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1:15 PM,
Wednesday, March 5th 2008:
I want Obama to be
the president more than any candidate in my lifetime
and I will say this unequivocally: Hillary has
every right to and in fact should fight on.
Hillary should give it her all. Hillary should
continue to throw it all at Obama. She should go as
negative as she feels necessary. She should try and
influence the Super Delegates, and she has every right
to keep pushing for Michigan and Florida. She should
do everything she can. She has won nearly every big
state and this should keep going. No qualifiers here -
she won and won big...unless you count the delegates,
but let's forget that for a moment because winning 3
states last night was a HUGE shift in the
race.
Now why did she
win? It's clear - negative ads work. Fear works. It
swayed people in these past 2 weeks. And guess what,
if it sways the country this much? If Obama is THIS
vulnerable to the most shallow "3AM" ads and muslim
rumors? Then McCain will beat Obama this fall. If
people can't see through the negative politics, then
Obama should not be the democratic nominee. He
got his ass whooped in Ohio. Whooped. If you
think the same racism won't give Ohio to McCain you're
high. Of course Hillary ain't winning Ohio either, but
the bottom line is: the numbers don't lie. If he can't
fight the negative press from his own party, he'll
never be able to fight it in November. And if the goal
is to stop the republican regime, you have to step
back and watch this unfold and tip your hat to the
victor.
And that victor is
John McCain. This is going to the convention, and
history suggests the delegates will put them both on
the ticket. If I were a betting man? I'd say Howard
Dean will succumb to pressure on Michigan and Florida,
those primaries will be in June, and Clinton will
bring Obama's pledged delegate lead down to a dozen or
less and with the supers who have already sided with
her she may even over-take him. And with winning every
big state? Welcome to Clinton/Obama. The most suicidal
ticket possible. Only a democrat thinks that's a good
ticket. Anyone else knows that's political suicide.
But honestly, neither will have much choice.
I guess they could choose not to accept but that
may be even worse for them politically. But you aren't
winning in November with that ticket no matter who's
on top. Depressing to say the least.
Now on the
delegate side, everyone needs a little perspective. At
best, at BEST, she gained 12 delegates from his 157
pledged delegate lead (which actually makes her race
to catch him harder since yesterday was her
biggest chance to cut into the lead). Some reports
have her only gaining 4 from the whole night - and
Obama's team thinks when it's all said and done it'll
be dead even: 185-185 from last night. So in reality,
she did nothing except have a talking point at the end
that says she won all the big states. And I think
it's a good talking point. And unless Obama is a
strong 150+ delegates ahead at the end of all the
contests? This puppy goes to the convention. We'll
just have to wait and see.
But as I said
last entry: I'm just done with this. It's just been
too much. I can barely sleep. I'll watch the results
of Wyoming Saturday and Mississippi next week - but
then it's a good 7 weeks off to refocus my energies. I
know everyone's clamoring for a super-political
movie/cartoon from me (one guy emails me every fucking
day about it) and all I can say is - it'll happen
when it happens. My brain ain't seein' the angle at
the moment and well, it's the only brain I have to
work with. Creativity is a weird beast man.
Speaking of weird
beasts - what is going ON at The Early Show? Anyone
catch this?
<Gulp> Which
lead to the rumor that she was fired on Friday?
See the NY Times on Saturday:
I've been in touch
with Tammy through all of this who is obviously just
trying to weather the storm. The question now is of
course - WHERE IS FRIEDMAN GOING?
They're being coy about it as they obviously can't say
anything until a press release, but it's driving me
batty. Seems awfully coincidental for this Shelley
rumor to have happened the day Steve left don't
you think? I have nothing but my own conspiracy
theories to provide here, so I'll refrain. I just
want my man Steve to be treated with respect and get a
good deal out of everything. It's completely
frustrating because when Shelley was hired last year
there was almost a collective: "Huh?" from
everyone at the show. Things were going good, Friedman
actually finneagled the deal to get all the affiliates
back in January and then out of the blue this came up.
Her bad reputation far preceeded her (even being
brought up when the story broke of her being hired),
and everyone I worked with just looked at each
other with puzzlement at what this meant. Obviously,
nothing was "greatly exagerrated" looking at these two
articles.
Nor is it
too much of a suprise with the interraction
I've had with the staff in LA since the takeover.
People are frazzled to say the least. Gotta
admit that I shake my head at the incredibly bad luck
of being caught in the middle of all this. The Egos
rocked. I mean, that last season was so above and
beyond man... DAHHHH.
And
finally Bill Maher mentioned the "hand
over the heart" thingee on the show in his
"new
rules"
segment so score one for my rant. I have
no real way of knowing if he saw that
personally, but I have to assume one
of the writers did considering it was on
so many political blogs calling him out
with my rant attached. I saw no one
doing that without my rant being part of
it... so one of those 3,000 hits may have
made an impact. I have yet to talk to
Michelle about my letter situation but
that couldn't have played a part as he
wouldn't have read it until right before
showtime. Interesting anecdote to The
Journey though.
Alirght, well I
have emails into everyone I know at CBS (including
Steve) so we'll see what happens! Come on Journey
Gods! Here's your shot!
Adam
PS - He just wrote
back. Announcement tomorrow. And I thought my
sleepless nights were over.
