Blue Texan!

Robert Byrd (D-W.Va) just endorsed Obama.

Hey Blue Texan, how y’all doin’

but only $5.3 million for this election

- bwaaahaaahaaa ! cats now staring at grown woman rolling around on floor in paroxysm of laughter

It’s the math. Paying over $4.00/gallon for gas leaves less available
for wingnust donations no matter now scared they are of gay marriage, liberal judges, or terror in general.

Mission Accomplished yet again.

Dwight Pelz, Chair of WA state dems(a super delegate) just came out for Obama, too.

FunnyD

I heart Senator Byrd; he’s just awesome.

And am I to understand that with McBush sucking up “formidable” RNC funds, there will be even less money for down ticket candidates?

Boo-freakin’-hoo.

Goopers are discovering the sad fact that no one wants to bribe the out of power party- unless they have at least an outside chance of becomin the IN POWER party…

Why should anyone give money to goopers- it will only piss off the people who will actually be making decisions- the dems.

That’s why the McBush campaign is so important to the goopers- they need to keep the possibility alive that they may still control the White House or the spigot turns off altogether…

I’m not sure- but I think that the latest scam is to go for public funding for the campaign- but to divert donations to the party- so that the party can spend em- on ads that don’t mention candidates but which raise bloody hell.

I believe that Obama is planning to do the same.

Warren Buffett backing Obama:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....327/518345

Great post, BT.

Keep running that photo of the R’s plans, too. I love it.

Glenzilla has a new must-see post on yet another ridiculous factual error today by Kristol in his NYTimes column.

BTW, BT
Love your use of the Hindenberg photo.
FunnyD

Hlllary is toast. I hope she makes a great speech after her win in Kentucky and praises Obama. It’s time for healing the party.

I keep thinking I need to mix in some other famous disasters, but the Hindenberg works on so many levels, I just can’t help myself.

Mr. McCain, who abandoned public financing in the primary but has indicated he would employ it in the general election, is aggressively building a joint fund-raising operation with the Republican National Committee and state party committees in four battleground states. These committees can raise money far in excess of the $2,300 limit imposed on individuals giving to Mr. McCain’s presidential campaign. Donors can write a single check of almost $70,000 to the committees that is divvied up to various entities.

Obama in Tampa FL on Wednesday. Only tickets left are at local Dem Party headquarters in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Sarasota Counties. St Pete Times Forum has 21,500 capacity for center stage events. On community radio talk show yesterday morning supporters were giving out info on where to pick up tickets being handed out yesterday throughout Tampa.

Perhaps a Darwin Award or has it produced offspring?

I hope all the sore losers (looking at you, geraldine) will keep a sock in it.

Every bullet represents a mouthful of food stolen from a hungry child.

Well if not toast- she will at least be in hibernation. She needs enough delegates so that if Obama should fall on his face between now and the convention, the superdelegates could award her the nomination.

That’s the best she can do….

The primaries are over in a couple of weeks- so all she has to do is run out the string and sit on her delegates until the convention. She will certainly say some nice things about Obama in the meantime. If he’s going to be dumped- she should not appear to be the prime mover.

jeebus Blue Tex, I no more get control of myself and you link to Victor Reductum Ad Absurdum Davis Hanson ?! - lol

btw - winger co-worker actually spouted the Things-Are-Going-So-Much Better-in Iraq-than-Liberal-Media-Reports effluent this week end

asked her to define “so much better” would that be the less than 8 hours of electricity daily in Baghdad?, the lack of clean water for Iraqis or US Troops ?, the crumbling schools ?, or was it the 15 US Soldiers electrocuted by KBR ???

one deeply deluded 17 percenter who claims she’d love to have Cheney as POTUS - but took her on for the benefit of the undecideds standing around listening and that last one shut her up but good

To his credit, old man Byrd made some firey anti-war, anti-Bushco speeches when it wasn’t popular to do so, but he was also a member of the repulsive Gang of Fourteen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_14

Little Big Horn?

Crazy Horse!
We hear what you say.

Latest polls show Hillary closing fast in Oregon. The fifteen plus point Obama lead now down to four.

If she comes close in Oregon- it will give the Super Delegates something to think about. If she wins—could be some agonizing reappraisal.

which poll is that ?

Pollster Dates N/Pop Clinton Obama Undecided
Suffolk 5/17-18/08 600 LV 41 45 8
ARG 5/14-16/08 600 LV 45 50 5
PPP (D) 5/10-11/08 949 LV 39 53 7
SurveyUSA 5/9-11/08 615 LV 43 54 2
Portland Tribune 5/8-10/08 400 LV 35 55 -
Rasmussen 5/1/08 867 LV 39 51 10
SurveyUSA 4/28-30/08 650 LV 44 50 4
SurveyUSA 4/4-6/08 597 LV 42 52 3
Riley Research 1/21-29/08 201 LV 36 28 16
Riley Research 11/30-12/12/07 171 LV 30 14 35
Riley Research 8/10-15/07 174 LV 26 18 31
Riley Research 3/5-13/07 191 LV 31 21 29

(Pollster.com)

thanks, rw

(those are Oregon primary polls)

It appears that Hillary began gaining in the Oregon polls after the West Virginia primary.

Thanks for the Glenzilla reminder.
FunnyD

Why is that happening???

Hey, nothin’ wrong with ridin’ the winnin’ hoss, imho!
FunnyD

I don’t really know- why it’s happening- and these primary polls have been screwy as hell all along- so it may mean nothing- or it COULD mean that West Virginia has some voters concerned about Obama’s electability.

I see where 75,000 Oregonian voters turned out for Obama yesterday in Portland.
I don’t see Hillary having that kind of support.
I think I would have noticed that.

fyi -

Poblano says Obama by 13

I submit the St. Francis Dam collapse.

Exactly.

Also, isn’t there a 4 point error margin in polls, i.e., Obama could be 4 points higher and Hillary 4 points lower than what is reported…or do they always post the median margin…?

US billionaire Buffett backs Obama for president

TPM:

Breaking SurveyUSA poll of Oregon: Obama 55%, Clinton 42%.

It’s possible that the latest two polls are bullshit–we’ll know soon…the rally in Portland shows that Obama has at least 65,000 supporters…

What will probably save him in any event is mail voting- most of the votes were probably in a long time ago.

this is so very,very,very,verrrrrrrrrry sad

http://www.chron.com/disp/stor.....88103.html

my money’s on Poblano, who nailed NC and IN.

Egggggselent!

They show poll results for yesterday the 18th - up now. Obama’s got a ten point advantage overall.

Poblano has been like gold so far- he does see that Oregon is rather different from other states he has predicted though.

i love Poblanos and cheese,on my eggs..”g”

Makes tasty peppers too.

Ok the GOP seems to think everything is about Money and the Cult of Personality (Bush has a Personality?) the Ants are following their Queen even though they are hungry for money.
Now then when does Money hunger trump the Queen? After the election?
But if that happens a lot of GOPers are going to lose their elections!
The GOP knows this they can read the same polls we do!
Our fear their hope is for a military coup and/or another Terror attack two events which will crash our markets.
Crashing our markets are AntiMoney.
But if the GOP revolts after the election will the Moderates take over or the extreme wing nuts?

they didn’t ask the oodles of people who showed up in Portland yesterday to hear Obama?
So, what’s the track record of the organization that did that poll showing 41/48?

Are there enough superdelegates still in play to decisively shift the balance to HRC?

How significant is closing to a 7-point deficit when she needs HUGE wins in all remaining contests to get anywhere near the magic number of regular delegates?

As I commented last night, the Clinton campaign is rapidly running out of “linchpins” to pull. (Bill said KY could be the “linchpin” of the race for the nomination).

FunnyD
there’s a big difference between “She’s not dead yet” and “Holy cow, we’ve been so wrong about how dems feel about her compared to Obama.”

Oregon is probably the last race left with any interest at all. Since we’ll know the actual results tomorrow- there’s probably not much point in speculating too much about it.

That’s a good one, too. IIRC, Mr Mulholland never recovered his confidence after that one. PBS covered it in “Cadillac Desert” several years ago.

FunnyD

I wonder if he will campaign for him or talk about how much better Obama is for the economy on those business shows that he gives interviews too.
Also wasn’t Warren one of Arnold’s economic advisers until he said Arnold would have to raise taxes?
Maybe we could get Warren to campaign against Arnold?

clearly you underestimate my penchant for squandering productive work time.

I’d say that any candidate who has to win 75 percent of all the remaining delegates (regular and super) to come out on top, against someone who only needs a quarter of those same delegates, is whistling past the graveyard when they talk about winning anything.

Buffet has been supporting Obama for some time- has said some VERY nice things about him.

Wall Street in general has given more money to Obama than to any other candidate dem or gooper.

Another point to keep in mind on the Oregon primary is that it is vote-by-mail. Virtually everyone has already voted and I would guess that many of them already voted before the WV primary.

I agree that Obama pretty much has this nailed down—but he will need superdelegates to win- he will not have enough committed delegates (delegates ordinaire) to win the nomination. So all of this delegate math is sorta bullshit ya know- it’s all about who gets the superdelegates- and even if they commit to one or the other candidate, they can change their minds.

Yes- I think that’s a crucial point.

watertiger nails McStipend

I like to think of the gooper brand as a pathogen -

can be spread through close contact, . such as kissing

can also be waterborne

or even airborne

The “delegate math” wizard on the tube are measuring shit with a micrometer.

Interesting….but the Suffolk Survey actually modelled this on only 5% of the voting population being under 30, and 25% over 65 years of age. That’s way off the registration figures for Oregon and also way off the demographics of the State. If those demographics are off by 5% you have the results that other surveys show.

I really don’t think that young people aren’t going to come out and vote (or have not already “early voted”). And the Obama campaign is MUCH better organized in getting their supporters voting early and out to the polls than the Clinton Campaign has been.

ARG…they’ve been way off in many of the Primaries this year…and they’ve produced on poll in the Sununu-Shaheen race that was simply laughable. They had Sununu up by 20%…which was just the opposite of what every other poll has shown before or since.

And they have been changing their minds…in justr the last few weeks 3 that were committed to Clinton have switched to Obama - and none the other way. And Obama has gained 35 Superdelegates to Clintons 5. He’s now over 20 Super Delegates ahead of Clinton.

They are showing a detention center that is being evacuated in Florida…not a white person to be seen in the detainees…

America has a serious, serious problem.

Hard to convince folks that times aren’t tough when your own government has to consolidate neighborhood precinct voting places in schools into multi-precinct voting centers because of economics and homeland-security issues.

While not the perniciousness of Indiana and Texas, there still appears to be an undesirable consequence–making it harder for the elderly, disabled and handicapped to get to polls and vote. [one polling place closed in Fargo ND was the high-rise residence of seniors and disabled persons]

We’re heading backward to when virtually only male landed gentry could vote.

They came for…. needs strong pushback from GOTV.

Prairie Today: It Can’t Happen Here

Yes- that’s true.

As I said- Obama has this won unless there is a MAJOR problem that causes his poll numbers to crater in swing states- IF that were to happen (and there is no reason to think it will)- THEN the superdelegates could switch to Clinton and give her the nomination…

The situation would have to be so dire for that to happen- that most of us would likely agree that they should switch. It is, however, still a long time til the convention.

There is another option. Drafting another candidate entirely. Remote, I know, but if we’re playin’ what-if scenarios, might’s well play ‘em all.

Guess that COULD happen if the superdelegates refused to voter for either candidate through the first several ballots…that would throw the thing wide open..

Would be EXCITING and would grab the nation’s interest- might lead to a loss in November though

McLiverspot Rally

http://i18.photobucket.com/alb.....s/1212.jpg

I think that Obama is in the Cat Bird seat. He can do either. But I strongly suspect that McCain will try and get him to agree to go to public financing, since McCain is unlikely to come anywhere near Obama’s fundraising ability.

Obama has been giving large amounts of his Primary Treasure Chest to Democrats in Primary elections, however…and may see that it is in the best interest of the Party to remain out of the Public system and shift his actual funds to these Congressional candidates. I’d see that people would be more likely to give money to his campaign that heed a call to help out the DNC. In addition he could still ask people to direct funding to Congressional candidates while also directing funds from his coffers.

That really puts the heat on the Republicans…and siphons off even more support from McCain…and opens the door to the Red States.

yup it does

heh. Doubt we’ll be seeing that pic on McCainBlogette anytime soon. *g*

It appears that McBush is tryin to find a loophole in his own campaign finance system…He takes all the money from the public system and diverts the private money to the RNC who spends it on his behalf…Wonder if anyone will holler bullshit bout that one.

Obama has been giving large amounts of his Primary Treasure Chest to Democrats in Primary elections

got link ?

Yikes– Looks as if Mrs. McBush is goin BALD as a billiard ball.

Let them eat FAIL !

Well, if you ask any of his lobbyists aides, they’ll tell you it’s perfectly legal, of course.

I suppose it IS legal- but a bit hypocritical for the great election reformer who wanted to keep all the big money out of politics.

Actually- as Hillary has said “There is no such thing as a committed delegate”…in fact any delegate “committed” or otherwise can switch. And theoretically can do so right on the Convention floor. The fact is that very few have done so except when the Candidate that they were elected to support has dropped out…but it “can happen”.

And I guess Clinton supporters can hold on to the hope that the footage of Obama meeting with bin Laden to plan the attacks on the World Trade Centers will soon come to light. Was it you that was mentioning that you had heard details of some catastrophic bombshell like this was going to come out? Care to share it with us?

Wonder if anyone will holler bullshit bout that one.

Scarecrow and NYT have something to say about it

Nope- it wasn’t I. I certainly know of no such incident.

And for the record- I don’t like either of the two candidates very much- but will vote for the nominee in November…

I like Dean best- Edwards second- and we go downhill from there.

And cleverly arranges her hair to emphasize this.

Is she trying to look older?

1,847 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen rwcole and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

“If he’s (Obama) going to be dumped - she should not be seen to be the prime mover.”

This is ,of course, rediculous since she would be seen as the “prime mover” or the reason for the movers to move and, of course, there is not even a remote chance of Obama “falling on his face”. I love it when the corporatists use different syntax for the same context.

Obama’s last opponent in the Democratic primary is stayin in the race and hammering the small fissures in the old Democratic coalition instead of steppin’ back and endorsing the clear winner because she has been told to do so by her corporate bosses. She who should forever remain nameless has no interest in Obama’s election and certainly no interest in expanding the party base and it’s majorities in Congress and the states. The corporatists win when the electorate and the election are purcieved as evenly divided so that money and media can supress the majority enough for the courts and politics in the backroom to steal the election.

So let’s not legitimize the choice of the losing candidate to stay in the race by creating some super rationalization to cover the clear strategy to make the fall contest close enough for money and the courts to steal again.
The longer the corporatist junior Senator from New York stays in the race, the more likely a close race in the fall and another robbery on national television.

KEEP THE FAITH, THAT SHIT IS GETTIN’ OLD!!

Hey Norske

I’m not making any rationalization. I’m looking at outside possibilities and this is one.

As I’ve said before.

I don’t really like either of these candidates that much and I could give a shit which of em wins. I DO enjoy analyzing the possibilities.

BTW When is McCain going to get rid of all these Foreign Agents? Phil Gramm, lobbying for a Swiss Bank, in order to convince Congress to ease off on regulations on the credit and sub-prime financial giants? Since banks ARE the Swiss Government…seems that Mr. Gramm (who claims that he only spents 2% of last year lobbying for USB (that only works out to be about 140 hours schmoozing with Congressional Aides and Congressmen) wasn’t that much in their pocket!
That’s why it wasn’t such a big thing when he took his name off the list of declared lobbyists when he started advising McCain on ECONOMIC policy.

Hadn’t THOUGHT of that one—would explain why she made a point of pointing out that McBush was gettin thin on top.

BTW
Has anyone received their bonus check from Bushie?

Not me- and I’m eager to get it to finance the barrel of Tequila I ordered to celebrate his last day in office.

Mine was direct deposited on the 10th.

Care to share it with us?

Harold Ickes made some threatening noises a few weeks back

and Phil Gramm’s Depends our on fire - he is a Vice Chair for the bank’s investment arm - you know, the folks that bought all the CDO fool’s gold

By the way- to assume that Hillary is favored by all the corporations of American and that Obama is supported only by grass roots progressives is to argue for facts which are not in evidence…

Dave Neiwert is upstairs on the FDA

Just thought the campaign might have thought it was a good idea for her not to look too much like a trophy wife - you know - conservative values and all.

Smart money asks “Who do I have ta fuck ta get a role in this movie?”

It will come in big for the WINNER regardless of political views. If there is no clear winner- it will bet on both horses.

There is absolutely no excuse for a company to piss away it’s political capital on a Loser.

Well if that was the goal- she succeeded. Whoever wanted a bald trophy wife? Maybe she wears a wig and it slipped a little?

Both Democratic Candidates have been shifting campaign moneys to those running for Congress this year. It’s a standard thing, those candidates in safe and non-competive districts give money to those that are in highly competitive races. In addition the DNC has asked (following the RNC’s model) that all incumbents raise a specified amount for the Party coffers. How much they are required to give depends on incumbency, Committee rank or Chairmanships, and other standards. Obama is pretty low on those scales so his contributions are well above what is expected, and have been ever since he entered the Senate.

Hillary’s in a bit of a bind, since she has far less cash to share. She did give a lot earlier, but since Super Tuesday her efforts have been more limited.

Democratic Presidential Contributions To Congressional Campaigns

The article above suggests that all of this is being done to win over Super Delegates. But both Obama and Clinton were doing this long before they declared. Also the article doesn’t discuss how much support has been to non-incumbents who are running for office (but would not be Super Delegates). And it should be noted that some of the support is given even to individuals who are Super Delegates announced for the opposing candidate. Obama’s Hope Fund has even given Clinton’s Senatorial Campaign a contribution!

Ditto for Edwards…look at his actual voting record in the Senate for gosh-sakes…and his participation in Lieberman’s New Democrat Coalition…and the fact that he actually helped train lobbyists for a major hedge-fund financial house after he left the Senate.

Yep

There are no clean hands in the kitchen of politics.

Republicans are deserving of nothing less than electoral euthanasia.