When Senator Obama is on his game he can give one hell of a speech.  His speech in Germany is an example of just how great an orator he can be (with the help of same great speechwriters).  I’m sure the right will rip it apart and the nimrods on the left will continue to say he’s all talk and no substance, but this was one hell of speech.  President Bush could never sound this good.

Part of me gets what the The New Yorker was trying to do with their “satire” of Senator Obama and his wife, Michelle, but part of me also thinks it was a bad decision at this juncture in the election.  When right wingers are still portraying Senator Obama as a Muslim who’s secretly in league in terrorists and his wife as some American hating femi-nazi this was a bad choice on their part.  Sure, the right wingers will scream about the PC police, but at the same time a whole new slate of spam will go out using this cover to demean the Obamas and undermine the campaign.

I know, I know we live in a free society and sometimes you have to suck it up when some person or group says things that are insensitive or flat out wrong.  However, freedom comes with responsibility and I think it was irresponsible for The New Yorker to print this cover, no matter what their intentions might have been.

I don’t always agree with Frank Rich, but that’s often due to the fact that Rich has a penchant for saying what few are willing to say, and it’s not always pleasant.  His most recent rant sums up so much of what I — and many others — think about John McCain and his ilk and it’s nice to see someone in the media with the balls to speak out against what has become standard operating procedure for Republicans.

I just don’t understand people like this.  Exactly what does this woman see in John McCain that says he would be a comparble candidate to Hillary Clinton?  Of course, she stupidly trots out the tired old meme about foreign affairs experience, but what experience is that?  Supporting George Bush’s failed war in Iraq?  Senator Clinton may have voted for the authorization, but she understands we need to begin the process to leave, John McCain wants us to be there for 100 years!  I’m sorry, but if these people are that stupid, then good riddance. 

By the way, where the hell is Senator Clinton?  She needs to be out there rallying these supporters and making them understand the differences between what she stands for and what Senator McCain stands for.  Making them understand that she and Seantor Obama agree far more than they disagree on key issues, including national security, foreign policy, and issues important to all Americans.

It’s been only one day since Hillary Clinton’s concession speech but everywhere I turn, from blogs to mainstream news agencies, there are articles and blog-posts that start with the tag “Why Clinton Lost….”  With several polls showing that nearly a quarter of Clinton’s supporters will either vote for McCain or not vote at all, we don’t need this shit.  We need to move on and get the Democratic nominee elected, and we need Hillary Clinton’s supporters to do that.  While I think these polls are early and show hurt feelings more than a schism in the Democratic Party, it could still cause problems.

I really getting a little tired of whining coming from the Clinton supporters.  Yeah, their candidate didn’t win, and I’ll even agree that blatant sexism was at play in the media.  However, that isn’t why she lost.  It’s time to realize that, and it’s time to realize what’s important.  If these women think John McCain is a better choice than Barak Obama then Lord help them.  This a man who stands against most of what both Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama stand for in terms of women’s issues.  If they can actually say he’s not a conservative then they’re fools and if he wins they deserve what they get.

Yeah, I know how shitty that sounds, but it just pisses me off the way they’re acting.  Hillary Clinton fought hard, and I do mean hard considering some of unnecessary attacks she made on Barak Obama, but she lost.  Get over it and start getting the person in office who can do you the most good.  That sure as hell isn’t John McCain.

I am really getting tired of all the threats coming from the Dems these days.  On one side you have Clinton supporters threatening not to get behind the party’s eventual candidate unless that candidate in Hillary Clinton.  Now, we have Governor Bill Richardson making not-so-veiled threats against superdelegates who haven’t made a choice before the end of the primaries.  That goes completely against what Senator Obama is trying to make this race about.  If I were Senator Obama I’d be on the phone to New Mexico telling Richardson to chill.

I have to say I just don’t understand Jeff Jarvis’ point of view on the Florida/Michigan compromise. As he has from the beginning of this whole mess Mr. Jarvis, and many others, say the voters of these states have been disenfranchised.  I’m sorry, I just can’t buy that lame sort of reasoning.  By definition, disenfranchising means depriving people of their right to vote.  No one in Florida and Michigan were deprived their right to vote; no one was standing at the voting booth to beat them back.  Both of these states knew the rules going into the primary season.  Both states were told their primaries were in violation of party rules and what the consequences were.  We can all debate the stupidity of the primary schedule; I mean, I think it’s archaic and asinine that two tiny little states have so much control over when primaries happen.  However, that’s how it is, and Republicans are no different.

Mr. Jarvis seems to think this compromise means the Dems will lost the election in November. I say bullshit on that.  Sure, having Florida and Michigan votes counting for half their norm is difficult, but again I say they knew the rules from the beginning, so now they need accept the consequences and the compromose.  Instead of party officials in those states blathering about disenfranchisement, they need to starting rallying their states’ voters and get behind the eventual nominee.  It’s time to move on.  If Mr. Jarvis is correct and Dems lose in November because of this overblown dust-up then we deserve to lose.  I want President Bush out of office and I don’t want McCain stepping in, so that means I’m ready to vote for whomever the eventual nominee will be.  Right now it looks like that’s going to be my candidate of choice, Barak Obama; however, even if it was Hillary Clinton I would be voting her with no misgivings.  We need to remember that and stop acting like losers before the election has even happened, and I wish Hillary Clinton’s supporters would keep that in mind when they start talking staying home in November.

Senator Obama, that is.  If you’re running for president you should have a better grasp of facts than Senator John McCain seems to have.  And contrary to what Seantor McCain’s camp is saying, it’s not nitpicking to point that out.

Something needs to be done about this whole superdelegate issue.  The fact that they are, for lack of a better word, being bribed to endorse one candidate over the other should be reason enough.  This whole system is flawed and contrary to the democratic process.