who Wrote:In Florida for the primary neither hillary nor barack ran any campaign ads
BIRD33 Wrote:Because it didnt count.great post.
BIRD33 Wrote:Fuck you queer bait.
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:North Carolina (134 delegates up for grabs):
Obama 53% = 71 delegates
Clinton 47% = 63 delegates
Indiana (84 delegates up for grabs):
Clinton 54% = 45 delegates
Obama 46% = 39 delegates
In the end, Obama gains 110 delegates and Clinton 108 delegates.
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:Did you see where some head honcho Democratic Party leader has switched his support from Hillary to Obama. He's some long time Clinton ally and was the head of the Democratic Party for several years.
Anyway, I heard him say that he switched after lots of careful studying of the two candidates. He said what finally convinced him to switch in favor of Obama were two things that he did last week.
1. He came out AGAINST the idea of a tax free summer on gasoline. Apparantely McCain and Hillary are touting removing some 18 cent tax from gasoline this summer to help the working class since they have to drive so far to work. I haven't heard Obama's reasoning for being against it, but I think he says its just a political hocus pocus thing and won't solve anything.
2. He completely disowned that crazy reverend. The guy said that he was impressed with the candid and plain language that Obama used to say that he was no longer associated with his "former" pastor.
Apparantly both of these issues though are going to hurt him this week though. I love you.
BIRD33 Wrote:Gas tax suspension is a joke.Is saving a couple hundred bucks over the summer going to help when you're paying 5 bucks a gallon next year?I give him credit for being realistic and not pandering.
The reverand stuff will be tough to get past.I believe thats the main reason he's losing in Indiana.If this would have come out 4 months ago I think Hillary is in the lead right now.
http://www.dailyreckoning.com Wrote:There is Hillary's proposal for a 'Gas Tax Holiday,' for example. The initiative is so absurd that even trained economists can see through it. Alice Rivlin, Bill Clinton's former budget director said she was "appalled" at what "looked like pandering." One hundred economists signed an open letter criticizing the proposal - pointing out the obvious, that it would increase driving and divert money now going to the U.S. government to the governments of Arab oil exporters.
Obama has an advantage; Paul Volcker is advising him. So, we can expect a little better. But little better is what we get. Obama proposes a cut in the payroll tax (which finances Social Security) - up to $1,000 - to help families "offset the cost not only of gas, but of food."
As we have said many times, we never met a tax cut we didn't like. But what troubles us is: where are the cuts on the other side of the ledger? If Social Security has less money, how will it keep up with baby boomer retirements?
The weekend press tells us that people are beginning to worry about whether they'll be able to retire at all. The middle class counted on rising house prices. But now house prices are going down. What are they going to do?
They're going to start saving, is the answer. "Consumers to the sidelines," says a Wall Street Journal headline. "Americans cutting back for Mothers' Day," says a headline in the Los Angeles Times.
You will recall why stocks were certain to go to the moon, dear reader. It was "Dow 36,000" for sure - because the baby boomers had to put money in stocks so they could retire. When that mirage disappeared, they turned to residential real estate. People figured that they could buy an extra house at the beach. They would enjoy it on weekends and holidaysâ¦and then, when the time came to retireâ¦they could sell the main house and live off the proceeds. That strategy too was fine - as long as prices were rising.
And now the boomers find them themselves with no easy way to finance their golden years. (They should have bought gold when we first suggested it!) What can they do? They have to resort to the old-fashioned, tried and true method - thrift and savings.
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:Isn't Bush opposed to the gas tax holiday thing?
I thought the reason that he is doing so poorly in Indiana was because the governor is really popular and he came out in full support of Hillary and has been campaigning for her for quite a while. I think he sort of gave up hope of winning Indiana over a month ago. He just wants to keep it close, like he did Texas.
North Carolina has been his to lose for a long time. He had a huge lead a few weeks ago. The Reverend Wright and gas tax thing seems to have hurt him badly in the working class white vote. I love you.
Quote:Obama proposes a cut in the payroll tax (which finances Social Security) - up to $1,000 - to help families "offset the cost not only of gas, but of food."
As we have said many times, we never met a tax cut we didn't like. But what troubles us is: where are the cuts on the other side of the ledger? If Social Security has less money, how will it keep up with baby boomer retirements
BIRD33 Wrote:Over under on the age of mccains running mate- 49
Skin tone over under for Mccains running mate- Indian(dot type)
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:I have a weird feeling that McCain has had a deal struck with Huckabee for a while now. I love you.
BIRD33 Wrote:Its an interesting choice.Obama is or was before the whole pastor thing going to siphon off alot of religious voters just because Obama seems more in tune with churchgoers than mccain.I think he shouldnt need huckabee because the right is the party of evangelicals so huckabee is almost like overkill.The thing mccain needs to think about is what he's not bringing to the table that a vp can compensate for and what the big issues are going to be in november.In my mind he lacks youth and economic credibility.I heard the governor of lousiana Jindal is a candidate.
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:The list of "possibles" is very very long. J.C. Watts is even being mentioned.
The reason I mention Huckabee is exactly what you are saying. He brings things that McCain doesn't have.
1. He's already been on the campaign trail and did pretty well, especially there toward the end.
2. He's funny. McCain is not.
3. He's very conservative. And that has been McCain's biggest problem with the GOP. They don't consider his conservative enough. He rounds out McCain on many things that McCain needs right now.
I don't see him picking Leibermann, although that would probably be his first choice. I don't see him picking a woman (Kay Bailey Hutchinson, etc). I don't think he will pick a black (J.C. Watts, etc). He might pick someone to help carry Ohio or Florida or some other swing state that he can't carry, but there just aren't any really strong republicans that fit those needs. I love you.
BIRD33 Wrote:She's going out tomorrow.
