I was quite disappointed to see that even PBS reported the Clinton claim of plagiarism. MoveOn countered with several phrases of Obama's that she's used -- but I haven't seen that reported elsewhere.
Boo. Well, it's inevitable. There'll be more. I hope ClintonCo doesn't go as far as Swiftboating. . .
To me the advantage of Obama versus Clinton is obvious. Their policy positions are very close. The difference is this:
A Democratic President will need bipartisan support to get reform through Congress (more than 60 votes to override a filibuster in the Senate). Obama's appeal crosses race, ideology, class and party. He has the ability to attract working coalitions to get things done even when they were unpopular. The law he penned to tape police confessions was opposed by the leaders of both parties. Obama rallied and persuaded them and it was passed.
Republican politicians will need to work with Obama just like the Dems did with Reagan. Republicans will score more points working for "progress" rather than impeding it. Obama's message goes beyond ideology and that's the key to his success both on the election trail and in the legislative process.
Hillary on the other hand is an easy target for an obstructionist movement. Republicans will score points by ganging up to oppose whatever Hillary opposes no matter how much sense it makes. She is a train wreck waiting to happen.
The handful of really great presidents of the last 150 years all had the ability to speak and bring people together. Obama has he potential to become one of them.
After new hampshire I feel like Ive been biting my nails at every primary. The double standard in the press on barack losing is unbelievably nerve racking.
The race stuff was worse than this. I feel like he does best with that samurai dodge that leaves her campaign looking like desperate and petty. Laugh it off, talk about real shit.
It is particularly disturbing when serious progressive writers who should know better repeat this attack on Obama's inspirational abilities. It demonstrates a failure to grasp the principal lesson of the last thirty years of American politics.
In fact, it is precisely the absence of inspiration in progressive politics that has kept Progressives on the political defensive for decades.
That's because to inspire people, Progressives have to appeal to something much more important than endless lists of policies and programs. To inspire people, Progressives have to appeal to our values and to our vision for the future.
Alec Baldwin: Obama vs. Clinton: What Tips the Scales What Mrs. Clinton has that Mr. Obama does not have, Mr. Obama can get. What Mr. Obama has that Mrs. Clinton does not have, she can never get.
Al Gore was a real snore. John Kerry was a nice guy. But so what? Neither could connect with people. GW can connect with people and that is (was) part of his appeal.
Baldwin is spot on.
I hope Obama wins Wisconsin by 10 points and Hillary faces her last stand on March 4th!
Fired up and ready to go! (Obama's version rather than Hillary parroting it later)
Hillary is killing the democratic party with her negative attacks. Just a couple of weeks ago 80% of both Obama and Clinton supporters said they could support the other candidate if they got the nomination, now...
-- Issue number one is, of course, the economy, followed by health care... adding the economy and health care brings you to nearly 70% of the electorate.
-- Change trumps experience, 52 to 24.
-- Very few first time voters -- only 17%.
-- 27% of the electorate were independent
-- Clinton was seen as the most unfair attacker;
-- Obama (55%) was seen as the candidate most like to improve relations with the res tof the world.
-- Clinton and Obama are seen as equally qualified to be commander in chief (50% and 48%), while Obama draws 60% or more on the questions of who best can unite the country and beat the Republicans.
i will not vote for her at all, i've been waffling on this before, but this last bit of shit has me really pissed off. why is that? a big reason is that i feel like her and her muck-racking cronies are attacking me, that this is personally punching me in the face.
obama has been keeping his anger in check something i don't think i could do, and that's why he's the right person for the job. clinton, when things don't go her way cries, attacks and spews shit...she'll be ready on day one, it's day two we're all concerned with...oops was that plagiarism, sorry Mo?
anywho, if bloomy gets in, i'll cast for him and fuck em both...
If Hillary wins the Dem nomination, I'm either voting for Bloomberg (if he's running), voting for whoever the Green Party candidate is, or writing in Obama's name if that's an option.
The counting in Wisconsin has just begun, but so far Obama is leading 61% to 38%. Let's hope it keeps up. (On the GOP side, the AP has called McCain the victor, which is hardly a surprise.)
Hawaii's results won't begin coming in until 3 AM eastern time, so I'll have to be content to see those results in the morning. It should be a shoo-in for Obama, though, given that he's their native son.
What's the deal with Washington State? Didn't they already have caucuses? Sounds like some sort of convoluted system they have there. I gather from the news that Washington matters much more to the Republicans than it does to the Dems.
Hillary, can we have our country back please? Please go home, save your political viability, save your husband's legacy, save the democratic party, and finally let the nation move on.
Wisconsin Exit Polls:
Obama Won:
Women (51-49)
All age groups under 65
All education levels
All regions of the state -- urban, suburban and rural
Voters without college degrees (50-48)
Democrats (50-49)
Whites (53-46)
White men (59-38)
Voters who decided in the last week (58-42)
Won or tied voters of all income levels
Tied among white women
Tied among union members
Tied among union households
With each passing day, an ultimately successful Clinton comeback seems less like a plausible storyline and more like -- as Bill Clinton might say -- one of the biggest fairytales in modern American politics.
Before the "it's-still-a-horse-race" storyline is washed away by political reality, Hillary Clinton should move quickly to get the maximum political gain out of her impending loss. Fair or not, a big part of Clinton's problem is her image as a scheming, conniving unprincipled politician. To be sure, the image is strongest among non-Democrats, but it's a huge liability in the general election when independent voters determine the outcome. Hillary's high personal negatives are the big reason why political handicappers think Clinton would not fare well against John McCain.
Taking the high road is Hillary's best bet. An unexpectedly quick, gracious and magnanimous departure from the race could serve as the first step in her journey to becoming a "new" Hillary Clinton. At a news conference in the next several days, she might say something like this: "I have been privileged to be part of a great watershed in the history of our country. For the first time, a woman and an African American became the leading candidates for the nomination of one of our two great political parties. But ultimately, both my campaign and Senator Obama's are not about gender or race. Both campaigns are about changing the direction of the country, repairing the damage that has been done by the current administration, and restoring America's democratic ideals as a beacon of hope around the world. I ran for my party's nomination because I thought that I would make the best president. But in our democracy, that's a decision, of course, that is in the hands of my fellow citizens. And it is becoming increasingly clear that more of them believe that Sen. Obama will be the party's best choice to run for president. A prolonged, drawn-out and potentially contentious ending for the party's nomination is not in the best interests of either our party or, most important, our country. The urgency of electing a Democrat in November could not be greater. I pledge my full, enthusiastic support to Senator Obama, and I will do everything I can to help him become the next president of the United States."
Barack Obama has surged past Hillary Clinton to open a big national lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
Obama also leads Republican front-runner John McCain in a potential November election match-up while Clinton trails McCain, enhancing Obama's argument he is the Democrat with the best shot at capturing the White House.
Early voting starts today in Texas. In Waller County, a primarily rural county about 60 miles outside Houston, the county made the decision to offer only one early voting location: at the County Courthouse in Hempstead, TX, the county seat.
Prairie View A&M students organized to protest the decision, because they felt it hindered their ability to vote. For background, Prairie View A&M is one of Texas' historically Black universities. It has a very different demographic feel than the rest of the county. There has been a long history of dispute over what the students feel is disenfranchisement. There was a lot of outrage in 2006, when students felt they were unfairly denied the right to vote when their registrations somehow did not get processed.
So what are the students doing?
1000 students, along with an additional 1000 friends and supporters, are this morning walking the 7.3 miles between Prairie View and Hempstead in order to vote today. According to the piece I saw on the news (there's no video up, so I can't link to it), the students plan to all vote today. There are only 2 machines available at the courthouse for early voting, so they hope to tie them up all day and into the night.
If Hillary Clinton loses the Democratic presidential nomination - and after another hammering at the hands of Barack Obama in Wisconsin, it's increasingly looking as if she will - then it didn't just happen overnight.
Nor did she lose it last week, when she was devastated in the "Potomac primary" of three big losses in one day. Nor was it the series of defeats she suffered in states such as Washington, Louisiana and Nebraska. No, the day when the first nails went into the Clinton campaign's coffin was exactly two weeks ago - on February 6.
This is real misinformation and lies from the Clinton campaign:
FACT: Florida and Michigan should count, both in the interest of fundamental fairness and honoring the spirit of the Democrats' 50-state strategy.
An important part of the debate over delegates is the role of Florida and Michigan. Hillary Clinton believes that the voices of 600,000 Michigan primary voters and 1.75 million Florida primary voters should be heard at the Democratic convention. [less]
In the 2004 presidential race, the turnout in Michigan was only a quarter of what it was this year - and the 2004 turnout in Florida was less than half of what it was this year. With such dramatically increased turnout, Hillary won those two states and she did it with all candidates on an equal footing. In Florida, all presidential candidates were on the primary ballot and all followed the rules (except for Sen. Obama who broke the rules by running television ads in violation of his pledge to the early states and to the other presidential candidates). In Michigan, Sen. Obama voluntarily withdrew his name from the primary ballot to curry favor with Iowa. He was under no obligation to do so. However, his supporters organized a substantial vote for 'uncommitted' on the ballot, thus he is represented in the delegation. Hillary Clinton obeyed all the rules in Florida and Michigan and came out ahead. She had no intrinsic advantage over her opponents other than the will of the voters. The voters of Florida and Michigan should be heard and the delegates from Florida and Michigan should count.
John McCain follows the usual "family values" profile of Republican social climbers. He divorced first wife Carol in April 1980 and married Cindy one month later. Infidelity? Hell no!... they were just "friends."
Cindy who is 18 years younger than Gramps McCain and she paid for McCain's first campaign for Congress in 1982 with loans from her well endowed trust fund. Her father's business and political contacts helped gain her husband a foothold into Arizona politics.
Cindy's biggest claim to fame is in 1989 she developed an addiction to perocet and vicodin, two powerful morphine based pain killers. In 1993 she was caught stealing percocet from supply of the American Voluntary Medical Team, a charity she founded to provide health care and medications to war victims in underdeveloped nations. The DEA was investigated her and with the intervention of her well connected parents and McCain himself, Cindy got off the hook with the usual 90 day trip to the posh rehab. The American Voluntary Medical Team folded shortly after it ceased to be a supply point for Cindy's opiate habit.
The DEA agreed to keep Cindy's little misadventure in Lala Land from the public, but then Cindy went and terminated the guy who reported her to the DEA and the details of Cindy's sordid past as a suburban trophy wife junkie all came out when the fired guy filed a wrongful termination suit against Cindy.
A few weeks after Cindy came clean about her addiction the Variety Club cancelled her Humanitarian of the Year Award. Boo hoo!... Another respectable Republican mother of the Harper Valley PTA goes down. This is just a little Peyton Place of Republican family values and Cindy's a Harper Valley hypocrite.
John McCain kept Cindy under wraps during his bid for the presidency but now that she's out there telling us she's way prouder of America than Michelle Obama, So I'm doing America a service by telling the truth, and nothing but the whole truth about Cindy.
Michelle Obama is proud of America too, but she's not Republican, garden club, percocet munching ex-cheerleader like Cindy. And she doesn't steal drugs from charitable organizations.
Michelle never had a trust fund like Cindy and she grew up under humble circumstancesw on Chicago's South Side. Her father was a pump operator and she managed to overcome her disadvantages as a working class black woman and attend Princeton then she graduated from Harvard Law School where she met Barack Obama. Michelle has paid enough dues to be far more credible than dozen stoned out Republican trophy wives when she tells you she is proud of America. America should be proud of Michelle Obama.
The whole thing is a bunch of nonsense. Most people have the common sense to understand what this political posturing and xenophobic flag waving from the McCain camp is all about. Call me harsh, but I'm tired of Republicans wrapping themselves in the flag and smearing perfectly decent Americans. It's time to take off the gloves.
VOTE OBAMA
I was quite disappointed to see that even PBS reported the Clinton claim of plagiarism. MoveOn countered with several phrases of Obama's that she's used -- but I haven't seen that reported elsewhere.
Boo. Well, it's inevitable. There'll be more. I hope ClintonCo doesn't go as far as Swiftboating. . .
oe, i agree with you but this is nasty stuff. FUCK IM PISSED. I want to see Barack hit her hard on her fake double standards.
On good news, it looks like it will be another big Obama night:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Wisconsin_exits.html#comments
More on good news:
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4017
To me the advantage of Obama versus Clinton is obvious. Their policy positions are very close. The difference is this:
A Democratic President will need bipartisan support to get reform through Congress (more than 60 votes to override a filibuster in the Senate). Obama's appeal crosses race, ideology, class and party. He has the ability to attract working coalitions to get things done even when they were unpopular. The law he penned to tape police confessions was opposed by the leaders of both parties. Obama rallied and persuaded them and it was passed.
Republican politicians will need to work with Obama just like the Dems did with Reagan. Republicans will score more points working for "progress" rather than impeding it. Obama's message goes beyond ideology and that's the key to his success both on the election trail and in the legislative process.
Hillary on the other hand is an easy target for an obstructionist movement. Republicans will score points by ganging up to oppose whatever Hillary opposes no matter how much sense it makes. She is a train wreck waiting to happen.
The handful of really great presidents of the last 150 years all had the ability to speak and bring people together. Obama has he potential to become one of them.
That's whatever Hillary proposes not opposes
After new hampshire I feel like Ive been biting my nails at every primary. The double standard in the press on barack losing is unbelievably nerve racking.
The race stuff was worse than this. I feel like he does best with that samurai dodge that leaves her campaign looking like desperate and petty. Laugh it off, talk about real shit.
Two more good articles in the Huffington Post today:
Robert Creamer: To Vilify Obama for his Ability to Inspire is to Ignore the Principal Lesson of the Last Three Decades of American Politics
It's one thing for supporters of Hillary Clinton to make the case that her experience in Washington politics would make her a better president than Barack Obama. But it's quite another to actually vilify Obama's ability to inspire as a "cult of the personality" or "nothing but words."
It is particularly disturbing when serious progressive writers who should know better repeat this attack on Obama's inspirational abilities. It demonstrates a failure to grasp the principal lesson of the last thirty years of American politics.
In fact, it is precisely the absence of inspiration in progressive politics that has kept Progressives on the political defensive for decades.
That's because to inspire people, Progressives have to appeal to something much more important than endless lists of policies and programs. To inspire people, Progressives have to appeal to our values and to our vision for the future.
Alec Baldwin: Obama vs. Clinton: What Tips the Scales
What Mrs. Clinton has that Mr. Obama does not have, Mr. Obama can get. What Mr. Obama has that Mrs. Clinton does not have, she can never get.
this isn't necessarily funny or entertaining but maybe lightens up the mood a bit maybe. maybe not. don't flame me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xb3bDwE9jQ
Look closely...bottom left hand corner, next to the flag.
Al Gore was a real snore. John Kerry was a nice guy. But so what? Neither could connect with people. GW can connect with people and that is (was) part of his appeal.
Baldwin is spot on.
I hope Obama wins Wisconsin by 10 points and Hillary faces her last stand on March 4th!
Fired up and ready to go! (Obama's version rather than Hillary parroting it later)
WonderK-
That's really funny.
Good eye!
Is that an Obama shirt ? Love it.
Hillary is killing the democratic party with her negative attacks. Just a couple of weeks ago 80% of both Obama and Clinton supporters said they could support the other candidate if they got the nomination, now...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/19/exit-polls-a-party-divided/#addcomment
President McCain, brought to you by the selfishness and divisive tactics of the Clintons.
Obama's numbers (so far)
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/02/wisconsin_exit_polls_a_less_af.php
-- Issue number one is, of course, the economy, followed by health care... adding the economy and health care brings you to nearly 70% of the electorate.
-- Change trumps experience, 52 to 24.
-- Very few first time voters -- only 17%.
-- 27% of the electorate were independent
-- Clinton was seen as the most unfair attacker;
-- Obama (55%) was seen as the candidate most like to improve relations with the res tof the world.
-- Clinton and Obama are seen as equally qualified to be commander in chief (50% and 48%), while Obama draws 60% or more on the questions of who best can unite the country and beat the Republicans.
i will not vote for her at all, i've been waffling on this before, but this last bit of shit has me really pissed off. why is that? a big reason is that i feel like her and her muck-racking cronies are attacking me, that this is personally punching me in the face.
obama has been keeping his anger in check something i don't think i could do, and that's why he's the right person for the job. clinton, when things don't go her way cries, attacks and spews shit...she'll be ready on day one, it's day two we're all concerned with...oops was that plagiarism, sorry Mo?
anywho, if bloomy gets in, i'll cast for him and fuck em both...
Agreed, beta.
If Hillary wins the Dem nomination, I'm either voting for Bloomberg (if he's running), voting for whoever the Green Party candidate is, or writing in Obama's name if that's an option.
The counting in Wisconsin has just begun, but so far Obama is leading 61% to 38%. Let's hope it keeps up. (On the GOP side, the AP has called McCain the victor, which is hardly a surprise.)
Hawaii's results won't begin coming in until 3 AM eastern time, so I'll have to be content to see those results in the morning. It should be a shoo-in for Obama, though, given that he's their native son.
What's the deal with Washington State? Didn't they already have caucuses? Sounds like some sort of convoluted system they have there. I gather from the news that Washington matters much more to the Republicans than it does to the Dems.
The AP has now projected Obama the winner in Wisconsin. Go cheeseheads!
OBAMA WINS
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN1928232820080220
Hillary, can we have our country back please? Please go home, save your political viability, save your husband's legacy, save the democratic party, and finally let the nation move on.
Wisconsin Exit Polls:
Obama Won:
Women (51-49)
All age groups under 65
All education levels
All regions of the state -- urban, suburban and rural
Voters without college degrees (50-48)
Democrats (50-49)
Whites (53-46)
White men (59-38)
Voters who decided in the last week (58-42)
Won or tied voters of all income levels
Tied among white women
Tied among union members
Tied among union households
Yay !
And. . .Wisconsin is Frank Lloyd Wright's home state !
[I'm just sayin'. . .]
Hillary take this advice, it really is for your own good:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sanford-d-horwitt/friendly-advice-for-hilla_b_87488.html
My Yahoo mail just spit this out:
Clinton says Obama relies on 'words' (AP)
Ding Dong the bi...witch is dead.
Oh, the horror !
Hearing McCains speech tonight all I could think was,
McCain*Thompson '08
"You damned kids get off my lawn"
WI with 96% of votes counted
Obama 58%
Clinton 41%
how the hell will she explain a 17 point loss?
He triumphed in Wisconsin!!!!
If he wins Hawaii, then he has huge momentum going into Texas and Ohio.
I will goto Ohio and knock on doors for him.
Yes, we can!
OURBAMA
One of the pundits tonight said "Well Hillary may be better at managing expectations but Obama seems to have the upper hand in managing reality."
zing!
This is a great article.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sanford-d-horwitt/friendly-advice-for-hilla_b_87488.html
Here's an excerpt:
With each passing day, an ultimately successful Clinton comeback seems less like a plausible storyline and more like -- as Bill Clinton might say -- one of the biggest fairytales in modern American politics.
Before the "it's-still-a-horse-race" storyline is washed away by political reality, Hillary Clinton should move quickly to get the maximum political gain out of her impending loss. Fair or not, a big part of Clinton's problem is her image as a scheming, conniving unprincipled politician. To be sure, the image is strongest among non-Democrats, but it's a huge liability in the general election when independent voters determine the outcome. Hillary's high personal negatives are the big reason why political handicappers think Clinton would not fare well against John McCain.
Taking the high road is Hillary's best bet. An unexpectedly quick, gracious and magnanimous departure from the race could serve as the first step in her journey to becoming a "new" Hillary Clinton. At a news conference in the next several days, she might say something like this: "I have been privileged to be part of a great watershed in the history of our country. For the first time, a woman and an African American became the leading candidates for the nomination of one of our two great political parties. But ultimately, both my campaign and Senator Obama's are not about gender or race. Both campaigns are about changing the direction of the country, repairing the damage that has been done by the current administration, and restoring America's democratic ideals as a beacon of hope around the world. I ran for my party's nomination because I thought that I would make the best president. But in our democracy, that's a decision, of course, that is in the hands of my fellow citizens. And it is becoming increasingly clear that more of them believe that Sen. Obama will be the party's best choice to run for president. A prolonged, drawn-out and potentially contentious ending for the party's nomination is not in the best interests of either our party or, most important, our country. The urgency of electing a Democrat in November could not be greater. I pledge my full, enthusiastic support to Senator Obama, and I will do everything I can to help him become the next president of the United States."
Barack Obama has surged past Hillary Clinton to open a big national lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
Obama also leads Republican front-runner John McCain in a potential November election match-up while Clinton trails McCain, enhancing Obama's argument he is the Democrat with the best shot at capturing the White House.
Hillary being classy as always, this is going to get nasty:
http://delegatehub.com/
Here's one of those stories that gives you goosebumps:
Thousands of Prairie View Students March 7.3 Miles to Vote
Early voting starts today in Texas. In Waller County, a primarily rural county about 60 miles outside Houston, the county made the decision to offer only one early voting location: at the County Courthouse in Hempstead, TX, the county seat.
Prairie View A&M students organized to protest the decision, because they felt it hindered their ability to vote. For background, Prairie View A&M is one of Texas' historically Black universities. It has a very different demographic feel than the rest of the county. There has been a long history of dispute over what the students feel is disenfranchisement. There was a lot of outrage in 2006, when students felt they were unfairly denied the right to vote when their registrations somehow did not get processed.
So what are the students doing?
1000 students, along with an additional 1000 friends and supporters, are this morning walking the 7.3 miles between Prairie View and Hempstead in order to vote today. According to the piece I saw on the news (there's no video up, so I can't link to it), the students plan to all vote today. There are only 2 machines available at the courthouse for early voting, so they hope to tie them up all day and into the night.
Obamamba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnUfqfJLTNM&feature=related
"You damned kids get off my lawn!"
or,
McCain*Thompson '08
"Cindy? Cindy where are my damned pills,... CINDY!!"
or or...
McCain*Thompson '08
"...Its all the GODDAMNED GOVERNMENT'S FAULT!"
McCain * Thompson '08!
The Guardian: Lost in Wisconsin
If Hillary Clinton loses the Democratic presidential nomination - and after another hammering at the hands of Barack Obama in Wisconsin, it's increasingly looking as if she will - then it didn't just happen overnight.
Nor did she lose it last week, when she was devastated in the "Potomac primary" of three big losses in one day. Nor was it the series of defeats she suffered in states such as Washington, Louisiana and Nebraska. No, the day when the first nails went into the Clinton campaign's coffin was exactly two weeks ago - on February 6.
This will hopefully be a big help in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Anybody know how Hawaii went ? Nothing on TV or in today's paper. . .
Hawaii went big for Obama, 76% to 24%.
Id still take a blow job from her
evil p said Id still take a blow job from her
Things are pretty tough, evilp?
I would try Craigslist! ;-)
from the daily kos...since super tuesday, obama's margins have been as follows:
Louisiana: +21
Nebraska: +36
Washington: +37
Maine: +19
Virgin Islands: +82
DC: +51
Maryland: +23
Virginia: +29
Wisconsin: +17
Hawaii: +52
i mean, can these be right? i've been watching them all, but haven't written down the margins. those are serious.
Here's another gem from today's Daily Kos:
Hillary's campaign is apparently going after Obama's pledged delegates.
As there any low she's not willing to sink to?
Gin i think your image coupled with oe's "get off my lawn" phrase would be a great campaign t-shirt.
"History is-a made at night. Character is what you are in the dark."
Hillary Clinton is trying to change the rules this morning:
http://www.delegatehub.com/
This is real misinformation and lies from the Clinton campaign:
FACT: Florida and Michigan should count, both in the interest of fundamental fairness and honoring the spirit of the Democrats' 50-state strategy.
An important part of the debate over delegates is the role of Florida and Michigan. Hillary Clinton believes that the voices of 600,000 Michigan primary voters and 1.75 million Florida primary voters should be heard at the Democratic convention. [less]
In the 2004 presidential race, the turnout in Michigan was only a quarter of what it was this year - and the 2004 turnout in Florida was less than half of what it was this year. With such dramatically increased turnout, Hillary won those two states and she did it with all candidates on an equal footing. In Florida, all presidential candidates were on the primary ballot and all followed the rules (except for Sen. Obama who broke the rules by running television ads in violation of his pledge to the early states and to the other presidential candidates). In Michigan, Sen. Obama voluntarily withdrew his name from the primary ballot to curry favor with Iowa. He was under no obligation to do so. However, his supporters organized a substantial vote for 'uncommitted' on the ballot, thus he is represented in the delegation. Hillary Clinton obeyed all the rules in Florida and Michigan and came out ahead. She had no intrinsic advantage over her opponents other than the will of the voters. The voters of Florida and Michigan should be heard and the delegates from Florida and Michigan should count.
this is awesome...i can't get anything done though, thanks to the daily kos today:
full post here.
John McCain follows the usual "family values" profile of Republican social climbers. He divorced first wife Carol in April 1980 and married Cindy one month later. Infidelity? Hell no!... they were just "friends."
Cindy who is 18 years younger than Gramps McCain and she paid for McCain's first campaign for Congress in 1982 with loans from her well endowed trust fund. Her father's business and political contacts helped gain her husband a foothold into Arizona politics.
Cindy's biggest claim to fame is in 1989 she developed an addiction to perocet and vicodin, two powerful morphine based pain killers. In 1993 she was caught stealing percocet from supply of the American Voluntary Medical Team, a charity she founded to provide health care and medications to war victims in underdeveloped nations. The DEA was investigated her and with the intervention of her well connected parents and McCain himself, Cindy got off the hook with the usual 90 day trip to the posh rehab. The American Voluntary Medical Team folded shortly after it ceased to be a supply point for Cindy's opiate habit.
The DEA agreed to keep Cindy's little misadventure in Lala Land from the public, but then Cindy went and terminated the guy who reported her to the DEA and the details of Cindy's sordid past as a suburban trophy wife junkie all came out when the fired guy filed a wrongful termination suit against Cindy.
A few weeks after Cindy came clean about her addiction the Variety Club cancelled her Humanitarian of the Year Award. Boo hoo!... Another respectable Republican mother of the Harper Valley PTA goes down. This is just a little Peyton Place of Republican family values and Cindy's a Harper Valley hypocrite.
John McCain kept Cindy under wraps during his bid for the presidency but now that she's out there telling us she's way prouder of America than Michelle Obama, So I'm doing America a service by telling the truth, and nothing but the whole truth about Cindy.
Michelle Obama is proud of America too, but she's not Republican, garden club, percocet munching ex-cheerleader like Cindy. And she doesn't steal drugs from charitable organizations.
Michelle never had a trust fund like Cindy and she grew up under humble circumstancesw on Chicago's South Side. Her father was a pump operator and she managed to overcome her disadvantages as a working class black woman and attend Princeton then she graduated from Harvard Law School where she met Barack Obama. Michelle has paid enough dues to be far more credible than dozen stoned out Republican trophy wives when she tells you she is proud of America. America should be proud of Michelle Obama.
The whole thing is a bunch of nonsense. Most people have the common sense to understand what this political posturing and xenophobic flag waving from the McCain camp is all about. Call me harsh, but I'm tired of Republicans wrapping themselves in the flag and smearing perfectly decent Americans. It's time to take off the gloves.
Nice.
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