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Political Nightmare (dreamt fiction)

I just woke up to my first political nightmare.  Okay, the day was Nov. 5, 2008 and some how I had overslept 2-3 days missing the election day and the pre/post election day to awaken in my dream to the frightening news that Barack Obama did not win the 2008 presidential election, and the person who had won the election was (get this) Hillary Clinton. Yes Hillary Clinton had won the 2008 Presidential election. and as I was wondering in my head how this could have happen, and trying to think of what had went down in the election world while I was sleeping.

I went to my mom's room  (somehow I was living back with my parents again) where my mom was sitting up on her bed watching the TV that was showing some post election coverage celebration of Hillary Clinton at some outdoor football field celebrating there with Chelsea Clinton and a crowd of her supporters.  My mother who was a Hillary Clinton supporter prior to her dropping out didn't look too upset at the outcome. I had asked her what had happened on Election Day and had learned that it had turned out that Hillary’s name was on the ballot somehow along side the option for Barack Obama and she had received more votes than him over Obama against John McCain. John McCain had won the state of Michigan and Florida but had ultimately lost.  Hillary had taken away votes from both McCain and (obviously) Barack Obama.

At hearing this news from my mom I was getting this sick feeling in my stomach thinking that even though it was a Democrat who had won the election and not McCain, I was feeling we (the party) still lost. It was the same familiar aching pain that I had got when John Kerry had lost in 2004 all coming back, and I thinking to myself at the thought of another 4 more years. I began to get really upset thinking  back the Primary season of how Clinton had campaigned against Obama so negatively and coming to realization that she has now won the Presidential election somehow that was suppose to be just Obama versus McCain. I clinched my fist and spouted off to mom in anger telling her that it had to be racism that played in Barack’s defeat as evidence to the amount of loops that Obama had to jump through this election season just to get to where he was at, only to be hung up and shammed at the end with this surprise election result.

At this point I began to want to know what were Obama’s thoughts or comments about this election outcome, what did he say during his concession speech. To my wonderment I had noticed that the media wasn’t mentioning much about him at this point and was only covering Hillary and her post victory.  I quickly returned to my room to get on to my computer to check the internet to read the headlines from the political sites trying to grasp the thought  of President Hillary....and how she somehow had done it, and I how I missed the whole thing. I noticed I was having trouble getting onto the internet and that’s when I awoke from this chilling dream. 



Relieved that this nightmare had turned out to be just a dream. [sighs of relief]

It's Vice Preisdent VP Veep Time! for Obama!!!

make your pick.  I highlighted mine.

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas

Senator Jim Webb of Virginia

Senator Joe Biden of Delaware

Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska (he's a Republican)

Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico

Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York. (he's a Republican)

Fmr. Senator John Edwards of North Carolina.

Senator Hillary Clinton of New York


Obama's VP choice: Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas

Senator Obama answer to 60% of white women voters voting for Hillary Clinton.

Pick a female candidate for his vice president. Women are coming out in huge numbers just as African-Americans, they want to see a woman President in this historic race, and I don't think Obama should let that idea slip away. 

But don't pick Hillary! Governor Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas should is the right person for the 2nd in command job.  Hillary has too much baggage, and too high negatives which would kill our chances in the November election, plus she's too much of the old guard candidate that would make it difficult for Obama to make himself the candidate of change.

http://www.governor.ks.gov/

Everyone start your rally of Support

Obama / Sebelius 2008 **==

Obama Gore '08 is steam rolling over the McCain Lieberman ticket

to the White House baby!


I found TPM's polar opposite blog site

http://www.talkleft.com/


For you trolls (Weaver, gotalife, etc.) this is more of a pro Hillary site in terms of news stories and comments.

The Hillary fan support there is nearly equals the Obama fan support here.






If Obama gets the nomination, here's McCain's VP

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/washington/29rivals.html



It turns my stomach but I won't be surprised when this happens. I'm starting to see just how this country works the elite oppressors keeping the oppressed down.


Bill Clinton breaks from the Hillary campaign & join team Change

that is what I predict will happen soon.

Bill and Hillary are already at odds on public policies, they have different viewpoints with in regard to trade agreements. Even the points in the messages they give at their public speeches are contradictory to one another. This is why as I see this Democratic campaign draw out further into the remaining primaries and caucuses to the convention, and Hillary falls deeper and deeper below in popular votes, pledge and super delegate counts while sharpens her Republican attacks, Bill Clinton will end up surprising everybody when he jumps ship across camapaign waters and endorse Senator Obama.

Chelsea Clinton & the Monica Question, I smell a weakness here

I would hammer this question on every Q&A college round that Chelsea makes.   To my fellow college students, if you're reading this and Chelsea is making rounds to your schools, prep up your Monica Lewinsky question.  Shee says it's none of our business? Ha, I think its every American's business.

Hillary is the worse thing to ever happen to the Democratic party

Imagine if John Edwards in 2004 didn't conceded after Super Tuesday to Kerry and carried the race out like Hillary is doing now, and playing up the Republican card saying John Kerry is unfit for command, or he was a flip-flopper on the war on Iraq. That would have made it plain easy for Bush's victory in that election. The Democratic party should not be ripping each other apart, I think the party should have rallied behind the front runner by now instead of letting it carry on like this.

At this point now Hillary can't win by delegates nor popular vote, SHE CAN'T WIN PERIOD. All she can do now is just hurt the Democrat party to try and secure Obama's defeat in November and her run in 2012.

Imagine if John Kerry won 2004, Hillary's political entitlement would have been through!

If you're a real Democrat, and you stand for the success of this party, you must concur that this travesty come to an end. Vote out Hillary in the primary. Vote for Obama in Novemeber and secure that Hillary get no chance in 2012 or ever!

Hillary Clinton: Boo Hoo, Why have you betray me? (tears)

What's with the media sympathy for Sen. Clinton now that Gov. Richardson has now endorsed Sen. Barack Obama. This is really starting to get sickening. I guarrantee if the role was reverse and Obama was losing, the media wouldnt even be covering it, they would already be talking about Hillary vs McCain.


Just think now if Obama wins the Pennsylvania primary this race is over. No need to look forward for NC or IN.  It's done.  Come on Democrats lets wrap this race up so we can mobilize our war against the Republicans!

MSM needs to apologize for slandering Jeremiah Wright, Hypocrisy at its highest

the full sermon of that video that Fixed News broke. Please view this video and see it in its <b>unedited</b> form. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ&feature=related


It sickens my stomach on how MSM have been pushing a false lie on Jeremiah Wright just to get a Presidential hopeful Barack Obama. 

Spread this video!

New photo shows Hillary Clinton sitting with Wright

Republicans are trying to divide up the Democratic party Watch out!

I think the Geraldine and Jeremiah incidents have united the two campaigns to end their fiesty fued.   I just watched Fox News Sunday and Meet the Press and both Clinton and Obama surrogates mutually agreed that we should move on as both candidates have rejected the rhetoric of their controversal supporters. 

Its about time we've moved on and back to the real issues.

I also find it funny that the MSM is trying to light these incidents when they both have been defused.

I get the sense from watching Fox that the Republicans want to see our party divided, they want to see another 1984. But that's not going to happen. Looks like maybe the DNC told both campaigns to get their act together.

Is Hillary's NY Superdelegate now in limbo

Now that Eliot Spitzer has resigned from his position as governor of New York and the Lt. Governor David Patterson has taken his place, what will become of Hillary's entitled superdelegate? I wonder if the HRC campaign is nervous now to know that a Black man now holds one of their delegates ironically following this Ferraro fiasco that has now officially branded her political campaign as the campaign of racists.

Your comments please.

The Uncivil War of the Democrat Party

For weeks I followed Rush Limbaugh's website coverage of the Presidential race and particularly his comments over the Democrat race of how the in-fighting between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was destroying the party. He also said how the battle between the two democrats was also exposing the Democrat's hidden secret, eluding to its racial divide among whites and blacks.  Watching tonight's primary results of the Mississippi election on MSNBC was a bitter sweet moment for me as an Obama supporter. Particularly when it came to them doing the voter analysis and showed Obama's white voters fallen sharply since South Carolina, down to below 33%, while his black voters risen to its highest, 90%. Leaving news analyst puzzled to reason of the stark differences. Barack got less white Mississippi voters than he did in Georgia. This news just gave me a sickening feeling in my stomach, I cannot believe that most of this dislike of Obama is in large part being purely getting pitted because of his race, skin-color.  Here you have a candidate that has ran a campaign above racial lines, who's message is to unite Americans as race of one people, not black, white, or brown, but red, white and blue. Yet his ideals seem to fall on death ears to those who rather cling to the idelogies and thinking of the past.  Then came the MSNBC polling analysis of the question to Clinton and Obama voters of would you be satisified if the other candidate get the nomination, 74% of Clinton voters say they would not be satisfied if Obama won the nomination compared to only 23% Obama voters not being satisfied if Hillary won the nomination.  I think if there ever was a question of a divide in the Democrat party, the sign is apparent obvious now now.  Its was quite heart disheartening to see this, and I can tell from the reaction expressions from the MSNBC reporters of this news that they too were shocked by these results.  Many are also pointing out the fact that Hillary's fight to stay in this, divide up the party, is securing up the rural white vote and helping her frame herself as the middle-class female candidate, the working class fighter compared to the previous elite aristocrat which they are saying will help her secure states like Pennsylvania. It seems evident that the more this campaign goes on the deeper the divide the will grow in the Democrat party.  What I want to know is what can be done to reverse this? Is this rejection by whites an inevitable action that's only shown its tip here in Mississippi. What will it mean for Barack if he wins the nomination, would he face an even deeper divide in the general election as Hillary's voters tend to indicate that they will not vote for him if he gets this nomination.

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