Winning With Both Hands Tied

Hillary Clinton is winning the presidential race, and she’s not even running!  Handcuffed by the DNC and the MSM during the primaries, she still won the popular vote.  With both hands tied by her own party she still beat their coddled and cuddled “selectee.”  And now, she’s kicking everybody’s butt from the comfort of her living room.

Buried deeply within yet another story about yet another poll showing Obuhbuh tanking, is this little gem:

It’s also worth noting that while Obama leads McCain by three points in the poll, Clinton edges the Republican by six points in a hypothetical match up, 49 to 43 percent. But she remains a polarizing figure: 49 percent say they don’t want to see her as president someday, and 42 percent view her favorably versus 41 percent who see her in a negative light.

So what if she’s polarizing?  She’s winning!  From a freaking Barcalounger!  These two yoohoos have been running like the Dickens against each other for months and neither one of them can beat the chick that’s been chilling with her old man and kid ( when she wasn’t being exploited by the schmoo running in her rightful place. )

Not only that, despite Senator Clinton’s best efforts ( and I mean that sincerely ) Obonehead can’t even convince her supporters, his own flipping party members, that he deserved to win.  Because he didn’t.

…Yet perhaps the biggest factor keeping the presidential race close has been Obama’s inability to close the deal with some of Hillary Clinton’s supporters. According to the poll, 52 percent of them say they will vote for Obama, but 21 percent are backing McCain, with an additional 27 percent who are undecided or want to vote for someone else.

What’s more, those who backed Clinton in the primaries — but aren’t supporting Obama right now — tend to view McCain in a better light than Obama and have more confidence in McCain’s ability to be commander-in-chief.

As I have written before, Obama didn’t even win the nomination.  Technically, the DNC does not really have a presumptive nominee.   And considering all the other info in this MSNBC story, they need to stop pretending that they do.

Overall, Obama holds a three-point lead over McCain, 45-42 percent, which is within the survey’s margin of error. That’s down from Obama’s six-point advantage last month, 47-41 percent.

For some stupid reason, people like Peter D. Hart, the Democratic pollster who, with Republican Neil Newhouse, conducted this poll, keep putting all the onus on Hillary.

For these reasons, Hart believes that Clinton’s speech on the Tuesday night of the Democratic convention will be a significant event. “The Democratic convention is more than a coronation,” he says. “It is an event where the words of Hillary Clinton are probably going to be exceptionally important.”

Hey Clueless, this is NOT Clinton’s mess to fix!  The DeanNC picked, pushed and tried to shove his lousy candidate down everybody else’s throat, and if the lousy candidate can’t close the freaking deal, too forking bad!  There is one thing the Keystone Kops running things can do to make things right, put it to a vote.  Let the convention proceed by the rules and spirit for which it was intended.   My girl will beat your guy with both hands tied behind her back.  And spot him a 2 month head start.   C’mon, I dare you.  Ya buncha schmoos.

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Whip It Good

Barack Obama, like his political twin, George Bush, is all hat and no cattle.  In another sign that the candidate values style over substance and image over reality, he seems to have coerced Hillary Clinton into trying to keep her supporters in line at the convention.  According to Politico:

In an unusual move, Hillary Clinton’s staff is creating a 40-member “whip team” at the Denver Democratic convention to ensure that her supporters don’t engage in embarrassing anti-Obama demonstrations during the floor vote on her nomination, according to people familiar with the planning.

The team, which is being organized by longtime Clinton staffer Craig Smith, is working in conjunction with Obama’s floor organizers to help foster the image of a unified front during a roll-call process Clinton herself has described as an emotional “catharsis” for her disappointed supporters.

Can’t have people involved with pulling off a sham election of a non-nominated candidate looking like they’re trying to pull off a sham election of a non-nominated candidate, now, can we?

“If people get down there on the floor and want to start blowing kazoos and making a scene we want to make sure we’ve got people who stand in front of them with Obama signs,” said a person involved in the planning.

Now, why would I think this was being orchestrated by Obama, you ask?

Although some former Clinton staffers balked at policing their own supporters, its ranks were filled by people itching for a floor pass — not an easy get for Clinton’s troops at the Obama-run convention.

No reason.

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Stephanie Tubbs Jones

( 1949-2008 )

There are no words

Rev. Manning – Psychic?

In a video shown on You Tube and blogs everywhere last week, Pastor James Manning stated that Hillary Clinton had been chosen as running mate to Barack Obama.  That has not yet come to pass, and hopefully, it won’t.  However, another of Rev. Manning’s predictions has indeed come true.  “That brother is sinking like a lead rock in a glass of KoolAid,” has proven to be profoundly accurate.

Real Clear Politics has Obama leading 44.9%  to John McCain’s 43.6% in their national average.  Rasmussen shows Obama with a 3 point edge, 45%-42%, but only a one point advantage when “leaners” are included, 47%-46%.  CNN reports:

According to CNN’s average of several recent national surveys, Obama’s lead is now a slim 3 points over the Arizona senator, 46 percent to 43 percent, half of his advantage in a CNN poll of polls one week ago and down from a high of 8 points in mid-July.

A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll out Tuesday evening was the latest national survey to indicate that Obama’s lead is dwindling, putting the Illinois senator ahead of McCain by only 2 points, well within the poll’s margin of error. The CNN poll of polls also includes new surveys from Quinnipiac and Gallup.

Of course, CNN blames Hillary, but, what else is new?

“The McCain team has been very open that they went to school on the Hillary Clinton campaign, that they learned from that,” said CNN contributor David Gergen, a former counselor to three presidents.

“And, on this 3 a.m. ad, what’s very striking, as some have pointed out over the last few days, is that Barack Obama was winning a steady streak of victories against Hillary Clinton,” Gergen said. “And then she ran that ad, and she really went on the attack on the experience question. And she won the bulk of the primaries thereafter in the closing months of the Democratic primaries and won 500,000 more votes than he did and almost took it away from him.”

But the Zogby poll is the most striking:

McCain leads Obama by a 46% to 41% margin.

And McCain not only enjoys a five-point edge in a two-way race against Obama, but also in a four-way contest including liberal independent candidate Ralph Nader and Libertarian Bob Barr, the poll reveals. In the four-way contest, McCain wins 44% support, Obama 39%, Barr 3% and Nader 2%.

This latest Reuters/Zogby poll is a dramatic reversal from the identical survey taken last month – in the July 9-13 Reuters/Zogby survey, Obama led McCain, 47% to 40%. In the four-way race last month, Obama held a 10-point lead over McCain.

While CNN shows why the first part of Rev. Manning’s prediction is unlikely to come true, Obama does seem to be “sinking like a lead rock in a glass of KoolAid.”   So in honor of the good Reverend’s prescience, let’s have some church up in here!

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You Gotta BELIEVE!!!

Blogger extraordinaire, Sugar, of Sugar ‘N Spice, has long ago made the spot-on comparison between the cult of Obamanaia and a power/money-hungry, Reverend Ike-like character portrayed by Richard Pryor, Rev. James L. White.  Pryor introduced the flamboyant Rev. White character on his May, 1977 NBC special, but he was actually born in the movie Car Wash,  released the previous year, as Daddy Rich .

When I began reading Sugar’s blog, she would often come under attack from crazed, mostly black, Obamabots, incensed because she dared question the Chosen One.  How dare she refuse to pledge solidarity with her brethren and not march in lockstep with them, just because he’s an obvious fraud?  Interestingly, a similar scenario is played out in this clip from Car Wash.  Pryor’s Daddy Rich basks in the glow of fawning admiration from the black masses until the lone voice of a character played by Bill Duke threatens to shatter the carefully crafted illusion.  Like Sugar, Duke’s character is shouted down by his peers, but like Sugar, Duke’s character is right.

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