Monthly Archives: March 2008

It’s 3:02 a.m.

I am finally catching up after my week away from these primary elections, but I think I am finally up-to-date — Super Delegates and all. It looks like it’s impossible that Hillary can mathematically win these elections, even if she convinces Americans that (i) it’s wrong to be racist but okay to fear anything remotely resembling a Muslim and (ii) Obama resembles a Muslim — America’s new bigotry.

Because she cannot really win, all she has left is to dream (and to make the Democrats’ chances in November more difficult). And one of these dreams is for the Super Delegates to avoid the millions of Obama supporters, state primaries and caucuses and to decide the primaries solely on a few large states. Her argument is that she won the biggest states, though less delegates, so only she can win them in November. Say what? Yes, it is absurd to believe that the Democrats who voted for her in those big states would vote Republican in November. Actually, I think that if you do the math, he is in a much better position to take those states in a general election. Here’s how I see it: Continue reading

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Spanish Elections: Not My Country

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The Spanish Presidential Elections are/were today, and it looks like Zapatero and his PSOE Party have won.  In other words, Dumb has just beat Dumber. Normally I would care — I do enjoy elections — but it has simply been an incredibly boring campaign with almost no interesting options or political arguments. Just look at the basic facts: Continue reading

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Don’t Call It a Comeback!

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Don’t call it a comeback because it ain’t one. Since Super Tuesday, everyone had predicted that Obama would win a bunch of states up until March 4th, and then Hillary would win Texas and Ohio. And guess what? She did exactly what everyone thought she would do all along. While there was obviously no “comeback” and Obama continues to maintain the same pre-March 4th delegate lead, why is the press talking about little else? The press needs a close race and controversy to keep people tuned in.

But the worse thing about it all is that the Hillary team has not only played to the lowest denominator again, but it probably even thinks that being sleazy is what helped her fictitious “comeback”. The Clinton camp continues to think that we’re stuck in the Kenneth Starr 1990s whereby anything goes (including Hillary’s more than tacit endorsement of John McCain as being a better commander-in-chief than Obama — who harms their party that way?) and even the slightest critique is met with the “hey, that’s from the Republican play book” defense.

The fact of the matter is that Hillary’s attacks on Obama are not only baseless — especially those about character — but that few people are asking her the hard follow-up questions. She may have cried that the press hasn’t been nice to her, but they let her get away with her phony “comeback” and sham experience. Continue reading

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Rocky World

One of my favorite non-Jazz albums is For the Beauty of Wynona by Daniel Lanois, and one of my favorite songs from that album is “Rocky World”. While driving through Lanzarote’s lava stained terrain, I kept thinking of that particular Daniel Lanois song. As is often so often the case, I went ahead and made another one of my low budget videos.

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In Lanzarote

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I am taking a short break from WiFi and the Elections, and I am spending a few days in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. Hillary will continue to complain and undermine her party while Obama and Super Tuesday Part II will just have to wait. I am on vacation.

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