Right color, wrong garment

I would have preferred to see Hillary in an orange jumpsuit.

Brilliant

This is Hilarious!!!

Highest stakes: The Mondale-ing of Obama

So Hillary wants Obama to concede and in return she will make him her running mate. There is a stench of desperation in that offer. This wouldn’t place him in the position of Cheney. To whatever extent anyone considers Cheney to be a strong vice president, Obama wouldn’t have his level of influence. Such an offer would make Obama irrelevant. He’d just be sitting in the Senate casting tie-breakers. He said no. And I agree with his decision. It has to be all or nothing. If she’s going to throw a condescending bone his way he should just let it fall to the ground. And we don’t need to get into the dynamic of having Bill in the White House with an Obama Vice Presidency.

Democrats in Civil War?

Newsmax.com is saying Obama and Clinton are in a “civil war”. While I find that to be a curious wording on their part, I think given our recent experience with presidential elections a hard fight is necessary. A false sense of security could cost the Democrats the election. Hillary wants the job. If she’s not willing to give up she shouldn’t.

Buying an opponent

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh said today that he is contemplating helping Hillary raise money to get her over the top at convention. That way the Republicans will have an easier time handing her a defeat in November. I think he should take it a step further and get out there with Bill and campaign for her. I mean if he doesn’t want people to see right through his scheme then he should do something won’t expect. I expect Hillary to recoil. I would expect her to take this as an insult and refuse such assistance. If not she’ll be trying to use Limbaugh’s assistance against him. Either way she should think about how accepting that kind of contribution will look to voters she is trying to pull away from Obama. However if she does accept it, the Obama camp should bring that point up loudly and often. That will be a strategic error that she will have to work very very hard to overcome. Just saying it doesn’t matter won’t be enough. That would be like accepting a campaign contribution from a known drug lord. Whenever your opponent assumes an illogical posture, encourage it.

CNN’s Questionable Idea

On CNN Friday there was a suggestion that Clinton and Obama pick each other as VP depending on who wins. I may be oversimplifying it. And I see the strategy. While that trick worked for Reagan and Bush I don’t know if it could work for the Democrats. CNN is assuming that the people supporting the loser are necessarily going to wander away from the reservation in November. Some may do that but a lot more are going to support the party and others are going to vote against the opponent. Personally I don’t like relationships thrust upon me that are not of my making. I’d rather ask someone I wanted to work with me rather than spend 4 years making accommodations for someone I was stuck with.

My Decision ‘08

I am supporting Obama for the Democratic nomination. If he does not win at the convention I will most likely vote for Hillary even though I do not like her. I might consider the Libertarian candidate but we both know how that fares on election day. The Republicans have had 20 years since Carter. That’s way more than enough. I think the easiest Republican for either of them to beat would be Romney. That way the Bush Christians will have to decide which prejudice they are going to run with in November. Huckabee scares me. I have always liked McCain and find him to be the least annoying of the three that are now left. I think I could tolerate a McCain presidency if I had to. He’s not an idiot in my opinion.

Clinton wins Florida Democratic Primary

Good for her. Hopefully the voting machines are actually doing what we were told they would do. Maybe we don’t need to count dimpled chads just yet. =) Forge ahead. Maybe Bill will get a blowjob so he will stop blowing her campaign. Super Fat Tuesday is next week!

A Tale of Two Presidents

That’s what we’re looking at by having a White House with a former President as the spouse of the sitting President. Having two presidents is like having two penises. You can only work one at a time. If you try to keep two up you end up with a mess. Just by the way Bill Clinton is campaigning about on behalf of Hillary you can see that he won’t settle for an ambassadorship or some other silent partner role. And I don’t think the people who were his staunchest supporters from 1992-2000 will get out of their heads that having elected Hillary constitutes a third term for Bill.