The media is deciphering how the gas tax issue played to Obama's advantage. Popular theory - Obama benefited from having Clinton take the same position as McCain. Fair point. Of course, the media never bothered to point out that Obama was taking the same position as Bush. The gas tax was defined by the non-stop condemnation it took from the national media. Not a single economist supports this plan. Are these the same economists who say inflation is only 3%? Read more!
7.5.08
Matthews losing it again
Chris Matthews says last night's result in North Carolina shows that North Carolina is a "more forward looking state than Pennsylvania." This is utter rubbish if MSNBC's exit polls are to be believed. According to their exit polls, Obama got 91% of the African-American vote in North Carolina and 90% of the African-American vote in Pennsylvania. Obama received 37% of the white vote in both states. There was absolutely no difference between the two states in the white vote according to their exit polls. The difference in the result was that in North Carolina 34% of the voters were African-American versus 15% in Pennsylvania.
Matthews then gushed about North Carolina's universities explaining why North Carolina is so "forward looking." For the record, Matthews, one of the few counties Obama carried was Centre County - home to Penn State - in lilly-white central Pennsylvania.
Matthews is sadly little more than an old drunk's collection of anecdotes, prejudices and axes to grind.
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Transformatives: Now on PPV
What exactly is it that Obama Nation loves so much about Obama? His fierce convictions that no one can identify, or his refusal to sink the old politics?
Sullivan cites a perceptive comment by Jennifer Rubin:
Second, Obama is a fast learner. His speech last night included a heavy dose of heartfelt appreciation for America, reverence for the land of opportunity and lots of empathy for working class voters. Like a vacuum cleaner, he is sucking up the Clintonian message to blue collar voters and absorbing the rhetoric which has successfully lured a coalition of working class whites, seniors and women. Don’t expect any more Snobgate slip-ups.
So the beauty of Obama is that he can talk just like the woman Obama Nation now hates? After all, she will say or do anything to be elected. What do you call transforming yourself into her? Is that what they mean by "transformative"? Read more!
Gary, Gary, Gary
The reports coming out of Lake County, Indiana sounded vaguely familiar. I remembered Hunter S. Thompson's account 36 years ago in the Ohio primary.
...All he needed to carry the state, now - along with the 38 convention delegates reserved for the statewide winner - was a half-respectable statewide showing from the twenty-first, the heatland of the black vote, a crowded urban fiefdom bossed by Congressman Louis Stokes.
Ten seconds after he picked up the phone Himmelman was screaming: "What? Jesus Christ! No! That can't be right!" (pause . . . ) Then: "Aw shit! That's impossible!"
He turned to Mankiewicz: "It's all over. Listen to this . . ." He turned back to the phone: "Give that to me again. . . okay, yeah, I'm ready." He waited until Mankiewicz got a pencil, then began reading the figures. A hundred and nine to one! A hundred and twenty seven to three! . . . Jesus!"
Manciewicz, flinched, then wrote down the numbers. Cadell slumped back in his chair and shook both fists at the ceiling. Himmelman kept croaking out the figures: a fantastic beating, ubelievable, the twenty-first district was a total wipeout.... "Say, how many votes do they have to count up there?"
"As many as they need," Mankiewicz muttered.
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72, pages 189-190, Warner Books, 1973
Deja
Mayor Rudy Clay came to his headquarters in Gary Tuesday night with a list of voting results showing overwhelming margins for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton.Vu
Many of the districts had Obama with triple digit totals and Clinton with totals in the single digits or teens. One district had a result of 126-4
Clay was one of only two Northwest Indiana mayors to endorse Obama.
With Hillary Clinton’s statewide lead under 40,000, the pending results from Lake County loom large.Read more!
While Clinton reportedly led voting in cities like Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago, Gary Mayor Rudy Clay is indicating a huge margin in favor of Obama in his city.
It’s very lopsided,” Clay said, pointing to a hand-written list of precinct results.
According to his numbers, in most districts Clinton’s turnout in the city of Gary was near non-existent. One precinct saw 126 voters turn out for Obama, while only four voted for Clinton.
Clay said the election is seeing a record turnout in the city.
“We’re used to having maybe a 22, 23 percent turnout for a primary. We’re seeing numbers as high as 85 to 95 percent,” Clay said. “The Gary people took care of business.”
6.5.08
Carny Barker Matthews unrelentless
He's now on the Hillary GED comment into double figures and embarrassing anyone who gets within shouting distance of him.
He's also trying to discredit any Hillary victory in Indiana because of Rush's Operation Chaos despite the fact that when Obama was pulling Republicans and Independents, it was a sign of his electability. Of course, that was before the Rev. Wright. Now Independents and Republicans are a push.
As for the power of Rush Limbaugh, isn't John McCain the GOP nominee?
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Meet the Walkens
A little comedy relief for a long night
"By the way, we finally saw the Deer Hunter. That movie was hilarious!"
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Am I the only one who gives a fuck about the rules?
Chris Matthews and Eugene Robinson were on MSNBC pining for the rules. Matthews threw out his "Clintons want mulligans" line to self contented laughter. They then lit into this notion of allowing two of the biggest states in the nation to have some role in choosing a nominee because they dared to annoy New Hampshire. The conversation turned to them how the Clintons are totally indifferent to the rules. At the same time, Matthews kept chirping, how can anyone not give the nomination to the person with the most pledged delegates?
Well Chris, as you were saying about rules, the rules say that you need half of the delegates to receive the nomination. He then said that no one ever has half the delegates. Interesting trivia there but why bother Matthews with history. The superdelegates are free to cast their ballots however they want. Those are the rules. Remember the rules?
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Hold the Pulitzer - New Vitale Book
ESPN's human bullhorn was at breakfast this morning on Siesta Key discussing his latest book, a retrospective on his career at ESPN and the Top 50 college players he has seen during that time. Promising to have all of the creativity of a Larry King's dot dot dot column, the book which could be finished by lunch presuming Vitale started it this morning has all of the complexity of a Page 2 column on espn.com. The book is particularly narcissistic since the book will only players during Vitale's tenure at ESPN.
Technically, I don't feel like I was eavesdropping since I was sitting in my car 20 feet away with the windows up. Seriously, five more feet and he would be in violation of Sarasota's new loud stereo law. That's a bit nitpicking but so close to the water, you have to be concerned about his voice's effect on the fertility of sea turtle eggs.
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5.5.08
Ed Schultz is a Moron!
Why is this radio buffoon on national cable television? Now Schultz isn't alone in this sentiment, but he is the loudest. They are now attacking the gas tax holiday proposal because Bush will never sign the windfall tax on the oil companies.
Let me say this once.
SO WHAT!?!?!? MAKE HIM VETO IT. MAKE JOHN McCAIN GO TO THE SENATE AND VOTE AGAINST IT!!! AND THEN DESTROY THEM!!!
If Bush vetoes it, make everyone vote again to overturn it.
This is a classic case of the pollyannish Obama crusade. All of these leftists are counting on Obama to remake Washington. How? Is he going to smile at them and everyone's going to forget everything they have ever stood for and follow him.
There is one way to be bipartisan. Compromise. Negotiate and compromise. That's what Clinton did for six years and the leftists in the Democratic Party hated him for it.
Go back. Read the Constitution. Those are the rules of how you govern. Electing Obama is not going to change how a bill becomes a law.
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Whistling past the graveyard
Read a pro-Obama blog like Sullivan or the DailyKos, or even listen to Obama himself, mocking and ridiculing the discussion of "lapel pins" and "preachers." It's the same conversation Democrats always have when we're in the process of losing national elections. Read more!
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