June 30th 2008

This will be the view later tonight, as my sisters get married. It is about 7:50 in the morning, I have been up with my human alarm clock since about 5:00. I am in tears as I am writing this.

The Mets

I am offically putting the Mets back into the race for the NL East Pennant. They are currently 3 1/2 games out of first place, only two losses behind the Phillies (and losses are really all that counts as you cannot lose less games, but you can win more...does that make sense?)

The offense is beginning to click. Reyes is back to being Reyes. Although very unheralded this season, he has put up all star numbers to this point and is on pace to hit about .300 with 20 HR, 80 RBI 60+ SB and over 100 Runs scored.

The Gangsta has shown in just a weeks time that he is willing to bench players that are not healthy, or performing. Which means Luis Castillo has found his gimpy ass on the pine.

David Wright, whose batting average on OBP have not been where they usually are, is still among the league leaders in HR and RBI.


If we can just find a eligible suitor to take the offensive/defensive black hole that is the player formerly known as Carlos Delgado (on Terry's list of suspected Steriod abusers) off the Mets hands.

The rotation and bullpen are coming around. There is simply too much talent on this team for them to remain a .500 team.

Willie Randolph had to go. Period.

I am actually excited on a nightly basis to watch Met games, which is the first time in a long, long time that I can say that.

Tropic Thunder

Count me among Robert Downey Jr's (or RD2 as we call him in the fan club)biggest fans:

Cindy McCain is a Drug Addict

Cindy McCain is a Drug Addict.

I just thought I would throw this out there, seeing as Barack and Michelle are too classy of people to say it themselves, I will take it upon myself to spread the good word.

from Salon.com

How Cindy McCain was outed for drug addiction

When an attempt to get tough with a whistleblower backfired in 1994, the McCain spin machine went into overdrive, and the candidate's wife confessed to problems the media was already poised to reveal.

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By Amy Silverman

GOP presidential candidate John McCain's wife Cindy took to the airwaves last week, recounting for Jane Pauley (on "Dateline") and Diane Sawyer (on "Good Morning America") the tale of her onetime addiction to Percocet and Vicodin, and the fact that she stole the drugs from her own nonprofit medical relief organization.....

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/drugs/print.html

Did you also know John McCain called his wife a C*&t in public?



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RIP George Carlin

Brilliant!

I have been talking about this for years...Seriously, years:



Now the question is, can the dude get paid twice as much as other pitchers with similar value? I mean technically he is Two Pitchers.

Gangstas on the Field

Let me go on record, again, and say that I was not a Willie Randolph fan, ever.

I thought from the beginning of his tenure that he was not the right personality for this team. I let it go in '05 because he was new to the team.

I didn't care about Willie in '06 because the team was so fun to watch.

I hated him in '07 when night after night, he continued to maintain that, "hey at least were still in first place", and "I know my guys" and "It's just one game"

of course, the Mets were only in first place, until they were no longer in first place.

I told anyone who would listen, for the last two years that this dude had to go.

Let me go on record now (I didn't have my own sweet website in '07, so I cannot prove I said how much I hated Willie's style of managing)

Jerry Manuel is a Gangsta, and I like him.

I like the attitude he brings. I like that he doesn't speak bullshit "Sportuguese" all the time like Willie did. If I ever hear the words "It's just one game", or "I know my guys" or "we're still in first place" from anyone in a Mets uniform I might just go Jerry Manuel on someone.

Following the game last night (a Mets win in extra innings) Jerry was asked about the on-field dust up between him and Jose Reyes, to which Jerry replied, laughing:

“I told him the next time he does that, I’m going to get my blade out and cut him, right on the field. Hey, I’m a gangsta now. You go gangsta on me, I’m gonna have to get you now."

Reyes' response to Manuel following him into the club house, during the game Tuesday night after he pulled Reyes from the game which led to Reyes acting like a child, throwing a temper tantrum, flipping his helmet and storming off the field, only to receive a verbal beating from Jerry in the club house and apologizing to his teammates?

He went 3 for 5 with a triple, two singles, three runs scored and a stolen base last night in the win.

I would have to say, small sample size aside, message received.

The Mets new theme song for the remainder of '08...


Allow me to introduce you do the new manager of the New York Mets, who is nothing at all like the old one.


Gangstas on the Field, Ladies on the Bus

This Was Really Moving

I have my issues with Tim Russert. Today however, was for Tim.

Today's Installment Of

Why you simply cannot vote for John McCain.



I am starting to feel more and more that John McCain's campaign is some bizzaro world version of "This is Spinal Tap"

It is so ridiculous, it is hard to believe they are serious sometimes.

Did you Know John McCain called his wife a Cunt?

"Willie Didn't Deserve This"

You bet your ass he did, John.

I don't have sellers remorse on this one, the dude had to go.

Gangstas on the field remember.

Gangstas get on the field, Ladies get on the bus

Well, it finally happend. Willie Randolph has been fired as the manager of the New York Mets.

I am thrilled about this news. I will be the first to admit that I am slightly disgusted by the way in which the situation was handeld. Only slightly.

Willie had this coming. This team has underperformed for him for the last year and a half. This team has played down to it's competition, and with a general lack of interest for as long as I can remember.

The fun, entertaining, competitive Mets of 2006 are a distant memory.


It was simply Willie's time to go. This team stopped listening. He lost the leaders in the club house not named "Wright".

GM Omar Minaya is next to find his head on the chopping block.

It was his choices that have led to this team of old, broken down, disinterested former steroid users (Read: Carlos Delgado).

With Willie out of the way, which was a decision that Omar clearly did not want to make judging by the visible tears in his eyes during the press conference, the spotlight of this teams collective failures will be directly on him.

Omar was fully willing to bask in his own genuis as he assembled a "Rainbow Coalition" of players that would usher in a new era of Mets baseball.

The problem is, the dream was never fulfilled.

Carlos Beltran watched strike three, in game 7 of the '06 NLCS. The Mets were supposed to win that game, in a cosmic sense, it was their time.

The door has closed on this team.

The door has closed on Omar Minaya.

Watching the Presser yesterday, I thought he looked like a your average Coked out 20-something on Saturday night. He was sweaty and jittery. Repeating himself, and stammering and rushing through his talking points.

He looked like a man who knew his time was ending.

And then the "Gangsta" took the podium.

Jerry Manuel is the new Mets Manager, I am excited.

He was calm and cool. He spoke about the past and the future of this team. He talked about what he will do differently (dont get to comfortable batting cleanup Carlos Beltran).

He asked a reporter to leave the Press Conference when he was talking on his phone while Jerry was trying to talk.

He said about his teams play: "Gangstas get on the field, Ladies get on the bus"

I don't even really know what it means, but I love it.

Then the game began, another Mets loss.

The most important part of the game however, came with no outs in the top of the first inning.

Jose Reyes led off with a single up the middle. Upon returning to first base, he grabbed at the back of his leg. Jose having lost significant time early in his career to hamstring injuries, did not want to come out of the game.

The Gangsta had other ideas. He took Reyes by the arm and directed him towards the dugout.

Reyes, in an oh-so-mature fashion, threw his helmet, untucked his jersey, and stormed into the club house.

The Gangsta waited for the inning to end, and followed his oh-so-mature star shortstop into the club house where he stayed for the remainder of the inning.

Reyes returned to the bench and apologized to his teamates, score one for the Gangsta.

About a year ago Willie benched Reyes for not running out a ground ball that Reyes thought was going to go foul. Reyes proceeded to fall into the worst slump of his career. Possibly angered by the double standard that was "Willie Ball", where the manager continued to make excuses for, and allows older players to play with a complete lack of hustle.

It would appear, judging by Manuel's handling of Reyes' tantrum last night, that the Willie Randolph era is dead, and not a moment too soon.

If Omar would like to keep his job I would suggest that he make a few roster moves fairly quickly.

This team is still capable of winning this year, with the core that it currently employs.

A trade, or out right release of Carlos Delgado (and his "just for men" colored goatee, it's grey dude, let it go) should come first.

Followed either by a trade for Xavier Nady, or a promotion of Mike Carp, or Val Pascucci from AAA.

Moises Alou needs to go. The constant carousel from the DL to the major league roster has lost its fun.

This team cannot compete with Marlon Anderson and Endy Chavez getting the majority of ABs in Left Field.

Omar would save his ass and this season if he were able to pull off a mega trade for Matt Holliday. However, Randy Winn, Raul Ibanez, Ichiro Suzuki, Cliff Floyd, Alex Rios, Jose Guillen, Milton Bradley, Adam Dunn, Jr. Griffey, or anyone else with a heart beat will suffice.

I like the make up of the rotation with Johan, Maine, Pedro, Pelfrey, and effing Perez.

The bullpen is better than it gets credit for with (in order of guys I trust with no less than a 2 run lead) Wagner, Dirty Sanchez, Felicano, Smith, Show, and Aaron "pouty face" Heilman.

This team can still win, just as soon as Delgado is given the Randolph treatment.

Gangstas get on the field.

"John McCain called his wife a C**T"

Classic

Power to the K.O

I have stepped back from politics a little bit the last week or so. Last week was an emotional week for me and I am assuming a lot of people. I still have have the image of Barack fist pounding Michelle (or a "Terrorist fist jab" according to Fox News, whatever that is supposed to mean....I have some thoughts on the concept of "terrorism" and how we define our enemies, but that is for later) Tuesday night. I will keep that image with me forever.

Keith Olbermann has ramped up the chorus against John McSame's pathetic policies, and embarrassing adherence to the "Bush Doctrine"

I continue to be baffled by the blind eye that is turned towards McCain by a majority of those in the so-called Main Stream Media.

I understand that John McCain is a Vietnam Vet.

I understand that McCain was tortured.

What is never discussed however is that McCain broke under that torture and admitted to known falsehoods such as murdering innocent North Vietnamese citizens, and yet continues to support the use of torture by This country, knowing first hand that torture elicits false confessions.



Typically, Keith gets so angry during these Special Comments that he visibly shakes with rage.

The calm, quiet anger that he demonstrates during this video is moving. Please take the time to watch it, all of it. The tears are visible in his eyes in the closing remarks.

Kathleen Sebelius for VP

Over the next week or so I will be posting some video of Governor Sebelius putting the smack down on the Douche in Cheif.

Added

Not to mention, she is a borderline hottie who could easily be played by Terry's favorite older hottie, Hellen Mirren!

Cutting Ties

I have been sitting on this topic for a while because I wasn't quite sure how to address it.

I have to say good bye to a friend.

I have to call it quits with Oliver Perez.

Once my favorite headcase.

Once my favorite Met.

Now, we are nothing.

It hurts to write these words.

There was a time when I looked forward to nothing more than watching Ollie P. pitch.

There was that game, April 11th 2007 against the Phillies where you walked 7 Oliver, and I made excuses.

May 23rd of this year, you walked 8 at Colorado. Oliver you are a major league pitcher and you walked 8 batters.

to add a little perspective, Johan Santana has walked 21 batters all season. Oliver, you walked more than a third that many in one outing.

April 30th of this year, 7 runs, 1 2/3 innings pitched against Pittsburgh.

And then there was the June 2nd massacre in San Francisco. The same San Francisco that I, the baseball savant, cannot name 8 players on their roster.

The game where Oliver Perez did not get out of the first inning.


I used to think you were quirky and entertaining. I used to think it was awesome how you leap over the foul lines.

I always suspected that you were a bit dim witted. That your left arm and snaggle tooth, not your superior brain power, had gotten you to this point in life.

Now I realize, you are simply an idiot.

And I am done with you.

Luckily for you, you are not the only one. I have basically stopped watching the Mets completely. I simply have better things to be doing with my time right now.

Good bye Oliver, and good luck with that next contract.

In Case You Were Not Paying Attention

Here is the last 18 months in 8 minutes

Change We Can Believe In

I am dedicating myself to two causes this week.

1.) And most importantly, spreading the word about how amazing of a candidate Barack Obama is.

2.) Doing everything in my blogger-riffic power to keep John McCain out of the White House.

I will try to update with as much information about McCain and his terrible policy record as I humanly can.

I copied this post from Seth Grahame Smith's blog on the Huffington Post.
I will be elaboration on these points, and many others over the next 6 months.

I am ashamed that at one point in the last year, I uttered the words "If it's not Obama, I will vote for McCain".

I really don't like Hillary Clinton as a candidate, but not liking her, and threatening to vote for McCain are not even in the same timezone.

By now, McCain's "green speech" has been widely praised as one of the funniest half-hours of television since Arrested Development was canceled. The speech aimed to turn Obama's "Change We Can Believe In" slogan into a surprise Mac Attack by inserting the words "That's Not" at the beginning of it. As if this wasn't exciting enough, McCain proceeded to deliver the speech with all the energy and eloquence of Frankenstein on barbiturates -- pausing awkwardly after each declaration to offer a snicker and yellowed smile, as if to ask the adoring crowd of several hundred, "wasn't that capital?" It was at once painful and delightful to behold. Painful, because we have to sit through five more months of his awkward cadence. Delightful, because it's already obvious just how badly McCain's efforts to brand himself as the "change" candidate are going to fail. That is, unless THESE are the kind of changes he's talking about:

1. Excruciating Hypocrisy - McCain delivered the green speech near New Orleans, and in it, he took the Bush administration to task for their failure to respond to Katrina. Do you know where John McCain was when Katrina made landfall? He was standing on a tarmac in Arizona, receiving a birthday cake from his friend George W. Bush. That's not change we can believe in.

2. Lack of Self-Control - Having a temper is one thing. But there's a difference between blowing your stack behind closed doors and McCain's tendency to say the wrong thing in front of the wrong people. Whether it's the childish "bomb Iran" Beach Boys cover, the "100 years is fine with me" gaffe, calling his wife a "c--t" in front of reporters, threatening other legislators with violence, or that infamous Chelsea Clinton joke he made at a GOP fundraiser -- McCain has a rare talent for putting his foot in his mouth near an open mic. That's definitely not change we can believe in.

3. Lack of Support for Our Troops - McCain knows firsthand the sacrifices made by our troops and their families, yet he won't he support the G.I. Bill -- which was co-sponsored by his Republican ally, John Warner, and which would dramatically expand educational benefits for our soldiers. And why doesn't he support it? Because the benefits are so good, the military is worried that too many soldiers will leave active duty to get their degrees. So there you have it -- John McCain's policy on supporting our men and women in uniform: "They deserve the very best, just as long as it's not TOO good -- and assuming we don't have to raise taxes to pay for it." That sure as hell ain't change we can believe in.

4. Coziness with Lobbyists - We all know that McCain likes to tout himself as a "maverick." But the truth is, McCain was forced to reinvent himself as a "maverick" because he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. He was one of five Senators investigated for corruption in the Keating scandal of 1989, in which it was alleged that (in return for money and other favors) McCain sought to have the government ease off its investigation of savings and loan chairman Charles Keating. You'd think he would've learned from this political near-death experience, but as we saw in his snuggly friendship with lobbyist Vicki Iseman, and the recent purging of lobbyists from his campaign (there are still over 100 of them running it), he's learned nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, you're damn right that's not change we can believe in.

5. An Antiquated World View - It's not the age of McCain's body that troubles me -- it's the age of his ideas. Like George W. Bush, he operates from a belief that America is infallible, that might makes right, and that anyone who doesn't agree with us is not only wrong - but our enemy. Here at home, he believes in the same trickle down economic policies that have been failing the middle class and escalating our national debt since the early 1980's. That IS change we can believe in, but only if it's Opposites Day.

6. Cowardice - No one can ever take away the heroic truth that John McCain sat in a cell for five torturous years on behalf his country. He was a brave young man. But somewhere between Hanoi and Washington, that brave young man became an old pandering coward. For eight years, we've watched McCain suckle the teat of his political idol, George W. Bush. Especially sickening, given the fact that Bush is the same man who tried to destroy McCain's family in the 2000 primaries. The same man who went after his daughter. And yet, because it was politically convenient to do so, John McCain threw his arms around Bush and never let go. Threw his arms around a man he didn't even vote for. A man he secretly hated with a passion he scarcely knew he was capable of. To some, that merely makes John McCain a ruthless opportunist or a terrible father. In my eyes, it makes him a coward. How can a man who won't even stand up for his family stand up for our country? How can a man who was too afraid to stand his ground against a joke like Bush stand his ground against brutal dictators? My fellow Americans...

That's not change we can believe in.

The Greatest Upset in American Political History

Or so says Chuck Todd's Goatee:



Sorry for all the politics stuff....I do have a few non-political things to write about, and I will get to them.

But I do not think it is possible to overstate the signifigance of what has happend in the last few days.

I just read back through what I have been writing on here since March, and what I have been saying on my MySpace Blog (www.myspace.com/terrygilmore1) going back a year.

I have known, as a certainty that this moment would come, and I may have been a little cocky about it.

But to see it, take 10 minutes and watch the speech again, look at the fire in his eyes when he is talking about McCain and the economy.

This is not a man who is simply attacking McCain because he is his political opponent. He cares about the future of our country and is afraid of what 4 more years of George Bush, manifested in the person of John McCain will mean for our country.

Obama 08

Hillary Clinton will (finally) exit the campaign on Saturday, after she was told by both Senate and Congressional Super Delegates who had previously endorsed her that if she did not get out, they would be forced to embaress her by publicly switching their endorsements to President(Senator)Obama.

And with that, lets begin the long march to November.

I have previously predicted a landslide, and I am sticking to that. Something is happening in this country.



I was reading something today about how uncomfortable McSame looks, and how hard of a time he is having delivering these lines.

The author was making the point, and I think that I agree with him, that McCain is basically a decent guy, as far as politicians go, but that he has allowed his Campaign to be hijacked by people who believe as Karl Rove does, that if you do not fight dirty, you can't fight at all.

Unfortunately for the people in McCain's campaign, they fail to see that Barack Obama just defeated the most powerful political juggernaught that his country has seen in 30 years, a juggernaught who repeatedly took their game plan directly from Karl's play book.

Obama's message trancends traditional politics.

It is difficult to define his positions on an antiquated linear political spectrum because so much of his policy, is outlined on a "solution based approach". He has the tremendous ability to see a problem and find a solution. Those solutions are difficult to chart on a linear Liberal-Conservative spectrum, because some of the answers to the difficult questions are not Liberal or Conservative.

It is this reason that so many in the traditional media are having such a hard time defining him, and why so many people justify not supporting him by saying "I just don't know where he is on the issues"

The simple answer is, he is here on one issue, and there on another.

Pundits and Talking Heads have not quite figured out to do with him, or how to analyze what it is that he is doing. So they stick to the simplistic script that has worked so well in the past, Obama v. Hillary, Obama v. McCain, Pastor Wright, William Ayers, White voters not liking him etc.

Barack Obama is a different type of politician, for a different generation of people. Which explains why he has drawn comparisons to JFK, RFK, Reagan, and Dr. King.

It has proven impossible, to this point to put him into a neat box.

The Inevitable Candidate

She was up by 30 points Nationally in December of '07

Please keep that in mind when people are talking about how close she made this.

This Video Just Surfaced

From the Clinton Campaign's war room.



As you can see, Terry McCauliff's (played by Bill Paxton)demeanor has changed dramatically from last night, when he introduced Mrs. Clinton as "The Next President of the United States!"

Hillary (played perfectly by Sigourney Weaver, perfectly) is still clinging to the concept that her bid for the White House is not over.

Our Moment

I have a lot to say, and a ton on my mind so I will try to stay as on point as possible. I would love to write something eloquent about last night, and I will. But I cannot and will not stop myself from criticizing both Senators Clinton and McCain.

Let me start first with my thoughts about last night.

In my mind, last night has been a foregone conclusion since the middle of January. I saw how Hillary Clinton was running her campaign, I saw the packed arenas, and the message of hope, and I fully expected that I would be writing what I am writing at some point.

Knowing it was going to happen, and watching a black man and his beautiful black wife take the stage on the night where he locked up the nomination for the Democratic Party for the Presidency of the United States was more powerful than I think I have words to describe.

There is something special about this man and it is more than pretty words and an eloquent manner of speech.

I heard Pat Buchanan saying last night on MSNBC that what Obama must do now is make a move towards the middle.

To that I say Bullshit, Obama represents the middle right now.

Where are the American people on the war?

Where are the American people on Health Care?

Where are the American people on the economy?

Where are the American people on the environment?

Did I miss any?

Barack Obama is with the majority of the American people on every one of these major issues.

82% of the American people feel that our country is going in the wrong direction.

That means that 18% of people are all for George Bush's third term, manifested in the person of John McCain.

I got on the bus in the summer of '04. I had to that point a very limited knowledge of politics, and little interest.

Then my sister mentioned a skinny guy from Illinois with a funny name and big ears.

I was not enthusiastic about John Kerry. I was supporting Howard Dean in 04 until the media killed him for a yell.

I watched the convention in the summer of 04 and was blown away by that skinny guy from Illinois with the funny name and big ears.

When he threw his hat into the ring for the Democratic nomination, I was at first uncomfortable with his associations with an anti-gay, black minister. I am chaffed slightly by his religion but I understand its necessity with a majority of his base.

I wish that he openly supported equal marriage rights for all citizens, but I understand that in this political climate, it is an issue that should be decided by the states first. I am a federalist for the most part, and think that the States should decide how they want to legislate.

Watching last night, as he fist pounded his wife as she walked off the stage, I realized, as my throat caught, just how important a thing it was that I was watching.

The Tide is in fact Turning.



Now, onto some negative thoughts from last night.

I will start with Senator Clinton, and I hope this is the last thing that I write about her for a very long time.

I truly hope, that at some point in her life, she realizes just how much of a mistake that she made last night. Just what kind of an opportunity that she missed.

The entire nation was watching, the world was watching. She will never again have that many eyes on her.

She had an opportunity to begin healing the party, and moving forward towards what I believe to be an inevitable win in November (more on that later).

She had a moment, it was her moment as Obama would say, to show both her supporters, and those like me who have been radically turned off by the tenor of her campaign, that she has the capacity to rise about the noise and the petty bickering, to say what she needed to say, and step to the side to allow Obama his moment.

Instead she made it about her. The speech was about her, and where she goes from here. The speech was an extended version of the notion, "if you don't play by my rules, I will talk my ball and go home".

She, and her supporters continue to float this notion, that somehow Obama owes her some debt, or the 17 million people who voted for her, wont support him.

I say to that, and god I hope Obama feels the same, if you chose to support George Bush's third term manifested in the person of John McCain, and all that it entails (conservative justices, continued war, failed economic policy, etc.) so be it, but you live with that.

Obama owes nothing to Clinton. He doesn't have to dangle Roe v. Wade in front of women voters faces to entice them to vote for him (as I heard one woman say as she was justifying a vote for McSame)

If Clinton supporters, and Clinton herself chose to vote against their own self interest, go the-fuck-ahead, but don't threaten the Democratic Nominee with, if you dint play by my rules, I will take my supporters and go home.

This maniacal, narcissistic, delusional concept that Obama has to pander to Senator Clinton is unbelievable.

I was so right about Obama being the nominee, that I have grown cocky, and am ready to make another prediction.

THERE IS NO WAY ON GOD'S GREEN FUCKING EARTH THAT HILLARY RODHAM FUCKING CLINTON IS GOING TO BE THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON BARACK OBAMA'S FUCKING TICKET

There, I feel better having gotten that off my chest.

There are plenty of reasons why she will not be, but let me highlight a few.

1.) Obama does not want Bill Clinton, and all that baggage in the West Wing. Bill would be forced, for the next 6 months to answer questions ranging from Monica, to Saudi donations numbering in the tens of millions to the Clinton Library.

2.) Fox News, and every other conservative news outlet has been foaming at the mouth, just waiting for Hillary to be the nominee so that they can unleash the hounds of fucking hell on her. I find it kind of odd that Fox has been so nice to the good Senator from NY, having once been a major factor in her self described "Right Wing Conspiracy". Sean Hannity has basically endorsed Clinton for President, does anyone honestly think that is because he really likes her, or because the Right would love to run against her.

3.) And probably most importantly, Senator Clinton has just spent the last 18 months trying (unsuccessfully) to convince the American people that she, and Senator McCain are prepared to be President, and Obama is not. As a matter of fact, the RNC has already generated an add, using video of Clinton saying that very same thing, to use against Obama. How exactly is that going to go over on the campaign trail, where the VP is on tape saying the Presidential nominee is not ready to lead?

I will tell you how, it won't. Because it is not going to happen.

All this talk about a so-called unity ticket is going to be the media's way of keeping this debate alive.

The cable news networks have experienced an unbelievable bounce in their ratings during this protracted battle between Clinton and Obama. That battle is now over, unless they are able to keep her in the discussion, which they will through talk of this Unity Ticket bullshit.

I am telling you now, it is not going to happen.

Which leads me into my final point. The problem the media is going to face for the next six months is, there is no competition here between McCain and Obama.



I watched as much of this speech as I could stand last night and was absolutely struck by the juxtaposition of this speech when compared to Obama's.

McCain is boring the live out of the 18 people in the audience. 32,000 people were at Obama's speech last night, over 15,000 of them outside, just so they could say they were there.

In the media's rush to celebrate Obama's victory last night, a little noticed fact slipped through the cracks.

John McCain LOST THE PRIMARY IN MONTANA LAST NIGHT

And not only did he lose. He came in third place behind Mitt Romney (and his hair) and Ron Paul.

As in-line with the American people as Barack Obama is on the issues, John McCain is equally out of touch.

Take all of the issues I mentioned above, and guess where John McCain (and all the lobbyist he has working on his campaign) is on every one of them....You guessed it, right in line with George W. Bush.

He is so in step with Bush, he voted with the President 95% of the time in '07.

And I have a news flash, John McCain's age is a campaign issue. Period.

Barack Obama being black does not effect his ability to lead. John McCain's age, could potentially have a negative effect on his. Call me an Ageist. I don't care. There is no reason to assume that a 71 year old man will have the mental capacity to lead this country. Presidents age at 4 time the rate of average people because of the stress of the job. Look back on some pictures of W if you don't believe me, he looks like a different man since 2000, of course that could be the weight of the 10,000+ Americans that have died unnecessarily on his watch.

Once again, I am so cocky following my accurate Obama prediction, I am going to go out on a limb again, and feel free to hold me to this:

BARACK OBAMA IS GOING TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND IT WILL NOT EVEN BE CLOSE.

There I said it.

Conservatives are going to realize that he is not all that conservative (seeing as Bush has overseen the largest growth in the National Debt in history on his watch, and McCain is Bush x3)

Christians are going to realize that, Jeremiah Wright aside, Barack Obama is more like them than McSame is.

The base is going to fail him. The tactics of Karl Rove, rallying the base on social issues like gay marriage, to turn around and forget about those same people for four years until you need them again, simply can not continue to work.

As far as VPs go.

McCain will probably chose someone who will help him with that base, most likely Mike Huckabee.

Obama has an awesome group of people to chose from. I am hoping for General Wesley Clark, or Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius.

It has been rumored that the Clinton camp has warned Obama that he better not chose another woman, or else.

OR ELSE FUCKING WHAT?

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Fired Up! Ready to Go!

signed, sealed, delivered

I am typing this on my phone, lying in bed so I will keep this pretty brief. Barack Obama won the nomination of the democratic primary for the president of the united states. I am truely speechless. My daughter will grow up in a country that I am proud of. Tonight is for Barack and Michelle Obama. Tonight is for their daughters, and mine. Good night and good luck.

It is Over

Today the Democratic Primary Season comes to an end. The "Inevitable Candidate" has lost.

Try as she might to paint herself as an underdog who fought through the negitive attacks, and constantly being counted out by the Main Stream Media, Senator Hillary Clinton Was Supposed to Win This Thing. Easily.

She is one half of the most powerful Democratic Couple since Franklin and Elanore Roosevelt.

She began the campaign with a store of Super Delegates already in her pocket.

She had a well oiled political machine ready to propel her to the station she saw as her's.

Then Obama won Iowa, and it all changed.

She cried in New Hampshire, had a "human moment" what ever that means, "found her voice" what ever that means, and won there.

Then came Super Tuesday, and Obama won primary after primary. Never sinking to the lowest common denominator, as he could have easily done.

There was the sniper fire issue

The fact that the Clintons turned to none other than the Reverend Jerimiah Wright during their marital troubles in the 90's

The gas tax holiday joke

At any point he could have sunk to her level. He did not.

While she was making veiled references to Louis Farrakahn, and questioning his religion (he was a Christian, as far as she knew), Obama was making the most important speech that this country has heard on race is 40 years.

Please tune in tonight, Obama is going to make the speech of his life.

I got on the bus in 2004. I watched the Philadelphia address, my daughter will be watching with me tonight.

FIRED UP! READY TO GO!

YES WE CAN

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

FIRED UP! READY TO GO!



The Tide is Turning

On My Brain

As I drove into work this morning I was forced to turn off the radio and begin contemplating locking myself in a sealed box for the next week or two until the Democratic nomination is decided.

I heard a Clinton supporting woman caller explain her rationale for voting for McCain and my head literally began to hurt.

According to this caller, because women had been pivital in freeing the slaves, and running the "underground railroad", Senator Obama owed it to Clinton to step aside for her, and If he did not, this caller would be forced to do the only thing she could, vote for John Mc-Bush.

When the host tried to explain that as rediculous as her argument was, it was made even worse by the fact the Obama's father hailed from Africa, and therefore his direct decendants were not aided by the efforts of Abolitionist women.

This was followed by a five second hesitation, and the caller yelling about the "four lost delegates", that Hillary was supposedly screwed out of on Saturday.

The problem with this line of thinking is, there were no delegates to "lose" in Michigan, because according the DNC rules, the vote did not count. Not to mention, Senator Obama's name was not on the ballot. If Clinton and her supporter's had their way, she would get the votes that went for her, and the "uncommitted" votes would go to no one, because technially people did not vote for Obama.

I turned off the radio and drove in silence.
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I watched "Recount" on HBO yesterday. I was 17 and a senior in High School in November or 2000. I was more politically informed that most of the people that I went to school with, but I had no idea about what really happened.

I have been told in the eight years since that the election was stolen, and that the Supreme Court of the United States of America handed this election to Bush.

But seeing it, watching it, was harder than I thought it would be.

I actually cried.

I found myself saying out loud, to no one in particular: "God Damn you Al Gore"

Knowing now what that decision, the decision to stop fighting as cost our country, I was overwhelmed.

What bothers me the most I think is the media's complicity in all of this.

What the country learned from Scott McClellen's book last week was that the Bush Administration fed our country nothing but lies and propaganda to get us into war.

None of this is news to me. I was fighting with a college professor in the Spring of 2005 about the lies and justifications for war. I said then that it was about oil and nothing more.

He was a former liberal, who had been scared into submission by 9/11 (funny how convenient that is, I always ask myself: Who Benefits?) and had become a neo-con Bush mouthpiece spouting rediculous assertions about the merits of the "Bush Doctrine" of foreign policy. I remember you David Stavely, and would love for a face-to-face reunion so I can ask what bull-shit justificaitons you are clining to now. Because I was right about everything I said in that class, that I was almost failed for.

What bothers me, is that our "independent" media bought this, bought all of it. And why now, is it never brought up when talking about the desasters of the last eight years, that this man did not win the presidency, he was handed it.

Watching that movie, and seeing the reaction from the Clinton supporters following this weekend's decision and the inevitiblity of an Obama win tomorrow (we will have a nominee by Wednesday, June 4th) I was absolutly disgusted.

Clinton is acting no different than Bush, and his supporters did in Florida in November and December of 2000. Win at all costs or create as much Chaos as possible as you go down.

As of this writing, Barack Obama is 44 delegates, be they pleged or super, away from the nomination.

I called this race over in February, as it has been.

And I'm Back

Sorry for the light blogging this week, it has been a weird week. Hopefully this makes up for it:



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