I read a commentary on Slate.com last week where they said that Obama should drop out in order to make himself the new Al Gore (i.e. Mister Screwed-Out-Of-The-Presidency) and guarantee himself the nomination in four years. Pretty mercenary political thinking, and I highly doubt it's the kind of thing Obama would do, but it was still an interesting read.

But if he did, and Hillary won, he'd be screwed for 8 years. Has a party EVER chosen a candiate different from the one they already had in office?

The angle they took was that Obama's supporters would be so outraged at Clinton that they would either stay home or vote for McCain. It's a fantasy scenario, to be sure...

Although if it were to happen, I could definitely see McCain winning. Hillary is stronger with the Democratic base (viz. her wins in Ohio and Pennsylvania, which were closed primaries), but Obama is stronger with independents, who will be voting in every state in the general election.

For the sake of sensationalism, did anyone else watch/listen to Rev. Wright's speech at the National Pres Club this morning?

I read a few of the highlights... honestly, anyone who's shocked, shocked! about a pastor making negative comments about America hasn't been in that many churches before. The difference is that when they do it in white churches, they just talk about how American culture is evil but the nation itself is still super awesome and stuff. In other words, America's great except for the people.

I could go on, but my meh fuse just blew

this

admittedly America would be really nice if there weren't all those people there.




I like buffaloes

And Native Americans

On a side note, Jimmy Carter was on The Daily Show last night. Interesting comments about his talks w/ Hamas. It seems like he made more progress in a few days than our government would make in a few years.

I have always been fond of Mr. Carter, regardless of others' changing opinions. It was nice to see him on the Daily Show again.

I enjoyed his appearance. Especially as it followed the Congo Penis Theft Update.

YES

That graphic was WICKED

Imagine that addressing the middle east peace problems with words instead of bombs...

its so crazy it just might work.

although admittedly it may help that people might be getting really tired of bombs.

The US needs to invest in research to develop null rays.

Skyclonus 08™

fixed

Well, at least I'd have the Faction demographic.

I think you may need more than 8 votes to win though.

But can he win the vote of the tetrajet community back on Cybertron?

You know those tetrajets, they cling to their null rays.

because they're so bitter?

Former DNC head / (Bill) Clinton appointee / early Hillary endorser endorses Obama:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080501/D90CQURG0.html

So, let me get this straight...the only way that Hillary can really win the nomination is through the superdelegates. After all the crap that Obama has been through, none that have pledged support to him have switched sides...actually, he's been picking them up at an even rate in the past few weeks. Really, what is going through HRC's mind to convince her that she's going to win the nomination?

I'm guessing the inside of her mind currently looks like this.

Timothy Leary?

I think she really really really really really really wants to win.

More like:

G I V E P O B A M A ! 1 !

IF ONLY HE WOULD STOP BEING AHEAD

AND STOP HANDLING CONTROVERSIES SO WELL

AND STOP BEING NOT HER

I have only one response to this:

hwaa hwaa hwaaaaaa

Can we please just skip to the part where I like our president and America is all prosperous and well liked and stuff?

I wanna go to that part.

BTW, "Mission Accomplished" is 5 years old today.

They also admitted that that banner was a bad call... five years after the fact

Ya rly

It's a little late to fix that one.

*Is reminded of the Scrubs episode where JD is reading "The Iraq War for Dummies" and is confused about the Mission Accomplished banner when he has 300 pages left to read*

Have they admitted the war was a bad call too?

No. Because they didn't make a banner for it, maybe? That sounds like a good explanation.

If you admit mistakes, the terrorists have won.

they also win if you like

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That looks like a cartoon bubble over his head...

I hate that show with a passion. It's just partisan crap under the disguise of humor.

I've seen it once, and I did laugh in a scene where Kerry was pouring ketchup all over his fries and someone said "Hey Kerry, if you love ketchup so much, why don't you marry it?"

The only funny thing on that show.

I see on tv when the tv is flipping itself past comedy central...there are occasional gems. But mostly it's played-out jokes.

I only ever see promos for it between Daily Show / Colbert segments... it is fun to say "Lil' Bush" but beyond that I got nothing.

OK So I just had lunch with my racist sexist republican Printer... actually turns out he's a registered Democrat... wanna guess why? yeah he already put in his vote for Hillary.

The theory that republicans are out there are voting for Hillary because they think she can't win is true.


I really wish this was over now. The consequences of having more of the same from our next administration seem really dire to me...