Hillary Clinton @ MindSay 
- First of all, I'd like to thank you for welcoming my pal, chatnoir to Mindsay. He is really interested in conversing with people about their political and world views. He says that he is more interested in the discourse than the actual posting of blogs, but being the
pushypersuasive person that I am, I keep trying to get him to realize that posting encourages discourse.
- Today is the day of the family meeting where my parents will officially announce they are getting divorced. *rolls eyes* . Have you ever wished you could just skip over certain aspects of your life? Geez us! My sister is planning on dodging the meeting. True to form, she will use the old avoidance technique. That strategy never worked for me because I was alway expected to do and put up with everything. It's the burden of the oldest female child isn't it?
- Ah yes, the good ol plant a diversion / divide and conquer strategy. Why do the Democrats always fall for this shit? John McCain is sure to win because A) We're so busy worrying about the words of someone NOT running for president. and B) Hillary Clinton supporters would rather vote for McCain out of spite than to vote for Obama if he gets the nomination and vice versa.
Pick up a copy of Sun Tzu's The Art of War Dummycrats! Duh! Get your heads out of your asses and wake the fuck up! However, I may be asking for too much. It's like watching a kid build a tower of blocks. No matter how many times you tell them they can't stack them that high, they keep doing it so you just sit and wait for the damn thing to collapse. If the Democrats lose the presidency this time, they only have themselves to blame.
- Poor Paula Abdul! Lawd have mercy! I think she may have an addiction to prescription drugs. If you noticed her performance on the video, "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow", she's hardly moving. It is a far cry from her "Straight Up" and "Forever Your Girl" days. I know she had some back problems, but how bad were they?
I think it is funny how Clinton (who wants to make any win seem big) and the media (who wants to cover the drama till the DNC) has portrayed it. Even though Obama has never been expected to do great in PA, and Clinton can't win big enough for it to matter later, this is THE big event according to the media.
When I estimated the outcome of the democratic primaries to May 20th (at which point I think no argument for Clinton staying in the race can be made), I believe I gave Clinton 95 of the 158 PA delegates (the others are superdelegates). This is probably more generous than most people have been, but I believe that she can pull that off in PA. It is pretty much everywhere else that I think she will fail to pull of a big win, and many of the remaining states she will "lose" to Obama.
Basically, today will once again decide nothing.
But it will be fun to watch.
UPDATE:
9:00pm
The first numbers are coming in, and Clinton is the projected winner. However, the margin is as of now much more narrow than I had predicted, and already they are saying that based on this, Hillary will probably go on.
I was looking over the numbers in Indiana and North Carolina, and I think that Obama is going to win more delegates there than I initially predicted as well, making this even more hopeless for Clinton. Combine that with her campaign being out of money... it isn't looking good. The question at this point is... will her win here get her more money?
Ok, so some people will accuse me of being a liberal-lefty-commie-pinko-immoral-nut bag for posting this, but so you know, Moore wrote something a little closer to the center this time (shock! awe!). I implore you to read this.
Why? Maybe an explanation of this photo:
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My Vote's for Obama (if I could vote) ...by Michael Moore
April 21st, 2008
Friends,
I don't get to vote for President this primary season. I live in Michigan. The party leaders (both here and in D.C.) couldn't get their act together, and thus our votes will not be counted.
So, if you live in Pennsylvania, can you do me a favor? Will you please cast my vote -- and yours -- on Tuesday for Senator Barack Obama?
I haven't spoken publicly 'til now as to who I would vote for, primarily for two reasons: 1) Who cares?; and 2) I (and most people I know) don't give a rat's ass whose name is on the ballot in November, as long as there's a picture of JFK and FDR riding a donkey at the top of the ballot, and the word "Democratic" next to the candidate's name.
Seriously, I know so many people who don't care if the name under the Big "D" is Dancer, Prancer, Clinton or Blitzen. It can be Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Barry Obama or the Dalai Lama.
Well, that sounded good last year, but over the past two months, the actions and words of Hillary Clinton have gone from being merely disappointing to downright disgusting. I guess the debate last week was the final straw. I've watched Senator Clinton and her husband play this game of appealing to the worst side of white people, but last Wednesday, when she hurled the name "Farrakhan" out of nowhere, well that's when the silly season came to an early end for me. She said the "F" word to scare white people, pure and simple. Of course, Obama has no connection to Farrakhan. But, according to Senator Clinton, Obama's pastor does -- AND the "church bulletin" once included a Los Angeles Times op-ed from some guy with Hamas! No, not the church bulletin!
This sleazy attempt to smear Obama was brilliantly explained the following night by Stephen Colbert. He pointed out that if Obama is supported by Ted Kennedy, who is Catholic, and the Catholic Church is led by a Pope who was in the Hitler Youth, that can mean only one thing: OBAMA LOVES HITLER!
Yes, Senator Clinton, that's how you sounded. Like you were nuts. Like you were a bigot stoking the fires of stupidity. How sad that I would ever have to write those words about you. You have devoted your life to good causes and good deeds. And now to throw it all away for an office you can't win unless you smear the black man so much that the superdelegates cry "Uncle (Tom)" and give it all to you.
But that can't happen. You cast your die when you voted to start this bloody war. When you did that you were like Moses who lost it for a moment and, because of that, was prohibited from entering the Promised Land.
How sad for a country that wanted to see the first woman elected to the White House. That day will come -- but it won't be you. We'll have to wait for the current Democratic governor of Kansas to run in 2016 (you read it here first!).
There are those who say Obama isn't ready, or he's voted wrong on this or that. But that's looking at the trees and not the forest. What we are witnessing is not just a candidate but a profound, massive public movement for change. My endorsement is more for Obama The Movement than it is for Obama the candidate.
That is not to take anything away from this exceptional man. But what's going on is bigger than him at this point, and that's a good thing for the country. Because, when he wins in November, that Obama Movement is going to have to stay alert and active. Corporate America is not going to give up their hold on our government just because we say so. President Obama is going to need a nation of millions to stand behind him.
I know some of you will say, 'Mike, what have the Democrats done to deserve our vote?' That's a damn good question. In November of '06, the country loudly sent a message that we wanted the war to end. Yet the Democrats have done nothing. So why should we be so eager to line up happily behind them?
I'll tell you why. Because I can't stand one more friggin' minute of this administration and the permanent, irreversible damage it has done to our people and to this world. I'm almost at the point where I don't care if the Democrats don't have a backbone or a kneebone or a thought in their dizzy little heads. Just as long as their name ain't "Bush" and the word "Republican" is not beside theirs on the ballot, then that's good enough for me.
I, like the majority of Americans, have been pummeled senseless for 8 long years. That's why I will join millions of citizens and stagger into the voting booth come November, like a boxer in the 12th round, all bloodied and bruised with one eye swollen shut, looking for the only thing that matters -- that big "D" on the ballot.
Don't get me wrong. I lost my rose-colored glasses a long time ago.
It's foolish to see the Democrats as anything but a nicer version of a party that exists to do the bidding of the corporate elite in this country.[Hey! That's sounds familiar!] Any endorsement of a Democrat must be done with this acknowledgement and a hope that one day we will have a party that'll represent the people first, and laws that allow that party an equal voice.
Finally, I want to say a word about the basic decency I have seen in Mr. Obama. Mrs. Clinton continues to throw the Rev. Wright up in his face as part of her mission to keep stoking the fears of White America. Every time she does this I shout at the TV, "Say it, Obama! Say that when she and her husband were having marital difficulties regarding Monica Lewinsky, who did she and Bill bring to the White House for 'spiritual counseling?' THE REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT!"
But no, Obama won't throw that at her. It wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be decent. She's been through enough hurt. And so he remains silent and takes the mud she throws in his face.
That's why the crowds who come to see him are so large. That's why he'll take us down a more decent path. That's why I would vote for him if Michigan were allowed to have an election.
But the question I keep hearing is... 'can he win? Can he win in November?' In the distance we hear the siren of the death train called the Straight Talk Express. We know it's possible to hear the words "President McCain" on January 20th. We know there are still many Americans who will never vote for a black man. Hillary knows it, too. She's counting on it.
Pennsylvania, the state that gave birth to this great country, has a chance to set things right. It has not had a moment to shine like this since 1787 when our Constitution was written there. In that Constitution, they wrote that a black man or woman was only "three fifths" human. On Tuesday, the good people of Pennsylvania have a chance for redemption.
Yours,
Michael Moore
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Can someone tell me why this picture hasn't made headlines on the news? Or at least Fox?
For reference, go watch these:
Now, I dislike Obama. I disagree with Obama. I think he will be bad for the country. He is a neofascist of sorts, and a misguided populist socialist at best. All that having been said, WTF, ABC?! This isn't news, it's pap and smear. This is what passes for coverage in this day and age?
Now, in all fairness, I don't watch TV news anymore for five reasons:
- CNN
- FOX
- ABC
- CBS
- NBC
Were the "moderators" running for president? There was no excuse for this, and it was far worse than I was originally led to believe. It's like the 1990's Clinton spin machine is firing on all cylinders. Wake up, PA.
NBC can't crash tech Chevy pick-ups. CBS can't avoid forged memos, and now ABC can't even run a DEBATE? Really? I'd be impressed by the level of incompetence, except that I can tell this was a Clinton Spin Machine inside job, and Obama walked right into it. Where did the anchors get hired from? I've heard better lies on a used-car lot. It's obvious that the big 3 aren't even trying anymore.
If it wasn't for T&A and idiot viewers, I guess there would be no more network news. As for me, I wouldn't miss it. Let dead tree and TV mediums die, and let us be rid of them. A pox on them all. If we continue to make decisions based on this sort of thing, we are well and truly screwed.
I'm not an Obama fan, and I can't say that enough, but I haven't seen someone trashed in such a dirty fashion by this Clinton outfit since Paula Jones. They even brought in George Stephanopolous back for a nostalgic touch. It was like a video version of the GOP smears on Ron Paul. Shame on you, HillBillary, for dragging us down into the swamp again.
Chelsea Clinton stopped traffic Friday night as she wandered the streets of Philadelphia on a gay bar crawl, winning rave reviews for both her politics and her appearance.
Led around the neighborhood by Gov. Ed Rendell, Chelsea was mobbed by local gays and lesbians, as she walked from one club to the next. They ran up to hug her, posed for pictures and certainly invaded her personal space.
“I grabbed her ass,” one young woman exclaimed to her friends after snapping a picture with her arm around the former first daughter.
“Chelsea, the gays love you!” one fan exclaimed, as she took the microphone at Bump, a restaurant and bar that was her first stop. “Oh, gosh, I don’t know if everybody loves me,” she responded. (Source)
No offense, but the days of "Queer Eye" are over after this. All this time, we're supposed to believe that gays have some genetic predisposition to good taste. Honestly, folks, is this "the face that launched a thousand ships?"
Yeah, I didn't think so. I wouldn't normally make comments about the kid, but she is being used as a public figure, and she isn't as cute as MSNBC and gay Philadelphians seem to believe.
Ed Rendell is stupid to pull this stunt in a PA city, but this is going to get bad press in PA's non-Philly LGBT circles, methinks. Further, this really proves that the Clintons will use this poor girl like a friggin' doormat if they have to. Tell me, who sends their daughter out to get paraded around a city?
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