Yeah Hillary! Stick it to the MSM! Tell KO to go suck Edward R. Murrow's toes.
Maybe the wanta'be nominee will quit pulling a W. and cease with the staff selection and LET THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS WORK.
Posted by jmac at May 13, 2008 06:46 PMCheck out the primary results in Nebraska, got the numers off cspan..
89 of 1699 Precincts Reporting - 5%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Clinton, Hillary Dem 10,419 50%
Obama, Barack Dem 9,874 47%
Gravel, Mike Dem 705 3%
Is it just me, or is John McBush doing a little worse in his own party with every primary? He hasn't broken 80% since he clinched it, and Huckabee and Paul are bidding fair to hold him to 75% in WV.
Not that Obama takes West Virginia under any scenario. But if Old Blood and Thunder keeps this up, a lot of other states might get put into play.
Posted by nicteis at May 13, 2008 07:02 PM15 delegates, you go girl!
AP - 30 minutes ago
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of his worst defeats of the campaign yet scarcely slowing his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Obama leads popular vote, pledged delegates, superdelegates, governors and members of congress.
Obama needs 35.5 more delegates to achieve the majority.
Posted by at May 13, 2008 07:10 PMTravis Childers is on track to upset in the Miss First District...where Chimp won 62%-37% in 2004....that's three in a row for the Dems...Illinois and Louisiana being the others....lawdy, lawdy a change is gonna come, y'all
Posted by Goyo at May 13, 2008 07:42 PMat May - Obama might need that number with 48 states.
Last count we have 50 states.
Posted by jmac at May 13, 2008 08:02 PMOh - at May - It's not who has the majority - it's who reaches the magic number !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He can crown himself with the majority, but the party might have something to say about it.
ON TO THE CONVENTION
Posted by jmac at May 13, 2008 08:04 PM"not that it means anything" couldn't be a more wrong. Let me offer a list:
- Obama's chance in WV in November seem negligible.
- Obama didn't even campaign in WV; he dissed them, very presidential
- Obama has gained the label "cannot win swing states."
- Every primary she wins demonstrates that nominating Obama is suicidal.
- With each primary, we learn that healing is either enormously difficult or impossible.
Boy you people are good...to go with Obama's 57 state reference...tonight just a few moments ago Senator Dodd just said "we don't need another six years of Bush." Wow...it's spreading. Senior moments from two Democrats running for the presidency this time...one from McYoung and the other from Dodd.
From MSNBC.
Posted by peter at May 13, 2008 08:27 PMOh no, say you didn't peter... did you just try to deflect that outragous loss in MS?
Congrats Hillary! What'd she pick up, 12 pledged delegates?
Posted by Seven of Six at May 13, 2008 08:42 PMI helped create the “Mad is Hell” video along with IndyRobin.
I created a NEW VIDEO: “We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke64670GkZ8
It’s about Obama’s silence on sexism against Hillary Clinton and his own sexist remarks.
If you approve of the video, I’d appreciate your help in spreading the video by creating a post on the video and ask that you and your readers go to youtube to RATE, COMMENT & mark FAVORITE the video.
Thanks.
Posted by GeekLove08 at May 13, 2008 08:52 PMConsider this statement by Obama regarding Lebanon:
"This effort to undermine Lebanon’s elected government needs to stop, and all those who have influence with Hezbollah must press them to stand down immediately. . . It’s time to engage in diplomatic efforts to help build a new Lebanese consensus that focuses on electoral reform, an end to the current corrupt patronage system, and the development of the economy that provides for a fair distribution of services, opportunities and employment."
Really...I suppose this is the first time anybody has said these things. This is leadership???????
McYoung...
Posted by peter at May 13, 2008 09:06 PMHey hey STEVE OF SIX - she took over the popular vote tonight - even without Michigan and Florida.
Just because Kos thinks he knows the math, the super d's might take a peek at the exit polling, the electorial map, and the popular vote. Obama CAN'T win against McCain.
ON TO THE CONVENTION!
Posted by jmac at May 13, 2008 09:08 PMProvide a link to that vote total "jmac crack corn and I don't care"!
Posted by Seven of Six at May 13, 2008 09:53 PMIf BO keeps telling us that he is the winner, maybe the voters will continue to show him he's wrong. He's touted the "math" since Feb 5, and for a winner, he sure looks like a loser. Oh, I forgot, he has a new map of the US that does not include: FL, MI, WV, OH, PA. Brazile is making this little map so that BO does not rely on those pesky white voters that he and his pastor dissed.
Posted by Prabhata at May 13, 2008 09:58 PMBEWARE OF TROLLS DRESSED AS DEMOCRATS
Posted by Goyo at May 13, 2008 10:04 PMFrom Red State Blog:
When the sun sets on this election we might have to realize that the media's efforts to set up Obama as the Democrat nominee has been the greatest gift they've ever given to the GOP.
I don't have a link for the total SEVEN OF SIX - just quoting from a blogger - might not be true - then again it might.
Posted by jmac at May 13, 2008 10:36 PMGeekLove08, I watched the video and it's good (I hadn't seen 90% of the pictures, posters, etc that you showed), but it was way too long. My youtube attention span is about 2 minutes.
Posted by CG at May 14, 2008 04:29 AMUm, jmac, what Dem reads "Redstate blog"?
Methinks we have another Repub masquerading as a "Dem".
Posted by euzoius at May 14, 2008 05:37 AMHillary picked up 20 pledged delegates to Obama's 8.
She blew him out.
I think that Obama is getting bad advice from his advisors. If they are telling him to stop campaigning, because Timmeh Russert has already coronated him, well, that's a bad, bad move...
Yes, the statement that WVA doesn't figure into Obama's Autumn plans is another stupid, mishandled step of his....kind of like earlier on in the campaign when he talked to some UK reporters about whom he is going to be putting into his Cabinet.
Well, arrogance always precedes not only tactical, but also strategic losses. It happens in all battles. Military and political. The political calculations and miscalculations determine the outcomes.
Hillary understands the dynamics. This is a primary SEASON. Not a day, week, month, or quarter of primaries.
Obama and his handlers have failed to grasp that.
And Timmeh also, along with the rest of the MSM. "Symbolic" win?
Right. Like GWB "winning" Florida in 2000?
And unfortunately for Obama, there is a little ticking time bomb waiting for him....in the person named Sinclair. The Chicago PD have taken Sinclair's (I believe notarized) affadavit under consideration. (It deals with a murder investigation.)
Turkana asked in another thread what had to happen to allow me to vote for Obama. I am a highly partisan Democratic supporter. I will not ever vote for any Republican.
Right now, Obama will not get my vote. He is not the "antidote" to politics as usual, as he and his supporters continue to behave "as if it is politics as usual."
He is long on slogans, and short on substance. I watched part of a section on FDR on the PBS series "American Experience." FDR served as an undersecretary of the Navy, and got to see war up close and personal. He also got to see how a complex, byzantine bureaucracy worked for many years. At least 8 in that position. And then he ran as the VP contender for the Democratic Party as well prior to his own running for President years later. He got lots of experience under his belt prior to taking the Oath of Office.
How much experience inside the complex, byzantine bureaucracy does Obama have? He hasn't even served one term, (hell, make that one-half term) in the US Congress!
How is he qualified? Because he can utter fervently "Yes, we can!"? Put out TV ads that have segments that look like simulations of a lollapalooza? Get out of here.
And he continually provides examples about how out of touch he is with reality, and bad judgement calls. What is the sensicalness of the decision to stop campaigning, and impugn the voters of a swing state (WVA)?
Sounds like there are more SnarySharks-type of people advising Obama, than merely in the blogosphere. Obamabots believe that they can create their own reality.
That is not a person I can vote for. And any person who is shrewdly looking at the macrocosmic picture would understand that also.
Remember, the Super Delegates want this decided by the electorate before they would have to step in. And the electorate is voting. And still voting through June.
I could vote for him...if he was on "Presidential Celebrity Survivor"...I would vote him off the island.
20 to 8. thats a net of 12. Twelve. She needs like, more than twelve times that many.
Posted by T2 at May 14, 2008 06:28 AMHillary picked up 20 pledged delegates to Obama's 8.
Yep, that's a difference of 12 pledged delegates!
Only 170 more delegates to go before Hillary catches Barack!
Posted by Seven of Six at May 14, 2008 06:30 AMpolls in Oregon show Obama on track for a lopsided win, which will nullify Clinton's WVA win last night. Oregon, by the way, is substantially white. If they are also "hard working", you'd think Clinton would be way ahead there.
Posted by T2 at May 14, 2008 07:03 AMEach candidate has had their "blowouts", and if memory serves Obama's had more blowouts than Hillary. The primary is decided by aggregating all the contests, duh.
No one thinks she's dropping out now, and there's no great point to it anymore. Whatever benefit existed to having a nominee in place "early" is long gone. So let all the states vote, and have the Super-Ds cast their ballots immediately after, so we know who the winner is and can get on with this.
Unfortunately, each candidate appears to have appealed to different, highly important components of the Dem party and the brain trust is going to have to get together to see what can be done to try to get the People of the Left back together again and all pulling against McSame.
Posted by euzoius at May 14, 2008 07:32 AM