Thank you Snata!

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Yes and I am Santa Claus. You really think that Hillary’s supporters are going to vote for Obama??? Yeah right. Have you read what they are saying on her Website????

Sorry I am still not awake yet. I changed it to Santa

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It is common knowledge that there are standard conventions to choose running mates. So it is in election 2008. The alleged friction between the Clinton and Obama camp could have reached vitriolic levels that could have endangered the Democratic Party,but it did not. Guess what,it attracted and invigorated uncommitted voters in the history to stand up and be counted and make history. Where to now with all this talk about the Clinton camp not supporting the Obama camp? It’s all talk. It’s all politics.To be more accurate it’s politricks. The truth is the Clinton camp like the Obama camp are both democrats and like all good families have a little squabble then make up and go on , so what else is new.
Most people know that what is most likely to happen is that there will be a shifting of primary voting position by the majority of voters that were in the Clinton camp moving to the next level of commitment, to Presidential voting position , that is from individual level to party level, from a primary election 2008 polling statement to a declaration of party loyalty rallying around the Democratic Party Presidential Nominee for November 2008.
The polls made it appear that there was going to be a Clinton Administration in Election 2008.It never happened. It would appear that most of the polls polled a small section of a carefully chosen community to present a carefully cardiographed miniscule representation of so called voting trends
in Election 2008 to what would appear to be to scientifically engineer and manipulate poll figures to bolster previous statements of support for one candidate against the other.
True or false? You tell me, did the polls get it right 80% of the time or 65% of the time or maybe 43% of the time? Ask the pollsters, no one is really sure what the self ordained priests posing as self appointed political analysts sitting on their tripods in their temples of media spin were spouting when they made wild predictions of this and that and were wrong most of the time. Why?They relied on cooked up figures that were souped up to make one candidate look better than the other candidate in election 2008.
When things went contrary to the cited polling figures, then media spin kicked and kitchen sink strategy and mudslinging politics. But that is history now. It will be swept under the carpet or placed in a hired skip to dump all the vitriolic garbage in the dumping site graveyard of failed election campaigns.
The Democratic party is on the road to November 2008. One camp lost another camp won. So what? Both camps are democrats and everyone knows the party interests take precedence over individual interest.
The Obama camp has earned the right to choose their own VP. Convention rules in American politics have always been that way. Their choice must be respected because it will be the choice of Obama camp and Barak Obama.Errol Smythe.

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I just can’t get past what Errol said above:

“Obama raced across the finish line”

Looks to me like he sort of limped across Errol. How many hundreds of thousands of votes did Hillary win over Obama in the last month or so?

And as much as James Manning wants to paint McCain as a weak candidate ( I wouldn’t totally disagree) I’d still point out that McCain has had months now to work on fundraising and organization.

Now, if McCain can only practice reading a teleprompter and hiring a larger hall that holds more than a handful of supporters when he gives a major speech he might do better.

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Mr. Chihuahua,

Here’s the full quote:

“No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy. The lack of a resolution to this problem provides an excuse for anti-American militant jihadists to engage in inexcusable actions, and so we have a national-security interest in solving this, and I also believe that Israel has a security interest in solving this because I believe that the status quo is unsustainable. I am absolutely convinced of that, and some of the tensions that might arise between me and some of the more hawkish elements in the Jewish community in the United States might stem from the fact that I’m not going to blindly adhere to whatever the most hawkish position is just because that’s the safest ground politically.”

The “constant wound, the constant sore” is “this problem” that both the United States and Israel have a “security interest” in solving. How could the United States and Israel have a security interest in solving “Israel”? Language is malleable and open to interpretation but only in Wonderland can words mean whatever we want them to mean.

Your further discussion of “Obie’s” tin ear continues your line of conclusory thinking:

“Obama has a tin ear because you say he has a tin ear.”

“No, Obie has a tin ear because he has a tin ear.”

The world is flat because you say it’s flat

No, the world is flat because it’s flat.

You’ve mistaken an opinion for a fact, and a tautology for an argument.

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After Hillary backed him, did you hear the audible throat clear? I think she threw up a little in her mouth.

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However, if we return to the real world, Senator Obama did not say that Israel is an open wound.

I stand corrected.

He used the terms “constant wound” and “constant sore”.

Virtually the same. Now entirely accurate.

Thank you for prompting me to actually look up the quote.

Obama has a tin ear because you say he has a tin ear.

No, Obie has a tin ear because he has a tin ear.

He’s young, inexperienced, and untested. He is largely unvetted because of the way he managed to get into the Senate.

Obie is clearly not ready for prime time hence all of his pastor issues, his endorsements from terror groups, and his personal long-term associations with radicals of myriad types.

He doesn’t appear to have the ability to see or hear himself the way others see and hear him.

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Mr. Chihuahua,

Clever quip and a legitimate response to a rhetorical question. Of course, you get to define reality here. Obama has a tin ear because you say he has a tin ear. QED –but only in the blogosphere.

However, if we return to the real world, Senator Obama did not say that Israel is an open wound.

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Comedic relief my friend

Good.

I’m glad that’s what it was. Sometimes it’s hard to tell a person’s meaning or emphasis when reading the words on the screen.

As an aside, I want to tell you that I am enjoying reading your blog. I spent some time there yesterday.

However, the superdelegates did not give Hillary this race.

Actually, they did.

HRC had more popular votes and neither candidate had enough pledged delegates to get where they needed to be.

The DNC created the supers to do precisely what they are doing. The DNC wanted the party elite to have the ability to choose the nominee.

In the process of using the supers as designed, the will of the voters is being subverted.

At this moment the Dem party is fractured at best.

You have Obama supporters on one side and HRC supporters on the other. If the early indicators mean anything, there are HRC voters who absolutely will not cross over to Obama due to the behavior of the DNC.

There are voters in FL and MI who are beyond angry at being disenfranchised and, frankly, I cannot blame them one bit.

Even before the debacle of those two states was decided last weekend you had a minimum of 20% of voters who said that they would migrate to McCain instead of voting for the ultimate nominee.

Who knows how many will sit it out all together?

When it comes to McCain, no, he is not the candidate that I would have liked to have seen run this year but, due to a myriad of issues, Obama is infinitely beatable in November.

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Dang, James… the boy hasn’t even been the presumptive anointed one for 24 hours yet. A tad early to call the ground war in favor of BHO, don’t you think?

It’s in the townhalls and debates that the oratory skills will equalize, and perhaps more focus will be on the responses. BHO’s not good without written speeches. And if he can’t incorporate his stock speech talking points into the answers, he’s going to be struggling. He’s history deficient, and seriously gaffe prone. He morphs his positions very slowly to accommodate to reality… as in the “talking to Iran” version today verses the debates last year.

And yup, Obama’s got his grassroots in place because of the primaries. But because of the DNC primary press, there is no lack of exposure to BHO and his baggage. Then again, he’s got his hands full. Forget conceding to GOP. He’s got to win over the DNC disgruntled.

As is usual with a Presidential election, it will come down to voting “against” a candidate as opposed to voting “for” the other. Yet another year of deplorable choices, IMHO.

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