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Hillary Clinton pays tribute to Ted Kennedy who suffered a brain cancer-induced seizure over the weekend and vows to stay in the race until the convention. The speech was made in Louisville after her 35 point victory over Obama.
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CLINTON SAVORS WIN IN EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC AGAINST OBAMA IN WEST VIRGINIA
Tuesday night and West Virginia primary is history. Interesting sidelight, McCain wins with about 75 per cent of the vote and Hillary is within ten points of McCain in her victory over Obama- Strong indication that Hillary Clinton can win in swing states continues next Tuesday with Kentucky, thought to be a rerun of West Virginia. In Charleston, Hillary once again made the case for including Florida and Michigan in the totals for delegate counts. She stated Obama favored counting those two states as well. Most every one agrees that no one will arrive at the convention with the necessary delegates pledged to them. Will it be with the super delegates on the first ballot or will it go into extra innings? Pundits and electorate mull the thoughts as Clinton vows to go on even though her campaign is in debt.
Squeaker in
Indiana
with Hillary
winning - Obama
does it good in
North Carolina
(1:30 a.m, Eastern, 5-7-08) Obama was able to stop the bleeding and retain his delegate lead but even he admitted Hillary is quite the campaigner. Hillary looked tired tonight, Obama looked alive, a switch in roles? Their personalities seem to be like their election totals, up and down, back and forth. Next week, two more states, two more primaries, but we are getting close to the end of this long and winding road, one of the most contested primary battles ever.
The specter of
battles at the
convention in
Denver in August
looms larger,
much like the
old time
political
conventions
where real
battles were
fought and no
one knew who
would win.
National
Democrat figures
think it is bad
for the party,
most of state
chairmen think
it actually is
good keeping the
focus on
Democrats and
off of
John McCain.
Take a look at
our dispatches
all night and
you will see
this was
political drama
at its best..and
"baby, its not
over yet."
Jerry Pippin
Obama
Concedes
Indiana to
Clinton
(10:00
p.m. 5-6-08)
Democratic
front-runner
Barack Obama
swept to victory in
the
North Carolina
primary Tuesday
night and lengthened
his lead in the
delegate race.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton led
in
Indiana as
she struggled to
stop her rival's
march toward the
party's presidential
nomination.
"Tonight we stand
less than 200
delegates away from
winning the
Democratic
nomination for
president of the
United States,"
Obama told a raucous
rally in Raleigh,
N.C. - and left no
doubt he intended to
claim the prize.
He said it appeared
Clinton had won
Indiana's primary,
although thousands
of votes had yet to
be counted in key
counties.
Returns from 47
percent of
North Carolina
precincts showed
Obama was winning 59
percent of the vote
to 41 percent for
Clinton, a triumph
that mirrored his
earlier wins in
Southern states with
large black
populations.
Clinton's lead has
shrunk down to 4 per
cent over Obama in
Indiana-
votes from
Chicago
suburbs and Gary
seem to be giving
Obama a surge but it
appears Clinton will
have a 4 to 5 per
cent victory when
all the votes are
counted.
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More Primaries to ComeTonight Barack Obama stopped the Hillary Clinton string of wins with a big turn out in North Carolina by African American and young college-educated voters. Hillary is favored in Kentucky and West Virginia next Tuesday. Indiana vote count- 54 percent for Hillary Clinton- 46 per cent for Obama 52 per cent of the vote counted. We have declared Hillary the winner in Indiana as well as CBS news but other networks are taking a wait and see on Indian. They are concerned about the Gary and Chicago suburb vote. It could be heavy for Obama. McCain wins both states tonight in the Republican Primaries. |
 Hillary hangs in with win in Indiana, Obama back on the winning track with North Carolina (8:30 p.m. Eastern -
4-06-08)
Indiana gives Hillary Victory tonight and
Barack Obama takes
North Carolina - Race plays huge role again
...almost 90-per cent of the voters who are African
American in North Carolina went with Obama. Four out of
Five voters said the economy has already effected them
and it is the most important issue. Convention fight
seems more likely with Clinton wanting
Florida and
Michigan.
West Virginia and
Kentucky up next Tuesday. Obama wins in
North Carolina- Obama got 36 per cent of the White
Vote and Hillary got only 6 per cent of the vote. 8:00 p.m. Eastern time update - Obama declared winner by most networks in North Carolina and in Indiana Hillary leads in popular vote: Voters seem to have made their mind up at least a week ago in both contests. Rev. Wright Issue was important to 70 per cent for Hillary in Indiana . Obama will be speaking form North Carolina State University later tonight. A third of Hillary's supporters say they will vote for Obama. 57 per cent 43 per cent Obama - 22 per cent of the vote counted in Indiana. Both of these states have always voted Republican. Carter was the last Democrat to carry North Carolina and Indiana has been hopelessly Republican in Presidential races. |
 HILLARY IS NOT OUT OF GAS AND OBAMA IS IN THE STRETCH AND MCCAIN OPENS MOUTH AND INSERTS FOOT
(Midnight Eastern Time 5-03-08) Super
Delegates are fickle and both Hillary and Barack know
it. They can change their minds as the roll is being
called at the convention this August in Denver and they
probably will. Hillary has about 25 more than Barack but
Barack has well over a hundred more delegates than
Hillary but neither have 2025 and that's what's needed
to be the nominee.
Kentucky Derby weekend for sure, but
that's not the only horse race in town this year.
Hillary Clinton is showing strength in wake of a
bad weekend for Obama on the news channels, they spent
all their time talking about Rev. Wright. Most of the
voters in North Carolina and
Indiana seemed more interested in gas prices,
food check-out totals and unemployment checks.
Hillary Clinton was pandering, they said, when
she called for a three-month free ride on fuel taxes
from the Federal Government. McCain suggested it first,
always a good Republican suggestion, a pause in any tax
plays well to the GOPers who seem to hate to pay their
fair share of the nations bills if it is attached to
their income in any way.
The story behind this move is
striking in its ballsy move by Hillary. She not only
wants a three-month break but she wants all of Congress
to go on record about it. The Pelosis and Obamas oppose
this move along with almost every Republican Senator,
why? They suspect that Hillary might be up to something
other than just a tax break, the rumor is she might just
want to have windfall profits taxed heavily with the
rebates going back to the public or dare we say "price
controls" on energy?
Then there was the honest-John
approach that got dead silence from a Bush crowd when
McCain in Denver on Friday said, " We want to have an
energy policy that will prevent our soldiers
from fighting in the mid-east." Or words to that effect.
Everyone in the room caught it and they heard it and
they knew it was a comment that should never have been
made. McCain the Republican candidate and author of the
IRAQ war bill admitted on camera that the war was after
all about oil, didn't he just say that?
The weekend before another
Super Tuesday. How many
Super Tuesdays have there been? This is playing
out about the way this reporter thought it would many
months ago and most scoffed at the idea; The Democrats
will not have a nominee until convention time. Will it
hurt them? Not if McCain keeps telling the truth about
why we are in war. Evidently we not only give oil
companies huge profits and over priced gasoline prices,
but we are giving our young men and women's lives to
help them to continue to screw us at the pump. So how
will a Republican win this fall? They probably won't.
Joe Scarborough said on TV what I was thinking the other
day, "This might be something like the Whig Party," a
story of a political party not only out of favor but out
of business. It could happen.
Jerry Pippin
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Jerry Remembers
Edward R. Murrow on his 100th Birthday
(04-25-08) If you know anything
about me at all; it is simply that I am not very happy
with the state of journalism today. Especially broadcast
journalism. CBS is still my favored organization even
though at one time I worked at NBC news as a runner
during the
GOP convention in 1964 in
San Francisco. I loved those days of
NBC when they had a radio network and a TV
network basking in the glory of renewed ratings thanks
to Huntley and Brinkley and the fact that my lawyer had
worked with
Frank McGee at WKY-TV in OKC and that one day I
knew I would work at WKY which I did, WKY radio in
1980-81-82 period.
The fact is no one did it better in
my opinion that CBS news. Murrow was their lead guy but
they had others, great reporters of their time,
Cronkite, Rather, etc. In those days CBS was still a
fairly small operation with Frank Stanton as President
bringing that network up from scratch to compete
with David Sarnoff and RCA who owned
NBC. Looking back on it, and I can still
remember hearing Murrow doing a fifteen minute radio
newscast nightly on CBS, it was an era where today's
resources were science fiction, who would have dreamed I
could just turn on my laptop and send a show out
live..satellites and video as news happens, were only
dreams.
So in one sense today's news is far,
far superior to those Murrow days but in the real sense
it does not measure up at all. There is something
missing these days and that is the healthy skepticism we
all had after a great depression, a world war, and
obvious over-reaction from government into our private
lives. This sentence seems humorous today with the
Patriot Act and others that infringe upon our
civil liberties and with stories of government
threats to journalists. But this is exactly my point
about CBS news of old and
Edward R. Murrow in particular.
Senator Joe McCarthy was painting
everyone with a broad brush and Murrow saw that it was
time to stand up against the tyranny of a government
gone wild in pursuit of only good news for their
side. Senator Joe McCarthy was challenged and CBS paid a
price with pulled advertising, after all, fear in those
day was a real as today. It was the communist threat
then and now it is some sort of twisted relationship
between a few thousand Muslin extremists and the world.
But Murrow stood up, McCarthy went down as the fraud he
was and CBS stood by their man.
Today would CBS stand by their man?
Obviously not, look what they did to
Dan Rather who was as loyal as one can be to his
network, CBS. Will Rather bring out the true facts in
the Court Room of Justice? Time will tell. This is a far
different world where big bucks from government have
filtered into the media checking accounts as a major
depositor. Meanwhile I find it encouraging that CBS did
take time out to pay homage to their ICON, Mr. Murrow. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/24/murrow/main4041673.shtml
We still link to CBS news often even
though we understand they are a mere shell of what they
used to be, but so are the others as the new journalism
has taken over, FOX with their endless propaganda for
the Republicans, CNN trying to not rock the boat and
NBC wandering in a path of torn desires,
corporate business and journalistic integrity. Thank
God for the Internet, at least if you want to take the
time, you can find all sides to an issue and we strive
every day to do our part.
Please note we do have a liberal-biased web site as well, www.bushbusiness.com. It started as an outrage to the control of media and thought processes, but quickly morphed into just a parody on those conservative sites and programs. We do hope Mr. Murrow understands, it is all show business these days. Meanwhile rest assured on our conspiracy shows and political shows we will strive to bring the facts just like Jack Webb of old, "just the facts."
Our only plea for understanding is that
we are the NEW MEDIA. We offer entertainment, information
and lots of stuff in between. We just hope the viewer, the
visitor and the listener understand where we are coming
from... ah, yes a another phrase of modern America. Rest
assured we are coming from a standpoint of truth, we
sometimes present it in an entertaining fashion and we don't
apologize for that...I mean for God's sake, we are a radio
show not a news organization.
Jerry Pippin
4-24-08
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BIG NIGHT FOR HILLARY
by Jerry Pippin
(Midnight Eastern 4-22-08) As
midnight comes to the Poconos and then to the cities of
Pennsylvania, it looks like Hillary got her
double-digit win. This was what the pundits said she had
to do and she did it. She did it with huge majorities
in older voters and females. The thing she needed was
money and to get money she had to show she is viable.
She did just that, since her plea for money tonight on
network TV, the internet, national radio and whatever
other media there is these days, oh, yes, we have cell
phone listeners now too. Hillary has raised one million
dollars according to CBS...this in less than four hours.
The money being raised by both
candidates is staggering, by all accounts, Obama needs
nothing in money, at least not yet. His campaign is
awash in it and he proved it by spending more money in
Pennsylvania than anyone ever. After watching both
candidates tonight in their speeches, it is apparent to
me and to most, the Democrats have two very good
candidates. It is almost painful. It is akin to have
two close friends that you adore getting a divorce.
Hillary was strong tonight and she
had a right to be positive. She won big. Ten percent
of the Republican vote switched to Democrat and even
though some GOPers were saying vote for Hillary because
they can not in their worst nightmare envision a Clinton
winning anything, it didn't happen. Most of the
Republicans morphing into Democrats went for Obama.
Obama hits a chord with younger, more upwardly mobile
voters. When we heard him speak tonight we could see
why.
He is a salesman and he is selling a
product we all want. Change from the old fashioned
established politics of old. Somehow the Clintons have
been painted into this corner of being the establishment
and just when Hillary seems to be proving that this is a
false rap, she makes a point of her undying support for
Israel and this time against
Iran.
So after hearing the speeches and
thinking about the two candidates, it is very similar to
two old friends in a divorce fight. You are torn
between who to support, can't we support both of them?
It seems like the dream ticket, Obama/Clinton or is it
Clinton/Obama. An interesting fact from the exit
polling, both Obama and Clinton supporters seem
reluctant to give in to the other candidate. Tonight
Obama said he thought it would go all the way to the
convention. This sends shivers up and down the spines of
some Democratic "movers and shakers" but somehow it
seems to this reporter that that fear is unjustified.
McCain is off the map as far as coverage; it appears he
will be, thru the summer.
Ask any advertising man- the more
you hear the names and the messages, the more you are
willing buy that product.
(closing stats at Midnight Eastern -
95 per cent of the vote- Clinton 55 percent, Obama 45
percent.)
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MICHIGAN
DEMOCRATS SELECTING DELEGATES TO CONVENTION DESPITE DNC BAN AGAINST
THEM Party members were selecting 83 delegates and 15 alternates at 15 district conventions around the state. Delegates were allocated according to the results of the Jan. 15 primary, which New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won. An official list of delegates and alternates was to be released early in the week by the Michigan Democratic Party. Reports say that hundreds ended up vying for the delegate seats with Clinton delegates settling on people fairly easily but heated contests developed over the Obama delegate's seats. It is believed that both Florida and Michigan delegates will be seated with Obama getting most if not all of the delegates that Hillary did not win. Michigan plans to fill all of its128 pledged delegate spots despite the DNC action. It also has 28 superdelegates. Most of the superdelegates aren't yet pledged to a particular candidate, although some have announced their favorites. |
 LOST
WEEKEND LOOMS FOR OBAMA AND HILLARY Hillary Clinton faces a do-or-die weekend of campaigning in Pennsylvania where her lead seems to be holding despite a challenge in the stretch by Barack Obama who is looking with favor at the huge ethnic population of Philadelphia. Mrs. Clinton showed stamina in the Texas/ Ohio countdown going for 20 hours straight and still looking like a lady at the end of the day, can she keep this pace thru Pennsylvania. Pundits say she must and meanwhile the super delegates are restless, pressured and wondering about party loyalty. It is fairly obvious if Mrs.Clinton can snatch victory in Indiana where it is almost a dead heat and win big in Pennsylvania, the heavily ethnic democratic base in North Carolina will not mean as much to the Obama momentum. Meanwhile there is a certain pleasure in watching Howard Dean who just four short years ago was the outsider pushing hard, now is the insider as head of the DNC yelling "we have to get this settled by July 1st to win." It was only last month it had to be June 4th the day after Puerto Rico. Despite what you read in the newspapers and hear on TV, and from the political wise-guys, a brokered convention will not be the death of the Democratic party, there is every evidence that the public is open-minded enough to consider the even match of these two gladiators. Remember the plus of a convention fight is the attention span of the public just two short months and a few days before the general election. Jerry Pippin 11:00 CST (April 16, 2008) |
Two Days and Two Weeks before
Pennsylvania Hillary has Another Shake-up in Advisors
(4-6-08)
Breaking: Penn Quits Role as Clinton's
Chief Strategist Mark Penn has quit his role as the chief
strategist for
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, following the
controversy over his participation in talks over a free-trade
pact with
Colombia. He will continue to provide polling advice, the
Clinton campaign said.
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Hillary says Barack needs to stay out of the gutter (see video link and story below) - Obama says McCain might be a great American Hero but a lousy policy person - and Michigan Congressman has a proposal for delegates
(4-1-08) The big news is
that there is hope for the Michigan delegation tonight
as
Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak suggests a
deal to the DNC. More on this further down in the story
but the most unique event today was not that both
Hillary and Obama lambasted the Oil Executives as being
greedy and un-American, it was that Hillary showed up
for a photo op this morning looking grim and defeated -
Using an event from over the weekend where
Senator Obama put on some bowling shoes for the
first time in several decades by his own admission and
didn't break 40, in a bowling game with several gutter
balls. Hillary, tongue in cheek, urged Senator Obama to
stay out of the gutter for the rest of the campaign.
CLICK HERE for
video link from MSNBC.
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In a move to lighten up the
competition which has grown fierce in intensity at least
by supporters of both candidates, Mrs. Clinton showed
another dose of charm much like she did on
Saturday Night Live shortly before the
Ohio and Texas primaries. Obama spent the day
mostly on McCain but joined Hillary in lashing out at
the oil companies whose top executives appeared before
Congress today and were unapologetic as well as
unrepentant, one of them even asked for the Alaska Oil
Reserves to be opened up while under fire from members
of congress about windfall profits.
Now back to the
Michigan story: The proposal would give Obama the
uncommitted slate of delegates from the Michigan
Primary where his name was taken off the ballot after
the DNC said it would not honor the selection process
since it happened before
Super Tuesday. Hillary kept her name on the
ballot. The formula put forward would leave some number
of delegates based upon the popular vote totals after
the primary season in June. Most experts figure Hillary
will pick up about 10 to 15 delegates by this proposal
but she could get less if her vote totals do not pick up
substantially with the 10 remaining primary and caucus
events including Pennsylvania later this month.
Jerry Pippin
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ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE WITH BUSH
FOREIGN POLICY AND ECONOMICS BUT DEMOCRATS SEEM INTENT UPON SELF
DESTRUCTION
(March 28,
2008) American politics
is an interesting mixture of intelligent thought and emotional
unreasonableness. Today we had plenty of both. Obama is back
from a Caribbean vacation, Hillary was out on the stump today as
well. Neither were in
Pennsylvania interestingly enough, Obama was in
New York and Hillary somewhere in the south,
North Carolina I think. In today's jet age it is hard to
keep track of the candidates and I often wonder how they cope
with the hectic schedules. Both Hillary and Obama were talking
finances and economics. Obama didn't exactly condemn the Bear
Sterns bail out but he did say intervention was necessary but
hinted he might be more friendly to the individual stockholders
as people in a financial crisis. Hillary pointed out that
President Bush just doesn't understand economics period.
Both had good points, but in fairness those who are being made
richer by government bail-outs think Mr. Bush is a genius.
We will get to the big political news in a minute . It is about the Democrats and it is not good and it is on a day when nothing seems to be going right for the Republicans, so how can this be? First why is this not a good day for the Republicans? Foreign Policy is blowing up in their face, the people are in the streets in Iraq and they are upset with Americans and with their own government. The pipelines have been blown up again, and the state department is telling everyone to not leave the buildings, not even to go home and if you must go home at night Iraq wear a flak jacket and helmet. In Pakistan the new government more or less told Uncle Sam to get out of their country. The new government declared no more "killing fields" for the Americans and then there is Afghanistan.
More graft and corruption. It seems
the Army has given a contract for small arms weapons to a 22
year old Gay Guy in Virginia, no doubt a friend of Jeff Gannon,
the male prostitute who visited the White House over 200 times
and even posed as a press reporter asking staged questions at
one time. This fellow has made millions selling weapons that
don't work to the US Army. So it would seem this would be a
great day for the Democrats, nothing is going right with the
Republicans. But no...
It seems that two different polls
out today one by CNN and the other one by
MSNBC show that positions are so bitter between Clinton
and Obama supporters that almost half swear they will not vote
for the other one and it is obvious to all that the convention
in August in
Denver will see both candidates just a little short of
the 2025 delegates needed. The strange part is that it appears
that the Democratic Party is about to be torn in two by this
nomination battle. Liberal writers like Maureen Dowd of the
New York Times, Mother Jones the bible of liberalism, Rob
Kroll an internet player in liberal politics and even
moveon.org
have all started a scorched Earth policy. Move On even says
Hillary has talked big donors into not funding the congressional
races if she does not win the nomination and they offer little or no proof. Dowd and others are saying that Clinton is so power
hungry she is willing to ruin the party rather than withdraw.
It is interesting that she is painted as an ambitious no good
egocentric personality and yet Obama has not shown any
willingness to withdraw either.
Then there is the race and the
religious cards being played now. Rev. Wright was crucified by
conservative talk show host Sean Hannity and several cable news
organizations with comments like "God Damn Americans" sound
bites and now some have noticed that comments like this were out
of context at the very least, he was quoting someone else and at
the worst a deliberate attempt at media character assassination
of the black movement in this country. I think Wright needs to
sue.
Dan Rather sued and when his case come to light people
will be shocked at the lengths big media has gone to control
their mouth pieces.
As we get ready to go into another
weekend after last week's Easter Holiday the political pot is
boiling and the ugly beast of race and suspicion has been raised to
a fever pitch. One pundit told me today and he is probably
right, "If
Senator McCain just shuts up. He will win by default."
The problem as we all know is that
Senator McCain can't shut up, he has already embraced a
foreign policy that is going down in flames, his record in the
financial world is legend with the old Savings and Loan Scandal
and then there is that temper of his. So as we cover these
events thru the summer into election day in November, don't be
surprised at anything...none of these forces are acting in a
rational manner. Have you noticed that all of a sudden religion
is being used against the Democrats, wasn't it one election
cycle back where Democrats were just one step above demons by
the Christian right in their sermons?
Stay tuned folks, the show is
just beginning, but can we afford the tab, is the real question.
At what cost is this election going to be? It certainly is not a
pretty sight.
Jerry Pippin
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March 18, 2008 in a unique political appearance, the first black
candidate for President who is a major contender for the nomination,
Senator Barack Obama outlined the race issue framed in a
balanced approach that was designed to appeal to both his African
American base, (getting up to 91 per of that vote in some primaries)
and how he plans to deal with the backlash from reactionary white
groups. We urge you to take time to view this speech in its full
context and we think he is to be applauded to not dodging this
sensitive issue but addressing in a candid manner the emotional and
intellectual honesty of race in politics.
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COUNTRY LEGEND ENDORSES HILLARY WITH NEW SONG(Redding, Ca.) Joe Klein wrote a book about the Clinton Campaign years ago called "Primary Colors" and now this Time magazine correspondent has inserted himself into the Hillary Clinton race in an usual way, Klein traveled to the Northern California mountain country to record and write an interview with Merle Haggard. Haggard is no stranger to inserting politics into his music, his multi-million seller "Okie from Muskogee" was largely viewed as a country music protest song as well as a classic more than thirty-five years ago when it first was released. The shocker for the "good ole boy" market may indeed be the content of his new tune. It slams Bush and the past eight years hard and takes on the terrorism issue directly as contrived and cynical, a way to make money and keep power thru fear. But the real news here is that in his own way the "Hag" takes on the country music business and the broadcast business in a way that addresses the censorship that has been going on since the Dixie Chicks first faced the wrath of country "moves and shakers." Read the article HERE from Time Magazine: and CLICK HERE 
mp3 -
running time: 7 min, 57 sec.
WMA
file to listen to Klein and Haggard chat before Merle sings his new song.
Remember this is not a demo, but it is a showcase of this tune. Will
it show up on the Billboard hot one hundred? It will if it is
dressed up and treated sweetly by some label, but the odds are that
most of country music's elite will smugly go on their way condoning
the hypocrisy of the Bush years and the false dogma of patriotic
Christian principles which are far far from the teaching of the new
testament.Jerry Pippin |
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a.m. Central ( 3-12-08)
OBAMA WINS BIG IN POPULAR VOTE BUT GETS ONLY 3 MORE DELEGATES THAN
HILLARY IN MISSISSIPPI
Barack Obama played the
peace maker the morning after the
Mississippi
romp in which he received 20 percent more votes than
Clinton. On the talk show circuit he said he would win the
nomination and the Democrats would come out of Denver
united. His best face on a tense racial situation seemed at
odds with what was happening. Former Democratic Vice
Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro said "Obama is a
lucky man" noting in her opinion he would not be where he
was in the race if he were white or a woman. Clinton said
the comments by her supporter was "unfortunate." The
delegate count from
Mississippi
according to our estimate is 15 for Obama and 12 for
Hillary. This is a total of 37 delegates and some estimates
by other news organizations put the total delegates at 33
for the state. We are projecting Super Delegate totals from
Mississippi
as well.
Most news organizations agree:
Obama picked up only 3 or maybe four delegates at the most
last night and today in
Pennsylvania,
both candidates are working the crowds in preparation for
the next race, six weeks from now. It is generally agreed by
pundits that neither candidate will arrive in Denver with
the necessary 2,025 delegates to secure the nomination.
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Midnight Eastern Time (3-09-08) REPUBLICANS ARE FACING LOSING BATTLE WHEN IT COMES TO NUMBERS
Democrat Bill Foster has snatched former
House Speaker
Dennis Hastert's congressional seat in a closely watched
special election that gave the longtime Republican district to
the Democrats. In
Wyoming where only 59,000 Democrats reside, a flood of
voters turned out for party caucuses pushing
Barack Obama back to another victory over
Hillary Clinton.
The big news is not who wins or loses but in
the past week, as it has been evident all year long, Democrats
are getting three times and sometimes more than that in numbers
of voters in primaries and caucuses than the Republicans. While
it is evident that the Democrats will go to the convention
without a selected candidate for the Presidency, the hand
wringers who think
John McCain and the
GOP can capitalize on this dead heat between Obama and
Hillary; many election observes are realizing that the media
glare on the Democrats will actually help in the general
election.
Many old line politicos are worried about a
divisive contest lasting into the late summer, but evidence has
shown that the virtual dead heat between the two candidates for
the Democratic nomination has actually fueled participation from
the public. The big question tonight for most pundits is can
the intensity remain without doing long term damage to the
eventual Democratic party ticket.
Many observers see only one outcome for the
Democrats and that is some sort of agreement for a co
presidency, perhaps, a very public outlining of duties for the
Vice President would go a long way into solving this problem of
who would be on top of the ticket. Precedent has been set for an
active Vice Presidency with the past 8 years of rule by Bush/
Cheney.
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Both Obama and Clinton have become "good ole boys." Polling shows Obama has tightened up the race considerably due to his recent string of victories and about double the spending for TV time as Hillary. Hillary has started a new tack of showing herself as likeable, witty, and charming. Monday on the Daily Show, she will continue this PR move which began late last night on Saturday Night Live. CLICK HERE to watch Hillary show her new charm and humor on this clip from last Saturday night, courtesy of NBC.com. |
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McCain Challenges the
New York Times
on Female Lobbyist Story
Noon-CST (2-22-08) We have seen this
before, A Presidential Candidate outed for an affair while
married. Gary Hart saw his career come to a screeching halt when
the news media was challenged about his relationship with Donna
Rice and they proved to be more powerful. It has happened again,
this time with some shades of gray in a black and white world of
conservative politics.
Vicki Iseman may or may not have been McCain's lover. The real problem shown here is how chummy lobbyist and office holders have become. This is really not something you can legislate against in my opinion, people will hang out with people they like and enjoy and there is nothing wrong with that as such. The problem is what people do with these relationships as far as the people's business and money are concerned.
McCain is a paradox. He preaches
virtue but then we see scenes like his appearance in that
Bagdad market in helmet with machine gun armed guards
yelling and shouting at the people in the square. He was
truly the ugly American that day and on other days he is a
gentle sweet man every bit the compassionate conservative,
something that
President Bush could never really pull off for the
public.
Just as
President Clinton's denial about, "I never had sex
with woman" came back to haunt him; McCain threw down the
gauntlet this morning in a very public press conference with
wife Cindy at his side. He denied everything about the
story, not just the romance, not just details of his voting
on issues.
Now we will see how it settles and when the dust clears, one will be standing either McCain the man wronged by the big city liberal newspaper or the New York Times living up to their slogan of "all the news that's fit to print." Naturally we have to look past the tabloids who are jumping all over this story about possible adultry and see if the bigger picture of corrupt politician who is hypocritical about being for ending the perks of office yet takes every corporate jet free ride he can get. Will this end the McCain comeback and if it does, what happens, who gets the nomination. All this time you thought Hillary/Obama was the unpredictable story? What a political season this is turning out to be. |
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LIBERALS DOMINATE THE NEWS ON THIS PRIMARY NIGHT 
HEADLINE- HILLARY STAYS IN RACE UNTIL CONVENTION
HILLARY WINS BIG - BUT PUNDITS SAY SHE CAN'T WIN THE NOMINATION
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Barack Obama
Second
Super Tuesday Draws Near
