Obama supporters, the time of reckoning has come! Clinton piledrived Obama last night in the fabled Pennsylvania Primary, utterly annihilating his campaign with a staggering 9.2% victory.
Obama voters emptied their Starbucks cups onto their own faces, hoping the searing pain of hot coffee would stifle the sting of soul-shattering defeat! The humanity! Infants crawled into the streets just to cry in public! Oh the wailing! A handfull of college students noticed Obama’s vanquishment on a silent T.V. in a bar, and they were briefly flustered! The teeth-gnashing! The elderly flooded grocery stores to stock up on Chex Mix and Ginger Ale, utterly indifferent! Oh the incuriousity!
Lest you be fooled, you listless, lazy disciples of the false prophet, Obama, heed these words. Should Hillary go on to pulverize him as she did last night, she will have erased his paltry lead after only sixteen more Pennsylvania primaries. Be warned! The rapture draws nigh! Don’t be caught in an airplane or other mass conveyance!
Steve Wieland
fsford
timhilton
smahieu
Morgan N. Engling
maryiowa
jaimiesuzi
jarens
kevinjames
brieanne
lcm
Andrew
sandista
enwinfield
While I disagree with your implied premise (plug your ears, bury your heads in the sand, pay no attention to the reality behind the curtain, because He has clearly, undoubtedly, definitely already won, so there’s no need to worry about the fact that it is becoming increasingly clear that She Who Must Not Be Named will never, never, never give in until he has literally won the nomination), “emptied their Starbucks cups onto their own faces” made me laugh quite a bit.
Brilliant!
I’m donating to Hillary’s campaign right now.
my face still burns, but the sting is only temporary as compared to the pain HRC / Operation Chaos / McCain supporters will feel come November.
I thought that Operation Chaos was the secret plan to make us a Top 10 law school…
Tim, I have no idea what your first post said, but I will massage your sweaty feet with my bare hands if Hillary gets the nomination. Promise.
I accept! I would put her chances at < 10%. It serves Obama’s purposes to pretend that he’s already won. But with Hillary continuing to do this well, I don’t think he can legitimately ignore her.
While I agree that Hillary has very little chance of securing the nomination, I do think it is troubling that Obama fell so flat here considering:
He outspent HRC more than 2 to 1;
He is widely considered the presumptive nominee; and
He had 6 weeks to make his case (remember, the Obama people said he didn’t win earlier large primary states because he didn’t have time to campaign - and that he was unstoppable when given a few weeks to introduce himself to a state).
And don’t give me this 20-point argument. The race has been significantly closer for several weeks, and no one in his right mind thought HRC would win by 20 (everyone knew that was a ridiculously soft number from the beginning).
I will support Obama in the general, but it is deeply disturbing that he has lost virtually all of the delegate-rich Democratic states, and has done so by significant margins. It is equally frightening that his road to the presidency seems to depend on Virginia, Colorado, and Nevada (3 states that have been blue-ing, but are traditionally Republican) - people in his campaign have acknowledged they are not hopeful about either Florida or Pennsylvania, and are shaky on Ohio too.
I readily acknowledge Obama is almost certainly going to be the Democratic nominee, and I also note that he had better win or all your names will be mud in my book.
Why is it disturbing? We need someone who wins among the general electorate, independents and new voters. He does all those things. She wins among old Democrats. Steve, my sweaty foot massage offer applies to you as well if Obama actually loses Pennsylvania to McCain in the fall.
I think it’s a little presumptuous to say that he “wins among the general electorate.”
What’s disturbing is that he lost in in the big democratic states by 10+. He can win the over the 5000 voters in the primaries in Alaska, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Alabama, etc., but there is less than zero chance he can prevail there in November.
Barack Obama cannot win the presidency if the Democratic base is not behind him, including the “old Democrats” to whom you refer - do you know what kind of numbers old people vote in? Additionally, he needs to appeal to the lunch pail / blue collar voters, because if they vote for McCain in any large numbers, it’s all over and Obama is back to his day job. Those voters have not embraced him yet, so he has some work to do.
My point was there is no excuse (and no one with any sense can make a serious argument) for Obama getting crushed in Pennsylvania at this point in the race (given his enormous advantages noted above). Obama supporters are trying to spin this thing, but it’s not happening - Pennsylvania overall was not a good thing for them any.
Also, since Obama “closed the gap” in Pennsylvania by 5 or 7 points, does the same standard apply to HRC in North Carolina? I saw a poll where she was down more than 25 points a few weeks ago - if she pulls 5 or 7 points closer, does that make the Obama win insignificant? Nonsensical.
Well you’re stupid.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/democratic_vote_count.html
Look, she’s winning the popular vote by 4 hundredths of a percent if you make up a bunch of numbers from caucus states and count the states that don’t count. Seriously, though, that’s enough for the Clintons to go on.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120104819435508233.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
Or the Superdelegates might just pick her.
And then I stay home on election day.
Mike - good column you posted there. I was just having that conversation with my brother last week. It’s hilarious to me to hear Obama people talk about how evil the Clintons are, because that’s what Bob Barr, Ken Starr and the rest of the right wing conspiracy have been saying for about 15 years now.