This is it! As I’m writing this AP is reporting that Hillary will acknowledge tonight that Obama has the nomination.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_on_...2tLMY1sh1Gs0NUE
It’s time to become DEMOCRATS again.
Are you READY? I’m counting on it.
Hillary’s camp is deciding whether or not to appeal Michigan to the Credentials Committee. My best guess is that they will not.
National matchups between McCain and Obama has Obama beating grandpa (mostly) and this without our party being truly unified. WITH a UNIFIED DEMOCRATIC PARTY there is no stopping us.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/20...-225.html#chart
Let’s go get the White House!!
HOMEWORK
The House Majority Whip, Top Ranking African American in Congress endorses Obama
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24939927#24944393
Meanwhile 4 of the 17 Uncommitted Senators met last night and seem ready to give their vote to Obama with the remaining Senators likely to move toward Obama this week.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2...obama.html#more
Is it over yet?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24939927#24944352
Terry McAuliffe says "if you got the delegates put him up. When you get the number you get the number. We're still fighting until someone gets the number"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24939927#24944444
http://www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060300888.html
31 DELEGATES UP FOR GRABS TONIGHT IN MONTANA AND SOUTH DAKOTA
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/200...03/1099070.aspx
Here's what to watch for in South Dakota and Montana
South Dakota:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10784.html
Montana:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10785.html
All eyes will be on the XCEL Center in St. Paul tonight
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/us/polit...03campaign.html
Hillary's camp denies this is over
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/200...02/1097542.aspx
SCATHING ARTICLE IN VANITY FAIR ABOUT BILL CLINTON'S POST PRESIDENCY
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/feature...7/clinton200807
Bill Clinton calls Vanity Fair reporter a SLEAZY SLIMY SCUMBAG
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowl...l_b_104771.html
The NY Times leaves out the scumbag part, includes a Clinton apology
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/us/politics/03bill.html
Bill strikes back at Vanity Fair
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/060...anity_Fair.html
MCCAIN/THE GOP
Dick Cheney makes West Virginia incest joke and becomes another McCain liability
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008..._joke_irks.html
Sen. Robert Byrd had this to say about Cheney's "contempt and astounding ignorance"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/02/c...e_n_104761.html
Grandpa wants to WIN IN JANUARY?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/02/mccain...win-in-january/
Romney backs McCain - criticizes Obama for not recently visiting Iraq
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/02/hewitt...rip/#more-24134
BYRD/KENNEDY
Senator Robert Bird – the longest-serving senator in history, hospitalized last night
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5goXN0rC...R2-PQgD9129RH80
Senator Kennedy doing well after brain surgery to remove a malignant tumor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/03/usa
ECONOMY
A 55% majority of those surveyed say their families are worse off financially than they were a year ago
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/elec...6-02-poll_N.htm
Surprise, surprise – Consumer stimulus checks being used for bills and gas, not spurring spending in a troubled economy
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/business/01checks.html
The brand name synonymous with the careless excesses of the late 90s and Bush Years may die out: Hummer could be History
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gm4-...0,6352198.story
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS?
GI's recovering from PTSD are housed next to a FIRING RANGE?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8060202983.html
Full Version: Tuesday, June 3, 2008
This is it. It's no longer about Hillary or Obama, it's about the party and about beating McCain! We cannot afford four more years of failed policy, we cannot afford four more years of partisanship, we cannot afford four more years of diplomacy based on fear and battle, we cannot afford four more years of stripping our Constitution, we cannot afford four more years of Supreme Court appointments to violate our rights.
I'm so confused. I've heard/read so many stories in the past 3 days saying she would and she wouldn't that I don't know what to believe anymore.
Common debates..... McSame vrs. Obama Let the beatings begin 
QUOTE (visionari @ Jun 3 2008, 10:47 AM) 
I'm so confused. I've heard/read so many stories in the past 3 days saying she would and she wouldn't that I don't know what to believe anymore.
Don't let it worry you. Obama is starting his general election campaign tonight, he's at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, site of the 2008 Republican National Convention. It's GO TIME! Obama vs. McCain!
From the Comeback Id:
What I found interesting about the article, is that the author couldn't catch him in any actual dalliance. But Bill is definitely running with some notorious bachelors with some seriously bad reputations. Bill has always been sloppy and late. Because he can.
Another snip:
He's a thoughtful intellectual - you have to give him that, but he's still 12 years old in the mutual respect and arrogance department. He's a bad boy. Shame on you Bill Clinton.
(wags finger in his face)
QUOTE
He has told friends that he is not worried that his aggressive performance this year has done lasting damage to his reputation (some of them are not so sure). Whatever the future holds for Hillary Clinton, her husband is not fading away. He will remain a presence, a force to be reckoned with, as long as he draws breath.
But for a politician with so many admirers, allies, acquaintances, faithful retainers, and hangers-on, Clinton remains a profoundly solitary man, associates say, without any real peers, intellectual equals, or genuine friends with whom he can share the sweetest things in life. (The one who has always come closest, for better and worse, for richer and poorer, is simply too busy these days.)
So he spends his time veering between feeling sorry for himself and working to help others, between doing good and giving his enemies fresh ammunition, between vindicating his legacy and vitiating it. “So much of modern culture is characterized by stories of self-indulgence and self-destruction,” Clinton writes near the end of Giving, from which he earned $6.3 million and gave away $1 million (or 16 percent) to charity. “So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks. So much of modern media is dominated by people who earn fortunes by demeaning others, defining them by their worst moments, exploiting their agonies. Who’s happier? The uniters or the dividers? The builders or the breakers? The givers or the takers? I think you know the answer.”
I find that last part ironic, and he is a selective amnesiac.But for a politician with so many admirers, allies, acquaintances, faithful retainers, and hangers-on, Clinton remains a profoundly solitary man, associates say, without any real peers, intellectual equals, or genuine friends with whom he can share the sweetest things in life. (The one who has always come closest, for better and worse, for richer and poorer, is simply too busy these days.)
So he spends his time veering between feeling sorry for himself and working to help others, between doing good and giving his enemies fresh ammunition, between vindicating his legacy and vitiating it. “So much of modern culture is characterized by stories of self-indulgence and self-destruction,” Clinton writes near the end of Giving, from which he earned $6.3 million and gave away $1 million (or 16 percent) to charity. “So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks. So much of modern media is dominated by people who earn fortunes by demeaning others, defining them by their worst moments, exploiting their agonies. Who’s happier? The uniters or the dividers? The builders or the breakers? The givers or the takers? I think you know the answer.”
What I found interesting about the article, is that the author couldn't catch him in any actual dalliance. But Bill is definitely running with some notorious bachelors with some seriously bad reputations. Bill has always been sloppy and late. Because he can.
Another snip:
QUOTE
. . .Betsey Wright character accuses the Bill Clinton character of always skating by on charm and talent and need. “You have never paid the bill,” she tells him. “Never. And no one ever calls you on it. Because you’re so completely fucking special. Everyone was always so proud of you. And me, too. Me the worst.”
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/feature...7?currentPage=8
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/feature...7?currentPage=8
He's a thoughtful intellectual - you have to give him that, but he's still 12 years old in the mutual respect and arrogance department. He's a bad boy. Shame on you Bill Clinton.
(wags finger in his face)
We're back to "It's the economy, stupid."
From http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/elec...6-02-poll_N.htm :
I think we also need to stroke the Ron Paul supporters to perform a Nader-type coup de grace on the GOP.
AND: THANKS FOR THE HOMEWORK, RANDI! SINCERELY APPRECIATED.
From http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/elec...6-02-poll_N.htm :
QUOTE
Economic angst is broad. Two-thirds of those with annual incomes of $30,000 or less say they are worse off financially than they were a year ago, but so do nearly half of those in the highest income group, those making $75,000 and more. Two-thirds of those who are 50 to 64 years old say their finances have worsened.
Republicans are the only major demographic group in which more say they are better off than worse off.
The gloomy public mood is "just another piece of the real situation today," Ford Motor CEO Alan Mulally said Monday in a session with USA TODAY reporters and editors. "We're going to have to see a stabilization, especially of the housing prices, and get the U.S. economy going again" for that to change.
Pessimism over pocketbook issues traditionally turns voters against the party that holds the White House. That was true in 1976, 1980 and 1992, the past three times incumbent presidents lost election bids. Economic anxiety is higher now than it was then. In 1976, just over a third of Americans said they were worse off than a year earlier; in 1980 one in four did; in 1992 not quite half did.
Republicans are the only major demographic group in which more say they are better off than worse off.
The gloomy public mood is "just another piece of the real situation today," Ford Motor CEO Alan Mulally said Monday in a session with USA TODAY reporters and editors. "We're going to have to see a stabilization, especially of the housing prices, and get the U.S. economy going again" for that to change.
Pessimism over pocketbook issues traditionally turns voters against the party that holds the White House. That was true in 1976, 1980 and 1992, the past three times incumbent presidents lost election bids. Economic anxiety is higher now than it was then. In 1976, just over a third of Americans said they were worse off than a year earlier; in 1980 one in four did; in 1992 not quite half did.
I think we also need to stroke the Ron Paul supporters to perform a Nader-type coup de grace on the GOP.
AND: THANKS FOR THE HOMEWORK, RANDI! SINCERELY APPRECIATED.
Happy Tuesday Randi!!!
QUOTE (Ed-Kay @ Jun 3 2008, 02:16 PM)
I love that websight!
Yep
Have Hillary supporters forgotten that Rush L. encouraged Republican voters to cross parties for primaries just to sway the vote for Hillary? Her primary results could be a false representation of Democratic wishes in several states. It's pretty clear that very few of them crossed parties to vote for Barack, unless they really want Barack to be President.
Thom Hartmann opened his show this morning by applying Elizabeth Kubler Ross' 5 Stages of Grief to the supporters of Hillary Clinton. I think the man makes a valid point - and that MOST of them are still stuck somewhere between Denial and Anger.
At this point, it even begins to appear that some folks are just LOOKING for things to get upset about. One caller said that she was incensed over Debbie Basille saying that Obama "didn't need the Hispsnic vote" - which of course was NOT AT ALL what she actually said, but how the Clinton People spun it. What she REALLY said was that Obama could win in November without getting AS MUCH of the Hispanic vote as Hillary might get.
I think that the anger and emotion are likely to continue at a relatively high level for a few more weeks, until the "bereaved" traverse the stages. Then, things oughta calm down some, people should come to their senses, and Registered Democrats WILL vote for the Democratic Party's candidate this fall. At least, I HOPE that's how it goes down - but then again I never thought that dubya had a chance to win even ONE Presidential election, so what do _I_ know?
At this point, it even begins to appear that some folks are just LOOKING for things to get upset about. One caller said that she was incensed over Debbie Basille saying that Obama "didn't need the Hispsnic vote" - which of course was NOT AT ALL what she actually said, but how the Clinton People spun it. What she REALLY said was that Obama could win in November without getting AS MUCH of the Hispanic vote as Hillary might get.
I think that the anger and emotion are likely to continue at a relatively high level for a few more weeks, until the "bereaved" traverse the stages. Then, things oughta calm down some, people should come to their senses, and Registered Democrats WILL vote for the Democratic Party's candidate this fall. At least, I HOPE that's how it goes down - but then again I never thought that dubya had a chance to win even ONE Presidential election, so what do _I_ know?
QUOTE (Davidsd58 @ Jun 3 2008, 02:57 PM)
Nice avatar.
QUOTE (X-Ray-Spex @ Jun 3 2008, 02:19 PM)
Nice avatar.
Phantom Passenger calls from the abyss!!!
Or maybe the Eye is replicating....Oooooooooooooooooh!!!!
This is a "lo-fi" version of our main content. To view the full version with more information, formatting and images, please click here.