Sexism vs Palin

I’ve been hearing a lot of noise this election. And I mean a lot. For instance, the McCain campaign is sending out noise that the media and even Obama are being sexist when they’re being tough on Palin. Well, guess what: they’re not.

Obama, Biden, and McCain have all been involved of this process for nominating our presidential nominees for months. Palin is a fresh face who is a NO NAME. No one knows who the hell she is. So, what’s the reaction? Well, we want to know who the hell she is. So what does the media do? They explode and try to find out as much as they can about the Governor from Alaska. 

Another thing, the whole issue of her daughter being pregnant. No one went and pried into her personal life to find that out. The McCain campaign let that information out into the public to avoid it being a problem later on. There it is. Now stop complaining.

Let the media do it’s job. Let them find out all they can about Palin. If she is going to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency we deserve, and should, know everything we can about her.

There’s also a little issue about Obama and his “you can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig” remark. Well, it was a joke. It was a bad joke, but it’s a joke. This joke was talking about policy. Although Obama should still watch what he says as the McCain campaign seems to have a ten man team waiting in the wings to chug out another TV ad whenever needed.

Can’t we please forget the sexism and racism from the media and focus on issues and the candidates character? I mean really, the only sexism and racism in this election season will come from voters.

The Bane of the Democrats

Is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

She is pushing, and pushing, and pushing that Michigan and Florida be counted. There is one problem, and I find this upsetting: Obama and Clinton AGREED, yes AGREED not to campaign in Florida and Michigan because they broke party rules.

Clinton AGREED to this, but now for her own personal gain and to no benefit of the party she is absolutely hurting the party in every conceivable way. She agreed not to campaign in those two states, but now that she “won” the states she wants them to be counted. And by “win” I mean being the only big name on the ballot in Florida with an upstart no one knew in Obama as the opponent and her being the ONLY person on the ballot in Michigan.

The more Clinton talks the more she stirs the emotions of the voters in Florida and Michigan and the worse Obama looks even though it’s not his fault. He simply complied with the request of the party, as did Hillary.

But Hillary is a victim of double talk on this. She’s changing her tune and it makes her sound good. But it hurts the party in the long run.

Note to Mrs. Clinton: do the Dems’ a favor and stop. Double talk again and downplay the votes of Michigan and Florida. Howard Dean’s plan has always been to seat the delegates after a candidate has been selected, but guess what? He can’t do that with you in the race.

This hurts the Democrats chances in November as Obama is in Florida trying to appease voters. He’s going to need that state in November against McCain, but the Republicans will have a field day there if this doesn’t get resolved soon.

Hillary, please think of your party and concede defeat.

Superdelegates, please end this.

It’s only going to get worse.

Uh oh Hillary?

Hillary Clinton will say that she’s winning and leading for the nomination and all that. She’s happy and touting her victories in California, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. On the surface, you might say Clinton is the front runner.

But… wait. Clinton was ahead by about 20 points nationally just a couple months ago. But now? Obama and her are in a basic dead heat, especially since Obama won a whopping 13 states last night. In the delegates both candidates are also in a dead heat.

Ok, maybe you still give Clinton the edge and possibly the momentum for blunting Obama’s comeback. I mean, she did win California and New York. She also won by double digits in both.

Thing is… she just donated $5 million to her own campaign. Obama just got $32 million in the month of January alone. There’s still a long way to go and one candidate clearly has more money than the other at this point.

Not only is she potentially running out of money, but now MSNBC reported that Hillary’s staff is working for FREE. Yes, free. That’s not good, as you might imagine. Politico.com reports that sources close to Obama say he’s on pace for $30 million in February.

Uh oh Hillary?

But you gotta wonder. Hillary was favored by so much just a couple weeks ago, and now they’re even. She could’ve went for the jugular, but now she’ll have to slowly grind it out. This reminds me of a sporting event or a game or a match or whatever you term it. The underdog is hanging around and hanging around and is being allowed to hang around by the favorites.

Obama is taking advantage of his opportunities and Clinton isn’t.

And now we’re entering the fourth quarter of the conference finals with a tie.

Who’s gonna make it to the championship?

Initial reactions to Super Tuesday.

It’s safe to say that Sen. McCain has wrapped up the Republican nomination. With Romney and Huckabee dueling it out over second place McCain continues to garner states and keep his front runner status. As we continue with the states I’m sure McCain will continue to take states despite not being amazingly popular with conservatives.

However, there might be a problem with him during the General Election. He failed to get any of the southern states. Huckabee essentially sweeped those while Romney took a lot of the northern states, including Alaska.

On the Democrat side, it’s essentially a tie. Though, it’s an impressive tie for Obama. He was way back in the polls a month ago and now he’s neck and neck with Clinton and won more states than her.

It’s been a long and exciting Super Tuesday, but tomorrow morning we’ll get on the delegate counts.

Just a side note: My condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the tornados in the south. Hopefully they can get aid as soon as possible.

Obama v. Clinton

Last night we finally got to see Obama and Clinton go at it alone one on one, and well… they were pretty nice to each other. They both played it safe and didn’t go after each other too hard, but there were some things that stood out.

When asked how she could be an agent for change if the country has been headed by a Clinton or Bush for the past twenty plus years she responded with a non-answer. To her credit it was an entertaining non-answer, but a non-answer nonetheless. In case you didn’t catch it, she said something to the effect of: ‘a Clinton had to clean up after the first Bush and maybe it’s time for another Clinton to clean up after a Bush.’

I found it funny that both candidates talked about the rich not needing tax cuts and such things when some of Hollywood’s biggest players were in the audience.

I do believe that Obama is the better candidate of the two, if you had to choose one. He clobbered her when talking about the Iraq war and she did well talking about her health car plan… but… it just doesn’t make sense to me. Let’s see, she wants to mandate health care so that if you can’t afford it you’ll be slapped (most likely gently) with a penalty if you do not have it. So, she’s telling me that I have to worry about finding a way to afford health care if I don’t have enough money to sign up cause I might get hit with a penalty.

Obama’s plan just makes more sense. Lower prices so everyone can get it. I mean, who doesn’t want health care? Is there really anyone who doesn’t want health care and wants to struggle when a medical emergency comes there way? I don’t think so. Look at consumer products. At $600 both the iPhone and PS3 didn’t sell amazingly well, and when the prices dropped to $400 people bought it in droves.

Super Tuesday will be interesting though, and it’s coming up fast.

Now for some other musings:

Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo! and create some actual competition for Google. Yahoo’s stocks have fallen and well, this just seems to good to be true. It would definitely raise questions for Microsoft about buying too much and having too much power and all that, but I’m curious to see what a Yahoo MSN would be like… or Yahoo Live or whatever they want to call it.

Motorola has been struggling for a while now. You can only be carried by the Razr for so long. Silly Motorola, it’s time to hit the drawing board and think of some new phones and designs that don’t milk the Razr. Nokia is clearly the leader of the world but needs to do more in America. They could possibly open up new Nokia Stores and advertise those sweet N series phones they have. The new one, the N 82, is more feature-packed that even the iPhone.

Countdown to Super Tuesday

The nationwide state-by-state voting for the Democratic and Republican Primaries takes place in a little less than a week now, and things are getting just a bit more exciting ’round these here United States.

Firstly, Edwards and Giuliani are out. Giuliani gave his endorsement to Sen. McCain of Arizona while Edwards… well… hasn’t endorsed anyone yet, but it’s hard to see him endorse Sen. Clinton when they’re so different. Oh, and he’s attacked her the most compared to the rest of the Democratic nominees.

An Edwards endorsement for Sen. Obama makes sense as well, especially after Obama took time in his speech today to talk about poverty (something Edwards was centralizing his campaign on).

It’ll be tough for Obama, however. According to the likes of CNN.com and MSNBC.com, Clinton leads in New York and California, which happen to be the two states on Super Tuesday with the most delegates.

I’m excited to see whether the endorsement of the Three Kennedy’s and the debate tomorrow can shift Obama in those two states. It’ll definitely be an interesting couple of days.

On the Republican side it’s essentially between McCain and Romney. McCain will likely take it all unless Romney, or even Huckabee, can pull off some upsets and take back some of the momentum. Although, if McCain wins the nomination there’s a potential problem he could face in the national election. The following sentence:

“I was on the front lines with my friends saying we not only can’t withdraw but we’ve got to have additional troops over there in order for us to have a chance to succeed.”

McCain said that at the GOP debate tonight. And, well, that’s not a very good thing to say when it seems like most of the country is very against the war. Oh, and most importantly want the troops back in the states as soon as possible.

I urge anyone and everyone voting on Super Tuesday to pay attention this weekend. The Super Bowl is on Sunday and people will get a bit distracted with all the Super Bowl Parties and whatnot, but there still are primary elections on Tuesday and they will shape the nomination races in both parties.