Bush again calls Obama and Democrats “appeasers” because they actually say we should talk to people before invading. Now they think “Obama isn’t Obama,” he’s Neville Champerlain, if not Hitler, from 1939.

Aides told reporters that, yes, Bush meant Obama. He addressed the Israeli Knesset as the head of state, and broke the unwritten rule that domestic politics stops at the water’s edge. McSame and other right wing nut cases quickly fell into goose step.

Do any of them know what that means? Or what the lessons of history are?

Short answer: No, they don’t.

Long answer:
Do they know what year it is? Since the Republicans are running someone straight out of 1950’s central casting, they just can’t stop themselves from dredging up the old McCarthyite fear mongering. Stretching back further to the 1930’s with this latest salvo, I’d say no.

Can an attack linking Obama with William Jennings Bryan and radical free silver be far behind?
(1896 for those who had something better to do than go to history class)

So just file this one under

I CAN’T BELIEVE MY FRACKIN’ EARS!!

The video is part of the article here at thinkprogress YOU GOTTA SEE IT

On Hardball, Chris Matthews kept demanding that right-wing radio host Kevin James defend his remarks and the latest Republican talking point.

Kevin James is the poster boy for the newly invented word: “Ignoranus”

James was ranting (no other expression for it) in concert with Bush and McSame today who both labeled the Democrats “appeasers” and in concert with terrorists. Also more evidence that the general election campaign having started already (which I referred to here under the post on how the Republican attack campaign has started).

This follows McSame’s first attack on Obama back in February, claiming that since Obama wants to bring our troops home he’s on the side of the terrorists. See “Good McCain vs. Bad McCain”.

On Hardball, James could only cry: “He’s an appeaser!” for minutes on end, without explaining what the historical analogy was about. “What did he do” “What did Neville Chamberlain do?”

IT WAS FRACKIN’ HILARIOUS!!!

MATTHEWS: You don’t know what you’re talking about, Kevin. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Tell me what Chamberlain did wrong.

JAMES: Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser, Chris. Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser, all right? […]

MATTHEWS: I’ve been sitting here five minutes asking you to say what the president was referring to in 1938 at Munich.

JAMES: I don’t know.

MATTHEWS: You don’t know, thank you.

You don’t understand there’s a difference between talking to the enemy and appeasing. What Chamberlain did wrong, most people would say, is not talking to Hitler, but giving him half of Czechoslovakia in 1938. That’s what he did wrong. Appeasement is giving things away to the enemy.

This is pathetic.

Can you imagine how James’ head would blow up if Matthews had asked him to explain what the Sudetenland was? Damned intelekshuls what do they know!!!

Matthews point was that right wingers and the entire Bush administration/McSame campaign creware are “blank slates in terms of history.” They’re just throwing names around without any historical knowledge of what the issues are. They don’t learn from history, history is a grab bag to pull out another name to call your opponent.

The emptiness of Republican ideas are pointed out by a couple of columns in the Washington Post . Eugene Robinson in The GOP’s Ideas Deficit said “Party leaders speak of the need to refurbish the ‘Republican brand.’ The problem goes far beyond packaging, though. It’s not that the box needs to be more colorful; it’s that the ideas inside have long since gone stale.”

E. J. Dionne concluded in Brand on the Run: “In this spring of discontent, Republicans are turning on each other because even their best news is bad news.”

See many other references and cites on this issue at the NY Times “Caucus” blog. It notes Democrats and columnists on the issues. Among others, it quotes Will Bunch at the Philadelphia Daily News who said Bush committed an “act of political treason.”

Not to mention Reagan Republican Peggy Noonan’s take on the party’s dire straits at “Pity Party” in the Wall Street Journal indicating she thinks they can’t change:

Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party’s fortunes from the president’s. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn’t be left with a ruined “brand,” as they all say, speaking the language of marketing.

And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership.

So, what can we conclude?

• The Republicans and their right wing stooges are confused about what year it is.

• They’ve lost 3 House seats this year in special elections from solidly Republican districts (so far).

• They tried, and failed, to win by linking the conservative Democrats in the races to Obama and his “radical agenda.”

• Democratic primaries far outstripped Republican turnout across the board.

• And then there’s the polls on an Obama vs. McSame general election race (cited here and also here) showing Obama consistently beating McCain.

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It’s clear the Republicans are a party out of time in more ways than one.

AND, believe it or not, to my complete surprise, Matthews thinks of himself as something of a scholar of the period, I kid you not, check out his speech here. I didn’t think he did any reading that wasn’t on the teleprompter (like, he follows a teleprompter, right).

The last time I had to post an “I CAN’T BELIEVE MY FRACKIN’ EARS!!” type post over some completely asinine comment by a right winger was when David Bellavia, a Republican candidate for Congress in New York, who used a so-called pro-war rally to promote his politics and McSame’s, and compared Obama to Tiger Woods in a bizarre comment (as referred to here).

From the first song on REM’s “Out Of Time” album:

The world is collapsing
Around our ears
I turned up the radio
But I can’t hear it

It’s that same sing song, and the DJ sucks
It makes me sad
I tried to turn it off
To say goodbye my love
That radio song
Hey hey hey

Goodbye, Republicans. Your president sucks. You make us all sad, hey hey hey…

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Republicans discuss the important issues of the day: race baiting, Hitler, monkeys, “branding”. Following a string of gaffes as reported here at “Obama isn’t Obama” (some by Republocrats).

Mississippi Republican Runs Ad Against Obama

“Rev. Wright is as bad as Hitler. Even though Obama has condemned the remarks of his former pastor, and no one can find any statement by Obama supporting the Rev. Wright’s views, Obama must therefor like Hitler.”

RESULT: The 3rd Democratic pickup of a solidly Republican congressional district this year.

N.C. Republicans Preview Wright-Obama Ad

The North Carolina Republican Party has rolled out a television advertisement on Monday attacking a pair of Democrats running for governor in the state for endorsing Senator Barack Obama by playing a clip of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, excoriating the United States.

If it’s Obama, race-baiting’s not far off
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“Yes, we have no morals… we have no morals today”

Tar baby?

In veiled attack, Bush criticizes Dems for terrorist ‘appeasement’
War and foreign policy is for partisan purposes: Bush speaks to Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, and compares Obama to Hitler

President Bush launched a sharp but veiled attack Thursday on Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats, suggesting they favor “appeasement” of terrorists in the same way some Western leaders appeased Hitler in the run-up to World War II.

President Bush called the idea of negotiating with terrorists a “foolish delusion.”

The president did not name Obama or any other Democrat, but White House aides privately acknowledged to CNN that the remarks were aimed at the presidential candidate and others in his party….

An attack road tested first by da Billary, I should point out… one of many attacks the Republicans will lift directly from the Clinton playbook (which they will put up on E-Bay on June 4th).

And “Grandpa Simpson” McInsane makes it clear how he’ll follow Bush’s lead on attacks:

Senator John McCain, who has been critical of President Bush on the environment and other policies this week, on Thursday morning wholeheartedly endorsed Mr. Bush’s veiled rebuke in the Israeli Knesset of Senator Barack Obama that talking to “terrorists and radicals’’ was no different than appeasing Hitler and the Nazis.

“Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain,’’ Mr. McCain told reporters on his campaign bus after a speech in Columbus, Ohio. “I believe that it’s not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn’t sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he made it very clear that those hostages were coming home.’’…

Mebbe McCain is having another “senior moment.” Of course, we know now that Reagan did negotiate with the Iranians on this before his election, and after the election worked with them to illegally channel Iranian funds to support terrorists in Central American.

After McInsane has tried to tie Obama to Hamas, hearkening back to the halcyon days when Sen. Joe McCarthy ruled the roost with guilt-by-association (even if the association is purely in the minds of the feeble minded).

Of course, as Huffingtonpost points out, the Bush administration also must be “appeasers” given their own stated policies:

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates: U.S. Should Engage Iran With Incentives, Pressure

It was only yesterday that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates argued that United States needed to engage with Iran:

“We need to figure out a way to develop some leverage . . . and then sit down and talk with them,” Gates said. “If there is going to be a discussion, then they need something, too. We can’t go to a discussion and be completely the demander, with them not feeling that they need anything from us.”

NEWT GINGRICH SPEAKS
In a vain attempt to get the Republicans to act like human beings, in their own self-interest:

It’s possible that aiming low will backfire. In the recent special election for a solidly Republican House seat in Louisiana, the national GOP ran an ad tying the Democratic candidate, Don Cazayoux, to Obama and his allegedly “radical agenda.” The Democrat won—taking away the seat from the Republicans for the first time in 33 years. The result was “a sharp wake-up call for Republicans,” declared former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich. “The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if the Republicans try to run an anti-Obama … anti-Reverend Wright campaign, they are simply going to fail,” Gingrich wrote. “This model has already been tested with disastrous results.”

Is Newt really against the attack strategy or does he just yearn for the days of Willie Horton?

Not that it matters much. It won’t change the way the GOP or McCain or the various Swiftboat/527’s will run their racist campaign against Obama. And it will hardly dent the bile that comes across the internet (see, for example, just one of the hundreds of racist anti-Obama web sites - I hate to link it, but it’s so ridiculous no one could possibly believe it).

Just wait, those Bush-the-1st “Willie Horton” ads will seem like a Hallmark moment before long…

But at least Republicans are also changing their “pro-family” platform to be a “pro-families” one. They like families so much, they think everyone should have 2!

The only thing Republicans are better than Democrats this election are in sex scandals (for a change).

To quote their great leader, George Bush, BRING IT ON.

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VIDEO OF EDWARDS ENDORSEMENT HERE

UPDATED: video of the speech & articles from NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, movement by Edwards delegates, more…

The endorsement came long after other major Dem Prez ex-candidates recognized Barack Obama as the best candidate… (i.e., Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd).

This follows the endorsement by David Bonior, Mr. Edwards’s former national campaign manager (and the former Democratic Majority Whip). Bonior was campaigning with Obama earlier today in Michigan.

And following the string of endorsements today, several reported at “This is a dead parrot”

Edwards N.H. delegate declares for Obama, in Boston Globe:

Joshua Denton of Portsmouth, 26, an Iraq war veteran, says he thinks that Obama is the change the country needs, along with having the best chance of beating McCain in the general election.

“My fear with Hillary was just because she is who she is — for better or worse — she would sink, not just lose the presidency,” but Democrats in Congress, Denton said Wednesday.

Edwards Throws His Support to Obama

New York Times May 15, 2008

“The Democratic voters in America have made their choice, and so have I,” Mr. Edwards told a roaring crowd of more than 12,000 people here in the Van Andel Arena…

“There is one man who knows in his heart that we have to build one America — not two — and that man is Barack Obama,” Mr. Edwards said at an event that resembled the closing night of a party convention, with the two men standing arm in arm and waving as the crowd chanted “Yes we can!”

The Edwards Endorsement: What It Means

Washington Post/posted at 06:35 PM ET, 05/14/2008

Edwards’s endorsement of Obama fits easily into the top tier of all endorsements — the symbolic endorsement. As we wrote in our original Endorsement Hierarchy post, the symbolic endorsement is the “most coveted of all because it is not simply the typical pat on the back and photo-op, but rather it signifies something larger about a candidate.”

In this case, Edwards’s support for Obama symbolizes the former North Carolina senator’s belief that his one-time rival is the de facto nominee and is ready for the office to which he aspires.

LA Times story on the Edwards endorsement.

Not enough? Then go here for more coverage all saying the same thing.

Some may say Edwards has a unique ability to wait until he’s almost completely irrelevant to the process… but then, look at Hillary…

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The Early Word: Endorsements for Obama as Clinton Touts Win

N.B.: I’ve already updated this post 3 times today, and it’s all before the big press conference the Obama campaign has announced for 6:30 pm ET today.

IT’S RUMORED TO BE A JOHN EDWARDS ENDORSEMENT.

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Customer: “Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I’m looking at one right now.”

Pet-shop owner: “No, no he’s not dead, he’s — he’s resting! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian blue, isn’t it, aye? Beautiful plumage!”

– From “Monty Python’s Flying Circus“

Da Billary’s W. Virginia win was impressive, one of the 7 double digit wins she’s had the entire election season.

Now she only needs about 18 more to pass Obama’s 24 or so double digit wins (13 in primaries, 11 in caucuses).

Too bad there are only 5 more contests left (including Puerto Rico, which won’t be allowed to vote for a prez in November). Mebbe she can change the rules to hold primaries in Canada or Mexico, too. Lotsa provinces there. See “Clinton’s Right, Double Digit Margins Should Matter“

Anyone quoting Monty Python for their column deserves to be touted. Especially when used in the service of trying to read sense in the absurd campaign of da Billary, who are desperate to get John McCain elected rather than lose power in their sandbox (also known as the Democratic party, also known in Clinton circles as “our toliet”).

This Is an Ex-Candidate
By Dana Milbank Washington Post, Wednesday, May 14, 2008; A03

Customer: “Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I’m looking at one right now.”

Pet-shop owner: “No, no he’s not dead, he’s — he’s resting! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian blue, isn’t it, aye? Beautiful plumage!”

– From “Monty Python’s Flying Circus“

11:45 a.m., Melrose Hotel, Foggy Bottom: It’s Day 7 of the Clinton Campaign Death Watch — a full week since the official arbiter of the Democratic primary, [MORE]

By Ariel Alexovich, NY Times, Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Mr. Obama, however, is putting in place his plan for stopping Mrs. Clinton’s West Virginia momentum: rolling out the endorsements. His campaign already today has sent out statements celebrating the support of two superdelegates, Pete Visclosky, representative of Indiana, and Christine Schon Marque, the chairwoman of Democrats Abroad (whose voice counts for half a vote).

The Wall Street Journal has it that three former chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission will endorse Mr. Obama…

Also, those two remaining superdelegates from the youth vote demographic decided to support Mr. Obama…. [MORE]

NARAL Endorses Obama — Hillary Spokesperson Is “Surprised”

By Greg Sargent - May 14, 2008, 2:22PM

Obama scores the endorsement of NARAL, a key get by any measure.

Here’s the key graf, from the Associated Press story, which explains the thinking of NARAL board members…

They said the board decided to back Obama over Clinton because he is overwhelmingly favored to win the nomination and to heal what the organization viewed as a growing rift between black voters and white female activists that the protracted Clinton-Obama contest may have caused.

Which confirms Ben Smith’s observation that this endorsement is another “sign of the party coalescing” around Obama.

On the Hillary conference call, Hillary spokesperson was asked about NARAL’s choice. “Surprised, would be my response,” Wolfson said. “I think Senator Clinton’s leadership on advocacy and choice issues is second to none.”

See full NARAL statement here, as well as the bile filled comments of da Billary’s feminist supporters yearning for a John McCain to name more judges to rule on reproductive rights.

OK super for Obama

It’s Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tempore Mike Morgan.

See also:

Obama’s Consolidation of the Party: “That is stunning”

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From CNN ELECTION website:

Barack Obama	Results | Bio | Career | Other Facts
	Needed to Win2,026 Delegate Total 1,884 Currently in: 1ST PLACE IN TOTAL DELEGATES States won: NC | MS | WY | TX | VT | HI | WI | MD | DC | VA | ME | LA | NE | WA | AK | ID | UT | CO | KS | MN | ND | CT | DE | IL | MO | AL | GA | SC | IA

Hillary Clinton	Results | Bio | Career | Other Facts
	Needed to Win2,026 Delegate Total 1,718 Currently in: 2ND PLACE IN TOTAL DELEGATES States won: WV | IN | PA | RI | TX | OH | CA | AZ | NM | NY | AR | MA | NJ | OK | TN | FL | NV | MI | NH

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Most pundits give Clinton no chance to win the nomination, or pull some unreasonable guesstimate of “5%” or “10%” chance, rather than say she has no chance. They rarely give their reasons, they just pull numbers out of the air.

The Slate’s Clinton Deathwatch, never giving her any reasonable chance, now gives her less than a 2% chance, and at least gives reasons for why they change it from week-to-week.

Given my longstanding dismissal of da Billary’s chances for the Democratic nomination, I’ve been asked about how to really calculate the odds that Clinton might steal the nomination from Obama, and I’ve come up with this calculation.

But first, to put it in perspective:

Odds of laptop battery exploding:

• 1 in 1,260,000

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Odds of you being hit by lightning this year:

• Somewhere between 1 in 400,000 and 1 in 700,000

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Odds of dying in a plane crash:

• 1 in 9,000,000

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Odds of 130 potential future Earth impacts (asteroids, comets, rogue battle stars) smacking into the planet and killing hundreds of millions of people sometime in the next century:

• “Infinitesimal”; others range from 1 in 200,000 to 1 in 500,000

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Odds of winning the grand prize of a powerball lottery:

• 1 in 120,526,770

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CALCULATING THE ODDS that Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination:

Assuming for the sake of argument that the only way she can win the nomination will be if a meteor or lightning happens to hit the campaign plane of Sen. Barack Obama sometime before the nominating convention in late August,

1. You have to divide the year (12 months) into the remainder of the time from now until the late August convention (3.1 months), hereafter called “CONVENTION TIME”;
2. Calculate the odds that her recent changes in campaign staff will have a positive, rather than negative effect;
3. Take the odds of dying in a plane crash (calculated for CONVENTION TIME),
4. Multiply that by the odds of interstellar accident hitting the earth (calculated for CONVENTION TIME),
5. Or use the odds of lightning striking Sen. Obama’s plane and actually affecting its course (calculated for CONVENTION TIME),
6. Then I figure you should GO OUT AND BUY A LOTTERY TICKET AND QUIT WASTING MY TIME you’d have a far better chance at winning the grand prize than she has!

Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll:

“One can’t believe impossible things,” Alice laughed.

“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Sarcasm alert for the humor impaired.

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The Cult of the Ascension of the Virgin Hillary continue to delude themselves with their absurd “metrics” about how da Billary can steal the nomination. As Rachel Maddow said, all Hillary has now is “a post-rational approach to getting the nomination.”

That’s the candidate. The core Cultists (ably represented on the internet) were never rational to begin with, as any cursory inspection of blogs or comments will show. And barely containing their insipid bile, as reflected here.

Who’da thunk “feminism” would end its last legs as the willing handmaiden of a resurgent racism, in service to a warmongererer who makes crude jokes about Chelsea Clinton’s parentage, lesbians, and Hillary and Janet Reno (in 1998, when Chelsea was still a minor)? Da Billary supporters should be very proud.

Well, politics has made stranger bedfellows, indeed! (See also her alliance with Rush Limbaugh here).

Now they’re trying to weaken the true Democrat with lies about his standing in the polls against McCain. They ignore all the national polls showing Obama’s lead over McCain, even during the worst month he’s had yet campaigning.

Just as they refused to accept the 24 or so contests where Obama won by double digit margins against da Billary (see Clinton’s Right, Double Digit Margins Should Matter).

It’s not that they’re stupid, they just think the rest of us are. That’s the only possible way they could think anyone would accept their ridiculous schemes.

While the facts are rarely a good defense against fools led by a scoundrel, all that can be done is lay out the truth, in public, for all to see — as versus the slimy lies, spread in the dark, out from under rocks.

The Facts: Last 7 national polls as reported at RealClearPolitics.com:

(listed here)

General Election: McCain vs. Obama
Poll	Date	Obama (D)	McCain (R)	Spread
RCP Average	04/30 - 05/11	47.8	43.3	Obama +4.5
ABC News/Wash Post	05/08 - 05/11	51	44	Obama +7.0
Gallup Tracking	05/07 - 05/11	47	43	Obama +4.0
Rasmussen Tracking	05/07 - 05/10	47	46	Obama +1.0
LA Times/Bloomberg	05/01 - 05/08	46	40	Obama +6.0
Ipsos	04/30 - 05/04	46	42	Obama +4.0
USA Today/Gallup	05/01 - 05/03	47	48	McCain +1.0
CBS News/NY Times	05/01 - 05/03	51	40	Obama +11.0
Hotline/FD	04/30 - 05/03	47	43	Obama +4.0

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How are polling firms responding to the what’s clear to everyone but the most deluded? Well, since asking polling questions actually costs them money, Rasmussen polling company has decided:

It has become clear that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee.

At the moment, Senator Clinton’s team is busily trying to convince Superdelegates and pundits that she is more electable than Barack Obama. For reasons discussed in a separate article, it doesn’t matter. Even if every single Superdelegate was convinced that the former First Lady is somewhat more electable than Obama, that is not enough of a reason to deny him the nomination.

With this in mind, Rasmussen Reports will soon end our daily tracking of the Democratic race and focus exclusively on the general election competition between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama. Barring something totally unforeseen, that is the choice American voters will have before them in November. While we have not firmly decided upon a final day for tracking the Democratic race, it is coming soon.

But now the campaign is going to Plan B: Kneecap Obama and help McCain win.

Under some insane idea that anyone will pay attention to da Billary and make her the nominee in 2012. Clearly showing she and her hard core supporters have no honor, to match having no brains.

They’ve been trying it all along by legitimizing the coming Republican attack by spreading the lies about Obama’s background and ideas. As SNL represented da Billary: “I’m a poor loser… my supporters are racists… and I have no ethical standards. That’s why I should be the Democratic nominee.”

Just when you think da Billary can’t sink any lower, they exceed expectations.

I’ll be happy to post any rational, intelligent comment by a Clinton supporter, if one can be fabricated.

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25 new supradupradeelegates since last week, according to this count, with the most recent coming today. Several add to the growing number of switches who had previous commitments to Clinton. None, in the entire campaign, have ever switched from Obama to Clinton.

“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”
- Kris Kristofferson

It’s been a couplea days since da Billary made their latest racist argument in public. I’ve already posted on it, and posted some lame humor pieces on it (here and here). There are more benign explanations (like this one) for any who are willing to cut da Billary some slack. But given the history of the lies, innuendos, and mind-boggling rationales coming from Planet Clin-Ton, I’m not and it still bugs me.

Now we hear from columnists and editorials from the Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal.

But where is William Holden when you need him?

The next viral video. I saw it here first. You might as well, too.

Hillary Clinton announced her choice for Vice President to try to change the dynamic of the race. She will continue her efforts until the supradupradelegates simply give in and let her have the nomination (da Billary in a separate, private plea: “Please, pretty please, please give it to me OR I’LL RIP YOU ALL NEW ONES!!!”).

NY Times photo: On occasion, Lester Maddox would sign the ax handles sold in his restaurant. They came to symbolize his resistance to the civil rights movement.

She chose former Georgia guvner and biznissman Lester Maddox. While Maddox died in 2003, Clinton said this was simply “bowing to the will of her base,” most of whom are white, racist, and over 75, and therefore having much, much, much in common with the dead segregationist. (See also “Swan Song? Clinton Still Touts White Support“)

It should also make her competitive with Sen. John “Grandpa Simpson” McCain for the all important geezer vote.

This follows her campaign shakeup where she named her new campaign manager.

It is speculated that she picked Guvner Maddox to shore up her foreign policy credentials, after it was revealed that the “sniper fire” in Bosnia was actually a little girl with a bouquet and a poem. Clinton said she was mistaken because she put her contacts in backwards while in a sleep deprived state at 3 am one morning.

Maddox’s foreign policy credentials come from an incident at his bizness. When three black Georgia Tech students tried to buy some of his chicken at his restaurant in July 1964, Mr. Maddox waved a pistol at them and said: ”You no good dirty devils! You dirty Communists!”

Clinton said, “My running mate, like me, knows how to use a gun, which will be an asset when we invade, errr, um… negotiate with Iran. While my opponent is not a communist, as far as I know, it is true he refuses to wear flag pins in his lapel. And I have never seen him with a gun.” She directed remaining questions about Obama to his former pastor, Rev. Wright.

Campaign aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they considered former Alabama Guvner George Wallace, who died in 1998. But they feared they couldn’t find a high quality You Tube video of his “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever” speech that could serve as a campaign viral ad.

Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in a symbolic attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from enrolling at the school.

Clinton made the unprecedented announcement in a latest last ditch effort to win the nomination in 2008 (or is this the firstest first ditch effort to get it in 2012?).

From the New York Times obituary file:

Lester Maddox, the Atlanta restaurant owner and archsegregationist who adopted the pick handle as his symbol of defiance in a successful bid for the Georgia governorship in 1966, died on Wednesday in Atlanta. He was 87.

Mr. Maddox first came to national attention in 1964, after he violated the newly signed federal Civil Rights Act by refusing to serve three black Georgia Tech students at his Pickrick Restaurant. The Pickrick was noted for the quality of its fried chicken and for its reasonable prices, but Mr. Maddox was determined that no black should experience the ambience that he had reserved exclusively for whites.

Sarcasm alert for the humor impaired.

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Hillary Clinton named a new campaign manager to help change the dynamic of her campaign, which many say is on its last legs.

She named “Whitey” Bubba Aryan (née Lester Robert E. Lee Johnson) as her new campaign manager.

In addition, campaign spinster Howie Wolfson announced a New Hillary Rule that would take effect for the primaries in 2012:

“We’ve always said that all 2008 votes in primaries cast by white voters over 65 for a candidate would carry over to be counted in 2012 and added to that candidate’s total if she/he ran. It’s only fair. Just because more of these voters will die by 2012 than the under-65 cohort is no reason that they shouldn’t have a say in future nomination battles.

This doesn’t apply to black voters because they’re all going to support the Democratic nominee, whether they’re alive or dead. It’s the Ku Klu Klan vote that’s essential for the Democrats to recapture.”

Clinton also announced she would choose a Vice Presidential running mate in further efforts to try to shake up the race.

Sarcasm alert for the humor impaired.

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Just when you think da Billary can’t sink any lower, they exceed expectations.

I just had to borrow the pic from the sableverity site & put my own spin on it.
Clintons’ last resort: Vote White

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WHAT A CLASS ACT.

And you’d figger that even the most reality challenged would see the hand writing on the wall. However, it appears even walls are outlawed on Planet Clin-Ton.

I figgered all the BS from the Billary spinsters were just the final fumes from a gaggle of Gucci Democrats who just can’t accept that they aren’t gonna get those

“Planet Clin-Ton, this is the Reality Office. You’ve missed your scheduled appointment.”

while he still can. And anyone gives him the time of day.

Howard Wolfson, da Billary’s chief spinster in the NY Times - “Pundits Declare the Race Over” and “News Analysis Options Dwindling for Clinton” and anywhere else da BS flows free:

Have the cascade of shoes started to drop, as predicted here?

McGovern, former Clinton backer, urges her to drop out (Former Democratic <!–more There’s more of this brilliant post available! CLICK HERE!!!! –> presidential nominee in 1972)

Former Sen. George McGovern, who backed Hillary Rodham Clinton, is urging her to drop out of the Democratic presidential race.

McGovern said Wednesday he has decided to endorse Barack Obama.

After watching the returns from the North Carolina and Indiana primaries Tuesday night, McGovern says it’s virtually impossible for Clinton to win the nomination.

McGovern says he is calling former President Clinton to tell him of the decision and adds that he remains close friends with the Clintons.

AP Analysis: Clinton is Toast?

NEW YORK Hillary Rodham Clinton lost North Carolina on Tuesday and with it her last best chance at the White House.

“Senator Clinton did not get out of the night what she needed,” said North Carolina Rep. Brad Miller, an undecided superdelegate. “To use a basketball analogy, she traded baskets. And she needed to do much better than that this late in the contest with her down 150 or 160 pledged delegates.”

Since the Pennsylvania primary two weeks ago, Clinton has picked up 11.5 superdelegate endorsements to Obama’s 22, according to an Associated Press count.

“Even during the period post-Pennsylvania, during Reverend Wright, we decisively won superdelegates in that period,” said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. “And if they’re not going to make up significant ground during that period, it’s hard to see how things are going to change.”

AND if I may note, I beat the “CNN Ticker” blog on posting this about McGovern.

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There are about 260-280 supradupra delegates listed by sites as “uncommitted.” Some of these are probably people yet to be chosen in states as they go through their separate processes to name all delegates for Denver, but I have no idea how many that would total.

All Billary sycophants should be proud of their success, as da Billary continue their swath of destruction using any ally , no matter how slimy.

Exit Polls: Limbaugh Effect Seems To Rear Its Head

to keep the White House white.

Return to those stirring days of yesteryear (c. 1925) when the Indiana Klan openly controlled politics, instead of just through their out-state surrogates.

ACTUAL FINAL RESULTS:
Obama 56.2% Margin of Victory: 14.7%
(another in a long string of double digit wins)

Clinton 41.5%

ACTUAL FINAL RESULTS:
Clinton 50.7% Margin of Victory: 1.4%
(1/10th of the margin Obama had in NC))

Obama 49.3%