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A Car Dealer, a College Student and a Lobbyist were Sitting in a Bar….

A Car Dealer, a College Student and a Lobbyist Are Going to Help Pick Your Presidential Candidate For You.

Florida’s votes don’t count.

Michigan’s votes don’t count.

But the votes of Howard Dean’s Car Dealer and a Lobbyist trump them all.

That’s right folks. As you know this race is close, so 25 delegates can mean a lot. Well, you can rest well tonight knowing that 25 appointed delegates, the names and affiliations unknown to us, are going to pick our Democratic candidate–all of them appointed by Howard Dean with Donna Brazile’s blessings. Now who do you suppose will be the beneficiary of those 25 obscure and magical votes, that are not acquired through ANY primary or caucus?

Process thrusts panel in spotlight

Mr. Dean’s criteria for choosing his 25 members was “to get a diverse group of people from all walks of life,” said a party official, who added that the “process of choosing these 25 began last fall, when many of the 25 appointed members were uncommitted.”

“I don’t think they explained that to us beforehand,” joked Dean Aguillen, a lobbyist who was appointed to the committee by Mr. Dean. “It’s something that came up later, and you started learning some of the processes of the convention.”


For once at least, someone in the press took the time to cover something important that is going on behind the scenes–or should we say behind our backs???

Fleaflicker here:

I mean seriously folks. Do any of you really think the person below is qualified to decide the nominee of our party?

  • http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

    Dear God, Flea! The video! Is that one of Dean’s Appointees to the Mystery 25? Please say No.

    Hart lost his punch when the extra-marital stuff came out. Remember that shot of him on the yacht? Those were the days with it mattered though. lol.

  • http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

    Poor John Dean. I did it to him again. Forgive me John. It’s some kind of psychological thing with me I am sure.

  • http://thehorizontalworld.blogspot.com/ Mary Jo Kopechne

    I’m beginning to think that Dean et al are using “Animal Farm” as their how-to manual, with Obama as Napoleon and Dean as Squealer. This is just ridiculous and getting more so by the day. And like all rigged elections, it is demoralizing for voters.

    George Orwell called it. Read it again, if you haven’t since high school.

  • http://NoQuarterUSA.net Larry Johnson

    Can’t rule out it was Jon Stewart’s version of an April Fools joke, but if not, it ain’t funny.

  • NagNancy

    So much for the idea that superdelegates are all “Party Elders” with umpteen years experience. Cripes.

  • bert

    Yeah!!! In all the interviews this year where he bitches about not getting the nomination, and the nomination was stolen from him he conviently leaves out that fact. And the media plays along and never tells viewers that he flaunted his affair to the press. He is bitter and it shows.

  • Fleaflicker

    John is back to being Howard now. For the time being… until he becomes Squealer like Mary Jo says.

  • Fleaflicker

    Donna Rice and Monkey Business. Yes, those were the daze. I mean days. Well, I plead the fifth!

  • http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

    Why I have NO idea what you are talking about!

  • http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

    Yup. No wonder Howard and Nancy are finally “conceding” to the rules of superdelegates. They have their own stash of them in place.

  • http://hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com Uppity

    Yes I saw him a few times. He forgot to say he was boinking anything that wasn’t nailed down at the time. Poor victim of superdelegates he was. Yeah, he would have won all right.

  • ybnormal

    Supposedly, the premise behind superdelegates, was to have a representative delegation of professional politicians, hopefully with the wisdom and knowledge gained by their professional experience. Why?

    It’s a model taken from our own constitution, the House and the Senate. The House is supposed to be proportional representation, while the Senate is supposed to be a check against what our founding fathers called “tyanny of the masses[/majority]“, lest they be falsely taken by a charismatic character; which in turn was a borrowed concept from British houses of Lords and Commons.

    It doesn’t really work if party bosses are delegating the professional class so as to conform to their personal favorite faction of the masses.

    How does this concept work in the actual U.S. Senate?

    In the words of Scottish poet Robert Burns, “The best-laid schemes of mice and men / Gang aft a-gley [often go astray]”

    Or in other words, the inexperienced Obama is not only a Senator (where he did little to add to his experience), but a POTUS candidate as well.

  • ybnormal

    I agree, it’s hard to find the real humor in it. Dark humor is easier to laugh at when it’s fiction. This is the extreme form; where we start laughing, then stop when the reality sinks in, that the joke is on us.

    Takes the wind out of the laughter, but does have value in driving the point home.

  • barbh

    Hopefully it is a April Fools joke.

    The guy is a junior in college and never voted? Not even in a local election? Surely he is registered to vote and a Democrat. This is really bizarre if true.

    Who does he know if true, how would Howard Dean even know that he existed?

    Sheesh…

  • http://www.sugarnspice.typepad.com Sugar

    Jesus! Is this for real? See how much a media blackout I’ve been on??? “25 appointed delegates”??? Behind our backs is right. They intend to steal this election from Hillary “By Any Means Necessary”…

  • alibe

    Piece Of Mind
    The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -H.L. Mencken

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    I’ve been suspicious of the Obama parade from the beginning – it’s been my experience that ‘attractive’ Democrats whom the media fawns over and regard as safe can usually trace their roots back to the Democratic Leadership Council, otherwise known as the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.

    Obama’s no easy case, though. There are messages in the smoke.

    Alexander Cockburn, as left as left can be, has written a couple of pieces on Obama. This was before the media discovered him. That’s a recent phenomenon.

    Here’s Cockburn:

    It’s depressing to think that we’ll have to endure Obamaspeak for months, if not years to come: a pulp of boosterism about the American dream, interspersed with homilies about “putting factionalism and party divisions behind us and moving on.” I used to think Sen. Joe Lieberman was the man whose words I’d least like to be force fed top volume if I was chained next to a loudspeaker in Camp Gitmo, but I think Obama, who picked Lieberman as his mentor when he first entered the U.S. Senate, is worse. I’ve never heard a politician so desperate not to offend conventional elite opinion while pretending to be fearless and forthright.

    That’s right – Joe Lieberman is Obama’s mentor, and Lieberman brags that Obama picked him, not the opposite.

    Cockburn also notes that Obama, around the time that Murtha was making a stink about Iraq, spoke before the elite of the Council on Foreign Relations.

    Democrats fled Murtha, few with more transparent calculation than Obama who voyaged to the Council on Foreign Relations on November 22, there to ladle out to the assembled elites such balderdash as “The President could take the politics out of Iraq once and for all if he would simply go on television and say to the American people ‘Yes, we made mistakes’”, or “we need to focus our attention on how to reduce the U.S. military footprint in Iraq. Notice that I say ‘reduce,’ and not ‘fully withdraw’”, or “2006 should be the year that the various Iraqi factions must arrive at a fair political accommodation to defeat the insurgency; and , the Administration must make available to Congress critical information on reality-based benchmarks that will help us succeed in Iraq.”

    Smooth as syrup. There’s a wave of discontent int his country, voiced in the November elections, that we want out of Iraq – no redeployment or scaleback, but o-u-t. No worthy politician can ignore this. But the war from the beginning has been an elite undertaking with unstated objectives. Americans have only been cajoled and frightened into following, and are seeing more clearly now.

    It is going to take a politician of considerable skill to 1) heed to public demand to get out, and 2) keep us in. The media, subservient to power as always, will glom on to any politician who can serve those objectives. So, for now, Obama is their man.

    [Obama] lobbed up the first signal flare during the run-up to his 2004 senate race, when his name began to feature on Democratic Leadership Council literature as one of the hundred Democratic leaders to watch.

    The DLC doesn’t necessarily pre-select candidates, but they do keep an eye out for possibilities. Obama has been on their watch-list for some time. Now that they see his sex appeal, they may rally behind him. He could be Hillary without the polarizing effect, a real possibility to hold the office.

    Obama has voted to close filibuster on both of Bush’s Supreme Court selections, to re-up the Patriot Act, for “tort reform”. He’s sent up plenty of signals that he could be Republican-lite enough to be ‘electable’ – code word for no threat to power.

    Obama is one of those politicians whom journalists like to decorate with words as “adroit” or “politically adept” because you can actually see him trimming to the wind, the way you see a conjuror of moderate skill shove the rabbit back up his sleeve. Above all he is concerned with the task of reassuring the masters of the Democratic Party, and beyond that, the politico-corporate establishment, that he is safe. Whatever bomb might have been in his head has long since been dis-armed. He’s never going to blow up in the face of anyone of consequence.

    There’ll be other candidates testing the wind. Vilsack, another DLC guy, might catch on. Anyone of the left need not apply – Feingold has already ascertained that there is no support among those who matter for a man who really would get us out of Iraq, who really would change our health care system, who really cares about campaign finance reform. We’re pretty much stuck with the DLC, sex appeal, and no substance.

    Obama had his fingers stuck in the wind as always. He bends to every breeze, as soon as he identifies it as coming from a career-threatening quarter. This man is no leader.

  • Fred C. Dobbs

    I have been calling Obama the “New Gary Hart” since before Christmas. ANd, I still stand behind my prediction that he will be toast by 15 April.

    SOMEone SOMEwhere has a tape, a pictire or an affidavit that will derail him. Rove probably has it in a filing cabinet drawer.

  • lemonv

    Here is a suggestion:

    How about typing (or writing) HRC or Hilllary or any combination of the name on the ballot in the event that Barack becomes the dem nominee? That way, “they”, (howard Dean et.al.) will be shocked if Hillary gets more votes than Barack and/or McCain.

  • flyarm

    Ahh yes and do remember the Donna Rice “jeans” and Jeans commercials we had to endure and be ridiculed about for being Dems…ahhh the good old days!!

    Why don’t these scum bags go back under the slimy rock they crwaled out from…

    yes the kids today are clueless to all this crap..and who the cast of characters are who are supporting Obama..but their day is coming!!

    While the Obamabrats scream about Bill ..they are cheering their own scum bags!

    Where is Gary Condit?? watch out obamabrats..is he your next superdelegate..or Obama endorser??

  • Kourian

    Girl you are baaaaad!

  • NewOrleans

    As unbelievable as it seems, this is all for real.

    http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/opinion/276265

    “Democratic National Committee member Jason Rae, a Marquette University student and super delegate, gave his support to Obama the day after Wisconsin ‘s primary, citing Obama ‘s popularity among Wisconsin college students.”

    Lord help us.

  • TeakwoodKite

    Heresssss Howard! :)

  • Adrienne Grey

    Wait a minute. If this kid’s favorite singer is Celine Dion, maybe he’s a Hillary supporter. He seemed pretty happy to get a call from Chelsea. I say let’s give him the benefit of the doubt.
    *****A

  • Adrienne Grey

    Oops, just read he’s an Obama dude.

    Never mind.

    *****A

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