4 posts tagged “win”
The odds against Senator Hillary Clinton are moving from highly unlikely, past impossible, to just stupid. Her advisors are divided, some now saying she should drop out (so she might have a future in politics beyond this race) and some saying to keep on fighting to the bitter end (sort of the captain going down with the sinking ship).
It looks as if the battered Senator, Barack Obama, will be victorious after all in his bid to get the nod of the Democrats. He has the lead in the popular vote (even though Senator Clinton keeps claiming the votes of the states he didn’t run in and one of which he wasn’t even on the ballot give her the lead). The problem is that the price has been heavy in terms of his electability. The man who once was seen as the candidate to unify the country is now the face of the division of the party (thanks to Senator Clinton’s insistence on going down with the ship) and is the face of the racial divide still existing in the country (thanks to a certain Mr. Wright).
These candidates have beaten each other so badly that a presidential race that should have been easily won by the Democrats due to the unpopularity of the current Republican white house is now a pretty even fight between the Democrats and the Republicans.
I personally think the parties need to go or at least revamp their value systems and stands, but why go through so much effort to defeat yourselves?
The truth is that much of the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of Senator Hillary Clinton and her party’s inability to stop her when she is single-handedly destroying the party she claims to be building. If Senator Clinton is the face of anything it is the face of stubborn, selfish people who will do anything not to lose.
When will these two stop this nonsense? It seems that Senator Obama has moved on to campaigning against Senator McCain and that Senator McCain is campaigning against Senator Obama, but the truth is Senator Clinton is attacking both and her party is loosing in the end.
I am not sure what people are telling her to continue that have disguised themselves as good advisors, but they are definitely not loyal to her party or to her. These people clearly feel this is the one big shot or they would be thinking about her getting the mark of being the person who ruined what should have been the easiest election ever.
Senator Clinton should stop now. As an obviously selfish person, she should do it to preserve her legacy, her future in politics, and to avoid passing the mark of “crazy person” on to her daughter (who in public speaking seems to be the most sensible politically and otherwise in the family). I believe these reasons should be her real reasons for leaving the race along with the facts that she keeps destroying her party’s chances at winning and the faith of the people in her party at all.
But, it is a free country. That means each individual has the right to look stupid in the public eye for all of us to watch in amazement.
The war in Iraq will be won and the troops will be withdrawn by the end of my first term in office was the message or should I more properly say “campaign promise” of Senator John McCain this weekend. A win and a withdrawal of our troops from Iran by the year 2013. Was this a big stand for Senator McCain or another ploy to separate from the failed plans of the current regime.
As I heard this statement, the first thing that crossed my mind was an image of Senator McCain telling his staff that he was about to say this to the public and one of his staff asking him, “What if that doesn’t happen?” In my little daydream Senator McCain responds with: “We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it, right now we’ll do anything to win.
The truth is, Senator McCain had to do something because he has been plagued by the comment he made a few months back where he stated that America will stay in Iraq for a hundred years if that’s what it takes. You couple a comment like that hundred year comment and the fact that he is from the same unpopular party that the current president, who started the war in Iraq is from. The current president, a certain President, George W. Bush, is extremely unpopular and growing more unpopular almost by the second. If you are a Republican candidate at this moment, this is the one person you would least want to be associated with at this point in history.
This was just the tip of the iceberg; it gets worse for Senator McCain. Earlier this week, while visiting Israel, President Bush attacked anyone that thinks that negotiation with those who consider themselves our enemy and implied that such a person would be stupid. The obvious implication here was that Senator Barack Obama’s foreign policy ideas were stupid. This is an opinion and agree or disagree it is at least a valid opinion.
The problem is that the source of this passive aggressive attack was the very unpopular President Bush. This creates several problems for Senator McCain.
The first and probably biggest problem is that while Senator McCain is just getting out of the blocks in the media (compared to Senators Clinton and Obama who have been all we hear about) the man who will probably have the lowest popularity of any president in history is doing his campaign dirty work for him. Once this became the view of the public as a whole, the months of work he has done in trying to distance himself from the president all but vanished in one fell swoop.
Then Senator McCain made an almost predictable error. He went along with the attacks of the President and demanded that Senator Obama explain himself. Could John McCain and his entire camp be so stupid as to not see what was to come next.
Senator Obama, pulled out his two favorite aces.
The first card Senator Obama pulled was to write off the whole ruckus as old Washington politics. It must be clear to the entire planet that the American people are tired and dissatisfied with the way our government works and would vote for Mickey Mouse and Goofy if they thought there would be a change. Once a politician is marked as “Old Washington” in this election year that person has one foot and two arms in the political grave.
Besides, if you are going to say that applying pressure to a nation by not talking to them (not negotiating with them) will work, you have to site cases where that has worked. That goes double when you are discussing countries like Iran where that strategy has not only failed, but seems to have made matters worse. Every candidate this year has to keep in mind that the American people are hungry for “change” and if you say that something should stay the same, you had better have a real good reason for not changing.
The second card that Senator Obama pulled out was the “extension of the Bush presidency” card. As unpopular as the current surveys state that President Bush is, being tied to him cannot be a good thing in a presidential race.
I remember in something I was watching in the movies or on television, I think it was C.S.I. episode, where the criminal took a guy and tied him to a dead body because that would cause all of the rotting and decaying that was happening to the dead person to happen to the other person while he was still alive. I know that is gross, but that is what it is like to be tied to the current presidency publicly. That is the fact. Fair or unfair, warranted or unwarranted, the American people as a whole are unhappy with the current presidency and anything that is tied to it.
It was as if the entire party of Democrats was crouched in waiting for this moment. The moment when President Bush and Senator John McCain would team up and attack Senator Barack Obama so that the ambush could take place on the Republican party as a whole.
Within a day, democrats came out of the woodwork to attack President Bush and Senator McCain and make them look like a team unified in being stupid.
I can hardly imagine why Senator McCain would not have steered clear of this whole mess. The entire planet knows that his support among the more rightwing Republicans is shaky at best. I am wondering why a person relying so heavily on voters who are nearer to the middle would do something that damage his support from that group as well.
If Senator McCain is to be a serious player in this election he has to do one of two things.
- Keep up the gopher hole campaign strategy where he stays underground, once in a while poking his head out to give a short speech, while the democrats destroy each other.
- Base his campaign on rhetoric that says he is different and in many ways distant from the current regime and that he represents the magic word: “CHANGE!”
Just as the Democratic candidates looked to both have their fingers on the red button that would self-destruct their party, President Bush and Senator McCain gave them a reason to unify (even Senator Hillary Clinton attacked the President and Senator McCain on this one) and get some good press. I am just seriously surprised at how both of the main parties are their own worst enemies this primary season.
It is as if we are not voting for the best candidate we are simply going to vote for the last person standing after both parties implode and the smoke clears. What a mess.
Yesterday Senator Hillary Clinton lost in one primary and barely squeezed out a win in another. What this means is that her winning the popular vote just moved from incredibly impossible to a little more incredibly impossible. This also moved her chances of winning over the remaining super-delegates highly unlikely. Why are we still seeing all of this again?
Can we put an end to this finally. I am ready to see Senator Obama limp into his contest with the lost Senator McCain. I say Sen. Obama is limping (and probably bloody in a metaphoric sense) because of the terrible fight he has been in. I say Sen. McCain is missing because, well, he’s missing. He has been hiding out most of this time occasionally surfacing to say stupid things (I suppose Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama had plenty of friends, family, and supporters to handle that for them)
Senator Clinton was deep in the rhetoric over the past few days and not quite as deep in the money. I think she is in deep trouble as of this weeks events.
Of course this vote took place on the same day all the economists teamed up to say the “Gas Tax Holiday” that her and Sen. McCain have been pushing is a stupid idea. That means it probably did not have much time to settle in with yesterday’s voters, but by next week it will be deep in the psyche of all of us who own televisions or read newspapers.
Sen. Clinton has vowed to go on, like a good captain, strong, teary eyed, and holding the wheel as the ship sinks.
Now, more statistics are starting to show up that clearly show that if Sen. Clinton does not win the popular vote and cannot get the super-delegates to vote her in as the candidate of choice they will refuse to vote for Sen. Obama, and may even vote for Sen. McCain.
Here’s a newsflash Hillary Clinton supporters: It is so close to impossible for her to win at this point that I think Sen. Obama could shoot several of the super-delegates that are supporting in front of the media and still squeeze out a victory over Sen. Clinton.
But, from the standpoint of a spectator who does not belong to either party this is great. The two Democratic gladiators are going to pummel each other before the winner gets thrown to the lions. What could possibly be as exciting?
Then you have Rush Limbaugh who has been rallying Republicans to come together and vote in the Democrat’s primaries just to cause chaos. Add this all to the chaos of any appearances of Former President Bill Clinton and the sheer excitement of an appearance of a certain Mr. Wright and you have excellent reality television. What greater pursuit is there than sitting and watching other individuals go through excruciating and taxing circumstances just for our entertainment.
This is all fine and dandy until we come back to reality and realize we are all going to be stuck with one of these three for the next four years. Then suddenly we realize that we are all the next cast of the reality show that will be for the rest of the world to watch.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Senator Barack Obama squeezes by in the primary in Guam this weekend. The senator squeezed by with a mere seven votes. In looking at this I see what has been happening all along. There is a lot of press and stress. Then there is anticipation and prediction. In the end, the voters determine the democratic candidates to be equal, yet Sen. Barack Obama comes out just slightly ahead. How does this keep happening to Senator Hillary Clinton. As I sort through the various conversations and interactions I have had throughout the information blitz of this campaign season, I am left wondering what is driving the voers to vote in this race the way they are voting. Is it the true belief that this is the best candidate that the country has to offer? Is it that none of the candidates are truly good prospects for the presidency and we must hurry to pick the least of the evils in the hopes of keeping what is about to happen to a low threshold of pain for the rest of us? Is it to ensure that the unpopular actions of our current president are not repeated? Is it to keep the Democratic race tight and running in the hopes of dividing their party so the Republicans can win easily? Is it simply because a person likes the race of one candidate over another? Is it simply because a person likes the Gender of one candidate over another? Is it not liking the candidate particularly but supporting one party or the other? In my recent comments and in listening to much of what is discussed in the media, I am convinced that many people vote for all of the wrong reasons and that many of the candidates and in reality both of the major parties count on that fact. The truth is that I feel the race is so tight right now because all of the candidates are all so great, it is because all of the candidates are so average. They are not really bad candidates, all three are just average candidates with really average ideas and plans. If my fears are the truth and we are simply settling for the lesser of three evils and hoping to minimize the future damage. I do not yet endorse any of the three candidates and will not a I continue waiting in the hope that there will be a miracle and an awesome and independent candidate will come out of nowhere to represent the hopes of the people will emerge as the sudden superhero of the presidency. If this person does not show up, as it is starting to seem, then I will have to chose one of these candidates and I will have to vote for one of them and that will simply be what I consider a vote for what is perceived as the lesser evil. This choosing the lesser evil has been getting eviler and eviler. I mean the mere idea that I should vote for a person because he or she can bowl or drank some shots with some “average” people, or played basketball, etc. Seriously, what an insult to all of our intelligence. If that does not work, offer to take a few cents our of our gas price and secretly charge us later to cover the billions of dollars lost to lower our gas a few cents and save us a few dollars in the few month period mentioned. In other words, bribe me. Why should we be forced to endure this? Why are more people not insulted? These candidates are not normal, average people. I am not really convinced that a normal, average person should be given leadership of what is arguably the most powerful nation on the planet and it’s people. This is an above average job that will require an above average person. Maybe the race and the polls are so close between all three candidates because they all are just as bad as the others and it barely matters which one wins. My search for the lesser evil has led me to believe in a new concept: “Equal Evil.” This is when one is looking for the lesser evil and finds that no option bring the lesser evil. At this point the evils are all the same. I hope that none of this is true and I have just been thrown off by the various candidates attempts to seem like the average normal person and one of these candidates is actually a very above average individual who is truly capable of running this country.
