Hillary Sparking Some Obama Drama and McCain In Shame?: Your Election News and Terrible Puns Update
February 21, 2008
The Wisconsin Primary is done and dusted and it looks like Obama and McCain have come out on top once again.
Hillary didn’t go down without a fight though. She’s been pulling out all the stops in the past few weeks to try and discredit Obama. First there’s the “war of words”, as every clever journalist and news organization has termed it. On the 16th, Obama said at the Wisconsin Democratic Party Founders Day dinner:
”Don’t tell me words don’t matter. ‘I have a dream’— just words? ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ — just words? ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself’ — just words? Just speeches?”
The problem is that Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick said the same thing in a speech in 2006. Clinton is calling this plagiarism. Obama has admitted that he should’ve given Patrick credit, but Patrick has confirmed that he and Obama are friends and that Barack asked him before borrowing the line. Borrowing lines is certainly not uncommon in politics and Clinton has done it on several occasions herself. However, she seems more than willing to drag this out and use it against Obama.
But of course, none of that is important, because Hillary also claims that words don’t matter. Clinton’s newest route of attacking Obama’s speaking ability, arguably his biggest strength, has been claiming that speeches don’t even matter. The problem is that Hillary is giving just as many speeches as Obama because that’s how elections work. When it comes down to it, the only thing a candidate can do is speak. And in many ways, that’s what being the President or being any kind of figure in politics is about.
There’s also the news that Clinton may attempt to snake Obama’s pledged delegates out from under him, something which - to put it lightly - would be a pretty shitty move. This election hasn’t been as dirty as the media has been playing it up to be, but the way things are going, it’s gonna get a lot dirtier. Hillary has very little chance earning more delegates than Barack at this point, and that means that the fight is definitely going to heat up.
Meanwhile, on the Republican side of things: The New York Times is saying that John McCain and a 40-year-old lobbyist named Vicki Iseman may have had an unscrupulous relationship eight years ago. The sources are dubious and the story is a bit tabloid for the New York Times (As McCain and his people have been eager to point out.) and the verdict is still out as to whether these allegations will hold water. One thing you can be sure of is that whether or not the allegations are proven to be true, the Limbaugh-types are going to be all over McCain on this.
BITS AND PIECES: A California man was robbed at gunpoint of $20 worth of tacos on Sunday night. See people, this is what happens when we don’t control our borders and keep those goddamn taco bandits out of our country! MINUTEMEN FOREVER!! ~ While visiting the Middle East, Sharon Stone has said that she is frustrated by how little the American media covers the deaths of Iraqi civilians. God help me …… I agree with her. ~ Fidel Castro has finally resigned as the President of Cuba. However, The Source is reporting that his retirement will be shortlived and that he will release a new album with Roc-A-Fella within the next few years after doing some side projects and production work.
- Sean, your Funkmaster-Elect.
February 08
Hillary is just grasping at straws now. On a related note, Bill Clinton was here in Lubbock on Saturday. Apparently he was there to clarify some of Hillary’s points and to make her seem like less of a monster in general.
Also, Castro’s not really retired. Shit, there’s a new CD dropping next week which has a bunch of Saddam’s “recorded but unreleased” rhymes for God’s sake! It’s gonna be phat.
I don’t think Bill has been helping Hillary’s case much, but at least he’s trying.
And that new Saddam ain’t gonna be phat. It’s gonna be dope.
ALL KINDS OF DOPE.
“The Wisconsin Primary is done and dusted and it looks like Obama and McCain have come out on top once again.”
That’s what she said.
“Hillary didn’t go down without a fight though.”
That’s what she said.
“She’s been pulling out all the stops in the past few weeks”
That too.
When did she say that?
Where are your sources?
When a person’s back is against the wall, the measure and the route they take to succeed, determine what type of person they are inside. Hillary and Bill have no morals or credibility. They are people who I would not want to look up to as the leader for my Country. Another eight years of scandals we the people do not need. So far we have had Bush, Clinton, Bush now the Clinton’s won’t go away. We can do better than that, really!!
Hillary lost steam.
She needs to put the pot back on the stove.
If I was American, I’d vote for Obama. Because he totally destroyed the Soviets.
I don’t even follow politics and this was very interesting.
You do have writing talent.