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Senator Obama's plan to declare himself the President of The United States on January 20 on the steps of the Capitol Building is a slap in the face to the millions of voters in the remaining primary states and to Senator Clinton's 17 million supporter
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
I've also thought of such jokes as "Senator Obama's plan change my arguments into windmills is a slap in the face to the millions of voters in the remaining primary states and to Senator Clinton's 17 million supporters."
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Comments (33)
Do not recommend this post lying post.
May 20, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Chillax.
May 21, 2008 12:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Whoops! Too late.
Love this post.
May 21, 2008 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's make the HC/BO primary into a football game:
HILLARY: 7 7 10 3 - 27
OBAMA: 6 6 7 17 - 36
Hillary's arguments:
We 'really' won the game because:
1. We outscored them in 3 of the 4 quarters.
2. We scored more touchdowns than they did.
3. We scored more points in the REGULAR SEASO than they did.
4. We were ranked higher through the regular season than they were.
5. We have a white coach.
6. Most of our fans are ignorant blue collar workers and old women.
7. We got more FIRST DOWNS than they did!
8. We had fewer PENALTIES than they did!!
9. We finished the regular season in FIRST PLACE.
10. We had more rooters in the stadium than they did!!!
May 20, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, scoring more penalties is what Clinton would claim.
It was the pre-season she won. The regular season started Jan. 3. Not only does she have a white coach, she has a white quarterback, and offensive line, water boy, athletic trainer, cheerleaders (old white women). She thought once the game started, she had it won based on the gambling line.
You are right... this is a slap in the faces of Hillary and the 17 million voters who voted for her thinking that they were voting for someone else...
May 20, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, she only finished the regular season in FIRST PLACE if the preseason games are counted in the standings.
May 21, 2008 11:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, it would be more like this:
HILLARY: 7 7 3 10 - 27
OBAMA: 6 6 17 7 - 36
Hillary is going to earn slightly more delegates in these last weeks, so the football analogy would play (ha) better if the O team had it's 17 point quarter in the third. Same outcome, but more accurately reflects the real world.
The point is,it does matter when you score your points so long as you have more when the clock goes to 00:00--and that is exactly what is happening for team O.
May 21, 2008 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Darn typos! That was supposed to say: "The point is, it does not matter when you score your points so long as you have more when the clock goes to 00:00"
May 21, 2008 12:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is that Don Meredith singing?
Turn out the lights, the party's over.
May 21, 2008 1:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
But, only if you exclude those sitting in the upper stands.
May 21, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
And you have exclude those in the box seats and luxury sky boxes, and the season ticket holders (so expensive), and those who order from the "boutique" restaurants at the stadium, anyone who orders anything other than a plain hot dog and a beer and a bag of peanuts...
May 21, 2008 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't usually get sports metaphors but this one is working for me.
I guess the question is, is the game over? In sports both teams always keep playing until the end even if it becomes physically impossible for them to win. I don't play sports, and probably wouldn't make it through a game even if I was winning. I would probably be sitting on the grass having a beer. Where was I? Oh, yes, but unlike in sports, in primaries people regularly drop out before the game has officially ended, because they can tell what the end is going to be.
I was at the bar last night and this German guy says "Are you here with the Obama group? I don't get what is going on with that. It doesn't make any sense." So I just explained to him we don't understand either but we like drinking on Tuesday nights.
May 21, 2008 5:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm glad you all like my football analogy! :)
I agree regarding the higher 3rd quarter score. That would make the analogy perfect!!
I would also add:
11. I can cry when I'm behind.
12. We deserve a handicap - my team having a woman quartereback and all.
13. I have a child to think of!!!
May 21, 2008 9:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
STFU
May 21, 2008 12:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh yes, very civil. Have you ever considered public relations? I'm pretty sure you're better than whoever is handling Clinton's PR at this point.
May 21, 2008 12:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain will win the general election. Democratics slit their own throats, this time. No matter who the candidate is for the Democrats, the "other" Democratic camp is going to vote against him/her, due to the prevailing anger over the vicious in-fighting during the primary season. What was, briefly, a great opportunity to win a meaningful majority in Congress and win the presidency, has already been squandered.
May 21, 2008 2:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
whoa there. there are six months between may and november. before you go making any pronouncements, take a look at where we were six months ago. could anyone have predicted then where we'd be now? can you honestly say for sure that the election has been decided, when there are over 50 news cycles between now and november 4?
May 21, 2008 2:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Once Hillary concedes, this race will be between Obama and McCain. Then everything changes. John McCain is a tired old man with a long list of weary platitudes and stupid, shopworn ideas. Barack Obama is a brilliant reformer with a plan to restore America to her former greatness. McCain doesn't stand a chance.
May 21, 2008 9:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
But will she concede? Asking her to concede is like asking her to tell the truth.
May 21, 2008 1:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Considering Obama is in position to fundraise at least another $100 million for the general election,(maybe more, that is only $50 apiece, if all 2 million of us gave an average of $100, it would be a total of $200,000,000) while McCain has been forced to go begging to his party bosses for chump change, one might assume that anyone who actually believes McCain has some sort of advantage, has their head either buried on the sand, or more likely somewhere closer to home, and they are posting their own delusions in hopes it will change reality.
Give it up, the future is upon us, and us old white men aren't in charge anymore.
Which I, for one, am glad of. We (old white men) can't seem to figure out, at least as a group, just how diverse and variegated our nation really is.
Time to pass the baton to another generation that might better represent the REAL America, not the imaginary one we delude ourselves about.
Let me invite my fellow Obama supporters to make a pledge that we WILL give another $25 to the Obama campaign, and just for good luck, $25 to the DCCC, ON THE DAY AFTER HILLARY CONCEDES!
$50,000,000 IN pledges on the day after Hillary concedes ought to impress even the DLCers. And I am sure Van Hollen could find a way to use that other $50,000,000 for those down-ticket races.
Mass bribery? Not hardly. This is public financing at its most powerful.
Anyone else want to join the pledge list?
May 21, 2008 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
My my, hey hey.
May 21, 2008 2:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Every junkie's like a setting sun.
May 21, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why can't you Hillaryheads face the fact that in a RACE, there is always a winner and a loser. Obama is winning and Clinton is losing. Get over it! Someone always backs the loser, the number is immaterial, although its almost always 49.9999....999% or less!
May 21, 2008 7:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary's in it until the end.....of time?
May 21, 2008 1:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Someone's going to have to throw a bucket of water on her.
May 21, 2008 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
either that or get out the elephant gun and load it with the rhino tranqs.
;)
May 21, 2008 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary Clinton's campaign is a true fairy tale which ends like all of them fairy tales: ... and she campaigned happily ever after. On the day Obama gets sworn in as the next President of the United States, she will still claim that she is the more electable candidate and that she has won the majority of the popular vote of - whoever voted for her. Those that did not vote for her, don't really count.
May 21, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like the analogy but I think it should be broken in different quarters: (1) pre-Iowa; (2) Iowa to Super Tuesday; (3) Super Tuesday to Ohio; (4) Ohio to present. Based on that the score would be:
Obama 0 14 14 7 = 35
Clinton 14 6 3 10 = 33
Clinton started the game with a 2 touchdown lead and still managed to lose when her offense sputtered and her defense could not stop Obama from scoring in Iowa, South Carolina, on Super-Tuesday and then in ten primaries and caucuses afterwards.
May 21, 2008 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Goodness. For a second I thought this was going to be a serious post. You got me.
May 21, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
10. We had more rooters in the stadium than they did!!!
If you count the tailgaters(MI and FL) without tickets to the right game.
If you count the food vendors and stadium workers (the DLC Machine)
If you don't count setions 308- to 327 (the Caucusses) because it's bench seating and you can never be sure exactly how many people are there.
(I like the analogy)
May 21, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tailgaters with Clinton bumper stickers on their trucks, and none of the ones with Obama stickers on their Prius'
May 21, 2008 8:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't usually get sports metaphors but this one is working for me.
I guess the question is, is the game over? In sports both teams always keep playing until the end even if it becomes physically impossible for them to win. I don't play sports, and probably wouldn't make it through a game even if I was winning. I would probably be sitting on the grass having a beer. Where was I? Oh, yes, but unlike in sports, in primaries people regularly drop out before the game has officially ended, because they can tell what the end is going to be.
I was at the bar last night and this German guy says "Are you here with the Obama group? I don't get what is going on with that. It doesn't make any sense." So I just explained to him we don't understand either but we like drinking on Tuesday nights.
May 21, 2008 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want to apologize for accidental double posting earlier. Still getting the hang of this thing...
May 21, 2008 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
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