Money to the cause

I think this is amazing. I donated $20 and then the website revealed to me who my matching donor was, someone named Tina M, retired Air Force!! MSgt and CPA! I hope she e-mails me back. I had no idea the matching donor would be revealed, wow!!

We're voting for CHANGE, netroots

I'm becoming weary of the leftist whining for VPs that are the same old Democrats that have been compromised in every way. I'm praying that Obama picks someone brilliant that I've never f-ing heard of--that would be CHANGE. Now I'm reading whining about WHO will speak at the convention, it's not Gore, I guess. WHO CARES?!

Let's just see what happens, Obama's team is brilliant, let's stop second guessing him all day long. Gees.

Sticks to McCain

All the insulting charges against Obama hit McCain:

"He's elitist" McCain and his wealthy wife own 7 houses.

"He's got a messianic attitude!" "Thinks he's the Lord's gift...[Pat Buchanon]" Well, McCain keeps a rabbit foot or some other such nonsense with him at all times...so who's out of the realm of reality here?

I've Been Hard On Hillary, about that glass ceiling...

I just browsed Hillary's photo album, it appears she's still raising money and is possibly passing the baton to Chelsea, our hedge fund guru.

I think both women demonstrate that women in this country can DO anything. But WHO are they? And what do they BELIEVE? I don't know anything about Chelsea. But I've learned more than I ever wanted to know about Hillary's morality...that the ends justify the means.

The most moving image was of a woman who reminded me of my own 70 year old mother. She had Hillary buttons all over her hat, and I thought, wow, I can't see my mom doing that for Hillary, but maybe some other woman or candidate; and I felt sad that this unknown woman is probably disappointed right now. But I honestly think that we already had cracks in that ceiling when that woman (and millions of others) taught her daughter, or niece or neighbor that girls and women can DO anything in this country. I think that glass ceiling will be broken when both women and men aren't required to DO and PROVE everything, especially based on gender, and we're all accepted for who we are, loving human beings who love others. And I'm a feminist mother of sons.

Hey, I love Hillary.

Cheers.

Hillary

I got an e-mail yesterday from the Hillary campaign asking me to contact the DNC about the May 31st meeting to decide if Florida and Michigan should be counted. She's saying it's an "every vote counts" decision! Every DISQUALIFIED VOTE, HILLARY. I promptly went to the DNC website and reminded them that they had set the rules and changing them now would make them look REALLY corrupt.

The Snake surfaces, James Carville

I don't know where I heard that James Carville spiked the Kerry campaign in the final hours. I'm sure he's loyal to the Clintons, and I find his "branding" of Bill Richardson fully revealing of dirty, nasty, and racial, Clintonian tactics. If you're not tightly in the Clinton power fold, or have enough power on your own (e.g. former Senators that support Obama) then you better shut-up and get in line. Otherwise, you'll be called Judas on national television.

Insane Nation

I've been out of the loop for three weeks, mostly taking care of our newborn and a very manic toddler.

I am just amazed at how insane so many Americans are, here's a short list:

Geraldine Ferraro/Hillary Clinton (can she please stop wining in public and get back to sipping her mint julep at the plantation?)
Dr. Laura (why do we let this woman on TV?)
Eliot Spitzer (did he think he had anonymity?)
McCain's new "spiritual advisor" (I can't get the TPM link to work)

Post-partisan, maybe, but NOT post-racial

Obama will be our first black President.

Something absolutely devastating would have to happen to prevent this. And this is why:

1. There are currently 7 million more Democrats than Republicans voting in the Primaries.

2. If McCain runs, the anti-gay, anti-immigrant conservatives and the unregulated capitalists stay home (and there are not enough occupation-supporting hawks to get him elected nationally); if Huckabee runs; the unregulated capitalists stay home or cross their fingers and vote for Obama.

It should be a landslide in favor of Obama. And knowing this will not deter Obama's supporters one whit.

Gore to endorse?

My own opinion is that Gore will not endorse Obama, as much as he might wish to, until the Primaries' state-by-state races are closed and the Convention is next. And only then if it looks like the Clintons are playing dirty (which is likely if there's a tie).

Thanks to the L.A. Obama listserve member, E. Trinidad.

Hillary lied like a Cheney during the last debate...

This is very, very scary.

Thank you A. Avakian [Los Angeles Obama listserve]

Fox Loves Hillary

I hear that Hillary has invited Obama to debate on Fox. Cough. It's amazing how Hillary will talk the talk about "fighting" the right wing and then capitulate to Faux News!! What fighter?

And beware of every right-winger downplaying Obama's surge and holding up Hillary as the front-runner. Pat Buchanan was on MSNBC last night doing everything he could to make Hillary's wins look bigger and more significant (he screwed himself by overemphasizing the importance of Hillary winning Missouri--rich!!).

Right-wingers want to run against Hillary. They are TERRIFIED of Obama's ability to draw Independents and Republicans, and frankly, LOTS and LOTS of new and especially young voters. They want less voters, not more.

Delegate Watch

Please let me know if you find a better tally. Thanks!

Update 1: Hmmm, the numbers don't match CNN yet. But this is very interesting, note that Super Delegates are included in the totals.

And this MSNBC count!!!

Thanks to L.A. Obama supporter Ms. J. Sullivan (listserve).

Obama's cross-over appeal...

Thank you DB Cooper and Vigilante:

Eisenhower endorsement

I was just thinking today about Obama's point during the debate, something like "We need a new mindset," when it comes to using our military. Spot on!! The main reason I am opposed to Hillary being our nominee is because she has so strikingly supported every Bush military move, especially the last one with Iran. She claims she couldn't have foreseen him using their Iraq vote for invasion (huh?) and that she doesn't think they can now use that Congressional Iranian National Guard = Terrorists bill to go to war with Iran. If she hasn't learned by now that lawless Bush and Cheney need little, if any, encouragement for war, she is worse than Wolf Blitzer's "naive" slap--she's blind.

Dividing Feminists

Wow, I'm just in shock. Of course, I am one of those "men" who believes "not this woman." Does NY NOW think that critics of Margaret Thatcher are really misogynists underneath? Please. Did official feminism regress to adolescence in the past two decades?

In my college in the 1990s, there were competing types of feminism. One was historically angry, bomb-throwing, and segregating, and the other was based on human morality, empathy and understanding. I liked both in different ways and for different purposes (sadly, the first one put many of my friends off of feminism so they never discovered the second option or a combination thereof); but what I really liked about the empathetic version was that it didn't use GUILT to persuade people that women are equal and valuable. That "Carol Gilligan" kind of feminism preached acceptance.

When Hillary Clinton made her cookies comment years ago, it showed me (and a lot of non-feminist women) that she didn't accept some women's choices (or perhaps didn't see us as having choices). As an educated artist and stay-at-home mom, either view of women is still abhorrent to me; and simply does not reflect mainstream American attitudes. Today, girls and women are expected to do anything men can do, in school, in work, in the military. This is quite different from the country where I was born; England still has well-defined roles for women and men. So this type of accusation against mostly American men (and women like myself, really) is Clinton/Bush-style politics, folks. Slice and dice...I'm through with that.

Peace, your raging feminist.

Next Time

I was just in my kitchen imagining next year's State of the Union. Who will be the next President? What will those themes be? Will it be fear, legislative issues, or new hope and dramatic change? There's only one human being I'd like to hear speak that day, and I'm thankful I heard him today. That is Barack Obama.

Three Lies

I listened to Hillary Clinton's comments on this TPM post.

1) Bill Clinton will be minimized in her campaign and she blatantly says the opposite.
2) She does not always "stand our ground" to Republicans in defense of Democratic ideals in VERY important ways. This was Barney Frank's point, too, that we shouldn't be uniters, that we need to fight! Who has been fighting for us in Congress? Feingold, Dodd, Kucinich. At least Obama doesn't pretend to be partisan! Yet I think he has been and will be the most progressive!
3) I don't think this was in the video, but she has denied that Clinton's Jesse Jackson comment was racial, or that they are race baiting. B.S. As Maureen Dowd points out, they dissed MLK [my comment on this incident was that they could have logically and clearly made their policy point merely by mentioning just JFK and LBJ; they didn't need to bring in MLK at all] as someone who couldn't get policy made, and now they are comparing Obama's win to someone, who's connection to Obama just happens to be that they are both "black," who didn't win the nomination.

Backing out of agreements with our party

Via TPM. It will be interesting to see if the DNC bows to the Clintons and allows her to retroactively take Michigan's delegates, and now Florida's, when she was the only one on the ballot in MI. This is stunning.

Obama in DC on Monday

So the Kennedy's are good friends with Chris Dodd, I'm praying they're telling Obama to vote against immunity tomorrow. Politico article found via Schmog's post today and TPM. Has anyone heard anything?

Poor Bill, he was born with a silver tongue...

The Clintons seem to be constantly set up with ideally framed questions from their audiences and so victimized!

Lame!

No one believes that Obama started the negative attacks, so to say, "Oh, he's attacking back when he said he wouldn't attack!" is the pot calling the kettle black. And then to act as if his attack, which sounds accurate to me, that Hillary will say anything to get elected, is so over the top that it hurts Hillary, well that just doesn't seem possible. She's mad, not hurt, not offended, and simply, pegged.