Donna Brazille's reply to a Hillary supporter threatening to vote for McCain if remaining supers didn't endorse Hillary:
"So I believe you're ready to not only destroy Roe versus Wade, voting rights, civil liberties and civil rights. Perhaps adding trillions more to the deficits through non-stop tax cuts to the wealthy and 100 more years in Iraq. Yes, please join Rush and McCain asap. The train has left. Catch it."
My sentiments exactly for these hardcore bitter women that have lost their core democratic values, if they ever had them. Relax, let them vent, let Hillary figure out it's over and let's all work hard to make sure we have gotten to every unregistered voter we can. The we won't have to worry about these diehard feminists or the bigots and win in November.
Hillary and Bill are going to do whatever they are going to do and we have to trust that the Superdelegates will step in of they continue this race baiting.
We have to stop bashing them and stop now. As her supporters begin to deal with reality and start to check out Obama where do you think they will go???? Here maybe. And what exactly do you think is going to happen when they see all this nastiness. They are going to be angry and rightfully. We need to heal this party or all our efforts so far will be for nothing. We need these people and antagonizing them is not going to help us at all.
So Please Stop.
If Hillary keeps it positive (no attacks and no contrasting herself and Obama) then she will not hurt Obama at all. Her speech was all about her (actually sounded like Obama, except the hiring spiel) and she didn't mention Obama at all. If Obama is going to lose West Virginia and Kentucky it actually helps if she is running so it doesn't look as bad for him.
Let Hillary and her supporters decompress and accept reality at their own pace. We have won and can afford to be gracious and let the deal with their loss.
They are going to vent their frustration. Please don't respond. It only makes it worse. They will get bored if they get no attention and go home faster.
Let them vent and be kind.
We have won even if Hillary Clinton decides to keep going. At this point it does not matter. Be kind, stop attacking her, reach out to her supporters as the reality sinks in. BE KIND. BE KIND. BE KIND. It's time to bring this party back together.
We need to turn our attention to John McCain.
Goto DailyKos to read John Kerry's diary:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/6/10473/09913/540/510012
or
Just goto to his website and co-sign his letter demanding the GAO investigate this program:
Please pass this on to everyone you know. Thanks
Clinton's moving goal posts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9qd-P2bIiY
Update: Through a spokesperson with the colorful name Tucker Bounds, McCain has denied telling me he didn't vote for Bush in 2000. "It's not true," Bounds told the Washington Post, "and I ask you to consider the source."
My sentiments exactly -- because John McCain has a long history of issuing heartfelt denials of things that were actually true.
He denied ever talking with John Kerry about his leaving the GOP to be Kerry's '04 running mate -- then later admitted he had, insisting: "Everybody knows that I had a conversation."
He denied admitting that he didn't know much about economics, even though he'd said exactly that to the Wall Street Journal. And the Boston Globe. And the Baltimore Sun.
He denied ever having asked for a budget earmark for Arizona, even though he had. On the record.
He denied that he'd ever had a meeting with comely lobbyist Vicki Iseman and her client Lowell Paxon, even though he had. And had admitted it in a legal deposition.
And those are just the outright denials. He's also repeatedly tried to spin away statements he regretted making (see: 100-year war, Iraq was a war for oil, etc.).
So, yes, by all means, "consider the source."
Meanwhile, in his spare time...
...Obama seems to have brought peace to the Niger Delta. No joke.
Reuters:
Rebels who have stepped up attacks on Nigeria's oil industry in the last month said on Sunday they were considering a ceasefire appeal by U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has launched five attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta since it resumed a campaign of violence in April, forcing Royal Dutch Shell to shut more than 164,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd). "The MEND command is seriously considering a temporary ceasefire appeal by Senator Barack Obama. Obama is someone we respect and hold in high esteem," the militant group said in an e-mailed statement.
Real action to bring down gas prices. Influence in the world and he's not the president yet.
We've all been complaining about the media. A friend sent me this link to checkout this new news service that is a grassroots effort to get a news channel online and on TV that does not accept government, corporate or advertising monies.
http://www.therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=1&thisid=aboutus&thisview=list
RE: Rev. Jerimiah Wright
I don't want to start this over, but this needs to be seen and many of us need to think about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfqCyMU3mfo
Here is the link to a web page to contribute through. If you don't want to contribute her, at least you can use it to find out which candidates in your state support Obama and
http://actblue.com/page/friends08
Description on page:
This page was inspired by an e-mail sent by Chris Carlson. Chris makes the suggestion that it is time for Senator Obama’s supporters to demonstrate their support for other Democratic candidates who are running for reelection in 2008. I created this page after I came to ActBlue to make a donation to Congressman David Loebsack and found that I could not include a comment with my donation thanking him for endorsing Senator Obama. This page is intended to act as a conduit for contributions from Senator Obama’s supporters to those candidates who have endorsed Senator Obama and to the Democratic Party organizations, DSCC, DCCC, DLCC, DGA, and DNC. Contributions made through this page will be aggregated and reported periodically on the blogs. This list of candidates was taken from the list at Politico on 3/29/08. It will be updated as new endorsements are made.This page is not intended to redirect funds away from Senator Obama’s campaign. If you have limited resources, please make his campaign your first priority and donate directly at donate.barackobama.com. Then if you can, make an additional donation to support one of the candidates below.Disclaimer: This page is a grassroots effort by Obama supporters. It was not suggested by, promoted, nor even authorized by any Obama campaign staff.
This is the most comprehensive look at the democratic primary I've read;. I didn't post it to attack Hillary, but for mr this documents why my feelings about Hillary have changed from not trusting her, but being satisfied that if she won I'd accept it; to not wanting her or Bill anywhere near the White House. I do not trust her at all now, I no longer have any respect for Bill, and feel as if Hillary has done severe damage to feminisim (in 3 1/2 - 4 months) and all the progress we women have made, as well as damaging the democratic party.
Race to the Bottom
by Betsy Reed in The Nation
In the course of Hillary Clinton's historic run for the White House--in which she became the first woman ever to prevail in a state-level presidential primary contest--she has been likened to Lorena Bobbitt (by Tucker Carlson); a "hellish housewife" (Leon Wieseltier); and described as "witchy," a "she-devil," "anti-male" and "a stripteaser" (Chris Matthews). Her loud and hearty laugh has been labeled "the cackle," her voice compared to "fingernails on a blackboard" and her posture said to look "like everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court." As one Fox News commentator put it, "When Hillary Clinton speaks, men hear, Take out the garbage." Rush Limbaugh, who has no qualms about subjecting audiences to the spectacle of his own bloated physique, asked his listeners, "Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?" Perhaps most damaging of all to her electoral prospects, very early on Clinton was deemed "unlikable." Although other factors also account for that dislike, much of the venom she elicits ("Iron my shirt," "How do we beat the b**ch?") is clearly gender-specific.
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 35 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - A leader of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton has switched his allegiance to Barack Obama and is encouraging fellow Democrats to "heal the rift in our party" and unite behind the Illinois senator.
Hillary Clinton leads Barack Obama in the popular vote, and this is her path to victory. She will ultimately win the Democratic nomination by convincing the superdelegates that her popular vote lead makes it legitimate for them to support her. It gives them the cover they need to deny Obama a nomination that he otherwise would have won. What’s wrong with this picture? First, Clinton does not lead Obama in the popular vote. It is a fantasy. Second, the people she most needs to convince that this fantasy is true are the people least likely to believe it.
The Obama campaign just posted a new delegate tracker on BarackObama.com and it will count down the delegates until he secures the nomination. It's something you won't see on HillaryClinton.com, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why.
According to the tracker, Obama needs just 288 more delegates to secure the nomination. That works out to 40% of the uncommitted delegates. Also, given that he's a lock to get at least 200 more pledged delegates, it means he really only needs 88 of the undeclared superdelegates -- just under 30%.
Bottom-line is that barring a catastrophic collapse, Barack Obama's delegate math is just unbeatable. Of course, the media doesn't want to tell you that story -- if people stopped paying attention to the primary campaign, their ratings would suffer.
