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The Agony of Defeat

SeVeN — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:06:03 +0000

Senator Clinton, in an e-mail to supporters, has announced that she will end her race to the White House. She plans on holding an event in Washington on Saturday to finally endorse Senator Obama.

Warning: What follows is an angry rant containing explatives.

I’m sorry to have to say this, but what a bitch. Can you imagine the shit-storm this woman would have created had the tables been turned. To deny Senator Obama the victory for four days because your ego won’t let you admit defeat is beyond comprehension. The headlines Tuesday night should have read “Historic Win for Barack Obama the First Black Democratic Nominee for President!”. Instead we have been bombarded with, “What Does Hillary Want?”. I don’t give a damn what she wants. What I want is for her, Bill and Chelsea to go far, far away. As for the vice presidency; forget about it. The same reasons as to why she shouldn’t be president apply as to why she cannot claim the no. 2 position. Senator Obama’s entire campaign is based on change. Hillary is the polar oposite of change. She brings nothing new to the table. Former President Jimmy Carter stated it best:

“I think it would be the worst mistake that could be made,” said Carter. “That would just accumulate the negative aspects of both candidates.”

The other problem with Clinton being on the ticket is the amount of baggage this woman has. Large baggage in the form of her husband, Bill. He is a major liability to have in anyone’s campaign. He almost derailed his wife’s campaign on a number of occasions.
Now is the time to look forward. Defeating John McCain in the general election is our goal. Senator Clinton can either hop on the bus and work towards that goal or she can go sit quietly on some isolated island somewhere in the Pacific. And that’s all I have to say about that.

Obama ’08

What We All Want

SeVeN — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:18:20 +0000

It is now Wednesday morning. The polls have closed for the remaining states. The long and arduous journey of choosing a democratic nominee for president is over. Or is it? Senator Clinton has yet to concede that she has lost. Nor has she acknowledged that Senator Obama has won. Now the question is, “What does Hillary want?” In her speech last night she claims that she wants to do what is best for the democratic party and for the country.

“In the coming days, I’ll be consulting with supporters and party leaders to determine how to move forward with the best interests of our party and our country guiding my way.”

Really? The bottom line is that what Hillary wants is what is best for Hillary. If the DNC wants Hillary to pack up her toys and go home, they will first have to play “Let’s Make a Deal’. She wants the vice presidency. She wants campaign contributions to pay off her debts. She wants a prime-time speaking slot at the convention in August. She wants us all to visit her web site and tell her what she wants. She wants us all to have patience as she decides what it is she wants in the coming days.

I have never been a Hillary supporter. And I don’t know anyone who is a Hillary supporter. Therefore, I cannot understand the rabid fanaticism shown by her followers. She has cried, lied, and made republican-style attacks against her opponent, Senator Obama. She is more-of-the-same type of old crony politics that we are all sick of. Yet many of her supporters say that hell will freeze over before they vote for Obama. Would they really prefer McCain in the White House?

I had to ask myself what I would do if Senator Obama had lost. There is no way in hell that I would vote for Senator McCain. I would like to see what Ron Paul decides to do. He has not dropped out plus he took 16% of the vote from McCain in South Dakota. The fact is that no republican may sit in the white house. Hillary is still the lesser of two evils and I would have to cast my vote for her. I’m fairly certain that the majority of Clinton’s supporters will also make the right decision come November.

Getting back to what Hillary wants and what is best for the country. One word: unity. All of those millions of voters, many first timers, who have backed Senator Clinton united with the millions of Obama voters would be an impenetrable force to reckon with. McCain wouldn’t stand a chance. If I were Hillary, I would want to be the democratic party’s standard bearer. I would want to bring together all of those millions of voices in support of Senator Obama and bring a knock-out blow to Senator McCain in November. What I wouldn’t want is to go down in history as a sore loser.

Obama ’08

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures

SeVeN — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:36:56 +0000

I was absolutely shocked to read the headlines proclaiming that Senator Hillary Clinton used the 1968 assassination of Robert F Kennedy as an historical example of why she should stay in the race:

“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it.”

To choose this tragic event as an example as to why she shouldn’t drop out of the race was in extremely poor taste. To mention this tragic event in light of the Kennedy family’s current situation with the illness of Senator Ted Kennedy, is inexcusable. Clinton later offered this statement as an apology:

“Earlier today I was discussing the Democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns that both my husband and Senator Kennedy waged in California in June 1992 and 1968 and I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nomination primary contests that go into June. That’s a historic fact.

The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy and I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation, and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that, whatsoever. My view is that we have to look to the past and to our leaders who have inspired us and give us a lot to live up to, and I’m honored to hold Senator Kennedy’s seat in the United States Senate from the state of New York and have the highest regard for the entire Kennedy family.”

Pretty weak. If “the Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days” is her excuse for this gaffe then what, pray tell, is her excuse for using this exact reasoning in March? This quote from an interview with TIME:

TIME: Can you envision a point at which–if the race stays this close–Democratic Party elders would step in and say, “This is now hurting the party and whoever will be the nominee in the fall”?

CLINTON: No, I really can’t. I think people have short memories. Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn’t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual.

The DNC should demand that she step down. What exactly is going on in her mind to continually mention the assassination of RFK? This isn’t a simple misspeak or little gaffe to be brushed under the carpet. This is a look into the real heart of this woman. I am now convinced that she is evil.

Obama ’08

The Never-Ending Agonizing Crawl to the White House

SeVeN — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:03:35 +0000

I almost forgot to do my primary update. In fact, I completely forgot that it had happened. So here are the numbers:

Kentucky: Clinton – 65%
Obama – 30%
Oregon: Obama – 58%
Clinton – 42%

If you need a breakdown of how they divided the delegates you will have to hunt that down yourself. Senator Obama is still leading and that’s all that matters to me.
Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton has now decided to make a complete horse’s ass out of herself. She has declared that she is the actual winner of the popular vote and not Obama. Of course once you look at her math you kinda get the sense that she has officially lost her mind. If you tally up all of the votes she has won including those in Florida and Michigan she does indeed win the popular vote. However, they do not include any of the votes for uncommitted in Obama’s tally. Presumably those people may have voted for Obama (or Edwards). When asked why they didn’t add those votes to Obama, Clinton’s camp stated that then she wouldn’t win. If that isn’t bad enough, she has also stated that if Florida and Michigan want to take their delegate issue all the way to the convention, well then she would support them on that decision. What part of “You have LOST!!!!!” does this woman not get?
Meanwhile, we have McCain stumbling around the country giving one senility riddled speech after another. And the main stream media is so caught up in the democratic presidential nominee that he barely registers as a blip on the radar.

Onwards to Peurto Rico – June 1st

Obama ’08

The Long Agonizing Crawl to the White House

SeVeN — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:36:01 +0000

I’m getting pretty bored with this whole situation. Here are the results for last night’s primary:

West Virginia: Clinton – 67%
Obama – 26%

Senator Clinton picks up another 20 delegates with Senator Obama gaining 8. He still leads in all of the categories; pledged delegates, super-delegates and the popular vote. I never realized what a racist and uneducated state West Virginia is. The reasons why Senator Clinton won are that 60% of the voters polled couldn’t vote for a black candidate and others wouldn’t vote for Senator Obama because he is a muslim. A muslim! Kentucky is up next week. I imagine it will be more of the same stupidity. Senator Clinton is expected to win the hillbilly vote while Senator Obama should take Oregon. There is a light at the end of this tunnel. After Kentucky and Oregon there are only two primaries left! June 1st is Puerto Rico and June 3rd is Montana and South Dakota.

Obama ’08

Race for the White House – Update #420

SeVeN — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:01:51 +0000

Just in case you live in a cave, here are the latest numbers:

Indiana: Clinton – 51%
Obama – 49%
North Carolina: Obama – 56%
Clinton – 42%

Senator Clinton was supposed to take Indiana with a double-digit win. That obviously didn’t happen. Not only does Senator Obama lead in pledged delegate counts, he leads in the popular vote and Super-delegates are also beginning an exodus from the Clinton camp. The calls for her to quit have resumed:

Senator Clinton, however, remains adamant that she will stay in the race until a nominee is chosen. We are also likely to see to see the Clinton campaign wage a serious battle over seating the delegates from Florida and Michigan. The Democratic National Committee will hold a meeting May 31st of its Rules and Bylaws Committee to discuss how to deal with this issue. Michigan’s executive commitee has settled on a plan to give presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton 69 delegates and Barack Obama 59. Florida has yet to come to some arrangement. The question of whether these delegates should be seated at all still remains to be answered.

Meanwhile, Senator Obama and his aides have decided to ignore Senator Clinton. Instead they will begin to shift their efforts more towards the national election and defeating Senator McCain. Senator McCain has been allowed to silently campaign in the background with little or no media coverage. This works in McCain’s favor since he is beginning to show signs of senility by making Bush-like blunders:

People are forgetting that there is a more important race ahead. The Super Race to the White House is six months away. This battle to become the democratic nominee for president has created rifts in the democratic party. And the longer this battle continues to drag on, the greater the rifts are becoming. We must have a united party in order to defeat McCain in November.
Unless Clinton sees the light, the next primary will be in West Virginia, Tuesday, May 13th.

Obama ’08

Race to the White House – Update

SeVeN — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:42:21 +0000

Well, the officially unofficial resuts from the Pennsylvania primary are finally in:

Clinton: 85 delegates
Obama: 73 delegates

Results are also in for the tiny island in the Pacific Ocean; Guam. Obama won by a margin of 7 votes. Go Guam!

Obama: 2 delegates
Clinton: 2 delegates

The latest count by the Associated Press showed Obama with 1742.5 delegates to Clinton’s 1,607.5. The next primary will be held Tuesday with Indiana and North Carolina voting. No major decision is likely to come from these two states and this race will continue on until June 3rd. We might as well just push on to the end at this point and let all of the states (and Peurto Rico) get a chance. It’s an historic election, after all.

In other election news, Ron Paul stated in an interview with Wolf Blitzer that he preferred Senator Obama to John McCain. Quickly adding that this was not an endorsement. Watch the interview below:

Ron Paul – Why He Should Be President

SeVeN — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:14:04 +0000

It’s such a shame that the majority of America’s citizens are dumb, shit-kickin’ rednecks. Or that the nation’s women are blinded by gender. Or that so many people are too lazy to unplug from Fox, CNN, or ABC. They would rather be spoon-fed lies, distortions, and spin instead of searching for the truth. Why do the two strongest candidates for president – Ron Paul & Barack Obama – have such a huge following with the online community? Because they are elitists and so are we.

Urban Dictionary definition: The plural of elitist. In short, a person, or group of persons, who believes something about them makes them superior to others, and they feel the need to flaunt their superiority.

Why are we so superior? We aren’t shit-kickin’ rednecks and we don’t let Bill O’Reilly or Ann Coulter tell us how to think. A woman will sit in the Oval Office as President of the United States. But she won’t get our vote just because she is a woman. Congressman Paul and Senator Obama don’t talk down to us in a patronizing manner. They speak to us one on one; no bullshit, no lies and no spin. They tell it like it is. This country has fallen into ruin and it’s going to take some hard work to put Humpty Dumpty together again.

Hillary Clinton should step down so that we can put an intellectual in the White House and start some nation re-building.

Obama/Paul ’08

Ron Paul – He Who Should Be President

SeVeN — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:04:51 +0000

There’s a well written article on Politico by jonothan Martin; Ron Paul is down but not out.
Ron Paul and his supporters have not given up. They have not given up with spreading the message of Dr. Paul; less government is more. Although his run for the presidency is finished, supporters still turn out to hear him speak. And still turn out to vote. Dr. Paul won 16% of the vote in Pennsylvania. I have stated before that Ron Paul would be my first pick for President. The big question on everyone’s mind now is who are all of these people going to vote for in the general election? They will probably follow Ron Paul’s lead. I personally wish that he would keep his name on the ticket. Unfortunately, he has stated unequivocally that he would not run under a third party. Minds can be changed.

I am afraid that the democrats are once again shooting themselves in the foot. I have about had it. Actually, I’m sick to shit of it. Hillary Clinton has ruined it for me. The prospect of having to listen to that voice for four years or possibly eight makes me terrified. I am in an absolute quandry over what I will do come November if the battle is between McCain and Clinton. I can’t and won’t vote for either one of them. Perhaps, I too, will have to wait and see where the Ron Paul supporters go.

Who Really Won Pennsylvania?

SeVeN — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:24:13 +0000

Due to Pennsylvania’s screwed up system of allocating pledged delegates, the answer to that question is still up in the air. The voting is done and the popular vote goes to Senator Clinton. But what about the delegates? Here’s an explanation from the New York Times:

Because of the rules that govern the allocation of Democratic delegates, final results for each congressional district in the state are needed to allocate that district’s delegates. There are seven congressional districts in Pennsylvania with precinct reports outstanding. The Associated Press tells us that those results may not be available for a day or two.
Thus, The Times has only allocated 127 of the state’s 158 delegates. Currently, Hillary Clinton has 64 delegates and Barack Obama has 63. Stay tuned to our delegate page for updates.

Whoa, she’s really creamin’ him!

There is a link in that article to the NYT’s delegate page. It has some pretty interesting information. Not only does it show you the current split of delegates for the states that have already held their primaries or caucuses or primary/caucuses. There is another column of un-allocated delegates. If you click on the ‘Details’ a little window will pop up to let you know when those states will have their conventions. That is when they will decide their delegates. If they haven’t been decided yet, how do we know who won what? Then you have the state of Nevada who had to conduct a do-over in Clark County because to many people showed up. Nevada held their caucus (or primary – I can’t keep up any more) on January 19th – January 19th! And we still don’t know who won what!?!

People we are all in Hell. Why is this so freaking difficult? How about if we voted by placing a penny in piggy-banks with the candidates names on them, dipped our fingers in ink to show that we voted, then dump the pennies into a coin counter and voilia! A winner is chosen.
Obama ’08