from the serious to the ridiculous
I’m a little nervous about people like this:
McCain has said he will appoint Supreme Court justices to the right of John Roberts. With two liberal justices (Stevens and Ginsberg) facing likely retirement, that means a 35-year setback for women’s rights is nigh if McCain is elected.
I’m just saying …
The Rules and Bylaws Committee of the DNC voted in favor of seating the full delegations from the renegade states of Florida and Michigan, but each of these states’ delegates will get .5 votes.
The committee also agreed to the Michigan Democratic Party’s proposal to split that state’s delegates 69-59 in Hillary Clinton’s favor. Halved, that means Clinton picked up 38 in MI (pledged and supers) and 56.5 in FL. Obama netted 32 in Michigan and 36 in Florida.
Clinton wins the day 84.5-68. She’ll gain even more tomorrow in Puerto Rico.
But Obama is just 64 away from the new magic number of 2,117, according to DemConWatch.
Oh, and Harold Ickes is a devilish cock.
Original post: The state territory that shouldn’t matter to the Clinton camp, but suddenly does and holds its primary this Sunday:
Vote: Clinton 54.3, Obama 45.2
Delegates: Clinton 17, Obama 11
Update: I previously misread Slate’s Delegate Calculator, and erroneously thought PR only sent 28 delegates to the convention. Turns out they actually have 55, so the revised delegate allocation would be: Clinton 30, Obama 25. Such a result would bring today’s new magic number of 61 down to 36, which is closer than he was last night.
Visiting Trinity United (Obama’s church) Rev. Michael Pfleger, on mocking Hillary Clinton in a recent sermon:
“These words are inconsistent with Senator Obama’s life and message, and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Clinton or anyone else who saw them.” (itals mine)
This is pro-forma the kind of bullshit apology public figures always issue. It’s what Hillary said when she inappropriately brought up the RFK assassination.
If they offended. Clearly they did offend, and in both cases, a large number of people. Not just Clinton, in Pfleger’s case, and not just the Kennedy family, in Clinton’s.
Look, I’m all about forgiveness, and I know we’re all fallible. I’m the biggest fuckup among you all. But when I apologize (and yes, I’m being self-righteous here. Deal), when I sincerely mean it, I try to make my language reflect that. These soft, cover-your-ass apologies make matters worse, methinks. Perhaps they betray the fact that the speaker meant the offending the term in the first place.
With the latest endorsements, Barack Obama is now within a decent showing in the three upcoming elections. Predictions to come, but my estimates show him picking up a little more than 40 between now and Tuesday. Remaining superdelegate endorsements, plus any fair seating of Florida and Michigan delegates, put him over the top, where we’ve all known for some time that he was destined.
For the record, DemConWatch now has him needing 41 to clinch
Caveat: I don’t expect Clinton to go anywhere. I fully expect challenges, appeals, lawsuits, and it could easily become exactly the media narrative she wants. The biggies in the party, Reid, Gore, Pelosi, Carter, Mitchell, they’ll show support for Obama next week, but no matter. It’s about to get ugly, y’all.
And here’s proof: Two Texas supers endorsed Barack Obama today.
Texas Dem Party Chairman Boyd Richie and Democratic National Committee member Betty Richie are for Obama.
West Virginia U.S. Congressman Alan B. Mollohan endorses today, bringing the magic number to 43.
Which is almost beautiful, until you realize how vile it is.
Wait, now Rupert Murdoch is saying Obama will win? What am I missing here? Oh, right, nothing.
Our work is cut out for us, folks.
The thought occurred to me today that maybe former press secretary Scott McClellan looked at Bush’s disapproval ratings (between 63 and 70 percent in most recent polls) and thought, I want to sell my book. What if I join this “Bush is a moron” chorus? I’m sure that’ll sell.
Maybe he never bought it all, but also never saw what an enabler, or, at least, accomplice he was. The dots were never connected between message and mouthpiece.
Either way, he’s sure to sell enough books to live handsomely for some time.
Just a quick odd thought: It struck me as puzzling and anachronistic yesterday that iTunes still uses a compact disc as part of its application icon. That’s all.
Guam Senator and Democratic National Committeeman Ben C. Pangelinan endorses Obama today, bringing the magic number down to 45.
I wonder if today’s steady drip has anything to do with yesterday’s news confluence of Scott McClellan’s book and Lanny Davis’s newest idiocy. Maybe people became deathly afraid of a Lanny Davis as press secretary, lying the press and the public into the obliteration of Iran for President Hillary Clinton. Yeah, I’m barfing and shaking, too.
Sorry, I forgot to update the magic number in my last post. How irresponsible of me.
Not bad considering it’s not even 8 a.m. out here on the West Coast.
Colorado Democratic Party Chair and superdelegate Pat Waak and Oregon Democratic Party Chairwoman Meredith Wood Smith, both female human beings who, by endorsing Obama, are betraying women and their daughters everywhere, endorse Obama today.
See more sexism at Obama’s campaign site. Ignore the record numbers of donors. They’re probably all guys.