Obama – Yes we can
Obama is 1% ahead of Clinton is the latest California polls. He has momentum and it is going to be a fascinating day on Wednesday when we get the results.
A kiwi living in the US has sent me the link to the below video. Quite a few famous faces in it, and it was put together at barely a day’s notice.
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February 4th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
California is decided on a proportional basis district by district. Whoever comes second will pick up a significant number of votes. But Obama is picking up significant endorsements including not least the Kennedys. She is not a President. She runs to her husband whenever things get tough and she plays the victim when she is slighted. Someone like that is not a President. She will be Jimmy Carter II without the smile.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Yeah – none of the Dems states are winner-take-all. Some are proportional state-wide, others via congressional district. And some a combination.
In a district worth four delegates 59%-41% is two delegates each.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Didn’t she cry when she lost a state? IMO that is not what a president would do.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Go Obama.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
While Edwards pulled out to avoid it, it seems his delegates might still hold the balance of power at the convention.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Wow, Obama is so rhythmic.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
“Obama – Yes we can have a Muslim President”
February 4th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
he’s not muslim you plonker
February 4th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Well he is if you’re not quite crass enough to squeal “I’ve got nothing against niggers, but they shouldn’t be in the White House unless they’re cleaning the toilets.”
February 4th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
No he is not a muslim though he did spend part of his childhood in Indonesia. The Clintons are spreading that around to draw attention to his unusual name not least Obama sounds like Osama. They are white trailer park trash.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
FFS, knock it off. He’s not a muslim, certainly not a “nigger” (God, I hate that fucking word) and they’re not trailer trash.
February 5th, 2008 at 2:58 am
Craig Ranapia – uhhh… you disappoint me. If ‘Ranapia’ is your last name, then you might as well be talking about yourself.
For you to say: “I’ve got nothing against niggers, but they shouldn’t be in the White House unless they’re cleaning the toilets.” makes you no different.
February 5th, 2008 at 3:02 am
It’s called irony. Geez, some of these Kiwiblog trolls need to be run out of town with torches and pitchforks as far as I’m concerned.
February 5th, 2008 at 3:14 am
Entertain-me, meet irony. Irony, this is Entertain-me. I don’t know much about Entertain-me, irony, but he or she will be interested to know that you are often employed in political discourse, especially when someone wishes to make a point in a particularly caustic manner. I see, Entertain-me, that you’ve already met Craig, a good friend of irony’s (in fact, they’re seen together so often people are starting to think something is going in).
You see, Craig was responding to a comment that Obama is a Muslim, by pointing out that people who say such things to smear him are barely covering up their seething racism. He did that by including a comment which would serve as an example of that racism. Obviously you have very poor reading skills though, so I’ll spell it out. Craig was saying that bwakile, who made the initial comment about about Obama being Muslim, is disgracefully racist. Using the age old tool for political smackdowns, irony. He was being ironic.
In other words, LURK MORE.
February 5th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Yes tim, that Ted Kennedy endorsement is very valuable. I wonder what Gore is going to do. If Obama gets that one, Hillary may as well withdraw.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:15 am
entertain-me (& Franics):
You’re both perfectly correct: Nigger is a hateful and disgusting piece of racial invective. (And, no, I don’t buy the hip-hop b.s. that it’s OK when black people say it so I’m not running that line.)
But as Blair and Mausie pointed out, I am rather prone to irony… along with sarcasm, impertinent twitting of the powerful and pompous, satirical hyperbole intended to provoke people into reconsidering an issue, urine extraction and cutting the shit.
Racist invective is ugly. So is the not-very-subtle (and false) race and religion-baiting of Obama. And that’s one form of bigotry — most often voiced in code or by cowards hiding behind the anonymity of the ‘net, of course — I’ll look in the face and call out without the narcotic balm of euphemism.
As far as I can see Obama’s big sin is that his step-father is Muslim, and he spent part of his childhood in a public school in Jarkarta. If this school was a radical madrassa I doubt media outlets like CNN, which ran an extensive investigation of these claims, would have sat on the political story of the year to get an Islamofascist Manchurian Candidate into the White House. Really…
February 5th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Footage put together by will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas fame in case you couldn’t tell.
Released on Friday, You Tubed by one person on Saturday, by Monday morning was up 5 times in the top ten of the Viral Downloads chart. What that means is – this things got legs baby, legs.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:26 am
gore has a cause to protect – he won’t endorse unless it is a sure bet.
infused,
no she didn’t really cry but I guess it suited her and the media to play up the “event” such as it was.
February 5th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Well, I’d put it another way. If Super Size Me Tuesday doesn’t deliver either Clinton or Obama a decisive advantage (which is looking likely to be the case given the eye-wateringly complex electoral math involved in allocating delegates), we could be going into a brokered convention. Any influence Saint Al of Gore, Nobel laureate, would have in that case would be FUBAR the instant he goes public with an endorsement.
And here’s something else to think about: Remember when George Clooney reportedly said to Obama, “I’ll do anything to support you – including staying the hell away.” Perhaps Gore’s doing the same thing — because any endorsement would inevitably be reported as a final ‘fuck you’ in Al and Billary’s political marriage of inconvenience. Why drag Obama into the very Clinton psychodrama he’s been positioning himself as a decisive break from?
February 5th, 2008 at 8:38 am
The Guardian’s been campaiging for Obama – maybe they can do for him what they did for Kerry.
California looks complicated but in the birth place of the New Age it’s not surprising Obama’s message is doing well.
February 5th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Graeme is right-the Dems have a complex proportional system and none of their Super Tuesday States are winner takes all (on the GOP side, a number are including NY, NJ, MA although the richest prize CA is proportional for both parties electing delegates by Congressional district). With the polls trending so close between Obama and Clinton, it is highly unlikely either will score a knockout punch tomorrow unlike on the Repub side where a strong across the board showing by McCain would be almost a knockout punch on Romney. Romney however, won the Maine caucus surprisingly strongly and is now level pegging with McCain in CA and Georgia in recent polls-two States that McCain had double digit leads right after FL so I wouldn’t be writing Romney off just yet.
If Obama wins the Super Tuesday delegate race even by a small margin, he will garner some momentum from this. However Clinton has the money and the cajoons to fight on and there are delegate rich contests soon after (TX, OH and PA). The Dem nomination fight will go right on into May is my pick baring the collapse of one of the frontrunners. If Romney has some upsets tomorrow, the same will be true of the GOP as Romney has more money than all his GOP competitors combined. Huck says he will stay in but increasingly, his supporters know a vote for him is a vote for McCain. Ron Paul’s people are quirky libertarians and again will stay the course. Romney has garnered a very strong coalition of influential conservative endorsers very quickly post FL who have been using their respective bully pullpits to remind conservatives of the various ‘heresies’ committed by McCain. The left tilting MSM are currently giving McCain the kids gloves treatment further underscoring to the centre-right voters here that the left would rather fight an old and angry McCain than the eloquent and business savvy (and rich) Romney.
It is the most fascinating primary race by far in modern history.
February 5th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Oh please… the Dems would love to go up against Romney. All you have to do is keep asking which Mitt we’re seeing today — and there’s so many to choose from. And talking about ‘angry’, Mitt’s hair may still be flawless but he’s been getting increasingly bitchy over the last week or so.
February 5th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Most polling match-ups have had McCain beating both Clinton and Obama whereas they both beat Romney. So it’s pretty clear which candidate the Dems would perfer to face.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:37 am
There’s a sobbing, hand-waving circle jerk going on at DailyKos over this video, reminding me of something out of Jesus Camp. My reaction?
February 5th, 2008 at 11:13 am
This is propoganda of a particularly vile form – playing to emotions and rather than any form of political content… but if Scarlett things he’s ok, who am I to argue…
February 5th, 2008 at 11:14 am
oh, and for entertain-me’s sake, the above was ’sarcasm’ – a lower form of wit than irony – apparently…
February 5th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
NeilM
Those face to face polls are meaningless and have almost no bearing on the final result in November. Face to face polls in early 04 between Kerry and Bush had Kerry caning Bush by far more than either Clinton and Obama currently appear to be leading Romney. Similarly just because McCain heads those polls today is absolutely no indicator of the likely winner in Nov.
Guiliani led almost all national polls and head to heads for months as did Fred Thompson – where are they now? Generic polls this far out are meaningless.