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The Daily Show really skewered Hillary yesterday. Especially starting at -3:50...

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Absolutely hilarious - and spot-on, too :D

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Oh Hillary I love you smooch smooch smooch. Oh Fox News! smooch smooch I'm going to cream my pant suit!! smooch smooch. Hey what do you say we just... uh... turn off the cameras and continue this circle jerk more privately....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV4VyYWUW8k

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I'm sorry. I can't watch this kind of porn. Makes me barf after only a minute.

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They were positively giddy! Since when has Fox News been such a fan of hers, giving her every opportunity to push her rhetorical talking points, and even pushing brand new false stories about Obama for her? I guess since they realized Obama could actually beat McCain maybe?

Well maybe this will make you feel better. It's Obama on Fox yesterday....they certainly didn't fawn over him like the giggly blonde did with Clinton, but I think he did a good job. I just like that Obama is more of a direct talker - he answers with substance versus flat out rhetoric like Hillary was doing in the clip you posted, Strangelet.

And I stand by my assertion that what we're seeing from Clinton is nothing more than the final grasps at tiny, weak straws by her campaign. The press just loves to drag it out and make it sound tighter than it is because it's good for ratings. After the next primaries a week from tomorrow, Clinton will have lost any momentum she just gained in Pennsylvania, and she'll have no more significant opportunities to get it back.

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Interesting analysis on the Beeb website today about Hillz' claim to the popular vote.

It's the maths, stupid!

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All those economists are for elitists :rolleyes:

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18 cents a gallon is not a plan. 18 cents is nothing.

here's what i want to know about the gas prices. gas prices rise when the price of oil rises. the price of oil has been rising because of speculation. there's no change in supply, there's just as much gas as ever. but a bunch of dickweed investors are speculating and driving the price per barrel up.

now, something like two weeks ago congress held a special meeting about food prices, which are rising similarly. the concern was specifically about commodities like wheat. the reason they held the meeting was to determine whether there really was a real reason for the rising price of wheat, or whether speculation was driving it up.

why is it okay for speculation to drive up the price of gas, but not food? more pointedly, why is it okay for the price of ANYTHING to hinge on the speculation of dickweed investors? is it such a crazy notion that things should be priced according to availability? supply and demand?

our whole economy dangles by two threads: china and wall street.


i want ONE of the candidates to address this. i want someone to just say, "the gas tax isn't the issue. the issue is speculation." i feel like none of the candidates really get what the problem is as long as no one addresses that. we're all paying more because of speculation. why is that okay? SOMEONE address that.

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Senator Obama won North Carolina pretty convincingly tonight, 56% to 42%. Senator Clinton won Indiana 51 to 49. I'm guessing the total delegate count from Tuesday is going to be about 100 for Obama and 87 for Clinton. I don't expect Clinton to quit, but her only reasonable hope is that Obama screws up beyond repair.

There's also talk of her going the 'Nuclear Option' route.

Regarding the speculation issue for food prices, maybe the candidates would appear weak if there isn't a singular concrete reason to blame high prices when speaking to an audience? Their opponents would try to exploit that. I'm just throwing anything out there, and probably am not making sense.

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if clinton wins the nomination by fair counting of all primary votes (excluding simply seating michigan and florida without a re-vote) then i'll support her campaign in the fall. if she seeks a loophole and uses divisive, shady methods to win the nomination i will vote for john mccain without apology or crisis of conscience.

i will not support a candidate whose only path to victory is to use underhanded and shrill methods.

personally i don't think michigan and florida should have been omitted from the primary season and i hold howard dean ultimately responsible if these shenanigans end up costing the democrats the white house. but the situation being what it is, hillary did not win those two states by fair and equal campaigning. she was, essentially, the only option as far as both states were concerned. had they been included in the normal primary season it's not unlikely that she may have ultimately taken the majority of votes, but it is highly unlikely she would have swept all delegates the way she is claiming to have done.