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When Will Obama Concede?
No Quarter is still pushing a video of a Rainbow Coalition/Operation Push event in which Michelle Obama and Mrs. Farrakhan spoke (notice that part already changed) and so did Bill Clinton. Ooooooooohhhhhhhhhh
Just Get It Over With and Impeach the Dumbass
I believe this is called a double dog dare to Blagojevich to bring back the Lege:
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – It started as political banter. But now the idea of trying to impeach Governor Rod Blagojevich could be closer than ever to becoming reality.
House Speaker Michael Madigan says it will take 60 votes in the House to seek impeachment, when asked if the governor would need to be criminally charged first.
He also acknowledges his top lawyer has researched the issue. The speaker says — quote "It’s just to be prepared, that’s all."
Some lawmakers fear the governor could be asking for more impeachment talk if he brings legislators back to town and they repeat another summer of special sessions and fighting.
Blagojevich wants lawmakers to fix a budget he says is $2 billion out of whack by July First.
House Democrats say special sessions alone wouldn’t trigger impeachment but acknowledge the sessions could provide an avenue to pursue it.
I Hear the Gore – Obama Ticket is Still Coming
I’m sure it still will be as President Obama is sworn in on January 20th.
Note to McCain Advance Team
Making your candidate look like Yoda without the charisma is not a winning strategy. However, feel free to keep doing it.
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He looks and sounds like the child of a Bob Dole/Bob Rumson gay marriage.
The Salad Bar?
Let me just say, Obama would do fine at the Applebees I go to (the girls like their Mac and Cheese). He has two young girls and it’s pretty damn easy to take them to Applebees or Chilis. And what the hell Applebees is Brooks going to–since they don’t have salad bars…
Our discourse keeps getting stupider every day. David Brooks goes and visits the homespun folks and thinks he’s one of them.
Oh, and how does David Brooks do at Harold’s? Oh wait…that doesn’t count. They have black people there (the closest three Applebees to me almost always have a majority of patrons who are black–but I think we know what Brooks is thinking of here).
Thinking your Slats Grobnik’s best friend doesn’t qualify one to know what Slats thought.
Ah, The Memories
Only long time readers know why this is so funny.
Why Going to Denver is an Empty Threat
While many are panicking over Clinton taking the fight for the delegates to Denver, it’s a non-credible threat. More frustrating is that Ickes and others presenting the outcome of the May 31st meeting as somehow determinative truly misrepresents what has occurred.
If you take the Democratic Convention Watch numbers for if Michigan and Florida had been seated fully with Obama receiving 22 of the 55 uncommitted candidates (leaving 33 still uncommitted) we see that Obama would need 124 delegates of those remaining and Clinton would need 234. Let’s split the remaining uncommitted in Michigan as a likely scenario and you get 108 and 218. Now split Montana and South Dakota to make it easy. 93 for Obama, 203 for Clinton. Take todays vote in Puerto Rico and you go to about 170 for Clinton 72 for Obama. Barring a few remaining uncommitted that leaves about 220 Superdelegates to fight over.
She’d have to win 77 % of the Superdelegates leftover then. He’d have to win 33 percent of the remaining to win even with Florida and Michigan full reinstated, and Obama taking 38 of Michigans 55 uncommitted delegates and splitting Montana and South Dakota.
A challenge at Denver is pointless and the problem with Ickes little show yesterday is it continued to play into the notion that somehow the decision made determined the outcome of the nomination. That’s bullshit and when anyone talks about how Obama has to get Hillary supporters on board, he cannot do that until that campaign declares to its supporters that it is over. Now, if that happens on Wednesday or Thursday, that’s fine. But if we continue with this notion that there is someway to overcome Obama by taking it to the convention, that is nonsense and needs to stop. It cannot happen and it will not happen. Playing it out until this week is fine. After that, the Clinton campaign needs to explain the reality to its supporters.
In reality, this was over when Obama kept Texas close. There were at least scenarios where Michigan and Florida could have changed that, but they were unlikely given both broke the rules. But one could see the argument for the Clinton campaign to continue. That has not been true since North Carolina and Indiana when the election was truly over regardless of what happened with Michigan and Florida.
The Stupid Discourse Goes Stupider
Ultimately, the latest right wing blog attempt at fact checking rests upon the notion that there is no possible way that genealogy records could be wrong.
I’ll let those who have ever done such research stop laughing. The proof that Obama must be wrong was that the genealogy records were for Charles W. Payne, not Charles T. Payne.
Although we were not able to reach Payne directly, Payne’s son, Richard Payne, said his father "definitely served in the 89th Infantry Division" and confirmed that Obama’s account was substantially accurate, except for identifying the wrong concentration camp. Richard Payne declined to say anything further.
Mark Kitchell, who maintains a Web site dedicated to the 89th Infantry Division, said he was able to locate a list of servicemen that includes a Pfc. C. T. Payne who served in the K Company of the 355th Infantry Regiment of the 89th Infantry Division. The list included only the initials for first names.
The 355th Infantry Regimen was the one that liberated Ohrdruf, Kitchell said. Kitchell, the son of 89th veteran Raymond E. Kitchell, obtained the list from the official Division History book, written shortly after the war.
Finally, the National Personnel Records Center, an operation of the federal government’s National Archives and Records Administration, put this question to rest.
Researchers confirmed to PolitiFact that Army personnel records for Payne would have been destroyed in a 1973 fire that consumed many such archives, but they dug up a "Morning Report" dated April 11, 1945, showing Pfc. Charles T. Payne was assigned to the 355th Regiment Infantry, Company K. The Records Center provided a copy of the report. A faxed copy provided to PolitiFact was legible enough for us to make out Payne’s information, but the faxed photocopy of the record is too grainy to be of use if posted here.
There’s no question Obama misspoke when he said his uncle helped to liberate the concentration camp in Auschwitz.
But even with this error in locations, Obama’s statement was substantially correct in that he had an uncle — albeit a great uncle — who served with troops who helped to liberate the Ohrdruf concentration/work camp and saw, firsthand, the horrors of the Holocaust. We rate the statement Mostly True.
Charles Payne is 83, lives in Chicago and apparently never talks about the liberation of the camp. It’s too bad it had to be brought up again because of a bunch of slobbering children who think they’ve found a conspiracy afoot because a wrong initial in records.