Barack Obama has had a pretty good week, after getting shellacked in West Virginia by over 40 points he quickly changed the conversation by announcing the Edwards endorsement. He has also picked up about 30 superdelegates in the last week to Clinton's 2 and has effectively shut her out of the national political conversation. Even the few remarks you hear from her lately from the trail are very conciliatory.
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Barack's biggest win of the week came in his late week tussle with Bush over his ignorant remarks while traveling in Israel. When John McCain jumped in too it gave Barack an opening to tie John McCain's policies with that of the current Idiot in Chief. Barack will take that opening every day of the week. If John McCain wants to suffer the same fate as the 3 recent congressional defeats in Republican districts, he should continue to side with Bush on issues. The best thing McCain could have done in this instance is sit on the sideline and let Barack hammer Bush. It's a losing proposition anytime McCain is publicly associated with the worst President in the history of the United States.*********************************************************************************
I seriously think that after North Carolina Hillary Clinton is doing Barack Obama a favor by staying in the race (not intentionally). If she had dropped out after her NC loss, Barack would have still gotten smoked in West Virginia and Kentucky but it would have been much worse to lose to a candidate no longer running. Hillary is still pushing the Florida and Michigan issue because it is her last claim to the nomination, but other than that she has toned the rhetoric way down (either that or she doesn't have any media following her anymore).
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If I could give one piece of advice to Joe Lieberman it would be that it is better to be silent and thought to be a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. In other words "shut the f#$% up Joe you idiot".
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One of my the sites I read regularly is the DailyKos. This past week site founder Markos Moulitsas has been away on a family emergency and posting infrequently. Reading the daily kos without kos is like watching the Celtics without Kevin Garnett, there are other good players, but collectively not as good.
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I am surprised nobody has made the remark that the reason Clinton hasn't dropped out is because women aren't good at math. Let me be the first to make that sexist joke.
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The stories of racism that have been on the periphery of the primary is disturbing but the thought that in the year 2008 a bar owner would market T shirts with a monkey on them with an Obama 08 under it is despicable. *********************************************************************************
After recent Democratic congressional wins in three Republican leaning districts I can't help but think the minimum of new Senate seats they pick up is 6 (with an out side shot at 8) and at least 25 congress pick ups. Of course the election won't be held today and it is a long way to November.
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