This just up on CNN: Barack Obama has resigned from Trinity UCC...

Did I miss the "live blogging"?

Or were we supposed to be live blogging on our own?

Of course that would be hard because there is no edit function so we would have hundreds of one sentence posts...

Or was someone supposed to start a "live blog" comment thread?

Or should we just blog a live blog and then post the "stream of consciousness" blog after we're finished live blogging?

Turn up the music, pour me some Krunk Juice, I'm fixin' to do me some bloggin'.

Hillary Clinton said in an interview today that the super delegates will <i>"start"</i> making up their minds after June 3. Later in the same interview she was asked, "if someone brought a challenge to the convention would she support it?" She said yes, because she feels "strongly about this" (Florida and Michigan being seated.)

So in a variation on the popular poker game, let's play Denver Hold 'Em!

Place your bets: Will Hillary mount a challenge in Denver to seat the entire Florida and Michigan delegations and who will lead that challenge? (The person must be a delegate to the convention.)

Bet: NO, or YES and Who

I start us off with: 

<b>YES, and Stephanie Tubbs Jones</b>

Dear Super Duper Delegates:

I am writing to let you know that I should be the winner of the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

I have the unanimous support of the people who matter most in this campaign: the people who voted for me. I have campaigned in all the places that matter most to Democrats: the DailyKos, TalkingPointsMemo, Politico, the New York Times, the Washington Post, TIME, Newsweek, Huffington Post, and more. At the beginning of this race, I spent a lot of time in the newspapers of Des Moines Manchester, Las Vegas, Columbia, SC and more.  (Note that I abided by the ban against campaigning in Michigan and Florida.) 

And now after some 50-odd contests, I am happy to report that I have received favorable notice in all of the places I campaigned and lead among the people who think like me who also voted like me. 

This election is about more than a popularity contest. But if you want a popularity contest, I won that too. I am the most popular among the people who think I am popular. 

Let's talk about the issues: I can make change. I have made change since I was 5 years old. I can make change in foreign currency. I can make change you can believe in, because I know how to add. That makes me the most fiscally responsible candidate you can select. Plus for this campaign I have spent exactly ZERO dollars. I have raised exactly ZERO dollars, too, but that is beside the point.

I don't go to religious services regularly so I have no crazy pastors, rabbis, priests, ministers, reverends , imams, mullahs, bishops, or other spiritual leaders. However, I do subscribe to some radical magazines. But I read them only in the bathroom while soaking in the bubbly tub.

As a matter of full disclosure, sometimes I do feel bitter, and sometimes I'm clingy. I'm especially clingy when I forget to put fabric softener in the wash. The only guns I know how to shoot are cap guns. I prefer making a gun shape with thumb and forefinger and going "BANG BANG!" I can make machine gun sounds too. However, I only do that when playing GI Joe beats up Ken and takes Barbie out for a steak dinner and gets angry when she doesn't put out as advertised. But I believe that Barbie does have a right to say "no." As for hunting, I like to hunt for bargains.

Sometimes I drink. Sometimes it's Kool-Aid, sometimes it's juice or soda (also known as pop, cola, soda pop or "a soft drink). I also enjoy hard drinks too. But not too excess because I don't want end up on an infomercial called "Cougars Gone Wild on Spring Break." When I bowl, I use the bumpers to avoid those embarassing gutter balls. I don't know why I mentioned that other than when I drink the hard stuff, I sometimes go bowling.

I am in excellent health if you don't take into consideration all of the things that ail me. If you do take those into consideration, then I'm lucky I'm not on life support this week.

As for the issues, I am for them. Well, except for the ones I am against. I try to stay open-minded so that if my position on an issue changes, you'll never know it because you don't know whether I was for it or against it in the first place.

I believe in reaching across the aisle to the other side. Especially if they have popcorn or chocolate. I am bipartisan. It is important to have parts on both sides, and I do. Mostly I have parts in the middle.

A lot has been made in the race about color. That is a good thing. But we should not fixate on just white or black, but blue, green, red and yellow among other colors. That is why I support make-up. Should I make it to the top, I will create a new cabinet position, Secretary of Lookin' Good. I know this is not an original idea, but good ideas and slogans should be stolen from your opponents.

Finally, as your nominee it will be important to challenge the Republicans during the fall campaign.I know the Republicans will use 527 groups. We should have more than that. I think we should have 1054 groups. Which is twice as many as the Republicans. I will practice my schoolyard taunts ("I know you are, but what am I") and will practice rapid-fire deliver of "the dozens" ("you wanna play the dozens? the dozens is a game... the way I'll talk about yo' momma is a dirty rotten shame. yo' momma's feet stink so bad they make limburger cheese smell sweet) because we have to hit back and hit hard.

Well, I think I have outlined the reasons why you should select me as the Democratic nominee. I earned it and only I can beat the Republicans in the fall, All of the polling I have done tells me so. I polled myself three times in the last hour, and with every poll, I do better and better against John McCain. I am a winner. 

So when you meet tomorrow, you can avoid a stalement and pick me as your Democratic Unity candidate. 

Thank you and good night! 

From the ABC News blog this tasty morsel:

Another blow Clinton has had to face is one that concerns her finances. Clinton, whose campaign is approximately $20 million in debt, said in Huron, S.D. that she is the most fiscally responsible candidate.

"If you will vote for me next Tuesday, you are voting for the most fiscally responsible candidate on either side of the aisle," said Clinton.

So aside from being "virtually tied" with Obama, she can manage money better, too! So good that we got that one on the table.

Talk, please, amongst yourselves. Anyone?

Three rather unrelated things surfaced in this Jell-O mold I call a brain this morning. The first is an old Beatles song:

"I'm fixin' a hole where the rain comes in and stops my mind from wanderin' where it will go...
 
And the second, a scene from a movie, "The Magnificent Obsession" with Charleton Heston and Rex Harrison as Michelangelo and the Pope, respectively:

Michelangelo is painting the ceiling to Sistine Chapel. A never-ending project. The Pope once more inquires, "When will you make an end?" Michelangelo replies, " When I am finished." And the Pope asks, "And when will you be finished?" "When I make an end," says Michelangelo/

It seems that that is where we are with the Clinton campaign. We want there to be an end. She tells us she is not finished. We ask where is the finish, she says when she makes an end.

If the reports of what the Rules and Bylaws committee will do are to be believed, Hillary will not get what she wants. The end we were told is coming, will not arrive. Montana and South Dakota will not bring it to and end, so she will not be finished. She will not be finished because she cannot bring this to the conclusion she desires.

The Rules and Bylaws committee will give way to the Credentials Committee. The Credentials Committee will give way to a floor fight. She cannot make an end, so she is not finished.

This is her "maginificent obsession." To be President. And to be President you must count every vote, and having counted the votes (and although she does not want to admit it, to apportion the delegates), she will not be at the end she wanted, so she will not be finished. To "finish" she must be President. She will not be President, so she cannot make an end.

The third isWWII Japanese fighter pilots, Kamikaze. An impossible mission.  To achieve the mission, you must be willing to render the ultimate sacrifice.

Is the only way for her to "finish," to make "an end," dependent on her making the ultimate sacrifice? In Denver, at the convention, in August?

I will go back to fixing the hole where the rain comes in. I need to stop my mind from wandering where it will go. Oh no. Where it will go.