posted by perkiset on Mar 6

That’s what the headlines will say if Hillary actually takes the nomination now.Just a little more data from yesterday (Fair notice: These are representative and incomplete. They are also scoffed from Air America directly and not researched personally)

• One of the counties in Ohio has +/- 12,000 registered Democrats. That county registered over 28,000 democratic votes in the primary and Hillary was the overwhelming winner.
• 8 counties in TX that went overwhelmingly for Bush in the last 2 presidential elections showed almost no Republican votes on Tuesday and an extraordinary amount of Democratic votes. Hillary again simply *killed* Obama in those counties.

 Get this my liberal & progressive friends: we are about to have our candidate picked for us by right wing assholes who’s agenda is to make us put up the most hated and Republican-galvanizing candidate we possibly can, because it’s all they’ve got. Since they cannot grab their asses with both hands much less put together a campaign that has ANYTHING to do with real contemporary thought or a vision of the future, they are resorting to any tricks they can to affect the general election.I despise them. Selfish, theocratic, pseudo-conservative morons that are destroying my country - and a lot of sheeple are letting it happen.::sigh::

posted by perkiset on Mar 5

On Air America (Thom Hartmann show) they ran a quick poll in TX to see how many people are Republican but voted for Hillary… in 15 minutes they had over 1200 emails confirming that this was exactly what they had done… Thom mentioned that a great many were actually gleeful that they could do it. Man I hate being right all the time …

Now I see three possible scenarios from this new angle on brinksmanship: The right wing nutjobs win with Hillary now and win again in November, Hillary does not win and it’s an open race between McCain and Obama, or worst for them: they help Hillary take the primary and she wins the general election, in which case Rush Limbaugh would have personally assisted Hillary in getting elected. A fitting irony indeed, but still about a million miles away from today.

posted by perkiset on Mar 5

CNN claims that Hillary won Texas because of undecided white male voters that changed to vote for her within the last 3 days before the primary.

Am I the only one that sees that as enormously suspicious?

I mean, isn’t it pretty clear if you are a white male in the state where George Bush came from where you stand re. Hillary? There were that many people that were SUDDENLY swayed into voting for her? She’s both adored and reviled pretty staunchly… so how can this be?

Yes, I have a theory: If you were tuned in at all to the right wing noise machine Monday and yesterday then you would have heard the likes of Rush all exercised about getting EVERYONE to vote for Hillary… why is this? Because they feel dead certain that they can beat her in the general election. The right wing WANTS Hillary as an opponent… does that not scare us horribly?

In my opinion, Bill’s antics cost us the white house for the last 8 years. Had he behaved differently during his presidency and not been impeached then we’d have Al Gore as a president, there’d be no Iraq war, we’d be on a path to energy independence and I would not be embarrassed speaking to my international friends. If their (the Clinton’s) personal love of power is so strong that they cannot see what is really best for the country (for her to go away), she takes the primary and then loses the general election to a war mongering fogey they will never be forgiven. They will have reduced their once-formidable legacy to something similar to Ralph Nader’s cartoon status (on a good day) or worse, being personally responsible for the genocide of hundreds of thousands of middle eastern peoples.

The longer this goes, the more I want her out of the race. However that being said, I am pretty alarmed by Obama’s lack of effective response to a week-ish of bad press and problems… I think the Clinton campaign has expertly and effectively pulled a string from his sweater and demonstrated that he MAY be ill-prepared to handle really tough stuff. The road to Pennsylvania is long and rocky… I guess I am looking forward to seeing how both candidates work through it.

In other news, Mike finally got out of the race last night. As the embodiment of the blending of church and state, all I can say is, “Huckin’ A Bubba!”

posted by perkiset on Mar 4

So this morning I am greeted on my local politics threads and radio with the unfortunate news that Arizona must cut 67 million from its budget next year. This is a necessary measure be try to get towards our goal of a balanced budget every year.

This news was sandwiched between two stories that I felt complimented each other nicely.

The first was how we’re going to save a bunch of that money – we’re going to pull 22% from our libraries. Essentially, we’re looking at closing all of our public libraries on Mondays and dropping the budgeted items for new books. Those pesky books probably contain liberal-leaning hogwash anyway, so no big worry. Books in general are just a real sore thumb around here, and are probably single most horrible offender in us losing our proud status as 50th worse in the nation in education – we are now 49th. Damn. And we worked so hard for that. But I digress.

The other story was how we are going to have to spend just a titch more of your beloved tax dollar because campus police on ASU will now be equipped with riot gear and assault rifles. Yes, you read that right – the campus police will now have semi-automatic assault rifles much akin to what is being used in Iraq today. Well, we are in the desert, so I guess that was one of the few remaining items we needed to implement to make the façade complete.

In other news, our AZ congress recently passed a bill that was hotly contested along partisan lines. The bill essentially allowed all children in all schools to carry guns. I know you’re not going to believe this, but one Republican congressman actually said that there are “kindergartners that are sitting ducks without the means to protect themselves.” The arch rivals to these benevolent protectors of the people, the Democrats, managed to get the bill amended in heated debate so that K-12 children are not allowed to carry weapons, but college kids can. Now call me silly, but in a world where a change in your depression meds can make you go on a killing spree, is it really a good idea to put more guns in school?

Perhaps I’m just a worry wart. Have a nice day!