It is not schadenfreude, but sheer amusement at political cowardice, which causes me to recommend Sunday’s New York Times survey of Democratic superdelegates, who are growing increasingly nervous about the risks of a prolonged fight between Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama:
Over all, the interviews with these influential Democrats presents a portrait of a particularly exclusive political community in flux, looking for an exit strategy and hoping they will be relieved of making an excruciating decision that could lose them friends and supporters at home.
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The delegates said they hoped to avoid being portrayed as party elites overturning the will of Democratic voters. They spoke of having some power broker  the names mentioned included Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee; former Vice President Al Gore; and Speaker Nancy Pelosi  step in to forge a deal.
Although it is possible that Obama could narrowly secure the nomination by June 3 (including already “committed” superdelegates), it is also quite possible that neither candidate will have enough pledged delegates to secure the nomination, not to mention possible that Clinton could — with strong showings in remaining contests like Pennsylvania — lead in the popular vote. But rather than be portrayed as elites overturning the will of the voters, many superdelegates would prefer to have that will overturned by an even more elite group, rather than lose friends or votes in their states or districts.
(h/t Memeorandum.)
Update: Insta-lanche!
Democratic leadership is an oxymoron.
Well, let’s face it: the electoral college is out-moded… I mean, the popular vote an’ all is what should count… wait, what’s that? oh, right… well, rules and stuff, sure… but, erm… okay so this is what everyone has agreed to? oh. and what about the disenfranchised? florida and michigan? what’s that? oh, they agreed to that too? well, still… I mean every vote should count at least once. Shit… let’s go to court and have the judicial branch award the nomination… wait, I was against that. ah, fuck… what does this remind me of? I swear, it all seems vaguely familiar… what’s that you say? the republibushcheneynazihitlers don’t have anything to do with this mess? Are you sure? Can someone find me a way to blame Bush? Anyone?
I was going to say something about our antiquated electoral system.
why can’t we just resort to the popular vote ?
Super delegates, electoral college , what else is out there ?
But I see Enoc_Root already covered quite nicely that issue
I was going to say something about our antiquated electoral system.
why can’t we just resort to the popular vote ?
Because it is even more antiquated, and this government is not a democracy.
may be the popular vote is the old tool to decide the elections, I agree B.Moe,
but so far it is the best and fairest election system in the world…
Of course, nothing is ideal, but it sure beats any other artificial invention…
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Hmmmm.
What amuses me endlessly about this is that the Democratic Party’s actual written rules requires, in this sort of situation, cutting the number of delegates in half. Not eliminating them altogether.
erm… no one accused them of being quantitative geniuses…
Karl, i watched MTP.
my prediction is that O will be the nominee.
bilary’s 2006 returns are a time bomb for the general.
bill took 10mill in speakin engagements from places like UAE and Nigerian and 500mil in contributions to his presidential library from places like Saud.
that will absolutely kneecap them in the general against mccain.
the party wants to win.
Wright will be stale by november.
the attention span of the electorate is mighty short.
bilary will try to supress the identity of the contributors until securing the nom…if it goes to august….it will totally be in the forebrain of the electorate.
if bilary goes public now, they will loose the nom to O.
hobbson’s choice.
Is any body yet suggesting that Howard Dean should be shot? In his own fashion of burst management he has managed to take what should be a walkover for the Dems in the General and turned it into a political quagmire. All because the guy could raise money on the internet.
What a cluster f#*k, he said gleefully!.
Sashal: We are a republic which recognizes state’s rights, which is why the Electoral college exists. It requires the candidates to pimp themselves to individual state’s needs and desires in order to win votes. A popular vote marginalizes those states needs and desires (whether or not any of us think those needs and desires are legitimate or necessary) and causes the candidates to be the most generic they can be.
The system has its good and bad points but somehow we’ve manaqged to make it work for over two hundred years.
Power is always, in the end, about being responsible.
The Democrats never make it past that privilege fantasy.
I have maintained that the Democrats have been on life support since the ’92 elections. It took Foley and Mitchell and Perot to shiv Bush one out of the way, and the Clinton’s set the standard for unserious, end of history, corrupt politics as the acceptable norm for Dem executives.
Then came Gore and Kerry. You would think a serious party could cough up something better than the Tin Woodman and a Brahmin gigolo.
The continued presence of Dean at the DNC is conclusive evidence of institutional silliness. He was left there becuse the Clintons didn’t think they would need the DNC for the coronation.
Battles are funny things. The first casualty is usually the plan. Adults would be ready for that. This tells us all we need to know about what has become of the part of Jefferson.
“The delegates said they hoped to avoid being portrayed as party elites overturning the will of Democratic voters.”
Dudes & dudettes, that’s your entire raison d’être.
“The continued presence of Dean at the DNC is conclusive evidence of institutional silliness.”
I disagree, Tmj. Dean grabbed the reins in the name of the progs based upon the MoveOn/Soros purchase of the party. He and the progs developed and ran a very successful campaign in ’06 based upon the culture of corruption meme and his alliance with Andy Stern of the SEIU (commie to the core) has provided the “organization” which has allowed BHO to outperform Clinton in caucuses by an extraordinary degree. Toss in the utilization of Trippi’s methods for raising money and you have a formidable machine whose only defect is the pathetic nature of the candidate. Well, that and the fact that Progland is an idiotic utopian fantasy supported by short busers who think clapping for Tinkerbelle actually keeps her alive.
The progs will lose this round but they still have control of the party and Dean is their front man. That’s only silly in the sense that letting a five year old play with a live grenade is silly.
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may be the popular vote is the old tool to decide the elections, I agree B.Moe,
but so far it is the best and fairest election system in the world…
Of course, nothing is ideal, but it sure beats any other artificial invention…”
Except for the Electorial College.
sashal:
The popular vote is not “the old way”, in fact when the Republic was founded there was no popular vote for President and the Senate was appointed by respective State legislatures.
yup….say wat u like about the Founders, they were scholars.
plato wrote “…there are three forms of government…and these are their perversions….and the perversion of a republic is a democracy.”
the electoral college prevents one-man-one-vote which the Founders viewed as mob rule, and in invitation to demogougery.
Obama is the nominee I think cause superdelegates are pansies and they will want to be sure and contrive a profile in courageyness cause they have all that penis-envy for all those WHO WERE THERE in teh 60s and will want to address their own deep-seated feelings of inadequacy I think. It’s all very Spitzer at the end of the day.
But Wright is extremely relevant to the general and will percolate til November. The three most centralest rationales Obama has used are his experience – hah, just kidding…
1. his judgment … and 20+ years of kneeling in the hate whitey pews undercut that a lot…
2. his transcendent uniteyness … hating on white people is not only somewhat dividey but also scary…
3. his hopey radiance that will salvage America from international pariah status… but his own church that he gave tens of thousands of dollars to has worked hard to propagate the looniest anti-American meme … that we created AIDS, that we’re responsible for 9/11, that we get off on slaughtering innocent people…
It’s a lot cause of the third one that he’s pretty much a lock for the nomination I think. Superdelegates think that’s kinda hawt.
shall we make a bet feets?
i wager Wright will be a nonissue by November.
cross my palm with siiiiillllvaaahhh
ok – we can bet, but I think then a lot you’re accepting the constraint that Obama can’t much get his Jesus on in the general, and “I got me some Jesus” is pretty much his middle name I think.
#20
I totally agree. Rezco and the whole corrupt Illinois political machine will have been exposed to the national scene by then. But you just keep thinkin’.
– Neither Dem candidate is any longer viable, since neither faction will give in and support the other, without which neither stands a chance in the general. The Dems are already in the minority, which means they can only win with a reasonable crossover voting block, and onlt then if they hang onto to all the other diverse blocks. The “Rift”(tm), spells doom, and the super delegates will just throw kerocene on the fire, no matter which way they go.
– Isn’t diversity great!
I think positing Wright’s irrelevancy is also kinda perforce predicated on an idea that Democrats or their 527s won’t go negative on McCain.
Also, the Afrocentricism of the Obamas will a lot undermine the Dems and their media’s ability to dig up Katrina’s rotting corpse and put it on parade again. I’m sure Wright has had some really choice things to say about Katrina, you think? NPR has a lot invested in Katrina. Anderson Cooper, too. God I wish I had just a tenth of his shoes.
and “I got me some Jesus†is pretty much his middle name I think.
yeah that does make me uncomfortable, but it reassures some of the electorate.
like mccain an hagee reassures the theocons and lifewarriors and godbots.
always voting is the lesser eevul candidate.
i will vote mccain if bilary gets the nom.
rusty, the electorate will be sick of rezko by november.
bilary broke it too early.
haha!
Katrina is such a joke.
do u know wat FEMA actually built b4 Katrina?
mobile command centers and bunkers that were EMP resistant so we cud still have C4I in case of thermonuclearwar.
Katrina totally caught them with with their pants down.
they couldnt respond, no frickin way.
the dems made political hay out of that, rawr.
But nishi, that’s what you’re not seeing a lot I think. The good Reverend Wright more than relieves McCain of token shows of lifewarriorness and theopanderings… Religious people are sorta not going to want to validate God is sick of the shit and God damn America and Negro Jesus hates white people… It’s compelling enough I think all by itself for them to load up the family truckster and go vote and then maybe after stop for pancakes I think.
bilary’s slash and burn, one-day-at-a-time approach is basically a loozer strategy.
all she is doin is gettin all the skellies exposed in time for the public to loose interest.
while fightin tooth an nail to keep hers covered up.
the public attention span is very short for OUTRAGE!
i blame bad teachers in the public schools.
but feets….we only just past the ides of march.
longtime until november.
O scrapin Wright off his shoes sixways to sundown even now.
merica loves a penitent, dont they?
Well, Mr. Obama is sorta not very much being specific about what he’s doing penance for, cause he wasn’t in church that day he says.
For real though, it’s important to remember that you can’t think of Baracky as a normal politician cause he’s a newly registered brand. People don’t have him in their closets already. He’s not good ole comfy Baracky… he’s something new and people don’t really know him very well, but Reverend Wright has known him for over 20 years.
GO ILLINI !!!!!!!!!
Oprah thinks he’s spicy too.
sure feets.
w/e u say.
im off to Azeroth.
its double honor day in stormpike, ;)
l8r
Non Sequitur Alert: I was talking to my mom yesterday and asked if she’d heard about the tornado that hit Atlanta. She hadn’t. I started listing the buildings that got hit — CNN, Georgia Dome, etc. — and she interrupted me: “Any chance it got the Carter Center?” Sadly, no. But HA!
Well that was just dismissive, but have fun in the snow. It’s almost Easter you know. This’ll be the first Easter in over 20 years where Wright doesn’t do the sermon. Scattered pictures and all I guess.
It would have to be an incredible coincidence that Baracky was absent from service only on the days where Wright was preaching hate, division, conspracy theories. It would also have to be one hell of a coincidence that in 20 years, he never noticed any of that in his spritual advisor, his sermons, writings, books, videos. etc …
Nice catch Karl. That progressive tendency, taken to it’s logical conclusion, is often termed Dear Leader.
Let’s see, the Super Delegates, basically the party elite are feeling pressure because they may possibly make a decision that has consquences. Yep, that’s the Party I want running the Executive!
That’s just foolish. If you think the Christian right is comforted by McCain, you’re just not paying attention. And you’re also directly contradicting the notion upon which your prediction that McCain will pick Huckabee as his veep is predicated. IOW, you’re full of shit, again.
Do you really think anyone is buying a fucking iota of what you’re selling? Do you think anyone will? Why bother?
Gambling is haram, isn’t it?
#26
Nooo. That’s about when the indictments will start showing up. But if you’re savior is without sin, he has nothing to worry about.
The obvious candidates also have obvious drawbacks. Al Gore, for instance, has demonstrated loserdom to enough people that his judgment might be questioned. They need to find somebody who is philosophically compatible but comes from outside the system.
I nominate Fidel Castro. He’s at loose ends these days, and it’s nonstrenuous work that shouldn’t strain his dwindling physical capacity. Hugo would be better, but he’s probably busy these days, and the same for Mugabe.
Regards,
Ric
Sen. Obama’s problem is that he began his political career by basing it on the politics of grievance and resentment that Rev. Wright espoused. That works real well for a state run, or a run for US House or US Senate, but is not a sufficient base for a run for the White House.
To get the presidency you have to run from a broad base, not a narrow one as inner-city black resentment politics is. Rev. Wright is as self-limiting as Coleman Young was in Detroit; both could marshall sufficient votes to hold onto local power and influence state power, but it can not be scaled up for national politics, not for the one office that is a national office.
The parochial politics that Rev. Wright represents can not be used in a national election, they are too self-limiting. And that is the elemental problem for a black candidate. If he or she is to get national acceptance they can not accept those politics, but if they do not accept those politics then they do not get to the stepping stones of political power at the local or state level. My evidence is how politicians like Dr. Rice or Mr. Steele are treated.
The politics of Rev. Wright box in the national aspirations of a black candidate. It doesn’t hurt the Rev. Wrights’, they live a very good life; but any others who want to get further are frustrated by them.
The good thing to come out of this are the delegate votes Sen. Obama has received. A lot of the country wants to move beyond the politics of greivance and resentment, but the Rev. Wrights’ don’t want to; if a candidate can get recognition without kowtowing to those old politics, he or she would have a good chance. That would be the breakthrough, breaking that old machine and moving past it.
Gentlemen, ladies; nishi is a bigot, and you cannot reason her away from a position she did not reason herself into.
In fact, IIRC, nishi used to comment at Dean’s World, and after the pope gave his speech quoting a Byzantine Emperor, she blamed the pope for the death of that nun in Somalia; not those who actually shot a woman in the back. That tells me everything that I needed to know about nishi.
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and “I got me some Jesus†is pretty much his middle name I think.
yeah that does make me uncomfortable, but it reassures some of the electorate.
like mccain an hagee reassures the theocons and lifewarriors and godbots.”
You are one bigoted fuck, ain’t you?
“Comment by nishizonoshinji on 3/16 @ 12:00 pm #
Katrina totally caught them with with their pants down.
they couldnt respond, no frickin way.”
That, dear creature, is a lie.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/16 @ 1:26 pm #
That was purely coinkydink.
Great minds think alike and all that.
Ric Locke:
I disagree with your opinion that Dean “seized” anything. Dean inheritied the DNC by exactly the same process that the superdelegates of today hope to be relieved of the looming responsibility to actually go on record for one or the other candidate.
There’s that word again… responsibility. In the past, the title superdelegate has been mentioned contextually as an elite within the elite of the elite (sorry, had to remember back to the New York Times impartial coverage there) party. Dean ascended after Al lost – not lost because of chicanery in Florida or Supreme Court intrigue, but because after sitting as vice president for eight years of “Peace, Prosperity (a total vacuum of homeless people!), and the Greatest Economy Evah!” ™ – lost because he couldn’t even carry his own home state. To a yokel like Bush 2…
Nobody wanted the job, Ric. Don’t trust me, go back and look. The “success” of 2006 has positioned the Progressive Party to… embarrass themselves silly beginnning from the opening gavel of Pelosi’s first session. Campaign finance reform ala McCain Feingold favors the ascension of local candidates over national ones for exactly the same reason the Soviet command economy collapsed beneath the weightt of crappy tanks and an absence of toilet paper, toothpaste, and fresh fruit: elections are the ultimate market, and in the end more people vote defensively than those who vote for any high philosophical agenda. That brings us to what you said about the Prog rank and file:
“Well, that and the fact that Progland is an idiotic utopian fantasy supported by short busers who think clapping for Tinkerbelle actually keeps her alive.”
I am not equipped nor am I inclined to do a public records audit on which party has been more efficient in expending their campaign funds. Not in the manner of “offices won/dollars spent” but expressly “dollars raised/ overhead over calendar years”. Either party is going to make the United Way (possibly even the U.N.) look like efficient organizations, but with the bulk of “organization” funds entering the Dem’s coffers via Soros and other manipulators, I think the Reps have to come out orders of magnitude ahead on that count.
Dean didn’t engineer a victory based on dynamic, visionary leadership. The Dem playbook has not changed, neither in 2002 nor here in 2008: America sucks, policy disagreements between Left and Right are all due to teh hate and/or ignorance that is the defining characteristic of the White Power Elite…er, the Right. Gender/national origin/ethnicity trumps the outmoded, chauvinistic “citizen” model. The economy is a zero sum game, rigged in favor of evil capitalists yaddayaddayadda…
Dean held office over the same time period that saw the collapse of conservatism inside the national GOP. His organizational innovations are no more revolutionary than those steps taken by any business that desired to stay competitive in a linked/networked/webbed environment. And he was allowed to stay where he was because the Clintons’ assumed the collapse of the conservative movement in the G.O.P. would be enough for Hillary! to walk in to the Oval Office.
Dem elites never appreciate how big their negatives are; they usually operate in environments so far removed from “daily life” that they make most G.O.P’ers, even long seated incumbents, look like yeomen farmers.
Command economies fail when reality demands action.
Here’s one for the class:
1. Why hasn’t McCain even hinted at who his vice presidential nominee might be?
Think about it.
TmjUtah, if I were McCain I wouldn’t leap into picking a VP candidate yet either. Lots of time and let the Democratic contenders continue to rip each other apart. Plenty of time to do careful vetting, and choose which person is best to pull the party together and not be offensive to the rest of the country (Darth Cheney, anyone?).
Let them fight, raise cash, interview, act presidential. That would be what I would do, and I speculate that Sen. McCain is doing the same.
Rev. Wright preached against ‘middleclassness’. He didn’t say ‘don’t forget your roots, don’t forget where you came from when you rise up; help those who are still here to rise also’. He said ‘don’t become middleclass’. Mrs. Obama told people not to become educated, like she is.
If that wasn’t a call to conserve the old politics Rev. Wright espouses and that the Obamas’ have used in their rise, then I am a Dutchman.
(Nothing against the Dutch; I have Dutch relatives and I like them a lot – good people, fun people; and they aren’t bitter.)
Tmj, I enjoyed your rant, but it shouldn’t have been directed at me. I try to maintain some connection with the philosoph[y|ies] of campaigning, but the sort of nitty-gritty details you address aren’t really anything I care to think about, let alone address, in most cases.
To the extent I understand what you’re getting at, I agree. I will mention one other source of friction: the elite of the Democratic Party have been working, hard, to undermine the Reagan Coalition of social and fiscal conservatives. The avenue of attack, the wedge, is and has been to demonize social conservatives using attacks on Christianity, which most SCs espouse as a basis for their views. The problem with that is that it inevitably also attacks black churches as well, and that out-of-context BS like cherrypicking Hagee’s views for bad stuff leaves people like Wright wide open.
As for Dr. Dean, I know little about him. My former boss is a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat and wooly-headed leftist, and I’ve gone to a fundraiser or two with her. My only knowledge of Dean comes from the presentation of a fellow who was canvassing for support of the Good Doctor here in Texas in advance of the 2004 elections.
His name? John O’Neil. It’s a funny old world.
Regards,
Ric
@ # 20
shall we make a bet feets?
i wager Wright will be a nonissue by November.
Don’t take her up, hap. It’s a sucker bet because Himself will be a nonissue by November.
Here’s one for the class:
1. Why hasn’t McCain even hinted at who his vice presidential nominee might be?
I know the answer to this one…but I’m not supposed to tell.
Sorry.
I forgot to mention this.
I was talking to my son, Matt the Marine, this week.
He is currently down at Camp Lejuene in NC.
He said that he has not talked to one Marine who would be willing to vote for either Hillary or Obama.
He repeated that: not one Marine.
@ #26
rusty, the electorate will be sick of rezko by november
No, no, nanish.
Rezko is but a rung on an Illinois ladder the Feds have been climbing since 1992. The best is yet to come.
cross my palm with siiiiillllvaaahhh
Ok, here’s Operation Silver Shovel.
Example: my father, a Teamster as far back as I can remember, despises the Democrats.
Ric –
Always a pleasure!
I think that the Dems are burning powder to no avail going after social conservatives. Not nearly all of us are evangelicals, for one, and the reason that the G.O.P. got shellacked (beginning, sad to say) in 2006 is not because they remotely embody conservative priniciples anyway.
Conservative principles make republican democracy work for the greatest number of people. Period.
The Pelosi message was “We’re gonna take out the Bush/Conservative EVERYTHING!!!! RIGHT F*CKING NOW!!! … until they woke up with majorities.
Paralysis has protected us from the “short bus” crew so far… but the proposed Federal budgets read like a horror film pitch that Irwin Allen wouldn’t look at past page three.
1. We are running out of basis points for the Fed to give up to keep our economy from tanking.
2. There is the small matter of Islamic terror to deal with. (Note to government: When we can’t pay entitlements at home, we will have to find some cost efficient way other than building sewer plants and paving streets to convince Muslims that they are better off with Democracy. Yes, yes we can go to other tools.)
3. Our overseas creditors depend on our economy to function so they can keep theirs functioning. Watching our Democrats lay out how they are going to abandon all the Bush tax cuts plus lay new hits down on corporations is going to have pretty dramatic and immediate effects on tariffs and subsidies off both our shores, I am thinking.
4. I didn’t mention nationalizing the health industry, fining oil and pharma companies for being profitable, or the collapse of social security coming in 2015. It doesn’t matter; I’m not in any position to do shit about it, and the Democrats will pretend the same until the lights flicker and die.
But I say it won’t be Obama or Clinton in 2008. The disbelief that either of them are equipped for the duties of chief executive is too great to suspend. Whether or not the G.O.P. can get their heads out in time to do the heavy lifting… that’s one I don’t care to venture an opinion on.
Tmj,
You’re arguing with me – not Locke. “Grabbed the reins” implies dropped reins for the most part – not “seized”. Dean took over from Rolodex in ’05 after getting knocked out in Iowa in ’04. He had nothing that I am aware of to do with Gore in ’00 – he was still a rising boil on Vermont’s butt at that point.
Aside from that, I agree with your point re the progs. My apparently poorly made point is that the progs did run a successful propaganda campaign in ’06, aided in great part by the fact that a good bit of dirt stuck due to a lack of scruples on the part of a number of Congressmen. I regard that particular maneuver as a one off but my points concerning the strength of the Dean/SEIU coalition stand. The coalition will probably fail this time around because of the weakness of the candidate and the fact that the Reps don’t have many incumbents with great big bulls eyes on their backs.
Re the VP pick – it’s March. None of the potential picks are quite ripe yet.
Operation Silver Shovel for nonclickers.
One of the first rungs.
Of, “one of the most extensive corruption probes in Chicago history.”
@ #30
O scrapin Wright off his shoes sixways to sundown even now.
And with the twenty year thick treads on the soles of those shoes, he’ll finish by 2018.
November is a long time in politics. And that is undoubtedly what Mike Dukakis told himself when Al Gore beat him over the head with Willie Horton.
Rick –
Yep, my time line is poorly presented, agreed, where Dean is concerned. The point is that he floated into the job because there wasn’t anybody particularly interested in picking up the pieces after ol’ Ghengizzsss tanked against Bush2.
I agree with your use of the word “propaganda” in regards to how the Dems approached 2006 in that they indicted individuals as “conservative”… except that those individuals were busy spending money like drunken sailors, taking wide stances, or otherwise acting like D.C. hacks and not being conservative even for lip service.
Wait, the R’s didn’t have a prostitute scandal…let me check…
“One off” victory for the Deaniacs, yes. Because they picked up scraps where the big dogs stopped being big. Or some such analogy.
There’s no there THERE for the Left. Obama’s turning faster than a damp loaf of bread left out on the window sill and there’s not much Hillary! can do about her negatives. We need leadership, and these two aren’t running as anything beyond babysitters.
To #35: Why aren’t the Moonbats claiming that “God has Punished CNN” with that tornado?
Re #2, #3:
What’s the electoral college got to do with this? This isn’t the general election. Each party sets its own rules as to how to nominate its candidate.
If you are a Democrat, complain to the DNC to change the rules. If not, then it’s not your party, and not your problem.
The Democrat party is coming apart at the seams and they don’t even realize it. For over 40 years the party has been kowtowing to radical feminists,on the one hand and the ardent proponents of affirmative action ( who leave unsaid but believe, based on white guilt, that the black man or women isn’t good enough to compete on his owm merits so lets lower the bar for him/her “’cause they just can’y hack it”) on the other hand. And now this has come home to roost in the form of a woman whose only qualification for President is that she lived in the White House for 8 years(so did the pastry chef)and a black novice Senator, with even less qualifications, who three, years ago, was an unheard,indistinguishable,non-descript State senator. But because one is female and the other is black, this is what the Democrat party has presented to the American electorate as their possible choices for the most powerful office in the world.
If this weren’t for real, it would be laughable. But our national security and national interests at home and abroad are no laughing matter. We face major challenges and a lot of flowery talk about hope and change and “yes we can” crap is just that. Crap. The only reason Billary and Obama are where there are is because of race and gender and qualifications be damned. We cannot afford to take these two individuals seriously. One last thought– aside from their being totally without experince in ANY leadership or management roles, they are so left of center that they are the poster children for Jonas Golbergs ” Liberal Fascists”. Their political positions on many issues sound very much like fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. I remind you that the nazis and fascists were SOCIALISTS. The real differences between they and the communists were quite small. I recommend Goldbergs book and Richard Evans’, so far, two volume history of the Third Reich. history
Congrats, Karl, on the Instalaunche.
“I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” As true today as when Will Rogers first said it.
These clowns couldn’t organize a two-bottle milk route, and they want to run the country? Not a chance.
To those who say that Wright will be long forgotten by November…
The public makes an impression of a candidate based on many snapshots – in the end the specific pictures may have faded from memory, but the overall impression remains. IOW, the public is both stupider and yet still more perceptive than we give them credit for…
So – will they forget, or will they remember?? – the answer is – both.
Okay – on to other things.
The impression that is coalescing for the general public is:
Obama is basically a pansy, a shapeshifter, a screen on which other people project their dreams and behind which he hides – all ambition, charm and desire to be accepted (Bill without the oversized libido and machiavellian temperament)
Michelle, on the other hand is cold, hard, resentful, radicalized… (God – she is reminding me of Hillary without the knives that Hillary carries – the comparison is complete)
So as to which of the two couples will America choose? – Neither, thank God.
You speculators about why McCain is not publicly talking about his veep need to go out and get a life. He’s busy and not in a hurry. For my money, he would do well to pick a woman or a person of color. Someone who actually earned their berth – yeah, they’re out there….
Loving this – two people (and their spouses) slaughtering each other and we get to watch and eat our PBandJ’s….Hang out til Nov.
#8,
Multiplication by zero is easier than any other kind of multiplication.
– Yeh, but division is a lot better spectator sports.
Wright forgotten by November? Puh-leeze! Even if McCain stays above the fray, which he probably will, the 527s will have a field day with Wright/Obama commercials if Obama is the nominee. Once those start playing 24/7, the only places Obama will carry are Berkeley and a few other loony left enclaves. No decent American would vote for him at that point.
For all you folks who think the popular vote is what counts… I checked the United States Constitution, our Nation is a Representative Republic…and not a Popular Democracy. Hence, we have the need to be represented by elected officials. Otherwise, we have a Communal form of government called Socialism. I pledge my allegiance to the United States of America…God Bless Her, and to hell with those who stain her goodness.
“…political community in flux, looking for an exit strategy and hoping they will be relieved of making an excruciating decision that could lose them friends and supporters at home.”
What is particularly vexing about this observation is that is WHAT these people are PAID to DO! The Democratic SD’s are made up of the political class amongst governors, senators and other Illuminati. Their stock in trade is to make political decisons, for it they cannot then they have not fulfilled the fiduciary for which they were ‘hired’.
To be fearful, and ducking it, is par for the course and why this country is going to the dogs. Fire them all and lets get some new blood in there. And NO I am not talking about Obama. He’s been shown to be of the same mold of Hillary; just less experienced at it.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/03/notsosuperdelegates.cfm
I couldn’t say it any better.
:-) Mike
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