Running Primaries Thread

Meanwhile, your weely Hibernian nucking futs-ery.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09dowd.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

I won't be...IGNORED!

 

OK, but when your bunny ends up boiling on the stove, don't come crying to me.

 

I thought that it was a dam funny column that in usual bitting way makes some very valid points. Love this line:
Hillary successfully recast herself in Ohio as a beer-drinking former waitress

and the money shot:

Obama’s multiculturalism is a selling point with many Democrats. But his impassioned egghead advisers have made his campaign seem not only out of his control, but effete and vaguely foreign — the same unflattering light that doomed Michael Dukakis and John Kerry.

 

Among the critters dancing in MoDo's sodden mind.

 

This line had me rolling...

"McCain must present a strategy to defeat the threat of radical Islam. He needs to call on the United States to rebuild its military infrastructure, so devastated by the Clinton administration."

 

You, not surprisingly, completely swung and missed again. We can argue all day about who terrorists would rather have in office -- the point is the statements, whether you think they are true or not, are NOT racist, no matter how many ways the politically correct whiners among us try to cast them as being just that.

The biggest issue the Republicans will face against either of these two candidates is this -- no matter how they choose to criticize them, some pinhead like Fenian Bastard or Tim Russert or Chris Matthews will find a way to paint said criticism as being either sexist or racist.

With these two candidates the victim card is alive and well and very much in play and this is just another example, as is the whole stink about a right-wing talk show host using the dudes LEGAL MIDDLE NAME......

 

Don't laugh -- Reagan was still blaming shit on Carter 7 and 8 years into his administration. Even Daddy Bush went back to that well a few times.

I just pray that if -- however it comes about -- a Democrat, be it HRC or Obama, becomes the president, s/he has the guts a couple months into the new administration, in some discussion of budget deficits, to say, "you know, much of this problem is really a result of shit which was started by the senile old imbecile Ronald Reagan. We'll be paying for that shit for the next 50 years -- never mind the shitload from Bush we'll have to dig out from under as well."

 

Well, nobody could possibly know what Obama is for now or was for then because based on his speeches he doesn't even know -- well unless you count hope and change and well more hope and more change and change and hope and you investing in America so America can invest in you......

Please be quiet and stop embarrassing yourself.

 

Let me guess, he was being a racist when he suggested that there is crime in inner cities here in America and he'd like to try and make neighborhoods safer.....

Stealing a line from the Worm in Rounders -- Fenian -- two words -- relaxation therapy.

I mean, even for you this one is a ridiculous stretch....

My God, I'm starting to get the feeling if McCain's only chance to win is to lace every speech with words like hope and change.....

 

And one other thing -- while we are blasting holes in the Clinton "we're really winning" strategy -- this thing about the popular vote is another load of crap that, predictably the media is buying into hook line and sinker....

You know the whole "if you count Michigan and Florida, Clinton is winning the popular vote by almost 30,000 votes...." crapola.

On its face -- yeah, that's true -- she is winning 13,614,581 to 13,584,182 if you count Michigan and Florida.

However, there is one problem with that -- OBAMA DIDN'T RUN IN MICHIGAN and barely ran in Florida.

Meaning -- If there is a do-over in both states I'm quite sure Hillary's margin of about 700,000 votes between these two states would evaporate considerable. I'm guessing, for instance, in Michigan alone -- where Hillary beats Obama by 328,000 votes as things are -- the margin would be closer to 100,000 votes (maybe less considering she only beat uncommitted by 90,000) and I'm guessing the margin in Florida would be more like 180,000 votes as opposed to 300,000 votes as it is right now.

So if there is a do-over, Obama would likely gain somewhere in the neighborhood of 280,000 votes -- which would mean he'd be up by about 250,000 in the popular vote count and that number figures to go even higher come Tuesday when he wins Mississippi by about 15 points. There is no way Hillary is going to catch him in this popular vote.

In other words, Obama is not only going to win the delegate count, he is going to win the total number of states count and he is going to win the popular vote, but yeah, I can see with good reason why Hillary is still being allowed to run around and act as if she is the one winning and she deserves consideration.

If she is the nominee under any circumstances given what Obama has and will have won it would be a far bigger crime than anything the Republicans did in 2000 and there is just no debating that.