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12:23 PM,
Thursday, February 21st 2008:
After two weeks it
has come down to randoms because I'm just FUMIN' and
attempts to put this in essay form are failing. Now if
it seems that I'm all over the political spectrum it's
because I am. I am like most people in the world:
I have independent thought. It's why I can
respect the hell out of John McCain for his beliefs
and wholeheartedly march against his beliefs in
Washington. It's called CHARACTER. Something sorely
lacking in politics. Ahem. First an open letter to Ms.
Rodham:
Dear Hillary,
I
didn't dislike you. The thought of you
being president and pissing off every
right-wing nutjob on the planet actually
made me giggle a bit. The thought of Bill
in the White House with no job? As a
comedian that's just too easy. A woman
president? Certainly cool. I wrote
"Campaign
in the
Wind"
over a month ago almost out of sympathy
for you having to fight the
Bush/Clinton/Bush history when you
can stand on your own. However,
what I've witnessed from your campaign
over the past two weeks made me so angry
I wrote the to the Democratic
National Committee. I'm a friggin'
Libertarian. I could give two shits
about your whimpy-ass, big government
party and here I am writing a letter
to them. So where do I start?
1)
How 'bout never congratulating Obama in your
concession speech? Ever. That's what a
concession speech is. You say "I
congratulate Obama, he ran a good race..." and then
you can go on about how you'll whoop his ass in the
next one. You know exactly why he cut you off
Tuesday night. How fucking disrespectful can you be?
I tuned in to hear your speech and watched you
AGAIN ignore the simplest of political protocol and
promptly muted you after you ignored him. Had you said
those 8 words to start your speech, you would have had
the national spotlight for your entire 20 minute
speech. Instead you again slapped him in the face. Can
you show your true colors any more?
2)
The debate ad? The DEBATE ad? Obama ends up with
the delegate lead after Super Tuesday, you then lose
the next 3 contests and you demand 5 debates in like 2
weeks. FIVE. He accepts 2 and then you run an attack
ad saying he's ducking debates?
THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE HATE about
politics. Come fucking on already. This guy is
IN your party. He's probably going to
REPRESENT your party. What the fuck? Use your
ideas and show your differences - don't attack him for
only debating you 20 times and not 21
times.
3)
Changing the magic number on your website to 2208
(from 2025) to confuse voters and pressure the DNC to
change the rules on Florida and Michigan is one of the
most underhanded (and frankly politically stupid in
this case) moves I think I've seen a candidate do.
A close 2nd was Bush suing Gore for wanting a
recount (more to staul the recount) but even in that
case I believed if the roles were reversed Gore
would've done the same thing... but here? Are you
kidding? Stop already. You agreed to punish Michigan
& Florida for moving their primaries and agreed
the delegates wouldn't count. Obama wasn't even on the
friggin' ballot in Michigan. Stop. Just
stop.
4)
Harold Ickes, a
senior advisor, called Obama's wins in the state
elections
"irrelevant"
because you
would lock down the nomination by winning over party
insiders and super delegates. And you wonder why
people hate you. I mean hate you.
Divisive is being oh-so-nice. I really used to
wonder why there was so much negativity towards you
and Bill and I guess I didn't do my homework. This is
nothing new.
5)
Good news for
Clinton on Tuesday was that Obama's in Wisconsin was
the narrowest margin in the last 10 states. Bad news,
it was 17 points. Ouch. The average over the last 10
states? 37 points. Christ. Look at this:
17 Point win -
Wisconsin
52 Point win -
Hawaii
29 Point win -
Virginia
23 Point win -
Maryland
51 Point win -
Washington D.C.
19 Point win -
Maine
36 Point win -
Washington
84 Point win -
Virgin Islands
36 Point win -
Nebraska
21 Point win -
Louisiana
Saying Obama has
momentum is like saying an avalanche has
momentum. It's getting a little redundant. A snowball
rolling down a hill has momentum - these are
blowouts. But one thing can change that in a
heartbeat - an Obama mistake. And he's already made
some big ones:
6)
The plagarism
thing was about as stupid a rookie political move as
he could have made. In reality it's meaningless - but
we all know politics is a game of herding sheep. The
American public isn't stupid, they're just apathetic.
When being attacked about how you're just words and no
substance... the last thing you want to do is lift
someone else's speech to prove your point. LOL. Again,
in reality - it means nothing. They all have speech
writers, the guy he took it from was a friend and
suggested it... and the funniest thing? What he lifted
was actually a bunch of "quotes". LOL. I've never
heard one person bring that up in all this. He lifted
a quote of famous "quotes" showing that those famous
quotes were "just words". It's a complete non-issue,
but politically it was a ridiculously bone-headed
move.
7)
The public financing thing on face value seems like a
HUUUUUGE fuck-up on his part. You know that box you
check off on your taxes to allocate for political
campaigns? Well if the candidates agree to they can
just use those funds evenly with no money from donors.
In most races that's the fair thing to do because
there's so many special interestes funding campaigns.
Barack apparently agreed to use public funds along
with McCain if they were the nominees and now Barack
isn't so sure. The reason? Well he's bringing in over
a million a day in donations. He's raising more money
than any candidate in the history of American
Politics. But ethically? Tough shit bro. McCain is
gonna ride your ass on this because he knows he
can't raise that much money. If you actually agreed to
that... you'd better own up. Again, I don't know
what "agreed" means and this may be complete
propoganda, but it's something to watch. The sad thing
is that 90% of Barack's money are donations under
$100. So in reality he is being funded by the
public. Everyday Joe's hitting $20 on the internet.
He'll have 100 million he can't use and it's not from
lobbyists. We'll see how they can spin this, or if
it's even really true. If it is, McCain has every
right to slam him on this.
8)
Speaking of
lobbyists - the latest from Hillary? The "American
Leadership Project"? Just, wow. A coalition formed
that will take unlimited contributions and is
organized the same way as the infamous Swift Boat
Veterans for Truth. They're seeking 100 Clinton
supporters to each give $100,000 to fund a $10,000,000
effort to promote her and "contrast" her positions
with Obama's. Of course they have no
affiliation with Hillary at all. (sigh). So 100,000
people that gave $100 to Obama (and actually close to
a million people now) have the same monetary voice as
100 Clinton people because of this "independent group"
that are just putting up TV ads to... uhm - inform the
public. Yeah, that's it - PSAs. It's the same thing
Bush did in 2004 and guess who is no better. I can't
stand this shit. Swift Boating in the primaries?! Your
own party? Fucked.
9)
Oh and speaking of shit from your own party - fuck
these Republicans slammin' McCain. Godddddddamnit.
This man was a prisoner of war for 5 years in Vietnam,
went through untold horrors, is the definition of
American Hero - and they attack him because sometimes
he agrees with a Democrat? At least he believes in
what he says. Dude, his son just came back from IRAQ.
How many senators have their CHILDREN in the military
- let alone IN THE WAR? I read that article
about his son coming back... and was proud of
McCain.
!!!
Yes, this is Adam
talking. This guy:
The guy who
marched on Washington against the war. Now do you get
why I was there? I was there because I want our troops
to not be used as fucking guinea pigs for absolutely
no reason. I want them home because the war is a
farce. It's illegal. It's a criminal act. I support
the troops...so why would I be proud of
McCain?!?! A guy who supports the war!? Who supports
sending HIS OWN KID to IRAQ to die?!?!
'Cause he puts his money where his mouth is. And
honestly? Like no other politician I've ever known.
The list of politicians with their kid at war can't be
very long and certainly not a presumptive nominee. Not
since WWII I imagine.
Anyway he believes
just as strongly as I do. He's not a coward. In the
same way I'm not a coward. I quit my job and on my own
dime flew to DC because I was so angry about
Katrina, that I had to do something. I take
stands in life and have nothing but respect for McCain
for doing the same thing. Now we disagree vehemently.
Like not even a little bit of common ground. But life
is about standing up for what you believe
in.
10)
Hahaha the news
of the Sex scandal for McCain just broke - so uhm,
nevermind. LMAO. What the hell, the woman looks
exactly like his wife? What the hell is the point?
I mean a brunette I'd understand but seriously
this woman is the spittingimage of his
wife. And how plastic is Cindy right? I mean she
looks good on TV - but you know that shit is Joan
Rivers spooky in person. Anyway - I hope this
doesn't blow-up the Republican party...at least not
yet anyway. I want him to be the nominee really
bad. People are woefully underestimating the age issue
and when Obama and McCain are on the same stage
together... it's done. Not a shot in hell.
11)
I know there's
more... oh the Michelle Obama quote. Stupid. That's
the shit you say to your friends having a beer - not
in the national spotlight. And she said it twice. I'll
personally say it right now - I'm more proud of
America listening to Barack speak than I ever have
been in my adult life too. But I'm not running for
president and neither is Donna. She really needs to
clear this up by talking directly to the right-wing in
some fashion or it'll hurt them in the general
election. But maybe not - after all this shit? He
still won by 17 points in lily-white
Wisconsin.
12)
Obama is a
cult! He's a rockstar! It's like David Koresh! We're
all idiots being swooned by a sloganeer! I can't
speak for the fainting women at his rallies. And
I feel for him as he cooly just asks for a
paramedic and says: "You must be dehydrated"
"You must not have eaten lunch" - when he knows that
it's him and he knows that it's not exactly
helping him. I mean 20,000 people at the
Houston Rally? (Andrew was there, SBLfilms from the
old Journey Boards). That's so unheard of I can't
even tell you. But what does he do? Turn people away?
Play smaller venues? Christ I just said that
didn't I - play smaller venues. He is a
rockstar. He's filling arenas and some people ARE way
too into it. He's the savior, he's gonna change the
world - all that. Well again, I can't speak for
them - but I don't feel that way. He's a liberal
politician with extremely liberal policies. As
a libertarian whose ideal is a smaller government - we
disagree. But here's the thing - we're already
spending the BAZILLIONS on the war and other goofy
shit. At this point? I don't mind re-allocating those
funds to the people. Eventually we simply don't need
to spend that fucking much and I hope in future
generations we'll get back to that. Get back to the
basics of the constitution and chop down government.
It's way out of hand. But we're in this strange world
where the republicans have outspent the democrats and
used the money to kill people. That's rough. Obama is
the perfect "in-between" right now as we're
injured as a country. Listen, forget hearing
him speak if you don't want to be "mesmerized". If
you're scared you're getting sold a bill of goods,
just read his story. He's America. That's what moves
me. That's what moves me about his 2004 DNC speech.
His background. Here's a guy whose Kenyan father left
when he was 2, he's clearly black in a white world -
then goes to Indonesia for 4 years - and to top it off
his name is Barack Obama. Talk about not fitting in?
He is America. He is what you can do. If he can make
it to the presidency, with ALL of this shit around
him. With so much negativity coming towards him (as it
has his whole life) and be president...what that says
to every little kid? Unbelieveable. That's what he
means by hope. I had hope. When I was a kid there
was nothing in the world I couldn't be and I
still believe it and I still dream every day and push
and push! I don't know where I'd be if I didn't have
that. He will change the landscape of this country
simply by making it to the office. Now what he does
once he's in? Don't know. I think he'll be slammed
incessantly and be hard pressed to get anything done -
but I may be wrong. Notice how being negative against
him seems to backfire? It's more than teflon, it seems
to actually make the person who said the attack look
bad. That could really help him as president. It
worked with Reagan. People liked him so much that they
thought twice before the attacks. Hillary is learning
that right now.
13)
Debate tonight. It's funny, before I wanted him
to be more aggressive - and now, he doesn't need to do
shit. He just has to coast. He just has to not
fall for her bait. No fireworks = continued momentum.
And Hillary is in a difficult situation. Attacking in
debates makes her look horrible and she needs a big
gaffe on his part. I hope he suprises me and throws a
zinger at her. But he'll probably play it cool and say
the same old thing. We'll see. My heart is really into
this and I'm just so angry about her going negative. I
mean, a word here and there in a speech to show
seperation? That's fine. Obama does it all the time,
pointed jabs make sense - you have to address the
differences in some way. But the attack ads KILL me.
That "debate ad" was just soooooooo transparent and so
utterly and completely false. It kills me because
she's COMPETENT! She's a good candidate! She doesn't
need to do that. And if you're in the middle of a
movement and it's not your time, 2012 will be.
Seriously Hillary don't do the "Scorched Earth" tactic
here. You're not only tarnishing the Clinton legacy
you're ruining your own shot - McCain may win, and
guess who'll be sitting there waiting to take him on
in 2012? Be graceful here, and you control your own
destiny...
