LETS PUT THIS BS TO BED

Can we please get rid of the new canard that has arisen -particularly in the wake of the PA primary (which has somehow ridiculously become the template for the state of the entire democratic campaign) that Barack Obama has a "problem" with "white, working class voters"?

If this is true then why did Obama win

Alaska
Colorado
Connecticut
Idaho
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Minnesota
Nebraska
North Dakota
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Wisconsin and
Wyoming?

(this list leaves out a few states mostly in the south that he has won but which have larger minority populations)

Just wondering. Is it just that Obama only has a problem with "white, working class voters" in the states where Clinton is favored to win? Or is it (heavens no!) simply more bullsh*t manufactured to keep the race more "interesting" for the media.

NAME THAT POLITICIAN

August 2nd, 2007:

"Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or nonuse of nuclear weapons," [politician] said. "Presidents since the Cold War have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace. And I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or nonuse of nuclear weapons."

April 22nd, 2008:

"[Iran's] use of nuclear weapons against Israel would provoke a nuclear response from the United States, which personally I believe would prevent it from happening. And that we would try to help the other countries that might be intimidated and bullied into submission by Iran because they were a nuclear power, avoid that fate by creating this new security umbrella."

and:

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran [if it attacked Israel]." "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them,"

...but that's not a blanket statement of course.

I'll give you a hint: it's neither John McCain nor Barack Obama.

WOW, IT FINALLY HAPPENED

I just knew that the Hillary campaign was saving something to dump today as the last message before the PA primary tomorrow. Here is the ad that is Hillary's last-ditch stand:


(YouTube video)

Is that what it's finally come to? Usameh Bin-Laden? She has to invoke Bin-Laden? How utterly tragic. Here's the woman who has been running for president unofficially for the last 8 years and officially for a year and a quarter. She had nearly instant frontrunner status that lasted for nearly a year but since Obama won Iowa has plunged so far and so fast that now in a desperate last convulsion of negativity she pulls the ultimate fearmongering card? Wow.

To be honest though I've been bagging on Hillary a lot lately I never really thought she'd go this far.

And hasn't she basically run out this "ready on day one" meme by now? She wasn't even ready on Super Tuesday. Her campaign is run into the ground and running at a deficit, she praises McCain over Obama, she says how honored she is to be in the race with Obama one day and the very next day is shaming him, and now she finally uses the same vile fear-mongering Rovian atacks that gave us an 8-year Bush presidency? Is that how she's ready?

At one time I actually thought that the democratic ticket would be strong no matter who was the nominee. The field of candidates seemed equally strong -particularly the top 3. How deluded that thought was. I used to say that she wasn't my favorite, but that if she was the nominee I'd proudly vote for her in November. Then after a few of her antics I said that I wouldn't prefer it, but that if she was the nominee I'd march in lockstep and vote for her as a loyal democrat. Then after more I said that "well I hope she's not the nominee but if she is I guess I'll hold my nose and vote for her" (though in private in a few brash rants I threatened to sit out the election in November but I didn't really mean it.)

Now I honestly don't know what I'll do if she somehow pulls it out. I have ranted nonstop about the fearmongering tactics of the Bush cabal and how there used to be something to the idea that there were some things that were worse than death. FDR said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, and I took him literally. For the last few years I've used this as my "signature line" in emails and online: "In slightly over 200 years we've gone from "Give me liberty or give me death" to "Give up your liberty or you'll die". BushCo have turned the country so into a bunch of simpering terror pansies and the discourse into the black and white McCarthy-ite "you're with us or with the terrorists" tripe that passes for politics that I have to restrain myself nightly from tossing my TV out the window just to try to find out what's going on in the world. How can I countenance a candidate from my own party that uses the same dog-whistle scaring tactics as the people I've despised for the last 8 years? How can I rationalize that enough to vote for them?

Here is what should be the Obama camp's next ad:


(YouTube video)

V.O. "I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message"

It's gotten so bad that one of the people responsible for bringing us the Bush years to begin with has come out for Obama.

I can only hope Pennsylvanians bring their garlic and holy water to the polls with them and put this woman to rest (politically speaking of course - can never be too careful on the "internets") for good. Otherwise I'll be in a serious funk until this thing's decided (and god forbid maybe afterward)