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Huckabee: It was just a joke about the colored boy being a-scared of guns.

On stage, in front of the National Rifle Association, Rev. Mike Huckabee cracked a joke about shooting Barack Obama. Haha! Very funny, jackass!

While Pastor Huckabee was addressing the NRA audience, he heard a loud noise offstage:

"That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he's getting ready to speak," said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. "Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor."

Huckabee later apologized "IF anyone was offended" by his joke about assassinating Senator Obama, the likely presidential nominee of the Democratic party. Jokes like that about the colored boy being afraid of guns always went over well at the Klan rallies. Of course, they don't call them Klan rallies anymore, do they Pastor Mike?

Huckabee is famous for two things: losing weight and being dumb as dirt. Oh, I almost forgot. He's famous for letting murderers and rapists out of prison as long as they accepted Jesus into their hearts. They're free to go forth and rape and kill some more.

And he's famous for pimping out his wife while he was governor of Arkansas. Mrs. Huckster was paid $6,000 by the mobile home manufacturers' association for saying nice things about the triple-wide she and the big Huckster were living in temporarily while the governor's mansion was undergoing extensive repairs.

He's also famous for accepting gifts -- lots and lots of gifts -- while he was governor of Arkansas. And for setting up a "bridal registry" at three local Little Rock stores (including Target!!!) so that all his friends could buy "wedding gifts" for the Hucksters to help them set up housekeeping all over again after living in the governor's mansion for so long. All of their old appliances, etc., were out of date is the way he explained it. He's also famous for his parenting skills.

P.S. -- Dumb-as-dirt Huckabee is always threatening to shoot his political rivals. That's considered "manly talk" among the redneck "conservatives." What a bunch of retards!

Ina Jaffe: "What does hunting pheasants have to do with running for President?"

Huckabee: "It has everything to do with running for President. Because that way you prove that you can shoot and if somebody really messes with you with negative campaign ads, they just need to be prepared...I have mentioned nobody's name. I'm just talking about, you know, taking care of business."

Don't forget, this buffoon is an ordained Baptist minister. What a jackass! He's also real proud of the fact that he executed more men than any of his predecessors. More "manly talk" from the Preacher Man:

"If someone tries to tell you that I’m soft on crime, well that would be real news to the sixteen people whose executions I carried out. They didn’t think I was being real soft," Huckabee said.

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New Magic Number: 120.5

That's how many total delegates Barack needs for the nomination. Barack now leads Hillary "the dogged but deluded also-ran" Clinton by 186 delegates. Those superdelegates that Hillary is counting on to give her the nomination are all going for Barack. And the United Steelworkers just endorsed him yesterday.

Hillary is going to have a hard time giving her "tide is turning" victory speech next Tuesday night following the Kentucky primary if there aren't enough superdelegates left to give her the nomination even if all of them voted for her.

Next Tuesday night, following the Oregon and Kentucky primaries, Barack will have received a majority of the pledged delegates. He's only 17 shy right now. And by that time he should be less than 75 total delegates away from the nomination.

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Originally Posted by Ninong

Calif. State Supreme Court Rules Ban On Same-Sex Marriage Unconstitutional

I have a feeling this ruling, which takes effect in 30 days, will be a hot topic of discussion and affect the general election campaign, especially in California. A lot depends on how Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reacts.

This Is Going To Be An Issue In The General Election

It's hard to say which way this will cut but it's definitely going to be a topic of discussion by the religious right. It will drive voter turnout in some places. It shouldn't affect McCain or Obama unless McCain gets drawn into saying something about it. This is going to be a VERY tricky issue for McCain in California because if he decides to speak out in favor of the proposition that would overturn the court's ruling, he will be going against his dear friend, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is probably the most popular Republican in the country.

Ellen DeGeneres announced on her show yesterday that she will wed Portia de Rossi. That wedding will garner a lot of national media attention.

I wonder if Mary Cheney will take advantage of this window of opportunity to marry Heather Poe? That wedding would definitely get national media coverage, especially if little Samuel David Cheney's grandparents were in attendance. Mary Cheney has said that she would marry Heather Poe if it were legal and it's legal for them to do so in California once the new ruling takes effect.

Unlike Massachusetts, there is nothing in California law to prevent out-of-state same-sex couples from going to California to be married. The petition currently being checked for valid signatures will probably have no effect on any marriages that take place before the initiative passes in November, if it passes. It is almost certain that they have enough signatures -- they collected 400,000 more than necessary. I'll make a prediction right now: if the initiative qualifies for the November ballot, as expected, there will be more money spent on this single issue than everything else on the ballot combined, including the presidential race in California.

Right now the opponents of the court's ruling are getting ready to ask the court to stay the order until after the election in November. If the court agrees to do that, then there would be no weddings until after November, assuming the initiative fails. I have a feeling that the court will not grant the stay.

Another problem with the current petition is that it may be unconstitutional based on the way the court wrote its decision throwing out California's laws banning same-sex marriage. So, even if it passes, it might be ruled unconstitutional by the court. That's why I don't think the court will grant the stay.

This is driving the religious right nuts. They can't pick on "liberal" judges because there was only one Democratic judge in the California decision and no Democratic judges in the Massachusetts decision. All Republicans, except for one Democrat in California. In fact, the three Republicans in California were all conservatives appointed by George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson.

I read one comment by one of the usual suspects about "unelected judges" taking matters into their own hands. Just another moron who doesn't know what he's talking about. California's Supreme Court justices are appointed by the governor, approved by the Commission on Judicial Appointments and then confirmed by the voters in the next general election. They serve 12-year terms and at the end of their term, they must be reconfirmed (reelected) by the voters in the general election. The current seven members of the court have all been confirmed by the voters by margins of 69% to 75%. Back in 1986, the voters recalled the chief justice and two associate justices because they had a record of throwing out death penalties. They threw out the death penalty in all 61 cases that came before them. It became apparent that they would never uphold a death penalty under any circumstances.

P.S. -- McCain campaigned in 2006 for the Arizona constitutional amendment that would have banned same-sex marriages there but it failed. Arizona was the first, and so far only, state where a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages failed. McCain is opposed to a federal constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages, saying that this is an issue for the individual states.

P.P.S. -- I'm waiting to see what the court does with the motion to stay their ruling. I'm about 90% certain it will be denied. It will be interesting to see what the court says when they turn it down. That could give a hint to what they will eventually do if the proposed constitutional amendment that is expected to make the November ballot actually passes.

Douglas Kmiec, a professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine University who submitted arguments against legalization of same-sex marriage, is quoted in the SF Chronicle as saying he doubts that the court will allow a ballot initiative, even a state constitutional amendment, to revoke rights that the justices have just described as fundamental.

P.P.P.S. -- It's beginning to look like the conservative (Republican) California Supreme Court wasn't ahead of the voters after all. According to the latest Field Poll, a majority of Californians favor gay marriage.

This issue is going to be BIG in November, not only in California but in TV ads paid for by right-wing groups against Democrats in the Deep South. Every Democratic candidate is going to be asked whether he/she believes that gay marriage should be legal. Every Democratic candidate is going to be tied to "Barack Obama and his radical agenda" and "Nancy Pelosi and her San Francisco values." I'm still not sure which way it will cut. I just know that it will definitely drive turnout.

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New Magic Number: 119.5

That's how many total delegates Barack needs for the nomination. Barack now leads Hillary by 187 delegates. Maryland's Greg Pecoraro, another one of those superdelegates that Hillary is counting on to give her the nomination, announced for Barack today.

It looks like Barack will be about 35 delegates short of the nomination after the June 3 primaries, assuming not a single new superdelegate announces for him between now and then. That's not likely to happen. Certainly some new superdelegates will announce and maybe a lot of them will announce for Barack right after the June 3 primaries. I suspect that he will have more than 2025 total delegates before June 10.

[Ninong]

New Magic Number: 116

That's how many total delegates Barack needs for the nomination. Barack now leads Hillary by 190 delegates (pledged and superdelegates combined).

We're just 16 pledged delegates away from reaching an absolute majority of pledged delegates.

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New Magic Number: 109

That's how many total delegates Barack needs for the nomination. Barack now leads Hillary by 197 delegates (pledged and superdelegates combined).

Barack is picking up superdelegates right and left. Meanwhile, Shrillary is telling crowds of admirers that she has a lead in the popular vote because more people have voted for her than for her opponent. Notice that she is very careful to NOT explain why she worded her claim exactly that way: "voted for her." That's because the people in Iowa and Washington, for example, who voted overwhelmingly for Obama actually voted in a caucus for delegates to the state convention. Those states, and a couple others, did NOT release official vote counts. Barack obviously drew a lot more votes in those states than Hillary but they don't count because they're caucus states.

Hillary also neglects to mention that she's giving herself credit for 328,000 votes from Michigan and Barack credit for zero votes from that state.

The people who are still turning out to listen to Hillary's pathetic speeches are willing to believe anything, even that she has a lead in the popular vote and a chance to win the nomination. And her latest claim to the nomination is that Karl Rove said on teevee that she would be the stronger candidate for the Democrats to nominate.

Hillary Clinton -- She's now so desperate she's quoting Karl Rove.

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Warren Buffett on Barack Obama: "He is my choice."

Warren Buffett on George W. Bush: "He is an idiot."

FRANKFURT (AFP) - Warren Buffett, the world's richest man, is backing Barack Obama for US president and thinks current US economic policy will push the dollar lower against other global currencies.

Buffett told a press conference here Monday he had offered support to both Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, but that since it appeared Obama would win the party's nomination, "I will be very happy if he is elected president.

"He is my choice," Buffett said.

Commenting on the US economy, the 77-year-old investor who is known as the "Sage of Omaha," stressed that fiscal, monetary and trade policies were of great importance.

"I think that the US has followed and is following policies which will cause the US dollar to weaken over a long period of time," he said.

After voicing support for Obama, Buffett nonetheless noted the US economy had managed to do "awfully well" despite a depression, two world wars and many financial crises.

"They say in the stock market ... buy stock in a business that's so good that an idiot can run it because sooner or later one will," he added.

"Well, the United States is a little like that. We can take a little mis-management from time to time," Buffett said.

Here.

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Hillary Says Too Much Sexism, Not Enough Racism

Hillary Clinton called sexist attacks on her campaign "deeply offensive" Tuesday.

"It's been deeply offensive to millions of women," Clinton told The Washington Post in an interview, in which she pinned blame primarily on tolerant attitudes in the media.

Hillary is apparently in full agreement with her loyal supporter, Geraldine Ferraro, who said in March, "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position."

Asked today if the former first lady could blame her loss on gender, Ferraro said, "She might, but I certainly will and other people involved in watching the campaign will."

"Latent sexism has been around this country for a long time. In this campaign it was rampant," Ferraro said on NBC's Today show.

"There is a real difference in this country. It is not okay to be racist. It is just not. It is almost acceptable to be sexist," Ferraro said.

Clinton said she did not believe the campaign had been tainted by racism, adding that racism is apparently less tolerated in US society than sexism.

"There should be equal treatment of the sexism and the racism when it raises its ugly head," she said.

P.S. -- It is ironic that Hillary will be in Kentucky tonight, where she is expected to win a landslide victory over the colored boy thanks to "hard-working Americans, white Americans," on the same day when she blames her apparent loss of the nomination to Barack on gender discrimination being more acceptable than racial discrimination.

It is nice that Barack will be in Iowa tonight, a state that is 95% "hard-working white Americans," who voted for the colored boy over the white girl with the garish pantsuits. Maybe it's not sexism after all, maybe they just don't like bright yellow pantsuits?

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Hillary Is Placing The Blame Everywhere Except Where It Belongs

Hillary and her legions of middle-aged to elderly white women who seem to think that she was entitled to the nomination this year and that Barack Obama had no business even being in the race, especially considering his youth and relative lack of experience, should stop blaming sexism and accept the reality that Hillary Clinton's campaign was extremely poorly managed. Hillary's planning reminds me of Donald Rumsfeld's planning for what would happen in Iraq following our military victory over Saddam Hussein's overwhelmingly overmatched army.

Hillary made no plans for any of the states that held primaries or caucuses after Super Tuesday, February 5. Her campaign adopted Rumsfeld's tactic of Shock and Awe. She and Bill strong-armed superdelegates who were in any way connected to the Clinton Administration that they should announce for Hillary immediately or else. The message was, get on the train now because it's leaving the station and you won't be able to get on later. They both felt that former members of Bill's administration (Robert Reich, Bill Richardson et al.) had an obligation to support Hillary for president over any other candidate. It's was Hillary's turn and they expected everyone to fall in line.

The problem with Hillary is that she and Bill worked on the assumption that she was going to be the nominee. Their campaign was based on the inevitability of her nomination. To other Democratic hotshots, the message was "Hillary is getting this nomination and we're not going to let anyone stop us." Hillary's message to the voting public was "Vote for me for a rerun of the first Clinton Administration" (sans Monica). In other words, she was running as an encumbent, eight years removed.

In Iowa, Hillary expected John Edwards to win. After all, Edwards did extremely well in Iowa in 2004, coming in just a few points behind John Kerry, and Edwards had been campaigning in Iowa for more than a year before the January caucus. In fact, Edwards was way ahead of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the months leading up to the Iowa caucus. Things didn't tighten up until the last two or three weeks before the caucus. The Clinton Campaign didn't begin to take Obama seriously until he beat them by nine points in Iowa.

Hillary was shocked that she lost Iowa to Barack. Then she tried to portray herself as the "comeback kid" when she won New Hampshire by three points. You might remember that Bill Clinton called himself the "comeback kid" in 1992 just for coming in second in New Hampshire. Hillary's campaign strategy was based on having the nomination locked up on Super Tuesday. Barack shocked her on Super Tuesday. Then he took the next eleven contests in a row because Hillary had no organization to speak of in those states. In fact, her campaign had to scramble to get organizers into Texas because they didn't expect Texas to be contested. They viewed it as a gimme.

Hillary should just shut up with all the whining. She lost this race fair and square. Her management was flawed, her campaign was dysfunctional, her choice of campaign staffers was questionable, and her husband screwed up royally when he compared Barack's win in South Carolina to Jesse Jackson's win there.

The only thing left now is for the fat lady to sing and for Hillary to break down crying on camera. There, that's my sexist contribution to her campaign.

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Gallup Poll Shows Obama Ahead Of Hillary In Almost Every Demographic

Hispanics: Obama 51%, Clinton 44% (Hillary used to own this group.)

Women: Obama 49%, Clinton 46%. (Wow!!!)

Men: Obama 63%, Clinton 31%. (Men are getting tired of Hillary's whining.)

Young voters 18-29: Obama 74%, Clinton 25%. (What can I say. They love him, hate her.)

High School grad or less: Obama 47%, Clinton 46%. (Hillary used to dominate this group.)

Postgrads: Obama 65%, Clinton 31%. (They're smart enough to see through Hillary.)

Monthly incomes $5,000 or more: Obama 64%, Clinton 33%. (Not much change here.)

Non-Hispanic whites: Obama 47%, Clinton 47%. (Barack has closed the gap completely.)

Is Hillary still ahead of Barack in any group? Yes, just one and just barely.

Hillary gets 52% of women 50 or older. She gets only 41% of women 18 to 49, only 39% of men 50 or older and a pathetic 26% of men 18 to 49 years. Young guys can't stand Hillary! Hillary will tell us that it's because they're all a bunch of sexists. Anyone who chooses Barack over Hillary is obviously a sexist.

Gallup Poll, 5/20/08

P.S. -- Some idiotic talking heads on teevee right now are pretending that Hillary has a shot at the nomination. Haha! What a bunch of morons!

As of tonight, Barack has won an absolute majority of all the delegates chosen by the people in this Democratic primary process. Barack Obama will be the nominee of the Democratic party. Time to start looking for a running mate who is NOT-Hillary.

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"Well if the Democrats don’t want my vote, maybe John McCain and the Republicans do?"

Can you guess which Democratic candidate made that suggestion to a crowd of deluded supporters in Florida today?

If you think that's bad, you haven't heard anything yet. She compared the leadership of the Democratic party to Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe: "We're seeing that right now in Zimbabwe."

Hillary Clinton is comparing the Democratic party's rules to the Robert Mugabe dictatorship in Zimbabwe! If the Democratic party leadership doesn't cave in and agree to her demand that ALL of Florida's delegates be seated, then they're acting like Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and Hillary can understand why her supporters might want to vote for John McCain in November.

That's her same approach with Michigan, too. Michigan, where she left her name on the ballot after John Edwards and Barack Obama both asked that their names be removed because Hillary said that everyone knows "this election they're having won't count for anything." She has now changed her mind about that. She must think this is the old Soviet Union where you got to vote but your choices were rather limited.

She's now pitching her sexism excuse at every rally. The reason she's losing has nothing to do with her lack or organizational skills or her lack of oratorical skills, it's all due to sexism. That and the fact that some people in this country are apparently not racist enough to suit her. As Hillary explains it, apparently sexism is more tolerated in this country than racism.

Hillary coulda been a contenda if only we were all a little bit more racist.

P.S. -- Hillary is repeating the lie that she now has the lead in the popular vote and the media is pointing out that she's counting 328,000 votes for her from Michigan where Barack's name wasn't on the ballot but they are failing to note that she's also ignoring the votes from Iowa, Nevada, Maine and Washington. Hillary does NOT have the lead in the popular vote, not even after her 250,000 popular vote margin of victory in Kentucky last night. Barack beat her by 100,000 votes in Oregon, so she ended the night with a net gain of about 150,000 in the popular vote, which doesn't count of anything anyway, but...

Obama leads in the popular vote right now by 449,486.

Adding in Iowa, Nevada, Maine & Washington, Obama leads by 559,708.

Let's even add in Florida, where Hillary had a big margin. Obama still leads by 264,936.

So what the hell is Hillary talking about? She's adding in her 328,000 votes from Michigan and giving Barack credit for zero votes from Michigan. And, she's not counting Washington, Iowa, Nevada and Maine either. Shrillary, the new math wizard.

Barack has 1965 total delegates to Hillary's 1782. Barack needs only 61 more delegates for the nomination.

Hillary cannot win on delegates. Her game plan now calls for getting a very large turnout in Puerto Rico and then announcing that she should be the Democratic party's nominee because of the popular vote in Puerto Rico.

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Let's Recap What Hillary Said Today

(1) The Democratic party leadership is acting like Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.

(2) She can understand why her supporters might want to vote for John McCain in November if the Democratic party doesn't cave in to her demands that the rules she signed off on be ignored.

(3) The only reason she's losing is because of sexism.

(4) She has more popular votes than Barack, especially if you give him credit for zero votes from Michigan and ignore the states of Iowa, Nevada, Maine and Washington.

(5) Giving the nomination to the candidate who received the most delegates would be un-American.

(6) She's “never giving up and never giving in.”


Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

P.S. -- If Hillary thinks that she will be the de facto leader of the Democratic party and first in line for the nomination in 2012 if Barack loses to McCain in November, she's not only smoking dope, she's actually inhaling.

P.P.S. -- Barack will be the party's nominee and Hillary will not be on the ticket. And you can take that to the bank, as Clinton Campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe likes to say.

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Hillary's "Never Giving Up And Never Giving In"

Meanwhile, Obama Campaign screening VP candidates. Haha! Hey, maybe if we're lucky, Obama will announce his choice of running mate before Hillary "gives up or gives in."

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New Magic Number: 109 56

That's how many total delegates Barack needs for the nomination. Barack now leads Hillary by 197 188 delegates (pledged and superdelegates combined). Hillary picked up a significant net gain in Kentucky (23) but Barack picked up a net gain of 10 in Oregon. And Barack continues to get more new superdelegates than Hillary.

Barack leads Hillary in every category, including total popular vote. Hillary claims she has a lead in the popular vote but she's lying. In order to arrive at a lead, Hillary ignores four caucus states (Iowa, Washington, Nevada and Maine) that did not release official vote totals and she includes both Florida and Michigan, going so far as to give herself credit for 328,000 Michigan votes and Barack none, even though most of the folks who voted for "uncommitted" in Michigan were Obama supporters. In Michigan, Hillary got 55% of the vote and "uncommitted" got 45%. Another point that the media are ignoring: many people in both Michigan and Florida didn't bother to go to the polls because they were told in advance that it wouldn't count.

Hillary is hoping for a huge popular vote gain from Puerto Rico on June 1. If she can win at least two-thirds of the vote there and if there is a huge turnout, she might come close to catching up to Obama in popular vote totals assuming she gets both Florida and Michigan but giving Barack credit for the "uncommitted" vote in Michigan.

So now we're faced with the prospect of another Shrillary victory speech Sunday night, June 1, following the results from Puerto Rico. She will tell us that the people have spoken and that she received more total votes than Barack Obama and therefore she deserves to be the nominee. And besides, if she doesn't get the nomination, she will tell all of her legions of faithful over-60 white female voters to vote for John McCain, who is more qualified to be commander-in-chief than Obama. She made that point in one of her earlier TV ads about which of the three remaining candidates "passed the commander-in-chief threshold" test. According to that TV spot, Hillary has passed the commander-in-chief threshold and Sen. McCain has "obviously" passed it but "all Barack has is a speech he gave in 2002." And Hillary apparently has more experience at answering the phone in the White House at 3 a.m. -- "No, I have no idea where Bill is and stop calling."

If Hillary doesn't get her way, she will throw a childish temper tantrum. Right now her campaign is working on conning Obama into publicly offering her the VP spot on the ticket. Bill has been saying publicly that Obama should offer Hillary the VP spot. Obama has already told her directly that he doesn't want her as his VP. Now her feelings are hurt and she is demanding that he at least offer her the VP spot publicly so that she can save face and respectfully decline. Then maybe he could support her for Senate Majority Leader. Obama doesn't trust her. He's afraid that if he offers her the VP spot publicly, she might accept it publicly in spite of her private assurances that she would decline it.

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Once Upon A Time...

In Iowa in December 2007, Hillary bragged "I have a campaign that is poised and ready for the long term, we are competing everywhere through February 5th. ... So, from my perspective, you get up every day and you get out there and you make your case and you reach as many people as possible, that's what I intend to do, so I'm in it for the long run, it's not a very long run, hahaha, it will be over by February 5th. hahahaha!"



P.S. -- All those hahaha's are in quotes because that was when Hillary was laughing her ass off confidently predicting that she would demolish her opposition by February 5th. After all, John Edwards was an also-ran has-been from a previous losing ticket and Barack Obama was just this season's Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, not someone to be taken seriously by Her Hillaryness.

Click on the link to watch the clip. All the cackles come at the very end. In Hillary's mind (back in December), it was a done deal. She would be the nominee no later than Super Tuesday, February 5, 2008. No wonder she said she didn't see any reason to take her name off the Michigan ballot. At the time she said it was because Michigan's primary won't count but what she really believed was that her victories in all of the other states would be so overwhelming that everyone else would drop out and endorse her on February 6th.

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New Magic Number: 109 56 52

That's how many total delegates Barack needs for the nomination. Barack now leads Hillary by 197 188 192 delegates (pledged and superdelegates combined). He continues to gain more superdelegates than Her Hillaryness, who will "never give up and never give in" because you never know what might happen. In fact, he's gaining some superdelegates who were previously committed to Hillary.

WASHINGTON — A co-chair of Hillary Clinton's National Hispanic Leadership Council has defected and pledged his support to Barack Obama, Clinton's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. He was joined by another California superdelegate.

The defections came as a new poll showed that Obama would handily defeat John McCain in California in November — and do so by a larger margin than Clinton would.

U.S. Rep. Dennis Cardoza, whom Clinton named to his Hispanic leadership post in December, shortly after Cardoza announced he would support her for the nomination, announced he was switching sides on Friday. "I believe that Senator Obama will inevitably be our party's nominee for president," Cardoza, a Democrat from Merced, in the San Joaquin Valley, said.

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FOX News contributor jokes about assassinating Obama.

First she deliberately mixes up his name and calls him Osama, which has happened more than a dozen times already on FOX News, and then she says it would be nice if we could knock off both -- Osama and Obama.

This woman is the former New York Bureau chief of the Moonie Times but she works for FAUX News now.

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Truly Amazing

I have CNN on in the background and I just witnessed Bill Clinton saying that he's astonished at how the Obama Campaign is trying to "pressure and bully the remaining uncommitted superdelegates to come out and announce their support now."

What? This is the same guy who pressured and bullied superdelegates at the very beginning of the campaign that they had better get on board the winning team now because the train was leaving the station and it would be too late to get on later. They were taking names and they would remember who their friends were once they returned to the White House where Hillary belonged.

He's also demanding that Hillary "at least be offered the VP spot on the ticket." He says she deserves to at least be offered it. If she's offered it, she will accept. That's the problem!


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"It's clear, this election they're having is not going to count for anything," Hillary Clinton, October 11, 2007, speaking about the upcoming Michigan primary and explaining why it doesn't matter that she's leaving her name on the ballot even though John Edwards, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson and Joe Biden had withdrawn their names. Hillary was leaving her name on the ballot only because she didn't want to insult the people of Michigan. It was not a sneaky attempt to get more votes than her opponents because, as she and everyone else clearly understood, Michigan's primary would NOT count for anything.

"If you're a voter from Florida or Michigan, you know that we should count your votes. The results of those primaries were fair and should be honored." -- Hillary Clinton, March 12, 2008, has now reversed herself.

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Barry Obama not qualified to be commander-in-chief because...

He told a war story about an uncle liberating Auschwitz and it was really Buchenwald. The Republican National Committee put out a press release announcing that this proves he will never be qualified to cross the commander-in-chief threshold like WALNUTS!.

Hillary announced that when she liberated Buchenwald, she had to dodge heavy sniper fire.

Li'l Hillz

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Buchenwald was only a "work camp."

The level of ignorance and stupidity displayed by the swiftboaters of the wing-nut brigade never ceases to amaze me. Our Lady of the Concentration Camps, Michelle Malkin, has them all stirred up about Barack Obama's uncle, who may or may not have been in the U.S. Army in Europe in 1945 and may or may not have participated in the liberation of any concentration camps. They're still trying to disprove Barack's claim that his uncle participated in the liberation of any Nazi concentration camps. They even doubt that his uncle even served in the Army during that period.

The Obama Campaign has already released a statement saying that it was actually Buchenwald and not Auschwitz. Sometimes the details of these family war stories get mixed up over the decades.

One of the right-wing blogs had the nerve to send an email to a website dedicated to the history of the 89th Infantry Division and World War II asking if they could please provide any information on Charles W. Payne or Charles T. Payne (they were unsure of the correct middle initial).

Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:14 AM
Subject: Any Record Of Charles W Payne?

Mr. Kitchell, [This is the owner of the 89th Inf Div site.]

As you may have heard by now, Barack Obama has claimed that his great uncle Charlie Payne was a member of the 89th Div that liberated Buchenwald.

According to records his full name is either Charles W Payne or Charles T Payne (most likely the former), and he was born in 1924 — and he is still alive today.

He most likely was from Kansas at the time of enlistment.

Do you have any record of this gentleman?

Thank you,

Steve Gilbert
[web address of wing-nut site]

The response from Mr. Kitchell, member of the Greatest Generation, was swift and to the point:

Please crawl back under the rock you came out from.

Good day,

Raymond Kitchell, veteran 89th Inf Div

OMG! That is the best putdown I have read in ages! However, the wingnuttery corps will not be put down lightly. Some of their commenters are calling Mr. Kitchell a liar and they are still digging deeper to "uncover the truth" about the so-called service of Barack's so-called uncle during World War II. You would be amazed at the disgusting comments they are posting about an 83-year-old World War II veteran who served his country with honor and distinction. And all because he happens to be related to Barack Obama. He's a brother of Barack's maternal grandmother.

One of the facts these geniuses have uncovered is that Buchenwald was only a work camp! These jackasses don't understand that Auschwitz was officially designated as an "extermination camp" and all of the other concentration camps were officially designated as "work camps." "Guests" at the "work camps" were beaten, starved and worked to death.

Someone who claims to have spoken with the family directly posted the following on the wing-nut site but I doubt that it will have any impact on the wing-nut corps. They're not interested in the facts.

J Straight
May 29th, 2008 at 12:02 am

On the matter of the military service of Charlie Payne, the great-uncle of Barack Obama:

His full name is Charles Thomas Payne and he IS the uncle (the term “uncle” has in fact been used even for great-uncles in that family) who served in the Army in the 89th Infantry during WW II and suffered severe enough PTSD that, after coming back from the war, he isolated himself at home for some time.

Charles recovered, attended college and to this day is an active, mentally vital, 83 year-old resident of Chicago.

This information was obtained tonight from a phone conversation with members of the Payne family and is being posted to correct the mis-information that is swirling around the internet.

CORRECT info:
1. Charles’ middle initial is “T”, not “W”;
2. he did have what is now termed PTSD; and
3. he was so traumatized by what he encountered during the war, that he in fact did isolate himself at home for a lengthy period of time.

Charles is the second of FOUR Payne siblings:

1. Madelyn Lee
2. Charles Thomas
3. Margaret Arlene
4. Jon Virgil, (born 1937, which is why there is no listing for him in the 1930 Census of Augusta City, Butler County, Kansas. This census has been the only source offered for “Payne sibling info” on all of the genealogical sites cited by those interested in this story.

I suspect that the listing for Charles E. Payne of Kansas is in fact the record for Charles Thomas Payne. I believe the scribe probably heard “E” instead of “T.” That type of error is frequent in census records and in military records where the info is provided orally:

Payne, Charles E. Inducted 9 June 1943, Army 37531353 Registered, order