Showing posts with label Michigan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michigan. Show all posts

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Channeling Sam Kinison to Tell Barack Obama how Stupid he was for Taking his Name off of the Michigan Ballot.

If you don't know who Sam Kinnison is/was, just type his name into You Tube and check him out. Most memorable was his ability to "YELL IN CAPS" to make what was usually a humorous, and salient point Blare across the room in screamvision. Sam had the misfortune of being killed in a head on collision. Really a stunning end to a comedic career that was still on the rise.

If Sam were alive today he'd have a field day with all three presidential candidates. However, I think Sam would have held a special spot in his heart for Barack Obama. Barack Obama took his name off of the Michigan ballot and once Sam got a whiff of that, I think he would have had a field day with it.

I could just see Sam SCREAMING something like. ARE YOU STUUUPPPIDDDD, ARE YOU NEWWWWWWW!!!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!

"HEY, I'M BARACK OBAMA AND I'LL TAKE MY NAME OFF THE MICHIGAN BALLOT EVEN THOUGH MY MAIN COMPETITOR IS LEAVING HER NAME ON THE BALLOT, THAT'LL SHOW EM......!!!

AND YOU WANT TO BE PRE----SI-----DENTTTTTTTTT! I DON'T THINK SOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Sorry Barack, just because the American Media has chosen to not exist this year does not mean that what you did, or didn't do in Michigan, wasn't about the dumbest, most idiotic and arrogant move a presidential candidate could make. The only reason you pulled off such a stupid maneuver without it harming you was because of the media's love affair with you.

If that had been Hillary Clinton's name not on the Michigan ballot, and Barack Obama's name had stayed on the ballot, I think it's pretty obvious that 10 Sam Kinnison's would have come out of the woodwork to scream out clearly and loudly about Hillary's lack of judgement. NOBODY in the mainstream media has questioned Barack Obama's judgement in removing his own name from a ballot even when his wiser opponent had not.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Hillary's Logical Message

The problem I have with the statement above is it reminds me of Al Gore in Florida in 2000. Al Gore logically asked that all the votes be recounted. The other side accused Gore of "changing the goalposts". In this years democratic nominating process, Hillary Clinton has already been accused of changing the goalposts by wanting all the votes, including those of Florida and Michigan, to count.

Just imagine the hornets nest that will be raised if Barack Obama has to look into the camera and say, "I did not cheat in the caucus state votes".

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Barack Obama has Already Sunk his own Cause.

As I analyze the month by month goings on in this years democratic election, I find Barack Obama has never failed to choose mathematically elevatng his chances of becoming president, even if the mathematical tactics alienate tens of millions of voters. All along, at every bend where Barack Obama could manipulate a result in his favor, he and his handlers have taken the opportunity and run with it.

Knowing that he would lose in both Michigan and Florida, Barack agreed to "not let those states count". Somehow the media actually gives Barrack Obama kudos for nobly agreeing not to let two huge states votes count, states that he was going to lose in. Pundits actually think that Barack did some kind of amazing gesture by taking his name off the ballot in Michigan. If Hillary Clinton had done that, the pundits would be laughing at her and her lack of judgement. But Barack Obama does it and it is lauded as a pro party act. Why didn't Hillary take her name off of the ballot back in January? Why did Barack? Barack did because any state that he won't get a majority vote in is a state that shall be called "denial".

Never mind that Barack Obama ran cable televison ads a week or two leading up to the elections in Florida. This tactic by the Obama camp has become known as the "Hedge your bet" maneuver. The Obama camp is constantly hedging their bets. Anything that favors Hillary MUST BE DENIED or called racist, and anything that favors Barack Obama is due to hard work and planning, and never to his outspending Hiillary in every state they compete in, or to cheating of the kind that went on in the caucus states.

After Barack Obama decided to let the votes of Michigan and Florida only count when they can no longer have an affect on the outcome of the race, came the caucuses of February. In as many as four or five caucuses, Barack Obama received a 30% margin of victory in states that were virtually tied in the polls that preceded the votes. Once again, the math matters more to Barack Obama then the disenfranchisement of millions of democratic voters who simply want their vote fairly represented in the caucus states.

Then came Ohio and Texas, in which Barack Obama was able to lose the popular vote in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, but gleefully chortle that Hillary barely made a dent in the delegate race because of the caucus shenanigans of Texas.

Next was a solid Pennsylvania win for Hillary Clinton, with the Obama people claiming that since Barack drove down a 20-25 point lead to 10 points, it could hardly be called a victory. Never mind that Obama outspent Hillary 3-1 in Pennsylvania. Then the exact opposite situation happened in North Carolina.

North Carolina ended up being a virtual identical rehash of the Pennsylvania race, but in reverse. But once again the media and Barack uses math to somehow claim that his victory in North Carolina was a back breaker, even though Hillary won Indiana, which had been deemed the tiebreaker several weeks earlier but suddenly it was as if that had never been said by Barack.

Then came a shockingly huge win in West Virginia for Hillary Clinton, in which once again, Barack Obama tried to overshadow the results by playing the John Edwards card. Time and time again the media and Barack Obama have played the numbers card, this time equating John Edwards and his 18 delegates as more meaningful than Hillary's win in West Virginia.

The perpetual use of numbers in an attempt to obfuscate the reality that Barack does not have a true democratic majority will probably just alienate many middle aged and older democrats. Don't be surprised if many of the young, thuggish internet egg heads that helped steal the caucus state vote for Barack Obama while also rationalizing not counting Florida and Michigan actually alienate many, many long time democrats in this years fall election.

If there was still time, Hillary Clinton could probably run as an independent this fall, and gain the most votes of any of the three candidates.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

It's All About Math for Obama, and it Always has been.

Its All about the Math for Obama and it Always has been
The real reason Obama took his name off of the Michigan ballot had less to do with following democratic rules and procedures and more to do with math. Back in January it made sense to not support any action that would accelerate the number of delegates that Hillary could get. Knowing that February would have a lot of caucus delegates up for grabs, it made no sense to allow Hillary Clinton to gain a sizeable delegate advantage before the February caucuses.

There was no nobility in Obama's decision to remove his name from the Michigan ballot. Even if the state had ended up in a tie, at the time that Obama decided to take his name off the ballot, a tie still favored Hillary because Hillary was leading early on. Further proof of this mathematical chicanery can be found in Barack Obama's most recent "peace offering". Once the Florida and Michigan delegates can no longer change the outcome of the race, then they can be seated.

The mathematical pathology of the Barack Obama campaign is chilling to say the least.