Michigan
Game, Set and Match
My neck hurts more than usual. It is a good thing I am scheduled for some treatment later this week because it sure had a work-out over the weekend. On one hand I was swiveling my head back and forth watching the French Open tennis tournament. At the same time I was flipping channels Saturday to watch the verbal battle in the DNC meeting as they debated what to do with Michigan and Florida.
As the men and women of the tennis matches returned volley after volley with speed, determination and skill so did the two sides at the DNC Committee meeting. Although there was no “scoreboard” in the jam packed board room, everyone was keeping track of the ebb and flow of the delegate count.
Ironically, neither the tennis match nor the committee’s finding were beneficial to American women. The most famous current women tennis players were defeated early on in the French Open. As both Serena and Venus Williams were beaten in the third round so was Hillary in Saturday’s rulings. The biggest blow was in the Michigan ruling where Clinton hoped to walk away with more delegates than what was given to her.
What next? Hilary’s supporters hinted that they might take it to the convention as the small crowd of middle aged white women cheered in the background. But no matter what they do, the odds are slim and none that she will eventually win.
Perhaps the greatest result of the meeting is it marked the beginning of the end for the Clinton dominance and control of the DNC. By nearly a 2-1 vote the committee members showed that it is now an Obama party. You could say that Obama and his supporters kept serving ace after ace which Hillary could never return.
How will an Obama controlled DNC act during the upcoming national election? That is the biggest unknown out there. Barack is an untested, inexperienced politician who so far is playing this game brilliantly. He continuously has beaten anyone who goes up against him in spite of being an “unranked” newcomer. How has he done this against some of the biggest names in the Democratic party? Maybe he is just that good at the game and yet….
Newsmakers are just now beginning to come out of their trance over this young man to dig into his history. On Saturedy he left his controversial church but who knows what else may be out there about him? Hillary’s complaint that Obama is unvetted may prove to be prophetic. All we can do now is watch the game unfold between Obama and McCain and see what happens over the next six months.
As for my aching neck, it got one more workout on Saturday. Late in the afternoon I finally got up off my couch and walked outside. And in the beautiful sun drenched Florida afternoon I lifted my head up to the blue sky. Looking to the east I saw the familiar sign of a large white puffy spiral climbing towards the heavens. Another successful space shuttle launched. No matter how many times I have seen this, it is still an awesome sight. And maybe in the political games we all could use an occasional time-out not only to rest but to remind us of what they are fighting for and the high stakes that will go to the winner.
NBA Pauses for DNC Debacle
The so-called RULES COMMITTEE of the National Democrat Party will meet and rule on the apportioning and seating of delegates from the “bad boy’s and girl’s states” of Florida and Michigan. But, its ruling can be appealed to the CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE TO SEAT OR NOT any delegate or delegation, and such a challenge can apparently be brought by almost anybody and would have to be ratified by the entire Democrat Convention when it meets in Denver, Colorado in August.
Meanwhile there will be more pontificating, puffing, preening and posturing by the pair of champion shadow boxing narcissists continuing their elaborate Kabuki performance “supported” by a veteran vaudevillian troop called PDR (Pelosi, Dean, Reid) with bit players; walk-ons and fly-overs named Edwards, Carter and Gore.
That seems embarrassingly certain to continue to attract and nurture an ever more despicable assortment of lunatic-like actors, costumed as clergy, parading before an exaggeratedly swaying congregation with a seemingly inexhaustible pharmaceutical supply.
Look for code words like “suspended campaign” and “unification” reading ever more like the infamously flaccid League of Nations Charter. Let the hugging and cheek kissing begin; I suppose a remaining question is what cheeks.
Saturday Shootout At OHB-HRC Corral.
The next showdown in the 2008 Democrat nomination soap opera comes Saturday at the meeting of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee to maybe settle the “Florigan” delegate debacle. To the consternation of Democrats seeking a solution, Clinton supporters are disputing the compromise that would give Obama uncommitted delegates from Michigan. Clintonistas argue that the “uncommitted” delegates are up for grabs.
Obama has warned his supporters not to show up anywhere near the meeting site lest they besmirch his carefully orchestrated love affair that goes something like once you’ve tried black you can never go back.
Regardless of Saturday’s posturing this ain’t over.
What’s a Democrat to do? What do you think?
What’s a Democrat to do? What do you think?
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard “the Scream” Dean wants Florida and Michiganparty officials to come up with ways to repeat their presidential nominating contests so that their delegates can be counted. A re-vote could cost $20,000,000. There are 366 delegates at stake. Clintontrails Obama by 140 delegates. If Florida and Michigandelegates were apportioned according to the votes cast Clinton would get 180 more delegates. Since Obama was NOT on the Michigan ballot and didn’t campaign in Florida there’s no way to know how many he’d have. This whole brouhaha started when the DNC punished Florida and Michigan for advancing their respective primary elections and said their delegates wouldn’t be counted. Of course then there are the so-called “Super delegates” members of Congress, former Presidents and Democrat party officials. They can vote for whoever they wish so it is possible Obama or Hillary could win the vote and elected delegate count and not be nominated.
Farrakhan Praises Obama
The radical and often inflammatory Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the “hope of the entire world” that the U.S. will change for the better (if he is President).. According to an AP release Farrakan never out rightly endorsed Obama but spent most of the nearly two-hour speech praising the Illinois senator. Farrakhan made what was called his final public address at a Saviours’ Day event in Detroit. Obama’s home church awarded Farrakhan its highest honor last year.
At this writing Obama has not commented about Farrakhan’s oraise.
Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933), is the acting head of the Nation of Islam (NOI) as the National Representative of Elijah Muhammad. He is also well-known as an advocate for African American interests; critic of America, and is often called racist, homophobic, and antisemitic.
Hillary to the Supreme Court!
Only if necessary.
It Hillary loses the nomination in Denver in August 2008 to Obama and the delegate count from Michigan and Florida would have given her the win, you can believe it that it will be Democrat vs Democrat in court, possible all the way to the Supreme Court. Bush v Gore only more gore.
New Homestead Act of 2008
Proposal:
Enact legislation enabling (not requiring) lenders and state and local laws to allow and keep the current occupants in homes that are go through foreclosure. Foreclosure does not stop. The mortgage is exchanged for a Homesteaders Agreement between the Lender and the Occupant
Who Stays:
Current Occupants
Uncommitted Firmly Wins Second Place by Mich Dems
No one can say women, minorities or the great, vast uncommitted are discriminated against in America. THEY TOOK SECOND PLACE in Michigan Dem Primary!
Romney Romps in Michigan: New Competiton?
Three Republican Primaries, three different winners.
Iowa put Evangelical Huckabee in the spotlight contrary to national polls,
New Hampshire showcased the McCain staying power,
Michigan saved Mitt in his birth state where his father was a governor.
It also gave new meaning to the “Mitt State” promoted by multi talented Jeff Daniels who has been promoting his home state of Michigan on national television recently, detailing what a good state it is for business and referring to the mitt of Michigan
Airship Kucinich may land in Michigan Today
The Michigan Dem Kids disobeyed the mother ship and Dennis Kucinich is real excited, he thinks it is a sign.
As a result of political posturing after punishment administered by Papa Howard Dean & Company to the Mich Dems, O’bama and Edwards are not on the ticket. It no longer matters since part of the punishment for holding a Jan 15 primary instead of holding one after the Feb 5 Super Tuesday Primaries as instructed, THEIR DELEGATES WILL NOT BE COUNTED AT THE CONVENTION. Excuse the shouting, but that seems, well, UnDemocratic.
Can John of JohnCan Fame, Remove Rudy’s Mask?
A dozen senior campaign staffers for Rudy Giuliani are forgoing their January paychecks, aides told Associated Press Friday, a sign of money trouble for the Republican presidential candidate that he denies. His Florida “firewall” is on fire as McCain takes the lead there. Republican Romney is said to be consulting his personal piggy bank and if he loses South Carolina, although he’d be politically dead, he’d likely stick around.
It snowed in Baghdad Friday for the first time in 100 years and some residents are calling it an omen of peace – hey it worked for the Green Bay Packers. Maybe for McCain too.
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January is Not OVER YET
One thing is clear — tactically almost anyone running for anything in November 2008 better have a strong strategy for women and younger voters.
Next up are January 15: Michigan; January 19: Nevada, South Carolina (R); January 26: South Carolina (D) and January 29:
Florida. It is probable Clinton will win in Nevada where she is well ahead – but Obama just got the endorsement of
Nevada’s biggest labor unions and he could pull it out.Hillary is still prowling the political battlefield poking at staffer wounds amid her downward spiral in the national polls. The axe was sharpened but stuck in a stump after the
New Hampshire win waiting to see how much bounce she gets.