It appears there are a couple new and upgraded versions of WWTSBQ
making the rounds these days.
The first, is the "I'm [or He] The Man" narrative typified by this:
Not long after the polls close in the May 20 Kentucky and Oregon primaries, Barack Obama plans to declare victory in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The advantages of this version over the previous version is that it ignores Hillary Clinton altogether. We should call this the TSBL (That Stupid Bitch Lost) narrative.
There is a slight variation of TSBL making the rounds as well called the TSBLLCTN: TSBL, Let's Come Together Now, typified by comments like these:
…what do Obama and his supporters need to do today to get you into this car?
Again, no need to talk about Hillary Clinton or them pesky voters. You know, the ones (TX, OH, RI, VT, WY, MS, PA, IN, NC) who have combined to give Hillary about a quarter of a million more votes than Obama over the last two months. (Go figure it out yourself, I did it.) It doesn't matter that over the last two months, Hillary has gained over 225,000 votes than Obama. TSBL.
The third variety comes from Hillary supporters who lament that she didn't win states that she did win or states that, demographically, only offer her at best 65% of the vote since the other 35% is no longer on the table for any candidate besides Obama. I don't have a proposed name for that yet.
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The third variety comes from Hillary supporters who lament that she didn’t win states that she did win or states that, demographically, only offer her at best 65% of the vote since the other 35% is no longer on the table for any candidate besides Obama. I don’t have a proposed name for that yet.
come on. I don't know any Clinton supporters who are that stupid (i.e. that the states that fit that "demographic" profile are solidly republican to begin with, and that while the loss of support is lamentable, its meaningless whether McCaon wins Georgia by 15 points or 40 points.
I'm talking about the primary, Paul.
African Americans have become inaccessible to Hillary (I don't cast judgment on them, but its an obvious observation. In campaign speak, they aren't part of her voter universe. Since they were about 35% in NC, that means Hill only had 65% of the voter universe to work with.
I'm just amazed that after winning the "tie breaker" state (Obama's words), and doing about as good as you can expect in NC, so many Hillary supporters seem to be that disheartened. She's barely behind Obama in the popular vote and will most likely surpass him when this is over.
I've never seen anyone criticize AA's for supporting
Obama. I have seen the reverse, AA's bashed for supporting Clinton.
I've also seen white's bashed for supporting Clinton. By "bashed" I mean calling them stupid and/or racist.
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" . . . we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender . . ."- Winston Churchill
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“I don't belong to any organized political party. I'm a Democrat.” - Will Rogers
I'm Starting to Rebound
Obama's Mission Accomplished announcement was just the thing I need. Nothing says leader of a lost cause quite like a premature announcement of victory.
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
The similarities are striking, BDB,
between Bush and Obama. It's their attitude. They may have differing politics (though I remember that line about being essentially the same as Bush on Iraq and years of voting thusly), but they share the arrogance that made Bush so dangerous. Arrogance, stubbornness and petulance aimed at any foe, real or perceived (e.g. Krugman), have me scared of Obama. If he wasn't all salivating over Roberts (who, basically said that overturning Brown v Board was what the civil rights champios really wanted) and touchy-feely over GOP regulatory ideas (ever noticed how anti-Roe and anti-Regulation are almost synonamous in the judiciary?), then I'd be able to understand the SCOTUS argument. At this point, not so much.