Obama the Socialist?

Sen. John McCain’s new dig at Obama is that he wants to “spread the wealth” and that that makes him a socialist.

When I heard this, and learned that people could actually be buying into this, I laughed. 

Firstly. If anyone, and I mean anyone, supports an NFL team that isn’t successful and calls Obama a socialist or “redistributing the wealth” they might as well give up on the “socialist” NFL.

The NFL has revenue sharing you see. What that does is it takes all the money it makes from TV and distributes it amongst the teams. Major League Baseball, AMERICA’S pastime, does the same thing. 

Look. Obama may be very liberal, and I understand that doesn’t sit well with a lot of people. But to believe that he wants to redistribute wealth and make America a communist state? Really? Does anyone pay attention? Do people realize that a BAIL OUT would be the same thing? Doesn’t McCain support the bail out? 

I believe John McCain, like Republicans in the past eight years, has been put in a tough place. George W. inherited an America that had some problems, but those problems were probably overshadowed by the good economy. But, the dot com boom finally busted and 9/11 happened. I don’t know how unlucky you could get to start a presidency. 

Something similar happened to McCain. See, the conservative way of doing things isn’t doing so well right now. After eight years of George W., people are sick of Republicans. This will be mirrored by the way the Senate races go. McCain is the leader of an unpopular party and happens to be a very liberal conservative, if that makes any sense at all. 

McCain had to solidify the base, which is what the Palin pick did, and he’s done that pretty effectively with his new “socialist” message. I suppose it worked, but you don’t have to go that far.

It especially hurts when Obama is not going to raise taxes for the middle class. 

Basically:

Obama is not a socialist.

McCain has no choice but to say these things.

Don’t fall for campaign spin from EITHER CAMPAIGN. 

To further the above point, McCain isn’t Bush.

Don’t stick to one news source.

I think my last point is the best one. Don’t only watch MSNBC because the ultra liberal view can blow your mind. Don’t watch too much CNN cause they are slanted to the left a little as well, though it’s not as obvious. Don’t watch too much Fox News cause there is far too much yelling, and I don’t think it’s good to watch people yell a lot. 

Ultimately, I got off track here… but everyone needs to look things up for themselves and ratify their sources before listening to one thing and running with it! Gah.

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.

This is why you need to be educated.

Or you will look like a complete and utter fool and become a YouTube sensation.

For some background, President Bush was in Israel and in a speech to the Knesset he essentially took a shot at Obama and comparing him to Hitler appeasers. McCain then took it a step further and compared him to Neville Chamberlain.

Obama has said that he would be fine with talking with Iran and negotiate with them, and basically using diplomacy to get Iran to end it’s nuclear weapons program. That is what McCain and Bush were referring to when calling Obama an appeaser.

Here’s the vid I’m talking about:

Obama captures 9 more superdelegates

And he brings the Democratic primaries an inch closer to ending.

One of the ’supers’ was a former Clinton supporter as well. If the majority of the ’supers’ support Obama this primary season could end as soon as two weeks from now.

In the meantime, Obama and McCain have essentially begun the general election swapping blows on whether Obama is endorsed by Hamas and if Obama is age-ist or if McCain is losing his bearings.

Oh, boy… there will be some fun come November.

Even more fun considering McCain’s pastor supporters may be more controversial than Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Rev. John Hagee, a McCain endorser, has claimed Hurricane Katrina was created by God to punish New Orleans for its homosexual sins.

On the other side, Rev, Rod Parsley has called Islam a “false religion” and has essentially called on Christians to wage war on the religion.

Right, now it’s time to sit back and wait for the backlash… I mean, there has to be backlash. Right? …right? Media? Hello?

Call it

It’s time to call it. The democratic primaries are essentially over unless Hillary Clinton pulls off the comeback of the.. well… I can’t think of a time frame large enough so I’ll say the greatest comeback ever in any contest ever.

It’s that bad… seriously.

There are six left and Obama is favored in three and Clinton is favored in three. Numbers say Obama just needs about 160 delegates to clinch while Clinton needs 370 or so.

Unless she absolutely dominated the rest of the election and the remaining superdelegates felt sorry for her and went for her anyway, there’s no way she can win. There really isn’t.

So, it’s time for Mrs. Clinton to pack it up and call it the end. It’s over, and it’s officially time to concentrate on the general election.

Forget ‘Bitter.’

I decided to skip watching that little debate between Clinton and Obama today, okay so maybe I just wanted to watch my San Jose Sharks in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but really… I’m getting tired of all the talk about Obama being and elitist and calling people bitter.

I just don’t understand how it makes him bitter. I really don’t.

Maybe I’m wrong, so maybe someone could tell me… but I don’t get it.

I’ll relate it to this: I’d call Red Sox fans bitter… or okay, they were bitter before they won these two World Series recently. They’d always mess up somehow against the Yankees and watch the Yankees pull it off, at least most of the time.

Red Sox fans were bitter, it was one of the reason they hated the Yankees.

Actually, it’s more like common sense. People get bitter when they’re struggling. It happens, nothing to be ashamed of. I don’t understand how that made Obama elitist.

Me thinks Clinton is getting a bit on the desperate side.

And maybe I’m not a politico… but I’m just getting tired of this getting dragged on, and on, and on. I just want Obama to wrap this up so I can concentrate on this national election.

Sure, I’ll fire up Google News and read about the latest happenings, but I’m not going to follow every detail like I did around Super Tuesday.

Oh, and Go Sharks. If you don’t like hockey you should really watch just one playoff game. They really are something special.

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.