“When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin … Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, you’re not supposed to be there because … of the color of your skin.” ~ Clarence Thomas
The final results are far from in, but Hillary won the West Virginia primary and by a 2 to 1 margin according to the exit polls (which could be wrong, but I doubt it).
What does that mean? Not much really, since Obama is going to be the nominee no matter what, but it is important to note that as West Virginia goes tonight, so go all of the “gun-toting, God-clinging, working-class” states in November, including Obama-loving North Carolina. States any Democrat needs to win. Especially West Virginia since no one has been elected president without winning West Virginia since 1916.
Good for McCain, bad for Obama and the Democrats, especially since there is a good chance they may have a very contested convention right before the election. Add in the number of Hillary-supporters who say they will not vote for Obama should he be nominated - 38% I read, although it will be much lower come November - and it’s looking tough for Barry and the Dems.
Still, anything can happen and it is an uphill road for McCain and the Republicans this year, but it’s far from a done deal either way.
UPDATE:
As reported here, some liberals are saying it’s about race. Not true, but as the report says, calling people who aren’t that sure about you in the first place racists sure isn’t going to win them over.
UPDATE:
Hillary 67% Barry 26%
Damn, that has to give the super-delegates pause. But only a short one because like I have said before, Obama is the guy no matter what because the party leaders and the liberal media elite have made their decision. White liberal guilt and the real fear of alienating their black base will keep them on this track regardless of how poorly he might do in the general.
Still, it’s a long way to the general and all sorts of things can happen. Barry could stumble and Hillary could be the go-to gal. McCain could keep alienating his own base and the Ron Paul/Bob Barr nutso coalition could cause additional damage to the GOP. Even Gore could pop in and say, “Remember me?”
Sixty-four percent of Democrats want Hillary to stay in the race. And if that isn’t interesting enough 42% of Obama backers want her to stay as well. There seems to be a disconnect here between the Democrat leadership/liberal media and the rank and file of the party.
If I were Hillary and I knew I was going to blow Barry away in West Virginia and Kentucky I would keep running too.
The other interesting thing is a lot of rank and file Dems, including blacks, want her to be the VP. I can’t see her taking it though. I don’t think she would be good as a irrelevant second-banana. Actually, she’d be a third-banana behind the delicate little flower, Michelle.
Can you imagine that dynamic? It’s hard enough to deal with one woman, but two at the same time? I have always had the impression that Michelle is the stronger one in that relationship and I can only imagine the fireworks between her and Hillary, or at least the fireworks between her and Barry when she doesn’t like Hillary’s influence on him (if there is any at all).
Am I being sexist by saying, “Meowwww, cat fight?”
No, I think Hillary will take this to the convention and, if she loses, tell her backers to support Obama, maybe even campaign for him a bit, and then return to the Senate to take the lead on some issues in order to rehabilitate her name and maybe try again later. Since Obama’s presidency would probably be much like Carter’s she has a chance and she knows it.
I had dinner this evening with a very liberal friend who is firmly in the Hillary camp and when I asked who she would vote for should Obama win the nomination she quickly said, “McCain.” When I asked her why, she said, “Obama is just a good speech and nothing more.”
Take that for what it is worth, but one has to wonder how many Hillary supporters feel the same way.
Obama kicked Hillary’s butt in North Carolina. No surprise really with him winning over 90% of the black vote in a state with about 38% black voters. Lots of under-30s voted for him too - or the naivete of youth - but he lost big with working-class whites, including many of the working-class white males he had done well with in the past.
End result of North Carolina? Not much past probably winning him the nomination which he pretty much had sewn-up anyway. The Democrats will not carry North Carolina in the general nor will his monolithic black support help him much either, since blacks vote Democrat anyway.
Now on to Indiana. Hillary won, but barely, owing a big part of that slim percentage to the 91% black vote Obama captured. Again, Obama probably had the nomination sewn-up already so all this does is give Hillary pause about going on past Kentucky and West Virginia - both states she will win easily - and onto the convention. Again, the Dems will not win Indiana in the general and the same thing applies to the black vote there as it does everywhere.
And neither contest factors in the pissed-off Hillary supporters who have said they will vote for McCain over Obama - close to 40% in Indiana. A trend that will probably flow through all the states during the general although there will be some mending of fences between the two camps, of course.
All good news for McCain when you think on it, but there doesn’t seem to be enough Democrats thinking on it.
Bad for them, good for McCain.
So, all eyes are on Hillary. Will she stay or will she go. I hope she stays (and I think she will, but who knows) because watching the Dems tear themselves up is quite amusing and telling. Also, I can’t stand Obama so I do still hold some small hope he won’t be the nominee. Why, you ask, when his and her policies are pretty much the same - they’re both socialists after all.
Well, because Obama and his mentor Reverend Wright have done great damage to race relations in this country since he started running and I simply cannot fathom the increased damage he will cause during the general election. I would hate to see an election fought along racial lines (it already is as these primaries show), but frankly I don’t see how it will not be done that way. And it certainly won’t be McCain doing it; it will be Obama and his supporters who will call every attack on his policies and character and judgment a racial attack. And it will be because of continued stupid statements from the likes of Reverend Wright and the ever bitter and miserable Michelle “I had to pay back my school loans to Princeton and I am still pissed about it” Obama. It’s inevitable. There’s a whole deck of race cards just waiting to be laid out.
I could be wrong. I hope I am.
But I’m not.
QUICK UPDATE:
Here’s something interesting that sort of fits into my race card prediction above:
Question: Will white voters vote for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama in the fall?
Answer: Some will, but I predict most won’t. It’s not his race. It’s his politics. No Democratic presidential candidate has received a majority of the white vote since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. In fact, only 3 have since the Civil War (Samuel Tilden in 1876, Franklin Roosevelt 4 times and LBJ). I doubt Obama will. Of course, racism — or “fear-mongering” — will be blamed.
STILL ANOTHER UPDATE ON THE RACIAL DIVIDE:
At The Campaign Spot where they list a nice little group of media-types talking about whites not voting for him because he is black and, of course, not because of his lack of character, poor judgment or his socialist policies.
I don’t know whether they are trying to shame white voters into voting for him or simply preparing their excuses for a loss in the general election. Either way, it is only going to get worse.
Late last night. My two flights back from New Jersey were just as uneventful and timely as the ones going up there, so I don’t really have any complaints. Northwest did a good job or I got very lucky. Either way, kudos to them for making the trip as painless as air travel can be. It was a very busy week and I am a little tired from the training, which was mostly field work and just a little class time.
I’m too old for this stuff I think.
I know.
I’ve paid very little attention to current events or politics this past week. It was quite nice, actually, but I do feel like I am very behind on my reading. Hillary won a big primary, pretty much insuring that she will take the fight all the way to the convention.
Good.
I can’t wait to watch the fireworks.
Obama continues his chameleon campaign, changing colors and his website links as fast as people can find the anti-semitism terrorist-supporting messages in them. Will the media ever notice? Probably not.
I did catch something on the news about a food shortage. The media is all over it pushing panic, of course. I don’t believe a word of it. Neither should you.
I guess I am now both a Global Warming Denier and a Global Food-Shortage Denier.
Cool.
Did I mention my nice two and a half hour chat with the 23 year old very cute, very sweet, very classy Southern-belle blonde from Louisiana who was on her way to New York City? No? How silly of me. Well, it’s a long story - too long for here - but let’s just say I had a great time and never once opened my book or turned on my portable DVD player. And just so you know, I gave her several opportunities to ignore me and sleep or read or just look out the window, but she declined and just kept on chatting. No doubt in awe of the awesomeness of me.
My lawn is up to my knees. Almost. And it is raining so I won’t get to mow it until it gets even higher. Sigh. It’s also cold here today. What the hell? And they opened out pool while I was gone, too.
Did any of you watch the John Adams series on HBO? I did. Fantastic film-making. I also picked-up a copy of the book** while sitting around the airport. Check both out.
Okay, well, that’s it for the moment. Things to do.
BTW, this is an old picture but it is what I do when I am in training. Like I said, I am too old for this.
2. And speaking of higher education - - I’m a big zombie fan, but let me tell you, if I found out my sons were wasting their time, and my money, on crap like this while in college, they’d be flipping burgers for a living in a heartbeat.
3. They are calling for a draft. The left that is. Since the beginning of the Iraq War is has always been the Democrats calling for a draft. The military doesn’t want one. Nor does the GOP. Why you ask? Because you can’t have a anti-war movement of any consequence unless you are forcing people to fight it. We aren’t. Our guys and gals want to defend their country, and that pisses off those who want to retreat.
Did you watch the Democratic debate last night? I did. Hillary won it. Obama looked weak to me, stumbling over his words, much on the defensive over his controversial relationships with former terrorists and racist pastors, his elitist comments about working-class Americans, his non-support, support of gun rights, and well, a half-dozen other things. Sure, Hillary was weak too, but Obama, he looked positively “Nixonish.” Did he shave?
Granted he will have time to hone his skills by the time he debates McCain - if he debates McCain - but he has had more than a few debates so he should have done better in my opinion. Then again, this was the first debate where I actually saw them hit with hard questions they way they should be. Charlie Gibson sounded positively conservative last night. And George Snufflelufagous was pretty good, too. I am sure neither of these two guys are friends of the left today.
But the real winner was McCain. Who, unless he has some big gaffe, is going to wipe the floor with either of these two.
Here’s a good analysis of the debate and the Democrat’s position at this point. I agree with much of it. And he’s right that they didn’t ask enough policy questions. Much Damn near all of the left is complainingwhining about that today.
But then again, these two don’t differ much on policy, so what was to ask? It’s electability that matters now - policy comes later in debates with McCain. And I think this debate very much brought valid questions Obama’s electability to the forefront.
UPDATE:
To steal a phrase from Glenn Reynolds, “They said if George Bush was elected free speech would be restricted. And they were right. Only it’s the left calling for it and right after Obama is elected president. Why how positively fascist of them.
If so, then I, for one, would welcome our new robot overlord. I really don’t need a new savior and I already have a woman telling me how to spend my money so what use is Hillary?
1. Like I’ve said before, global warming is still very much in dispute.
2. This appears to be more about the so-called housing crisis than anything else. What is disturbing to me is that Americans think it is government’s fault that people were stupid enough to buy more house than they could afford and that it is government’s responsibility to bail them out of their stupidity. Nonsense. Plus, what does “going in the wrong direction” mean exactly? Well, it means different things to different people. Had I been polled and asked that question I would have said yes because I think that our open-borders policy is the wrong direction. I think retreating from Iraq is the wrong direction. I think electing a Democrat as president is the wrong direction. So when you think about it, the question is meaningless as are the poll results.
3. Obama’s support softens. I’m not surprised. When people get to really know him they don’t like what they see as much. He’s still the nominee though. Because of his glamour and not his substance, of course. Mark my words, if elected he will have a Jimmy Carter presidency.
4. British Muslims would have killed thousands in major terrorist attack if not caught. The threat is real, folks.
5. Male rock fans vote Republican? So Led Zeppelin influenced me in more ways than I thought.
6. Sounds like a nice place to me. I do love Asian . . . food.
Barack Hussein Obama is the weaker candidate in the general election? Yep, I knew that. Which might make you wonder why I hit on him all the time, when Hillary would be the harder for McCain to beat.
The answer is simple. I believe the Dems are going to nominate him no matter how weak he would be in the general. They are dead set on “change” and are in love with this guy. Plus, they know that not nominating him would alienate the black voting block that they so terribly need to win any election.
So they would rather nominate him and lose, and in doing so keep the black vote in their pocket for the foreseeable future, rather than nominate the person who could win, and lose that vote. Which they would. Let’s face it, black Americans have overwhelmingly supported Obama and have all their hopes and dreams bet on him. He isn’t the nominee and you are going to have one pissed-off black voting block who will most probably just not vote at all.
So, since I know Obama is going to be the nominee, I hammering him over and over again to keep his faults - and there are many - out there. Because you know damn-well that the main stream media will not do it. Once he secures the nomination they will turn on McCain like a rabid pit-bull. But the common belief is that when people - moderate Dems and Independents - get to know Obama they will see he is a fake with no real workable policies except higher taxes and socialized everything and, once educated, they will turn to McCain.
So that’s why I keep obsessing over Obama. It’s for the children, don’t ya know.
This is hilarious, but unless you are familiar with the following two videos you will be lost. Soooo, watch the second video, then the third one, and then the one on top to get the joke. If you are familiar with the whole thing, just watch the first video. Obviously, it is quite vulgar, so if that bothers you skip this post.
2. If Obama is the nominee 28% of Hillary-supporting Dems will vote for McCain. That’s good news - for McCain. To be fair, 19% of Obama supporters would vote for McCain if Hillary is the nominee. Either way, McCain benefits which is a good thing.
3. Oops, Hillary’s pants are on fire. Those nasty videos get you every time. And speaking of videos, here’s a great one.
4. Just another funny video I found over at Groovy Vic’s place. The funny part starts at about the o.42 second point.
1. Oregon man says he is pregnant. I thought this was some big scientific breakthrough (or more probably a National Enquirer story) until I found out it was just a woman who had chest reconstruction and grew a beard.
2. Nancy Reagan is endorsing McCain. Good news for McCain which can only help his image with the Republican base. What with Obama and Hillary making fools of themselves, McCain is looking better and better.
3. Yeah, that’s what he says in public, but in private you just know da Pope and the Cardinals were exchanging high-fives and doing the baby-circle dance. Take that Mohammad.
5. If you do nothing else today, check out this video and have a good cry. Or at least tear-up like me.
6. And this woman differs from every woman on Earth in exactly what way?
7. Long story short - the Vets for Freedom were giving a presentation to some high school kids in Minnesota. The anti-American, anti-military members morons of the Democratic Underground and some equally suspect parents scared the wimpy principal into cancelling the presentation, so the local community showed up in force to welcome the Vets along with some good kids who skipped school to see them. Good on the community and the kids who skipped school. Shame on the DU, the complaining parents and the school officials who cowed down to this pressure.
