks that every word that Obama utters is completely original to him. I mean these candidates have speech writers and researchers on their payroll for a reason.
But if we are going to start pointing out some of the most audacious of political ripoffs that have occurred during this campaign, it would have to be the term "change", which has been borrowed from the Obama campaign by Hillary, Kucinich, Paul, Huckabee, and Romney.
And by the way Hillary borrowed "hope" as well. As if any of us have any real "hope" of "change" under a Hillary Clinton presidency.
Perhaps we can now return to a conversation about inspiration and policies if you all don't mind.
The lessons of the Giuliani campaign have been lost on Hillary Clinton.
Supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are worried that convoluted delegate rules in Texas could water down the impact of strong support for her among Hispanic voters there, creating a new obstacle for her in the must-win presidential primary contest.
Several top Clinton strategists and fundraisers became alarmed after learning of the state's unusual provisions during a closed-door strategy meeting this month, according to one person who attended.
What Clinton aides discovered is that in certain targeted districts, such as Democratic state Sen. Juan Hinojosa's heavily Hispanic Senate district in the Rio Grande Valley, Clinton could win an overwhelming majority of votes but gain only a small edge in delegates. At the same time, a win in the more urban districts in Dallas and Houston -- where Sen. Barack Obama expects to receive significant support -- could yield three or four times as many delegates.
You know it makes it very difficult to post when I have such a bad case of the giggles.
Oh was that mean?
Well at least she can still count on support from Ohio.
Several top Clinton strategists and fundraisers became alarmed after learning of the state's unusual provisions during a closed-door strategy meeting this month, according to one person who attended.
What Clinton aides discovered is that in certain targeted districts, such as Democratic state Sen. Juan Hinojosa's heavily Hispanic Senate district in the Rio Grande Valley, Clinton could win an overwhelming majority of votes but gain only a small edge in delegates. At the same time, a win in the more urban districts in Dallas and Houston -- where Sen. Barack Obama expects to receive significant support -- could yield three or four times as many delegates.
You know it makes it very difficult to post when I have such a bad case of the giggles.
Oh was that mean?
Well at least she can still count on support from Ohio.
Alaska is still the biggest small state in the United States of America.
So with a land mass of 571,951 sq. miles and only 677,000 people you would think that we would have tons of space to ourselves.Anchorage remains the state's largest city, with 284,000 residents, or nearly half the state's 677,000 residents, according to the recently released 2007 statewide population counts by the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
For any of you coming up just let me enlighten you. The scenery is breathtaking, the fishing is amazing, and the skiing is world class.
However in the winter the snow is deep, the roads are icy, and we consider tourists to be just another speed bump.
In the summer the mosquitoes are the size of hummingbirds, the mudflats near the inlet will trap you so that the tide can drown you, and there are things in the woods that will both kill AND eat you.
We are looking forward to your visit.
Happy President's Day!
As much as I enjoy having a paid day off from work, it does seem an odd thing to celebrate.We show our appreciation for the hard work of our past President's by taking a day off from work ourselves?
I just hope that in the future there will be an addendum added to the holiday.
"President's Day to celebrate the achievements of all past President's except for the disastrous George W. Bush."
By the way does it show a lack of patriotism if I don't feel like taking advantage of the sales available today? I really don't need anything right now.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
The answer to my dreams could be at hand.
Barack Obama sneaked down to North Carolina Sunday and met with former rival John Edwards, who has yet to make an endorsement in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.Officials at North Carolina television station WTVD said they have video taken from a helicopter of Obama leaving Edwards' home in Chapel Hill. A producer said the station was "tipped off" about the meeting, but said the source was confidential.
The Obama campaign confirmed the meeting. Although reporters normally travel everywhere with Obama, he left them behind to fly down in secret from his hometown.
"Senator Obama visited this morning with John and Elizabeth Edwards at their home in Chapel Hill to discuss the state of the campaign and the pressing issues facing American families," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. He wouldn't comment on the possibility of an endorsement.
When I read the writing on the wall and realized that Edwards was making an ill fated run for the White House in a time when he was up against two historic candidacies, I moved my support to Barack Obama.
I just started to constantly post about the idea of an Edwards/Obama ticket or an Obama/Edwards ticket. I am pretty sure I drove many of you crazy with my very enthusiastic support for this idea.
But now they are having a face to face meeting. I don't want to get too excited, but this just might be the very thing that I have been hoping for.
In my opinion this would be the greatest political match up in American history.
And the Republicans will simply curl up and die once it takes place.
Things to worry about during your next trip to Australia: indecipherable Aussie slang, man-eating sharks, and demonic possession. WTF?
The Catholic Church has revealed how growing interest in satanism and the occult has led to a rise in exorcisms across Queensland.One priest, who asked not to be named for fear of "reprisals", said he was carrying out at least one exorcism a fortnight.
More requests for exorcisms came from the Gold Coast than anywhere else.
An exorcism involves holy water, sacrament and Bible reading and can go on for many hours, the priest said. Linda Blair made the subject famous in the 1973 film, The Exorcist.
"Being possessed by a demon is terrifying in one's mental and emotional life," he said. "Some of these manifestations are extremely powerful, causing people to be plagued by disturbances. They hear voices and see hideous creatures in their sleep.
Do you know what else is terrifying? Being a superstitious anti-science Aussie bedwetter.
The idea that there are still people in the world who believe that hearing voices is caused by demonic possession rather then possible schizophrenia or psychotic depression is absolutely mind numbing!
There are readily available medications which can cure or suppress this problem and very useful therapies that can help the afflicted person deal with it.
Going to a priest for this is like going to a chiropractor for a toothache.
As long as there are superstitious people in the world there will be priests, witchdoctors, and mediums willing to take advantage of them.
More requests for exorcisms came from the Gold Coast than anywhere else.
An exorcism involves holy water, sacrament and Bible reading and can go on for many hours, the priest said. Linda Blair made the subject famous in the 1973 film, The Exorcist.
"Being possessed by a demon is terrifying in one's mental and emotional life," he said. "Some of these manifestations are extremely powerful, causing people to be plagued by disturbances. They hear voices and see hideous creatures in their sleep.
Do you know what else is terrifying? Being a superstitious anti-science Aussie bedwetter.
The idea that there are still people in the world who believe that hearing voices is caused by demonic possession rather then possible schizophrenia or psychotic depression is absolutely mind numbing!
There are readily available medications which can cure or suppress this problem and very useful therapies that can help the afflicted person deal with it.
Going to a priest for this is like going to a chiropractor for a toothache.
As long as there are superstitious people in the world there will be priests, witchdoctors, and mediums willing to take advantage of them.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Everything you ever wanted to know about Barack Obama courtesy of Vanity Fair.
Abandoned by his father and raised by a strong mother who taught him to reach for the stars and dare to be more then the sum of his negative experiences.No wonder I feel such a connection with him. We have so much in common.
The article is very expansive and goes a long way toward explaining how Obama came to be the inspirational leader he is today.
New York is Hillaryland so of course she won the primary. Or did she?
Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.
That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.
City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.
In the Harlem district, for instance, where the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn — where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton — she now barely leads, 118 to 116.
The history of New York elections has been punctuated by episodes of confusion, incompetence and even occasional corruption. And election officials and lawyers for both Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton agree that it is not uncommon for mistakes to be made by weary inspectors rushing on election night to transcribe columns of numbers that are delivered first to the police and then to the news media.
You know what I find especially fascinating? That everytime we hear of voting discrepencies in New Mexico, New Hampshire, and now New York, it always seems to be in Hillary Clinton's favor.
You don't have to have a very large tin foil hat to start smelling a rat. (I swear the poetry was purely acccidental)
That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.
City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.
In the Harlem district, for instance, where the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn — where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton — she now barely leads, 118 to 116.
The history of New York elections has been punctuated by episodes of confusion, incompetence and even occasional corruption. And election officials and lawyers for both Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton agree that it is not uncommon for mistakes to be made by weary inspectors rushing on election night to transcribe columns of numbers that are delivered first to the police and then to the news media.
You know what I find especially fascinating? That everytime we hear of voting discrepencies in New Mexico, New Hampshire, and now New York, it always seems to be in Hillary Clinton's favor.
You don't have to have a very large tin foil hat to start smelling a rat. (I swear the poetry was purely acccidental)
Finally New Rules are back!
I am still having some difficulty enjoying Real Time lately.
Even with the return of the writers there is something about the show that is putting me off.
Oh yeah it is Bill! Look I know his job is to be a dick, but he has been especially "dicky" lately and I have only been able to make it about halfway through most of the recent shows.
But that was before the return of New Rules. Now I will just have to fight back the bile knowing that it will be worth it when I get to see this comedic highlight.
So here is New Rules (the best part of Real Time) for February 15, 2008.
Even with the return of the writers there is something about the show that is putting me off.
Oh yeah it is Bill! Look I know his job is to be a dick, but he has been especially "dicky" lately and I have only been able to make it about halfway through most of the recent shows.
But that was before the return of New Rules. Now I will just have to fight back the bile knowing that it will be worth it when I get to see this comedic highlight.
So here is New Rules (the best part of Real Time) for February 15, 2008.
20,000 torture tapes go missing.
Lawyers representing military detainees at Guantanamo Bay have expressed concern that the government has violated a federal court order by losing or erasing several years' worth of digital video recordings that could shed light on the legality of detainee treatment.
The concerns are based in part on a recent court filing by Guantanamo's commander, Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby, who said video surveillance recordings in several areas of the facility have been automatically overwritten and no longer exist.
"In January 2008, it was brought to my attention that such . . . [recording] systems may have been automatically overwriting video data contained on recording devices, at predetermined intervals," Buzby wrote. "That is, only a specified number of days' worth of recorded data could be retained on the recording devices at a time."
I call bullshit on this pathetic attempt to hide the government's behavior.
You know the reason that cops have that little video camera on the dashboard of their vehicles is so they can be protected from claims of police brutality by citizens, but also so those same citizens can be protected from overly aggressive cops.
If these torture tapes were made we have to ask why? If it was to protect the military from charges that they had used torture then they certainly would have been preserved. Or else what is the point?
Unless. Unless they show that the interrogators at Gitmo did indeed use torture. But if that were the case then wouldn't only THOSE tapes that showed torture being used have turned up missing?
What does it mean that over 20,000 tapes of interrogations are missing? Just how many prisoners have been tortured at Guantanamo? And will we ever know?
The concerns are based in part on a recent court filing by Guantanamo's commander, Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby, who said video surveillance recordings in several areas of the facility have been automatically overwritten and no longer exist.
"In January 2008, it was brought to my attention that such . . . [recording] systems may have been automatically overwriting video data contained on recording devices, at predetermined intervals," Buzby wrote. "That is, only a specified number of days' worth of recorded data could be retained on the recording devices at a time."
I call bullshit on this pathetic attempt to hide the government's behavior.
You know the reason that cops have that little video camera on the dashboard of their vehicles is so they can be protected from claims of police brutality by citizens, but also so those same citizens can be protected from overly aggressive cops.
If these torture tapes were made we have to ask why? If it was to protect the military from charges that they had used torture then they certainly would have been preserved. Or else what is the point?
Unless. Unless they show that the interrogators at Gitmo did indeed use torture. But if that were the case then wouldn't only THOSE tapes that showed torture being used have turned up missing?
What does it mean that over 20,000 tapes of interrogations are missing? Just how many prisoners have been tortured at Guantanamo? And will we ever know?
Friday, February 15, 2008
Hillary continues to lose support.
The bad news for the Clinton campaign just keeps getting worse and worse.
She has lost John Lewis, a prominent black leader, and consistent Clinton supporter.
She is losing super-delegates at an amazing clip.
And it is beginning to look like the only way she can win a state is by less then honest methods.
It is also getting clearer everyday that Obama is the one the Republicans fear the most.
The writing is on the wall, and all Hillary has to do is have the courage to read it and make the choice to save the Democrats from a long drawn out fight for delegates that will cost it the support and confidence of the moderates that are the key to winning this election.
She has lost John Lewis, a prominent black leader, and consistent Clinton supporter.
She is losing super-delegates at an amazing clip.
And it is beginning to look like the only way she can win a state is by less then honest methods.
It is also getting clearer everyday that Obama is the one the Republicans fear the most.
The writing is on the wall, and all Hillary has to do is have the courage to read it and make the choice to save the Democrats from a long drawn out fight for delegates that will cost it the support and confidence of the moderates that are the key to winning this election.
A moment of geekdom at the Minority.
"I know it seems odd given, you know, the guy is already half animal," says Hugh Jackman, who revives the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, due in theaters May 1, 2009. "But with all the success of the X-Men, you feel the pressure to keep pushing it further."Jackman, also a producer on the film, says he never expected the story of mutants trying to fit in "to catch on the way it did." (Since the first film hit screens in 2000, the X-Men franchise has taken in more than $1.1 billion worldwide.) "But I became a fan of Wolverine like everyone else. That's why I keep holding on to the character."
Wolverine will be a prequel to the X-Men saga. It will center on the origins of the superhero with animal-like reflexes, an alloy skeletal system and the ability to heal from virtually any wound. He also could use a friend.
Time for a sad little confession. Before I was the worldy, erudite, intellectual juggernaut known as the blogger Gryphen, I was a shy fourteen year old who quietly collected comic books.
I loved comic books! I especially loved the X-Men. And I super especially loved the always unpredictable Wolverine.
I still own the first X-men comic that Wolverine appeared in, Giant sized X-men #1 printed in 1975. I was smitten with the Canadian scrapper from the first moment I laid eyes on him.
Now I tell you this not to make you question your judgement in choosing to occasionally listen to my viewpoints on the important political or social issues of the day. Or to somehow humanize myself in your eyes (Look I have skeletons in my closet too!). No I confess this to you because I pride myself on being open and honest in all aspects of my life. I firmly believe that almost EVERYBODY has some hidden geek in them as well.
Do you collect Hummel figurines? Geek. Or own the whole box set from the Star Trek television series? Geek. Or do you collect stamps, butterflys, electric trains, baseball cards, or salt and pepper shakers from every state in the union. Geek, geek, geek, geek, and geek!
So in outing my own geeky past I hope to send a message to my hundreds of visitors (on a good day), that you can stop being ashamed of your strange little obsessions, and come to understand that there is a little geek in all of us.
Man I can hardly wait to see that Wolverine movie!
Hillary 4U&Me is on Tucker right now!
I am a little disappointed since I wanted to see it on Countdown first.
Now that is just a great video!
God I just cannot stop giggling after I see that thing.
Now that is just a great video!
God I just cannot stop giggling after I see that thing.
Obama takes lead over Hillary in Texas. Damn, even I am amazed at this!
DemocratsTX
Clinton42% Obama48% Someone else3% Undecided7%
Hillary Clinton leads Barack Obama among self-described Democrats 47% to 42%. Obama leads Clinton among self-described independents and Republicans 24% to 71%. Obama leads among men 55% to 29% (47% of likely Democratic primary voters) and Clinton leads among women 54% to 42%. Clinton leads Obama among white voters 51% to 40% (53% of likely Democratic primary voters), Obama leads Clinton among African American voters 76% to 17% (22% of likely Democratic primary voters), and Clinton leads Obama among Latino voters 44% to 42%.
This is unbelievable! But no more unbelievable then 75% of Alaskans choosing Obama.
And the Obama surge just keeps gaining momentum!
Clinton42% Obama48% Someone else3% Undecided7%
Hillary Clinton leads Barack Obama among self-described Democrats 47% to 42%. Obama leads Clinton among self-described independents and Republicans 24% to 71%. Obama leads among men 55% to 29% (47% of likely Democratic primary voters) and Clinton leads among women 54% to 42%. Clinton leads Obama among white voters 51% to 40% (53% of likely Democratic primary voters), Obama leads Clinton among African American voters 76% to 17% (22% of likely Democratic primary voters), and Clinton leads Obama among Latino voters 44% to 42%.
This is unbelievable! But no more unbelievable then 75% of Alaskans choosing Obama.
And the Obama surge just keeps gaining momentum!
Olbermann turns up the heat on George Bush with his Special Comments.
Keith Olbermann is the bravest man in journalism today.
He is our hero and we are blessed to have him on the airwaves.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
I bet this what a lot of people would like for Valentine's day.
It is my belief that marriage is where romance goes to die.
But hey that is just me.
But hey that is just me.
Hillary's desperate ambition to be President endangers the Democrats hopes of winning the White House in 2008.
Hillary Clinton will take the Democratic nomination even if she does not win the popular vote, but persuades enough superdelegates to vote for her at the convention, her campaign advisers say.
The New York senator, who lost three primaries Tuesday night, now lags slightly behind her rival, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, in the delegate count. She is even further behind in "pledged'' delegates, those assigned by virtue of primaries and caucuses.
But Clinton will not concede the race to Obama if he wins a greater number of pledged delegates by the end of the primary season, and will count on the 796 elected officials and party bigwigs to put her over the top, if necessary, said Clinton's communications director, Howard Wolfson.
"I want to be clear about the fact that neither campaign is in a position to win this nomination without the support of the votes of the superdelegates,'' Wolfson told reporters in a conference call.
"We don't make distinctions between delegates chosen by million of voters in a primary and those chosen between tens of thousands in caucuses,'' Wolfson said. "And we don't make distinctions when it comes to elected officials'' who vote as superdelegates at the convention.
"We are interested in acquiring delegates, period,'' he added.
Simply put this is a recipe for disaster!
What the Clinton campaign has failed to realize is that these giant turnouts in the Democratic caucuses are giant turnouts for Barack Obama, not Hillary Clinton.
The reason the Democrats are out-voting Republicans 2 to 1, is not just because George Bush is the worst President in American history. It is because Barack Obama has inspired these voters like nobody has done since John Fitzgerald Kennedy. That is not just hyperbole. That is a fact!
And what happens if all of these people, many of them first time voters or independents, find that the nomination has been stolen from right under the feet of their candidate? They get turned off to the process. They learn that their passion and their vote mean nothing. And so why would they bother to vote in the general?
If Hillary gets the super delegates to vote her way she may hang onto the party faithful, but she will lose the independent vote that will naturally return to McCain, and she can kiss those Obamicans (Republicans who support Obama) good-bye as well. In short, she will lose the lead that Democrats now enjoy over the Republicans and will give John McCain not only a fighting chance but the advantage.
This election is the Democrats election to lose, and now we know how they will do it.
And what is more if this loss gets blamed on Hillary, and how could it not, she can kiss her Senate seat goodbye as well.
And the Clinton brand will have suffered irreparable harm as well. No longer will Bill and Hillary Clinton be synonymous with prosperity; they will forever be connected to dirty political tricks and the losing of a gift wrapped election.
I implore Hillary and her supporters to put their egos and ambitions aside and to focus on the needs of our country instead. We need to stay focused on defeating the Republicans and getting our country back into the hands of those who can start the process of healing.
Healing requires hope. Please do not take away our hope.
The New York senator, who lost three primaries Tuesday night, now lags slightly behind her rival, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, in the delegate count. She is even further behind in "pledged'' delegates, those assigned by virtue of primaries and caucuses.
But Clinton will not concede the race to Obama if he wins a greater number of pledged delegates by the end of the primary season, and will count on the 796 elected officials and party bigwigs to put her over the top, if necessary, said Clinton's communications director, Howard Wolfson.
"I want to be clear about the fact that neither campaign is in a position to win this nomination without the support of the votes of the superdelegates,'' Wolfson told reporters in a conference call.
"We don't make distinctions between delegates chosen by million of voters in a primary and those chosen between tens of thousands in caucuses,'' Wolfson said. "And we don't make distinctions when it comes to elected officials'' who vote as superdelegates at the convention.
"We are interested in acquiring delegates, period,'' he added.
Simply put this is a recipe for disaster!
What the Clinton campaign has failed to realize is that these giant turnouts in the Democratic caucuses are giant turnouts for Barack Obama, not Hillary Clinton.
The reason the Democrats are out-voting Republicans 2 to 1, is not just because George Bush is the worst President in American history. It is because Barack Obama has inspired these voters like nobody has done since John Fitzgerald Kennedy. That is not just hyperbole. That is a fact!
And what happens if all of these people, many of them first time voters or independents, find that the nomination has been stolen from right under the feet of their candidate? They get turned off to the process. They learn that their passion and their vote mean nothing. And so why would they bother to vote in the general?
If Hillary gets the super delegates to vote her way she may hang onto the party faithful, but she will lose the independent vote that will naturally return to McCain, and she can kiss those Obamicans (Republicans who support Obama) good-bye as well. In short, she will lose the lead that Democrats now enjoy over the Republicans and will give John McCain not only a fighting chance but the advantage.
This election is the Democrats election to lose, and now we know how they will do it.
And what is more if this loss gets blamed on Hillary, and how could it not, she can kiss her Senate seat goodbye as well.
And the Clinton brand will have suffered irreparable harm as well. No longer will Bill and Hillary Clinton be synonymous with prosperity; they will forever be connected to dirty political tricks and the losing of a gift wrapped election.
I implore Hillary and her supporters to put their egos and ambitions aside and to focus on the needs of our country instead. We need to stay focused on defeating the Republicans and getting our country back into the hands of those who can start the process of healing.
Healing requires hope. Please do not take away our hope.
Republicans walk out to stop Bush administration from being held accountable for its criminal behavior.
The House voted Thursday to hold two of President Bush’s confidants in contempt for failing to cooperate with an inquiry into whether a purge of federal prosecutors was politically motivated.
Angry Republicans boycotted the vote and staged a walkout.
The vote was 223-32 Thursday to hold presidential chief of staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt. The citations charge Miers with failing to testify and accuse her and Bolten of refusing Congress’ demands for documents related to the 2006-2007 firings.
Republicans said Democrats should instead be working on extending a law - set to expire Saturday - allowing the government to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mails in the United States in cases of suspected terrorist activity.
The White House said the Justice Department would not ask the U.S. attorney to pursue the House contempt charges.
It is the first time in 25 years that a full chamber of Congress has voted on a contempt of Congress citation.
They walked out! They simply took their ball and went home! And it did not even do them any good.
So to sum up, the Republicans tried desperately to keep ex-Chief of Staff Bolton and ex-White House Counsel Harriet Miers from being held in contempt for interfering in a Congressional inquiry into potential wrong doing by the White House. While at the same time getting pissy with the Democrats for not voting to continue to allow our government to spy on its citizens.
Oh yeah this is going to be a BIG problem for these Republicans come the next election.
Angry Republicans boycotted the vote and staged a walkout.
The vote was 223-32 Thursday to hold presidential chief of staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt. The citations charge Miers with failing to testify and accuse her and Bolten of refusing Congress’ demands for documents related to the 2006-2007 firings.
Republicans said Democrats should instead be working on extending a law - set to expire Saturday - allowing the government to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mails in the United States in cases of suspected terrorist activity.
The White House said the Justice Department would not ask the U.S. attorney to pursue the House contempt charges.
It is the first time in 25 years that a full chamber of Congress has voted on a contempt of Congress citation.
They walked out! They simply took their ball and went home! And it did not even do them any good.
So to sum up, the Republicans tried desperately to keep ex-Chief of Staff Bolton and ex-White House Counsel Harriet Miers from being held in contempt for interfering in a Congressional inquiry into potential wrong doing by the White House. While at the same time getting pissy with the Democrats for not voting to continue to allow our government to spy on its citizens.
Oh yeah this is going to be a BIG problem for these Republicans come the next election.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Oh sweet Jesus this is....this is...Oh god you just have to see it for yourself.
Oh please make it stop!
Terrorists are going to attack us with pregnant women. Wait what?
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are warning against a new type of terrorism carried out by women who appear to be pregnant.
Now for a second I was a really terrified by this, especially since I am afraid of pregnant women anyhow. (I am always worried they are going to try and sue me for child support.)
But then I read this:
Authorities say there is "no specific, credible intelligence" that says terrorists are planning to use women and suicide bombers to attack, but the warning was sent to agencies across the country in the wake of recent attacks overseas.
Just how desperate is the Department of Homeland Security to scare us? And why?
Now for a second I was a really terrified by this, especially since I am afraid of pregnant women anyhow. (I am always worried they are going to try and sue me for child support.)
But then I read this:
Authorities say there is "no specific, credible intelligence" that says terrorists are planning to use women and suicide bombers to attack, but the warning was sent to agencies across the country in the wake of recent attacks overseas.
Just how desperate is the Department of Homeland Security to scare us? And why?
God hates Jesus!
This was the dramatic scene as the world's largest statue of Jesus was hit by lightning.What do you think? Family tiff perhaps?
How Jon resists the urge to reach across and just start strangling Bill Kristol is simply beyond me.
Stay to the end to watch Kristol dodge the torture question.
McCain fails to vote for torture ban!
Today, the Senate brought the Intelligence Authorization Bill to the floor, containing a provision from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) that establishes one interrogation standard, requiring the intelligence community to abide by the same standards as articulated in the Army Field Manual and banning waterboarding.
Just hours ago, the Senate voted in favor of the bill, 51-45.
Earlier today, ThinkProgress noted that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), a former prisoner of war, has spoken strongly in favor of implementing the Army Field Manual standard. When confronted today with the decision of whether to stick with his conscience or cave to the right wing, McCain chose to ditch his principles and instead vote to preserve waterboarding.
I have to say I am a little shocked at this. I guess I really wanted to believe that even though McCain is wrong on the war, that he was at least a man of integrity. He clearly is not.
Obama is going to eat this guys lunch in a debate.
Just hours ago, the Senate voted in favor of the bill, 51-45.
Earlier today, ThinkProgress noted that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), a former prisoner of war, has spoken strongly in favor of implementing the Army Field Manual standard. When confronted today with the decision of whether to stick with his conscience or cave to the right wing, McCain chose to ditch his principles and instead vote to preserve waterboarding.
I have to say I am a little shocked at this. I guess I really wanted to believe that even though McCain is wrong on the war, that he was at least a man of integrity. He clearly is not.
Obama is going to eat this guys lunch in a debate.
I am a Barack Obama speech junkie and this one may be the very best.
If you are still torn after all of this time, between Barack and Hillary, do yourself a favor and just listen.
This is truth delivered by a man who believes every word that he speaks.
Just listen. Please.
This is truth delivered by a man who believes every word that he speaks.
Just listen. Please.
Hillary ices up.
For the second election night in a row, Hillary Clinton failed to acknowledge or congratulate Barack Obama after he won the day in dominating fashion.
On Tuesday in El Paso, hours after Virginia had been called for Obama, she stuck to her “Texas campaign kickoff” message and did not stray from an energetic, Lone Star-themed stump speech. She did mention Obama by name, only to chide his health care plan.
On Saturday night in Richmond, Virginia, Clinton spoke to a crowd of thousands at the state’s annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner, but she ignored Obama’s quartet of blowout primary and caucus wins that day as well (Obama also won the Maine caucuses the next day).
The courtesy of conceding a primary or caucus loss — and then congratulating your opponent — is by no means required. But it has become standard practice during campaign season.
Everybody wants to win, but this kind of pettiness is especially ugly. And it demonstrates a deep flaw in Hillary's character.
On Tuesday in El Paso, hours after Virginia had been called for Obama, she stuck to her “Texas campaign kickoff” message and did not stray from an energetic, Lone Star-themed stump speech. She did mention Obama by name, only to chide his health care plan.
On Saturday night in Richmond, Virginia, Clinton spoke to a crowd of thousands at the state’s annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner, but she ignored Obama’s quartet of blowout primary and caucus wins that day as well (Obama also won the Maine caucuses the next day).
The courtesy of conceding a primary or caucus loss — and then congratulating your opponent — is by no means required. But it has become standard practice during campaign season.
Everybody wants to win, but this kind of pettiness is especially ugly. And it demonstrates a deep flaw in Hillary's character.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Obama is projected to win Virginia!
I just now heard this on MSNBC, the cable news channel that Hillary hates!
I will update this several times during the evening as more polls close.
Update: He has officially won Virginia. Still waiting for polls to close in Maryland and D.C..
Son of Update: Obama is projected to win D.C. Oh and Hillary's deputy campaign manager Mike Henry just quit. I am sure there is no connection.
Grandson of Update: It is official Obama has won all three states tonight! And by HUGE margins!
I will update this several times during the evening as more polls close.
Update: He has officially won Virginia. Still waiting for polls to close in Maryland and D.C..
Son of Update: Obama is projected to win D.C. Oh and Hillary's deputy campaign manager Mike Henry just quit. I am sure there is no connection.
Grandson of Update: It is official Obama has won all three states tonight! And by HUGE margins!
Happy Darwin day!
What a great day to celebrate scientific curiosity's dominance over superstition driven blind faith.We will only advance into the bright light of intellectual discovery if we leave the darkness of punishing ignorance behind us.
Hillary shows her true colors. They are red like a FOX.
The Hillary campaign recently took MSNBC reporter David Shuster (and MSNBC generally) to task for asking a guest on February 7th's "Tucker" program, "[D]oesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?" MSNBC has suspended Shuster for his remarks.
Tonight, the Politico's John Harris asked Clinton for her thoughts on the situation during an interview that aired on Washington, D.C.'s local ABC affiliate WJLA:
Clinton said that her staff had sent her "some independent study" "which seemed to suggest that" "in terms of the fairness of the coverage," Fox News Channel has treated her campaign more fairly than MSNBC.
Well of course FOX has been less critical of her campaign then MSNBC or CNN, FOX and the Republicans have been trying to get her nominated for over a year now!
She is their dream Democratic candidate.
She is the only hope of a victory that the Republicans have left!
And if she did happen to win they are confident that, despite what Hillary has said recently, she will continue forward with George Bush's Iraq policy.
George Bush has been secretly giving her advice, her husband is a Karl Rove fan, and the Defense industry has given heavily to her campaign. Is it any wonder that FOX news gives her a pass?
It is time for Hillary to stop using her clout to punish reporters who dare to tell the truth and start being up front with the American people. Who is she really?
Tonight, the Politico's John Harris asked Clinton for her thoughts on the situation during an interview that aired on Washington, D.C.'s local ABC affiliate WJLA:
Clinton said that her staff had sent her "some independent study" "which seemed to suggest that" "in terms of the fairness of the coverage," Fox News Channel has treated her campaign more fairly than MSNBC.
Well of course FOX has been less critical of her campaign then MSNBC or CNN, FOX and the Republicans have been trying to get her nominated for over a year now!
She is their dream Democratic candidate.
She is the only hope of a victory that the Republicans have left!
And if she did happen to win they are confident that, despite what Hillary has said recently, she will continue forward with George Bush's Iraq policy.
George Bush has been secretly giving her advice, her husband is a Karl Rove fan, and the Defense industry has given heavily to her campaign. Is it any wonder that FOX news gives her a pass?
It is time for Hillary to stop using her clout to punish reporters who dare to tell the truth and start being up front with the American people. Who is she really?
Jim Webb just moved to the top of my list of favorite Senators. Actually I did not have a list before, but now I do and he is at the top.
Sen. Jim Webb thinks legal action against the Bush administration may be needed if the president pursues a long-term military presence in Iraq without Congress' approval."I'm not convinced we don't need to have a lawsuit ready," Webb told the Huffington Post. "This is a classic separation of powers issue. I started to talk to people about this today."
In recent days the administration has seemingly backed away from attempting to secure extended military-to-military relationship with the Iraqi government to replace a current U.N. Mandate. Webb and others -- most notably Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Sen. Hillary Clinton -- have pushed legislation that would restrict federal money for any such agreement unless it came in the form of a congressional treaty. And while a victory on that front seems within grasp, the possibility still exists, Webb warned, for the administration to ultimately circumvent congressional input.
"They are characterizing this as within the authority of the Executive Branch. They will wait to August when everyone is at the conventions, and leave it on our doorstep," said the Virginia Democrat. "If the Senate hasn't acted by then, they are going to announce an agreement between the Executive Branch and Iraq."
Now this is what we need our Senators to do. This is how the Democrats were able to dominate the last election. We need them to do something, anything, to stop this criminal administration from going forward with their plans.
I certainly hope that Jim Webb follows through with this and attracts the support of ALL of the other Democrats to help call a halt to this kind of thing.
No more blank checks for George Bush!
Monday, February 11, 2008
Have you seen this parody of the Obama video featuring John McCain?
Damn I am loving this!
I guess this has already received over 200,000 hits on YouTube.
You better check it out so you won't be the last one in your neighborhood to know what the fuss is all about.
Somebody give David Shuster his job back. He was absolutely right that the Clinton's are pimping Chelsea out.
Jason Rae is a typical junior in college.But not many 21-year-olds start their Monday with a personal breakfast with Chelsea Clinton, as Rae did this morning at the student union at the nearby University of Milwaukee.
Rae got the one-on-one treatment from the former — and possibly future — first daughter because he is a Democratic National Committee member from Wisconsin and thus a "super delegate," one of the 796 free agents who can back any candidate in the race for the Democratic nomination.
You know if somebody had made that pimping comment about my 20 year old daughter I would have torn them a new one. But I also would never have my child do what the Clinton's are having Chelsea do.
There are other terms for what Chelsea is doing, charm, engage, entice, lure, persuade, wile, or perhaps you prefer seduce. She is being sent out to convince somebody to support her mother, by using her fame, charm, attractiveness, personality, or whatever she has at her disposal.
I certainly would never suggest that Chelsea would use actual sex to convince anybody, but lets face it the kid is 21 years old! The only way he is not noticing that she is an attractive women is if he is gay or dead. (By the way, just for the record, it turns out he is gay. He seemed like a very nice young man when I saw him on t.v. by the way. I actually trust that he will vote his conscience.)
No matter how you look at it, Shuster was not wrong. He could have used a more acceptable word, but not a more discriptive one.
I hope that MSNBC gets some balls and gets David Shuster back to work immediately. And that he immediately starts reporting on the underhanded bullshit the Clinton's are using to steal this election from the voters!
Why do caucuses seem to favor Obama?
Obama has won every single caucus so far this year with the exception of Nevada. While Hillary seems to do better in actual primaries.
I just heard Bill Clinton say that the reason for this is that Hillary supporters are the people who "actually need a President", and are working class people who may not be able to get the time off from work.
This may be one of the stupidest things I have heard so far in this campaign.
Number one, the caucuses are held in the evening when most people are not working. (Unless Bill would now like to claim that most Hillary supporters work the swing shift.)
Number two, the very idea that Obama and Hillary are courting some totally different demographic is ridiculous.
Now I participated in the caucus here in Anchorage, Alaska. What I found was a chaotic, frustrating, and poorly organized mess. But what I also found is that the majority of the people who showed up were the Obama people.
So if the caucuses really do favor Obama (a fact of which I am not totally convinced), I would say that the main reason would have to do with one simple thing. Enthusiasm.
The caucus process can be intimidating and frustrating, so those who are really inspired and determined will stick it out. While those who are less fired up may simply walk away.
And if my theory is accurate, which goes without question, then Obama will continue to win every single upcoming caucus, and probably a few primaries as well.
I just heard Bill Clinton say that the reason for this is that Hillary supporters are the people who "actually need a President", and are working class people who may not be able to get the time off from work.
This may be one of the stupidest things I have heard so far in this campaign.
Number one, the caucuses are held in the evening when most people are not working. (Unless Bill would now like to claim that most Hillary supporters work the swing shift.)
Number two, the very idea that Obama and Hillary are courting some totally different demographic is ridiculous.
Now I participated in the caucus here in Anchorage, Alaska. What I found was a chaotic, frustrating, and poorly organized mess. But what I also found is that the majority of the people who showed up were the Obama people.
So if the caucuses really do favor Obama (a fact of which I am not totally convinced), I would say that the main reason would have to do with one simple thing. Enthusiasm.
The caucus process can be intimidating and frustrating, so those who are really inspired and determined will stick it out. While those who are less fired up may simply walk away.
And if my theory is accurate, which goes without question, then Obama will continue to win every single upcoming caucus, and probably a few primaries as well.
Soldier stationed at Fort Richardson in Alaska has been convicted of murder.
A military jury on Sunday convicted an Army sniper of murder and sentenced him to 10 years in prison for killing an Iraqi civilian who wandered into the hiding place where six soldiers were sleeping.
Sgt. Evan Vela, 24, was found guilty of murder without premeditation, of aiding and abetting in planting an AK-47 on the dead man's body and of lying to military investigators about the shooting. He had faced a possible life sentence.
Vela showed no emotion when the verdict was read, but he asked the jury for mercy before it broke to decide his sentence. He apologized to the court, the Army and one of the sons of Genei Nasir al-Janabi, the man he shot with a pistol in May.
"When I came to Iraq, I didn't come to do anything wrong," Vela said, reading from a handwritten statement. "I failed my standards, your standards and the standards of the Army. All I can say is I'm sorry and ask for mercy."
I find this story particularly heartbreaking.
I absolutely believe that this young man would have lived his whole life as a peaceful, productive member of society if he had not found himself in the meatgrinder that is Iraq.
In my opinion this is just another wasted young life that can be added to the pile of devastation that George Bush has created with his destructive policy decisions.
I desperately want this President to be tried for his crimes against our country, the people of Iraq, and the American soldiers who should be home with their families right now.
Sgt. Evan Vela, 24, was found guilty of murder without premeditation, of aiding and abetting in planting an AK-47 on the dead man's body and of lying to military investigators about the shooting. He had faced a possible life sentence.
Vela showed no emotion when the verdict was read, but he asked the jury for mercy before it broke to decide his sentence. He apologized to the court, the Army and one of the sons of Genei Nasir al-Janabi, the man he shot with a pistol in May.
"When I came to Iraq, I didn't come to do anything wrong," Vela said, reading from a handwritten statement. "I failed my standards, your standards and the standards of the Army. All I can say is I'm sorry and ask for mercy."
I find this story particularly heartbreaking.
I absolutely believe that this young man would have lived his whole life as a peaceful, productive member of society if he had not found himself in the meatgrinder that is Iraq.
In my opinion this is just another wasted young life that can be added to the pile of devastation that George Bush has created with his destructive policy decisions.
I desperately want this President to be tried for his crimes against our country, the people of Iraq, and the American soldiers who should be home with their families right now.
No more Mrs. Nice Girl. Hillary campaign gets tough.
This is Hillary's new campaign manager.Among Billaryland's inner circle, Maggie Williams is renowned as the ultimate Hillary loyalist, fierce and unwavering in her devotion for nearly 25 years.
"She's never run a political campaign, but she has run a staff and isn't afraid to crack heads," a Democratic booster said.
So Hillary's response to Obama's powerful candidacy of hope is to get tough?
Does anybody else think that Hillary is completely missing the damn point?
I just have to wonder how much crying she will have to do to soften her image after putting this pitbull in charge of her campaign? She might need to buy more onions.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
The editors of the Nation endorse Barack Obama.
As this year's front-loaded primary calendar took shape, capped off with the February 5 Super-Mega-Duper Tuesday, many voters once again resigned themselves to watching from the sidelines as a few early states got the privilege of choosing the party's nominee. Yet despite a schedule tailor-made to benefit the establishment candidate and confer an early victory, we are, somewhat miraculously, in the midst of the most contested primary race in 24 years. We are all Iowans now. This state of affairs is thanks almost entirely to the campaign of Barack Obama, who, because of his background and his relatively brief time in the national spotlight, is a truly improbable contender for the presidency. This magazine has been critical of the senator from Illinois for his closeness to Wall Street; his unwillingness to lay out an ambitious progressive agenda on health care, housing and other domestic policy issues; and for post partisan rhetoric that seems to ignore the manifest failure of conservatism over these past seven years. But as Christopher Hayes argued in our cover story last week, Obama has also exhibited a more humane and wise approach to foreign policy, opposing the Iraq War while Hillary Clinton voted for it, and has been a reliable progressive ally over the course of his career. While his rhetoric about "unity" can be troubling, it also embodies a savvy strategy to redefine the center of American politics and build a coalition by reaching out to independent and Republican voters disgruntled and disgusted with what the Bush era has wrought. Most important, we feel his candidacy, in its demonstrated investment in organizing and grassroots activism as well as his personal appeal, represents the best chance to forge a new progressive majority. For these reasons we support Obama for President.
And the groundswell just keeps rising.
Obama wins Maine, and just to top it off he wins a Grammy as well. Is there anything this guy can't do?
The presidential candidate beat both former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter to win best spoken word album for his audio version of his book "The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream."
With 87% of the Maine votes reported Obama leads Hillary 59% to 41 %. You can get more updates here.
So Obama wins all four states that were up for grabs this weekend and Hillary demotes her campaign manager. I am gong to go out on a limb and say that this is a pretty good weekend for Obama.
And for Hillary? Not so much.
With 87% of the Maine votes reported Obama leads Hillary 59% to 41 %. You can get more updates here.
So Obama wins all four states that were up for grabs this weekend and Hillary demotes her campaign manager. I am gong to go out on a limb and say that this is a pretty good weekend for Obama.
And for Hillary? Not so much.
How can you tell when a campaign is in trouble? When they replace their campaign manager that's how!
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton has replaced her campaign manager with a longtime adviser, Maggie Williams, the campaign announced Sunday.
Williams served as Clinton's chief of staff when the New York senator was first lady.
Ex-campaign chief Patti Solis Doyle has been reassigned to a senior adviser's job, the Clinton's campaign announced in a memo to its staff.
Let the spinning begin!
Is everybody gathering the clues that tell you this campaign is in trouble?
Putting a muzzle on her husband.
"Loaning" her campaign five million of her own money. (Or lying about doing so.)
Having Chelsea call super-delegates at home in an attempt to win the nomination even while losing the regular delegates. (Obama has 971 to Clinton's 915. But Hillary has 224 super-delegates to Barack's 135)
All of these are signs of a campaign that is crumbling around the edges, and losing momentum rapidly.
The only question remaining is how vindictive iis Hillary? Is she willing to destroy her party's chances of winning the general election by disgusting Democrats with her conniving enough to keep them away from the voting booths in November?
There are already those within the Democratic party who are very upset about this super-delegate crisis.
Even at a Clinton rally Obama-fever is overwhelming!
The candidate was more than an hour late, and the crowd, stuck in a stuffy high school gym in Arlington, was getting antsy. A campaign staffer took the stage with a big pile of T-shirts to give to those who answered trivia questions about Hillary Clinton.
Suddenly, all around me, the bleachers in the Washington-Lee High School gym shook with shouts of "Obama!"
"Oh, no," said Linda Cooper, a Chantilly homemaker and Hillary fan who was sitting next to me. "I guess she doesn't have the young people."
No, she doesn't. Teachers gave Washington-Lee students the option of attending the Clinton rally as a civics lesson, and more than a thousand kids grabbed the chance to see democracy in action. But as much as they appreciated a glance inside the machinery of retail politics and contemporary celebrity, most students seemed far more taken with Barack Obama or John McCain than with the former first lady.
"We're mostly for Obama or apathetic," said Patrick O'Malley, a senior at Yorktown High who considers Clinton "manipulative and underhanded."
If this election gets stolen by the manipulation of the Clintons and their access to the "super delegates" this country is going to erupt in anger and frustration.
I just don't see how anybody can deny what is happening right before their eyes.
It is the time for hope and integrity in this country. The same passion that is carrying the Obama campaign along is also being seen in the McCain campaign. They may differ on policy and vision, but they both share the scent of newness and the possibility of real change for the future.
And that is why it is vitally important that Obama be nominated. He can talk about change and be believed, while for Clinton it is clear that she is simply latching onto the catchphrase of the moment.
The real difference between Obama and Hillary is that he really believes what he is saying.
Suddenly, all around me, the bleachers in the Washington-Lee High School gym shook with shouts of "Obama!"
"Oh, no," said Linda Cooper, a Chantilly homemaker and Hillary fan who was sitting next to me. "I guess she doesn't have the young people."
No, she doesn't. Teachers gave Washington-Lee students the option of attending the Clinton rally as a civics lesson, and more than a thousand kids grabbed the chance to see democracy in action. But as much as they appreciated a glance inside the machinery of retail politics and contemporary celebrity, most students seemed far more taken with Barack Obama or John McCain than with the former first lady.
"We're mostly for Obama or apathetic," said Patrick O'Malley, a senior at Yorktown High who considers Clinton "manipulative and underhanded."
If this election gets stolen by the manipulation of the Clintons and their access to the "super delegates" this country is going to erupt in anger and frustration.
I just don't see how anybody can deny what is happening right before their eyes.
It is the time for hope and integrity in this country. The same passion that is carrying the Obama campaign along is also being seen in the McCain campaign. They may differ on policy and vision, but they both share the scent of newness and the possibility of real change for the future.
And that is why it is vitally important that Obama be nominated. He can talk about change and be believed, while for Clinton it is clear that she is simply latching onto the catchphrase of the moment.
The real difference between Obama and Hillary is that he really believes what he is saying.
Hillary jumps the shark.
Hillary is crying again!Are you serious? Isn't this the third time she has been caught tearing up?
This is starting to feel like when the Bush administration claims there is yet another terror alert right before an election.
Look, I was not one of those who automatically assumed that Hillary was faking it the first time it happened. I am not one of those men who think the girl got pregnant on purpse, or that the wife only pretends to need her husband to open that pickle jar, or that your woman is crying just to win the argument.
But I have had actual conversations with women who say that they were on the fence about Hillary UNTIL THEY SAW HER CRY! And it apparently helped her in the polls.
So then after it happened once, it has happened two more times! Each time has been caught on camera, and each time has been slavishly reported by the media.
But here is the question that needs to be in the back of everybody's mind.
When have you seen, or even heard, of Hillary Clinton crying before she started running for President? Did she cry at the devastation left by Katrina? Did she cry when she heard that another one of our brave soldiers had lost his life in Iraq? Did she even cry when she found out her husband was getting orally pleasured by another woman?
Well if she did nobody saw it. And to be truthful I doubt it happened. Hillary is not a crier. But she is a very cagey politician. She knew the crying worked once. It may even have worked twice. But she made a mistake. It will not work anymore.
We are done being fooled by the this pathetic attempt to manipulate our emotions.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
It looks like Obama is going to go three for three today.
Sen. Barack Obama won caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state and moved ahead in the Louisiana primary Saturday night, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination.The Illinois senator was winning two-thirds support in both caucus states.
Returns from the first handful of Louisiana precincts showed him leading, a black man hoping to extend a string of Southern primary triumphs that already included South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia.
In all, the three states, plus caucuses in the Virgin Islands, offered 161 delegates.
Clinton began the day with a slender delegate lead in The Associated Press count. She had 1,055 delegates to 998 for Obama. A total of 2,025 is required to win the nomination at the national convention in Denver.
Momentum is a wonderful thing isn't it?
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