This Republican's supporting Obama for President. Selah.
he sounded positively presidential
has anyone run the numbers yet as far as
apportionment to see see if Obama may have picked up more delegates than Hillary in IN?
By the time Obama gets through with John McCain and George Bush, they'll be Siamese twins, with no separating surgery possible. :o)
He made a great speech. :o) This is one SMARRRRT dude, and I am a happy dog this morning. :o)
Except, I would like to hang a shit on both Gore and Edwards' doorstep, for their being "above the fray". They are indulging themselves a personal luxury that we cannot afford. And the bottom line is that it's helping the republicans.
i actually think that gore and edwards have done the right thing. were they to endorse at this stage of the game and the nominee was not the one they endorsed their support of the eventual nominee would be diminished as just toeing the party line.
once the process of primary is finished i expect that both of them will be there with everyone else bringing the damn damn down around mcCain's head.
It brought tears to my eyes last night. I was imagining his victory speech on Nov. 4, 2008.
"he sounded positively presidential"
That's because he doesn't have to pretend he's running for the nomination against Hillary anymore. He's running for President against McCain.
I get that. You get that. From the piss-like stink of his desparation, even Rush Limbaugh gets that. If only Hillary and her supporters could figure that out ...
"Except, I would like to hang a shit on both Gore and Edwards' doorstep, for their being "above the fray". They are indulging themselves a personal luxury that we cannot afford."
Although I've been impatient with Gore and Edwards, I tend to agree with Minstrel H. Boy. They've been held in reserve by Dean to deliver the coup de grace. It's now Hillary's choice as to whether they endorse Obama before she concedes ("humiliations galore") or after. And the clock is now ticking toward Dean's June 1st deadline.
"...the piss-like stink of his desperation..."
Man, we got some wordsmiths on here.
:o)
And there's this, from the DellNewsPage:
http://apnews.myway.com//article.../
D90GT09G0.html
With the announcement at the bottom that George McGovern has switched from endorsing Hillary to endorsing Obama.
The consensus to end this is building.
The consensus to end this is building.
You'll see superdelegates endorse in dribs and drabs, such that a win in Oregon will put Obama over the top.
she will not go gracfully, its best to jsut ignore her now....don't feed the temper tantrum becasue the emoptinal 2 year old didn't get tehrer way, ignore them and they will fall in line.
The video-window didn't work for me, so I just used the URL, i.e., pasted it into a new tab - so don't spazz if it tells you it's "no longer available" because that's a fib.
He does indeed sound presidential.
Looks it too.
Things McCain just can't pull off.
That's going to loom large in the months to come, I think. Like it or lump it, image IS important in politics ... & the more the McMedia tries to give BHO a dose of their Deluxe Ugly Stick, the better his high-road image looks in contrast.
Just read a comment on MSN.com from a hardcore GOP supporter who'll stay home on voting-day: she won't dare vote for the evil D, but hasn't got the stomach to vote for McCain - & she's one of many. If Obama can get even %10 of these people to switch rather than sit, this thing is over.
"the more the McMedia tries to give BHO a dose of their Deluxe Ugly Stick, the better his high-road image looks in contrast."
The man knows his media judo. If these idiots want to keep coming at him with Wright, Obama will keep using the issue to show that his generation of Democrats is past the Reverend's old (as in OLD Man McSame) identity politics tactics. Again and again.
"If Obama can get even %10 of these people to switch rather than sit, this thing is over."
Sorry, jim, but that's yesterday's DLC thinking. Obama shouldn't waste time and energy trying to convert Republicans, even those who dislike McCain. Some Chaffee and Snow types may come to it on their own, but Obama should focus on building a grassroots Dem and liberal independent base rather than going for undecideds, fence-sitters and ideological conservatives of any stripe.
"she will not go gracfully, its best to jsut ignore her now..."
Hillary who? 
oh yeah!
snowed in by work/life, but loving the organic nature of our national stride into the future. could be it's happening the way it's supposed to, although good gracious I want it* to be done already!
*and by it, I mean the whole thing, the presidential incl.
I don't think Obama IS doing much to try to "convert" Republicans - I think the less doctrinaire ones are just flat-out disgusted by what their Glorious Leader & his Designated Surrogate have done & intend to do, & they're switching their votes accordingly. I also think what he's been doing the whole time already has a LOT of appeal to soft GOP-voters who've grown tired of dirty pool every 4 years - taking the high road & trying to bring both sides into a dialogue to solve the issues that really matter to ordinary people.
For all the rage-talk in the blogosphere about voting "R" if their candidate loses, who REALLY wants to go farther right in the Democratic Party in 2008, let alone all the way to McCain? The 15-25 percent I've read reeks to high heaven of campaign hyperbole. The ambivalent ex-GOP voters aren't just pouting in comments on blogs, they're actively joining & helping the Dems.
Also, they don't want to be seen to be backing a loser. In a stronger field, McCain wouldn't've stood a snowball's chance in hell. Remember, he was the first to get thrashed, after which he stayed in, on the gamble that his opponents might just get thrashed even worse ... & it payed off. A lot of them know he won't be running against Giuliani & Huckabee in the fall - he'll be facing a hungry & more energetic nominee eager to draw blood.
I think Obama may have crafted a few nasty little surprises for McCain, designed to drain even more votes away from the GOP in the fall, & do so without radically pissing off his own supporters. The guy is just too smart not to have something hidden away for the right moment - something both clean & deadly. He's already proven to be formidable at political jiu-jitsu, so his REAL knockout-punch very likely hasn't even landed yet.
The old guy is out of his depth if he has to face someone smart. He couldn't even beat Bush.
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moonglum -- I quoted your articles about flag etiquette in another blog (attributed), and someone wants to know where you got it. Can you give me more specifics?
thanks,
--Kim
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