twittering

watch the presidential candidate as he twitters.

SNL the obama hillary debates

SNL season debut.

mike huckabee on SNL

europeans oscar sweep

a bunch of euros, namely, daniel day-lewis, madamoiselle coitllard, tilda swinton, and a spanish guy named javier, swept the acting category of the oscars. should americans be worried? no, i mean, _they_ voted for ‘em.

j. lo sells twins for 6 mill

why do magazines like people pay stars for photos of their kids? i mean, who really cares? i say this despite the fact that i luv j.lo and marc anthony.

527s in ohio and obama

so according to abc news a pro-hillary rodham clinton 527 (a group operating independently of a politician but spends an unlimited amount of dough) is planning on running a series of ads trying to convince voters in ohio and texas and any other state that will listen that politicians shouldn’t be eloquent. well, george w. bush surely isn’t. i guess that must mean something.

american presidents used to give good speeches. just look at old speeches from george washington, abraham lincoln, thomas jefferson, and ronald reagan. jimmy carter was a big snoozer. george h.w. bush was too. both of them only lasted 1 term.

the u.s. presidency is a weak position. the founding fathers intended it that way. the president can ’set’ policy. but congress doesn’t have to work with him if they don’t like him. and the only way to push anything through is to use the big schmooze. meaning, you’ve got to convince the american people and you also have to convince congress.

total collapse

was the 7.2 earthquake in indonesia a sign for obama? who knows. maybe it was more of a sign for billary clinton. obama won wisconsin by 17 points. and beat billary clinton among men by 29 points, according to abc news. in his home state of hawaii, he blew hillary away by 52 points.

governor of MA says okay for obama 2 quote him

video here

michelle obama

michelle obama talks with katie couric on cbs news.

the economist cover story obama

not only does the economist try to reinforce the podcast they did with bob kerrey (former senator from nebraska) by mentioning (seemingly off-handedly) that barack obama grew up in a muslim country yet not pointing out that he is christian, the article also. well, just rambles. apparently the journalist never bothered to look at obama’s website and actually read his policy issues. for shame. the magazine lost it’s “mo” a few years back when the old editor retired.

obamamania and momentum

obama has swept the last 8 primaries and caucuses. he’s got the big mo and he’s hoping billary clinton will
get their alamo.

so the clintons are trying to go back to the playbook they pulled out in january as billary sought to win the new hampshire primary after a crushing defeat in iowa. basically, they are trying to say ‘boy, obama sure does give good speeches, but where are the details.’

there was a good article in the new york observer about 8 months ago with michael dukakis. remember him? well, he famously lost a 17 point lead to george bush the elder back in 1988. his campaign stump speech, much like billary’s, focused on how qualified and confident he was. in retrospect, he and a lot of dems realize the reason he lost, gore lost, and kerry lost –all against week republican candidates, is because they didn’t know how to give a really good stump speech and get people all riled up. they focused too much on details. which of course is important. but when you’re packing a stadium of 20K, like obama, don’t you want to give them something to take home and talk about?? and if you want the minute details you can go to barack obama’s website.

but now that hillary has the

obama clinton delegate count

with 70 delegates at stake in maryland, 15 delegates at stake in washington dc, and 83 delegates at stake in virgina, barack obama swept the so-called potomac primary. winning 60% to 37% in maryland, 75% to 24% in dc and 64% to 35% in virginia.

obama has 1078 delegates to billary clinton’s 969. this is without superdelegates. which some news sites are counting, but should not because superdelegates, which consist of present and former democratic politicians and flunkies, such as DNC chairman, howard dean, can change their votes at anytime.

alan keyes and mike gravel

are we forgetting that these guys are still in the race? ron paul got 11% of the vote in some state recently. but i think he has served a key purpose during the election.

blackberry blackout

candian technology shows up what it’s made of with the great blackberry blackout.

hillary loans her campaign 5 mill

so let’s do the math. billary clinton has been in the senate for almost 8 years. as a senator, she earns $165K before taxes. if we multiply that by 7, well i just don’t get 5M. so where did the money come from? her book advance, which if i remember correctly was around 4M. but those numbers are always inflated and could’ve been more like 2M.but we all know that bill clinton earns between 200K and 300K giving speeches. but according to campaign finance law, he is only allowed to donate $2300 to his wife’s campaign. if i remember correctly, hillary and bill left the white house in 2001 with so many legal bills, they were effectively a step above poor white trash. sure does raise a lot of questions. and is also making some of hillary clinton’s donors nervous.

delegate count obama 589 clinton 551

here’s the state by state tracking by real clear politics. i’ve subtracted the superdelegates, because these numbers are fluid and can change from day to day.

the race in california, where billary clinton leads by about 300K votes with only 33% of precincts reporting, is not over. barack obama pulled out a come-from-behind win in Missouri, winning the state 49 to 48. obama won the majority of his states with wider margins than clinton. he also won across the country, with clinton having left a gaping whole in the mid-west.

early voting in california may have hurt obama. people started casting their ballots january 7.

chris rock robo call and predictions

my prediction is that obama takes CA, MA, CT, ND, IA, KS, MO, AL, GA, IL (of course), AZ, AK, HI. hope i got all the abbreviations right. haven’t thought about some of these states in ages. some by wide margins, some by narrow. i still think he has a chance in NJ. but who the hell knows.

you can listen to the chris rock robo call.

ethel kennedy endorses obama

the la times reports that ethel kennedy, widow of robert f. kennedy has endorsed barack obama. la opinion, the l.a. based spanish language newspaper with a readership of 500K has also endorsed obama.

urban dictionary definition of billary

there are 4 definitions for the term billary in the urban dictionary. definition one states, ‘former presisdent and mrs. (senator) clinton. a famous marriage of convenience seen as a unit, though bill’s unit may be elsewhere.