Hullabaloo is losing it’s collective mind. Today we see tristero going gaga over D-Day’s “The Obama Party” post from yesterday:

Win or lose, for good or otherwise, it really appears that Obama is in a position to renovate the Democratic party. As dday mentions, this does not necessarily mean that that reform will make the party more conducive to liberal and progressive ideas. As I see it, however, by displacing the sclerotic leaders who managed, incredibly, to make both the 2004 election and the 2000 race so close that a candidate as clearly awful as Bush could steal the presidency (once if not twice), there are potential opportunities for liberals.

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Some Obama supporters have truly entered a state that is referred to in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV) as “Bat-shit Crazy.”

At the normally sane Hullabaloo we get this from D-Day:  Read more 

WKJM appears to have gone tone deaf. If he was not always tone deaf. Great and unintentionally revealing headline:

Clinton Attacks “Elite Opinion” On Gas Tax Holiday

And your point would be, Josh?  Read more 

Seems the Obamessiah sang a different tune when he was an Illinois state senator..
He thinks its a gimmick today..but back then, he voted for it…

“He said drying up gas tax collections would batter highway construction, costing North Carolina up to 7,000 jobs, while saving consumers little.

“We’re arguing over a gimmick that would save you half a tank of gas over the course of the entire summer so that everyone in Washington can pat themselves on the back and say they did something,” said Obama.

“Well, let me tell you, this isn’t an idea designed to get you through the summer, it’s designed to get them through an election,” said Obama. He said his call for middle-class tax cuts would be far more beneficial than suspending gas tax collections.  Read more 

John Cole has clearly OD’d on kool-aid:

Where do these wingnuts come up with this perception? I see the same sort of crap from the Hillary Clinton blogs and the pro-Clinton commenters- this notion that Obama supporters are somehow unaware that Barack Obama is GASP a politician.

He is a United States Senator. He is running for the highest political office in the land. He is a politician. We are aware of this. Trying to change the tone and tenor in Washington as well as how politics is conducted is not apolitical, and we are all aware of this. What we reject is the current status of our politics, not the notion of politics. What we see in Obama is a chance to change the nature of our current political mess.  Read more 

Rochester Turning says this kind of corporations-over-people is unbelievable coming from a Democrat. The Albany Project wants to know what Schumer meant by that remark.

From Barack Obama’ Campaign Manager David Plouffe:

“Fairly or not, the majority of voters don’t trust Senator Clinton.”

I trust HRC to protect and push for women’s rights, worldwide.

Take it away, Correntians,

Why do you trust Hillary?

Syria Reactor Story a Diversion; But From What?

The US and Israel accused Syria on Thursday of building a secret nuclear reactor with North Korean help. There was a lot of innuendo in the press that the reactor was intended for nuclear weapons production. But AFP notes:

’ They said US intelligence had “high confidence” that the structure bombed by the Israelis was a nuclear reactor, “medium confidence” that the North Koreans were involved in building it, and “low confidence” that plutonium from it was for nuclear weapons.  Read more 

The Pennsylvania Primary results threw a scare into the BO campaign and its supporters. Before, callers to talk radio and TV programs warned of “trouble” if the Super delegates chose HRC over BO.

Then the Pennsylvania exit polls showed that more than a third of the supporters of HRC would NOT vote for BO. No threats here, no mob action – just a peaceful protest for good reasons.

But on hearing that, the Obambots went ballistic. There will be terrible repercussions if HRC is the nominee.” “We will leave the Democratic Party!” “Blacks will not vote in the General election” and so on, threat after angry threat.  Read more 

Dems hedge on healthcare

Congressional Democrats are backing away from healthcare reform promises made by their two presidential candidates, saying that even if their party controls the White House and Congress, sweeping change will be difficult.

It is still seven months before Election Day, but already senior Democrats are maneuvering to lower public expectations on the key policy issue. …  Read more 

From WKJM:

Status Quo Ante  Read more 

Bostonboomer has an interesting article about Obama the community organizer over at riverdaughter’s place, The Confluence.

I just want to highlight one portion, (quoting Ryan Lizza):  Read more 

Pittsburgh Lesbian

WQED Vote 2008: A Town Hall Meeting and Broadcast with Jim Lehrer to Air Live on Sunday, April 20 at 6pm

Public is invited to be part of studio audience

PITTSBURGH - While Pennsylvania presidential campaigns usually begin in Philadelphia, they don’t end there. What do these candidates know about the Pittsburgh region? What does the public want them to know?  Read more 

all right and here are Michelle’s response to hubby

“ Because Barack Obama is the only person in this race who understands that. That before we can work on the problems we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.

Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual; uninvolved, uninformed.”

Houston my obama translator is not working!

Hey Barack LEAVE MY SOUL ALONE!

Obama is the hopiate of the masses—jeqal

KBR is covering up another rape case, and in my own backyard, FLDS sect members call their religious freedom a shield against charges in their ongoing system of pedophilia, rape and domestic abuse.

The part I find hardest to stomach is that the mother, a rape victim working as an EMT in Iraq, was afraid that if she reported what happened to her, her son, who is a soldier in the same uniform, would be unhappy with her for betraying the service.

(Dawn) Leamon, who says she cannot sleep, appears exhausted. She tells her story without affect, little inflection and tamped emotion. She only tears up twice, most visibly when speaking about one of her sons, a 22-year-old US soldier who served in the Middle East recently. While she was in the process of debating whether—and how—to go about reporting her assault, she contacted him to see what his feelings were on the matter. “I didn’t want him upset with his mom,” she says, explaining that she was very loyal to the mission in Iraq and that he was similarly loyal to his service. “I was assaulted by somebody who was wearing the same uniform as him, and I just didn’t want him to think bad of me. My children are pretty much my world.” Leamon’s eyes fill with tears, and she pauses to collect herself. “I didn’t want him to be upset because I was calling out somebody who was wearing his same uniform. They’re supposed to be proud of what they do. And I’m proud of my sons. And in my mind, I live that war every day. I can make all sorts of excuses under the sun for bad behavior.”

Her son advised her to make the formal complaint.

“He was like, ’Of course you’re going to talk to CID, Mom. Of course you are.’” Leamon smiles. “He doesn’t think people should be allowed to wear his uniform and act like that. He’s been in the war too and says it’s no excuse. They’re better trained than that. That’s what my son thought. And he’s not angry at his mom.”

The part I am most grateful for is that the Texas Rangers, DPS, Schleicher County and Texas Parks and Wildlife officials who brought more than 400 children and more than 130 women out of the “Yearning for Zion Ranch” compound over the past five days managed to avoid creating a situation like Ruby Ridge or the Branch Davidian siege outside Waco.

Any God who condones child rape is no God I care to dignify in any way, shape or form; and any sect, preacher, imam, priest or other form of “pastor” who wants to advocate rape (those 72 virgins “promised” to Islamic martyrs, IIRC) — or genital mutilation, or honor killings — as part of the “faith” is not speaking for any God I choose to recognize.  Read more 

Obama blames his negative campaigning on Hillary.  Read more 

In today’s SF Chronicle:

“In fact, before his speech Clinton had one of his famous meltdowns Sunday, blasting away at former presidential contender Bill Richardson for having endorsed Obama, the media and the entire nomination process.”

I wasn’t there, so I can’t say whether this story is true or not. But I find it suspicious that it didn’t appear until today, and only appeared in a political gossip column (Matier & Ross.) It is also anonymously sourced (“one superdelegate said.”) Sounds like a typical media hatchet-job to me.

Remember the “meltdown” the Big Dawg supposedly had in the interview with Chris Wallace? Remember when Hillary supposedly “lost it” in a debate? The video in both instances told a different story.  Read more 

Why were Dean and other prominent (Obama-supporting) Democrats pushing so hard to make Hillary quit?

Obamaniac CW is that Hillary is divisive and needs to quit because even though she is “doomed” to lose, she will damage Obama enough in the remaining contests to give McCain the victory in November.

But that’s not the reason for the WWTSBQ meme. Hillary is hardly being rough on Obama, despite what his supporters say.

Hillary is being “divisive” because she won’t step aside so that Obama can unify us.  Read more 

Except she renames it “Take Your Boobs and Go Home” Watch… which works for me as well. I particularly like this quote which summarizes well what lots of us women feel about these repeated calls to withdraw:  Read more 

Via Riverdaughter:

What Obama said on The View

”Had the reverend not retired and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying there at the church,”

What Obama Really Meant  Read more 

Gene Lyons  Read more 

In a post entitled “Reductio Ad Absurdum” Josh shows us once again that he is quite adept at ignoring the obvious when it suits his needs. He rails against Clinton supporters who point out different scenarios that make Clinton look better than Obama when it comes to the getting the Democratic nomination. Josh is upset because “[t]here’s a set of rules everyone agreed on,” and no one should talk about anything outside of those rules. Such discussions are “just silly.”

Josh brings up this as an example:  Read more 

This McPeak goofball apparently doesn’t even remember his own childhood very well:

McPeak, a co-chairman of Obama’s campaign, then said to his Oregon audience: “As one who for 37 years proudly wore the uniform of our country, I’m saddened to see a president employ these tactics. He of all people should know better because he was the target of exactly the same kind of tactics.”

Wow, what’s wrong with this guy? What the heck has he been smoking? That’s positively absurd!  Read more 

Going out on a limb I’m going to say that Paul and his partner are good people. I’ve met them, feted Dem causes in their home, and I believe them before I believe whatever the DNC is saying about this. Shame on you, DNC. Even more than you already deserve. Howard, help me out here and do something to make me believe that this is all a misunderstanding. I want to continue to have faith in you. This makes it harder.

According to documents obtained by PageOneQ, a series of senior Democratic National Committee officials has been subpoenaed in an ongoing discrimination lawsuit by former LGBT outreach director Donald Hitchcock. Those ordered to provide sworn testimony include chairman Howard Dean, openly gay treasurer Andy Tobias, and Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council executive Director Brian Bond.

Hitchcock alleges that the DNC fired him after his boyfriend, political consultant Paul Yandura, wrote a scathing letter about the Democratic party’s governing organization.

Hitchcock also alleges that the DNC paid him less than his peers and that Dean, Tobias and others attempted to smear his name. The DNC won’t comment on the case, but Hitchcock says “I look forward shining light on the facts and discussing under oath the circumstances of my employment and unfair termination from the DNC.”

And to think: the work they have done, those two, for the DNC, for our causes! If this is true, I may get even more radical and “non-partied” than I already am.

Goddess I hate the Villagers. Kicking down decent, hard working, nice gays like Paul and Don, who are the nicest people I know in DC. It makes me sick.

E-voting vendor blocks security audit with legal threats

New Jersey election officials have scrapped plans for an independent audit of Union County voting machines because the vendor, Sequoia Voting Systems, says that unauthorized third-party security reviews would violate the county’s license agreement. Sequoia threatened the county with legal action when it learned that election officials were planning to send the machines to a respected Princeton University computer scientist for analysis.

California to recertify insecure voting machines
Sequoia voting machines used in five counties in New Jersey during the recent primaries exhibited unusual errors and emitted electronic tallies that were inconsistent with the total counts from the paper trail. Sequoia claims that the contradicting numbers are the result of operator error rather than a technical flaw. Election officials viewed Sequoia’s explanation with skepticism and decided that the irregularity justified an independent review of the machines.  Read more