Letters to the Editor
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Universally speaking
All true Obamabots know that arugula goes way better with a latte than with wheatgrass. Silly rabbit.
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No VP for Hillary Rodham Clinton
Barack Obama has to find someone who spoke against the Iraq war in 2002 as he did. This would contrast well with "endless war" John McCain and his VP.
Democrats in North Carolina and in Indiana too have my "Thank You! " tonight.
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Oregon primary should end this race.
Oblivion is a bit strong, but I do think she has little to no chance left anymore to win the nomination, but I do think it should end with Oregon and Kentucky, here's why.
We know that Obama is going to win Oregon and on the same night, Clinton for Kentucky. If she bows out now, Obama will lose West Virgina without her running, which might potentially look bad. So on Monday, the 19th the day before the Oregon/Kentucky primary Obama should get enough supers to his side to show he's about 2010 in delegates. He hasn't won the nomination but after he wins Oregon, he'll go over the 2025 mark. Clinton will win easy in Kentucky but she'll see she can't get the nomination anymore without a bitter fight between them at the convention, which I don't think she really wants anymore (see tonight's speech).
This scenario would allow Obama to win the nomination, which will happen anyway, but also allow Hillary to bow out with a win. She also won't have to spend much campaigning so she can spend some extra time getting some cash to pay off debts. Additionally, I think she's going to be playing nice for the next few weeks anyway because I think deep down she knows it will only do more to hurt her to keep going like she has. This will be great for dems because we can have two candidates taking shots at McCain and not at each other knowing what is inevitable. This also softens the split between the two groups of supporters and then when she has a win and he has a win that puts him over the top, we come together and things are good for fighting McCain.
If something like this doesn't happen, (ie she bows out sooner), then I just don't see how that's good for any of us anymore. We need to stop this fighting and take care of business with McCain. Why aren't we talking about his pastor? Why can't we engage him on Iraq and put him in the hot seat that he knows he'll only squirm in? Can't we hit him up on the economy and a gas tax idea that he doesn't even want to pay for except with more loans for China?
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Yes, oblivion
The DNC won't always be run by such a coward. Probably won't after November. And the next guy (or girl) probably won't be very happy about the damage done to the party in the last few months. So without the backing of the DNC it's sorry, Hillary, no more Senate seat for you. No VP, no presidential campaigns.
What's truly bizzare is how she keeps playing this as a democracy in action thing. As if staying in and hoping that the super delegates throw their votes your way has anything to do with democracy. Claiming victory in Florida when their was no real election here and our 2 most populous counties (which dictate every election) hated her husband with a passion and there is no reason at all to think we like her any better. And supposedly intelligent people support this.
The Democratic party is a bunch of fucking idiots. After beating the worst president in our history with a nearly unelectable candidate and having that victory stolen from them, what do they do? They find an even more unelectable candidate to run against him after 4 years of what we thought at the time was total disaster and lose. And now, when they have 2 candidates that actually are electable in spite of their race or gender because we now have a much better idea of what total disaster looks like, they let someone with no chance of winning to continue to run for no other reason than she wants to win at any cost. So they will, most likely, lose again.
Do they not understand what's at stake here? Do they really think we can survive 4 or 8 more years of what we've had for the last 7? Do they actually give a shit about the future of this country?
Hillary is crazy. She has started to make Bush look rational. Her threats against the Middle East are the definition of insanity. Her insistance on bashing Obama at every opportunity proves that she doesn't care about this country or it's people, she only cares about winning and power. Just like Bush.
If she was actually running on a platform, if she was presenting intelligent, well thought out reasons why she is the better candidate, the better leader, I could respect that. But that's not what she's doing. Her entire campaign now consists of proposals with no chance of succeeding, tax breaks that she can't implement, outrageous threats against sovereign nations, and cheap shots at her opponent.
If it comes down to a choice between her and McCain, what's the difference? What is there to choose from between them? If it comes down to that, I honestly don't know what I'm going to do. I can't vote for McCain, and I can't vote for Hillary.
Dark days ahead.
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Dems unite
I agree with all of you who are encouraging the two factions within our party to start thinking of reconciling. John McCain can be targeted on so many issues: his acceptance of Hagee, his stance towards Iran, and his recent conversion to all things Bush (e.g. tax cuts for millionaires, endless war, etc.) Even tonight he gave us another gift: he said he wanted a missile deterrence base set in Czechoslovakia... which hasn't existed as a country for 16 years.
I think we could possibly do very well in the fall.
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My prediction looks pretty good so far
I predicted a couple weeks ago that, given the current pledged delegate count, Obama would need another 80 superdelegates to win the nomination, as opposed to Clinton's 300 or so. It's looking like I'm pretty damn spot on tonight.
So, would any Clinton supporters like to chime in here and tell us exactly how she is going to get the remaining supers to go nearly 4-1 her way come convention time, after having lost the nomination by every metric available to us, including the popular vote, states won, and delegates won?
It's madness to contemplate. It won't happen. The race is over. Apparently even Shapiro is on the bandwagon now, when only yesterday, he was contemplating crazy, counter-rational what-ifs.
Well, the what ifs have left the building. The fat lady is way beyond clearing her throat, she's singing a rock aria.
I have no doubt that the Clinton "supporters" (read: right wing shills that won't actually vote for her in the GE, but love to wind up Obama supporters on Salon) will say the following:
"Neither candidate can get the pledged delegates necessary to win. The whole point of the superdelegates is to choose the most electable candidate, and Barack Hussein Obama couldn't win an election for dog catcher. Why do you Obama supporters try to change the rules all the time?"
So, when it inevitably comes up, the correct response is:
"How exactly is the most hated woman in America, who has lost the nomination, the states, and the popular vote, the most electable candidate? The Democrats didn't elect her for their own primary. They elected Obama. Also, why do you think the superdelegates are waiting to endorse someone? Do you think that they are all just trying to find some excuse to vote for Clinton? Or is the rational explanation that they're waiting for the election to be decided so that they won't pick the wrong horse? What possible convoluted fantasy can you concoct that has Hillary winning the Dem nomination?"
At least, that's what I'd say.