This is Potomac Tuesday and Obama has done a decisive clean sweep of the three areas where elections were being held, Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Obama has a land slide victory in all three places. If this doesn't "send a message" to the Clinton campaign I don't know what will. If you look at a map, Obama has a solid block of states in the north and west part of the Country. Obama's momentum is growing every day. If they want to count Michigan, they at least should have put Obama's name on the ballot. As I hear it Hillary told the Obama camp it was silly to worry about just her name being on the ballot because they know it won't count. Of course Hillary is a congenital liar. She has to outright lies, misstatements in fact, in order to win an argument. She made up that story about Obama people keeping pro Hillary from the caucuses in Nevada. She also made numerous mis statements about the bills she voted on leading up to the Iraq War and what each vote meant. As we also say later in this blog she is still doing race baiting even now. People have learned a brand new word lately, "Super-deligate". Randi Rhodes and I were hoping that perhaps if this were a brokered convention we could see something "historic" happening in our life times. Randi and I were both disabused of that notion in the past couple of days, when we see the lock the Clinton people have on the party apperatus. I imagine millions of independants and some disaffected republicans who thought of voting democratic, will not be voting democratic if Hillary carries through with what she is planning now. In the real world, she's lost eight elections in a row, with a likely two more losses next week. After Wisconsin neighbors Iowa and Illinois and Clinton has yet to win any state remotely in that part of the country. I don't know how she can go into Ohio and Texas with any remote idea that she will win victories in both of those large states. If Obama is the democratic candidate, I'm voting democratic. If Hillary is the candidate I'm voting for Mc Cain. It's just that simple. And I'll be joined by millions. I know the Clintons and what they are like. They don't have an altruistic bone in their bodies but are always looking out for number one. I have no doubt Hillary would rather be the Party's standard bearer- and lose to Mc Cain, than let Obama be the standard bearer and have the party win. Rush Limbaugh has Hillary pegged right. She has been waiting for this moment ever since 1992, if not longer. And she is going to fight like a rabid animal to prevent defeat from happening. I'd like to modify an oppinion I gave a few posts back. I am against the idea of mandentory medical insurance, if you have to go to a private insurer to get it. They're in the business of making money and when you look at the premiums you'd have to pay to get it, I'd much rather just not go to doctors and take my chances as people have been doing for thousands of years. As to that bit about people in Emergency rooms leeching off the system, they obviously haven't been to many hospitals. They have you fill out a million forms even if you're at death's door, and if they don't like what they see on the forms, you don't get service. Thom Hartman can talk all he wants to about "shared risks" but the most obvious "risk" that's a certainty is the risk to your pocket book. (Selah)
Thom Hartman today had one of these guys who says our liberal values are what are “provoked” the 9 – 11 attacks by Al Qaida. This would be a classic case if true of “blame the victim” like “she was wearing a provocative dress”. It is a war on values, but it’s between the 21st. century and the 12th. century. Apparently ten years ago when Al Qaida declared war on us it was because we had troops in Saudi Arabia, even though we were doing it to protect them. Also they wanted their “sacred” oil valued at a hundred dollars a barrel, which they have now. Apparently one Islamic cleric was incensed when he was over here when he learned they held square dances at churches.
It’s kind of a love fest among the republicans now. They’re all gathered around the camp fire singing “Kom Bai Yah”. Mc Cain and Huckibee now “understand each other” and there is no ill will Huckibee is still in the race. That Bowers guy from focus on the family has endorsed Mc Cain now. Overall they are doing everything they can to keep the far right fringe happy and like I say the President is in on the act. If the President speaks at the Republican convention, a lot of people will vote democratic. Thom Hartman was saying this was something the Republicans absolutely would not do. Nobody likes Bush, not even his beloved conservatives. Indeed, the republican will truely be "drinking the Kool-Aid if they turn to our President.
It’s kind of funny how the media is “spinning” this triple primary today. Hillary knows they’re going to lose all three racking up eight unanswered Obama victories in a row. Their whole thing is “Well, Texas and Ohio is where the “real” Americans are”. There is an obvious Obama tide rising and this scares Hillary, because if people discover that it’s occurring- - she will be out of ammunition in her political rhetoric. But Hillary is not the kind of woman to "go quietly" when she's been defeated. She'll drag down as many others as she can along with her.
That bill amendment (“Tel-Com" immunity provision) was voted down prohibiting the people from suing Utility Companies that give information to the government. In other words, the Senate favors protecting Tel-Coms by granting them blanket immunity so that John Q Citizen is denied access to the courts of our land to seek justice as would normally be his right. .In the Senate the amendment was voted down 67 to 33 or so. Of course as Hartman points out, the whole FISA bill sucks whether you can sue utility companies or not. The whole bill is a massive violation of our Civil Rights turning overseeing survailance from the justice department to the President himself and his henchmen. Obama has mentioned this bill in passing but neither candidate has discussed the bill at length, but they should.
THE FOLLOWING WAS TYPED MONDAY FEBRUARY 11th.
The Clinton campaign according to Randy Rhodes is still heavily engage in playing the racial card. They went after Blacks as long as they voted for Hillary but now that they are voting heavily for Obama, they could care less about courting Blacks. But they are spreading the roomer that Mexicans “never will vote for a black leader”, which is patently untrue. But even among Chicanos, Obama is gaining. Obama gains everywhere where he campaigns and all the “demographics” for Obama are going up and the figures for Hillary are going down. It looks like Obama is going to sweep the Potomac primary of Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC. It’s my guess that Obama will really “clean up” in Texas and get all sorts of deligates. It appears that we are headed into a brokered convention where the party bosses decide which one will win. But if it’s Clinton, there will be an unprecedented backlash of Blacks voting republican.
This is after dinner on Monday. Well you heard it just now. Diet drinks make you fat. This is right up there with vitamins give you cancer and personal disasters make you stronger. Someone should write all these down. How about “It is more blessed to give than to receive”. When I successfully borrow a cigarette I feel blessed. We had roast pork for dinner and Brenda gave me her portion. I felt blessed. Of course another adage is too much protein is bad for you. Turning the other cheek is a universal remedy for aggressors against you. Prayer takes your mind off your problems. Going to church helps put God in perspective in your life. Everybody should be encouraged to vote- even blithering idiots like Forrest Gump. Second hand smoke kills. Ethanol will cure the global warming problem. Diamond lanes should be abolished because “nobody” used them. Daylight Savings Time saves energy. People spend more time using pennies in commerce than they do in freeway traffic, waiting in lines, or waiting to see the doctor. Cholesterol drugs are the way to deal with high cholesterol. Unelected super-deligates are necessary to make sure the others vote right. If you hang on to a losing stock long enough it will “come back”. Term limits are the cure for government corruption. Don’t build more public transit because “Nobody uses it”. If you use the internet you will be sucked into a life of obsessive pornography addiction. If you never stick up for yourself your detractors will magically come to respect you in time. People who promote their own personal interests are somehow “Evil”. The profit motive is “ungodly”. If more people (or everybody) used medical insurance, medical costs would go down. You should never compare yourself to people around you. Women hate lusty and promiscuous men. Reality emanates from your own mind. Never pass judgement on whether you think anything is right or wrong. And above all, people, as much as possible should be separated from the consequences of their own actions.
I guess I could go on all day with those. There are so many absurdities that have made their way into common usage. Personally, my body knows the difference between a diet Coke and a regular Coke. And you know a diabetic will notice the difference.
Yahoo turned down Microsoft’s offer to buy them out because Yahoo says they’re worth forty dollars a share and that they are under-valued. I salute them. Microsoft does not need another area they can monopolize. Leo Le Port fears Flicker and other services might be altered or shut down if Microsoft takes over. Now Yahoo is thinking about connecting up with Google and letting Google take over their “search” services.
Obama won in four different sections of the country. He won in Washington State and in Nebraska and in Louisiana and in Maine. He’s leading in all three “states” in the Potomac primaries on Tuesday. Phyllis Green says she likes Obama even though she is a Christian. I have been rooting for Huckibee to win his states because I’m already getting tired of seeing and hearing from Mc Cain. Now President Bush has taken to defending Mc Cain in saying he’s a true blue conservative. Mc Cain has also “clarified” his stance on conservative issues. I don’t think the Republican standard bearer needs a man who is 32% in popularity ratings to vouch for his character. Mc Cain seems to want to do anything to slavishly appease the far right and to hell with this vast number of people in the political center. It’s kind of like I was writing a letter to our church pastor twenty years ago saying all the members were either under twelve or over sixty, and the entire middle generation, my generation was just blown off. I don’t see why political candidates want to dismiss the vast number of Americans not on the political fringes. I believe Obama is in a better position to bridge this gap than is Mc Cain. Obama only picked up 72 delegates in last weekend’s victories. That isn’t going to help him much with the super delegates breathing down his neck. If Hillary wins the nomination because people are pulling strings in the back rooms a lot of the people from the political center are going to cry “fowl”. Clinton fired her campaign manager and how has another woman in the post. It’s Maggie Williams, who used to be Bill’s Chief of Staff, associated with taking Vince foster files out of his office before his untimely death. .So I’m wondering, “Are dirty tricks in or out now?”
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