“Everytime an Obamaphile sings (WWTSBQ?), an angel gets his wings”
It looks like the more they say that Hillary has to drop out for the good of the party because she can’t win, the fewer Democratic voters will commit to voting for him in the fall. Is that inversely proportional? Yeah, I think it is. If I were Obama, I’d knock it off. It is severely undermining his argument that he is the more legitimate candidate. Heck, he lost that claim to fame when he sat on MI and FL. Obama’s campaign has just expanded on it by arrogantly referring to Ohio voters as “Archie Bunkers”, jumping into the misogynism talk with gusto and by the candidate himself referring to many of us as “typical white persons” (like the melanin challenged among us haven’t *tried* to get a tan. Can I help it if I come from northern European stock?).
But Anglachel once again summarizes it nicely in A Gathering Storm. Here is an excerpt:
This is a lesson both Bill and Hillary Clinton have learned. Big Dog got his ass handed to him his first reelection bid in Arkansas because he came across as too elite and alien to the population, too eager to push his agenda and not inclined to listen to what people told him. In a word, arrogance. You don’t run as a member of the liberal elite in middle America. You cannot be perceived as having contempt for the people whose votes you need. Hillary faced this in upstate New York, plus even more baggage – carpetbagger, outsider, Billary monster, favorite punching bag of the right – and some real Republican opponents. She did it the hard way, by demonstrating her work for the voters of the state, won the first election, then busted her chops for her constituents, and had a blow-out reelection. She certainly has legitimacy in New York.
Back to the race. The rank and file Democrats who have favorable attitudes towards the Clintons and also for McCain look at Obama and see someone running a negative campaign and who appears to disdain the nation. The mix of pocketbook issues with a straightforward and direct love of country is not favoring him with these voters. The more they hear, the less they are inclined to support.
Then we get into the recent events of the campaign. Florida and Michigan are the contests where actual legitimacy for the candidates and thus the eventual nominee will be founded. A 48 state strategy is not viable if those two are not part of the 48. In these places, Hillary voters are being written off, dismissed as illegitimate voices in the process. The insistence on only one aspect of the rules, the penalty, while ignoring the full set of rules that could be used to manage the situation is eroding Obama’s claims to legitimacy because people don’t care about arcane party rules. They want their votes to count. The acts by Obama to prevent a revote have done nothing to increase his standing with ordinary voters, let alone strong Clinton partisans. This does not make him attractive to people who will have to switch their allegiance should Hillary not be the nominee. Conversely, her insistence on having votes counted will earn her greater legitimacy as well as benefit her with extra delegates.
There’s more where that came from. Just go read it. This is the point I was trying to make yesterday. I am so angry that I have been treated as an illegitimate voter because I refuse to drink the Kool-Aid. Obama doesn’t deserve my vote and if I give it him under these circumstances, I risk setting back the accomplishments of females by 40 years as well as ending up with a neophyte whose strings will be pulled by the very same people who tossed me out of my own tribe. Actually, anger doesn’t quite cut it. I am deeply offended and insulted.
So, listen up Superdelegates. This storm is going to be a doozy.
Update: So, Pelosi is starting to feel the pressure from a nonchalant Debbie Wasserman Shultz and from the big DNCC donors who sent her a “Dear Nancy” letter. So, she’s walked it back a bit:
“Speaker Pelosi is confident that superdelegates will choose between Senators Clinton or Obama — our two strong candidates — before the convention in August. That choice will be based on many considerations, including respecting the decisions of millions of Americans who have voted in primaries and participated in caucuses. The Speaker believes it would do great harm to the Democratic Party if superdelegates are perceived to overturn the will of the voters. This has been her position throughout this primary season, regardless of who was ahead at any particular point in delegates or votes.”
Umm, now I don’t know about you but any confidence that this thing is going to end before August troubles me greatly. The public is quite happy to see this play out. Only 22% of either side want their candidate’s opponent to bow out. The leaves a majority content to let this thing go to the convention. Anyway, I don’t think Pelosi is screaming *Uncle* loudly enough. It sounds to me like she’s dug in her heels and I am not happy with this. No, not at all. She’s going to have to try harder. (Jeez, I can not believe I defended her just a few months ago)
Update deux: After watching Obama giving his speech surrounded by Old Glory’s, .commenter Ohio offers this snappy slogan to the Clinton campaign: “Clinton 08: She don’t need no stinkin’ props. “ Now if I can only the image of the fake federale from the Treasure of the Sierra Madre out of my head…
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riverdaughter, I read that post — it’s fantastic. Thanks for posting this.
I fell down in a parking lot this morning and creamed my knee so I’m home this afternoon. But, I made notes on that same post myself. It’s one of the best things I’ve read all week.
(I hope you have a great vacation!)
Ooo, Katiebird, I hope you’re not too banged up. I recommend liberal applications of frozen peas. My kids swear by them.
Yeah, Anglachel is the Digby of Progressive Blogosphere 2.0,.
Why risk upseting the intellectual creme de la creme in the party and the young vote over some voters in MI/FL. After all they must have been very stoooopid to go out and vote when they knew it would not count. Plus I bet you many of them were old too.
“My family’s not big on quitting, you probably noticed that.”
– Bill Clinton, quoted by the Charleston Gazette.
NYT article on the dismal leadership of Gov. Patrick.
Early Dazzle, Then Tough Path for a Governor
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/us/politics/27patrick.html?ref=politics
I’m paraphrasing a quote from the article:
‘“I came here to change politics as usual,” Mr. ____ said . “Because what’s missing from politics as usual is hope. We have been governed for too long by fear and low aim and salesmanship.”’
Remind you of anybody? That was Gov. Patrick in 2006.
Here’s another quote from the article:
“Even some of Mr. Patrick’s strongest supporters have lost a little faith, including liberal Democrats who oppose casinos. (“Has Patrick become a lesson in the limitation of words?” a local radio host, David Boeri, asked at the start of a show on the subject last month.)”
I wish Nancy was more concerned with the rule of law and accountability by the White House.
Hey Nancy: Worry about fixing the country, not the election!
myiq2xu: “Hey Nancy: Worry about fixing the country, not the election!”
That was good.
WS: You make a good point that is too often lost on the purists. Bill Clinton, Deval Patrick and Eliot Spitzer came in to office and tried to push change against the entrenched establishment. They forget that there is a history, reasons for why things happen the way they do and throwing a monkey wrench into the works without a clear understanding of how the mechanim works is a sure way to cut short your political career. It’s not that there is no place for change or that corruption shouldn’t be stopped or inefficiencies eliminated. It’s just that to be effective at accomplishing that requires understanding the levers of power and that comes by listening, watching, investigating, schmoozing, and racking up a lot of favors. In such a scenario, we should be voting for Hillary in overwhelming numbers instead of slogging through til August wilh a virtual tie.
I have taken OpenLeft (a site that I used to like) off my favorites, but I visited this morning. Bowers has a post about how Obama should pick his VP now!! Everyone thought that would be great, indeed Pelosi was suggested as someone that should be on his short list. It was noted that it would be important to have a woman, I guess to make us all happy. PS they are also reporting that Al Wynn (who lost his primary to Donna Edwards) is resigning his seat. I’m not sure if that means there will be a special election, but Wynn was an Obama supporting SD. (Edwards also supports Obama.)
Riverdaughter: You touched on a pet issue of mine.
Unlike Patrick and Spitzer, the Big Dawg came into office when the GOP was ascendant and had the goal of undoing the New Deal and Great Society. The had organization, money, and their own television network.
Bill spent all 8 years on defense, trying to hold on to what we had gained over decades. He didn’t even have the support of his own party most of the time.
It makes his “accomplishments” look kinda skimpy, but he won by not losing. He beat those bastards despite everything they threw at him and left office very popular.
Obama lost my vote when he disrespected what Bill did.
@Honora: I dropped OpenLeft right after NH when the comment section went batshit. When people started demonizing Clinton for campaigning (How dare she imply she’s better than him?!), that’s when I knew it was over.
Nancy Pelosi is despicable. Not only did she speak out against MI and FL, but the woman also had the nerve to say that even if there was one candidate that had the popular vote lead and the other had the pledged delegate lead that the superdelegates should pick the former. Good God! Isn’t it against some sort of rules to have a supposedly neutral DNC chair be absolutely hellbent on not just engineering a “win” for one candidate, but sabotaging another Democratic contender?
If Obama were to announce his running mate, I’m pretty sure it would immediately cost him the nomination. Most Dems want this to continue and acting like he’s got it wrapped up would come off extremely arrogant. Bowers suffers from the same problem as Matt Yglesias and the rest of the Progressive Blogosphere beta. Namely they think all we Hillary folk need us some stern guidance. Those people are exactly like the big media pundits. They don’t seem to have much of a clue what us ignorant regular folk (or “typical”
think. I was turned off from most of progressive blogosphere beta because that has always seemed to be a problem. It was only a matter of time before the pigs in the Animal Farm start outdoing the farmers. I can already see Matt and Josh and others starting to walk on two legs instead of four.
Damnit: I meant to say Pelosi stated that the superdelegates should pick the latter (i.e. the pledged delegate leader). That’s what I get for typing when I’m angry.
I say everytime there is a WWTSBQ, we answer in kind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npibwy6oq90&eurl=http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/
Murtha stumping for Hillary….
Honora: I’m not sure if that means there will be a special election, but Wynn was an Obama supporting SD. (Edwards also supports Obama.)
There will be a special election. Edwards would be crazy not to support Obama in MD-04, but what’s interesting is that one of her biggest backers is a prominent Hillary fundraiser.
The only winning choice is for Obama to quit and instruct his followers to support Hillary Clinton. Obama devotees are famously mesmerized, and Obama can easily persuade them to suport Clinton. Besides he has already noted that she’s great several occasions (clips would be readily available). Fewer Obama followers go so far as to threaten they would not vote for Hillary Clinton if she were the nominee, whereas Clinton followers are a principled lot. Obama’s hold over his followers would bring them into the fold bloodlessly.
hir- I heard that she was told by Emily’s List that a lot of her donations from that source would dry up if she endorsed him prior to the primary. She listened, took the money, and then endorsed him right after the primary. I really like Donna and think that she will be great, but I have soured a bit on Emily’s List because so many of their supportees are out for Obama. I am not mad at Emily’s List as an organization, I just feel that I do not want to support women candidates, that do not stand up for other women candidates.
Now, everybody wants to talk about “black swans,” those highly improbable events that can cause havoc.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aHfkhe8.C._8&refer=exclusive
Such a nice metaphor…
Honora — she actually did it perhaps 24hr-72hrs before the primary because Wynn was trying to make an issue of it (around the time he was robocalling about her tax issues).
I 100% agree w/ you on Emily’s List.
I am agnostic when it comes to Donna Edwards, although Wynn was no prize. In fact, I have a friend (now a state delegate) who ran into some interference from him and his crew when she launched her campaign without ‘permission’ from the usual suspects in MD politics.
Speaking of OL, I see that they are starting a petition to back up Pelosi vs the evil Clinton donors.
Right underneath the blog entry? A blogad: John McCain for President.
“Clinton 08: She don’t need no stinkin’ props. ”
LOL
Democratic Groups Most Risk Deserting. Sorry if already posted.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/105742/Democratic-Groups-Most-Risk-Deserting.aspx
According to 1996 exit polling over 60% of those who voted for Bill Clinton said they did not trust him. They voted for him because they and their families were better off than they were four years earlier and they gave him the credit. From day one….
Just for those keeping count, the Puerto Rican Governor Acevedo-Vila, is/was a Super Delegate, that is a supporter of Obama. So it looks like Obama is winning the Superdelegate race, in the sense that Obama has lost two in the last two weeks, last two weeks because of scandals (Acevedo-Vila and Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick) with indictments and Clinton has only lost one (NY Governor Eliot Spitzer) because of scandal and no indictment as of yet. Score one for the Obama camp.
http://politicalkudzu.com/2008/03/27/governor-anibal-acevedo-vila-the-superdelegate/
According to Tweety, Pelosi has lined up Gore against Hillary??
Now that more voters live in suburbs and exurbs—and since big cities have become almost monolithically Democratic—the more competitive and vote-rich areas miles outside urban cores reap the lion’s share of attention from candidates.
http://www.nfmpolitico.com/2008/03/26/urban-issues-get-short-shrift-2/
rd, yup thats why I’m supporting Hillary. She already knows how the game is played unlike Obama who has to learn on the job. The country needs results as quickly as possible and Hillary knows how to do that (we need a healthy Democratic Congress as well). I’m afraid Obama would just be pushed around by the right because he wants “unity” and too afraid to be called a liberal.
Oh and Bill has lots of things to be proud of under his Presidency. We got the Family and Medical Leave Act, SCHIP, Earned Income Tax Credit Expansion, two Supreme Court appointments, and (arguably) most importantly, he brought back economic street cred to the Democratic Party with his stewardship of the economy (to name a few accomplishments). Universal Health Care would have been his greatest achievement but we’ll get that in the second Clinton Presidency!!!
Young people who have never attended college are not voting at levels nearly as high in the primary elections as their peers with at least some post-secondary education, according to a recent report by a nonprofit group that studies civic engagement among youths. People under 30 with some college under their belts were more than three times as likely to vote on Super Tuesday than those with no college at all, according to a February study by the nonpartisan Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement at the University of Maryland. The center analyzed turnout among young people on Super Tuesday in 14 states where the exit polling data for both parties was available, including New York and California. The study found that 25 percent of eligible voters younger than 30 who have either attended college or are in college now participated in their state’s primary contest — compared to only 7 percent of young people with no college experience.
http://www.nfmpolitico.com/2008/03/22/non-college-youth-turnout-lags-badly-2/
Kwame Kilpatrick has not committed to anyone. Neither has his mother, although early in the race she stated that she personally favored HRC but would not be telling her constituents who to vote for via a formal endorsment.
Besides, as of this writing, MI SDs don’t have a vote …
Will someone please fill me in? I’ve been out all day. What speech did Obama give and what was the Archie Bunker remark? Was that literally true? Please, I’m dying to know!
I just peeked into the orange place and they are saying that all the superdelegates are po’d at the billionaires who wrote to Nancy P. What good does it do for superdelagates to get angry at donors? That’s the same mistake that Obama and his supporters are made with us voters.
Here is a recent article about Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick getting threatened over her status as a “closet Clinton supporter.”
I’ll tell you how bad it is. The first media question on the morning call was some version of “Isn’t the race over, already?”.
It was asked by a humor columnist from Syracuse.
I would not have given him the courtesy of a long-form answer.
Just hearing on cnn from Hillary to not vote for mcstain
Big Tent Democrat over at TalkLeft has a post up right now about MoveOn’s and OpenLeft’s outright lying on behalf of Pelosi.
On the way home I was talking to my mom and she said that Hillary is going to be in my hometown tomorrow! A friend of my mom’s who is a state senator was asked to introduce Hillary. My mom is invited to go, but she’s afraid she’ll have to stand up (she’s 83 and has bad feet), but I’m trying to encourage her to go. It’s so exciting. This never happens in Indiana, but this year they are the battleground. I can’t believe it.
BB: I do not think that the Archie Bunker is new, it refers to the vote in Ohio (since that state did not go for Obama). I do not know if this is what you were asking…..hope it helped.
Sorry, it was not a good source!!!
As Kilpatrick (who has not yet committed to a candidate) is part of the Michigan Delegation his seat does not count toward the 794 superdelegate total.
http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/03/detroit-mayor-and-superdelegate-kwame.html
http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/superdelegates-who-havent-endorsed.html
Bostonboomer , could she get a wheelchair or rent one ? or is she all alone
Aeryl: thanks. I went over there and it seems that the civil war in the D party (or at least the noise level and chest pounding) continues to escalate.
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/3/26/1/a-conversation-with-governor-ed-rendell-of-pennsylvania#comment
Last night on The Charlie Rose Show, Rose could not wrap his mind around the idea that the media was showing any bias whatsoever against Hillary Clinton–Gov.Rendell suggested he should take a look at MSNBC for a really strong example.
The link is to comments for that show–where many people are telling Mr. Rose that they do indeed see bias.
Feel free!
A December survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press looked broadly at how media were being consumed this campaign. In the most striking finding, half of respondents over the age of 50 and 39 percent of 30- to 49-year-olds reported watching local television news regularly for campaign news, while only 25 percent of people under 30 said they did.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/us/politics/27voters.html
Why does the news media always list Obama’s name first when reporting a story about the candidates on the same issue? Like today is was Obama and Clinton discuss the economy.
Yeah, Anglachel is the Digby of Progressive Blogosphere 2.0
I totally agree with that. Anglachel, if you read this—you are terrific! And, unlike Digby, you are a woman who is standing up to what is happening. Thanks to both of you.
The returns, covering the years 2000 to 2006, show family income rising from $240,000 in 2000 to just shy of $1 million in 2006. The campaign says it will soon release the couple’s 2007 return.
Several commentators have focused on the relatively small size of charitable contributions given by the couple in earlier years. In 2004, for example, the Obamas contributed $2,500 out of their family income of $207,000. By 2006, however, the Obamas’ contributions had grown to $60,000 on income of $999,000. What else strikes you about the Obamas’ tax returns?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/104/story/31820.html
Charitable contributions to black power groups??? Wonder if Tom Cruise considers contributions to scientology as charitable…. to each his own.
Upstate NY– Thanks. Did someone in Obama’s campaign actually say that though? If so, that’s awful.
Brianna– that’s a good idea. I’ll mention it to her. The biggest problem my mom has is that she can’t see well, so she would have to have someone with her all the time. She is in the process of getting eye surgury. She has had one retina transplant and is getting another one next month. We’ll see what happens. I just think it’s so great that Indiana is getting some attention. Hillary is going to be at the high school. She wanted to use to field house where they play basketball games, but the school didn’t want it to seem like they were “endorsing” her. Wierd. But it’s a conservative town.
I found an “Archie Bunker” story on yahoo news.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080306/pl_bloomberg/ar7wd5nircc
Jerks!
Despite winning the popular vote in Texas, Hillary Clinton and her advisers are terrified that they’re about to suffer an Al Gore moment by losing in the pledged delegates race to Barack Obama beginning with county conventions on Saturday. Enter Bill Clinton in a conference call this afternoon to cajole the rank and file to keep fighting for his wife.
“A race this close, every delegate counts,” the former president said in a hasty call with 960 Austin Dems who are backing her, which The Mouth of the Potomac listened to. “The turnout could literally give Hillary the support she needs to win the nomination.”
“We can still win this thing. We’re going to have a big victory in Pennsylvania. It’s going to change the psychology even further, but we need your help,” Clinton said.
About 88,000 county delegates will meet statewide in Texas on Saturday to thin the herd going on to the state convention, where they will divvy up 67 caucus delegates between Clinton and Obama, in addition to the 126 primary delegates already decided.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2008/03/bubba-begs-texas-delegates-to.html
Chris writes:
And, unlike Digby, you are a woman who is standing up to what is happening.
I disagree, and I don’t think that’s fair to Digby. Let’s not be like the OFB and throw somebody under the bus (like Krugman) who’s always been there for us in the past, and is doing great work now, just because she doens’t do just what some of us want. Remember also that Digby seemed to take the first hit when the OFB started swarming and infesting the comment sections of blogs that didn’t kowtow to Teh Awesum. That was hard for her, and rightly so, because an entire community was laid to waste.
I agree. Digby stood up for Hillary and was horribly attacked for it. Now she really doesn’t write much about the campaign.
Well, I won’t fight you on it. But I think Digby’s parsing and fence straddling have not been inspiring at all.
I am disappointed with her and that’s the way it goes. We are all entitled to our opinions. Just not into sacred cows in the blogosphere anymore.
Lambert: I had a lot of respect for Digby. But I have to question her judgment if she is supporting Obama after all of the negativity and the irrational exuberance of his supporters. None of *us* slobber an growl like they do.
I would feel better about Digby if she at least came out in some, even small way everyday or so about the media bias etc.. And even the using bos name first all the time .. just small ’safe’ things , you know like democratic principled things ?? anyway .. Bostonboomer I sure hope it works out for your MOM ..
.. picked this up from Corrente ..
A CALL FOR LATINO DEMOCRATIC UNITY….FROM DEAN
http://nuestravoice.com/?p=1668
but, riverdaughter, lamber makes a great point—it ain’t about them. It’s about us and how we behave. And I’ve read some slobbering and growling.
C’mon, you have, too.
I’m not saying we all got to get white gloves and coiffured. I’m saying you and me and others have a choice to pick a third way here. Namecalling and hatin’ isn’t going to feed a single one of those kids who is going to bed hungry tonight.
If you believe (as I do) that Sen. Clinton isn’t out of the contest yet, some of these people may come looking for common ground with which to build their support for her.
Not all of them, certainly. But she’ll be their president, too. Okay, a little thrill just ran down my leg when I typed that.
Sorry if I sound preachy. I don’t mean to be.
And re: the topic here, we just gave Hillary a chunk of money to cover the bitchquitting of the past few days.
To paraphrase the late great Roy Scheider in JAWS: I think we’re going to need a bigger bank account.
Got back home from my undisclosed location.
As I can see through the comments thread, Hillary has not quit the race and has not faced some bogus accusation. We seem to be in very high spirits and ready to take on anyone and anything.
One thing I can say is that the bogus poll from NBC/WSJ (yes, I am looking at you hlr) has done some damage and given some comfort to Obama and his supporters for a whole news cycle, even though that pathetic fraud has been eviscerated by now.
For a whole day we have to watch the Obama fan club at MessNBO and the Big Boyz Blogz have their multiples Obamagasm, proclaiming that Hillary suffered more than Obama on the Wright issue, that she had reached her all time low and that “the greatest speech since the sermon on the mount” turned things around and the race is now over.
I watched Hillary’s smack down the gauntlet yesterday and I said “I am reporting for duty Captain, that is the haka we have been waiting for”.
Now let’s start with beating the pants off of “our opponents” in PA.
RiverDaughter,
How observant you are to note the full compliment of Old Glorys behind the good Senator whilst he pontificated on matters of importance - I mean, what the heck is up with wall-to-wall patriotism? I didn’t notice that much red, white and blue behind any candidate during a speech. It’s kind of nauseating how much he thinks of himself.
Ohio — As I understand it from Chris Matthews, thrills run UP your leg. If something warm is running DOWN your leg, you may need to step away from the keyboard once or twice a day.
RonK, dude, that was—okay, at least give me credit for setting that one up for you.
Geez. Do you like my new hat? Yes, I made it out of my own ass.
For Obama supporters screeching Sen. Clinton should just quit:
“…Obama initially planned to inherit the seat of a much-admired incumbent named Alice Palmer, a fixture in South Side activist circles since the ’60s. Palmer had opted to run for Congress, clearing the way for Obama to replace her, but, when she lost the primary, she decided she wanted to keep her old Senate seat, after all.
Obama was faced with a decision: step aside and wait his turn or do everything he could to take down a popular incumbent. In one meeting, an old guard of black political leaders tried to force Obama to abandon the race, but he wouldn’t budge. Instead of deferring to Palmer’s seniority, Obama challenged the very legitimacy of her petitions to get on the ballot, dispatching aides to the Chicago Board of Elections to scour Palmer’s filing papers, and, while they were at it, every other candidate’s, signature by signature. Many were fake. Obama won the challenge and cleared not just Palmer but all his potential rivals from the field.”
That’s from http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/bobamasunlikelypoliticaledu.html
Goose. Gander. Sauce.
Ah, TGIF for the WWTSBQ posse! Pink slips for everyone!
And a big kiss welcome to Sen. Leahy to the “officially batshit for Obama” hair club for men. And what a fair-minded, Democratic gem from the “gentleman from VT”:
“There is no way that Senator Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination. She ought to withdraw and she ought to be backing Senator Obama. Now, obviously that’s a decision that only she can make. Frankly I feel that she would have a tremendous career in the Senate.”
WAY, Pat!! And so impressed he approves of Clinton’s potential as Senator–she must heart Leahy for that. Generous of him to give her campaign instructions so she doesn’t have to do all that thinking! Thinking is hard!
Oh, but you gotta love this Democratic old boy’s club–it’s just gives me that warm, fuzzy feeling (didn’t feel it in my leg, though.) Ah, must be a menopausal flush, since I’m SO old (30’s are the new 70’s, you know…
Former Gov. Madeleine Kunin, Clinton co-chair of the VT campaign, said the following in response to the reason-challenged Leahy:
“It is premature, to tell her to drop out now is just unfair because it isn’t over. Admittedly, it’s tough for Senator Clinton to get a majority of the delegates but it’s not over till it’s over. It seems a bit patronizing to tell her ‘Honey, you know you’ve got to drop out for the good of the Party.’ Sure it’s not easy, but I think the process has to go forward as it was designed to go.”
Oh, those radical, old maid sewing circles–when will they learn to shut their yaps and just listen to the grown-ups in the party, follow the BO script and DNP manstructions?
I’m sorry–aren’t we Clinton supporters/Democratic VOTERS good enough “reasons?” I’d like to think so–good luck with that all-new, all-Y-chromo Party! They’ll have to do some SERIOUS repair work to fix this chasm– flowers and candy won’t attract the disenfranchised, disrespected Demma-Fems….but we just may not give a toss by then, anyway.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to hold my nose and vote McCain if BO winds up the nominee. But vote for Barry to be a “good Democrat”–after all of this shit? Are you kidding me?
Above all, he has been exposed as such a inauthentic phony and so many things about him remind me of “W” running for president. His lack of accomplishments, his vague or campaign-season ONLY policies, his personal choices–he’s an untested, inadequate and obviously arrogant candidate to think he’s the answer with his very thin political resume. But he walks on water and is JFK, MLK and RFK all rolled into one. They all just love how that sounds–never mind he hasn’t actually DONE anything of import like the men he emulates and imitates. And as for BO attracting all of these NEW VOTERS we’re supposed to be impressed by and acquiesce to? They couldn’t be bothered to register, participate or vote for God knows how many years or they have the insight/maturity of really knowing what this country needs as 20 year olds…the rest of us old bats need to just get out of the way.
I’ve really grown to DETEST this guy, his ridiculous goodybag politics, unbelievable arrogance (he’s like a political T.O.–”I sure love me some ME!”
and he hasn’t done a damn thing to deserve serious consideration for president.
But I am envisioning something like a non-vote, a Hillary write-in or some other protest/kiss my ass vote, just to show the DNP there are plenty of “reasons” to never discount/discard the stupid chick/old bat vote, ever again.
Ah, well–totally off topic but just to keep some words of wisdom for the weekend and to tell tosser Pat Leahy that he ought to do something anatomically impossible for his thoughtful quit instructions for Hillary and what she ought to do even after that. Such a helpful guy!
So I give you, Sir Winston Churchill, for no particular reason:
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”
“Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more (s)he contributes in maneuver, the less (s)he demands in slaughter.”
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
“Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”
“Great and good are seldom the same man.”
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
Most importantly:
“NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP!”