Blowout!

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Obama is blown out in West Virginia.

Damn those racist West Virginia voters.

Donna Brazille, discussing what to do about FL & MI, insisting that the rules are THE RULES, period. While Howard Wolfson insists that voters are more important than rules.

Brazille will lose that argument every time and so will the democrats if they insist on it. Besides, didn't IA and NH both hold their primaries earlier than the day agreed to by the DNC? Were they penalized?

The likelihood of a repeat blowout in KY is high. Damn those racsist voters!

Of course the 90% of the AA vote going to Obama has nothing to do with race. Yeah, right and the moon really is made out of green cheese.

I love the way the media expects the Clinton supporters to make up and play nice for Obama after having been called six kinds of SOB, and worse, for many months now. Makes one wonder what world they are living in.

Hypocrisy

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Obama gets over 90% of black votes in IN & NC. Obama is a good campaigner.

Hillary gets 63% of the middle/working class white vote in IN & NC. Those whites are racist.

See anything wrong with that picture?

Hillary should quit and end the race.

That makes as much sense as the Giants quitting after the Patriots scored with 2:42 to go in the 4th quarter of the Super bowl. After all, there was no way they were going to go all the way downfield to score, was there?

I am so old that I actually remember when the nominee was decided upon at the convention and not on the first or second vote.

Obama will drag the party down to ignomious defeat much in the manner of McGovern (a war hero and a good and honorable man) did in 1972.

The Audacity of Whine, part 2.

Hillary wins in Pennsyvania and Obama and his supporters whine in return. She won because middle class whites are racist, or so they would have you believe. They see no racism in the fact that Obama garnered upwards of 90% of the black vote. Nope, that's just the result of good campaigning.

Is there a problem with Obama getting such high percentages of AA voters? Not at all because every ethnic group votes for their own when the first candidate comes along who has a chance to win the election, any election.

The Irish voted overwhelmingly for their first viable candidate for any office as did the Poles, Jews, Italians, etc.. But there is a problem with the Obama camp explaining their loss as a result of racism.

Obama lost because he comes across as a man who talks out of both sides of his mouth. He came across as weak in the debate. Mostly, though, he and his followers come across as rude, crude and totally lacking in class, as his repeated stealth one finger salute when mentioning Hillary on the stump. One expects such foolishness from a child but a grown man?

Should Hillary win in Indiana, regardless of the margin, West Virginia and Kentucky it will send a message that Obama has a problem "closing the deal" regardless of the outcome in North Carolina. Everyone needs to remember why the democrats invented super delegates in the first place. Hint: It wasn't to act as rubber stamps at the convention.

I and others have made a comparison between Obama in 2008 and McGovern in 1972. Such a comparison does not equate Obama with McGovern for George McGovern was a bona fide war hero and seasoned politician without any hint of scandal. Obama cannot claim the same. The comparison is made based on what I believe will happen should Obama be the nominee of the Democratic Party, as in 1972, 2008 will be a blowout of historic proportions with democrats once again finding themselves on the short end, the very short end, of the electoral count.

Big win for Obama?

GratisNet: "Wyoming caucuses deliver a big win for Obama. Or so the media and Obama spin miesters are saying this morning.

Let's examine the results, shall we? We have been told that the caucuses had 'record turnouts' and the facilities where they took place were not up to the task. First, Wyoming has some 59,000 registered democrats. Second, total turnout was 8,755 democrats.

Simple math tells us that total turnout was 14.8% of registered democrats. Now 14.8% may very well be a record turnout for Wyoming but 14.8% is in no way, shape or form a turnout to be proud of.

Oh yes, Obama's 5,378 votes represent 9.1% of registered democrats. Given the perspective of a reality based environment in Wyoming, the media reasoning behind the hoopla over the win seems a bit unfathomable."

The Audacity of Whine.

Hillary pulls off the wins she had to have and Obama and his supporters whine in return. That, and spin the loss so hard that they could be mistaken for a child's top.

All the controversy over delegate counts. Have you ever seen a God awful mess as the democrats have for their nominating process? I have a simple suggestion.

It takes electoral votes to win a presidential election, so why not have the number of each states delegates equal the number of electoral votes it is entitled to? Then, at any given time, a logical baseline would be available to check on the strength of the leader. Oh yes, winner take all rather than allocating delegates, which will avoid the current ridiculous scenario.

Each states delegates could be a multiple of their electoral votes so that as many party faithful as required can go to the convention.

I do not think that Obama is ready for the big time, witness his unease with the legitimate questions regarding Rezco, his Senate record, et al. If he cannot handle the tactics used by the Clinton campaign, what the hell is he going to do in the General Election?

At the risk of being called racist by Obamabots, McCain and the republicans will beat him like a rented mule.

The Politics of Hope?

From Yahoo News:

CHICAGO - Sen. Barack Obama predicted Wednesday that Republicans will

have a dump truck full of dirt to unload on Hillary Rodham Clinton if
the former first lady wins the Democratic presidential nomination,
and said he offers the party its best hope of winning the White House
this fall...

I suspect that the republicans are already drooling at the prospect of an Obama candidacy and not only from the racist viewpoint.

The man has no experience but he has, with this comment, proven that his "Audacity of Hope" should have been entitled, "The Audacity of Hype."

It goes without saying that the republicans will run a filthy campaign against whomever is the democratic nominee.

After eight years in the White House with Bill plus her time in the Senate, Hillary has shown that she can play hardball. On the other hand, even the most superficial criticism has Obama crying foul. Could it be that the image he has taken great pains to create is somewhat less than truthful? What skeletons lie in his closet?

The republicans will be sure to let us all know should he become the nominee.

Hillary does not excite me, John Edwards was my choice, but she stands head and shoulders over Obama whose main talent seems to be delivering speeches written by someone else.

Horserace!

With Hillary's New Hampshire win in the face of polls suggesting that she would be thumped and John Edwards' respectable showing comes the realization that the race for the democratic nomination is still very much up for grabs.

What can be seen is that Obama and Hillary are suddenly picking up the populist bent which keeps Edwards close to them in the quest for the prize.

What then to attribute the stunning result? How about the fact that when she showed a bit of her human side the day before when she succumbed, just a bit, to the stress caused by the pace of the campaign the major media all jumped on her as if she were an axe murderer?

She cannot win for losing with the clowns and talking heads that make up the media. When she displays no emotion they fault her for being uncaring yet when she slips and shows a bit of her human side they fault her for being weak, faking it or both.

In any event the real story of Iowa and New Hampshire, to my mind, has been the number of voters participating in the primaries. Turnout has been spectacular, which is a good thing and the fact that democrats are turning out in numbers roughly doubling that of republicans should tell us something.

To my mind, the disparity is a sign that independents have had enough of the disaster that is the Bush presidency and if the trend continues through to November, it will likely mean a democrat in the White House but more importantly, it will also likely mean a congressional sweep that will make 2006 look like small potatoes.

So hold on to your hats and hang on tight for this thing isn't over yet and for the first time in a long, long time we may have a convention where neither candidate has the votes required for the nomination.

That would not be a bad thing.

Veteran's Day

Remember.

"A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America', for an amount of 'up to, and including my life.'

That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it." - Author unknown.

Amen, brother!

Mukasey.

Judge Mukasey should not be confirmed as Attorney General. However, it is likely that he will be so let us hope for the best.

He would not say if the near drowning technique of enhanced interrogation known as waterboarding was torture and as such, illegal under either the Constitution, U.S.Code or international treaties of which we are a party. He did say that personally he was against such torture techniques, so perhaps there is hope.

Perhaps the pertinent question that should have been asked was if he intended to place the Constitution and the rule of law above loyalty to party or president, the oath of office, after all, requires exactly that. After the disastrous tenure of Alberto Gonzales, the country demands nothing less.

The Attorney General, while a political appointment of the occupant of the Oval Office, nonetheless has a duty, no, an obligation to place the Constitution and the law above all else, period. It has been said that Mukasey's judicial record has been mixed, so perhaps there is hope.

The events in Pakistan are an example of what may be in store for America, an emergency declaration, suspension of the constitution and Martial Law. I wonder if the American people would protest as boldly as the people of Pakistan seem to be doing to show their opposition to a dictator.

These are dangerous times for America and the world. There are some who would welcome a dictatorship here, they are what has been referred to as Bush's base, that 24%-30% of the people who see and will see nothing wrong with whatever excess or abomination he brings upon our nation.

The near drowning torture technique is merely the tip of the iceberg. The time has come to rein in the imperial presidency. The survival of the Rule of Law and the Constitutional government left us by The Founders requires it and Judge Mukasey might, just might, be the man who would step into the breach and tell the petulant, spoiled little bully in the White House, enough!

Time to remove both Bush & Cheney | Capitol Hill Blue

Time to remove both Bush & Cheney
October 8, 2007 - 6:27am.

These madmen must be driven from office

By DOUG THOMPSON

George W. Bush is an American Hitler. We can no longer deny that unpleasant reality and we must face the sad fact that the President of the United States is an international war criminal, a despot who sanctions torture and a madman who is nothing less than a mass murderer.

Impeachment of this criminal is no longer an option. It is a necessity. Bush, along with his partner in crime Dick Cheney, must be removed from office. They must be arrested and tried for their crimes and, upon conviction, they must be punished to the full extent of the law.

Time to remove both Bush & Cheney | Capitol Hill Blue

Doug Thompson nails it.

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Hypocrisy.

Moveon.org is lambasted over the Petraeus/Betray us ad. Pseudo comedian Rush Limbaugh says that returning iraq veterans who are against war are phoney soldiers and gets nary a mention from the msm.

What the episode does show is the depth of republican hypocrisy and proof positive that it is the conservative republican who is the phoney. Phoney, as in phoney patriot. Phoney, as in phoney supporter of the troops.Just when you think you have seen republicans, in general and conservatives, in particular, sink as low as they could possibly go, they demonstrate anew that they have yet to reach the bottom in their journey to total hypocrisy & dishonor.GratisNet

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Fear the truth.

Why is it that the Blogs on the right seem to have a problem with comments? I came across this conservative blog and, after having posted a few comments, the last of which posed some fairly simple questions for the blogger to answer in defense of his position regarding Bush's War on Iraq. I find that he has eliminated the comment option, which is a sure sign that his arguments cannot stand up to scrutiny.

His is not the only right wing blog that has no comments section. It seems that these bloggers are so insecure in their positions and so reluctant to engage in debate that they eliminate the one feature that makes blogging, on the left or on the right, so worthwhile. That is to engage in an interchange of ideas and most of all, to have the opportunity to back up their words with facts and thereby become part of the reality based environment but alas, they choose to remain in a fantasy world where they can pull "facts" out of the air and never face the requirement that made Missouri famous.

Getting rid of the garbage.

Gonzales resigns. Good riddance to bad, very bad, rubbish.

Now the dems need to seriously work at removing the remaining fetid trash of this filthy administration.

Neutralizing hate.

"The terrorists hate us for our freedom." -- George W. Bush.

That would certainly explain the assault on amendments 1, 4 & 6 by this, the most vile administration in the history of our nation. They are merely trying to eliminate that which the terrorists hate about us.

Ok, that was a joke. A tasteless joke but a joke nonetheless. The fact remains that we have the most lawless administration in the history of our nation with the presidency taking on the mantle of an emperor, choosing which laws to obey and which to ignore, all in the name of "protecting" us from terrorists.

The Attorney General, testifying before the congress, engages in a course of serial perjury and the congress does little more than wring their hands and issue meaningless warnings, which is bad enough but that is not the worst of the existing situation. To republicans, lying under oath is only very bad when lying about a consensual sex act between adults, while lying under oath, about the facts regarding the politicizing of the Justice Department is not a big deal.

The President decides that regardless of the laws enacted by the congress in accordance with the Constitution, he and he alone will decide which to follow and which to ignore. While a president failing to act IAW the law is a grave and present danger if that president happens to be a democrat, republicans of today do not feel that it is that big a deal if the president in question is a republican.

The congress, republicans and democrats alike, had best finally awaken to the grave danger their inaction and, at times, acquiesence in the face of the unamerican power grab and throttling of of the Bill of Rights by this administration of cowards and fools.

I fear we have come to a momentous fork in the road on the path to our future as a nation. One way leads to a renewed respect for the nation handed down to us by The Founders, with the liberty of the people restored by the healthy application of the checks and balances they put in place with the Constitution. The other path leads to the destruction of their dream of freedom for the people and of the shining light they created called The United States of America.

The terrorists don't hate us for our freedom. The terrorists don't hate us, the people. The terrorists hate George W. Bush and his band of neocon imperialists for what they have done, and continue to do, to their homelands.

Somewhere The Founders are surely weeping at what has become of their great experiment.

Enough!

An email I sent to Pelosi and Reid this morning.

May I tell you how disappointed I am with you and the rest of the democrats for allowing the deranged cretin in the White House even more latitude in violating our civil liberties? Suffice it to say that as of today, I no longer consider myself a democrat and will change my registration to Independent at my first opportunity.

You, and the rest of the democrats, are enablers of the first order and when our republic is destroyed by the psychopath at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, it will be you and your cohorts who will have made it possible.

Bush's colonoscopy.

Bush's colonoscopy went as planned, with a number of polyps being excised. Upon his emergence from the light sedative, hospital staff were somewhat perplexed by his behavior and so ordered a battery of tests, both psychological and physical.

Doctors were mildly surprised to learn that Bush's IQ dropped 5 points as a result of the procedure.

Iraqistan

Iraq is doing to us what Afghanistan did to the USSR. If we don't get out of Iraq, and soon, our army will be destroyed, our economy will be in shambles and, like the USSR in the late 80s, we will have become irrelevant. We shall be despised but we shall be irrelevant.

Such will be the legacy of George W. Bush and his band of bungling, incompetent and arrogant neocons.

Perhaps the one good thing that will come out of this disaster will be a democratic majority for another 40 years, but only if the democrats get their act together and listen to the people who put them back in control of congress.

If it takes stopping the funding to stop the war, then stop the funding. That is what the people elected democrats to do.

Stain

Much has been written and said about how much shame and ridicule the stain on The Blue Dress brought to The United States. I would suggest that whatever shame and ridicule associated with The Stain was directed at the reaction to it by those conservatives of virtue.

How much shame and ridicule has been caused by the current administration because of their arrogance, most especially after the events of 09-11-01, in dealing with the following?

How large a stain on the reputation of the United States was caused by the current administration abrogating the Kyoto Treaty because of its belief that Global Warming was a hoax? How much scorn has come our way because of this administration allowing faith based laymen the final say over reports dealing with global climatic research from scientists at NASA, NOAA, etc.?

In the immediate aftermath of 9-11, when virtually the entire planet was behind us, how long did it take for this administration with its attitude of hubris and contempt for any opinions but its own, to begin to reduce, dramatically, the number of countries willing to aid us in the effort to punish those responsible for 9-11? How large a stain did that represent?

Can the size of the stain on our honor, morality and ethics as a nation be imagined after this administration declaring that the Geneva Accords were quaint and outmoded possibly be quantified?

How large was the stain resulting from the unwarranted war in Iraq, a country with absolutely no connection to those responsible for 9-11 and with no means whatsoever to attack or otherwise harm us? The lies told in an attempt to justify the war brought a stain beyond measure upon the honor and integrity of the United States. The lies that continue to be told in an attempt to hide the stunning incompetence, unpreparedness and ineffectiveness in dealing with the growing insurgency, a result of the continuing occupation of Iraq has shown us to be something less than invincible much in the manner that the adventure of the USSR in Afghanistan during the 80s did for their reputation. How large the stain of our Iraq misadventure of preemptive war?

The list goes on. Renditions. Arrest and detention without charges or benefit of counsel. Torture as an interrogation technique. Widespread spying on American citizens, in direct violation of the laws and constitution. The attempted politicization of the Justice Department to an extent never seen in the United States, in fact only seen in despotic governments such as the old USSR and the much maligned Banana Republics, for example. Implementing measures designed to hold down voter turnout in areas with populations historically aligned with the Democratic Party.

Can the size of the stain caused by the assault upon our civil rights and the very foundations of our nation be even imagined? Can the amount of ridicule and disdain caused by the ignorance, hubris and incompetence of this administration be overstated?

The unfortunate lapse of judgement that produced the Blue Stained Dress pales to insignificance by the unrelenting assault on international order, our civil rights, on the very foundations of our nation by the petty, arrogant and incompetent members of this administration. Easily the most inept and corrupt group ever to have held the reins of power in the United States. Worst. Ever.

The Veto

This evening George W. Bush, with the stroke of his veto pen, delays funding for the troops in Iraq, funding allocated by the supplemental spending bill passed by democrats and republicans.

Let it be known that the only person interested in cutting funding is the coward who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The democrats should pounce on this like a cat on a bit of cheese!

The War

The congress will send the Iraq emergency-funding bill, with mandates for withdrawal, to the White House on Tuesday. Bush has said he will veto the bill. Let him, after which put the override to a vote and make the Republicans in the congress go on record as supporting the continuation of the bloodletting debacle in Iraq. When the override effort fails, as it will, enact the same bill and send it down Pennsylvania Avenue Again making much public questioning as to how a Bush veto is "supporting the troops" and who is truly responsible for the war funding emergency. Do this with each veto and sooner rather than later, the veto will be overridden because republicans will not wish to lose their congressional offices in November 2008.

If the republicans do not come around they risk doing to their party what they thought they were doing to the Democrats in 2002 & 2004, IE: driving the party towards extinction.

Bush will never accept the congress telling him "no" on anything, let alone Iraq. He is a spoiled, self centered child who has always gotten his way and when things didn't work out, as they have not his entire life, he could always rely on Poppy or Poppy's friends to come to his rescue and pick up the pieces.

His cousins have said,, that as a child playing games, when Bush found himself at a disadvantage he would change the rules so that he would come out on top. My question is, what changes to the rules (IE: The Constitutional form of government) is he planning now that it becomes increasingly obvious that with each passing day his disadvantage grows by leaps and bounds?

This, then, is the greatest danger to our republic. Not Iraq, not Iran, not Radical Islamists, not a global war on terror, not evens the misnamed Islamo-Fascism. No, the greatest danger to our republic sits in the Oval Office, a mentally unhinged George W. Bush, a man devoid of a sense of honesty, ethics or morality