Time For Barack 2 Be BIG - This Primary Is Not Over

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Wednesday April 23, 2008 · 7:49 AM PDT

2008/04/23 · 07:49

The election isn't over, taking Wisconsin doesn't mean he can win a big northeastern old Democratic state. Last night should be a helpful wakeup call that, logic be damned, Clinton isn't getting out of the race and her supporters are just as fired up as Obama's. It's time to realize that capitulation isn't going to happen and figure out how to end this primary in a way that paves the road to victory in November.

First of all, we need to stop telling each other what we want to hear. KOS isn't helping anyone by massaging the numbers until they're purple showing how each Clinton win is another brick in the road to eventual Obama victory. Yes, Pennsylvania actually helped Barack get closer to his magic number and NO, super delegates are not going to swarm to Hillary but...

IS IT TIME FOR BARACK OBAMA TO PROVE HE IS A UNITER - YES

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Would you do an Obama/Clinton unity ticket right now:

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Would you do an Obama/Clinton unity ticket right now:

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My Nephews Worried About Obama's Preacher

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Friday March 14, 2008 · 7:31 AM PDT

2008/03/14 · 07:31

My wife and I are the political junkies in our families. The other day I got a call from my niece, who is a communications major: She is going to interview Chelsea Clinton at her college and she wants me to give her some good questions... WTF, I'm just an uncle, your a REPORTER!

Anyway, everyone knows that I have been a staunch Hillary supporter and living in Pa. I am always involved in our primary campaigns. So this morning I get an email from my nephew who has been an Obama supporter since Iowa. He attached a video of Barack Obama's pastor going off on the "rich white man" in general and HRC in particular. We've all seen it as well as others so I won't give it a link. Keep in mind this is a poly-sci graduate from a good school a year into working for our local Democratic state rep, so he is prime-time B.O. demographic.

I was surprised at his concern and this is what I wrote back:

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Thursday January 31, 2008 · 7:52 AM PST

2008/01/31 · 07:52

I have been a long-time supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton (AKA Alpha-Babe) but events of this morning have chilled me to the bone. I can't imagine anything more coldblooded and calculating as the manipulations of the Clinton/Clinton Campaign for World Domination (CCCFWD as we call it at the meetings). Still I have stood silently as "Ca-Ca-KaFwuddd"(that's how we pronouce it at the meetings) systematically acted to slander MLK, disparage the theme song of "Good Times" and plant actual crack heroin (Opps, we didn't do that one yet) on Mr. Obama (who we all secretly adore but gleefully attack after years of Orwellian mind control torture).

However, this morning I recieved a "memo" involving a sinister plot SOOO heinious that, that I had to make it known to the world. Here is that "secret memo"...

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Wednesday January 30, 2008 · 6:11 AM PST

2008/01/30 · 06:11

Per Chuck Todd on this mornings MSNBC Morning Joe, John Edwards will use his mike in New Orleans today to bow out of the race. This should finally answer the question of who will inherit the very significant and motivated Edwards supporters.

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IF You are an Edwardian, do you now...

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IF You are an Edwardian, do you now...

Back Barack

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Hail Hillary

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Make travel plans for next November

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Obama Falling Into His Own Trap...

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Friday January 25, 2008 · 9:25 PM PST

2008/01/25 · 21:25

Barack Obama the Great Uniter, the Prime Minister of Hope is finding himself trapped in a race that has become ALL about race. It is frustrating seeing this outstanding young politician boxed into the one corner he can't fight out of but my empathy is tempered by the fact that this is a snare of his own design.

Obama was on top of the world less than a month ago: he had taken Iowa from the annointed candidate Clinton. He pulled this off by energizing thousands of younger dems, younger women and independents. He did it with white voters...he had no choice in one of the whitest states in the Union.

Then he went to New Hampshire, palms thrown at his feet. But for the first time in his life...he lost an election...and he lost his cool.

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Sunday January 20, 2008 · 7:07 PM PST

2008/01/20 · 19:07

For neigh on 4 years I've come to this special cubby hole to listen to and occasionally argue with people who basically shared my hope for our Party and our Country. Lately, however I don't think this is a party (small 'p') that I enjoy much anymore. Oh, not to a GBCW extreme...that's just for attention seekers anyway. No, I expect this place will find it's groove again, but it certainly can't come soon enough for me.

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Friday January 11, 2008 · 3:41 PM PST

2008/01/11 · 15:41

As a child of the seventies I grew up thinking "Shuckin' and a Jivin'" was a clever lyric from a sitcom theme. A sitcom about black people on network TV - back when you had sitcoms about black people on network TV. Just this week I've found out that is an offensive phrase. Moreover, whenever I may have used it in casual conversation (not often, but I must confess to using it often enough to remember that I had) I was being insensitive in my ignorance.

I really am sorry...I'll try to go on.

When I remarked to someone that there seemed to be an "arbitrary" line that bumbling white-male idiots like me inadvertantly cross I was informed by a helpful commenter that it was offensive to the extreme to insinuate that the line was "arbitrary". That being the case I would love some help defining what this very "non-arbitrary" line...

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Thursday July 12, 2007 · 9:59 PM PDT

2007/07/12 · 21:59

George W. Bush and every one of his minions from the peak of Mt. Doom downward have insisted since the inception of "The Surge" that there is and never will be a "Plan B". Of course anyone knows that is "Bullshit".

Of course Bushco. has a Plan B and it's been the endgame of "The Surge" all along. In fact significant, measurable success of the presumptive "Plan A" would have been a surprisingly unexpected inconvenient truth. General Petraeus knows the endgame, Dick Cheney knows the endgame and David Gates knows it because he cribbed it right from the old man's (Bush the Elder) playbook. No one else in Washington is privy to Plan B including Condi because they simply wouldn't get it...this plan makes as much sense to those with the "Bush Gene" as it perplexes those without:

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Friday April 20, 2007 · 8:23 AM PDT

2007/04/20 · 08:23

To set this up: this A.M. I was checking the "Daily Prophet" of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (Dredge...duh...) to see what the this mornings meme from Darth Rove was when a blip caught my eye. The lead mentioned that Michael Smerconish was being considered by MSNBC for Don Imus' chair. That would seem to make sense as the stench of ignorance in Don's studio wouldn't be at all offensive to the bald toady from Philly but when I clicked on the link it simply took me to a generic radio station webpage that wasn't even dedicated to Smerconish. I now wonder if in fact he was even being considered for the job OR was Dredge inventing the reality to push his crony? Well, it seemed like a good idea so maybe we should adopt it, get proactive and try to get a legitimate Progressive on the morning lineup.

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Friday October 27, 2006 · 10:10 PM PDT

2006/10/27 · 22:10

...in two weeks thanks to Ed Rendell and Bob Casey. I live the PA-18 and actually tried to support the Chad Kluko Kampaign right after the primary but frankly they didn't get back to me for weeks after I signed up online to volunteer. This is a common problem with Dems and one of the weak links that we have to shore up if we are to match and beat the red campaign machine. I ended up throwing a lot of money to Jason Altmire in the nearby PA-04 and I think he is a great campaigner.

That said, Kluko may benefit from a huge turnout by dems voting for Rendell and Casey and this may be a trend that helps us in several states. Read More

Ease Up On The Troll Ratings

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Tuesday September 19, 2006 · 5:08 PM PDT

2006/09/19 · 17:08

Real short, meaningless thread here...in fact it's more a filliment than a thread. A diary about nothing really. Just venting about the recent rash of Troll ratings being thrown around for one reason only.

Defending Rumsfeld? No, even real Trolls don't do that anymore.

Espousing racism? Naw, anti-semitism and hispano-phobia seem quite popular here these days as long as it is properly dress up.

Denying the infallibility of the Muslim "street"...BINGO!! Read More

GAZA: The High Price Of Bad Governance

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Friday September 08, 2006 · 6:45 AM PDT

2006/09/08 · 06:45

A lot of hand-wringing has been going on lately about the horrid state of affairs in the Gaza strip. Since we, as liberals, naturally look first at the needs and conditions of the downtrodden we focus on the miserable little people who's lives amount to nothing in the wasteland between the Israel they scorn and the Arab world that scorns them. Unfortunately they are discovering a fact that we understand all too well because of our own experiences right here in the USA.

To paraphrase a popular headline from 2004:
HOW COULD 1,376,289 PEOPLE BE SO STUPID? Read More

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