I voted!

arthursimone · Post by **arthursimone** » March 6th, 2008, 1:55 am

Jessica wrote:Holy Shit! My daughter got in the Statesman for her part in the Caucus.
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/ ... r_del.html
She is so cool!

that is pretty cool!
glad to see you there, gladder still knowing that one less of any of us would've given Clinton another delegate!

mpbrockman · Post by **mpbrockman** » March 6th, 2008, 3:14 am

shando wrote:And I know a lot of people think the ongoing nomination is bad for the Democrats.

I don't think the ongoing competition is a problem for the Dems. If anything, it will get more folks out to register Democrat.

What I see being a problem is the Michigan/Florida brouhaha in the works. If I were a McCain advisor, I'd be feeding him lines like "The Democrats can't even run a successful series of primaries, do you think they can run the United States government?"

Dean needs to get this one resolved as quickly and quietly as possible.

Miggy · Post by **Miggy** » May 3rd, 2008, 3:52 pm

LuBu McJohnson wrote: repeatedly, in 2008:
"It's ALL DOWN to South Carolina!"
"It's ALL DOWN to Super Tuesday"
"It's DO OR DIE in Texas/Ohio"
"It's DO OR DIE goin' DOWN in Pennsylvania"
"It's LIBERTY OR DEATH in Guam!"

Oh please, PLEASE GOD have them make a big deal about Guam.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080503/ap_ ... m_caucuses

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » May 3rd, 2008, 6:32 pm

earlier this year i was starting to believe that, for once in my life, the candidate of my choice would succeed. after all of this reverend wright business, i sense that obama's campaign has sustained a terrible blow. now scores of dumb americans are drawling to each other, "shoot, i ain't votin' for nobody whose pastor done said 'god damn america'."

hope?

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » May 4th, 2008, 2:34 am

The Brigadier wrote:earlier this year i was starting to believe that, for once in my life, the candidate of my choice would succeed. after all of this reverend wright business, i sense that obama's campaign has sustained a terrible blow. now scores of dumb americans are drawling to each other, "shoot, i ain't votin' for nobody whose pastor done said 'god damn america'."

hope?

Aaaaand I just found this:
Obama also did worse than Clinton among those less-educated voters when matched up against Republican candidate John McCain.
"It's the stuff about his preacher ... and the thing he said about Pennsylvania towns, how they turn to religion," Keith Wolfe, 41, a supermarket food stocker from Parkville, Md., said in a follow-up interview. "I don't think he'd be a really good leader."

here: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i2KQ ... AD90EH8800

shando · Post by **shando** » May 4th, 2008, 8:35 am

Be of good cheer, Mike.

The question is this: Have white Democrats soured on Obama? Apparently not. Although his unfavorable rating from the group is up five percentage points since last summer in polls conducted by The New York Times and CBS News, his favorable rating is up just as much.

On the other hand, black Democratsâ€™ opinion of Hillary Clinton has deteriorated substantially (her favorable rating among them is down 36 percentage points over the same period).

While a favorable opinion doesnâ€™t necessarily translate into a vote, this should still give the Clintons (and the superdelegates) pause. Electability cuts both ways.

Miggy · Post by **Miggy** » May 4th, 2008, 1:09 pm

shando wrote:Be of good cheer, Mike.

I'm always in good cheer, Shannon.

York99 · Post by **York99** » May 4th, 2008, 5:37 pm

I saw a speech by Michelle Obama from this past Friday. It cleared up who Obama is and what he stands for better than any other speech or debate I've seen so far.

Also, she's actually a better speaker than her husband. No kidding. It was pretty outstanding.

mpbrockman · Post by **mpbrockman** » May 4th, 2008, 6:23 pm

The Brigadier wrote:earlier this year i was starting to believe that, for once in my life, the candidate of my choice would succeed. after all of this reverend wright business, i sense that obama's campaign has sustained a terrible blow. now scores of dumb americans are drawling to each other, "shoot, i ain't votin' for nobody whose pastor done said 'god damn america'."

hope?

I must confess that on occasion this type of crap makes me question the whole "one person, one vote" idea. Or at least try to make the definition of "person" a little more stringent than "over 18 and breathing".

But even raising the idea that maybe we shouldn't be leaving our choice of leadership to the bottom half of the bell curve probably makes me an elitist, un-American f**kwad so I'll let it lie.

Oops...

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » May 4th, 2008, 6:29 pm

mpbrockman wrote:
The Brigadier wrote:earlier this year i was starting to believe that, for once in my life, the candidate of my choice would succeed. after all of this reverend wright business, i sense that obama's campaign has sustained a terrible blow. now scores of dumb americans are drawling to each other, "shoot, i ain't votin' for nobody whose pastor done said 'god damn america'."

hope?
I must confess that on occasion this type of crap makes me question the whole "one person, one vote" idea. Or at least try to make the definition of "person" a little more stringent than "over 18 and breathing".

But even raising the idea that maybe we shouldn't be leaving our choice of leadership to the bottom half of the bell curve probably makes me an elitist, un-American f**kwad so I'll let it lie.

Oops...

As he often does, Tom Tomorrow nails it this week:
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2008/04/28/tomo/

mpbrockman · Post by **mpbrockman** » May 5th, 2008, 3:00 am

Nice. Jon Stewart riffed on this last week as well saying something along the lines of wanting his president to be "embarrassingly superior" to him.

He suggested this guy.

I wonder if Talosians shoot whiskey, bowl or watch "The Hills" (whatever that is)?

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » May 7th, 2008, 10:37 am

The Brigadier wrote:earlier this year i was starting to believe that, for once in my life, the candidate of my choice would succeed. after all of this reverend wright business, i sense that obama's campaign has sustained a terrible blow. now scores of dumb americans are drawling to each other, "shoot, i ain't votin' for nobody whose pastor done said 'god damn america'."

hope?

okay, i'm back now. i gots the hope.

improvstitute · Post by **improvstitute** » May 7th, 2008, 6:43 pm

The Brigadier wrote:
The Brigadier wrote:earlier this year i was starting to believe that, for once in my life, the candidate of my choice would succeed. after all of this reverend wright business, i sense that obama's campaign has sustained a terrible blow. now scores of dumb americans are drawling to each other, "shoot, i ain't votin' for nobody whose pastor done said 'god damn america'."

hope?
okay, i'm back now. i gots the hope.

welcome back!!!