14 posts tagged “politics”

HA!  Called it!  He's on my list in the Veepstakes.

"It's not too important."  John McCain

Keith, gives a nice recounting of John McCain's changing views on Iraq.

Antonin Gregory Scalia, proves that even a Supreme Court Justice can be a fool.

I could see myself casting my vote for this candidate.  Couldn't you?

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It's bad enough we have ONE (see image to the left) bumbling idiot, but it appears that Republican presumptive nominee McCain has been taking presentation tips for public speaking from the current Commander in Chimp.

We already have "Bushisms", what's next... "McCainisms"?  Or just "senior moments"?  Crap, we've already had to endure 8 years, please... not 4 more.  :-/

I'm not pointing fingers to any person(s) currently running for President.  Personally, I just find it funny the hoops that a politician will jump through all for pleasing the masses for their votes.  Bowling, basketball, beer drinking, shot slamming...lame.  Nothing like a little remolding of your image for votes eh?  I think you'll find this fairly amusing. 

Oh yeah, Grace is Xander's current girlfriend.  They don't exactly have a healthy relationship as you can see.  Xander is running for President on the Republican side.  His Democratic opponent is Killface.  Their campaign managers are each trying to take the role of "king maker" and make their candidate the President.  Just watch the clip.  

I think that I understand it as well.  Not to mention, living in West Virginia could drive me to start drinking...  HEAVILY. (after the first part of the video clip)

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Senator Edwards is going to give his endorsement to Senator Obama.  I'm sure with this endorsement his name will be on that short list of potential VPs.  Some other names I wouldn't mind seeing on this ticket are Senator Joe Biden (he's been right about the Iraq war being a mistake), Govenor Kathleen Sebelius (she'd help him gain more female votes). 

I'd also like to see  Senator Obama cross party lines and select either Senator Chuck Hagel (heavily criticized the current administration and compared Iraq to Vietnam) from Nebraska or Senator Ron Paul (given he were to drop out of the race).

ADDENDUM:

Here's the math...

- The total number for DNC is 4,051 (as number needed is 2,026).
- There are 797 superdelegates.
- So 3,254 total possible pledged delegates
- Therefore, 1,627 is the number needed for majority.
- Obama has 1,599 pledged delegates.
- So that would mean he needs 28 pledged delegates for a majority.
- Edwards' 18 -- even if they all voted for Obama -- would leave the Illinois senator 10 short.
- That's a number Obama would certainly pick up May 20th. Between the contests in Kentucky and Oregon there are a total of 103 delegates are at stake.

(NOTE: Edwards got 7% last night in West Virginia.)

Source: MSNBC Politics

With the large margin of victory in North Carolina (14 points) and the narrow margin of loss in Indiana (1.8 points or 23,000 votes) means that the delegates gained in each contest wipes away the ones Hillary earned in Pennsylvania.  The Clinton camp canceled the morning television visits, there's only one fund raising event scheduled for the late afternoon.  I think this will give them the time to think about whether to continue with the campaign.  I'm sure they'll keep going all the way until Denver, if they do, then there are a couple contests that Clinton "could" win, all to help her bow out on the high note. 

I think she's come to terms and recognized that this very well could be the end.  Both parties talked about party unity, so I think that the speech in Indiana was more of her concession.  She's still needed to collect the debt her campaign owes her since she had loaned 5 million in order to keep it floating.  I don't think that she'd be able to get the large percentage of Superdelegates (over 70% or 200 count) needed in order for her to secure the nomination for the Democratic party before Denver.  Now her campaign will have to enter into negotiations to try and get both Florida and Michigan seated and the delegates awarded (and votes counted), even if that were the case, she'd still be down to Obama. (100 delegate lead in favor of Obama and 170K votes still in his favor)

With Obama's path looking even more clear, it's time that his campaign starts to focus on McCain.  Also, Clinton's supporters really should start licking their wounds and stick with the party to help Senator Obama this November.

Contest results

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
NBC News has allocated some of the pledged delegates from Indiana and Pennsylvania.

INDIANA: Clinton 35-31 (6 remain to be allocated)
NORTH CAROLINA: Obama 49-42 (24 remain to be allocated)

The Delegate Counts:
PLEDGED: Obama 1,572-1,415
SUPERDELEGATES: Clinton 272.5-256
OVERALL: 1,828-1.687.5

This would put Obama within 197 of the 2,025. (This, of course, does not include Florida and Michigan.)   

MAY 2008
6 Indiana and North Carolina primaries
13 West Virginia Democratic primary
 West Virginia GOP primary (1/3 selected)
20 Kentucky and Oregon primaries
27 Idaho Republican primary

JUNE 2008
1 Puerto Rico Democratic primary
3 Montana Democratic primary
 New Mexico Republican primary
 South Dakota primary

AUGUST 2008
25-28 Democratic National Convention in Denver

SEPTEMBER 2008
1-4 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul
26 Presidential debate in Oxford, Miss.

OCTOBER 2008
2 Vice Presidential debate in St. Louis, Mo.
7 Presidential debate in Nashville, Tenn.
15 Presidential debate in Hempstead, N.Y.

NOVEMBER 2008
4 Election Day 

This election cycle, we have 3 Presidential candidates where (two in a race that has yet to be decided) each are considered to be a first for our country.  One candidate is a woman, which we've never had as President.  Another is considered to be Black even though he is multi-ethnic (still makes me wonder why he's listed as "black").  The third candidate was born in 1936 and if elected would be the oldest President to hold office.

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Looking at the two Democratic candidates there are certain groups that have supported each (as painted by MSM). 

• Obama - Individuals under the age of 45, male/female college students, more would be first time voters, more educated (having achieved at least a 4 year degree), higher percentage of the Black vote.
  

• Clinton - Older white women, higher percentages of women, blue collar men, anyone over the age of 45, and rural residents.  The WSJ would list these as "small-town, white male/female, with no college degree and making less than $50K a year"
  

In regards to the "experience" claim, what experience?  None of the candidates have any experience governing ANYTHING. They're all senators. Hillary's "experience" doesn't amount to anything more than Obama's or McCain's.  When former President Clinton ran, he went against the same experience argument.  He said that experience (or lack thereof) shouldn't matter (then), so why should it matter now?

"Residency doesn't make a Presidency.", or White House experience by association isn't technically White House experience.  So she's basically trying to run on the idea she was someone's wife for 8 years?  Incidentally, in those 8 years the administration wasn't able to do universal health care, sat by and watched a modern Holocaust happen in Rwanda, allowed Pakistan to develop nuclear weapons, Yemen, and the embassy bombing. It's not the best record to run on right now.

I've also heard the remark that the nation would get Bill back into the White House and this would be another co-Presidency.  No, it wouldn't (in a sense) and no, it won't.  Hillary was just the first lady, not co-President (sorry feminists).  So can you guess what Billy's role will be if Hillary is the nominee and wins the Presidency?  Can you guess?  Come on, I'll give you three guesses but the first two won't count.  Give up?  Well refer back to the third sentence of this paragraph and you'll see there would be no splitting of the office.

Through out his time in the Senate, Obama has been outspoken about his thoughts on corruption and the war, while Hillary was playing it safe, grumbling here and there, but never as clearly and precisely as Obama has.  Look at the differences between these two.    

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This reminds me of the 2004 election and a conversation that I had with a friend.  I went with a group of friends to go cast our votes early and afterwards had a discussion with a friend Jay.  The conversation started when Jay tried to find out which candidate each of us had voted for.

Jay: So who did you vote for?

Me: I voted fro Kerry.

Jay: Why did you vote for the retard?

Me: I didn't say that I voted for the retard, I told you.  I voted for Kerry.

Jay: Why don't you think that Kerry is retarded?

Me: Well, for starters.  Kerry isn't known all over the world as "the bumbling idiot from Texas".  Will that do?

(By this point, Jay was getting upset that the conversation wasn't to his liking.)

Me: So why did you vote for "shrub"?

Jay: Because he's from Texas.

Me: Are you serious?  Please tell me you're joking.

Jay: No.

Me: You didn't bother looking into any of the issues that you find important to see if he backs them as well?  You mean to tell me that you voted for a person just because he's a Texas resident?   

Jay: He's not a resident.  He's a Texan.

Me: No, you're wrong.  He's a resident, he owns an estate...... sorry "ranch" in Texas, that makes him a resident.  He wasn't born in Texas.

Jay: YES HE WAS!

Me: Oh I'm sorry Jay, you're right.  How could I have been mistaken?  I bow down to your superior knowledge, you're absolutely right.  He was born in that small Texas town called "New Haven, Connecticut". 

(By this time another friend jumped in to say I was right so we'd end the debate.  Jay had the look on his face like someone shot his dog.  It was priceless!) 

So which candidate are you backing now?  Why?