Letters to the Editor
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The sooner the better
Someone needs to put an end to this counterproductive infighting. Dean, love you, man, but you've really dropped the ball on this whole primary.
Still, I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary didn't find another stupid excuse to keep going. New numbers. New math. New goalposts. New reasons why the old numbers don't matter. Ugh.
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This I don't get...
Sources say "the senators don't want to pound Hillary Clinton, and there is a sense she should be given a grace period."
I can't think of anyone who needs a pounding more than Hillary. And what's so terrible about having the contest wrapped up on Tuesday evening as opposed to Friday noon?
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But...but..but...
The EmptySuit can't RoundUp a weed! His supporters are sooooooo mean and misogynistic. Waah. I'm going to vote for McCain. Y'all are loosers!!!! Good luck with that in November suckers!
There you go KateTex, Shawn, lolcait, Robot. Take the day off. We got you covered.
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What's that sound?
Why the sound of Joan Walsh's tears, of course!
GO-bama! GO-bama!
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A Gracious Exit?
"And what's so terrible about having the contest wrapped up on Tuesday evening as opposed to Friday noon?"
A couple of things come to mind:
1) It's probably a good idea not to let the superdelegates tip the scales before the voters have had their chance to weigh in. Deference to voters, many of whom are not at all comfortable with superdelegates anyway.
2) Give Clinton another chance to bow out with grace. It wouldn't kill Obama to wait until later in the week if his camp has any indications that Clinton plans to concede.
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Waiting for another Geraldine Ferraro story
Tell me it's not truw War Room, have we heard our last Geritol theater story in this primary season? Yes?
Good!
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Deaths in Iraq plunge, but will it last?
Wonder how THIS will affect the election??? Will it help Obama or Hillary???
U.S. military deaths plunged in May to the lowest monthly level in more than four years and civilian casualties were down sharply, too, as Iraqi forces assumed the lead in offensives in three cities and a truce with Shiite extremists took hold.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/31/AR2008053101082.html?nav=hcmodule
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Really like to have them come out today
Obama needs to win by the pledged delegates to have the story that makes his win seem better than by press release.
Oh well.
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In fact the biggest argument against HRC is...
The campaign. I mean complete mismanagement. Complete spin and playing games with the facts. Constant change of position just to win. The appearance of no real standards. First the primary doesn't count then it does. Completely self serving. No won took this nomination from her. The just out campaigned her.
HRC is the Kerry/Gore candidate. She is the DLC candidate. BO just out played her with a much weaker starting hand. I wish the HRC supporters would just come clean and admit she and her team blew it. No one took it from her they just did a better job.
Any votes from Florida or Michigan are a gift from Obama. It is just plain cheating and intellectual dishonestly to claim she cared before she was behind. If she had supported MI and FL before NH and IA she would have lost and lost bad.
Yes there is sexism out there. Yes there is racism out there. That is the field these two teams came to compete on. She fielded the wrong team.
We don't need another person who fields the wrong team in the white house.
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Well, Chief,
That certainly is good news about the drop in violence in Iraq. Never mind that we should never have been there in the first place. In any case, most Americans will be too busy dealing with the ripple effects of $4/gallon (maybe more by November) gasoline to pay much attention to Iraq. We haven't even begun to see the real fallout of skyrocketing fuel prices.
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Well Pony,
"That certainly is good news about the drop in violence in Iraq. Never mind that we should never have been there in the first place. In any case, most Americans will be too busy dealing with the ripple effects of $4/gallon (maybe more by November) gasoline to pay much attention to Iraq. We haven't even begun to see the real fallout of skyrocketing fuel prices."
It's irrelevant whether we should have been there or not...we're there now and we have to deal with that.
Oh and I agree the cost of gasoline is way too much...but if the war was for oil, then where is it? Seems to me if it WAS about oil, the price of gasoline would have dropped, wouldn't it? Maybe it WASN'T about the oil???
At any rate, the fact we apparently seem to be winning the war MAY affect which candidate will win the nomination...hence my question as to whether or not this would help either of them and which one.
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Songs from an overweight woman
None of the uncommitted delegates votes count until they cast them. By August, the emperor will have no clothes.......
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Violence Down?
"Month to month" or "year to year"? Seems like they always take the summer off and then come back hard for Ramadan. But since we bought off everyone - Sunni and Shiite alike - the results should be good.
But it does not even matter. McCain will claim it is good. If it gets worse, the GOP talking point will be that the ter'rist evildoers are tryiong to make us vote for Obama.
Oh, and as part of that get ready for the standard fake-terror alerts this summer and fall. Part of the GOP scare tactics for which these alerts were invented. I just hope the intern at the Dept of Homeland Defense does not hit my city with the dart when he throws it at the map.
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I hope he can declare tomorrow evening
I further hope Hillary will be gracious and give a good concession speech, rather than vowing to fight clear to the convention floor. If she's hinting that she will give the gracious speech, I hope it means the Clinton Campaign took a clear-eyed look at the likelihood of her winning, even now with Florida and Michigan delegates being included. Many good candidates have had to face defeat before her in the Presidential race. I'd like to be able to think well of Hillary again. A gracious end will go a long way toward that for me