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.

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.

Senate dems to protect telco crimes. Reid says, “No warrant? No problem!”

Fuck you Reid, you worthless coward piece of shit.

If domestic spying was so vitally important, then Bush wouldn’t be threatening to veto it if it didn’t have immunity. You had the bludgeon, Reid! If Bush did carry through with his threat, you just had to say, “Well apparently the President thinks protecting his friends from prosecution of their crimes, is more important than protecting Americans from attack.” But no! You had to cave.

But then again, you always do.

Why the hell are you the leader in the Senate, if you won’t lead, and won’t stand up for the people. You’re a goddamn rubber stamp.

Update: Tue Feb 12 14:15:16 PST 2008
Color me surprised.
WaPo reports that Obama voted against telcom immunity, while Hillary abstained.

“The strength and experience to make change happen,” indeed.

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?

Hillary won Nevada. She’s leading in all the Super Duper Tuesday states. She’s the nominee.

Goddamn it.

I put it it 50-50 that Obama is the veep nom. I don’t know who it would be if it wasn’t him, but I could easily see her not picking him. As I said, Obama will be wasted as a warm bucket of spit, but he’ll take should take the offer if it’s given. Better to be “Vice President Barack Obama” than “The Junior Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.”

Obama’s only hope is that Edwards would somehow remain viable enough to grab delegates and then pledge them to him, but that won’t happen. Edwards wouldn’t pull such a trick; and more importantly, he’s no longer viable.

Hillary won’t bring the troops home. That bitch voted to kill 4,000 and wound – many severely – 28,000 more because she thought it was politically expedient. She didn’t want to look “weak.” Instead, she wanted to look just as stupid and warmongering as the Republicans.

Goddamn her.

She knew the vote was for war. It was obvious. Now she’s trying to say, “But I didn’t think they’d actually go to war! I was trying to threaten war!” If that was truth, she’s a goddamn fool that shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the government. She doesn’t have the judgement to be trusted with even picking up the damn trash.

The whole war from the beginning didn’t make any sense. All of a sudden Iraq was now supposably “a clear and present danger.” Why? Nothing changed in 10 years. And for the antimultilateralists and antiinternationalists to all of a sudden talk about having to “save the UN from irrelevancy” was laughable. And she either bought into it, or was so fearful for her own political aspirations, jumped on the bandwagon and hit the war drum.

Fuck you Hillary.

She won’t bring the troops home. There’s no doubt in my mind about it. Oh she might bring some home, but at the end of four years, there will still be thousands there. I’ll say 10,000 to 20,000 still there. She won’t pull them home because, just like that tragic son of a bitch, LBJ, she doesn’t want to look weak. Democrats have to show they’re just as willing to throw lives away on fool’s errands as the Republicans. Women have to not only show that they’re willing to kill young boys just like men, but in fact, they have to show that they’re more willing to kill in order to prove they’re not weak.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, it will all be in a quest to win over those that believe that she killed Vince Foster in a crack cocaine fueled satanic lesbian orgy.

Fuck you Hillary. And fuck you America for making have to vote for this damn foolish bitch in November.

I fear that Hillary is going to sew up the nomination on Super Duper Tuesday.

Nothing like voting for someone who voted to kill thousands of young American men and women, maim thousands more and god only knows how many Iraqis because she thought it was politically expedient.

3,926 and counting.

My initial reaction is, “Shit. It’s going to be Clinton-Obama ticket.” Obama’s power is completely lost as a warm bucket of spit.

Never doubt the laziness of the electorate and the fact that young people don’t vote and “movement candidates” always fail.

At first I was thinking that Edwards was going to drop out after a loss in South Carolina, but now I’m thinking that he won’t. I think he might just stay to the end, or at least until after Super Duper Tuesday. My fear right now: Edwards finishes second, behind Hillary.

If Edwards was was to drop out after South Carolina, I don’t think enough of his supporters are going to break for Obama. Yes, they’re sympathetic but I don’t think that will translate to a 17% advantage for Obama. Instead they’ll fall inline behind the establishment.

People always fall in line.

So the press and the blogosphere is all in a dither about whether or not Hillary’s emotional moment in New Hampshire. Did she cry? Did she not? Was it genuine or was a ploy? Is she too weak to be president?

I’ve seen the footage. It was genuine. For all my complaints about Hillary, I’ve never doubted that she wants what is best for the country (most of the time at least). ThinkProgress is right. The press coverage of this is different for Hillary than any other candidate. Why? She’s a woman. And she’s Hillary Clinton.

The whole “Is she too weak?” talk is sexism. Blatant sexism we haven’t seen in years. It’s “She’s gonna get on the rag and nuke us all,” talk. No one has ever described Hillary Clinton as “weak.” This is sexist talk plain and simple, and it’s surprising that someone would even mention that in today’s day and age.

The speculation that it was a ploy is more of an phenomenon about the Clintons. They’re viewed as manipulative. Triangulating. The people that are saying that she faked it are so blinded by their own hatred they can’t see her as a person.

Hillary will say whatever she thinks will help her get elected, but she wasn’t then.