It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything. I can’t blog from work now unless it is from my iPhone, which doesn’t really work too well with not having copy/paste, etc. I should make a post soon about the most recent of my iPhone gripes.
Anyway, first I’ll tackle hockey. The Capitals were eliminated in Game 7 of Round 1 to the Flyers. I was saying for months that I felt like making the playoffs at all would be gravy on a magnificent season. Still, it’s disappointing the team isn’t still playing. I still believe this team is capable of beating any other team in the league in a seven game series. The bounces didn’t go our way and we didn’t get it done. We’ll get them next year. Alexander Ovechkin has the Art Ross and Maurice “Rocket” Richard trophies locked up already, with the Hart a virtual lock along with the Pearson being a strong possibility. Backstrom is a finalist for the Calder trophy and is certainly deserving, though it likely will not go his way. Finalists haven’t yet been announced for the Jack Adams coach of the year award, but it would surprise no one if was awarded to Bruce Boudreau. The team’s best players are it’s young players, and they are only going to get better.
All in all it was a phenomenal year for Washington Capitals hockey. The team has awoken DC as a possible future hockey town. Season ticket sales are way up and it is looking like hockey won’t be the forgotten stepchild in Washington, DC sports much longer.
As I was concerned about yesterday, Republican voters seem to be coming out to vote for Sen. Clinton, perhaps spurred by the encouragement of Rush Limbaugh and others. The Republicans know that they have the best chance of winning against Sen. Clinton, so now that their party has decided its nomination they are starting to influence the Democratic race.
It used to be that Sen. Obama was getting more Republican support (he has actually used it as a campaign point) but since the last round of primaries and caucuses, which determined Sen. McCain would be the Republican nominee, we have had two contests. In Wyoming’s Democratic caucus (which was closed, meaning only those registered as a Democrat by February 22, 2008 could participate) we don’t have exit poll numbers, but it is unlikely Republican voters had an impact. In Mississippi, however, Sen. Clinton won the Republican vote by a 3-to-1 margin, 75% to 25%.
It is safe to say that Republicans haven’t all of a sudden started deciding Clinton is the candidate they are ready to switch party affiliation for. Obama has been winning the support of cross-over Republicans for some time, and now all of a sudden a 3-to-1 margin opens for Clinton? Not likely.
Mississippi is traditionally a red state. Since the state holds an open primary, and the Republican party already has a presumptive nominee, could we see a large amount of Republican voters voting for Clinton to drag the fight out longer?
Some of the right-wing pundits have been encouraging this for a little while and without the numbers in front of me I wouldn’t be surprised if it had an impact in states like Texas.
If not, here’s a great video where Sen. Obama is addressing the “Dream Ticket” that is all over the media since Clinton mentioned that that “may be where this is headed.” She of course thinks she should be on the top of that ticket, since the people in the state of Ohio voted in her favor. Nevermind, of course the people in the previous 12 states that selected Obama, or the people in the several states yet to vote.
The highlights:
The candidate in second place is offering the Vice Presidency to the candidate in first place.
Clinton swears up and down he isn’t ready, and that she is “on day one” — yet as President Bill Clinton said, the most important qualification for a VP is that he or she is ready to take over the job of the President, should they need to. Now how can he be ready for that, if he isn’t ready “on day one”
The Clinton campaign is grasping at straws here. Her last hope (since mud doesn’t seem to stick too well) seems to be “come on and vote for me, and you get Obama, too! … Please?”
This another example of how ridiculous this plagiarism thing from the Clinton campaign is.
How can she seriously seriously use lines like “That’s not change you can believe in, it is change you can Xerox” and then with a straight face deliver this gem:
Hopefully this thing is safely squashed at this point. Here’s another example on this same soundbyte.
I also quite enjoyed how Clinton goes on and on about Obama’s campaign being all about words and then delivers more sentimental rhetoric than he does at the debate! She calls the debates to talk about issues then plays the heartstring card with wounded soldier stories and uses the opportunity to throw out more of her own soundbytes while bashing his. That’s not a debate about issues.
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