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.

Take one inspiring speech, add some black guys (who cares who they are, The Kids will dig it), add some skinny white chicks, add some ROCK STARS making ROCK FACES while they lip-sync with guitars they can’t play, add some black diva wannabes turning every vowel into a 30-second lip-quivering cadenza, add some cheesy graphic transitions, and oh yeah it has to be in grainy black and white, because, you know, that means it’s GRITTY and REAL, and because Obama is, you know, BLACK, and The Man is WHITE.

Sweet zombie jesus, I had to press stop before it got to the end, I couldn’t take it any more.

Politics for the MTV audience. Congratulations America, you’ve perfected the McMessage.

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.

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.

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.

California looks complicated but in the birth place of the New Age it’s not surprising Obama’s message is doing well.

gore has a cause to protect – he won’t endorse unless it is a sure bet.

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?

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

he’s not muslim you plonker

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.”