Where have all the hours gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the posters gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the comments gone?
POOF - turned to dust everyone one
When will we be returned?
When will we be returned?

Please click to the Politico article below, and take a good look at the photo that's tied to the article.

Anyone in accounting will see it right away.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9259.html

Super Dels (I refuse to call them Automatic, TYVM), are supposed to independently weigh each candidate with apparently many different considerations, of which we are all familiar with and tired of arguing about.

One other factor that I don't see being talked about on the cable news networks is the "interest" scale.

"Interest" scale, you ask?

- Number of hits on You Tube
- Number of members at Official Campaign websites
- Number of donors
- $ Numbers
- Facebook
- MySpace

Amazing enough that Barack tops all of the above, but look at the sources of these website hits and "friend requests" and donations and excitement and interest that Obama creates as compared to either McCain or Hillary Clinton.

The youth vote alone is making SD's chatter excitedly. 

I think the historic implications in this year's election are sometimes being taken for granted and overlooked.

Act I

Hillary Pillory:

Pillory (from Roget’s Thesaurus)
Brand
Denounce
Heap scorn upon
Pour scorn upon
Ridicule
Deride
Humiliate
Tear to pieces

Yeah, I guess a fighter is good.
I wish her well in her campaign
against McCain.

Act II

O’Bama:

Oh! ye'll take the low road and
I'll take the high road,
and I'll take the White House afore ye;
But you and your true love
will never rent again
out the Lincoln bedroom of the White House

Act III

Confession:

My name is Lis, and I’m an Obamaholic.

(Hi, Lis)

I read TPM Election Central every day on my lunch hour.  I sit in my cubicle and answer the phones while checking out HuffPo, Politico and Real Clear Politics.  I talk politics to my boyfriend on the way home from work.  He pretends to listen while he concentrates on driving.

When we get home, I turn on MSNBC and then flip the channel up two notches so I can see what CNN is saying.

I even go one channel further, sometimes. Up to Fox News…..I’m so ashamed.

When I finish eating dinner I jump on the internet and visit HuffPo and RCP and TPM all over again, like they’re my new-found best friends.

Speaking of friends, when they’re not sharing their own political views with me, my family and friends and coworkers all tell me I’m obsessed.  The minute I tell them how important this election year is, they agree and start sharing their own political views with me again.

I need psychotherapy.

I need resolution.

I need someone to stop selling those moving Goalposts With Wheels to the Clinton campaign so that I can go to sleep tonight without worrying about what’s going to be said tomorrow.

I need November.

I need some sleep.

I’m an Obamaholic, and my name is Lis.

 

3 AM and they call me 'cause I'm still awake,
trying to help Bill unravel his latest mistake,
I don't love him, especially this campaign season
Yeah he talks way too much, so accusing his eyes
as he wags that one finger to loudly chastise
delegates, we’re both here for the very same reason

'Cause we can't jump the ship, we owe way too much money
Obama makes millions like bees making honey
and no one can find the right way to back out
so I strangle his neck with my hands
and seethe, just seethe,
Woah seethe, just seethe

(Bridge): There’s a way for us, still, to get back to the White House
we’re just as far in as we ever were out
These commercials we’ve made, we’ll just make them again
until no one knows what we’re about

But I seethe, yes seethe
oh, I seethe, yes seethe

3 AM and I'm still awake, writing emails
It’s much better than calling friends, crying and
ranting and screaming and threatening the jobs they hold onto
and I feel like Obama is gaining some ground
cause my dates in my diary no longer seem sound
and I know you’ll watch You Tube as long as you want to

But we can't jump the ship, we owe way too much money
Obama makes millions like bees making honey
no one can find the right way to back out
so I strangle Bill’s neck with my hands
and seethe, just seethe,
Woah seethe, just seethe

- Thank you, Anna Nalick, for letting me kinda borrow your song

(c) Lis Baumann 2008

 

Because, really....people like us, who rely on the internet for our news and communications, and who applaud Obama for his grass-roots campaign, owe a lot of it to Dean:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/04/democrats_to_embed_bloggers_at.html

Ah, the baby-steps
those first little footprints

His confrontation with boundaries
is so soft and feather-down
in a kid-proofed home

(The outlets covered with plastic barriers
the table legs covered in carpet
the Clorox hidden in a cabinet
behind a door that can’t open
unless you add the weight
of an adult and experienced hand to the equation)

But the baby can’t learn that quickly, can it?

That little boy could not possibly learn
to sit patiently by the cabinet
which houses all the toxins
and wait for the adult to show him the secret

Could he?

Ah, but look at him suddenly entice
his clumsy little hands
to model the way that Daddy’s hands work
when in a rush to grab the plunger

He’s a fast study, that child,
and the cabinet contains such exciting stuff

Just think of the fun he could have
in that mad scientist’s laboratory
if he only had access to it

Why, he could make himself invisible!

He could make himself above the law!

He could make himself a king, someday!

Just by watching those big hands move
in front of his eyes
performing magic feats unheard of until now,
getting away with opening the dangerous doors in the house,
all with a flick of the wrist, a certain action with the thumb:

Getting away with it
over and over again

No adult yelling or threatening to spank

This simple-looking child watches carefully,
waiting for his moment to reveal to the world
that he mimics better than he can speak…or think

-Lis Baumann, 2007

I originally wrote this poem about GW Bush and his father.

I think this year, it still holds true, because this year McCain, Clinton, or Obama could be that little kid. 

I don't know about you all, but I think I'd prefer Barack to be that child.  I think he'd know to respect that cabinet.

DF Girl:

Hey D, it’s me. If you’re there, pick up.
I was just reading you on TPM. [Sigh] Anyway, call me back.

Is it his avatar?  Those burning eyes....that interesting hat....

Maybe it's the fact that he stays up so late?  Or is it the Star Trek post?

Or maybe it's because he makes so much sense!

I've got a crush on DF.

[Sigh]

I have to admit, my stance on Iraq was basically founded on two facts.  One, my nephew is over there, serving in the Army.  Two, I feel that we should not be occupying a country that is in the midst of a civil war.  But -- up until recently my understanding of the civil war in question was pretty minimal. 

So I started doing some research on it.  Following are the three most helpful reports I could find:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/who-is-the-iraqi-army_b_93837.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/iraq-crisis-threatens-bus_b_94037.html

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12596

I've come to the conclusion that Bush set up Maliki as his choice of PM, even though the Iraqi people themselves seem to want al-Sadr instead. 

What I'm still trying to figure out, is why the US is trying to set up a government that has ties to Iran, instead of allowing Iraq to choose al-Sadr.

Am I misunderstanding something?