joe the plumber saves the mccain campaign

over the weekend, both barack obama and john mccain sent themselves and each other up (as well as billary clinton) at a white tie affair in manhattan (see below).

peggy noonan of the wall street journal stepped up to give both mccain, and his much maligned running mate sarah palin, a backhanded compliment saying joe the plumber has done a better job of laying out the republican platform than the republican party.

the so-called joe factor. should not be overlooked. that mccain has been able to attach a visual image to barack obama’s taxation proposal has probably helped as well. reuters/cspan/zogby now show john mccain as being only 2.7 percentage points behind barack obama. which is a statistical tie. these numbers are reflected on gallup.com as well, for likely voters.

hillary clinton, failed DC bar, wants supreme court appointment

is this even possible? according to the ever reliable new york post, billary clinton are doing the bare minimum to get obama in the white house because mr. obama won’t guarantee that he’ll nominate hill to the supreme court. given that she has never served as a judge and failed the dc bar. what are the clintons thinking?

nancy pelosi voted for bank deregulation

nancy pelosi took the time to bash george w. bush prior to the vote on the $700B wall street bailout plan that was before the u.s. house of representatives today. in the video linked to above, she rails against ‘no regulation, no supervision, no discipline,’ presumably of the u.s. banking system and not the iraq war.

but the reality is this, nancy pelosi voted to repeal the glass-steagall act in 1999, which regulated the u.s. banking system as a response to the financial fallout of the great depression. glass-steagall stood the country in good stead for over 70 years.

the move toward bank deregulation and less supervision in the 1990s is believed by many to be at the heart of this global financial crisis. pelosi’s beloved bill clinton, whom she praised in her ill-timed speech, signed the damn thing. click here to see how pelosi voted on the financial modernization act which is described in the summary of the bill as: ‘an act to enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, and for other purposes.’ written by republican phil gramm, the bill got a lot of yeas. only a handful of democratic senators voted against it, including california’s barbara boxer and only one republican senator voted against it. while john mccain didn’t vote. joe biden voted yes. barack obama had the fortune of being in the illinois state senate at the time.

democrats only crossed 50% mark 2 times since FDR

is it any wonder that barack obama is struggling? the democratic party, on the national level has only crossed the 50% threshold 2 times since 1944. in 1992, bill clinton only got 43% of the vote. and in 1996, he took home but 49%.

these county by county maps of 1992 and 1996 show the voting patterns of the u.s., county by county, favors the republicans. the democrats dominate the cities while the republican party dominates the rural areas. unfortunately for the democrats, far more americans live in the burbs and countryside than live in the cities these days. the the bar graphs for 1996 show that the margin of difference between bob dole and clinton was ross perot, the third party candidate who peeled votes away from the republican party in 1992 as well.

chelsea clinton barbara streisand separated at birth

chelsea clinton, the kid who makes 200K plus slugging away at a hedge fund –which apparently has no qualms with giving her extended time off hopefully with pay, was in bloomington indiana today whooping it up with a bunch of people. indiana is the only place in the world where people are proud to be called hoosiers. during her speech, chelsea was asked about her mother’s bosnia-pinocchio moment. to which she basically replied, ‘i support my mom.’ maybe she meant as in old age. hillary claims she was sleep-deprived and misspoke. could it be possible that she was having a post-menopausal-senior moment? sinbad, where are you when we need you?

obama passport information breached state department

one report states that obama’s passport information was accessed 3 times since january. another one says twice. either way, gotta wonder. is this the clintons or bush? or just a temp trying to satisfy curiousity.

billary clinton campaign tactic reverend wright

so what’s hillary clinton’s campaign up to? well, tagging barack obama as a candidate only for one minority group while slowly slicing the others away. here’s how their doing in this time around. 1.) trot geraldine ferraro out and let her claim sexism is worse than racism and accuse the media of reverse racism 2.) edit 30 second loops out-of-context of a 2 hour sermon and then hand them around to the media 3.) get your friends at the wall street journal to write about it. 4.) trot bill clinton out to do the TV rounds to deny that he’s injected race into the whole campaign and so on and so on. then watch the white american vote get wedged from barack obama. that’s a bit whatdick morris thinks. and he ought to know, he used to work for the clintons. forgive the typos.

bbc gets it wrong on the u.s. election and billary clinton

this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7287595.stm
is a complete farce. the journalist only lists the popular vote for selective states and not all states. –all the states not listed were won by barack obama. she decides to include florida, votes which aren’t acknowledged by the party because the state broke party rules. but then doesn’t include michigan, which has the same problems.

pleeeeeze do some fact checking. i luv the bbc:-)

hillary saves the world with sinbad and sheryl crowe in bosnia

hillary’s foreign policy experience is detailed in the new issue of newsweek.

texas race obama ahead by 5 delegates

the texas primary still hasn’t been decided. the 2-step system has billary clinton winning the primary by 3 percentage points –but all the absentee ballots haven’t been counted. and obama at this point leads the caucus voting 56% to 44%. you can read more details here. at the moment, obama leads hillary by 5 delegates.

clinton sabotage obama campaign with eye on 2012

click here.

pledged delgates obama has led since january

don’t let billary clinton fool you. barack obama has led the delegate count since he won iowa. he won iowa by 8 points, lost new hampshire by 2 points. but in new hampshire, he picked up 1 less delegate than hillary. in the next race, nevada, although he lost the popular vote, he won nevada by 1 delegate.

after that there was the blow out in south carolina. super tuesday gave the 2 a bit of a draw, but obama won more states and won his states by larger margins than hillary.

what happened with california and obama’s lead. well the economist just thinks it’s the goofy pollsters. but california had early voting. so people started voting fully 1 month prior to the election when the perception was that hillary clinton would be the nominee. CA picking hillary is yet another sign that the western state is completely out of touch with the rest of the u.s.

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.

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.

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.

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.

billary in the gutter

last night, when hillary clinton pretended to win the florida primary –a state that has no delegates, she declared I am a gutter-ball bowler.

billary clinton self-reliant feminist pioneer?

the economist believes the long-term effect of bill clinton having taken over hillary rodham clinton’s campaign will most likely be damaging. “as she relies on her husband, she successfully undermines the most compelling arguments for her candidacy.” that she is a self-reliant, feminist pioneer. as borat might say, NOT.

thanks to the clintons, people from around the world are convinced the u.s. is the land of bigotry. an article in a highly respected german weekly news magazine highlights this.

thoughtful piece by washington post on political media

i like this media notes article by howart kurtz. he discusses in great detailhow the news media blew it chasing the candidates with the most money, like mitt romney and the highest name recognition, like billary.