After it is all said and done…
After Florida and Michigan have their delegates seated (even though they broke the rules and Clinton and Obama both signed on to those rules, and Obama wasn’t even on the ballot in Michigan)…
After all the remaining states have voted…
After enough superdelegates have put Obama over the top…
After Clinton has conceded for the good of the party…
After Obama likely puts Clinton on the ticket, despite that while possibly appeasing some Clinton supporters, would be a horrible idea as far as beating the Republicans in the fall…
Are you all still planning to vote for McCain, abstain, write-in for Clinton or vote for some third-party? Will you still consider the rest of us sexists and chauvinists? Will the DNC still be evil? Will everyone and everything still be pegged as trying to keep a woman down?
Or will you return to the fold and help this country move forward? Finally accept that after it was all said and done, Obama won this thing fair and square with a majority of states, delegates and votes?
I don’t like to think that folks are so caught up in a cult of personality for her that they have lost the plot. The goal is to bring the White House back to the people. I fail to see what the country gains when you lodge a protest vote in the interest of “supporting women” for someone who clearly hasn’t. He calls his wife a trollop and a cunt. He says women don’t get equal opportunities and pay because they are not as educated. He will install justices that will overturn your freedom of choice.
Are you so myopic that you will give up on the dream because the torchbearer isn’t the one you preferred?
I was going to wait until all the polls were in before I made a post, and Indiana has just been called for Sen. Clinton.
North Carolina was expected to go for Sen. Obama, and it did in a resounding fashion, 56% - 42%. Indiana was expected to go for Sen. Clinton by several percent, and it is basically tied. We’re talking about a delegate or two between them in Indiana. Sen. Obama has effectively washed out Sen. Clinton’s gains from Pennsylvania.
A lot of folks are now expecting Sen. Clinton to step out of the race this week, but I think I’m just a little more cynical. I don’t see her stepping aside when she has a basically guaranteed win in West Virginia. I think she stays in at least through that contest and hopes for an Obama gaffe, or that the media latches on to another lapel pin or Wright non-issue. She’s out of money — barring a huge fundraising announcement from April — but I just don’t think she’ll suddenly decide she can’t win and step aside. A clear Clinton victory has been a long shot for some time. She has been “moving the goal posts” for quite a while, with Michigan, Florida, “more votes by people who have voted,” the legitimacy of caucuses versus primaries, etc. With a win (however minor) in Indiana, I can’t see her stepping aside. I am hoping I am wrong because every day she is in this race is a distraction from the attention that should be being paid to going after McCain. He’s currently getting a free pass.
Here’s a good article from The Huffington Post, before I come off too much like a hater: It’s Not About Hating Hillary
And can I just say how much I love this picture?
Janny over at Long Live The Monkey sent me this article today. I thought I should share it here after my mentioning earlier about how Sen. Obama is the only one being realistic and truthful amongst the Presidential candidates when it comes to this political gaming over gas prices.
Here’s an excerpt:
Much nonsense has been written about how Hillary Clinton is “toughening up” Barack Obama so he’ll be tough enough to withstand Republican attacks. Sorry, we don’t need a president who is tough enough to withstand the lies of his opponents. We need a president who is tough enough to tell the truth to the American people. Any one of the candidates can answer the Red Phone at 3 a.m. in the White House bedroom. I’m voting for the one who can talk straight to the American people on national TV — at 8 p.m. — from the White House East Room.
Who will tell the people? We are not who we think we are. We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country.
(emphasis mine)
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.
Moving on.
Continue reading ‘Overdue Post’
Latest Comments
RSS