What’s Your Favorite Title for the Obama Debacle?
By Larry Johnson on August 20, 2008 at 6:09 PM in Current Affairs
This is not the breaking news. That story (written by another) should be up in the next couple of hours. (IT IS UP!) Nope. Mine is a brain candy kind of piece. If you had to write a piece for the Super Delegates, which of the following titles would you choose?
Eve of Destruction
Democratic Denial on Obama Decline
Democrats Close Eyes and Jump
Fair and Square? 2008 is 2000 Deja Vu
Why can’t the Super Delegates foresee Democratic doom? What part of “loser” don’t they understand?
Today, Obama is down a full 5 points in the latest Reuters-Zogby national poll and collapsing in swing state after swing state. He is on the road to defeat. But why the surprise? He did not win the most votes during the primaries. Nope.
Hillary won the popular vote: (ABC)
Hillary: 17,785,009
Obama: 17,479,990
If the Rules Committee had not halved the votes in Florida and Michigan, Hillary would have netted 100 delegates from Florida and 73 from Michigan. If Obama had gotten none from Michigan (he took his name off the ballot to placate Iowa), and not given him delegates he had not earned, Hillary would have had 1725 delegates at the end of the primaries and Obama 1707. She would have won the pledged delegates.
The pro-Obama Super Delegates stole this election from her through a cabal led by Nancy Pelosi (D-Mars) and Howard “I Have a Scream” Dean.
In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote, the votes in Florida weren’t counted and the Supreme Court decided George W. Bush should be president. In 2008, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, the votes in Florida and Michigan weren’t counted, and the Rules Committee and the Super Delegates gave the nomination to Barack Obama. What’s the difference? This time the Democrats are screwing themselves.
GeekLove has an excellent video summation:






















