Last night may have been the first phase of cooling the rhetoric so that there can be a Clinton/Obama ticket brokered now, long before it reaches the Dem convention.
highhopes on February 22, 2008 at 9:58 AM

Clinton/Obama?! I think ya got that backwards. Who won the last eleven primaries? Do you think Barack (not to mention his supporters) would take a back seat to her now?

Just as unimaginable is an Obama/Clinton ticket. Think about it: if you were POTUS Barack O’Jesus, would you want to compete with your VP’s husband for the nation’s attention?

If you were FLOTUS Michelle O’Jesus, would you want to compete with the VP for the press’s attention? How’s she gonna beautify the highways or end illiteracy when the cameras are all on Hellary?

Surely you’re

9. He defecates hope, urinates dreams, perspires justice, expectorates butterfly kisses, and cries tears of racial equality.
8. While his home planet was in the throes of destruction as the result of a thermonuclear chain reaction deep within its unsta…

Yes, tax increase on the rich is the standard answer. Followed by ending the war in Iraq.

swami on February 22, 2008 at 10:36 AM

Your lib friends sound just like my lib friends. They don’t seem to realize that they themselves are among the “rich” as defined by Dems in Congress who want to raise taxes on “the rich.” If they do realize that they’re among the “rich,” they have convinced themselves that they SHOULD be taxed more heavily and that it is a good and noble thing to give more of their earnings to the government, as long as the government is led by someone like Obama who will use it for “good.”

They also seem to think that military spending is most of the national budget and that we could end world poverty if we’d just stop throwing money down the drain in Iraq. When I point out that military spending is approximately just 4% of the national budget and that ballooning entitlements are approaching 60% and will in the near future (if nothing changes) constitute 100% of the national budget, they deny that this could possibly be true. It’s the war in Iraq that’s breaking the bank, they insist, and Obama will fix that. Then we’ll be able to afford universal health care and all the other things libs have promised to provide.

The scary part is, these are extremely well-educated and thoughtful people. But they have fallen for Obama and liberalism in general hook, line, and sinker.

Yes, tax increase on the rich is the standard answer. Followed by ending the war in Iraq.

Do your friends ever stop and ask themselves how he will find the money to pay for all of this “change”?

capitalist piglet on February 22, 2008 at 10:13 AM

Haven’t you heard, he plans to put people back into the middle class, since those evil republicans have been allowing them to escape by moving up

Hillary is going to lose in Texas with a similar margin that she did in Wisconsin because the Obama campaign planned months ago for a primary / caucus in this state that would matter. Their GOTV effort in Texas is running circles around Hillary bare bones rag tag group of volunteers. Hillary’s game plan calendar didn’t go beyond Super Tuesday and now they are making a desperate failed attempt to catch up.

Also, with the Teamsters, 1.4 million strong, now working for Obama after their endorsement on Wednesday he’ll have a good chance at Ohio too. They are sending hundreds and hundreds of union members to Ohio for the Obama GOTV effort.

Hillary rally in Seattle … 5000, Obama over 17,000+ there. Hillary rally in Texas the other day, maybe 5000 to 6000, Obama another 17,000+ in back to back rallies. This is happening all across the country. These kind of crowds showing up for a rally to see a candidate just trying to win their party’s nomnination have never before happened in the history of this country. Not even close.

Expect nothing to come of any of it, except to see her fade more and more away.

pilamaye on February 22, 2008 at 9:56 AM

Now if she would just GO away this country will be better for it !

There is still hope that McCain can keep this shitbird out of the Oval Office, but it won’t be easy. Quitting isn’t really an option, unfortunately.

To those of you who want to stay home in November – you want to leave our troops in the hands of idiots like this while they fight a war??????

Our troops don’t give up without a fight, yet that’s exactly what you are planning on doing.

Tink on February 22, 2008 at 8:49 AM

As for those who have taken to labeling Senator McCain a liberal, we reject that.

A liberal does not have a zero rating from NARAL and a 17-percent voting record with the AFL-CIO (the same rating as Sen. Jim DeMint, by way of comparison).

A liberal does not have this written about him by Sen. Jon Kyl: “On the ever-important issue of life, Senator McCain has a record of voting for pro-life legislation: He has voted for bans on partial birth abortion; he has supported Unborn Victims of Violence Act and parental notification for minors; and he has voted against using federal money to distribute morning-after contraception in schools. He has repeatedly cosponsored the Child Custody Protection Act, which prohibits the transportation of minors across state lines in order to circumvent state laws, requiring instead the involvement of parents in abortion decisions.”

A liberal does not vote to defund Planned Parenthood.

A liberal does not go on television and radio to defend Sam Alito and John Roberts.

A liberal does not go on the road to campaign for Social Security retirement accounts.

A liberal does not support the surge or the stay in Iraq.

A liberal does not support extending Bush’s tax cuts.

A liberal does not get the endorsements of Tom Coburn, Jack Kemp, Steve Forbes, Rudy Giuliani, Sam Brownback, Tim Pawlenty, Phil Gramm, Jeff Flake, Jon Kyl, and Ted Olson.

Senator McCain may have some liberal positions, but he is not a liberal. He is a conservative with some liberal positions. But on life, taxes, and national defense, his record is, in fact, very strong.

Let us repeat. We know the “yes, but,” argument against Senator McCain – and agree with some of it. But let us not fool ourselves that there is no difference between Senator McCain and whomever the Democrats nominate. (What we have written above about Senator Clinton holds true of Senator Barack Obama as well).

Over the past two years, the conservative movement has lifted Senator Joe Lieberman onto their shoulders higher and higher (rightly, in our view), and yet many of the same people who have done that have sworn off of Senator McCain. Notwithstanding much of our praise for Senator Lieberman, he is far to the left of Senator McCain – with a lifetime ACU rating of 17 percent and an ADA (Americans for Democratic Action, a liberal counter-part to the ACU ratings), in 2006, of 75 percent.

Senator Clinton’s respective ratings? Nine percent from the ACU and 95 percent from the ADA.

Senator Obama’s respective ratings? Eight percent from the ACU and 95 percent from the ADA.

Senator McCain’s respective ratings? 82.3 percent from the ACU and 15 percent from the ADA.

We do not have perfect nominees and never have. As John Hinderaker pointed out recently, since Calvin Coolidge, we haven’t even had a pure “conservative ideologue” in our party elected president. And even that one “purist” was not free of blemishes and criticism, much as we rightly venerate him.

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swami on February 22, 2008 at 10:02 AM

Do your friends ever stop and ask themselves how he will find the money to pay for all of this “change”?

He reminds me of a relative of mine who gave slips of paper to everyone for Christmas, saying he was taking the entire family to Europe. He never actually did it, but boy, that was the best Christmas ever!

But better not be too critical of these people. Watch what you say, or they’ll nationalize Google and restrict its use exclusively for themselves.

Believe it or not, it’s not brainless applause. I have lifelong friends that are far lefties and they sware everything BO says makes perfect sense to them, specifically the destruction of the middle class, tax cuts for the rich, universal healthcare, etc. BO has sold them that he is the only person that can deliver all these things and they have bought it. The more he talks, the more excited they get, they believe every word he says.

swami on February 22, 2008 at 10:02 AM

I missed the part where their behavior is evidence of something other than ‘brainless’.

Believe it or not, it’s not brainless applause. I have lifelong friends that are far lefties and they sware everything BO says makes perfect sense to them, specifically the destruction of the middle class, tax cuts for the rich, universal healthcare, etc. BO has sold them that he is the only person that can deliver all these things and they have bought it. The more he talks, the more excited they get, they believe every word he says.

His followers love it when he blows his schnotty schnoz, ffs.

I swear, its like Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” where people are chasing Bryan around, worshiping his dropped sandal, etc.

Is his Holy Hanky for sale on eBay yet?

The brainless applause from his supporters greatly disturbs me. The man who give the old “Why did the chicken cross the road?” line, and his audience would go wild with a laughing fit.

amerpundit on February 22, 2008 at 9:52 AM

I’m sure whatever his answer to that question, it would be riveting, inspiring, and it would give people throughout America hope. Heck, just hearing him ask the question gives me hope.

Swoon.

The clip comparison to Bill is great work guys. No matter who wins, I know its not going to be her and thats exciting.

it’s time to move the Dohrn/Ayers story to the front page.

Jaibones on February 22, 2008 at 9:40 AM

+1

which means our gal’s either (a) given up the ghost and too dispirited to fight, (b) already thinking ahead to the goodwill she’ll need for 2012 or 2016, or (c) possessed of a graciousness we never knew she had in her.

Admit it, that last choice was just a “throwaway” to round things out, wasn’t it?

I wouldn’t be writing Clinton’s obituary just yet. Last night may have been the first phase of cooling the rhetoric so that there can be a Clinton/Obama ticket brokered now, long before it reaches the Dem convention. Think of it. Months to tout the “historic” ticket compared to the half-dead McCain who isn’t even able to get his base enthused. The “rats” are poised for a Reaganesque like victory if they can mend fences early.

In the meantime we’re stuck with a pathetic loser and his brain dead zombies who keep telling us to shut up and get behind the dinosaur instead of giving us substantive reasons why we should support the candidacy of a man who has declared us racists because we aren’t in favor of amnesty.

As for Shillary, any hopes she had of pulling off a Comeback Kid went South last night.

Expect nothing but dirt to come flying out of her camp directed at B.O. in the next few days leading up to the primaries in Texas and Ohio. Expect nothing to come of any of it, except to see her fade more and more away.