MSNBC Countdown : McCain : Parsleys bad taste

Why hasn't this been made into a huge issue? Oh right, the republican nominee has been chosen so the media can focus entirely on beating up the democrat candidates.

totally obliterate

From The Boston Globe:

AMERICANS have learned to take with a grain of salt much of the rhetoric in a campaign like the current Democratic donnybrook between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Still, there are some red lines that should never be crossed. Clinton did so Tuesday morning, the day of the Pennsylvania primary, when she told ABC's "Good Morning America" that, if she were president, she would "totally obliterate" Iran if Iran attacked Israel...

While Clinton has hammered Obama for supporting military strikes in Pakistan, her comments on Iran are much more far-reaching. She seems not to realize that she undermined Iranian reformists and pragmatists. The Iranian people have been more favorable to America than any other in the Gulf region or the Middle East.

A presidential candidate who lightly commits to obliterating Iran - and, presumably, all the children, parents, and grandparents in Iran - should not be answering the White House phone at any time of day or night.

Little Giants: Pandas Make You Smile

i want that job!

evan bayh, you're so lame.

Even though Evan Bayh has very publicly supported and endorsed Hillary Clinton's sad attempt to steal the nomination from Barack Obama, he has asked other Indiana Congress-people to hold off endorsing anyone. You've lost my vote in your next run for Senate Evan Bayh. I've always thought the guy is a loser, he's so blatantly hoping Hillary would choose him for a VP. I've always voted for our republican Senator Richard Lugar, and I don't mind voting for a republican running against Evan Bayh. That's one good thing about being an independent :)

Obama Dirt Off Your Shoulder Remix

i love this!!

shaking Hillary off

From Maureen Dowd, NYT:

Before they devour themselves once more, perhaps the Democrats will take a cue from Dr. Seuss’s “Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!” (The writer once mischievously redid it for his friend Art Buchwald as “Richard M. Nixon Will You Please Go Now!”) They could sing:

“The time has come. The time has come. The time is now. Just go. ... I don’t care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow. Hillary R. Clinton, will you please go now! You can go on skates. You can go on skis. ... You can go in an old blue shoe.

Just go, go, GO!”

Her editorial is pretty amusing and on-point. The NYT wrote a pretty bruising editorial on Hillary's negative campaigning, they seem pretty close to un-endorsing her.

Clinton's rules to win by

From Daily Kos:

Listening to Clinton campaign surrogates on television, before the PA votes ever started to trickle in, was truly painful. Suddenly one state was the only state that mattered. All those other states were merely prelude: if Clinton could eke out a victory in this state, trailing in the delegate count would no longer be significant, and it would be a brand new race, and Obama would be on the ropes, and Clinton would suddenly win a billion dollars, a pony, and the moon; attention must be paid. It is not enough for Obama to simply be winning the nomination according to the rules laid out in advance: no, he must win the "right" way, according to the Clinton campaign and surrogates, or it doesn't count. He has to win the "right" states. And he has to win primaries, not caucuses. And he has to "close the deal", shutting Clinton out of remaining wins entirely, or it proves something ominous (the fact that Clinton has not been able to "close the deal" against him, and is instead trailing him badly and irreparably, barring superdelegate do-over, somehow does not count against her own merits.) And he not only has to win the "popular vote", but he has to win that, too, the right way, which is to say by counting only certain states and not counting others.

hillary and her 'big states'

When giving the argument that Hillary wins the 'big states' Texas is always included in her Win column. No No No! She did not win Texas. She barely won the primary, but when the primary and caucus are added up, Barack Obama Won Texas.
The score
Clinton: Primary 65, Caucus 29 = 94 delegates
Obama: Primary: 61, Caucus 38 = 99 delegates

Let's get the facts straight here... Michigan and Florida are also always mentioned as Wins for her, but their elections were not valid, Obama wasn't even on the Michigan ballot.
She also argues that she wins the 'solid Democrat' states. So what? If they're solid, Obama will win them in the fall. The states we should be worried about are the states that he won, like Kansas, Idaho, Alabama, Virginia, Nebraska, Mississippi, states that typically go Republican, but perhaps with Obama as the nominee, could go for him in the general election. Her campaign has argued that you can't win the general election without Pennsylvania, yet Kerry and Gore both won Pennsylvania in the last two general elections, and, wait for it.. they lost.
Her arguments really are sad...

pennsylvania

my summary:

Pennsylvania is full of Old White People
Old White People vote for idiots.

Afterall, they gave ole' Dubya the Whitehouse.

[its a scary world - vote for me!]

Hillary turns to fear tactics to scare people into voting for her.



Her new ad features Fidel Castro and Osama Bin Laden as examples of how hard it is to be president. Apparently she considers herself as capable as FDR, which makes me want to hurl.

And of course a video of her husband addressing fear tactics.

Video Monday

How can anyone think she is trustworthy enough to be our president, she is so deceptive and corrupt!
The video starts out a little slow, but its worth the wait. You can watch part two of this video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMfUajhL24I

BARACKY: THE MOVIE

how did presidential campaigns ever run without youtube? :)

Barack Gets that Dirt off His Shoulders

haha, this is pretty funny

McCain Defined

he is becoming Bush 2.0 I did have a lot of respect for the man, its beginning to wane.

Hillary on Working-Class Southerners: "Screw 'em"

From ABC.com:

...Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, during a 1995 retreat called the "Camp David Seminar on the Future of Democracy had some interesting comments about working-class white Southerners who had left the Democratic party:
"'Screw 'em,' she said, 'you don't owe them a thing, Bill, they're doing nothing for you.' Bill rose to their defense, 'as if rehearsing an old but honorable debate he had been having with his wife for decades,'" as one attendee recalled.

Also on The Huffington Post (the same who broke Obama's "bitter" comments) and The New Republic

Incidentally, Clinton's Negatives at Record High.

Likely Democratic voters, 51-41 percent, say they want Obama to win the nomination — his biggest advantage to date. Obama has also cleared the "electability" hurdle in Democratic minds — 62 percent say he is more likely to win than Clinton.

In more bad news for Clinton, 58 percent of Americans polled said she is not honest and trustworthy. Obama beats her on this attribute by a 23-point margin.
...
A record high of 54 percent of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of the New York senator, according to the ABC News/Washington Post poll.

yay indiana!

From CNN.com:

Most surprisingly, the new LA Times/Bloomberg poll shows Obama ahead of Hillary Clinton by 5 points in Indiana (40 to 35 percent), a state with demographics that favor the New York senator and one where other recent polls have shown her with a lead.

The poll also shows Clinton only holds a 5 point lead in Pennsylvania (48 to 43 percent). That margin is among the slimmest measured between to the two candidates and is significantly less than the double digit lead Clinton held there two weeks ago.

Let's hope Indiana gives Obama his victory! :)

Clinton Heckled, Obama Cheered on 'bitter' remarks

Obama, who greeted the crowd at 8:45am, raised the issue and received applause. Clinton, addressing the same crowd later in the morning, brought up the remarks and received mostly silence, with a few audible impatient jeers.

Check out the videos. Will she finally drop it?

From CNN.com:

The latest Gallup Poll conducted during the first 15 days in April, consisting of more than 13,000 registered voters shows Obama and Clinton ahead by 4 points in so called “purple” or swing states with 47 percent to McCain’s 43 percent, with a margin of error of plus or minus 1 point.

In “blue” states where John Kerry won by more than 6 percentage points in 2004, Obama has a comfortable double-digit lead, while McCain leads by a slightly smaller margin in the “red” states where George Bush prevailed by more than 6 points.

Clinton has the same lead over McCain in purple states, but she does not fare as well as Obama in the “blue” states and also trails McCain by a larger margin than Obama in the traditionally Republican “red” states.

So much for Clinton being more electable in the Big Blue states.

the colbert report on obama the elitist

haha :)

the bitter controversy

former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich responded to the press's coverage of Obama's comments on people being bitter on his blog:

We’re heading into the worst economic crisis in a half century or more. Many of the Americans who have been getting nowhere for decades are in even deeper trouble. Large numbers of people in Pennsylvania and across the nation are losing their homes and losing their jobs, and the situation is likely to grow worse. Consumers are at the end of their ropes, fuel and food costs are skyrocketing, they can’t go deeper into debt, they can’t pay their bills. They aren’t buying, which means every business from the auto industry to housing to even giant GE is hurting. Which means they’ll begin laying off more people, and as they do, we will experience an even more dangerous downward spiral.

Bitter? You ain’t seen nothing yet. And as much as people like Russert, Carville, Matalin, Schrum, and Murphy want to divert our attention from what’s really happening; as much as HRC and McCain seek to make political hay out of choices of words that can be spun cynically by the mindless spinners of the old politics; as much as demagogues on the right and left continue to try to channel the cumulative frustrations of Americans into a politics of resentment – all these attempts will, I hope, prove futile. Eighty percent of Americans know the nation is on the wrong track. The old politics, and the old media that feeds it, are irrelevant now.

People are bitter about losing their jobs, they are bitter that the government really doesn't seem to care that their jobs are being relocated to other countries. Are we really expected to be okay with losing our jobs b/c we're americans and are supposed to put on a brave face?

THE BEST DAY EVER

I SHOOK HIS HAND!!! He walked off his bus, walked right to me and shook my hand first! It was amazing. He said 'Its so great to meet you' and I said 'Its my pleasure!' I said real words, a real sentence! I was so convinced Id say something completely garbled and idiotic.

He went to an IU event, came back by us to leave and shook my hand again! I got two handshakes! It was so amazing and surreal to see him, he is so friendly and warm in person, truely, this will be a day I'll never forget.

See the rest of the photos in my picasaweb album

The Obama Franchise

Graphic design expert Michael Bierut of the Pentagram firm marveled at that consistency in a Newsweek interview, and he said it's no accident. The uniform blue signs with their signature "O" logo serve as a reassuring symbol of dependability, just like the familiar interstate signs for franchise hotels and fast-food chains.

"I've jokingly said to my wife, 'Someone who can coordinate all those fonts and make them all match perfectly, I trust them to come up with universal health care, and get us out of Iraq, and turn around the economy and do whatever else it takes,'" Bierut said.

I love that. I've long admired the Obama campaign's beautifully designed website.

Read the full article...

wow.