No, YOU Said It First!

The blame game is alive and well in this year’s Democratic presidential race race.  Yes, this contest is all about race.  The Democrats are so desperate to put a black face on the illusion of progress and inclusion that they will not back down from their selected candidate, no matter what legitimate issues are raised about him.  If, you don’t support him, you’re racist.  If that doesn’t work, it’s one of the Clinton’s fault.  That’s always a good one, people have been blaming everything on somebody named Clinton for twenty years; looks like it still works.  I mean, Hillary Clinton raises money for Obuhbuhbuh, campaigns for him, encourages her supporters to embrace him, but just because they say “uh-uh, Mrs. C., no can do,” it’s still her fault.  Right?  Bill Clinton gives an interview that is not critical of the Appointed One, yet he didn’t go nearly far enough to praise His Holy Name, so, it’s his fault, too.  Of course.  Nobody seems to care that there just isn’t a whole lot in Mr. Obama’s resume to gush over, that little fact just gets in the way of good finger pointing.

Now, the good folks at U.S. News and World Report are piling on with opinions like these,

Barack Obama and party leaders have been trying to foster a sense of unity as the Illinois senator moves toward formally securing the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention, which starts August 25 in Denver. But Clinton’s supporters refuse to fade away, and some think she could still win the party’s nod with a last-minute campaign to elbow Obama aside.

Yes, we do refuse to fade away, we would like to think she could win the nomination, but we don’t think she should “elbow Obama aside,” we don’t think he should be standing in her way in the first place.  Then they say that it is unlikely that Clinton could ge the nomination because his opponents supporters are just as ardent as hers, but they go on to say,

But party leaders are concerned that the Hillary rebels will reopen old wounds and reignite the debate over whether she was treated fairly by Obama and the media as the first woman to be a serious presidential contender. Such a split could lead to an embarrassing mess in Denver just when Obama needs all the positive vibrations he can generate. He holds a slim lead over Republican John McCain nationally in the opinion polls.

“Reopen old wounds?”  When did they close?  “Positive vibrations?”  We can sing happy songs all day long and Obama just isn’t going to look any better unless there’s a lot of drinking going along with the songfest.

But the kicker is, next they move on to quote the ever-popular “unnamed source” who chimed in with this,

“What usually happens is, if you lose, you go silent for a while,” says an Obama strategist. “But Hillary’s supporters haven’t gone silent. They’re still out there in the news.”

“They went negative on us (in the primaries),” he adds. “But we didn’t fight fire with fire. It could’ve been scorched earth, but that’s not where our guy is.”

So, let me see if I’ve got this straight.  We were supposed to shut up, then endorse.  But CampO believes bringing up distorted pictures of the primary contest, where their candidate talked about Senator Clinton’s “claws coming out,” her inability to run on her own (“I don’t know who I’m running against sometimes”) her lack of foreign policy experience, her time in the White House, etc. shows how positive he’s been in the face of all HRC’s negativity.

Well, I’ve got news for you, buddy.  The only thing these kinds of baseless attempts at justification accomplishes is to remind those of us who don’t like you anyway, why we don’t like you anyway.  It seems to me that those who support Obama should start making the case about why he should be given the nomination that he has not yet officially won, since last I looked he had 1766 pledged delegates and it takes 2118.   Presumably he’ll make up the difference at the convention, that’s what conventions are for, but whether or not you think that’s a good thing depends upon your opinion of Senator Obama.  Not Bill Clinton, not Hillary Clinton, not PUMA.  Maybe instead of acting like the president and blaming everybody who doesn’t think you are, you could try telling them why you should be and then, asking them, nicely to let you.

And try not to mention the black thing, we can see that much.

Stuff It, Senator Clinton

Or whoever that was impersonating you in that “delightful” live web chat thingy.  Boy, was that depressing.  “I look forward…President Obama…party unity…blah, blah, blah, blah, freaking, blah.”  I’m telling you, that just warmed the cockles of my heart, and if you knew how cold my heart cockles usually are, well, then, okay, huh?

Did Senator Clinton really have to do this?  Was it even really her?  Are her supporters really interested in the kind of generic topics of the questions “she” answered?  “What goals do you have?” “I wanna be president, someday, too.”  “You really wanna be VP, do ya, huh?”  “Will you talk to me at the convention?”  Or were we getting pre-approved Obuhbuhbuh camp drivel typed by enthusiastic CampO volunteers, tickled to death by being in on such a clever little ruse?  Or was it something even more sinister?  Did Obuhbuhbuh threaten to get some of his “peeps” to make arrangements to keep Bill and Chelsea out of the country indefinitely?  Has anyone actually seen Hillary Clinton today?

I dunno.  Somethings up.  Otherwise, this screwy rah-rah Obahbah crap was a major letdown after a big hope-raising buid-up.  I just can’t believe that HRC would willingly do that.  But then, I never thought I’d tell her to stuff it, either.

PUMA

Just Say No Deal

Are We There Yet?

Are we any closer to having Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s name placed in nomination at the Democratic National Convention in a meaningful way than we ever were?  Who the hell knows?  But the internet is a-buzzing, the blogosphere is a-humming and the jungle drums are a-beating with speculation, dread and hope.  Of course the hope comes from the PUMA faction of the Dems, many of whom have honestly taken to reading tea leaves and studying body language trying to find and hold onto any hint of validation of the seriousness of their resolve to reject the “selected” nominee, while the dread is from the selectors whose fear is that they just might be forced to give in.  To them, I say, “goody, goody, gumdrop, it’s your own damned fault, nyah, nanananaaa.”   The Kennedy, Kerry, Dean, Brazile cabal should have been honest from the beginning and owned up to the fact that the significance of the anniversaries of Martin Luther King’s  “I Have A Dream Speech” and Robert Kennedy’s assassination trumped all else as far as they’re concerned, and that it was important to them to “prove” that America has lived up to it’s promise of racial equality whether that’s really true or not.  Maybe the appearance of progress is enough to bring it about, maybe not, but at least if they’d been up front about it people could stop wondering why they were going to such lengths to support a candidate whose biggest asset seems to be his race.  As it stands people are now committed to ousting those they feel are responsible for perpetrating a fraud, cheifly Donna Brazile, who promised to resign if super delegates determined the outcome of the primaries, as it appears they have.

Meanwhile, Clinton and Obama have issued a joint statement that nobody has any idea what it means.

“We are working together to make sure the fall campaign and the convention are a success. At the Democratic Convention, we will ensure that the voices of everyone who participated in this historic process are respected and our party will be fully unified heading into the November election.”

What the hell does that mean?  Maybe Senator Clinton will tell us in her conference call tommorrow, but I gotta tellya, if she plans to say anything along the lines of, “I think it’s in the best interests of the Democratic party, blah, blah, blah, vote for Senator Obama, blah, blah ,blah…” like she did here:

“I happen to believe that we will come out stronger if people feel that their voices were heard and their views were respected. I think that is a very big part of how we actually come out unified,” Clinton, D-N.Y., said at a California fundraiser last Thursday, in a video clip captured by an attendee and posted on YouTube.

“Because I know from just what I’m hearing, that there’s incredible pent-up desire. And I think that people want to feel like, ‘OK, it’s a catharsis, we’re here, we did it, and then everybody get behind Sen. Obama.’ That is what most people believe is the best way to go,”

I’m gonna have to politely tell Ms. Clinton to stuff it.  Okay, I’d never really say that, but I’m just about as likely to vote for Obuhbuhbuh.  Hopefully, Mrs. Clinton will surprise us all and say something like, “I’ve had a lot of time to think about it, and I’m still in it to win it!”  That would be sweeeeeeet!  But whatever she says, I’ll still believe she’s the best candidate for president who entered into the race this year, and I wouldn’t care if she was blue.

PUMA

Just Say No Deal

So, maybe we’re not quite there, yet, maybe we’re close, but either way, come on feet, start moving: