Thoughts on Obama

What's the latest?  I haven't been able to get the latest scoop in months.  Thought this had the potential to rerail McCain.

All the TV pundits are now spinning Clinton's appearance on SNL and the Daily show as helping spin the positive news cycle which seems to have given Clinton the "bump
she needed to regain lost momentum and propel her back into the race, delegate math nonwithstanding.  

Question is:   With Clinton yesterday, Nader today, presumatively Obama should be next right?  I'm sure Stewart would be excited to have him back on the show.  

First sentence of the State of the Union speech included the word "Rostrum"

"7 years have past sicne I first stood before you at this Rostrum...in that time our country has been tested in no ways we could not have imagine..."

Who else had to google this word?  I think Bush is trying to work on his legacy.   Too bad we already know him to be an idiot.

I'm a diehard Dem but decided to adopt the old adage "know thy enemy" and so likely wasted 90 mins of my valuable life watching the Republican Debate.   I live in Florida, am a manager in a mostly republican company, and live and breath Politics for no good apparent reason.  Perhaps it is due to the fact that I'm extremely well travelled having been to over 60 countries at the ripe old age of 32.

One way to perhaps keep pressure on Rumsfeld to resign is to set-up a website and collect "pledges" from people where they pledge to give say $10 or $1000 dollars to a fund if Rumsfeld goes.  This fund would help the families (particularly those with small children left behind) of our brave fallen soldiers in Iraq.

call it www.rummymustgo.com or something and get people's email addresses so you can email them a reminder (encrypted of course)

If it got to the $1 million dollar mark it would generate alot of good press and help change the "crazy left liberal bloggers" meme that is starting to spread.

Seems like a win-win to me. Even though I'm a graduate student I'd happily contribute $20 from my beer fund to see the neocon puppetmaster go into retirement and in the process help those who truly need our help.

Any one actually want to do it?

Thoughts?

www.cnn.com Q: Do you think Sinclair Broadcasting's plan to air an anti-Kerry documentary is a violation of equal time laws? erhh.. yea!

As part of GoTV effort dubbed "chomp the vote," the university of florida student govt brought in Michael Moore to give a speech on campus.  

This effort has been in the work for months and Michael Moore wanted to be at UF the day before the release of Farenheit 9/11 on DVD.

So i went an hour early to get good seats.  It was amazing, students lined up for a quarter mile to get in.  The place was packed to capacity (~15K!) and there were still thousands outside wanting to get in.  

He got heckled by Nader supporters and he was trying to give them props for being activists, remarking that they reminded him of himself at their age, but the nader supporters kept yelling so he said to them, "I am trying to give you guys a friggin complement!" .. nader supporters kept screaming that Nader will get troops out of Iraq in 6 months" so he literally told them to fuck off. And then he took it one step further: i can say 6 months, everyone.. say 6 months. See we can all say 6 months too but just like Ralph, no one here is going to get elected... He showed about a half-dozen fake Bush ads.  (can someone help me find these online.) my favorite was this one:  59,000 americans died in vietnam... john kerry went to vietnam and didn't die... do you want this guy to be president..??  vote bush!

he even arranged the county voter registrars to be present so that voters could register until midnight (everywhere else in florida closed at 5pm!)

The crowd was estatic and i had a wonderful time.  even the two dozen republicans had a good time.

he showed us the dvd extra of bush after meeting with the 9/11 commission.  IT IS A MUST SEE.  

he also dropped this bomb:
HE IS WORKING TO GET FARENHEIT 9/11 ON TV THE NIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION.  A ONE TIME ONLY SHOWING!