Posts Tagged → Senator Barack Obama
McCain leading Obama?
According to the most recent Zogby poll, GOP Senator and presidential hopeful John McCain is now leading Barack Obama nationally by five percent. While some conservatives are jumping all over this result as sort of a Progress lighting the way good news item, I’m not.
I’ve said before and I’ll still by it now: I don’t believe polls, except for the one everyone takes part in in early November. How anyone can say with any accuracy that a poll of maybe 5,000 people can accurately reflect the mood of a nation of 304 million is far beyond me. Of course, there’s a simple answer: it can’t.
As Mark Twain famously said, there are three levels of falsehood: lies, damn lies and statistics. His words are even truer today.
Obama running mate ho-hum
While every liberal in the world has their political iPods tuned into the Obama running mate choice, the truth is, I’m not that interested.
Sure, I know the names being tossed around out there. John Kerry is one of the scariest. Joe Biden is a “so what?” choice. Evan Bayh might lend a drop or two of sanity to the ticket, but isn’t that intriguing. And it only gets worse from there.
Eight months ago, Dems were ga-ga over the prospect of an Obama-Hillary ticket, but here we are one nasty campaign separated from that and it seems there’s no way this leftist “dream team” will come to be.
If Obama appears on a podium this Saturday with Bill’s Hill… well, that’ll be worth some commentary. But at this point, no matter who he picks, it’s gonna be a snooze-fest.
Advice to Hillary: don’t concede!
As reliable as Nautica watches, presidential contender Sen. Hillary Rodham has not yet conceded the Democratic presidential race to Barack Obama, despite Obama exceeding the required delegate and superdelegate totals necessary to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination.
Here’s my advice to Hillary: Don’t concede. Take it all the way to Denver, all the way to the convention floor. And if the party successfully nominated Barack as the standard-bearer? Hah! Laugh it off! It’s only a minor setback for you, girlfriend. Keep fighting the good fight and reminding us of Rev. Wright and whatever other flaws you can dig up on this rookie Senator from Illinois. Who is he to deny you what’s yours by the Lewinsky Rule, right?
If necessary, go after the White House on the third-party bid. Call it the Hillary Party! Just keep hammering away at ol’ Barack and the Democratic Old Boys Club. Get nasty, get down with your bad self. Remember, this race is all about you defeating Barack, baby!
Never mind the nebbishy little liberal Republican in the corner. Global-warming Kool-Aid drinker John McCain? Why, he’s harmless. Just keep your sights on Barack, hon, and McCain’ll — I mean, YOU’LL go far!
