Aug 26 2008
Archive for the '2008 Presidential Election' Category
Aug 01 2008
John McCain Proud Of Sleazy Britney-Paris Negative Ad
May 05 2008
Checking In
Well, it’s been about a month. What gives?
First off, I’m getting ready to move from Springfield, MO to Austin, TX this month. The good news there is that I’ll be able to really help Obama come the fall in a more crucial state, even though Missouri is also both crucial and winnable.
Second, I’ve just been busier at work, and am getting ready to pick up yet another job.
Still, mainly what it comes down to is primary lag. Hillary Clinton and her nasty campaign have just sucked it right out of me, man. I mean, shit, her if-I-don’t-win-then-no-Dem-will attitude might just land John McCain in the White House. I’ll fight like hell to keep that from happening, but not for her after what she’s done. Really, looking back at both her past foreign relations decisions and the GOP-playbook campaign she’s run, what’s the difference between her and Johnny Mack? If McCain were to become President, then I’d brush up on my Spanish down in Texas and move to Spain. I’m serious.
I can’t handle four more years of this filth, and I’m guessing that the much of America, not to mention the rest of the world, is with me. I’m still feeling positive, I’m just not sure many Americans really care about the issues. Are we that stupid? Are we going to let Jeremiah Wright cause us four more years of Bush policy, ridiculous gas prices, a recession and the continuation of a lost war? The other day somebody told me that they still believe he’s “Muslin” (sic) because of an e-mail received. Are we that fucking stupid? Maybe.
Hope is not lost, and I still belive that “yes, we can.” I just didn’t have anything nice at all to say about HRC, so I was trying to keep my mouth shut and not go all Rove on her like she is on Barack. If anybody else was running–say John Edwards–they would have bowed out by now. Hopefully, we’ll win big in North Carolina and do well in Indiana on Tuesday and put a fork in the Clinton Restoration for good.
And I’ll be checking in periodically, just not as often. No worries–I’m still involved with the campaign and we’ll ramp it up for McCain down the road.
Stay tuned…
Mar 16 2008
Tracy Morgan: Black Is The New President
Mar 12 2008
Clinton Hears Some Boos!

Yep, Horton Hears A Who hits theaters this weekend, and it’s not just me using the occasion to parody Hillary Clinton. The New Haven Advocate is also channeling Theodor Geisel, injecting a little Seuss into the situation. Here’s a snippet:
The time has come, We don’t care how.
But Hillary Rodham Clinton
Will you please GO NOW!Your campaign is becoming
An endless charade,
So get off the trail,
Burn out now, don’t just fade.You can swim down a river
Of crocodile tears.
You can surf on a wave
Of terrorist fears.Enough with the red phone!
Enough with the NAFTA!
If you like,
You can go now by White Water Rafta…
Mar 12 2008
Spun Out: An E-Mail From David Plouffe
Here’s a portion of an e-mail that Obama campaign manger David Plouffe sent me and countless others. Just thought that everybody needed to read this:
Dear Adam,
When we won Iowa, the Clinton campaign said it’s not the number of states you win, it’s “a contest for delegates.”
When we won a significant lead in delegates, they said it’s really about which states you win.
When we won South Carolina, they discounted the votes of African-Americans.
When we won predominantly white, rural states like Idaho, Utah, and Nebraska, they said those didn’t count because they won’t be competitive in the general election.
When we won in Washington State, Wisconsin, and Missouri — general election battlegrounds where polls show Barack is a stronger candidate against John McCain — the Clinton campaign attacked those voters as “latte-sipping” elitists.
And now that we’ve won more than twice as many states, the Clinton spin is that only certain states really count.
But the facts are clear.
For all their attempts to discount, distract, and distort, we have won more delegates, more states, and more votes.
Meanwhile, more than half of the votes that Senator Clinton has won so far have come from just five states. And in four of these five states, polls show that Barack would be a stronger general election candidate against McCain than Clinton.
We’re ready to take on John McCain. But we also need to build operations in places like Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina, and Oregon that will hold their primaries in April and May.
The end of the portion I’ve included is especially interesting. The Clintons are talking up Pennsylvania like it’s the end all, but Indiana and North Carolina follow up a week or so later on the same day. Combined, the states have more delegates than Pennsylvania. Oregon is also an important contest, and one which Obama should win handily. I guess what I’m saying is this: Let’s not continue to allow the Clintons and the media to keep running their spin game on us, moving the goalposts and skewing the realities of this race in the process.
Mar 10 2008
If You Read One Thing Today: Paul Abrams
Paul Abraham’s Huff Post piece on how Obama helped Bill Foster win narrowly edges out Daily Kos commenter Jsn’s “saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle” nugget of a comment.
Barack Obama — not Hillary Clinton — actively, with TV ads, supported Bill Foster’s attempt to win Dennis Hastert’s (former Speaker) seat in the House after Hastert’s resignation. Supporting Foster so openly was a risk, as it could have (and we know, would have) been used by the Clintons to raise doubt about Obama’s ability to rally support. After all, one thing Bill Clinton did not have was coattails — he lost the House for the first time in 40 years, and it remained in Republican hands for 12 years.



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