…and for some reason, they want to give it to Barack Obama. At a fundraiser in San Francisco tonight he raised 7.8 million dollars selling the same spoiled soup warmed over.
“John McCain, all he wants to do is talk about me. They know they can’t win on the issues. So what they’ll do is they’ll try to scare people. He’s risky. He’s risky. We’re not sure.”
Haven’t we heard this before? I guess it makes a difference who you try to sell your fictitious projections to, because in Chicago on June 13, 2008, it only netted him 1.7 million.
“They’re going to try to make me into a scary guy. They’re even trying to make Michelle into a scary person.”
Maybe it was the reference to Michelle that did him in, or maybe, since it was Chicago, they just knew better.
Orrrrrrrrr, it could have been his new, formerly neutral, rah-rah gal Nancy Pelosi who did the trick. They were on her stomping grounds, ya know.
The hometown gal was neutral during the primary, but wasn’t shy about her Obama affection tonight, calling him “a leader that God has blessed us with at this time.”
Barack Obama is not the presumptive nominee of the Democratic party.
Self-important pundits, gasbags and other Obama campaign surrogates can proclaim him to be so from the rooftops to the mountaintops, from the laptops to the tabletop TV’s, but alas and alack, wishin’ don’t make it so.
There is no rule in the politics of Democratic Party conventions that says that the contender with the largest number of pledged delegates short of the total required for nomination should automatically, by dint of that achievement, be handed the party’s designation.
So, it would seem that neither Obama nor Clinton can officially claim the nomination. Senator Obama owes his bogus status to the endorsement of unpledged, automatic, or “super” delegates. Yet these “super” delegates are not official. The Green Papers explain:
These “Unpledged” delegates go to the Convention officially “Unpledged” (that is, not committed- ahead of time- to vote for any particular presidential contender), though it is well known that many- if not most- of these may very well be privately supporting a presidential contender.
Officially referred to as “unpledged” or “Party Leaders and Elected Official (PLEO) Delegates” in the party bylaws, these delegates will attend the convention as members of their home state delegation and will get to cast a vote for the nominee of the party. Not all PLEOs are superdelegates. In New Mexico, for example, PLEOs are pledged delegates in line with statewide preference at the caucus. Superdelegates are now being referred to by the Hillary Clinton campaign as ‘automatic delegates’.
Nothing in the bylaws requires the so-called “Superdelegates” to declare a candidate preference ahead of the convention, and nothing prohibits them from changing their mind once they declare such a preference.
One more time for the hard of reading, from the Washington Post:
Super Delegates are not elected through the normal primary and caucus process. They are designated by party rules and include high elected officials (members of Congress and governors), party committee members and some former office holders. Unlike delegates awarded through primaries and caucuses, superdelegates are not required to stay pledged to a specific candidate.
As anyone with an IQ greater than their age can plainly see, according to “da rooolz,” Barack Obama has no more claim to presumptive nominee status than Hillary Clinton does. Neither won, as it stands, they both lost. So for all those irrational loony-sounding Obama supporters who keep screaming that Clinton lost; get over it, he did too. Or, keep saying it all you want, but remember, it ain’t necessarily so.
Why do black people feel compelled to vote for Barack Obama? Because he’s black? So what, Clarence Thomas, Condeleeza Rice and Colin Powell are black, too, and I wouldn’t vote for them, either. True, they are Republicans, but is voting for any black Democrat mandatory for a black person to qualify as being truly worthy? Am I less black if I don’t? I hate to break it to you, but I find that kind of thinking ( I won’t dignify it by calling it logic ) stupid.
To those who say, all things being equal, why not give the brother a chance, my response is, equal to what? It’s no secret that I support Hillary Clinton for president; of the major candidates running, I find her to be the best, hands down. That being said, should I still endorse the historic nature of the “first viable black candidate for president?” Given that I am troubled by many aspects of Obama’s candidacy; his campaign tactics, his rather thin resume and his stumbling incoherence when off TelePrompTer, to name a few, why should I get behind someone I’m convinced is destined to fail, just because we share a similar hue? What good does that do for the black community?
Maybe many people feel it is payback time for the historic injustice inflicted on black Americans. That’s fair, but is electing an under-qualified black president the right way to address that issue? In my opinion, true progress cannot be said to have been achieved if freedom to choose based upon issues other than race is not a reality.
I have been impressed with Senator Clinton’s commitment to issues I care about, especially health care. Senator Obama’s stance seems to me to be politically calculated, not personally committed. In fact, it’s hard to find any issue that Obama is for, rather than against. What does he want to do? If we are to believe that we have to let him slide on issues of concern to black America so that he can secure the white vote, how can we be sure that he won’t always be too timid to rock the white boat? This is a gamble I’m personally not willing to take.
Obama’s willingness to use race as a weapon is unacceptable to me. “Vote for me because I’m black” is just not good enough. His eagerness to paint blacks as irresponsible for political purposes makes me uncomfortable and negates any built-in trust he might otherwise deserve based on our common melanin content. I don’t want a president who feels the need to put me down in an effort to make himself look good. I want a president who works for me, not points and shakes his finger at me.
I don’t feel at all compelled to vote for Barack Obama.
…and for some reason, they want to give it to Barack Obama. At a fundraiser in San Francisco tonight he raised 7.8 million dollars selling the same spoiled soup warmed over.
