New Hampshire Defeat?

Or Win for progressives?[or change *]
This is my flash analysis prefaced by the note that I have only had a quick glance to go on. I have not even opened the link but looking at only the top three in each race. Literally:
Results at a glance The Seattle Times
Hillary Clinton (D)39%
Barack Obama (D)36%
John Edwards (D)17%
96% reporting

John McCain (R)37%
Mitt Romney (R)32%
Mike Huckabee (R)11%
96% reporting

My point is that without getting into the technicality that New Hampshire is a primary compared to the Iowa caucuses and the game metaphor that this is like a World Series, not like the NFL championships where they play "loser out"; for a second there I thought I almost lost it in paraphrasing, in that neither of these cases are one on one, (dot, dot, dot... pause) anyway -- the point: I guess I got to the point in my second line, and you can do the math.

And if you can't I will be glad to continue in that, I am presuming that it is not winner take all in New Hampshire and that Obama and Edwards voters add up to 53% of the assigned delegates. If I am wrong, well you know what they say about what happens if you presume. Just like assume, you make a pres out of u and me. OK that goes over better on the screen than it does aloud, but you get the gist. Or Rather, we get to be the butt of the joke.

[Updated References:
a.) the data which I removed from an OpEdNews posting was in the teaser portion of the Seattle Times which I did not grab a hotlink from, because I felt it would continue to be updated.
b.) the following morning I did open the link I provided and found the entire results and followed up on my punditry but doing a Google on [New Hampshire delegates determined] and found
The New York Times Election Guide "Delegates determined after all votes are in."
c.) my intention for those that need hints, was to make a pun on the process not the candidates or the parties, given that it is more of a horse race. *
d.) not that metaphors or data are copyrighted, but I did want a shot at following OpEdNews.com
guidelines, so dropping the actual data and links was convenient. Although the bottom link is now added, but as yet unread.
e.)finally The Stephanie Miller Show played Barack using a basketball metaphor but I do not know if an earlier article had made it to my filter or head space, I do recall using "post-up" in my stand-up work...out. ]

[ * 1-10-08: two changes - - "progressives" to "change" meaning Obama appears to be progressive, but Edwards seems to be the leader in that area and "horse race" to NASCAR "Title Chase Challenge" as it has more contests than the Triple Crown.]

Ferraro Flap

A ridiculous comment.

Ferraro said, "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."

Standing alone * it seems to make sense but it does not stand alone.
And then followed up:

"Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says, 'Let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world,' you're accused of being racist, so you have to shut up," she told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, California. "Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"

Her opinion is only her opinion and a very weak one at that; to take any factor out of context and point to it is bad enough but to call it lucky and call the country on it, is a worse concept. Is this another form of vetting or vaccination? It seems to make Hillary the "kinder, gentler" liberal, and that puts "liberal" in the wrong crowd of words here.

[Hearing this topic covered on Randi Rhodes this evening, I am reminded that Obama is where he is and maybe Ferraro is where she is by their choice of words, more than their race or gender. Just because Ferraro acknowledges affirmative action in her case, does not mean she recognizes progress in our case.]

* His background is part of him and he has made much of his circumstances, but Randi points out that if some vote for him for his race, it has not always been the case and they often in the past voted against a candidate for their race.

[Update 3-13-08: Bottom Line more "same old" ? ]

May Day!

King County Executive Race
Update.
Yesterday

MAY 5th, Race Forum
The race is now comprised of 4 Democrats and a "nominal independent".
Characterizations are dangerous
but so are closets.
If not amnesia.

Source Dump or Septic Tank:
SoundPolitics
Examiner
RedCounty
RD.net
SeattleTimes
SeattlePIblog
SeattleWeekly

As characterizations go, it may be fair and balance to list it so:
King County Chair Dow Constantine and former Chair and current Council Member Larry Philips are of Seattle, while State Rep and Microsoft manager Ross Hunter, along with former Republican Rep. now Democratic Senator Fred Jarrett are of the Eastside, with former newscaster and current non-profit executive Susan Hutchison is kind of out of the blue. Speaking of executives and managers, how many would love to be able to just hand out money or hold it back in the name of good?

ACORN: Seeds of Destruction

A squirrely claim is just nuts!

McCain perpetrator of collusion?

Voter Fraud Myth covers wholesale theft of voter rights.

On the lighter side:
The Powell Endorsement is more than cage* liner. No disrespect for the sources only some of the content**. Rush Limbaugh claimed that it was purely an issue of race. The connection to Ted is tennuous, but Ed?

* no slight but reference to both squirrel and voter caging***
** CNN is not really "fair and balanced" on some issues but the CSM referred to Rush's claim of race being the issue.

*** a new wrinkle: voter Re-registration fraud?

Update: Math...

and Super Delegates

It is interesting that one of the super delegates for Hillary feels that it should be up to the will of the people. He had endorsed her, because she called her and Barack did not. The point I make, I just made to a friend. (And not that this person is new to the process, but there was that 20 year old super delegate. But the super delegates are a representation of the party as much as the voters that have been newly inspired or cross-over. They are representations of people in general. And if I might add the media and politicians are often misrepresentations of people.) But the point I made is that even those that have been inspired by whatever is driving the large turn out, and many of course possess a feeling of scepticism of the process, often take to the process such as it is "like ducks to water" and others do their best to "work" the rules.

The super delegates were designed to make a "close race a landslide"? That seems as strange as criticizing them for taking a close race and being "the decider". Many fear the decision going to the convention. Hmmm. I would not fear that, for the sake of the process. So it is tough to get along. The Republicans apparently get along and look where it gets us.

BTW: if Bush can endorse McCain, and McCain can accept that, then whatever goes on between Hillary and Barack can be made nice for the fall, of McCain that is.

Supreme Court Decision on Voter ID

Is The SCOTUS Picking Another President? By making this decision now, it may have an impact on the Indiana primary, and the Democratic race. Not mentioned is the impact that John McCain being the presumptive nominee for Republicans has on voter turnout of crossover "Democrats".

While the whole Florida-Michigan fiasco, was based on the early elections hoping to put them more in play, that and the McCain "success" make late players more in play. These complicated cross-currents, not only make Florida-Michican but all late races more in play. It is ironic that so many want the race to be over, which would disenfranchise the late states, but the Supreme Court decides early to have their say on Indiana, while McCain is sidelined from the media scrutiny and Republican support as well.

[update: "Fair and Balanced"* Sermon ] And Breaking!
[on the Indiana law, I don't know if there is much evidence that there is actual voter ID fraud, but there is evidence (in different states] of voter disenfranchisement fraud and other violations of law by Republicans, a broad claim I will not detail at this time, but which include the "remedy" Indiana has installed.]

* for the culturally untuned: the motto of Fox News

[delayed broadcast of The Ed Schultz Show just ended: He points to the 180 that Obama has done on Wright but ...with McCain he can do it in a sentence or two. And I dislike the metaphor of throwing anyone under the bus, but it should call into question who will be "at the table" or what that means for Clinton, Obama or McCain.]

More Wings!

Breaking news or fixing King County:
Dow Constantine joins the race for King County Executive.

Previously (see the race above) Larry Phillips announced.

[At this time I am neutral as far as I can tell, but I will review my links for that sake. see bold in no particular order.]

To Be Arranged

(Re-modeling) Right Column:*
postings and other sources**
Navigation 1st use
Navigation II 1st use
Navigation 3.0 1st use
See those labels below, as they may evolve.
Labels 1st use

IMAGE INSERTED (see bottom line)

[Post-image insert, note ledes under leeds must be edited.
i.e. typo sometimes let go, sometimes intended, but who knows, or vise verse us[!]]


For the time being I will leave item 2 "as is."
But to note ledes:
Primary Boogeyman
Pay Dirt / Tax Mud
Calm Pend E Um
Table of Contents
Churned Media
Navigation 3.0
Making New Rounds
Right To Life
Leaking Intelligence
Odyssey Dawn
There was nothing...
Think Blue
I Told You So
The Tetrahedron
The one thing?
Segue/Sabbatical
2-20-11 Under Construction
The Maze of Mace
The Answering Machine
Bridging the English Channel
Note: this is the content at the link Navigation II(see label) as of 1-17-12

*this will be item 1
** see comment (1 below) regarding template upgrade
[template upgrade has evolved my need for change]

IT MAY HAVE NOW BECOME UNNECESSARY FOR ME TO INSERT PREVIOUS POST.***
THE BLOG ARCHIVE IS NOW WHERE I WAS GOING TO LOCATE ITEMS 1, 2 etc.
[This condition may evolve as I play with formats/templates.]
Labels label added.

*** apologies for anachronistic asterisks (No TrippleA [I. e!])
NFRY = not fully read yet: AKA not necessarily to be read soon.
Also not necessarily a valuable label, as it applies so frequently.
Today's Alex Wagner and Andrea Mitchell, especially the latter with Chris Matthews review a lot of the haggling of the Republican Race(slash debate), context and hyperbole.(see 1-17-12 scroll down here) Speaking of LBO[!] See AM and Leveraged Buy Outs and links lost(I thought I had embedded it somewhere today).(not to mention up tight[a,b,c] or out of sight asides.)(see lost here and found there, under fanciful economics, but not nfry.)[Meet the Press/FOXnews]
[Not pun/link TrippleA a D'Ribble: A ribble is a ribbing and a riddle. Not always labeled. First uses: Ribble, further parsing of first uses may be problematic. But here is a shot at D'Ribble and G'Ribble. A D'Ribble is a De-Ribble with few permutations, while a Grand Ribble may be close to an Obama Ribble which was probably an accident.]
[Not to go on and on, but related to the pre-bracketed regarding NFRY and AM(slash)race "the nation"...]
[Speaking of anachronisms (See Image/inserts)]

"the lesser of two evils" In Perspective.

It is disturbing, the exchange that is going on within the Democratic race. It is good that there is still a choice. And it is good that they are being testy in preparation for the general. But it must be remembered that the choice that is important will be in November. Of course the choice now is still important and it's a shame that there is still not more choice. But no matter the choice now, the November choice is the one that is really "the lesser of two evils".

I say this from an independent perspective in NOT that I call them both evil, but from a Democratic and American perspective, they are less good and more evil.[*] The Democrats get diluted by the independent vote, and the Republicans get deluded by their departure. While the Democrats have lost some of their good by the wayside, and it is now the lesser of two goods, the Republicans have lost the lesser of their evils if it remains McCain.

Now Huckabee may be the compassionate conservative that has no chance, but his rhetoric and revelations may be relevant. Unless a viable alternative is in the race, it is a choice between the major parties. Even an un-viable candidate, Nader, will be a vote that is not against the greater evil and for a lesser good. But a more balanced un-viable ticket, Nader / Paul might be the too good and the least evil, but at least represent the "hard work" of dialogue needed, and if these efforts are not attempts to broker the issues, would still be likely spoilers for the balance of good and evil.

It would be an interesting independent ticket if Bloomberg/Nader or Bloomberg/Paul or even Bloomberg/Huckabee could work on their issues. But that is a dream and what needs to be worked on is preventing the nightmare, and in that case a dangerous Republican ticket might be McCain/Huckabee.

[*] 6-3-08 UPDATE inserted NOT and it must be further clarified I am talking about the November choice.

Pap Attack on Thompson

"He really should be the GOP's pick for president..."
"almost a true reflection of Cheney, Bush and Rove and all the other thugs..."

See my earlier link, below.
[8-12-07: OK... too embedded in that last link, "Tangents from Angler" somewhere is the implication
that the 2008 race WILL BE, Clinton versus Thompson.
Even more buried is any link to information in that regard.
Here they are.
Not all would put a heroic sheen on Thompson's Watergate role
from The Boson Globe
Fred Thompson, Nixon's Mole
from The Stump AOL News Elections Blog
The 2008 Race could not only rehash accountability but the media's role:
Also found at - (Nixon's mole)
Media Matters
No Quarter
Raw Story
Related USA Today ]
-
Labels? NOT!

[The Colbert Report: The Word
The Daily Show: The president in his own words.
ifilm from SPIKE TV]

Blankely Point Blank Blames

40 years of Democratic governing for/or some such
Let's see... 2008 - 40 = 1968
The year that gave us Nixon, Humphrey, McGovern, and Wallace, not to mention Muskie and the loss of another Kennedy and King.
Now that is a sad but sorry loop.

This is a spin off from a commment by Tony Blankley today on Race for the White House, a show on MSNBC, which except for one Rachel Maddow and other occasional guests, should be called the Race to the Bottom...
line.
Speaking of dreams.

Tributes to MLK...

tend to ignore his complexity:
Historians say King was far from revered as he pushed activism beyond race

"At the time of his death, King was working on anti-poverty and anti-war issues."

"Obama has invoked King, and Sen. John Kerry endorsed Obama by saying 'Martin Luther King said that the time is always right to do what is right.'"

Clinton on hearing King:
"It was a transforming experience for me," she said. "He made it very clear that the Civil Rights movement was about economic justice."

Edwards on King comments: "Those who believe that real change starts with Washington politicians have been in Washington too long and are living a fairy tale."
"What the election is about is about building one America."

Of course this is cherry picking here. Maybe the simplicity of the media and the subtitled words "beyond race" is merited. But how can we not feel that the simplicity of the media and the current leadership is not ignored as well. Now is that not a double-edged sword that makes so much harder?

Complexity or simplicity or just untimely? "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy, and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

[updated: link added ]

The One Thing

Maybe I am on to something.
Ed Schutz and fine tuning the message.

Tax cuts increase the deficit, redistribute wealth and only make the country look broke. Well...this is a bit better than my potential rant on nuance.(See Artful Dodgers)

[Looking back at the Billy Club thing: George F. Will weighs in on the Huckabee deal. Three things: George F. Will writes for a living, he hopes to influence the presidential race, and the Republican race in particular, not that I link him with the Koch brothers or question his patriotism*. Apparently George F. Will has a concern about the Imperial or Pro-Colonial (Huckabee/Gingrich/Palin) wing of the Republican party.]

*just a short hand for intent in general

Independence Fence?

From the Washington Post Clinton Gives Lieberman A Lesson in Independence seems to be of more portent than the pre-primary prediction that the Lieberman Lamont race would be a watershed for Democrats or knocking them off the fence on the Iraq war. I had been reticent about jumping on that bandwagon with enthusiasm, and it was probably due to the double standard or rather nuance that others had in their positions.

President Clinton points out "...there were almost no Democrats who agreed with his position, which was, 'I want to attack Iraq whether or not they have weapons of mass destruction.' "
That is the fence that is hard to ride.

But the more important point that should be made is that Republicans are cutting and running. If only the Republicans would back off every state like it has Connecticut:
"We are not making any endorsement in Connecticut," said White House press secretary Tony Snow. "The Republican Party of Connecticut has suggested that we not make an endorsement in that race and so we're not."
Give all Americans a choice between a Democrat and a Non-Republican, and make law and order and national security the issues while they are at it.

I need to go on a diet of humor.

But now that I men shun it. 
Y U ...
[Hint] /?

But seriously,^ I was pondering a fantasy race today(3-25), and polled a few people.  Who would be a suitable candidate to run with Rand Paul, for a fictional set up of a Warren/Reich ticket?  Unfortunately one suggestion blew my punchline:  Dennis Kucinich.* 

Maybe I will fill in the inspiration^^ for this ponder/poll later.  Not that there is anything wrong with Hillary.  It is more of a take on the Hope and Change^ that has happened. 

* that was not the intent of my poll;
but then who am I ^^to advise R's.

D' Ribble:  "you people..."? / Who gets it?
Chimp ! Temporal / Monkey Business / C/D / (Eye of Be)Holder Courage / QCON: TruthOut (a, b, c/d, e, f)

^ 3-26-14 i.e. later
^^ who am I to advise: Throwing the Game / Apples and Oranges? 

Image of Original In Tent

Re: Sources

C W
Homer, Plato**, Hell'nistic, Hamiltonian/Jeffersonian *: Evolutionary Thinking***.

* less than random link/Google of the day?
not fully read yet,
never completely endorsed, unlike Labelists [Well...not exactly.]

** lede not

[The under lying(pun) under standing(literal) as well as substance, regards semantics. Now that is a pretty firm line for a fluid foundation.
See W(hint pun/ribble)
The history of the constitution falls into this spectrum. The Federalist Papers were an argument, for what does not matter, it won and lost, as the amendments suggest. The constitution was signed but not without compromise. And we were never on the same page again. This is my perspective without the usual qualifiers.]
*** How prophetic?

[Unoriginal In tent: related links without hints]
[On the other hand... looking for spectrum.]

[Given the field of the Republican Presidential race, no apologies are in order. Excuses maybe, blame yourself. BTW: not disappointed by Herman Cain, to drop out but carry the mess age to the table. But in honor of the Federalists, the non-party party, here is a third field or party or option. Caution!]

[NPR: Re-education]
[Update: Herman

GOP @)!@ ...(2012)

2012 that is.
Mitch Daniels, was my earliest hunch, Huntsman was a close second. Ron Paul was an early hope, but Gary Johnson beat him to the announcement. Now when I say hope, this is from the perspective that there be a good candidate for Republicans and the 2012 race, not that they should have any shot at being good for the country. This does not take into considerations any impact of a third party or independent candidate, or any political calculus. I don't find any references in a search of my blog but could have embedded some comment or link that may mention them. I associate Daniels with a Chris Matthews* comment, and Huntsman with some China controversy, while Paul and Johnson are libertarian. Which may be why I have been focused on economics and Ayn Rand. I would like to have a good de bait on neo-classical economics. It is hard to imagine Mitt Romney making it but then the longer the so-called libertarian or tea party candidate split the vote he or these guys could run the fish ladder, and it is hard to imagine a third party candidate that would not be just another spoiler. I don't want to do the political calculus to rock that boat.

* one reason I might scratch Daniels, but then again

5-17-11 Related links: Needless to say** Label
(Republicans 2012)
One No Trump
Two No Huckabee***

**Calm Pend E Um has a reference to an anomoly
*** Raising Cain

The Real Scoop?

The Whichgate?
The Yellow Leaks from Canada?
["NAFTAgate" Began With Remark From Harper's Chief of Staff]

It reminds me of the "yellow cake" from Africa
but they are on the trail,
and ready to send in the Mounties.

It was a very difficult read, [added 3-7-08]

["He said someone from (Hillary) Clinton's campaign is telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt. . . That someone called us and told us not to worry."

Government officials did not deny the conversation took place.

They said that Mr. Brodie sought to allay concerns about the impact of Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton's assertion that they would re-negotiate NAFTA if elected. But they did say that Mr. Brodie had no recollection of discussing any specific candidate - either Ms. Clinton or Mr. Obama.

CTV News President Robert Hurst said he would not discuss his journalists' sources.

But others said the content of Mr. Brodie's remarks was passed on to CTV's Washington bureau and their White House correspondent set out the next day to pursue the story on Ms. Clinton's apparent hypocrisy on the North American Free Trade Agreement.]

but will it soon drop from the radar?

If this does not shine some light on the candidates,
maybe Canada can shine some light on the journalism. [the story continued]

[Although CTV correspondent Tom Clark mentioned Ms. Clinton in passing, the focus of his story was on assurances from the Obama camp.

He went to air on Feb. 27 with a report that the Democratic front-runner had given advance notice to Canadian diplomats that he was about to engage in some anti-NAFTA rhetoric, but not to take it too seriously.

The report wound up on YouTube and caused an uproar in the U.S. race - influencing the final days of the critical Ohio primary, with every indication it will also play a role in the upcoming Pennsylvania vote.]

Is this part of someones campaign or strategy?
Maybe the best we can hope is that it vets us,
even if they do not get to the bottom of it.
Of course they could sound sincere now,
but still leave someone at the bottom of it.

Canada could be shining a light on our own congress
to have the backbone to investigate our own media
and the madness of our own accountability. [more * YouTube 3-7-08 Barack Obama NAFTA Scandal: A Smear Says Canada PM 3/3]

*[3-7-08] I did not post an original YouTube that depicted CBC in this or others that ran on from it.

[3-6-08: see bottom link and is someone vetting us? and should the FEC or the FCC or both investigate YouTube? For it can spread without linking or correcting, oh what a web they weave and just who do they really peeve?]

[3-8-08 Label: NAFTAgate added]
[3-9-08: UPDATE see bottom link there ]

"It's my turn"[!]

...is what came to mind as I saw Romney frame the race as a decision between the three winners of the last three contests. That's what Ron Paul(8:45) should say. Or maybe Herman Cain or Stephen Colbert should say it**. I am in the process of watching last night's debate on CNN and Rick Santorum (9:10)kicked off the debate with a thread that crosses another thought I had during the introductions, "We are a country of laws".* Actually Ron Paul had already started a few threads in his introduction, we are not nation builders. Romney(15:58) stands up to a Gingrich charge or rather a question on rhetoric and deals with it in legal terms. My original thought had to do with the irony of the conservative nature, but Gingrich is almost a false flag of rhetoric.

* quoting Santorum, not my thought or thread which I may have lost, but laws are the thread of building our nation

BTW- Not necessarily the missing thought: but in regards to Romney's financial reporting, does it bode well for his credit as a business leader, let alone maker of laws? I mean the mis-reporting, and his math regarding taxes and charitable contributions adding up at times to 40 to 45%?

[related irony (slash) update: what I thought was a churned media book event, may turn out to be good for the debate. What can we learn from Arizona? Will we take her up on it? Will the NAACP take Newt up on his charge? Just how do we demand paychecks*** over food stamps? Is it as easy as rhetoric?]

[1-28-12 In defense of PolitiFact... c4*]

[** 1-28-12 link added, Keep Paul Alive! (Courtesy of Buddy Roemer via Bill Maher.)

*** link added]

[c4* I have used as many asterisks as I intend but I would like to connect two pieces(or 3) which relate to the PolitiFact wordplay. Facts are facts and economics and politics everything else. (i.e. context and con text.) But more specifically The Economist has a perspective.]

Unity '08

UPDATE:
Third party entering presidential raceNovember 6th, 2007
Build a new political platform - from the people on up September 30, 2007.
Uniting for 2008 November 12, 2007.

Ahead of the Curve?
Not Exactly.

Partisan Disclosure:
Unity '08 Poll Participant
Democratic Party Activist

Op-Ed Background:
the "uniter"
Back and Forth
"between the lines"
See Far Right Column "Help Navigate"