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Today is the first day I've felt relaxed in about 8 months.
I trust Barack Obama.
by casperr on Wed May 07, 2008 at 07:58:11 PM PDT
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Of course it isn't actually over, but it feels like it for the first time.
You, sir, are a like a Hitler burrito, wrapped in a Mao fajita, with low-sodium Stalin sauce.| Strategy08.
by turneresq on Wed May 07, 2008 at 07:59:36 PM PDT
but didn't feel like it. Now it really does.
by casperr on Wed May 07, 2008 at 08:03:44 PM PDT
not only acknowledged that the math isn't there for her, but also that they have started writing her exit strategy. In the past, pundits, etc. were split how to treat the Clinton campaign. No longer.
The coverage is universally about how she should exit, not whether or when...but how. That means the coverage is going to switch to GE coverage, with passing attention to what HRC says, imo.
by CeeusBeeus on Wed May 07, 2008 at 09:03:40 PM PDT
It's a great image to go out to the world.
How can you not like this guy?
by leftyboy666 on Wed May 07, 2008 at 09:51:45 PM PDT
It's absolutely DREAMY!
Yum.
by Prairie Gal on Wed May 07, 2008 at 09:59:56 PM PDT
"Yum yum- I want some!"
by brueso on Wed May 07, 2008 at 10:12:23 PM PDT
Just curious.
"The half-baked ideas of people are better than the ideas of half-baked people" - Jack Kilby
by koNko on Wed May 07, 2008 at 10:21:04 PM PDT
Why you gotta make the rest of us look so average?!"
by brueso on Wed May 07, 2008 at 10:30:44 PM PDT
You should have repiled something like "He got the looks and the charm in our familly, but I got the animal magnatism and incredable stamina".
Woody Allen monemt. (;~o
The hell with that gut. Ain't fair.
by koNko on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:10:53 AM PDT
-- Either get behind Obama 100% of GTFO of DailyKos.
by DemCurious on Thu May 08, 2008 at 01:55:06 AM PDT
I want Michelle's phone number. I mean, that woman is hot ;-)
by archer070 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 03:29:03 AM PDT
Since the Kennedys
R. I. P. Tim Russert. Following politics will not be the same without you.
by BlueInRedCincy on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:45:44 AM PDT
IFOMCLAT?
LOL!
"We struck down evil with the mighty sword of teamwork and the hammer of not bickering!" - The Shoveler
by Pandoras Box on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:49:27 AM PDT
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons... for thou art crunchy and good with ketchup.
by Pariah Dog on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:32:52 AM PDT
by Pandoras Box on Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:29:25 AM PDT
McCain's occupation plan will achieve victory when it bestows liberty to the freedom loving people of Iraq and their freedom loving oil.
by Lefty Coaster on Wed May 07, 2008 at 10:15:25 PM PDT
and put it away. Your grandkids will be selling it for big bucks on the 22nd century version of Antiques Roadshow...
by mmacdDE on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:26:27 AM PDT
a 22nd Century!
You can have your "Under God" back when I get my "Liberty and Justice For All" back.
by karateexplosions on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:41:38 AM PDT
He's incapable of taking a bad photo. I swear he looks good in every picture I've ever seen of him.
by brooklynliberal on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:27:46 AM PDT
plenty of racists in this country will find a way...
Know your enemy - Rage Against the Machine
by duck on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:28:34 AM PDT
there are so few of them left that they don't matter.
by mmacdDE on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:27:01 AM PDT
by RomeyDa on Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:55:49 AM PDT
... you've worked so hard for this. Now we just have to finish things up, I hope. I am not so relaxed yet, but I feel a bit better ;-)
I have to go buy a copy of that magazine, that is a wonderful cover.
Misled Into War: A Timeline/DowningStreetMemo.com
by highacidity on Wed May 07, 2008 at 09:11:32 PM PDT
Hillary to drop out. It won't seem real to me until she does...
Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
by hopeful on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:20:10 AM PDT
by duck on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:31:49 AM PDT
May 20, but I suspect that you are closer to correct.
by hopeful on Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:03:18 AM PDT
it feels like the very first time.
Bottled hot water.
by aztecraingod on Wed May 07, 2008 at 10:11:05 PM PDT
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
by The Lighthouse Keeper on Wed May 07, 2008 at 11:11:37 PM PDT
When Barack gets the nomination. There will be so much love and adulation for this man, that he will ride a wave of good will into the White house by Many Americans (regardless of what the media, The Clintons, or the Re-Thugs try to do).
by Excelscior1 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:21:39 AM PDT
to watch and record the wonderful inauguration of President Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States.
A much more exciting event than our protest of bush's 2nd.
which took place in Oklahoma I might add.
Eyes on the Prize - JedReport
by juslikagrzly on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:59:54 AM PDT
by blue in oz on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:09:26 AM PDT
but my kids took the day off from school and joined us. They're standing on the curb with their signs somewhere in the background.
by juslikagrzly on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:19:08 AM PDT
Barack and Michelle marching up the street in the inagural parade, with the two little girls hopping along beside them. The crowd ecstatic. Weeping tears of joy. Bush filmed from the back as he walks away. I most definately will be taking a vacation day, it should be a national holiday.
"The miracle isn't that I finished...The miracle is I had the courage to start." -- Anonymous
by bruised toes on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:48:55 AM PDT
Hillary Clinton now has hit the impossibility (not improbability, impossibility) threshold in terms of pledged delegates: She must now win over 85% of the votes in the remaining states. Remember that 15% is the cut off to win any delegates at all. So essentially, Hillary Clinton will have to deny Barack Obama ANY pledged delegates from here on out to actually win the delegate race. And THAT is IMPOSSIBLE, even if Barack Obama start sleeping now and wakes up on June 3rd.
The race is over, Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee for president, and Hillary Clinton knows it. Her only game now is to try to get a DLC hack in as Obama's veep. Well, sorry, no go.
"The Power to change this party, and the power to change this country is in your hands, not mine." - Gov. Howard Dean, MD
by deaniac83 on Wed May 07, 2008 at 11:58:40 PM PDT
beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."--Winston Churchill on November 10, 1942 after a significant victory in N. Africa.
An important battle has been won and it is the end of the beginning of the battle for this land. Our foes are fierce and exceedingly well supplied, but the victory is in our hands if the people will seize it. The tyranny of wealth and privilege are what the Founders were reacting to when this nation was formed. America the beautiful--long may she reign.
by Wings Like Eagles on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:20:30 AM PDT
when your team has been up for pretty much the entire game, but now it's the top of the ninth, you're 9 runs ahead, and you've got 2 outs...
It's not quite over, but you can start to finally relax.
(My team is the Phillies, and Phillies fans never relax until the very last out, no matter how much ahead we are.)
by mmacdDE on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:24:44 AM PDT
for what it's worth, my team is the Cardinals. We RARELY rest if our closer's in the game until the last out.
freakin' izzy...
Well-behaved women rarely make history ~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
by mhopeg on Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:33:28 AM PDT
Yesterday they kept playing McGovern telling her to quit over and over and over on CBS radio, but then they'd play her "I'm not quitting until we have a nominee and I'm working hard to make sure it's me." Then she'll reach out to the women who won't give up because they think they're entitled.
Nah, she is ready to steal supers, to do dirty tricks and anything else she can do to win. PLEASE don't relax.
by victoria2dc on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:32:12 AM PDT
I've relaxed I didn't realize how tightened up I was. MUCH better now. :-)
by phrogge prince on Wed May 07, 2008 at 08:04:57 PM PDT
mental energy I've been putting into this election..
by audiored on Wed May 07, 2008 at 08:25:20 PM PDT
It's played havoc on my system.
"We're all working for the Pharaoh" - Richard Thompson
by mayan on Wed May 07, 2008 at 09:08:51 PM PDT
and here I thought it was just me.
Today has been so relaxing, I can only imagine how Senator Obama feels today...
by Jeff Y on Wed May 07, 2008 at 09:49:32 PM PDT
mainly, the primary season was basically over and we won. But I still felt "Regardless of how the MSM are reporting it." Then I got home from a class and saw all the coverage- and it was when I saw that clip of Tim Russert that someone else diaried, I felt "Now if the MSM is reporting that it's over and he won, there's NO question!" Because they weren't going to stick their necks out until they were sure cause they'd have so much to lose if they were wrong (the Clintons generally have so much animosity towards the press that they wouldn't forget and tneh tney'd have frozen that group out)
So yeah- basically- the primary season is largely over. both sides are going to go for every delegate they can get- I heard Obama is actually going to travel to Puerto Rico!-but now for both it's about heading into the convention with as many delegates as they can get. Lots of road til it's 'signed sealed and delivered'- and then we've got Granpa McCain to beat- but we're headed in the right direction!
by brueso on Wed May 07, 2008 at 10:18:34 PM PDT
on my work. Staying up way too late. Circles under my eyes. Nightmares starring Lanny Davis and James Carville..
by susan in sc on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:44:50 AM PDT
Bottled hot water for dehydrated babies? WTF?!
by JVolvo on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:43:44 AM PDT
and it is a wonderful feeling!
John McCain: Vowing to connect real leaders with real bowels
by chicago minx on Wed May 07, 2008 at 08:33:55 PM PDT
We'll Keep the Light On...West Virginia, Kentucky, Montana, South Dakota, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Michigan, Florida.
"I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back." ~ Ann Richards (Governor of Texas, 1990-94)
by suswa on Wed May 07, 2008 at 09:22:29 PM PDT
Awesome! When?
I am not gay. I have never been gay.
by MJJLWolf on Wed May 07, 2008 at 09:31:13 PM PDT
If you include Fla & Mich, in any fashion, Barack is still ahead by over 100 delegates.
by Excelscior1 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:22:54 AM PDT
ClusterF*ck primary, the Clinton arguments re MI and FL are IRRELEVANT!
Big difference, eh?
MI? FL? Smootch...
by JVolvo on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:46:54 AM PDT
and you ran out of money, so better come quick to the light ! :-)
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery - None but ourselves can free our mind.~Bob Marley
by Colorado Billy on Wed May 07, 2008 at 09:57:28 PM PDT
Hillary was declared the Democratic nominee a long, long time ago - nobody was giving Barack a chance.
-8.25, -6.97
by jaywillie on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:35:58 AM PDT
FOR GOD"S SAKE, THIS IS NO TIME TO FALL ASLEEP!
FIRE IT UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by koNko on Wed May 07, 2008 at 10:19:57 PM PDT
in front of the TEEvee cameras and tells the media that it's over and how she plans to support the next POTUS, the guy with the funny name who can't bowl and loves basketball.
She'll do it for the country because she has to. Till then, let's make calls and write to our own state superdelegates. I am going to organize to move superdelegate Senator Ken Salazar. In my opinion, this guy never does anything right... so I hope we can get him to back off from the Hill and look at the future. I want him to be replaced by a progressive, but that comes later!
by victoria2dc on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:29:19 AM PDT
wide narrow
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