Tag: Election 2008

Gary Indiana could flip this election….

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So, they’re saying…..

The Article: Gary Mayor Predicts Possible Indiana Shocker (Via The Trail @ washingtonpost.com)

As the fate of a nailbiter Indiana primary — and possibly the course of the Democratic race — hung on his city, Gary Mayor Rudy Clay said just now that it might take a while yet to finish counting the vote in Lake County, which includes Gary, and said tonight his city had turned out so overwhelmingly for Barack Obama that it might just be enough to close the gap with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"Let me tell you, when all the votes are counted, when Gary comes in, I think you’re looking at something for the world to see," Clay, an Obama supporter, said in a telephone interview from Obama’s Gary headquarters. "I don’t know what the numbers are yet, but Gary has absolutely produced in large numbers for Obama here."

Now that would be an interesting development. Although, something tells me, that there’s not going to be enough votes to totally flip it. Just a haunch I have.

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Early Morning Political thoughts….

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Morning everyone!

Sorry about bailing on everyone last night man. I was just pooped. I finally overcame the staying up all night and sleeping all day nonsense. I now keep some very early hours, and I mean VERY early. I mean as in, being in bed at 9:00 P.M. and being up at 4:00 A.M., I would say “old people” hours, but I’m 35, so, I’ll just refrain from the old people jokes. You young punks quit that damn snickering, ya hear? and get off my lawn!

Anyhow, silliness aside, I have been snooping around this morning on the Politics sites, and I’ve seen how Barry and Hillary made out.

As most people know, Barry pulled off a big victory in North Carolina. Which I wasn’t surprised to hear about. Although, his victory there was racially lopsided, they say.

As for Hillary, she squeaked one out, in Indiana. A narrow political victory, that is, which the tea leaf readers say.

She’s also, according to Josh Marshall over at TPM, she’s canceled all appearances on the morning talk shows. So, it could be that she and her advisers are in hunker down mode and figuring out a graceful way out of the race. or she decided not to break out with the bubbly and celebrate, seeing it was quite the narrow margin.

The numbers as of now are…:

Indiana

Clinton 51% – Obama 49%

North Carolina

Obama 56% – Clinton 42%

That margin in Indiana is a 2% margin, that’s nothing to jump up and holler about.

Ugh… 5:37 a.m. and I still haven’t got this entry out… between glancing at the TV and getting more coffee, this isn’t going very fast…

Anyhow, according to what I’ve just observed on MSNBC this morning, Hillary says that she will continue to fight for the Presidential nominee. Wonder if she means, that she knows she will not get it?

Anyhow, that’s the political update and my opinion on it. Stay Tuned…

Tell the Presidental Candidates that Condi must go…

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Sign the Petition.

No matter what political party you are part of. We as Americans should refuse to accept this Government’s wholesale approval of torture. I have signed it and so should you.

Newt Gingrich to G.O.P. Change direction or get your butt handed to you in November

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(via and H/T to Hotair.com)

Seen at Newt Gingrich’s Site:

The Republican loss in the special election for
Louisiana’s Sixth Congressional District last Saturday should be a
sharp wake up call for Republicans: Either Congressional Republicans
are going to chart a bold course of real change or they are going to
suffer decisive losses this November.

The facts are clear and compelling.

Saturday’s
loss was in a district that President Bush carried by 19 percentage
points in 2004 and that the Republicans have held since 1975.

This
defeat follows on the loss of Speaker Hastert’s seat in Illinois. That
seat had been held by a Republican for 76 years with the single
exception of the 1974 Watergate election when the Democrats held it for
one term. That same seat had been carried by President Bush 55-44% in
2004. –Read the Rest

Will they listen? Doubtful. The G.O.P. seems to have a mind of it’s own. The Nation is swinging Liberal, thanks to the Idiot Neo-Con’s who fooled the village idiot in the White House to pursue a Neo-Con agenda and to take the Nation into a unnecessary war, and now the World and most of America, hates conservatives and Republicans.

They will pay for that costly mistake for 4 or 8 years.

Michelle Obama Responsible for the Rev. Wright Scandal?

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Someone thinks so…..

Is Michelle Obama responsible for the Jeremiah Wright fiasco? – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine

What can it be that has kept Obama in Wright’s pews, and at Wright’s mercy, for so long and at such a heavy cost to his aspirations? Even if he pulls off a mathematical nomination victory, he has completely lost the first, fine, careless rapture of a post-racial and post-resentment political movement and mired us again in all the old rubbish that predates Dr. King. What a sad thing to behold. And how come? I think we can exclude any covert sympathy on Obama’s part for Wright’s views or style—he has proved time and again that he is not like that, and even his own little nods to “Minister” Farrakhan can probably be excused as a silly form of Chicago South Side political etiquette. All right, then, how is it that the loathsome Wright married him, baptized his children, and received donations from him? Could it possibly have anything, I wonder, to do with Mrs. Obama?

This obvious question is now becoming inescapable, and there is an inexcusable unwillingness among reporters to be the one to ask it. (One can picture Obama looking pained and sensitive and saying, “Keep my wife out of it,” or words to that effect, as Clinton tried to do in 1992 when Jerry Brown and Ralph Nader quite correctly inquired about his spouse’s influence.) If there is a reason why the potential nominee has been keeping what he himself now admits to be very bad company—and if the rest of his character seems to make this improbable—then either he is hiding something and/or it is legitimate to ask him about his partner.

I direct your attention to Mrs. Obama’s 1985 thesis at Princeton University. Its title (rather limited in scope, given the author and the campus) is “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.” To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be “read” at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language. Anyway, at quite an early stage in the text, Michelle Obama announces that she’s much influenced by the definition of black “separationism” offered by Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton in their 1967 screed Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. I remember poor Stokely Carmichael quite well. After a hideous series of political and personal fiascos, he fled to Africa, renamed himself Kwame Toure after two of West Africa’s most repellently failed dictators, and then came briefly back to the United States before electing to die in exile. I last saw him as the warm-up speaker for Louis Farrakhan in Madison Square Garden in 1985, on the evening when Farrakhan made himself famous by warning Jews, “You can’t say ‘Never Again’ to God, because when he puts you in the ovens, you’re there forever.” I have the distinct feeling that the Obama campaign can’t go on much longer without an answer to the question: “Are we getting two for one?” And don’t be giving me any grief about asking this. Black Americans used to think that the Clinton twosome was their best friend, too. This time we should find out before it’s too late to ask.

Wow….. All I can say is…. Wow… Looks like she’s the Liberation Theology person and poor Barack just went for the ride. Nice choice in wife, Barry, Marry a Marxist, smooth move, and he wants to be President?

If this takes off, you can bet this will hurt his campaign…

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Another Liberal, Another Book… Zzzzzzz

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The Liberal Marble Mouth from Greece, is trying to sell a book by slamming McCain. What else is new?

A New Video….that everyone should watch!

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made by yours truly…

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Obamassiah gets support from Stevie Wonder

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heh.

Wonder To Attend Obama Rally – (via WDIV Detroit)

Motown legend Stevie Wonder is scheduled to join Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama for a primary eve rally in downtown Indianapolis.

(Insert stupid blind liberal joke here…)

Jaun McSame has his own interesting friends….

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Interesting….Indeed…

McCain finds his own radical friend — (via chicagotribune.com)

Can a presidential candidate justify a long and friendly relationship with someone who, back in the 1970s, extolled violence and committed crimes in the name of a radical ideology—and who has never shown remorse or admitted error? When the candidate in question is Barack Obama, John McCain says no. But when the candidate in question is John McCain, he’s not so sure.

Obama has been justly criticized for his ties to former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, who in 1995 hosted a campaign event for Obama and in 2001 gave him a $200 contribution. The two have also served together on the board of a foundation. When their connection became known, McCain minced no words: “I think not only a repudiation but an apology for ever having anything to do with an unrepentant terrorist is due the American people.”

What McCain didn’t mention is that he has his own Bill Ayers—in the form of G. Gordon Liddy. Now a conservative radio talk-show host, Liddy spent more than 4 years in prison for his role in the 1972 Watergate burglary. That was just one element of what Liddy did, and proposed to do, in a secret White House effort to subvert the Constitution. Far from repudiating him, McCain has embraced him.

But wait there’s more….

Last November, McCain went on his radio show. Liddy greeted him as “an
old friend,” and McCain sounded like one. “I’m proud of you, I’m proud
of your family,” he gushed. “It’s always a pleasure for me to come on
your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and
adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation
great.”

Which principles would those be? The ones that told
Liddy it was fine to break into the office of the Democratic National
Committee to plant bugs and photograph documents? The ones that made
him propose to kidnap anti-war activists so they couldn’t disrupt the
1972 Republican National Convention? The ones that inspired him to plan
the murder (never carried out) of an unfriendly newspaper columnist?

Liddy was in the thick of the biggest political scandal in American
history—and one of the greatest threats to the rule of law. He has said
he has no regrets about what he did, insisting that he went to jail as
“a prisoner of war.”

All this may sound like ancient history.
But it’s from the same era as the bombings Ayers helped carry out as a
member of the Weather Underground. And Liddy’s penchant for extreme
solutions has not abated.

In 1994, after the disastrous federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas,
he gave some advice to his listeners: “Now if the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms,
resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they’re going to be wearing
bulletproof vests. . . . Kill the sons of bitches.”

He later
backed off, saying he meant merely that people should defend themselves
if federal agents came with guns blazing. But his amended guidance was
not exactly conciliatory: Liddy also said he should have recommended
shots to the groin instead of the head. If that wasn’t enough to
inflame any nut cases, he mentioned labeling targets “Bill” and
“Hillary” when he practiced shooting.

Charming fellow, I’m sure. Wow, and here I thought some of friends, that I hung around with were a little strange.

The Republican spin and denial on this ought to be quite interesting…

Update: heh… just as a suspected, Surber Spins it…:

Question: What’s the latest pathetic attempt by a liberal to try to rationalize Obama’s ties to whack jobs?

Answer: Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune tried to equate G. Gordon Libby with Bill Ayers. Two problems: 1. Liddy did time in prison. 2. Libby did not blow anyone up. But other than the doing the time for the crime and not killing anyone, two peas in a pod. Oh for the days when Mike Royko zinged Chicago’s pols.

Yeah, but it still makes the guy a nut. Plus, no one was convicted of blowing anyone up. Nice try though.

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If there was any more proof needed that Bill Clinton is an asshole…

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Here it is….:

After 2 faint, Clinton cracks joke about making ’em swoon (via AP)

Former President Bill Clinton is cracking wise about his ability to make people faint, telling voters in North Carolina he didn’t think he still had it in him.

Clinton was campaigning Sunday for his wife’s presidential bid on a hot and sunny day in western North Carolina. The state’s primary is Tuesday.

After one person fell during an event in Lenoir, Clinton joked: “Somebody faints at nearly every one of these things now. At my age, I didn’t think I could make anybody faint anymore.”

A young girl walked away from an earlier event in Marion after fainting. Emergency workers brought the elderly man in Lenoir water and ice and used campaign signs to fan him. The man was alert as emergency workers took him away on a stretcher.

Ah Yes, Billy Jeff, Stay classy man… stay classy…

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Hillary’s knowledge of Guns… Ha! What knowledge?!?!?

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Now this here, is funny.

The Story: Clinton mailing’s gun gaffe- From Ben Smith’s Blog Via Politico.com

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s mailing attacking Sen. Barack Obama’s record on guns appears to include a striking visual gaffe: The image of the gun pictured on the face of the mailing is reversed, making it a nonexistent left-handed model of the Mauser 66 rifle.

To make matters worse, a prominent gun dealer said, it’s an expensive German gun with customized features that make it clearly European.

“The gun in the photo does not exist,” said Val Forgett III, president of Navy Arms in Martinsburg, W.Va. Forgett’s company was Mauser’s agent in the United States when the gun was released, and it sold Mauser guns here again in the 1990s. “The bolt is facing to the left side of the receiver, making it a left-handed bolt action rifle, indicating whoever constructed and approved the mailer did not recognize the image has been reversed.”

Forgett said the error would be obvious to sportsmen.

“I find it laughable on its face,” he said. “It’s like a picture of Babe Ruth hitting right-handed.”

D’oh! Poor Hillary… Just trying to work that Right Winger crowds. Good luck with that!

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Hillary to go Nuke on Obama? Not Likely.

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This should be quite interesting….

Via HufPo: Clinton Camp Considering Nuclear Option To Overtake Delegate Lead

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has a secret weapon to build its delegate count, but her top strategists say privately that any attempt to deploy it would require a sharp (and by no means inevitable) shift in the political climate within Democratic circles by the end of this month.

With at least 50 percent of the Democratic Party’s 30-member Rules and Bylaws Committee committed to Clinton, her backers could — when the committee meets at the end of this month — try to ram through a decision to seat the disputed 210-member Florida and 156-member Michigan delegations. Such a decision would give Clinton an estimated 55 or more delegates than Obama, according to Clinton campaign operatives. The Obama campaign has declined to give an estimate.

Okay here’s why I very highly doubt that this will happen. Because if Clinton does this, it will create such a hostile environment with the Democrat Party. Plus, I highly doubt that Clinton has the clout within the party any longer to do such a thing.

So, while it’s a nice Idea, I highly doubt that it will work.

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New Polls out, The Obamassiah is recovering….

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Go read.

Short results:

Obama 49% Clinton 45%

Obama 51% McCain 40%

Some are not buying it, others are. Either way, it’s going to be an interesting race. Tuesday’s Primary will be quite interesting too.

Stay Tuned.

Hillary Clinton doesn’t listen to the Economists…

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Via Robert Reich’s Blog:

When asked this morning by ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos if she could name a single economist who backs her call for a gas tax holiday this summer, HRC said "I’m not going to put my lot in with economists.”

I know several of the economists who have been advising Senator Clinton, so I phoned them right after I heard this. I reached two of them. One hadn’t heard her remark and said he couldn’t believe she’d say it. The other had heard it and shrugged it off as “politics as usual.”

That’s the problem: Politics as usual.

first_lady_hilary_clinton_wincing_i Of course, that is Hillary’s problem, she represents the Democrat establishment. You know, the establishment, that authorized a Military style raid on a religious compound in Waco, Texas on February 28, 1993, which ended in the fiery deaths of 76 people, including 21 children and two pregnant women on April 13 of that same year.   

It simply amazes me, how the media has developed the total amnesia to the fact that Hillary’s husband was the one, who signed off of that massive slaughter of humanity.

Of course people say, "How can you say anything about that? she’s not Bill Clinton!". As far as I am concerned, Birds of a feather, flock together.

 

billary She’s just as evil, and just as liberal and quite frankly, just as stupid.

 

The quicker she is eliminated from this race, and the quicker that this race for the White House continues, the better. This Nation has had to suffer the tragic legacy of Bush/Clinton/Bush, don’t you think that it is about time for a change of path, instead of the same old politics?

Here’s a video the sums it all up:

I could not have put it better myself.

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Michelle Obama says the Obamassiah is getting tired…..

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Yes, it is true….

Via the U.K. Telegraph:

Michelle Obama lifted the lid on the irritation felt by the leading Democrat candidate for the White House at the way anti-American outbursts by his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, have dogged his campaign.

He is said to be itching to turn all his fire on John McCain, the Republican candidate, who is benefiting most from Mr Obama’s protracted tussle with Hillary Clinton.

Mrs Obama told a rally in Durham, North Carolina, on Friday that only her husband’s desire to change US politics had helped him to control his feelings: "Barack is always thinking three steps ahead – what do we need to do to make change."

Her husband was thinking "I can’t let my ego, my anger, my frustration get in the way of the ultimate goal," she said.

"Barack has been characterised as many things that have nothing to do with who he is."

Senator Obama has known the Rev Wright for more than 20 years, but he was forced to end their friendship last week over repeated claims by his pastor that America was to blame for the 9/11 attacks and for spreading the Aids virus.

michelleobamastupid

Waaaaaaah! Cry me a river, bitch! It’s called competition. If you and that Magic Negro husband of yours cannot take the heat, then get the hell out of the kitchen!

Freakin’ whiney assed Liberals, You gotta just love them!

Does Mr. Obamassiah think just because he’s black that we’re just going to GIVE him the Presidency? Please! Don’t make me laugh! How’s that riding in to the White House on MLK’s shoulders working out for ya, Barry?

Hope change! change Hope!

Idiots, go back to damn Africa Chicago, where you belong and leave the Politics to the adults.

 

This is what the Liberal Democrat’s REAL Motto should be:

 1seal If you cannot get hope or charge, just cry a little and people will give you want you want… Just ask Hillary! Rolling on the floor 

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Seems that the Rev Wright Scandal did some damage…

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That is according to the latest polls.

The Charts:

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and….

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Quote:

John McCain has moved to a six percentage point, 48% to 42%, lead over Barack Obama in Gallup Poll Daily tracking of the general election, while he edges out Hillary Clinton by only one point, 46% to 45%.

This is according to Gallup Poll Daily tracking from April 27-May 1 with 4,381 national registered voters.

The ongoing turmoil in the Democratic race — with neither candidate able to sustain a winning streak in the primaries and animosity seemingly mounting between them — seems to be benefiting McCain and hurting both Democrats. Last week McCain had fallen three points behind Clinton in the preferences of registered voters for the general election, and only tied Obama.

Although both Clinton and Obama have lost ground to McCain over the past week, the current results may be particularly troubling for Obama in trying to combat Clinton’s assertion to superdelegates that she would be the more electable of the two candidates in November.

The current six-point margin for McCain over Obama is the largest lead McCain has had over either candidate since Gallup began tracking general election preferences in early March. The gap between Obama and Clinton’s percentage of the vote when both are pitted against McCain is also the largest since the general election tracking began.

If Obama Looses NC and IN. I predict that, He’ll be done, and Hillary will most likely get the nomination. If Obama Looses one and wins the other, there will be a super-delegate fight, come the convention.  If he wins both, I predict Hillary will drop out.

If these polls are right, If Obama wins the nomination, the Democrats will lose the election, come November, because as of now, people are losing faith in Obama, because of all the sideshows. You know them, I don’t have to name them, it is taking it’s toll on Obama.

Either way, it’s going to be one interesting show from now to November.

Juan McSame needs to learn to speak….

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I mean, there’s just no excuse for this bunch of stupidity.

Video:

Quote:

My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will — that will then prevent us — that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.

Now, he’s claiming he said it wrong or something.

All the more reason to vote for this guy here. 

Why am I saying this? Because I am not letting my vote go to some idiot, who cannot even speak to a damn crowd, without misspeaking and giving the Liberals the red meat that they crave. Regardless if you want to admit it or not. President George W. Bush has so screwed this Nation up, that we’re going to be digging ourselves out for many years to come. He is also not really known for his ability to speak well, at all.

Of course, I am not about to let my vote go to a closet Marxist or a socialist bitch who wants to turn America into a another soviet union, with her nationalized healthcare program. So, I’m voting for a 3rd part candidate, that way, if the nation gets screwed up, it won’t be because of something I did.

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Uh-Oh……

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Seen over on HotAir.com:

This is not going to go over well, at all. 

Oy…… Not good, not good at all. DohWaitingRolling EyesSurprise

Update: I changed the video, a new version has been posted. Huffo is reporting that the video is either a fabrication or falsely reported.

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