Robot Monkeys

So Obama now has crossed the threshold in the delegates, the most states, and the most popular votes (regardless of what Hillary says). I’ve said it for months now. Obama is the underdog until he is announced as the nominee.

So Hillary tonight refused to concede. She took the pulpit and talked about how she “wants respect.” Of course it’s not about her, but rather her supporters.

Yeah right.

She wants the nomination. It’s HERS! It’s always been about her, and tonight is no different.

Fuck her.

Okay, there was one surprise tonight. Right now, on Dan Abrams’s “After Hours,” Tucker Carlson is wearing a real tie. Could he have given up his dipshit gimick? I can’t imagine.

So GWB calls the Democrats, and in an obvious implication, Obama as “appeasers.” Nothing is new here. GWB and the Republicans have been doing that for seven years now. It’s absurd rhetoric, but again, none of that is new. What is new is that he did it from Israel.

That’s crossing the line. He can has the right to make sure everyone knows just how stupid he by making outrageous attacks all he wants while here. But you don’t criticize the government abroad. You don’t engage in political games while abroad. As the saying goes: “politics stops at the water’s edge.”

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD):

Absolutely. Absolutely. I think I would be great. First of all, I know how to behave at weddings and funerals. And I know how to be commander in chief. I’d bring a lot of fun to the job. We would rock the Naval Observatory.

No matter what King George and the Republicans say, our economy sucks. It sucks hard. It’s been mediocre at best, no matter what Ed Gillespie or anyone else says. Iraq is wasting 15 billion a month, meanwhile our infrastructure is falling apart and our economy is teetering on collapse. Weak dollars is supposed to boost our exports, but that’s not happening. Why? The answer is obvious isn’t it. We’ve spent decades deindustrializing. There’s nothing to export.

Our economy has very real structural problems, and there’s no reason to believe that they’re going to be fixed soon, let alone in time to avoid a depression. Hell, given the flack that Obama has caught for stating the obvious truth that people are “bitter” about the loss of jobs and the state economy, there’s no reason to believe that anyone democrat or republican has the wherewithal to fix the economy. They don’t even want to admit that something is very very wrong here.

Our boat is sinking, and no one in charge even wants to take the time to rearrange the deck chairs.

CNN’s Rick Sanchez is still playing the Jeremiah Wright soundbite on a continuous loop. My god. This has been going on for weeks now. Can we please move past this? No, of course not. This is the easy story. The story that even most simpleton can write – and by “write” I mean “repeatedly play the same pixelated clip from YouTube.”

Of course CNN Newsroom is the crappiest of all the CNN programs. The stories right now on the web page are “Is Your Computer Slower Than When You Bought It?” and a featured article on tattoos.

I’m not surprised. It’s an easy narrative. I guess what makes the whole thing that much sadder is that when Obama said:

For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright’s sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she’s playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.

We can do that.

part of me wishes that just for once, the media wouldn’t have interpreted that as a call to arms as Stephen Colbert mocked on his show.

Purim isn’t Jewish Halloween. It’s Jewish Mardi Gras.

Dear Interweb,

Who do all the delegate counters suck?

I have found four different counters with four different answers. Some ignore superdelegates, which is dumb, since their votes will matter this year. But the pledged counts are wrong! God!

As I write this at 3:31am PST, we these are the counts

MSNBC:

Wikipedia:

CNN:

ABC:

DemConWatch:

Now DemConWatch also gives counts that include Michigan and Florida, just in case Clintonistas pull off their coup, which I like. But who knows what’s up with the the “Unknown Iowan Delgates”, that everyone else says are Edwards’s.

CBS:

AP:

Does this mean that we’re going to need some sort of metacounter that averages all the predictions?

Why is this so hard?

Sean Bonner, via BoingBoing.

w00t.

If Hillary is the nominee, I won’t vote for president.

Not only do I dislike Hillary as a person and as a candidate, but I can’t stand what she represents: dynastic politics. I can’t see this as healthy for a democracy. Especially when it’s so damn transparent. Hillary hasn’t done jack shit, and when she ran for Moynahein’s seat it was obvious this day was coming, and it’s right on schedule. The only difference between her and Jo Ann Emerson, or Jean Carnahan is that Bill is still alive. In this sense, she’s Cristina Fernandez. The motivation is the same, the circumvention of the 22nd amendment, and her election will continue our descent to a banana republic.

Is it too late for Jeb to get in the race?

Or better yet, Chelsea versus Jenna! I mean, why shouldn’t we continue the 20, perhaps even 28 straight years of Bush-Clinton rival dynasties. Chelsea is 27, 28 this Feb 28. In 8 years, she’ll be 36, old enough to run. I look forward to her claims of having “16 years of White House experience” and “the two best presidential advisors anyone could hope for, my mom and my dad!”

Jesus. Can you imagine that? 28 years straight years of the same two families running the country? Two generations being born and becoming adults under the same two families. What the hell? (”They always told us anyone could be president. I knew that was lie. My name wasn’t Bush or Clinton.”)

What the fuck is wrong with this country?