Ball of Confusion

Exactly. And combine this with the failure of Democrats to genuinely be a champion of women’s interests for these past decades (on choice, equal pay, etc.), and it all falls into place.

Women are fed up.

And they will say, We were only following orders, doing what we were told…
I hope your friend can display the character necessary when it comes time to admit that motivations do matter.

…exactly. Once karma delivers a big blow to Barack -he will be done. The Clinton’s will then take over the Democratic party, and all those bafoons will have to listen. And then, maybe we will win a fucking (xcuse my language) election for a change.

Can you please also tell him to watch this video – to me the main issue is caucus fraud, which so many have swept under the rug:

http://www.wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/video/index.htm

Oh, please. You’re calling Sarah Freaking Palin a champion of women’s rights? Yeah, if you don’t count that she’s hardcore pro-life, anti-stem-cell research, anti-sex ed, pro-pay-for-your-own-rape-kit, and so on down the line.

Then there’s her answer to one of Charlie Gibson’s questions, which may well go down in history as an all-time great political fuckup:

“When asked by Gibson if under the NATO treaty, the U.S. would have to go to war if Russia again invaded Georgia, Palin responded: “Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you’re going to be expected to be called upon and help.”

“Perhaps so,” huh, Sarah? Perhaps so?

Anyone who votes for this lunatic ticket is utterly deranged. And they aren’t going to find 50% of Americans who are willing to do so. I couldn’t imagine that the Republicans could come up with a ticket that’s even more warmongering than Bush/Cheney, but McCain/Palin clearly is. We’re already at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, our military is stretched to brink of collapse, and we have McCain and Palin talking casually about going to war in Iran and, now, with Russia, of all people.

Of course, none of this is even remotely feasible, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff would resign en masse if orders like this were ever issued. Still, to even have presidential candidates speaking this way is completely unprecedented, and terrifying, and bizarre. Expect this to be the big story tomorrow. I look forward to the official PUMA explanation of why this isn’t a big deal.

Everytime I heard a Democrat open their mouths now I cringe. Cringe.

It seems the Democrats are now doing everything in their power to undermine their own credibility.

Bodes poorly for your neighbors to the north.

Good dcmediagril; well said. And the list goes on: a book should be written that brings home to the Dems. precisely and poignantly how bad and by how much they have screwed up.
Even if BO wins; Dems should make no mistake: they have screwed up on basic issues (like enfranchisement, sexism) BIG TIME. These primary season has been a disgrace for the DNC and Congress leaders.

hubris is the word.

they stereotype the electorate by race and gender and expect us to follow like sheep for issues like the first AA president or roe v.wade. they treat us like single issue voters and disrespect our ability to make independent decisions. they treat us like sheep rather than asking for our votes through hard work.

they forget that they are supposed to be representatives of the people’s will and not some elite authority with the decision to override people’s will.

I think it is amusing that Barack spends so much time attackin Palin. I thought he was running against McCain? LOL!

DUH!

Hey, excellent post-Do you think it will help! When this mess is over with. We need to be ready for a complete house cleaning. Purge! Bigtime-starting with the screamer and his hench buds..in Congress!

The greatest irony is that BO, like W, campaigns on being a “Uniter,” and then does exactly the opposite!! Yes, he is like another GWB!

Just as the “neo-conservatives” are a sub-group of Republicans that have little resemblance to traditional Republicans, we now have “neo-liberals” trying to take over the Democratic Party. It’s a coup, plain and simple. Whether we, as a people, or as members of the traditional Democratic Party, allow this to happen is what it’s all about.

JUST SAY NO DEAL! PUMA!

When you attacked Hillary, you said it was not all women just that bit#h. We didn’t believe you but we had no empirical evidence to back us up. Now with Palin, we do not agree with her politics, but we know that she is as smart as Obama, we know that she has as much experience as Obama, we know that you never discuss this when men are running and we know that she is ‘only’ running for VP. You made us lose Hillary and we are mad and bitter and you are not going to do it to another woman. We are not going to let you do it to the women of America. Enough is enough. PUMAmerica

Good job explaining things to this congressman DC. You should also send him a copy of Uppity’s Sawdust post and if the Dems don’t get after both of these explanations, perhaps they should find a new line of work.

I did not think Palin did well on the Gibson interview. However I come back to this. In her tenure of governor she did some thing, in attacking corruption against big odds and she won.

Obama took the responsibility of a important subcommittee ( European Affairs and NATO) and did not hold one meeting.

So she did a job and he did not –

Yup she is weak on Foreign Affairs, but in my book is even with Obama – what has he accomplished in Foreign Affairs. He will have on the job training as president. She will be as vice president.

Oh, and much more. Why was Obama never vetted? Why is he still getting a pass? The double standards are dizzying.

Howard and the rest never minded that he ran on race. They never minded that he has nothing he believes in and will say anything to anyone for their votes. They never minded that he made up his bio which was a fairy tale and which anyone can research and see for themselves. They never minded that he does not tell the truth and conceals information and records so he cannot be vetted. They never minded that he uses Chjicago style thug politics and then prances around like an innocent child who cannot be criticized. They never minded when he trashed the Clintons with Rove-style attacks. They ate it like ice cream because he is their Manchurian Candidate.

Oh, they may “listen” after Nov. 4th…

…but something tells me they won’t “understand”.

It may be a “genetic political” blindspot..I don’t know.

Failure to UNDERSTAND will only cause them to make the same mistakes in the future, and the fact is, the ol’ bugaboo of RACE gives them a perfect “out” to put the blame on…

When in truth, they have no one to blame but thmselves!

Just listening to the Fox coverage of the Cambridge interview with McCain and I want to scream everytime the press asks why this campaign has been so dirty (forget the exact wording). I’ve lived through a lot of campaigns and this campaign has been very mild and on the higher road. It is the Obama crowd that keeps dragging it down and Palin is still taking her heat for her rightful response to the denigration Obama laid on her. I hate the press!

I do wish you hadn’t neglected to mention the Obama campaign’s rampant caucus fraud.

Larry, what was your friends response. Don’t leave us hanging.

I am interested in Democratic Principles, not the Democratic Party. When the Democratic Party returns to its historical Democratic Principles, I may return to the Democratic Party. Until then, I am an Independent.

“what about the courts? Roe v Wade? WTF?” Maybe a lot of these women are not sure they like seeing a million people killed every year in the name of “choice” — especially not when we have less choice in lawnmowers than we have in killing little babies.

Yes, this sums it up perfectly — the betrayal of Hillary by the Party.

The Feminist vote will follow Palin, I’m sure.
Also, I feel McCain is far more of a maverick and closer to a Dem in values than people realize.

I almost voted for him in 2000 — it’s his record, tenure, grace — all of that.

I’d be happy to return to my Party if it were reformed. Perhaps it shall be — but this year — it betrayed itself!

hugs to all — (in the election of our lifetimes!)

Whew.

In another comment to another diary today, I talked about the comments of Marc Fisher, a Washington Post reporter. He has talked to numerous women in the highly populated, affluent area of Fairfax County, Virginia. Some women told him abortion was a dead issue with them.

My wife says the availability of effective contraception + the highly effective morning after pill + RU486 if that doesn’t work gives women lots of alternatives not available before. We also agreed that the old liberal mantra — no parental notification — was a bad idea. (We have three daughters. We want them to have the best medical care possible, and don’t want them sneaking off to a clinic that may or may not be an excellent provider of health services.)

I’d be interest to hear the reaction of others to these thoughts.

Personally, I thought the diarist made a series of excellent points about the DNC. I would add that I felt Obama personally did not show respect to Senator Clinton.

As far as foreign policy experience goes, and whether Palin has the right stuff, let’s remember that some of the biggest foreign policy screwups have come courtesy of people who were allegedly very well read and traveled, and here I am thinking of, to name two, Z. Brzezinski and Rice. I thought Kissinger was not very good. I was shocked at how inept Cheney turned out to be. Carter was a very smart man, but mismanaged foreign policy. There are many contrary examples — Bill Clinton studied foreign policy as a student, and worked for Fulbright. He had very good foreign policy instincts.

But knowing foreign policy is not about book knowledge. It is about listening carefully and intelligently to the best experts one can assemble. Our State Department and our military have people with widely varying qualities, and frankly there are some dunderheads in the bunch. The ability to listen carefully, ask good questions, be culturally sensitive, and a host of other qualities are the necessary ingredients to being a good CIC. In terms of pure experience — Obama has no more foreign policy experience than the man in the moon. To paraphrase Norman Mailer, if Obama has foreign policy or governing experience, then I’m a first baseman.

Here’s the thing, DC – WHY did this congressman NOT understand why we are so angry?? We have been saying it, laying it all out, for MONTHS!!! How has he not HEARD us? Why wasn’t he listening?? Why did he not pay attention to what all of the polls were saying, or what the 18,000,000 votes were saying?? Hillary Clinton was, bar none, the BEST choice for president, and the BEST chance for the Dems to take back the White House. But for whatever petty, power hungry, self-centered, SHORT-sighted reasons the DNC leadership had, they were hellbent on putting in Obama. Hell, most of those people are nowhere CLOSE to her level, so maybe they’re jealous. Whatever, they made up whatever rules they could to make sure that happened. So, it isn’t just that it is not Hillary, it is – and more IMPORTANTLY – because the DNC betrayed all of us who thought it stood for the PEOPLE, for the votes of every single person, not just the ones they could finagle for their selection. It is that they have acted with such callous disregard for women in general, and Hillary specifically.

So my questions to your friend are: How could he NOT know why we are so angry, sad, frustrated, and LEAVING THE PARTY?? And was it WORTH it? Was it worth it to the DNC to disenfranchise so many lifelong, devoted Democrats just to push through this unqualified, inexperienced, arrogant, sexist man who has not met a legislattive position on which he can make, and KEEP, a stand? The one who stole Hillary’s positions, and now McCain’s and Palin’s, because he cannot come up with his OWN? Did he and the other “representatives” not think that maybe we wanted the ORIGINATOR of those policies, and not the COPIER of those policies? Did he really think they could so blithely ignore the will of the people and have us NOT be angry???

Ahem. Yeah. Like that.

Did you tell him that many never considered voting for him? Many shook their heads and chuckled many moons ago that the Dems would actually put forth someone with no experience.. at all?

Here’s a question.. have they learned nothing from losing?

The Funny Forum 9/11/08

Heil, Obamarama
yep, government and the citizens’ are going to be co-partners. hhmmmhmmmmm, yeah, right.

John McCain was a true American gent and compatriot tonight. He was honorable.

How is hoBO going to sit with our enemies when he cannot face his opponent in person?

Obamboozle…nope. No Can Do!!

I’m sure your Congressperson, DCMedia, is sincere, but he/she is the answer to his/her own question. If he/she has to ask why the Dem. party is so screwed up, then he’s/she’s the problem.

Completely unaware of what is going on with the Dem. constituency, not knowing about the MI/FL disenfranchisement and thinking it was okay—OMG! Now I completely understand why the Dem. Party is such a mess and why they allowed the BHO phenom. to get shoved down our throats.

Obama rambles to damn much, shit he takes 10 minutes to answer a 1 minute question

dcmediagirl,

Great post. Thank you so much for sharing this and for sitting this man down and having such a conversation.

I am so deeply sorry it is way to late for these boobs to correct the situation. Speaking as a lifelong Democrat from a family of Democrats, I’ve left the Party. There is absolutely nothing Obama or the DNC could do to get me to vote (D) for President this year.

Except throw the whole ticket out and name Hillary as the Presidential nominee. And you and I know that would never happen.

Interesting that he couldn’t quite figure out their dilemma. Too bad for him and his party, but we women were TOLD by the BO campaign that they didn’t care that women were being verbally abused by their supporters because after THE ONE became the nominee, their plan was to “PLAY THE ROE V. WADE CARD.” That came straight from a BO campaign spokesperson to an MSNBO talking head. They deliberately let the abuse of Hillary and her supporters continue unanswered TO DESTROY HILLARY because they had their “secret card” they knew would bring us all back to the party.

Honestly? I find it hard to believe that your friend didn’t know WTF is going on and why. Is he out of the loop? Living under a rock? Blind? Deaf?

I come from a family who votes Republican. However I am my own person and always vote for who I feel is best regardless of which party they come from. I never agree w anyone on all of their issues. So I have primarily voted Democrat but have voted Republican once or twice.

I am becoming disappointed with Bill and Hillary Clinton. I am unsure of their strategy and motives. Bill said Obama is going to win by a landslide? I just feel betrayed. We stood up for Hillary and now she is supporting and praising BO. I thought she felt he wasn’t ready, not experienced or qualified. Now all of a sudden since the DNC selected him and he’s a Democrat, he’s qualified? I’m sorry, that shit doesn’t wash w me. I know it’s politics and all of that. But if a political party means more to you by helping someone like Obama get into office, well I guess you’re just too political for me.

The problem, as I see it.. is that the politicians and leaders in the Democrats never do any introspection, and they never publicly admit to any of their mistakes.

I see the Republicans to be a little better in this area.

And the reason I start my comment with that is because of what I see as an arrogance and sanctomony in the Dems in Washington.

They are driven by partisan warfare. I don’t think they have any objectivity.

Glenn Beck’s CNN show sends the message that people in the country have no faith in anyone in Washington…and he can rarely find any Dem. who will acknoweldge it.

There’s a lot of Republicans like this too, but the problem is not to the scale that it is with Dems.

everyone i knew is totally fed up with this stupid partisan warfare. Nancy Pelosi is the worst political leader and she needs to go.

I’m starting to consider investing in prozac; based on all the koolaid drinker’s current frenzy from fowler, fowler, damon and pamela anderson’s recent comments. I think there about to go over the edge…

SFHillary,

The only ones fighting for women’s rights in the dem party is Hillary Clinton and a handful of others. Other than that, its nothing more than a campaign slogen. They have allowed these horrible Bush picks for the supreme court all along, and I mean both Bushes. Bidon humiliated Anita Hill during the Clarance Thomas hearings and refused to let other women witnesses testify to Thomas’s pattern of sexual harrassment. Shortly, after, Thomas was confirmed. The men always stick together in the end and only talk a good game around election time.

I would also like to remind you that Justice Blackman, the author of Roe v. Wade, was a republican appointee. Furthermore, Justice Stevens, one of the remaining justices that the dems are worried about retiring or dying, was another republican appointee. The Dems themselves have not done very much to advance women’s rights, as you can see if you look through History. President Wilson, a REPUBLICAN signed the 19th Amendment into law giving women the right to vote. The dams have been champians for Blacks, but have done SHIT for women!!!!

I’m a life long dem and I generally go along with them because they are “supposed” to be “progressive”. But in this election season they have once again told women that we are shit and need not apply. They made clear through their actions that they do not really believe in fair and equal treatment for women.

They rigged an election for the less qualified black male (Black males are 6% of the population and about 4.5% of the dem electorite.) while fucking over the more experienced, qualified and stronger female candidate (Women are 52% of the population and WERE 58% of the dem electorate). The majority in South Africa are black, but until Mandella they had little to no representaion. Throughout the 80’s and 90’s people screamed about how unfair and racist it was for the majoity of that country to have no voice or representaion. Get it, neither do women here at home. Hillary was our hope and the sexist dems crushed it!!!!! FUCK THEM ALL. Sounds like gender apartied, doesn’t it? When the DEMS rigged the election, they lost all credibility regarding issues of gender equality, or voters rights for that matter.

ACTIONS SPEAK LOADER THAN UNFULFILLED RHETORIC.

This is why white women are switching to McCain. They are protesting the election rigging and the FUCKING democratic misogyny.

If a respected Democratic member of Congress is at a loss to explain why so many Hillary Democrats are disenchanted with the party, well, I give up. Do we have to paint him a picture? That this member of Congress is otherwise “a staunch defender of women’s rights” leads me to the conclusion that the Democratic majority led by Nancy Pelosi must be blind, deaf & mute. They’re hopeless and we might as well move on.

An earlier post made an excellent point about men feeling equally disenfranchised by the DNC’s underhanded tactics. How any Democrat, be they Obama or Clinton supporters, could want to have any part of a party that reduces its time honored roll call to a shameful rollover of votes for their hand picked candidate, is a mystery to me.

I won’t become Independent until after the election. I want my Democratic vote to be counted as a crossover vote for John McCain. In fact, many of us should stay Democrat just to remain a thorn in the DNC’s ass.

SFHillary,

The only ones fighting for women’s rights in the dem party is Hillary Clinton and a handful of others. Other than that, its nothing more than a campaign slogen. They have allowed these horrible Bush picks for the supreme court all along, and I mean both Bushes. Bidon humiliated Anita Hill during the Clarance Thomas hearings and refused to let other women witnesses testify to Thomas’s pattern of sexual harrassment. Shortly, after, Thomas was confirmed. The men always stick together in the end and only talk a good game around election time.

I would also like to remind you that Justice Blackman, the author of Roe v. Wade, was a republican appointee. Furthermore, Justice Stevens, one of the remaining justices that the dems are worried about retiring or dying, was another republican appointee. The Dems themselves have not done very much to advance women’s rights, as you can see if you look through History. President Wilson, a REPUBLICAN signed the 19th Amendment into law giving women the right to vote. The dams have been champians for Blacks, but have done SHIT for women!!!!

I’m a life long dem and I generally go along with them because they are “supposed” to be “progressive”. But in this election season they have once again told women that we are shit and need not apply. They made clear through their actions that they do not really believe in fair and equal treatment for women.

They rigged an election for the less qualified black male (Black males are 6% of the population and about 4.5% of the dem electorite.) while fucking over the more experienced, qualified and stronger female candidate (Women are 52% of the population and WERE 58% of the dem electorate). The majority in South Africa are black, but until Mandella they had little to no representaion. Throughout the 80’s and 90’s people screamed about how unfair and racist it was for the majoity of that country to have no voice or representaion. Get it, neither do women here at home. Hillary was our hope and the sexist dems crushed it!!!!! FUCK THEM ALL. Sounds like gender apartied, doesn’t it? When the DEMS rigged the election, they lost all credibility regarding issues of gender equality, or voters rights for that matter.

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN UNFULFILLED RHETORIC.

This is why white women are switching to McCain. They are protesting the election rigging and the FUCKING democratic misogyny.

Apparently, the far-left wing of the party decided to seize control, thinking that the Repubs were dead meat this year. They picked Bobo as their puppet, figuring that, if they gamed the system correctly, they’d get the black vote away from Hillary and pick up the support of niave, idealistic youth. White-guilt liberals jumped on board, determined to push through the first viable black candidate, attempting to right historic wrongs. Anyone who got in their way was to be destroyed. And they seem genuinely shocked that all Dems have refused to just go along! The party has been steadily losing the common people for decades now, and there will be a major lose this year.

“On one level, maybe their selection of BHO is a perfect statement on the current mindset of most of the Dem. leadership—-arrogant, narcissistic, hateful, conflicted, self-absorbed, but weak and ineffectual. Maybe he is the true reflection of who they are and how they see themselves.”

Wow…You said it Prem!

That was an excellent response! Thank you for laying out for him… What a shame that they are so out of touch and that they don’t see what scum Dean and Brazile are! They MUST GO!
JC

SFHillary,

Let me explain it to you this way. Let’s say you are married to a man, who makes a lot of money and occassionally buys you flowers. However, when things aren’t going his way, he beats and belittles you. So, should a woman stay with a man like that? Nope, she needs to go her own way.

Instead of worrying about the women who choose to register Republican, you should be more worried about those who unenroll – because those numbers should make you shit your britches. For every new registration the Dems pick up, you are loosing one to those who are now unenrolled voters.

And you should really be worried about women like me. I’m still a registered Dem, but the DNC will never get a penny of my money until Howard Dean and Donna Brazile are gone from the party leadership and the headquarters of the DNC is returned to Washington, DC. Moreover, right now I’m not voting for Obama and I’m teetering on voting for McCain. The more nasty Obama and his supporters become, I’m reminded of how they treated Clinton. There is a damn good chance that when I walk into the voting booth, I’ll vote for McCain instead of writing in Clinton. So, keep up the good work and keep pushing women further and further away from the Democratic Party.

The problem of Ukraine in NATO would be that it is a trojan horse. A significant % of Ukraine is ethnically Russian .

Thus Russia could get to sit happily there as well. Do not beleieve that Ukraine is anti-Russia. They have may interrelated families – Ukrainians lived thruout USSR & still live in Russia.

Ukraine is 100% reliant on Russia fr energy. The economy would break if Russia demanded anything near market rates.

Heck, it isn’t just women. I’m a guy and I’m completely fed up with the Dem party, the DNC, and the Dem leadership. What happened this election cycle was thoroughly disgusting, uncalled for, unnecessary, and undemocratic. All that crap was done for one reason: to subvert the will of the people and get Barack selected. To hell with the damn voters!

Dcmediagirl, one question: how in hell could your nice friend be so fucking clueless? How could he be surprised that McCain is ahead and that women are flocking to him? How clueless can you get to not know there’d be a reaction to all the crap that the damn Dems pulled?

Good post,DC. Thank you.

LOL, and thank you for enlightening one of our respresentatives. They often need to be clued in.

The one democrat that has fought for women her entire life was thrown to the side lines of the party by maneuvers and back room deals. Now the party still wants the support of women?

The arrogance is overwhelming. The democrats will reap the rewards of what they have sown. The party may be damaged for another generation unless a major shake up doesn’t happen and soon

Don’t forget the caucus fraud, the RBC debacle and the bullying and intimidation of superdelegates and delegates at the Convention.

Voter suppression, manipulation and fraud are KEY to the disillusionment and resistance.

They took the democracy out of the Democratic Party.

Back in January, the election seemed to be rigged in favor of the Democrats. They were the good guys and the good gal, they had the better rooster of candidates, they were not responsible for a terrible president.

I mean, take a back at the Republican candidates: The defining word was ‘former’: Former mayor, senator, governors. The only active politicians in the field, Paul and McCain were old as dirt. It looked as it the GOP was trying to say “We throw the towel. No use for nominating good candidates. Waste of talent, we are going to lose anyhow.”
And they presented a picture of disharmony. While the Dems were down to four candidates after 1 caucus, with Richardson and Edwards dropping out soon, some Republicans (Guiliani) even skipped the first few contests and I have the suspicion that Thompson is still gearing up to start his campaign… So, while the Democrats were focused, the Reps were confused and diverted

The Republican rooster was so weak that the mediocre Democratic field looked like the Avengers, a team of superheros with super-powers and without supervillains.
However, if you look closer, you realize that the Democratic field was not much better than the Republican one, due to one candidate dominating the competition and what really good candidate would be stupid enough to go against the Clinton machine?

Edwards was a former something, present hasbeen, Dodd and Biden were old men from small states without following, Obama was exotic and Richardson, the only guy with executive experience was and is weak as a lamb. He would not even win his homestate in a primary contest!
Where were governors such as Sebilius or Napolitano or Easley, Rendell or Stickland?

Thanks to a wrong stategy (”She is inevitable”) and good public transport from Illinois into neighboring Iowa and a lack of African American voters (remember, she had 60%+ of that vote in her pocket before IOWA), Clinton failed to win that caucus.

This was where the Dems stopped to be the good guys. This was when the media wolfpack smelled blood.
After Iowa, the first of 50 state primaries and caucuses, media and opponents called for her removal, called for her to step down.
This was where sexism became obvious, this was when Democrats aimed to hurt fellow Democrats.

Obama stole the battles, but he is going to lose the war, because the scorched victory in the primaries comes with a price.
Clinton ran the primaries like a GE, Obama runs the GE as he had run the primaries.
McCain runs the GE like a GE and this is why he will win: Energize your bases, secure your red states, go for independents, steal democrats, appeal to the groups your opponents leave out (white working class, women, rural voters, religious people) and adopt your opponents positions when they please many voters, when they fit to your image and when your opponent abandonned them, such as change.

I am still waiting for the “Whitey” tape, but I guess that the debates will be enough to derail Obama.

Do these congresspersons live in soundproof hermetically sealed booths? How could someone be as clueless as he is? I think there’s a strong case for this person – or anyone like him – being incompetent and undeserving of a well paid cushioned seat in the capital city.

“What are women thinking”?
Try this on for size! We are, and have been, carrying our share of the load!
Apparently, that is unappreciated in the Democratic Party, so let’s see how the other half lives!
Sounds like a plan to me!

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Yes, that is part of what happened but not why it happened.

The fault lies, dear Brutus, not in the stars but in ourselves.

The Bush tragedy lead the DNC to believe that they had a free ride and an immense amount of political capital, capital to burn and burn they did. Everyone went along with it.

It was a golden moment in history so why not make a bold change in history, try to elect either the first woman or the first black man (well, sorta black) to the Presidency. It was a chance that would not come again, so go for broke.

They were going to win and win big so why not show a couple of states that they couldn’t buck the national party organization?

Maybe the could have carried it off in the conditions of 2000 but 2008 gave them the worst economy since 1929, a world that hates our guts, an exhausted military facing an undefined enemy and a Russia and China that can nuke us just by switching to the Euro.

It’s Hooker at Chancellorsville, Hoover in October of 1929.

It’s time to start taking this seriously, people.

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