Get ready for the full monty

This wasn’t even a prepared entry, I just honestly couldn’t help myself with this one. This is a direct quote off of the issues section of John McCain’s presidential website.

Talking about “Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life,”
“…However, the reversal of Roe v. Wade represents only one step in the long path toward ending abortion. Once the question is returned to the states, the fight for life will be one of courage and compassion - the courage of a pregnant mother to bring her child into the world and the compassion of civil society to meet her needs and those of her newborn baby.”

The compassion of who, John McCain? You are a fucking republican and you are going to cut any government program that would aid pregnant mothers. I mean really, leave it to republicans to want to end abortion, so we can have even more poor people and you know republicans…they hate poor people. I mean really, that makes no sense whatsoever. Let’s have less government and create more poor families with kids they can’t afford but we’re not going to help them out because we believe in less government interference. Oh yeah, and if those kids make it to schooling age, let’s make sure they fall behind in the system because they didn’t have all the advantages being raised as the other upper middle class students who are going to pass that high stakes standardized test because they had all the proper encouragement, family environment, right down to just better nutrition that helped their cognitive development.

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So, we’ve had some primaries and caucuses since my last update on the 2008 election. John McCain finally clinched the nomination for the Republican Party which affords him the luxury of traveling the country uncontested to raise money and continue to be incredibly old.

The real spicy part comes with the Democratic Party. On March 4 there were 444 tasty delegates up for grabs in the contests of Vermont, Rhode Island, Texas, and Ohio. Hillary had a reenergizing night winning 3 out of the 4 contests. Yesterday we had the Mississippi primary and it is no surprise that Obama crushed Hillary decisively in that state with a democratic electorate made up of 70% African Americans. I won’t even go into how Hillary got screwed out of delegates in Texas through the caucus process that the Texas democratic party should be ashamed of itself for, but basically there are various estimates for where the delegate count rests for Obama and Clinton. I’m going to cite cnn.com for my delegate count and say that Obama stands at 1,611 to Clinton’s 1,480, a difference of 131 delegates including the dreaded superdelegates.

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Well, like every other person in the country who has tried to call the election and make predictions, I was wrong. Senator Barack Obama is making a run that no one had calculated even a month ago. Before Super Tuesday Barack was trailing Hillary in virtually every poll at the start of the New Year but that goes to show you how accurate polls are.

Obama and Clinton are now in a deadlock that probably won’t be resolved until the Democratic National Convention in August. Obama has picked up steam after he swept the board last night taking Louisiana, Washington, and Nebraska. What is more worrisome for the Clinton campaign is that it doesn’t look like they will win a primary or Caucus until March when Ohio and Texas hold their primaries. These states are delegate rich and will make or break Hillary’s campaign. Even my home state of Pennsylvania looks like it will have a large say in who gets the nomination.

I’ve heard a ton of bitching about superdelegates and how they will potentially steal the nomination from Barack Obama because Clinton is more of a “Washington insider” and can more easily rally the superdelegates who are also Washington insiders to her cause. That might happen, and everyone will go wild, but here’s something that no one has even thought about. Michigan and Florida were penalized by the National Democratic Committee who virtually makes the rules for the party. Because FL and MI held their primaries before their allotted times, both states lost their delegates. Voting still look place and Hillary carried both states. Hillary crushed Obama in Florida and ran away with Michigan as Obama wasn’t even on the ballot there. If it gets really close in the delegate count Hillary can always push for those delegates to be counted because right now they aren’t. FL and MI were also rather large states with plenty of delegates.

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Well, I have seen both the republican and democratic presidential debates before Super Tuesday. Florida recently had it’s primary which narrowed the field of candidates on both sides. Giuliani staked his entire bid for the presidency on winning Florida’s primary. He failed, not even placing second, so he realized that he’s a dumb cunt and dropped out. I really thought he could have had the potential to become a force on the republican side but I also didn’t know he wouldn’t participate in the first primaries on the idea that it was pointless to battle for the first smaller states. Also dropping out of the race was candidate John Edwards, he was able to pull in a consistent 15% of the vote but that wasn’t enough.

I’ll talk first about the democratic debate because I literally just shut off the TV from watching it. I definitely think that Obama won this debate. Even though this is no definite winner in these debates there is always one candidate that out performs the other and I would hand this one to Barack. Hillary’s answers were good but not spectacular and she seemed to be on the defensive a lot of the time. I also should have counted how many times Hillary said “um”. It probably was close to 300 times. In Hillary’s defense I want to address a couple things I noticed.

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Well, it truly is amazing the things you can find on the Internet as a whole. I can remember back in the day my old English teachers cautioned the use of citing internet sources in papers because they can be bogus. Even on individual blogs such as this, people can not know what they are talking about. Today I came across an article on someone else’s blog who I have never spoken to nor met before and couldn’t help but say something.

A direct quote from Richard Cochrane: “So, the 12th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution that says, “…no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.” No non-native born person can be President. So, unless Bloomberg can somehow figure out how to get 2/3rds of the States to ratify an amendment to allow Austrian born Arnold – Arnold is aced out. But, he could support Bloomberg anad become an AMBASSADOR to say – Austria.”

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