Obama Is Too CHICKEN to Debate
By SusanUnPC on May 3, 2008 at 12:49 PM in Barack Obama, DNC, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Indiana, North Carolina, Oregon
Not only is this hilarious, it’s chock full of solid information that should cause any primary voter to pause before voting for Mr. Obama. LOOK: We know that the gutless wonder will refuse to debate Hillary, but that doesn’t mean we can’t remind people he’s too cowardly to do so:
We’ve written FIVE stories on Obama’s fear of debating Hillary again — because she whupped him in the last ABC News debate. All of our stories are listed below, along with the most choice quotes (and snarky imagery). Let’s begin with the extremely snarky “A Lincoln-Douglas Debate? But Obama Just Isn’t Up To It” …
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Obama turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
- From Riverdaughter’s blog
Barack Obama is cowering in fear of another embarrassing debate performance. In contrast, a confident Hillary Clinton is petitioning Obama to honor the debate he reneged on in North Carolina (originally scheduled today) and challenging him to more debates in Indiana and Oregon.
Today, Hillary Clinton upped the ante, proposing a 90-minute Lincoln-Douglas style debate before Indiana’s primary. Obama is sure to refuse.
“[I]ndescribably stupid” is what Tom Watson calls Obama’s repeated refusals to debate in North Carolina or Indiana. In “All the Wrong Moves,” Watson observes:
For one, running and hiding from Hillary looks, well, like running and hiding from Hillary. It cements that growing perception in the press that she’s tougher, and that he’s a brittle political actor – all smiles when the polls are moving upward, quite another story in stormy seas. When you’re running against a beloved American war hero and the Republican attack machine, this is never a good posture.
Secondly, it leaves Obama’s terrible performance in the last debate at the top of people’s minds when they think of the two Democrats duking it out. For all the hand-wringing about the inane ABC News questions in the debate’s first half, it was Obama’s sullen and seemingly lost persona that was the Philly battle’s real story. …
HERE ARE MORE NO QUARTER STORIES CHALLENGING OBAMA:
Sign Hillary’s Petition to Make Obama Honor His Promise to Debate in North Carolina — in which we pick up on Lanny Davis’s suggestion that it was HOWARD DEAN HIMSELF who got Obama out of the scheduled North Carolina debate:
Here are some of the series of stories we’ve done on Barack Obama’s failure to honor his commitment to debate in North Carolina (abetted, many suspect, by DNC chair Howard Dean), and his disinclination to debate in other important primary states such as Indiana and Oregon (not to mention Kentucky, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, and more primaries yet to come):
- “Hillary Asks Barry to Debate, Much More Nicely …” (in Oregon)
- “Lanny Davis and Evan Bayh Throw Down the Gauntlet” (on Obama’s running away from the North Carolina debate — and a video of Lanny Davis expressing his suspicion that Howard Dean was behind getting Obama out of the debate — and his failure to give the people of Indiana a debate on their soil), and
- “Obama Congregants: Waaaaa! Leave Barry Alone! No More Debates!” (on Obama ducking out of the No. Carolina debate).
FROM the APRIL 23 story:
Lannie Davis today, on Fox News, lowered the boom on Obama and Dean:
Barack, are you really that afraid of Katie Couric? (We know you’re scared s–tless of Hillary, but surely Katie will be easier than the ABC News team, right?) Are you that much of a wuss, Barack? If you are, let us know now. We can’t afford a president presidential nominee (because that’s as far as he’d get) who’s a wuss.
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Susan…..The Chicken Video is a SCREAM…The Chicken Dance Music is perfect…Good Stuff…
Obama is sure laying an Egg or twelve these days…
Excellent video!! This is HILARIOUS and right on.
I suggest that since he are forbideen to use his real middle name we adopt for BHO: Barack Hen Obama (as in
the “mother of all chickens”).
OT, sorry, but itneresting, there is speculation Rezko might cut a deal with the government, given the testimony of Ata. From cbs news, chicago:
Rezko May Cut A Deal In Federal Corruption Case
Reporting
Mike Parker CHICAGO (CBS) ― The prosecution is preparing to rest its case as the politically charged corruption trial of Antoin “Tony” Rezko rolls toward its climax.
There’s speculation Friday that Rezko could be ready to cut a deal.
CBS 2’s Mike Parker reports prosecution witness and real estate developer Ali Ata spent another day on the witness stand. The longtime friend of Rezko claimed Rezko got him a job running the State Finance Authority in return for big money campaign contributions to Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
“After Stuart Levine, Tony Rezko had a lot to be thankful for, and his lawyers did a great job,” said CBS 2 legal analyst Stuart Levine. “Then comes Ali Ata, the last major witness and I think the roller coaster is going the other way right now. He was a tremendous witness for the government.”
Rezko’s defense attorney, Joe Duffy cross examined Ata Friday and asked him about being questioned by the FBI after the Spet. 11 terrorist attacks. Duffy asked him if his name was the same as one of the attackers, Mohammed Atta.
“Similar,” Ata said.
Duffy: “Of course you had nothing to do with the 2001 attacks.”
Ata bristled: “Come on, Mr. Duffy, let’s not go there.”
Duffy: “I’m not going there.”
As the trial winds down, speculation is rampant that Rezko may yet cut a deal, plead guilty and tell the government everything he knows.
“If Joe Duffy and Tony Rezko knew that Ali Ata was going to be a witness in the case to bolster the testimony of Stuart Levine, that would have been a major consideration before this trial even started,” Miller said.
Ata’s testimony, perhaps the last in the government’s case, should come to an end Monday.
Then comes a defense case attorneys say will be brief.
The judge says she wants closing arguments to the jury a week from next Monday, May 12.
(© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
But Simon, what would it mean that Rezko cut a deal with the Gov.? On the one hand here would be no doubt in public he is guilty. But politically what else would unfold from this?
I would suppose Fitzgerald would want info, for a deal.
From what I have read, he works his way up, starting with low men, in pursuit of bigger fish.
So, he appears to be going after Blago, next, maybe the whole combine, that could, would HAVE to include Obama.
I’m wondering, too, now, Fitz worked on the first world trade bombing, in NY?
And what about Rezko’s international connections?
I would probably look at what the FBI is investigating, too, in regard to this manner, someone here last week said they recently increased their office staff by 50 per cent, in Chicago?
matter, sorry, still half asleep, going to be one of those weekends, like I’m suffering from ADD, or something.
I guess I’ll have to slow down.
It’s okay simon, I got it. Thanks.
TL has a post that seems kind of discouraging… But they quote the Chicago Trib. and we know who are these guys for…
If you want to take a look; this is the link:
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/5/3/13361/62855
Both sides can play psy ops, even within the context of a trial publicity.
The stupid trolls here miss it, just the DUMBEST thing I have ever seen, ever, they haven’t quite caught on.
I guess what I’m trying to say, Andy, is even Karl Rove’s lil brain needs to grow and understand strategy, as all systems emerge.
It’s my impression they have a hard time grasping the larger abstract, despite not being able to capitalize on Alinsky’s methods, say, which, to most people, is indicative of project failure. But there they are, struggling to survive, and not smart enough to understand WHY it’s not working, for them.
So, even though it appears Fitz does one thing, and it might even play well for Obama, facilely, the truth is, Obama’s real criminal friends are further undermined, and Obama, too, but it doesnt become apparent until it’s too late (for them). So what appears a victory is really a loss, not difficult to grasp, excpet for wannabes, who always think there is a short cut( why DO they become criminals, anyway?)
But they need to believe the fairy tale, just to be able to get through the day, they need to believe everything will be alright, when it won’t.
For them, anyway.
And it’s used against them.
Sorry I can’t be more clear, antihistamine haze, today.
I can understand the grand scheme of things, you know thinking in parallel and nonlinearly at the same time.
And yes it’ll become -as you say- apparent sooner or later.
Politically, it’ll take time; cycles as they say. Question is how much time…
If Rezko’s deal includes testifying, it could be … interesting … for Obama.
[...] Aaron Bruns wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWe’ve written FIVE stories on Obama’s fear of debating Hillary again — because she whupped him in the last ABC News debate. All of our stories are listed below, along with the most choice quotes (and snarky imagery). … Read the rest of this great post here [...]
Thanks so much for revisiting the chicken-shit aspect of Obama. I was thinking about it just last night.
Maybe Obama should agree to debate Hillary with one caveat, she allows him to send a surrogate as a substitution: a brick.
At least with the brick:
We won’t hear any deception nor misdirection nor propaganda.
The brick will be more interesting, original and won’t answer only by stating “I agree with Senator Clinton.”
The brick won’t try to deflect the Ayer’s controversy by claiming Ayer’s is Mr. Rogers, just some guy in the neighborhood who likes to darn a cardigan while wearing sneakers.
And it won’t keep repeating “…in no uncertain terms…” to appear to be eloquent and prove more intelligence than an amoeba.
Gail Collins in NY Times wrote OP Ed last week, and as an Obamaton postulated that Ayer’s “was only an inept terrorist”,and of course this is being blown up, blah,blah. Amazing that a senior NYTimes editor could be so biased as to promote this inaccurate garbage.
Obama met Ayer after Michelle met Bernadine Dorhn at law firm she joined. Dorhn a senior at firm joined in black separatist/liberation marxist theology and political action. Friendship with Ayer was part of the political cred necessary to make it in Chicago politics.
And this was the beginning of their relationship.
Ayer contributed to BO’s first senate run, and they served on community board for years. Axelrod last heard from on this said they were “friendly”.
So we now have the MSM claiming “inept
terrorism” is ok? What would Ayer have to have done to qualify as an “ept terrorist”? As we all know he has no regrets about the great harm he inflicted on our citizens and our roperty. This is mind boggling.
And what about inept corruption?
I was thinking of Dennis Hastert, and Marc Grossman, of State, the one who reportedly warned that Turkish PAC about Brewster Jennings, and I thought my goodness, they sold out the CIA, and their fellow Americans, for, what, between the both of them, $525,000?
Does this mean it was possible 9.11 happened because a bunch of corrupt American politicians allowed it to happen, there seems to be SOME precedence?
Is this what “inept terrorism” means?
Little idiots shouldn’t stick their toes in the shark tank.
How can we trust someone who is too afraid to debate one-on-one with a candidate, to stand up to the despots of the world? It takes alot of spine to look someone you disagree with in the eye and tell them where to go. It is gallingly apparent that Obama doesn’t possess that spine.
I agree wholeheartedly. And his inner chicken-shit is only one aspect of him that makes him not suitable as commander-in-chief.
McCain would have him for breakfast. He wouldn’t even need the 527’s help. In keeping with the breakfast theme, Obama would be toast to a burnt cinder debating McCain — and those debates he can’t get out of. Ha! I hope Susan has this somewhere in her post:
How can Obama expect to be President when he can’t debate Hillary now that the going has gotten tough: He has to debate McCain — what is he going to do, call in sick?
There is NO spine there. In fact there is no there there.
As I was implying, a brick could not only take his place, but would be preferable.
I second that…..If Hillary does not get the nomination I will nominate a brick…..named Barry…..with a smiley face……promising Unity for all.
Yikes, Obama is becoming a joke…he really needs to think about bowing out. His manhood (or lack there of)is at stake.
Meeeeeeechelle gave up on Barry’s manhood a long time ago….Hence the permanent scowl……..Howl……..
Obama contends that 21 debates are enough. I disagree. Only 4 debates (if you include the “compassion, religious” debate) have been between HC & BO. He was content to debate when he had all the “boyz” around him to gang up on HC and deflect the heat from him.
At least one more debate between the two, before the next primary, is essential. I think a Lincoln-Douglas debate without a moderator is a great idea. No gotchas, no bias, no preferential treatment.
A President has to think and act quickly in many instances. In those situations, critical thinking and good instincts are paramount. There are no telepromptors, no surrogates, no prepared talking points or campaign guidebooks.
I want to see HIM react under pressure without anyone else telling him what to do or say.
I read that the judge and “other” interested parties have made concerted efforts to keep information from the public. Obama’s name has come up several times regarding relationships between witnesses on both sides. Not in terms of corruption, but in an intertwined web of associations. The testimony leaves no doubt that BO knew and had associations with most of the parties involved.
Good old Chicago politics-it’s who you know that counts.
If you read all the stories connected with this case, esp as Rezkowatch has them catalogued, you can see the web, really, muckety should do another interactive.
This is why so many of us are outraged, it is very apparent where Obama is coming from, who suports him, a real press would have this man in jail, already.
And you know, every time I see him with Michelle, I’m reminded of George Bush, Sr, and the “wimp” label, Michelle as the new Barabra Bush.
WHAT a group, lol.
The MSM is largely on his side and any dissenters are being bullied into silence with the fear of race riots to stop them.
This dynamic is changing now that we have exposed the modus operandi. We will prevail over this lunacy.
Same tactics as Cheney, and Bush, (fear) and Cheney and Bush, and Rove are stupid, so why would Obama’s crew of would be intellectual giants be any more fierce?
They’re not.
If people aren’t afraid physically, (and we KNOW that group of fear mongers are morons, so no one is intimidated intellectually), why would anyone give them a second thought?
And once the politics of fear are removed, well, Bill Kristol looks like a big old puffy marshmallow, doesnt he? And Dick Cheney can’t do the job, and George Bush, Jr? Well, it most have been closing time, and all the girls look better after a few, right?
They wanna threaten to take down Denver like Al Queda took down the world trade center?
Go for it.
Once the fear they project is removed, they’re nothing, lil pests who couldn’t compete with the rest of us.
Alinsky’s and Strauss’s methods DON’T work.
Hey GNG….thought you might enjoy this…..
” All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change to the worse ; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is guided by thought of better and worse….”
Leo Strauss. What is Political Philosophy ?
What is interesting to me in this election is how the american main stream press has dictated what change is = Obama.
Clinton represents change as well and yet she is portrayed as status quo. Within the party long time democratic members react to Obama as both an agent of negative change by virtue that he also seems to represent the old power brokerage of the Left. Clinton’s supporters like how reminiscent she is of past party heroes and in today’s politics she seems to offer the change back to what the party used to be.
The ironies in this election continue to build….I prefer to look at some positives. Clinton has reawakened interest in the political process and a renewed respect for wonkiness. Obama while initially generating excitement has exposed a ruinous flaw within the party. This flaw he has exploited for the reason of winner take all at what ever the cost. In this primary Clinton supporters seek the change they desire by seeking to preserve the principles of the party. A true conundrum…No?
The video made my day….chuckle…
Cave gallines !……( Beware of chickens ! )
Obama simply doesn’t want more revelations to appear, that is his fear!
Long awaited is Obama’s communist beliefs, from Frank Davis (Obama’s self proclaimed claimed grandfather in Hawaii) to Marxists at Occidental to Black Marxists at Columbia to Ayers/Dohrn in Chicago!
As Gus Hall, former CPUSA leader said: “Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.”
Same thing echoed of late by Ayers, Dohrn, Mark Rudd and the New SDS.
Strange how fast Bill Ayers brother Rick came out and slapped Clinton with McCarthyism after the last debate to shut her down, like Michelle did using the race card back in NH!
And along the way, SD’s are setting up the DNP for a full out assault by the GOP supporting a Marxist influenced candidate! Someone needs to ask Obama about his not only endorsed but sponsored the Global Poverty Act, funneling a massive amount of foreign aid (by one informed estimate $845 billion) to Africa and the rest of the world, perhaps as partial reparations for slavery. It is curious that Obama doesn’t talk about this bill, which is on the verge of Senate passage, and it is strange that the major media don’t mention it, either. After all, Obama loves talking of the few things he has and hasn’t had passed, why not this one?
It’s all Barbara Bush to me, I can’t tell you why, but something about these Obama moves remind me of the old battle axe trying to engineer a put down in her Greenwich, Conn social circle, and I just want to laugh.
They are SUCH a pretentious group, so silly, and no real brains, or talent, to back it up.
“The Gangs of Greenwich…”
” Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another….” Marx and Engels. The Commuist Manifesto.
Black Liberation Theolgy is nothing more than Marxism wrapped up in the militant baby Jesus.
If the voter examines Obama’s Political Family the logical conclusion is clear. The Leftish Power Brokers delude themselves into thinking they control Obama…..
Caveant Americans Ne Quid Detrimenti Respublica Capiat !
( Beware Americans that the Commonwealth is not harmed ! )
The S.2433-Global Poverty Act is NOT A GOOD BILL. YOU MUST READ THE SUMMARY at aim.org. IT IS A UN CONTROLLED, LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE COMMITMENT TO OTHER DUBIOUS OBLIGATIONS/TREATIES BESIDES POVERTY.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-global-tax-proposal-up-for-senate-vote/
The bill defines the term “Millennium Development Goals” as the goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, General Assembly Resolution 55/2 (2000).
In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration commits nations to banning “small arms and light weapons” and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The Millennium Declaration also affirms the U.N. as “the indispensable common house of the entire human family, through which we will seek to realize our universal aspirations for peace, cooperation and development.”
Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the U.N.’s “Millennium Project,” says that the U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP in increased foreign aid spending would add $65 billion a year to what the U.S. already spends. Over a 13-year period, from 2002, when the U.N.’s Financing for Development conference was held, to the target year of 2015, when the U.S. is expected to meet the “Millennium Development Goals,” this amounts to $845 billion. And the only way to raise that kind of money, Sachs has written, is through a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels.
This is getting better and better……Oh the Irony !…….
How funny!
But also very serious. We don’t need a chicken in the White House. Obama always runs away when he can’t handle it–and his threshhold there is very low.
Barky will never be president. He has a better chance of seeing God than he has of winning a General Election. Unfortunately, he and his radical left-cliff morons will also marginalize the democratic party for a decade or so, just like others like them did before. Some of them are even the same people!
That video is a riot! And sooooooo true. The man is ……well………a pussy.
He’s walking around looking live ten miles of bad road besides. He’s tired. He’s dragging his ass. He can’t physically keep up with a 60 year old woman. And it is quite obvious he can’t keep up with her brainpower either. Barky is a lightweight. At this point he looks like he doesn’t know if it’s February or Tuesday. He’s just slugging around, waiting for that nomination to be handed to him. Later, his ass will be handed to him on a plate by the Old Man.
He was so winded last night that when he finished talking he was gasping the gasp of somone who smokes. Betcha he’s sneaking smokes. How long before someone catches him doing this?
This is quite a soap opera.
My family eats chicken everytime Obama shows his “chicken-ness”—-boy are we getting tired of eatting chicken!!!
This video is just too funny. Just exactly what I needed. A shame it couldn’t have shown him dropping a rotten egg too. Thank you!
very nice article about hillary,s parenting and meeting in north carolina
pls blog and blog a lot ,,,,
Obama’s chickens are coming home to roost.
Agree with you Percy…….Cave gallines ! ……( Beware of chickens ! )
It isn’t just that he’s a wimp and a coward: it’s the reason he’s chickening out. This hardly his own decision. He has advisers who pick up $100 K pcm to tell him what to do. And they’re telling him he has to bullshit his way out of any further debates.
And why? Because after getting the MSM to lick his Guccis for months they finally started to ask the type of questions they’ve reserved for Hillary and he crumbled.
And it’s not just because he couldn’t find any good comebacks: it’s because in his case with his sordid luggage there are no good comebacks.
That’s a frightening situation.
he can’t afford to let the people get to see him in action, just in case some plan to vote on issues and competence.
Delurking once again, just to say how impressed I am with you folks.
I’ve been reading NQ since it’s inception, and with the election, it’s understandable that the focus has shifted, however I still keep coming back, even though I’m a furriner. I have quit reading other blogs because of the almost rabid nature of the commenters. Not here. With the exception of a few, the rest of the commenters have exhibited intelligence and have refused to sink to the level of others by misogynist or racist comments. You have all offered links to back up your comments. You have all done your homework, and further, you are all working so darned hard. Your candidate, as I wrote in another thread, is amazing, but so are you. Keep up the good work, keep thinking positively, and keep doing what you do. If I weren’t the dreaded atheist type, I would offer a prayer. As I am the dreaded A, I will offer a prediction. This election, more than any other in my memory (and I’m a retire) has done more to galvanize the voting public than any other in the last 30 years. Whoever gains the presidency will have to deal with a much more involved electorate. You guys and all your friends are responsible for that. Well done!
I just saw that sexist pig Barky on the stump telling his sad sad story about how he was raised by a single mother and his daddy left him and his mother raised him alone with the “help” of his grandparents. Then he talked about how his grandparents didn’t “have much” and grampy went into the army and came out and blah blah blah. And never ONCE did he mention his typical white grandmother who was the vice president of the biggest bank in Hawaii. This man hates women and particularly white women and more particularly SUCCESSFUL white women, even if they RAISED his ass and PAID for his PRIVEATE school. I despise you Barack OBama. I will spend 24/7 to work against you, you mysoginist bastard who doesn’t even have the balls to admit you would be shit today without your grandmother. Go screw youreself, you lousy bastard. And take your sexist buddies with you. You will NEVER be president. American women with sense to make sure of it. You will not set us back. Never. Instead we will set YOU back.
I’m with you. I will never vote for that arrogant jerk. After Hillary becomes President, I want to see Alice Palmer take Barak’s Senate seat away from him and send him back to the gutter with his corrupt buddies.
By the time it is over, he will have been a member of the Crips, living in Los Angeles, raised by his BLACK poverty stricken grandmother, a simple cleaning lady, who over came the odds to send him to Columbia, and Harvard.
He needs to reinvent himself, again, apparently, this gives him street cred, and makes him acceptable to moderate, white voters.
Maybe we can have a contest to see who can write, or make up, the best fairy tale life for Obama, thereby getting him into the White House.
The winner gets an imaginary Lamborghini, in honor of Obama’s imaginary “hardships.”
Yes his hatred of white women (projecting his white mother & grandmother on all white women) — is so obvious. And yet we have masochistic women who don’t seem to notice that Obama hates them.
Women would NOT have a friend in an Obama presidency.
But then the GOP will NOT allow Obama to become Prez — and the voters will not elected the self centered maggot.
Well Obama probably thinks that white women harbor secret Mandingo fantasies…….
Wasn’t it in his first book where he wrote that he rejected his mother’s race at about the age of 13?
Of course, one must always keep in mind that most of what Obama says about his family and his childhood is falsified. Both of his books belong in the fiction section.
His mother came from very comfortable means. When he refers to her family living on a “small island in Washington state” he’s talking about Mercer Island where one has always needed greater than middle class income to live. So many lies and inconsistencies in all he says.
Yes and he alluded to his mommy having Mandingo fantasies each time she saw a black man…..Oh Brother !
If his Momma were alive this shit would not be goin down….
[...] Aaron Bruns wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWe’ve written FIVE stories on Obama’s fear of debating Hillary again — because she whupped him in the last ABC News debate. All of our stories are listed below, along with the most choice quotes (and snarky imagery). … [...]
Indiana and North Carolina Democrats, your help is needed to avert a trainwreck awaiting us in Puerto Rico. In the U.S. territory, citizens do not vote in presidential general elections, but they are given a voice in the Democratic primary.
Puerto Rico’s Democratic party decided, on March 8 of this year, to hold a primary rather than a caucus to allocate it’s 55 delegates. This decision was made after it became clear that in a close contest, the total popular vote — no matter how skewed a figure, due to the mix of primary and caucus states — would become an important number in discussions about the nomination. States that had already had their caucuses, in full accordance with the rules established before the primary season began, did not have the re-do option.
Colorado and Puerto Rico have been allocated the same number of pledged delegates, 55. With Puerto Rico holding a primary with an expected turnout of at least a million voters, its popular vote will likely equal the total caucus votes of Colorado PLUS the primary votes of South Carolina, New Hampshire, Delaware, and Utah, combined. Puerto Rico will thus have a popular vote equivalent vote strength of 160 pledged delegates, rather than their allocated 55.
If the perception is widespread that Obama won the delegate count but lost the popular vote, it will weaken our Democratic nominee and cause feelings of resentment among Clinton supporters. Our best hope of winning in the fall is with a strong nominee who was fairly chosen because he won the most pledged delegates and the most popular votes. The large popular vote expected for Clinton in Puerto Rico may make Obama fall short in the popular vote.
If you’ve concluded, as I have, that our likely nominee, Senator Barack Obama, is worthy of your vote in the fall, I urge you to consider voting for him May 6. I think it is a wise move for everyone who hopes for a Democratic victory in the fall.
Even if Obama is not your first choice now, your vote in his column of the popular vote would be a gesture of hope for a Democratic victory in November. Doing so will help unite the Democratic Party and give us our best chance for a win in the general election.
As a California voter in June of 1992, I cast my vote not for Jerry Brown, my governor and favorite candidate, but instead for an inexperienced, charismatic governor of a small state, Bill Clinton. It was clear that he would be the nominee, and I wanted to add my little boost to strengthen him going into the convention and the fall election.
Thank you for your consideration.
As I stated previously, I will never vote for Barak Obama under any circumstances.
It’s the dullest work of a low IQ troll I have ever seen.
He must be a republican ghost writer, they’re the only ones this trite, personalities poorly developed, so the writing technique never progresses.
A little Alinsky in the hands of a moron is a…
boring thing.
See, a static stupid republican or Obama troll, like a static army in Iraq, can be trolled, and easily.
Intellectual mediocrity is a loser, whether you’re Axelrod, or Petraeus.
Obama may end up being the Democratic nominee in November, but it has already become apparent to me that he’s a train wreck and the ONLY path for McBush to end up in the White House! You may be correct that Obama is destined to win the nomination, no matter what happens in the rest of the primaries, but even a large popular vote in the Democratic primary will NOT propel that man into the White House–Obama has WAY too much baggage for most moderates to tolerate!
There is NO WAY IN HELL that I will vote for McBush, but as it stands, I cannot vote for Obama either. Between Obama’s connections with known terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn and his links to slumlord and influence peddler Tony Rezko, I cannot in good conscience support this man. I may eventually find a way to vote for Obama if he prevails in the Democratic primary, but I WILL NOT LIKE IT!
From the day she announced her candidacy, I’ve been convinced that HRC cannot win the GE. Any polls that show Clinton beating McCain today are just as accurate as the polls 6 months ago that indicated Clinton would get 60+% of the vote in the primary.
Limbaugh et al. have deliberately held their fire. If HRC is nominated, there will be months of ranting about the violation of the spirit of the 22nd amendment to install the Clinton co-presidency for a third term. Among many other rants.
Given the virtual certainty the Obama will lead in pledged delegates after June 3, even after seating FL and MI delegates as selected at their state conventions (a net 60 for Clinton), large numbers of Obama supporters will feel cheated and betrayed if Obama is not the nominee. HRC will not have enthusiastic support among some core Demo voting blocks, if she wins the nomination without coming in first place in the contest for earned delegates. It will make it even more imposible for her to win, imo.
Statbabe, I am very appreciative of your willingness to consider voting for Obama in the fall, even if you won’t like it. I will vote for HRC in the fall, if she is the nominee.
Do a writein for hillary. Please do not give this misogynist pig a vote.
I won’t put the lives of my family in danger out of irrational hatred for McCain or equally irrational party loyalty considering the magnitude of evil in Obama and the danger he poses. Not to mention him threatening insurrection if he is not nominated.
I’ll either write in Hillary or vote for McCain, if my vote is needed to make sure Obama loses my state. Can you imagine for one second Obama having access to “the button” controlling our nuclear arsenal?
These people saying “he’s fucked up but vote for McCain anyway” can do as they wish. But I ain’t biting nor will many many Hill supporters.
Besides, Obama really is toast and this GE talk of Obama should be moot soon. Let’s wait until Tuesday and assess things then.
Dems to Win here’s my “consideration”.
Fuck you.
As we have been saying repeatedly at NQ — Obama cannot win — the voters have already spoken in OHIO, TEXAS, PENNSYLVANIA, MASS., N.J., N.Y., CALIFORNIA, and so many other MUST WIN states — NO-OBAMA.
Fuck Obama.
When they count the votes of Mi and Fl and seat the delegates BEFORE any vote at the convention, I could be a REAL ball buster and say that dickless weasel obamalamadingdongwithouttashlong has to debate Senator Clinton again but I can’t bare to see a supposed man cry and piss his pants so I’ll settle for the delegates being seated and vote. If that don’t happen. In a pigs ass!
As an Obama supporter, I think that Michigan and Florida must be counted. The voters cannot be punished for the antics of their politicians — not if the Democrats want to have a chance to win in FL and MI in the fall. I hope and expect to see this happen in June:
It is my expectation that Obama will end the primary season June 3 with a pledged delegate margin of about a hundred votes.
Shortly thereafter, the DNC and Obama’s campaign will announce they will recommend that the credentials committee seat the Florida and Michigan delegations selected at their state conventions, giving Clinton a 60 net delegate gain. Obama will continue to lead the total pledged delegate count by about 40 votes.
A few hundred superdelegates will announce their committment to vote for Obama at the convention. Obama will be the presumptive nominee, AND Michigan and Florida will have been counted in the total.
If the situations were reversed, and Clinton was ahead by any number of pledged delegates, she would be the nominee. To do anything else would leave her supporters feeling severely alienated and cheated. The Democrats won’t do that to either side. Since Obama will almost certainly be in the lead, he will be the nominee.
I hope that the Democrats can then unite around Obama, our nominee, and win in November.
Dems to win…..IF your candidate Obama finagles his fraudulent nomination you will witness an EXODUS from the Democratic Party of all those He and his followers HAVE OFFENDED that it will be of BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS…. Enjoy his candidacy….It will be brief…..
Um, do you have ADD or something? Don’t you remember when the Superdelegates were EVIL and UNDEMOCRATIC and COULD NOT BE ALLOWED to choose the nominee? I mean, it was only back in February.
When the primaries are over, Hillary would have won more popular votes than any other candidate in the race. Therefore, if Obama is the nominee, it will be HILLARY supporters who will “feel cheated” – because they WOULD HAVE BEEN CHEATED.
I notice you don’t mention the popular vote in your post. Two months ago, it’s ALL the Obama supporters were talking about. Now that it’s not convenient, that talking point has been dropped. You think we are too stupid to notice? Wrong.
That unity pipe is a bust would’nt you agree…..John ?
Just like the plumming at Fort Bragg, all backed up and smelly. That’s about what the Dems will come home to.
Dear Senator Obama;
We are completely grateful for the endurance of Senator Clinton in keeping alive this campaign season, as it allowed the voters to examne you more closely than a single speech in 2002! What has been uncovered is extrodinary to find that you have hidden behind, lied about and to date refuse to reveal, and at stake is the same old 4 years or as discovered, a path towards scocial communism for which we are grateful Senator Clinton remained long enough to expose enough of you that no right minded American could ever vote for a POTUS as you with your band of wacked out friends!
Compliments to your advisor Axelrod, he almost managed to completely railroad the American public as he did in falsely advertising the fears of power rates in Illinois and succeeding to force through 22% rate increases which were based upon lies in advertising, which has been the backbone of your Campaign Senator Obama!
Your campaign on “Change” has been a difficult one to understand, since you refuse to give specifics, but a look into your circle shows from your mentors as Frank Davis to Ayers and Dohrn have shown you prefer a communistic form of governement, one the country deplores!
Although the majority of the country feels a sense of disgust in your spiritual guide, Rev Wright, we are eternally grateful to the man for his strength in continuing his beliefs wvwn if the majority disagrees, whereas you managed at first to make the past horrific ways of Americans decades ago become the salvation to justify your beliefs today, to your latest escapade of denouncing him as your beliefs are halting your selfish ways, have you no shame?
We are grateful to you for one thing Senator Obama, you showed to us how the leadership of the DNP are so pathetic a group, with Dean seeking to be a supreme leader and Pesoli wanting to be the power to be, all the while proving one single thing, they place their support behind a person who is against everything American, living a dream and not doing the due dilligence prior in vetting a candidate completely! So when you go off into the darkenss of political failure as most do, while you sit in your newly provided Chicago mansion paid for on the backs of slumlords and royalties from books of lies, we can only hope and pray that no teaching institute will allow you in to warp the minds of future generations!
In closing, we pray the wisdon of Hillary will continue and she will stay in the fight to the very end, because we have not fulfilled the vetting to give you Senator Obama a justified exodus from the political stage!
We the people would rather suffer a few years of another GOP than have America take on the face of the likes of Ayers/Dohrn/Rudd/Davis/Wright et al Marxist ways!
“When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Obama turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
– From Riverdaughter’s blog”
Riverdaughter should have cited her source for that. It’s appropriate, and cute, but it is part of the “Sir Robin’s Song” easily located on the internet.
GUTLESS? COWARD? ARE ALL OF YOU MENTALLY RETARDED? I think so, because they’ve debated 21 times now. 21 freaking times. Learn to count. You are idiots who needs to just go bury your head in manure piles and by doing so hopefully learn what it’s like for the rest of us to have to listen to moronic crap like what you’ve just said.
Did you watch our girl on BillO’? If your guy can match a fraction of that performance, I will stop calling him the chicken in a gutless wonder waffleman..You are the retarded one here.