Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Plagiarism Defined

Just the other day the Clintons were accusing Obama of plagiarism. Their arguments were weak. But this sure looks like plagiarism to me.

BTW: Fingers on a chalkboard sound more appealing than her voice. 

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Vote Fraud in NY

If you think the Clinton machine is above vote tampering, this might change your mind.

Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.

That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.

City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.

In the Harlem district, for instance, where the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn — where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton — she now barely leads, 118 to 116.

In New Mexico, a Clinton supporter “borrowed” three ballot boxes for a night after they were collected.

It seems they will go to any extreme to win. But will it be enough with the massive groundswell pushing Obama forward? Voter fraud can only get you so far.

It would be great to see Clinton knocked out so we’ll see less of this stuff in the real election in November.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

How to Lose an Election

She should lose just on the basis of this song. (Warning: may induce diabetic shock)

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The Desperate One

I have to admit I’ve been rooting for Obama to win the nomination for the Dems. Of the Democratic candidates I feel he has the best platform and seems to most rational. He is not my choice for president. To be honest, no one is. Except maybe Ron Paul at this stage. I am not rooting for McCain who I supported on 2000.

Anyway, Hillary looks done, but she is not giving up. She intends to screw the voters and get the nomination by ramming it down everyone’s throats.

Hillary Clinton will take the Democratic nomination even if she does not win the popular vote, but persuades enough superdelegates to vote for her at the convention, her campaign advisers say.

The New York senator, who lost three primaries Tuesday night, now lags slightly behind her rival, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, in the delegate count. She is even further behind in “pledged’’ delegates, those assigned by virtue of primaries and caucuses.

But Clinton will not concede the race to Obama if he wins a greater number of pledged delegates by the end of the primary season, and will count on the 796 elected officials and party bigwigs to put her over the top, if necessary, said Clinton’s communications director, Howard Wolfson.

Yeah, you read that right. The Clintons believe in Democracy as long as you vote for them. And it’s for reasons like this that I am rooting for Obama. I kind of like him anyway, though I don’t think he can handle foreign policy. In these times, that would be a problem.

Hillary on the other hand would be a disaster in far too many areas. The Clinton’s foreign policy empowered and emboldened Al Qaeda (according to Osama Bin Laden), they were arguably the most corrupt administration in our lifetimes and I don’t see that changing if Hillary were in charge. And talk about pandering. This picture says it all.

I seriously doubt the delegates will do what she wants if Obama keeps winning states. People afraid of her before. But you know what happens when a feared person stumbles and falls. Their so called friends and allies look for some other bandwagon to ride.

No, I think Hillary is all but over. But I want to be sure before I start celebrating. 

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Clinton’s Racist Strategy

The New York Times, of all places, has an article on how the Clinton campaign continues to use racial politics to divide people in an attempt to weaken Obama’s momentum. Instead, it’s shooting Clinton in both feet.

Mrs. Clinton did pile up her expected large margin among Latino voters in California. But her tight grip on that electorate is loosening. Mr. Obama, who captured only 26 percent of Hispanic voters in Nevada last month, did better than that in every state on Tuesday, reaching 41 percent in Arizona and 53 percent in Connecticut. Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign’s attempt to drive white voters away from Mr. Obama by playing the race card has backfired. His white vote tally rises every week. Though Mrs. Clinton won California by almost 10 percentage points, among whites she beat Mr. Obama by only 3 points.

The question now is how much more racial friction the Clinton campaign will gin up if its Hispanic support starts to erode in Texas, whose March 4 vote it sees as its latest firewall. Clearly it will stop at little. That’s why you now hear Clinton operatives talk ever more brazenly about trying to reverse party rulings so that they can hijack 366 ghost delegates from Florida and the other rogue primary, Michigan, where Mr. Obama wasn’t even on the ballot. So much for Mrs. Clinton’s assurance on New Hampshire Public Radio last fall that it didn’t matter if she alone kept her name on the Michigan ballot because the vote “is not going to count for anything.”

She got her head handed to her this weekend by Obama. The next few states will probably be more of the same. So she replaced her Hispanic campaign manager with an “African-American” one. Pandering like that isn’t going to win her any black votes at this stage. That ship has sailed. 

My guess is she’s done. Unless she can get he Super-Delegates to all go her way. But it seems a lot of Dems really don’t like the Clintons. And they have left a bad taste in many people’s mouths over the years. (pun intended)

Obama is kind of a blank slate. We haven’t really seen how he will be as a leader. But he’s good at presenting a certain image and he comes off a lot more appealing then the Clintons who are a known quantity. Hillary hasn’t distinguished herself as a senator, other than voting to give Bush whatever he’s wanted. Not exactly a way to win over your base. People are sick of establishment types. The corrupt politics as usual crowd that has driven the polls for Congress to record lows. Whether or not Obama is a fresh change, he seems to be something new and that’s appealing to a lot of people.

It’s also why McCain and Huckabee have done as well as they have. McCain is a very independent senator, and Huckabee is a fresh face who seems to be offering a change of a different kind.

Personally, none of these candidates appeals to me. But I understand why some find them attractive.

I think it’ll be an Obama vs McCain race. Maybe with Huckabee as McCain’s VP.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Bought and Paid For Candidates

This is just one of many reasons neither of the two leading candidates appeals to me.

Democrat Hillary Clinton has raised more money from lobbyists than any other presidential candidate while Republican John McCain has more of them assisting his campaign.

Clinton took in $823,087 from registered lobbyists and members of their firms in 2007 and the second-biggest recipient was McCain, who took in $416,321, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based group which tracks political giving. Barack Obama, Clinton’s rival for the Democratic nomination, doesn’t take money from registered lobbyists, although he received $86,282 from employees of firms that lobby, according to the center.

McCain has 26 registered lobbyists as campaign advisers or fundraisers compared with 11 for Clinton and none for Obama, according to review of records compiled by Public Citizen, a Washington-based group that favors stronger disclosure laws for lobbyists.

Sunday, February 03, 2008

The Answer is Simple…

“Piracy stops global warming”

Saturday, February 02, 2008

Sign of the Times

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Not My Idea of a Choice

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Bad Choices Once Again

It looks like this election is shaping up to be 2000 all over again. I didn’t vote in that election necause I disliked my choices. This time our choice seems to be a crazy old coot and a lying, shrill harpy.

I’ve been rooting for Obama to win the Democrat nomination, not just because I don’t like the Clintons, but because I think he actually has a few good ideas. He seems less compromised that Hillary who will be more of the same.

Hillary is leading in all the state polls, as is McCain. It’s possible there might be an upset, but at this point, it looks like we’re stuck between the two of them.

I give McCain credit for being a true fiscal conservative. But he’s a 70s Democrat for all intents and purposes. Hillary is an establishment candidate who will be the Democrat’s Bush. And four or eight more years of Bill Clinton on TV is going to be torture.

McCain might beat her, though. Especially if he gets someone like Thompson as VP. Thompson will help bring in the Southern vote which is needed to win the election. If McCain chooses Huckabee as VP, I don’t want to think about it.

All in all, I may sit this one out unless it looks close. Then I will vote for McCain. He is a lot more credible than Hillary. He has the experience she doesn’t and he would probably be a good Commander-in-Chief. But if you hate war, both McCain and Hillary are not your candidates. Bill Clinton sent our troops into more engagements than any president in history and McCain is a major saber rattler.