It’s 1984 All Over Again
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Cross posted at: Pagan Power
They say that history repeats itself. But I never thought it could happen so soon. The clues were all there. Standing out sorely for anyone to see. And while many of us spoke out loudly and often we were castigated and labeled as delusional. We tried to warn everyone. Sought others to heed our call. We doubled and tripled our efforts, losing sleep, missing work, closing ourselves off from families and friends. All of it intended to wake people up to what was hiding behind the hope. A change no one really wanted.
It started with MSNBC. They apparently had Cult-Aide delivered in place of the water cooler. Timmy started the hate, regurgitating Republican talking points as if he had graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Atwater Rove College of Smear. Tweety had to come out of the closet, admitting that Obama made his “leg” tingle. Shuster proved that even cavemen can get a job in broadcasting. And Olbermann auditioned for the latest drama queen on any number of soap operas.
We should have noticed when the far left led by Howard Dean and Donna Brazile canceled the Congressional Black Congress debate sponsored by Fox. It should have alerted us that something was amiss. But too many bought into the lie. And our silence at the time only egged them on and helped to consolidate their power base. CNN joined MSNBC aiding and abetting the crime. Little by little, day by day truth disappeared slowly but steadily. It only took a gradual shift to sneak it by everyone without much notice.
But it was enough to accomplish their master plan.
From today’s postings 5/10/08
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Sexism Remains Rampant (by Big Tent Democrat at TalkLeft)
Balloon Juice and Oliver Willis enjoyed this nasty bit of sexism - Hillary Clinton: Psycho Ex-Girlfriend Of The Democratic Party. Is there any self awareness left in the blogs? Or do these folks really want to alienate every
Here’s a good way to celebrate Mother’s Day—tell your mother how you treated the first viable woman candidate for president. You want her to be proud, I know you do.
Media Tenor: Media Declare Obama As Winner (by Media Tenor)
• A split image: Obama winning, but not fully convincing
• Last week’s concerns remain
• Decreasing media interest in McCain this week
Math that matters most… (by V at No Quarter)
Many people are asking. “Why isn’t Hillary leaving the race?” Or, “Isn’t the math prohibitive?” Well, the answer is given quite simply by Karl Rove. Now Karl may be a lot of things, but he is not stupid and he knows politics and elections. Unlike Hillary and her surrogates in the Democratic party, he does not have to say, “either candidate can win the general but Hillary is stronger.” He can tell the unvarnished version which is that Hillary wins against McCain and Barack loses. So it’s simple, a vote for Barack in the primary is tantamount to a vote for McCain in the general.
Click through for another study that confirms Rove’s analysis. The LA Times is reporting that Clinton and Obama both marginally beat McCain, but I don’t believe them.
Electoral-Vote.com,
Clinton 280 McCain 258 Tie 0
Obama 254 McCain 273 Tie 11
Click through to see the maps.
In the Shorts (as it were) (by ronkseattle at The Confluence)
NYT Drinks Cult-Aide: Throws Hillary Under the Bus!
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Yesterday’s New York Times Editorial cut right to the chase. They wasted no time whatsoever in throwing Hillary Clinton right under the bus. After all she has done for the city of New York it would seem that the very least they could do is have a little grace and dignity. But they apparently don’t understand what it means to have respect.
According to the New York Times Editorial Board Hillary continuing in this race is contingent upon two ridiculous requirements.
First of all she is not allowed to use the phrase White voters. Because apparently this is offensive to black voters and we sure as hell can’t have that.
But we believe just as strongly that Mrs. Clinton will be making a terrible mistake — for herself, her party and for the nation — if she continues to press her candidacy through negative campaigning with disturbing racial undertones.
In other words, Hillary must use only black approved politically correct language when discussing her strengths and Obama’s weaknesses. Since when is honesty and frankness something that we should sweep under the rug? Is censorship the new password for Democrats? After all the lies we have heard these past long 7+ years from the Bush gang, isn’t it refreshing that we have a candidate for President that is willing to be up front with us for a change?
Obama can declare that there are “typical white people” and that is ok but Hillary makes mention that she has stronger support from whites and she is painted as being racially divisive? Give me a break!
Voter Suppression in West Virginia happening NOW
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(cross-posted at Reclusive Leftist)
I just got this on an email list:
Could you pass some info on to the rest of the callers that are calling into WV?
I’ve been talking with some people already on the ground in WV and the Obama camp is calling voters, NOT to get out the vote, but to ask for money - campaign donations. The gist of the call is that its not important that they vote, because the election is over, and then they ask for money to help put this primary campaign to an end and move on to the general election. Basically, they are telling voters its over. Then they ask for $400 donations. What the dollar amount is about, I don’t know. Perhaps they are just getting greedy.
From today’s postings 5/9/08
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I will be a guest on Head-On with Bob Kincaid today at 6:00 PM ET. Listen to Bob from 6:00 to 9:00 PM ET every weekday on the Head-On Radio Network.
BUTTRESSING BOEHLERT: (by Bob Somerby at the Daily Howler)
We know—you’re not supposed to quote someone who’s quoting you. But we think it’s worth adding one point to what Eric Boehlert says in his current post over at Media Matters… “…As Somerby has noted, there was almost universal, real-time silence from them back in 2000 when the press unleashed perhaps the most sustained, unfair attack on a U.S. presidential nominee in modern times. Virtually none of the A-list liberal commentators came to Al Gore’s aid when it mattered most; when the press was at times depicting him as unstable and pathological. (Conservative pundits never would have stood by silently if their nominee were torn apart by the media like that.)”…
Which raises a question: Why would conservative pundits have screamed if their candidate had been getting savaged? Our guess: Because conservative pundits can make a good living within the realm of the conservative press corps! They get hired, for good pay, by conservative entities. And they get paid to voice conservative views within the mainstream press. Conservative voices can earn a living within the conservative press corps. But liberal voices earn their Jaguars within the mainstream press. Thus, liberals defer to the mainstream press—and conservatives are much more free to attack it. Over the past sixteen years, this has drastically tipped the scales against progressive and Dem Party interests.
Based on those assumptions, here’s the basic shape of your ongoing discourse:
Over the course of the past sixteen years, the mainstream press corps has increasingly become more Republican, more conservative, more wealthy, more corporate. On the presidential level, they have made secular saints out of several Republicans—and they have savaged Big Dems. How much of that reflects a structural change? How much of that has simply reflected a personal, crackpot war against Clinton/Gore? We’ll get a chance to ponder that question if Obama gets to the White House. But as these processes have played out, your liberal leaders have relentlessly kept their traps shut. The U. S. Army is in Iraq today because they deferred to the mainstream consensus—in 1999. When Ceci Connolly and the Post were blatantly savaging Gore.
Did young liberal superstars keep their traps shut, hoping for mainstream wealth and glory? We don’t have the slightest idea. By the way: Did you hear that progressive feminist Rachel Maddow thinks Chris Matthews is just super-brilliant?
What I’ve been saying. WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING! Is anybody listening? When are progressives going to build our own infrastructure to counter this ongoing catastrophe?
It’s not over yet, please write and donate
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A week before the North Carolina primary Hillary Clinton was not expected to win there, so it is more than a little strange that those results have been trumpeted up so much.
Some analysts nevertheless still see a path for Hillary to win the nomination. If she gets her two blowout wins in West Virginia and Kentucky, she will be back on track.
Please do not give up on Hillary yet. Write to the superdelegates and urge them to support Hillary for the nomination.
It is easy to do using this website:
https://www.lobbydelegates.com/
Here is the letter I wrote, feel free to use part or all of it:
I just donated $50 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign because I believe she should be the Democratic nominee for U.S. President, and I urge you with all my heart to also support her nomination, here is why:
* Hillary Clinton is the more qualified candidate: she has served longer in the U.S. Senate, sitting and chairing important committees such as the Arms Services Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee and the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health. She has sponsored over 350 bills—everything from added protection for children in vehicles to protection of a watershed, to added benefits for public safety officers. Hillary Clinton is also a diplomat who has traveled to over 80 countries representing the United States with dignity and courage.
From today’s postings 5/8/08
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Running to the Right: Barack Obama and the DLC Strategy (by Bruce Dixon at the Black Agenda Report)
The fragility of Barack Obama’s DLC-inspired electoral strategy is now exposed for all to see. Obama has chosen to “reach out” to white and Republican voters while challenging none of their assumptions about America, racism or empire, at the same time, counting on on a deaf and blind black nationalism to shield him from accountability to African Americans. Republicans (and Hillary Clinton) know all they need do to counter him is prove to whites that he is not as conservative as he seems. Obama will thus be forced scramble relentlessly rightward from here on, disowning, denouncing and dishonoring any and all stirrings of black or grassroots militancy to keep white support without telling white America anything it doesn’t want to know.
Barack Obama - Rudy Clay - Possible Fraud Indiana Primary (video)
Why Did Obama LOSE Indiana? (by TexasDarlin at MyDD)
Why did Barack Obama lose the state of Indiana, a state his own campaign predicted he would win in February, a state he declared would be a “tie breaker,” a state in which 25% of the electorate lives in Obama’s hometown media market?…
Why I will not vote for Obama even if he’s the nominee — and why you shouldn’t either
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(cross-posted at Reclusive Leftist)
The Obamabots are under the delusion that if Obama wins the nomination (which he hasn’t yet, by the way), all of us in the Hillary camp will forget about the misogyny and come over to their side. Make nice for the sake of party unity. Forgive all the abuse.
Nope.
Several of us have tried over the past couple of months to explain why that won’t happen, but the Obamabots don’t seem to understand. And I know why: it’s because they don’t take sexism seriously. When women say we will not reward misogyny, we’re laughed off. The Obamabots just tell more jokes and hurl more insults and write more crass articles about how the little lay-dees have their little pan-tees in a twist.
The only “ism” the Obamabots take seriously is racism. So I’m going to try to explain the situation in terms they’ll understand, using a racial analogy.
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Imagine this scenario:
The shoe is on the other foot, and Obama, not Hillary, is the punching bag of the media — a media that is blatantly and unapologetically racist. And I do mean blatant. Jokes every night on the cable news shows about Obama’s hair and his fondness for fried chicken. Pundits laughing about what a problem uppity Negroes are.
Hillary wins the tie-breaker, thus proving that she should drop out
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(cross-posted at Reclusive Leftist)
Last month Obama said Indiana would be the tie-breaker. And last week he re-iterated its importance:
Obama wrapped up a low-key event at an Indianapolis factory Wednesday by telling the audience that a victory in Indiana would be decisive. “It starts right here in Indiana,” Obama said. “If we win Indiana, we’ve got this nomination.”
He didn’t, and he doesn’t.
Obama’s win in North Carolina was strong but expected, essentially a reprise of his win in South Carolina. In North Carolina he was down to his core constituency, who are now the only people who can be counted on to vote for him: African-Americans and the college crowd.
But he was also supposed to win in Indiana! It’s in his backyard, and the northern part of the state even shares the Chicago media market. His campaign has had it in his “win” column since the beginning. The fact that he lost there is testament to his weakness as a candidate.
Back in March Bill Clinton said, “Nobody believes she can win in Indiana because it borders Illinois. If you show them they’re wrong, she’ll be the nominee, and she’ll be the president.”
And last night in her victory speech, Hillary said:
Thank you, Indiana. Thank you. Not too long ago, my opponent made a prediction. He said I would probably win Pennsylvania. He would win North Carolina, and Indiana would be the tie-breaker. Well, tonight we’ve come from behind, we’ve broken the tie, and thanks to you, it’s full speed on to the White House.
From today’s postings 5/7/08
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Obama inching closer to Democratic presidential nomination
Transcript: Hillary Clinton Delivers Remarks at Indiana Celebration Event (posted at No Quarter)
Thank you, Indiana. Thank you. Not too long ago, my opponent made a prediction. He said I would probably win
Click through to read the rest of the transcript, and to watch the video.
Clinton to Fight On Despite Split Result
With her hopes for a shift in campaign momentum deflated by Senator Barack Obama’s commanding victory in North Carolina on Tuesday, his strong showing in Indiana and signs of mounting financial problems, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton nonetheless vowed to fight on, heading early Wednesday for a new round of speeches, rallies and town meetings in West Virginia, which holds its primary on May 13.
And more power to her.
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