DAMNIT!
January 8, 2008
Looks like Clinton will take New Hampshire. Interesting.
*DISCLAIMER: I support Obama. He is refreshing. But let’s be real: if Clinton wins the nomination, I will be okay with that.
McCain wins New Hampshire. I think he would be most dangerous if he wins the Republican nomination. People like him. So did the independents in New Hampshire. He is certainly more balanced than the other Republicans. He would be perfect for the race-to-the-middle that characterizes general elections.
This is what I’d like to see:
Obama versus some crazy Republican
Here’s how I think the general election will go given the following possibilities:
Obama versus Huckabee: Obama wins
Obama versus Romney: Obama wins
Obama versus McCain: McCain wins
Clinton versus Huckabee: Clinton wins
Clinton versus Romney: Hard to tell…
Clinton versus McCain: McCain wins, narrowly…
I don’t know how I feel about this…
January 5, 2008
Jay Newton-Small wrote the following blog post. Things are getting a bit ugly.
Hillary Booed at NH Democratic Party Dinner
If the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s 100 Club dinner is any bell weather – Barack Obama will handily win here. When Obama, the dinner’s last speaker, took the stage the crowd surged forward chanting “O-bam-a” and “Fired Up, Ready to Go!” So many people pressed toward the stage that an announcer asked people to “please take their seats for safety concerns.”
By comparison Hillary was twice booed. The first time was when she said she has always and will continue to work for “change for you. The audience, particularly from Obama supporters (they were waving Obama signs) let out a noise that sounded like a thousand people collectively groaning. The second time came a few minutes later when Clinton said: “The there are two big questions for voters in New Hampshire. One is: who will be ready to lead from day one? The second,” and here Clinton was forced to pause as boos from the crowd mixed with cheers from her own supporters. “Is who can we nominate who will go the distance against the Republicans?”
The dinner held in the Hampshire Dome in Milford is the largest political dinner in New Hampshire history, Republican or Democrat. More than 3,000 people attended.
De-coronation of Hillary
January 4, 2008
Obama wins in Iowa!
Obama said the following in his electrifying victory speech:
They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. … But on this January night, on this defining moment in history, you have done what the cynics said we couldn’t do. You did what the state of New Hampshire can do in five days…
Hope is the bedrock of this nation, the belief that our destiny will not be written for us but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is but who have the courage to remake the world as it should be…
We came together as Democrats, as Republicans and independents, to stand up and say we are one nation, we are one people and our time for change has come…
Preach it, brother!
While all of this is fluffy rhetoric, I am truly inspired. His message of uplift worked.
Clinton’s nomination no longer seems inevitable. Interesting.
