Democratic voters in West Virginia will today elect 28 delegates by some method or other. I can’t be bothered looking into it because the New York Post reports that Hillary Clinton is “toast”, and papa says, “if you see it in the Post, it’s so”.
Reflections on the Miracle of Democracy at Work in the Greatest Nation on Earth
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Dyno , FINNS & GG
Dyno , the site below gives reasonable updates. As you are aware the Superdelegates ALL could drop Obama any day they choose right up to & including a convention. They are L plate endorsements (voidable)
http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/
FINNS , with multidtude of blogs yesterday at one time ,did you get my 1 line ditty ?
GG , when talking to k/r you said “gay abandon” , interesting choice of words
KR,
What truth?
Everyone who regularly reads this blog knows you flounder when questioned.
You are just hurting your “brand” with the unsustainable bulldust about ESJ.
Yeah, right GG, and do you think anyone with a memory of Eddy’s greasy little habits is likely not to also remember you running around behind him chucking snot like a 3 year old?
Well I sure do buster, and there’s no surprise in seeing you doing exactly the same thing again.
My last post on the subject.
Dyno at 297
Obama: 290 (284+6)
Clinton:269.5 (270.5-1)
I.e. Obama is leading Clinton by 20.5 (or 13.5 if you exclude the Pelosi club).
Doesn’t it make you feel all warm inside!!
KR,
This is clearly something that troubles you.
Obviously,, PB is your therapy of choice. (That is a good thing).
You have issues with ESJ and myself.
Fill your boots with acrimony.
PS. If you want to look very carefully, I actually posted saying the naming of Jen was uncool at the time.
Yeah, we all have a moral compass. Yeah, we all move on.
Ron [#1476 - No , yous are the butterfly pixy variety]?
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/?p=853&cp=15#comment-151814
#305 GG – [You have issues with ESJ and myself] – dont left me out, i have issue with him!!
There is a tendency in politics called the trot tendency. Those of the trot tendency have no real policy and ideology – it is a tendency motivated by oppositionism and spite.
But when politics plays itself out the trots always get sent packing – so when in doubt always pick the opposite side to trot tendency. IMHO the heavy trot backing for Obama is proof that in the end John Sydney McCain will be President.
Kirri, truly I dont mind your contributions – I just find they are not very original – after all anybody can (with a certain intelligence) look up the WAPO or NYT – its just the one idea you seem to have is we are about to witness the next great depression – its just a little tired for the 9000th time.
Finns,
KR only hates you because you exist. (a flea biting the Pope in Rome)
KR hates ESJ (and now apparently me) because we stand up to him.
But you can upgrade yourself.
“Three former chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission will publicly endorse Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s bid for the presidency Wednesday, including one who served under President Bush.
William Donaldson, who was SEC chairman for about 2½ years from early 2003, along with Clinton and Reagan appointees Arthur Levitt and David Ruder, will join former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker in endorsing Sen. Obama, his campaign said. Mr. Volcker endorsed Sen. Obama in January.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121073227421390697.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Oh, I’m a ‘trot’ now! LOL
God you’re a sad sick old bloviating piece of work!
You, on the other hand, come here for one reason only.
Like a dog to its vomit, that’s you Eddy…greasy.
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Pancho
yeah, more ‘racists’ trying to hide it by endorsing the black guy.
There must be an epidemic of that going around.
Hey, I don’t even read the WAPO! LOL
Okay, I think we’ve all had our say about each other now.
#309 – [KR only hates you because you exist] – No, GG, he hates me because i caught him out. He tried to big note himself on Bahasa Indonesia, and i call him bluff as a:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=55wWiFi6BFo
My god, just love this song.
Obama picks up 2 more SDs, Democrats Abroad Chair Christine Schon Marques and Indiana Rep. Pete Visclosky. From http://thepage.time.com/2008/05/14/obama-starts-wednesday-with-two-new-supers/.
I think the most important question here – and it is something I have been pondering over a few days because it has been a recurring theme – is who are these SDs making their pledges at 4 in the morning?
OK Finns,
We’ll add your name to the execution list, on your request.
GG, like a badge of honour my friend.
Pancho
It would be nice to think they were lying in bed – staring at the ceiling and were just struck with the overwhelming need to endorse Obama.
I’d expect the supers put their news release in early to get a good run on the breakfast news cycle.
Should be another couple to for evening cycle if the Obama machine is running to form.
Thanks for the update, Catrina.
As someone who is ambivalent about all three candidates it doesn’t make me feel anything much, actually, but I would observe that the SD flow is the surest sign that Obama’s got the nomination in the bag.
It will take “being caught with a dead girl or a live boy” (or some equivalently scandalous revelation) for the SDs to be willing to risk their careers by unseating him now. Hillary clearly knows it too.
FINNS
#306
No Amigo , it was re your (& my) anguish of the earthquake in China
Ron #1362
TO FINNS
Well I tried real hard to focus on the economic garble conversation here trying to avoid writing a ditty of China thought to you so I’ll leave you my immediate thoughts when seeing your blog , which would have been the dittys last line from a friend
‘the heart fills with sadness , as little bit me is lost’
For those of you who missed the by election results in Mississippi today here is part of what you would find on the Votemaster. The Republicans got slaughtered. By my estimation a swing of more than 30%
The MS-01 loss is especially painful to the GOP for three reasons. First, the Republicans tried very, very hard here, pouring in huge amounts of money and having Gov. Haley Barbour and Vice President Dick Cheney campaign for Davis. Second, in IL-14 and LA-06 they could argue they had flawed candidates. That doesn’t hold here. Greg Davis is a popular mayor who has done a good job and has never been involved in any scandals. Third, this election was the second field test of the Republicans’ November strategy, which they rolled out against Cazayoux and refined here. They ran ads bitterly attacking Childers as a close associate and fellow traveler of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. They called him a LIBERAL (them’s fightin’ words in Mississippi). They said he didn’t represent Mississippi values. They tried everything. It didn’t work.
At this point NRCC chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) is probably sweating bullets. He has hardly any money left and the only arrow in his quiver is calling Democrats tax-and-spend liberals. If that doesn’t work in R+7 districts (LA-06) and R+10 districts (MS-01) what’s going to happen in swing districts like AZ-01, FL-15, IL-11, IL-18, MN-03, NJ-07, NY-29, OH-15, OH-16, VA-01, and VA-11, all of which are Republican-held open seats that are R+5 or less?
http://www.electoral-vote.com
#321 – tq ron. was a little upset yesterday.
Votemaster is due to update so you may have to go back to the previous day.
It doesn’t matter how much spin people put on it, and the will, it just adds up to one thing. Oblivion.
Spell check: They will.
Good evening bludgers,
Just got home from a long day to peruse the events in the US.
It appears there’s been one more SD endorse The Kid sine earlier today, taking Obama’s SD lead to 12/
The headlines around the US seem to be sayng….
HILLARY HAS COMLETELY FLOGGED OBAMA IN WV!!
…….BUT WHO CARES!!
Good evening, everyone,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or0eZYbvHiU
When they can’t cut the mustard, they Custer Muster.
Popular vote: BHO, check, ding!
Delegate count: BHO, check, ding!
Super Delegate count: BHO, check, ding!
Three recent House wins in Gingrichville: check, ding!
The Big MO: BHO, check, ding!
Sirs, it would appear that your GOPper-Express credit card is no longer valid. Do you have some other form of legal tender?
And Gentleman Growler and Eddy Eslowpoke, when you’re asked for some collateral, there’s no need to pull down your pants.
Thanks for that info #322, Chris B. It confirms that the 2006 elections were much more than a protest vote. Voters seem permanently disillusioned with the incompetence, greed and corruption evident in the Bush regime. It extends beyond the mess created in Iraq, although that was clearly the starting point.
The media ownership has been in close cahoots with the Bush-Rove-Cheney agenda from the beginning. But there are many voters and potential voters that don’t believe them any more than the Government. So while racism is probably still a concern in the US, it is improbable that blatant appeals to red-neckery and Bible-toting will get many more votes.
Obama is clearly right in aiming for a new era. It is simply not credible that McCain, who wants to continue the Iraq debacle and has no known economic policies, will beat Obama by appealing to prejudice.
Obama will beat him a lot easier than he has beaten Hillary, who carried some sentiment from the Clinton era plus being the first female candidate.
Don which swing states will Obama win?
Chris B
‘oz’ voters distinguish between State & Federal governments (Labor held most States throughout most of Howard’s 10 year, kept electing Labor at State & Howard at Federal. Bush is on the nose in the US and the Polls show it.
However McCain Polls are strong (showing him easily beating Obama , whilst Hillary beating him). part of the reason is McCain for over 3 years makes regular TV interviews and in the main bags Bush on policy which has insulated him signicantly from the anti Bush sentiment (the fact he doen’t like Bush may be an added incentive for him). As for Obama , the kid , all kids are L”" platers
EC, come across this one yet? http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/ta/2008/05/08/
Indeed Ron,
Look at electoral-vote.com and look at the swing states – very few polls have Obama above 45%.
ron/Ron
‘did you get my 1 line’…alas, no; “gay abandon” , interesting choice of words…do tell…
ESJ/ FINNS
Involved in Political strategies. Don’t know how clever the Repugs are
Take Economy , no 3 issue in US…..
the Dems have had control of Congress , its their fault. house prices down, its the Dems.
Take Iraq , no 4 issue in US….
Unpopular , but Howard proved economy always aces in voters hip pocket , anyway not sure of its vote defining traction.
ADD: Obama to pull troops out 60 days , 61st day , petrol to go from #3 to #5
always good for the battlers votes & hip pocket independents
Left out no 1 and 2 issues , the ADDS on them to, Patriotism (Wright) and National Security (which is the no 1 sleeper always , unlike here
FINNS , no problem , some miracles with some kids mate
Ron
I’ve got a link at 37 to a Rasmussen poll on this issue. The takehome message was that the Repugs are seriously on the nose. The Dems more trusted for the economy, government ethics and corruption, national security and the War of Terror.
BUT McCain is not seen as a Repug. He is trusted more than Hillary and Obama on the economy and national security.
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The Finnigans Says:
May 14th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
#309 – [KR only hates you because you exist] – No, GG, he hates me because i caught him out. He tried to big note himself on Bahasa Indonesia, and i call him bluff as a:
….You did what?
When?
OK, find the post(s)
You are living in your fetid imagination Finn.
Ron – [FINNS , no problem , some miracles] – yeah, what about Mr. Kevin Rubb and his $41B “slush funds” . How many elections can you win with $41B worth porkies? Brilliant politician Mr. Rubb.
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Edward StJohn Says:
May 14th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
There is a tendency in politics called the trot tendency. Those of the trot tendency have no real policy and ideology – it is a tendency motivated by oppositionism and spite…
….
This sounds like an apt description of the WA Liberal party; at least, in relation to each other, their spite is unreserved.
#337 – if you dont know by now, you will never know. Go and find it yourself.
ESJ (and anyone else ghoulish enough to participate)
Can I propose an addition to our Death List, which was criticised as being in poor taste, sick and irrelevant to a political blog?
We could predict the next politician to be assassinated. This would be quite relevant to this blog and provide an interesting insight into foreign affairs. Perhaps we could name five leaders? I think terrorist leaders should be included, as they are world leaders too. Just ask The Chaser about the famous leader they helped into APEC.
I always assumed it was Kirribilli removals as in removing John Howard now I am thinking it is Kirribilli removals as in a term used by the AFP for “removals” from Kirribilli House of the types you see on the news “protesting” outside Kirribilli House
Cool Diogenes, I am working on it as I type
Yep, Pancho, posted it back on publication date (May
with a comment about an Energiser Bunny in denial.
Wed May 14: Street scene in Wheeling, West Virginia.
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/nonsequitur;_ylt=Akyrgksmxq4xVlHMs6ij9zFL6ysC
Ready Diogenes?
It had a smell to it, and yes, those shirts came prepared:
Another point: Most of the media fell hook, line and sinker for the “Iron my shirt!” stunt at a Hillary campaign event in January in New Hampshire, where two scruffy male hecklers were clearly in collusion with her staff. (The signs — including one suspiciously permitted on the stage itself — were carefully positioned and lit, and Hillary had a pat prepared line to draw camera attention to them.) Those dorky guys, at least one with a link to a radio station, are far too young to have the slightest knowledge of an era when women ironed men’s shirts — or when shirts needed ironing at all! Businessmen’s shirts go to the cleaners nowadays, and everyone else’s gear is just tossed into the dryer. That hoax was designed to reawaken the atavistic resentments of older women voters — and it worked.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/05/14/tarantella/index1.html
…and watch the clip if you missed it first time around.
Ron: As you are aware the Superdelegates ALL could drop Obama any day they choose right up to & including a convention. They are L plate endorsements (voidable)
Does it get more delusional than this. Why bother posting this tripe on a site like this
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The Finnigans
Oh, that’s a good game Finns!
Let’s see:
I beat you at chess, and you’ve been narky ever since.
I beat you with arithmetic too
I beat you with actual sentences (many times)
I beat you because, well, I just do
…now, you go back and find the posts.
RCP Sd lead has just been adjusted to +13 to Obama and increase on 1.
Obama’s national average lead over Hillary has also been adjusted upwards from 5.1 this morning to 7.8 this evening.
After today, though, I’d suggest she going to go at least till 3 June.
343 ESJ
Shall we say five names this time tomorrow? I’ll need to sleep on it before putting the kisses of death on our great men and women. Benazir Bhutto would have been a dead cert at the start of the year. And there must be some other morbid bludgers who would have a winning list.
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