Huckabee got his Wish

When I heard that McCain is being accused of sleeping with a lobbyist (talk about sleeping with the enemy), the first thing I thought of was what Huckabee said a week or so ago when asked why he is staying in the race despite the statistical impossibility of winning enough delegates to receive the Republican nomination.

CBS reported that Huckabee said, “We understand in terms of the conventional process, barring something could happen along the way [to] the campaign with Senator McCain, or if he doesn’t acquire enough delegates – that’s really the possibility – that it could go to the convention...While it may be mathematically impossible to see it could play out right now, I know this: right now nobody has the 1,191 delegates and therefore it would be a little premature to quit until the game has actually come to a conclusion.”

Hmmm...amazing coincidence, no?

Words Are Important, Words Matter

I feel that the debate was a bit like marriage counseling. Hillary and Obama really used to like each other... I hate to side with the man. But I have to. Ho hum.

Silly Matters

It's been a long time since I posted - hey, I've been trying to keep my business running, eating to keep warm for the winter, and learning guitar (add f*cking up my relationship, getting drunk, and other things to the list and you'll see why I've been too busy to comment).



There is SO much to say now though.... Look at this photo. I love it. Obama has grown that spine that I've been begging for since Day 1. Makes me so proud. I love that he inhaled. I love that he stands for something. And damn it, I love that he's pointing. He's been my favorite since the start, but now I'm joined by the masses. (Perhaps for the first time ever, I feel like I'm on the winning side. Yay!)
It felt good to vote for him. And that's a first in my 22-odd years.








Moving on. My feathers are a bit rumpled about this NYT article. I mean, if you're going to break a story, then break a story. But if it takes 5 people to report that John McCain is a slimebag - then I'm disappointed in the Times. An unethical politician? A staff trying to advise the guy to remain moral so they can get into office and make a lot of money? That's front page news these days? As if allegations of slimy behavior and political favors from a lifelong politician are front-page newsworthy? Please! The only thing I can see that that article did is give something legitimate for Rush to complain about (a waste of ink)... He could have been complaining about Fidel Castro and pumping up the Cubans in Miami, and instead he got to rail on the Times. With reason.

The Times has been tarnished. Again.






(Look at her face. She doesn't look too supportive, eh?)
More soon. I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.

Eric the Huckabee?

Eric The Half A Bee Lyrics
Artist: Monty Python (Buy Monty Python CDs)


A one... two-- A one... two... three... four...
Half a bee, philosophically,
Must, ipso facto, half not be.
But half the bee has got to be
Vis a vis, its entity. D'you see?

But can a bee be said to be
Or not to be an entire bee
When half the bee is not a bee
Due to some ancient injury?

Singing...

La dee dee, one two three,
Eric the half a bee.
A B C D E F G,
Eric the half a bee.

Is this wretched demi-bee,
Half-asleep upon my knee,
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric the half a bee!

Fiddle de dum, Fiddle de dee,
Eric the half a bee.
Ho ho ho, tee hee hee,
Eric the half a bee.

I love this hive, employee-ee,
Bisected accidentally,
One summer afternoon by me,
I love him carnally.

He loves him carnally,
Semi-carnally.
The end.

Cyril Connelly?
No; semi-carnally!
Oh.

Cyril Connelly.
[whistling]

According to MSN

Pledged delegates in Barack's favor.




Democrats | Polls
Candidate Delegates
won to date Super delegates committed Delegates needed
Barack Obama 861 0 1,164
Hillary Clinton 855 0 1,170
John Edwards 26 0 1,999

And the Mormon Tabernacle Choir might have sang the national anthem at every major sporting event. How cool would that have been?

Last week’s Boston Phoenix (Beantown’s equivalent of the Washington City Paper) reported a rumor from unnamed political observers that “large numbers” of Massachusetts Democrats had re-registered in order to vote in Tuesday’s Republican primary. Ostensibly, the goal was to once and for all terminate Mitt Romney’s presidential hopes by piling on votes for the competition and denying the former absentee governor the delegates from his occasional former state. Although it was an inspired idea, as plans hatched out of pure spite often are, it hardly seemed worth the bother. Assuming anyone actually went through it, they were not going to prevent Mitt’s one primary slam dunk. But more to the point, Romney’s chances of winning the nomination were always about as likely as his claim that he “saw” his dad march with Martin Luther King while all three, Little Rom, Big Rom, and MLK, were in different cities.

If Democratic Luddites wanted to bring the Republican presidential machine to a grinding halt, it might have been better to try to disrupt (legally, in a non-Watergate way, of course) the McCain campaign. Derailing the Straight Talk Express™ this fall certainly promises great fun, but having Romney at the top of the GOP’s ticket would have been the real dream. The chance to elect a CEO President who could run the country like a corporation? Well sure, because it’s been working so very well these last seven years. Double Guantanamo? That’ll show the Islamofascists and the Geneva Convention what’s what. Constitutionally ban gay marriage? Let’s face it, if you don’t count divorce, it is the number one threat to traditional marriage, so we’ll need a president who can make it a top priority. Award our highest office to a guy who once stuck his dog in a pet crate and strapped it to the roof of his car for a long family road trip? Sounds like the kind of cruel-but-efficient problem solving we’re going to need to get this country back on track.

Oh, what a campaign it could’ve been.