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Jon Stewart speculated on how John McCain spent Tuesday night. It involves a bowl of the collected tears of Howard Dean.
Hilarious.
Showing posts with label primary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label primary. Show all posts
Friday, April 25, 2008
The Biggest Loser Tuesday - Howard Dean
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
February 19 Primaries
John McCain has been projected the winner in Wisconsin over Huckabee - And Fox calls it for Obama in Wisconsin. Saint Obama is in Texas and is calling making the call for his acolytes to vote early, if not often. Michael Barone is seeing bad news going forward for Hillary in the demographics of Obama's voters and is looking at a blowout for Obama in the final numbers.
McCain's speech was a promise to reign in out of control spending and forcefully prosecute the war on terror. As to Obama, McCain said he articulates "an eloquent and empty call for change" and that what he is asking Americans to do in voting for him is to take a "holiday from history" and place their faith in an ideology that emphasizes government over the individual.
I sat through the entirety of Obama's 45 minute speech in Houston. I will give an analysis later. What is below are my notes from his speech.
Obamas Speech: He defines change as coming together for "a common purpose, a higher purpose."
He hits at NAFTA and free trade.
The mortgage bubble has been caused by evil predatory lenders.
He calls upon the name of a dead soldier - and defines "serving our military" as bringing our soldiers home from Iraq and giving them benefits.
Obama is calling on Dr. King and running because of the "fierce urgency of now." That is why he can't wait until he has more experience.
All America are victims to . . . . . inflation. Yes, prices rise in accordance to inflation.
Our children are unable to compete in an international economy.
Promises to . . .
better schools
more jobs,
better pay
end war in Iraq
American people are hungry for a uniter. His politics are not spin or PR, its "truth and straight talk."
Change in America comes from the bottom up.
If we can only get beyond divisions in politics and hold hands, challenge special interests in Washington . . . . . everything is possible. Why can't we all just be friends. Let's move forward into a better tomorrow.
Are you really ready for change. Because if you are ready for change, we can tell the lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda for our nation are over.
National health care is coming. Socialized medicine. Its coming in his first term.
If you are ready for change, we can restore balance to our economy. Attacks CEO pay. And tax breaks for CEO's.
No tax breaks to businesses going overseas.
Roll back tax cuts to wealthy and give it to people under 75k.
Raise minimum wage every year. No one will be poor in Barackamerica.
He promises to educate children from the moment of birth until they graduate from school. Every child is our problem. Every child is our responsibility. Invest in early childhood education.
No more standardized tests. Now we learn art music, science, literature, social studies.
Subsidize college for everyone. Community service or peace corps . . . . or . . . anything but the military?
If you are ready for change, we can have an energy policy that makes sense. We are going to cap green house gases and tax polluters to finance alternative energy. We are going to raise fuel efficiency standards.
We can join together the concept that we are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. People here must have path to citizenship.
9 Billion a month in Iraq. He would use that to fund all of his social programs.
Foreign policy that will lead to renewed respect. He will not hesitate to strike against those who do us harm. He will properly care for and train our troops and care for them when they come home.
The War in Iraq was unwise. We need to be fighting just in Afghanistan. It fanned the flames of anti-American sentiment. He will pull us out of Iraq in 2009.
He wants to end the mindset that got us into war. End the politics based on fear. No more using 9-11 for votes. He will meet with our friends and our enemies.
Obamas foreign policy, his willingness to talk, will solve the world's ills.
We will lead on climate change. We will end genocide in Darfur. We will lead on AIDS.
Close Guantanamo and restore habeaus corpus to all prisioners.
We do not need the "same old folks doing the same old things" in Washington.
Real change is only possible with new people in Congress.
Obama will reach out to everybody for change.
McCain is the party of yesterday's ideas. Obama is the party of tomorrow.
Hope is not blind optimism. It is not being ignorant of the challenges between you and your dreams. He knows how hard all of the things he has promised will be . . .
Hope is how the greatest generation defeated facism and lifted itself up. . . . .
Vote for me and we will join together and change the world.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
McCain & Obama Sweep The Potomac
McCain and Obama sweep the primaries in Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia. Huckaboom failed to fire. Clinton got clobbered worse than the C.S.A. at Antietam.
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The Republicans:
McCain convincingly defeated Huckabee in all three primaries held today: Virginia (50% to 41%); Maryland (56% to 30%); and Washington D.C. (68% to 17%). McCain now has 812 delegates of the 1,191 needed to lock up the Republican nomination. He will likely reach the magic number in March, and possibly as early as March 4. The base seems to be uniting behind McCain.
The Democrats:
Obama crushed Clition by margins of up to 50% in the three primaries held today: Virginia (64% to 35%); Maryland (62% to 35%); and Washington D.C. (75% to 24%). It takes 2,025 delegates to wrap up the Democratic nomination. Obama now has a slight lead in consideration of both elected delegates and committed superdelegates with a total of 1,208 to Hillary Clintons 1,185.
Thoughts:
1. I don't think Hillary can overcome Obamimania. He is now eating into her demographics. Her only hope is the Rudy strategy - to hope that she can withstand the bleeding until the Texas and Ohio primaries in March. And we saw how well the Rudy strategy worked for Rudy.
2. Obamamania is a toxic combination of an inspirational speaker, identity politics and liberal guilt. His positions do not matter to those responding to his rhetoric, nor do his lack of any experience or complete lack of any accomplishments. In that sense, Obama is the penultimate affirmative action candidate.
3. On paper, McCain should walk all over Obama in the general election. But between the insane MDS and the Obamamania cult of personality, McCain could very easilly lose this election without a very effective strategy to put Obama on the defensive and show that the emporer has no clothes. And critical to this, McCain needs money, money, money. The one thing the far left does well is raise money for their favored candidates. And Soros will be spending a lot of cash this election cycle. If Republicans don't step up with not only their vote and support, but with their cash, McCain will not win the general election.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
AP Calls Florida for McCain - Giuliani To Withdraw & Endorse McCain
Let the wailing and breast beating begin anew. McCain has won in Florida's closed Repbulican primary and is now likely the prohibitive favorite for the Republican nomination. The race for the Republican nomination for President now appears to be a two man race between McCain and Romney.
UPDATE: Now Fox is announcing that Rudy Giuliani, who placed a distant third in Florida, will withdraw from the race and endorse McCain. That will be a huge boost for McCain going into Super Tuesday. He is now the prohibitive favorite.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Kos Advocates Manipulating Michigan's Republican Primary In Favor Of Romney
Somehow I doubt that we will see this in a Romney ad anytime soon. Kos is cynically gaming the unusual situation presented by this year's Michigan primary in order to interfere with the Republican nomination for President. McCain has a comfortable 9% lead in the polls in Michigan, and Romney is pulling out all the stops in that state. Michigan is a must win for Romney. The Democratic contest is uncontested with only Hillary Clinton on the ballot. Michigan's is an open primary in which voting is not limited by party affilliation. Thus, Democrats can, if they want, vote in the Republican Primary. And Kos is asking Michigan's Democrats to do precisely that. He is asking for all who read his blog and who know Democrats in Michigan to send them a form e-mail from his site, asking them to vote in their state's Republican primary and to vote for Romney. As Kos puts it:
. . . we want Romney in, because the more Republican candidates we have fighting it out, trashing each other with negative ads and spending tons of money, the better it is for us. We want Mitt to stay in the race, and to do that, we need him to win in Michigan.
Read the posting here. What Kos is actively seeking to accomplish is perfectly legal, but highly unethical - and spare me the arguments that Republicans have done this in other contests in Michigan. There is a lot more at stake in who we choose as President and none of those contests posed this unique set of facts.
What Kos is proposing is fraud in essence if not in fact. While there is no legal basis to challenge Kos - and indeed, doing so would only likely call attention to this idiot, there is one thing that we should demand. Kos is a political columnist for Newsweek. Might I suggest that this would be appropriate grounds to write to Newsweek and its advertisers about their continued employment of this deeply cynical person who is advocating manipulation of democracy in this most important of elections.
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