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Today in Unity, New Hampshire. HRC: “If you think we need a new course, a new agenda, then vote for Barack Obama and you will get the change that you need and deserve.”
And we’re all friends again!
The decision here.
Breyer dissent: “In my view, there simply is no untouchable constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to keep loaded handguns in the house in crime-ridden urban areas.”
Former NRA Magazine Editor: “Supreme Court Decision Hits Bull’s Eye Against Obama…”
So HRC can swallow her pride and get along with Obama. Does that mean he (read: his supporters) should forgive her debts? She should be paid for her cooperation with larger party goals? Should future candidates be encouraged to spend recklessly knowing that at least their opponent might pay for their mismanaged campaigns?
It’s all the evidence I need that our system is broken. I speak for a lot of Obama supporters when I say that I didn’t pledge much, but it was what I could, and now to see potentially $10 million handed over to old-school Clinton loyalist media groups, well, that’s upsetting.
Is it too much to ask that my $50 will be spent promoting Barack Obama?
At least Bubba is out of the country, back to his foundation work. So he can go from heaping criticism and lewd remarks toward Obama on a daily basis, and then shift rhetoric to talking about global poverty. Very ex-presidential. Witness Clinton returning to his assumed role as this sort of hyper-powerful global CEO with no accountability. I think he could probably raise that $10 million himself with just a few speaking engagements.
Sorry for the light posting. I’ve been out of town for the last 10 days. I’ll be back into the swing of things come tomorrow morning. In the meantime, some weekend reading:
Sorry for this meager link-dump, but I’m exhausted from my trip. More substantial content will be coming week after I get caught up.
Sorry for the light posting. I've been out of town for the last 10 days. I'll be back into the swing of things come tomorrow morning. In the meantime, some weekend reading:Sorry for this meager link-dump, but I'm exhausted from my trip. More substantial content will be coming week after I get caught up.
Just got off the phone with an insider in the Obama campaign, apparently their little “meeting” at Hillary’s house tonight included an offer by Obama not for the vice presidency but for a high-ranking position in his cabinet as “Minister of Health Services”, or “Health Services Director”, something like that. Apparently it entails her having full control over the nation’s health plan. It will be a new position- Those are all the details I have right now..
More to come…
The worst thing Barack Obama could possibly do at this point is to pick Hillary, a self-ascribed practitioner and example of gold-standard “old politics”, as his running mate. Since March she has done nothing but bend ALL the rules to her advantage. First she agrees IN WRITING to the DNC Rules stating that Florida and Michigan WILL NOT COUNT if they hold their primaries early. Hillary didn’t have too much to say about this until she started to realize she was losing, then all of a sudden it becomes a HUGE issue and she goes back on her word, saying “Every vote counts!” Obama was graceful enough to meet in-between but does that satisfy Clinton supporters? No! They want ALL the delegates from these two states (Michigan’s contest not even being FAIR) seated in Denver. Well we all know what happened with those states now, but Hillary has come up with a NEW argument. She’s claiming that she had the most votes ever in a primary.
Again,
Hillary is claiming she has had the most votes in history of any primary candidate.
Wrong.
The only way for her math to work, is if she excludes the caucus states and 56 million people.
Again, FIFTY SIX MILLION PEOPLE.
What happened to “Every vote counts” ?
Completely hypocritical, but her supporters are unable to see that. Once someone’s invested the last year of their life into making “VOTE HILLARY” t-shirts, pins, labels and buttons it’s a little difficult to just toss out your stock and rescind on all those heated arguments with friends (”DUH, I THINK ITS TIME FOR A WOMAN TO BE PREZADENT DATS WHY I ARE VOTING FOR HER”).
Her “losing speech” after South Dakota sounded more like a victory speech. She could have graciously (and honorably) AT THE VERY LEAST *RECOGNIZED* the fact that Senator Obama is the first african-american to be this close to the White House, ever, in history. Instead, she focuses only on herself and her savage foaming-at-the-mouth supporters, trying to squeeze out every last breath of her poor excuse for a campaign.
When will Hillary concede? Maybe when she realizes she’s lost? Who knows. It should become a moot point before long as the liberal media has already started to minimize her face-time.
In any case, Barack should not consider picking Hillary as his VP, it would be catastrophical. There is a lot of resentment built up that has been brewing since the election started. Now that she’s OBVIOUSLY lost, the resentment is hitting it’s exponential rise. Let me put it this way: THERE IS NOTHING MORE IRRITATING THAN WATCHING A SORE LOSER IN COMPLETE AND UTTER DENIAL THAT SHE’S LOST, DENYING THE ENTIRE AMERICAN AND WORLD MEDIA, INCLUDING TELEVISION, NEWSPAPERS AND BLOGS and discounting them as “jumping the gun”. It’s ridiculous. If Hillary were on the Obama ticket, Obama’s going to be seen as weak, that he gave in to her entitlement campaign. He should not appease Hillary. McBush will simply say “You’re going to appease Iran just like you appeased Hillary.”
Plain and simple, we don’t want that lying, cheating, rule-breaking, pandering nut-bag on our ticket.
Bill
Sorry for the light posting lately, but I’ve been swamped with other projects that have kept me away from the blog. Two huge, noteworthy events this weekend demand attention:
The DNC’s decision to seat Michigan and Florida delegates with half a vote at the convention seems to do more to fragment the party than it does to unify it, in the long run at least. Nobody really seems to win anything here. The new votes really make no real impact in the results of the race. The decision sacrifices what little credibility and authority the DNC ever had, basically rewarding Florida and Michigan (albeit with half votes) for disobeying the structure of the party. Even with half votes, FL and MI now have a greater voice at the convention than dozens of smaller states that played by the rules. That’s bullshit.
Easily the worst effect of this decision is that HRC will now go on an appeal rampage, dragging the nomination process through the court system instead of leaving it in the hands of voters, where it belongs.
Secondly, concerning Barack Obama’s decision to leave the Trinity United Church of Christ–what can I say, but wow. Wow. Frustrating to think that Obama has to leave his church to have a legitimate shot at the White House when other candidates’ spiritual lives do not receive such scrutiny. Yes, Rev. Wright’s discourse was inflammatory, hyperbolic, and probably frightening to white folks around the country, but let’s face it, if his message gained a broad but temporary audience in the country, that’s probably a good thing. Too many white folks have been able to conveniently hide in suburbs and rural areas, shielding themselves from race issues in this country, and I for one am glad that Rev. Wright had an opportunity to chime in and remind everyone that just because Barack Obama might become the next president, that doesn’t mean that Uncle Sam just waves a magic wand and makes racism in this country disappear.
Wright brought racial injustice to the front pages, in hyperbolic fashion, yes, but that’s a good thing. It’s unfortunate that Barack Obama has to homogenize himself in order to have a shot in the general election, but if they alternative was to have his entire congregation under a microscope for the next decade, well, then I suppose it was the right choice.
Thoughts?
(By the way, I keep anonymous posting open on this blog to make it convenient for readers to participate in the discussion without a Blogger account, but some people are using that anonymity to make what amounts to racist hate speech. I’m not going to start censoring comments, so let’s just put it this way–if your ideas are better suited to a white supremacy forum, then for the love of God, stop visiting my blog.)