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Man against the Machine
Posted January 3rd, 2008 by BLACK CELL
Every since the 1990's, the Republican Machine have been moving their Conservative base to the left. Take for example in 2000 when President Bu$h was the Machines choice. They moved their Conservative base to the left by using their sources to pander to Hispanics.
Their silent, but aggressive support for Rudy Giuliani is another example of how they are attempting to move their base to the left. At one point Giulian was one of the most popular Republican in the country.
It is clear to me who the Republican Machine wants as their Presidential & Vice Presidential candidates. It also clear that the Machine have two candidates that NONE of the Dems can beat. The problem is that their Conservative base is in the way, so the Machine has been whipping up support for their candidates.
Mike Huckabee has to win South Carolina in order to be considered a real threat to the Machine. How does he do that? His insiders have already put together a message that will be claiming that Huckabee is the real candidate who will help win their culture war. I believe that they are afraid to claim that the Conservative culture war will be dismantled by a Liberal Republican.
The Machine wants power & they can give a @#$% about a culture war that is something simular to what the Pilgrams were escaping when they crashed into Plymath Rock.
Huckabee's insiders has to put forward a message that will convince the Conservative base to challenge the Machine, a Machine that has done less for them than what Dems have done for black Americans. The Machine wants him to be nice; he can't go into this gun fight with a bb gun or he will fall at the waste side like John McCain &. Pat Buchanan.
The Repugs put out shallow talking points attacking Huckabee. If I were a true Huckabee fan, I would counter the repugs attacks by comparing him to the candidate that they, the Repug Machine, are silently supporting. This is not a debate about issues, or they would take issue with the two Liberals Repubs that they are privately supporting.
How can we help Huckabee accomplish his goal? By exposing the Repug Machines agenda to defeat Huckabee.
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OBAMA needs only 121.5 more Delegates to secure Dem Nomination
Countdown to the Nomination - 120.5 Delegates to Go
By Sam Graham-Felsen - May 16th, 2008 at 8:44 am EDT
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Yesterday, Obama secured the support of 4 superdelegates (Reps. Henry Waxman, Jim McDermott and Howard Berman and Larry Cohen (CWA DNC)), 1 pledged delegate in North Carolina (because of updated vote tallies in the state) and 7 pledged delegates that had previously supported John Edwards. That means that the number for Obama to secure a majority of pledged delegates has gone down from 25 to 17. And the number Obama needs to secure the nomination is 121.5.
The Math
Total Pledged Delegates: 3,253
Pledged Delegates needed for a majority of pledged delegates: 1,627
Total delegates needed for nomination: 2,025
Edwards Pledged Delegates who are now Obama Delegates:7
Obama Pledged Delegates:1,603
Obama Super Delegates: 293.5
Obama Total Delegates:1,903.5
Delegates Obama needs for a majority of pledged delegates: 17
Obama need to secure the Democratic nomination: 121.5
Please make some calls and make a donation today and continue the momentum. We're getting close, but we need everyone to continue to be involved if we want to make this thing happen.
UPDATE: Rep Pete Stark just endorsed, making the number of delegates Obama needs to secure the nomination 120.5.
Analysis: Looking to NH _ and Beyond
I don't know if you are seeing the BIG shift to the left across America, it's like a title wave. Candidates like Huckabee & the rest of the losers to the Machine seem to be advocates for change. They are the Good Repubicans who are tired of the skits by repugs.
The Obama mania is blowing them awaaaay!
MIKE HUCKABEE:
By The Associated Press
Huckabee, who won the GOP caucuses in Iowa, focused Monday on a message of economic populism. He told voters at a pancake breakfast, "There's a great need in this country to elect someone who reminds them of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off."
Huckabee spoke twice at Parker's Maple Barn in Mason, N.H., to a crowd of more than 400 people that had to be divided into two seatings to hear Huckabee and his campaign sidekick, actor Chuck Norris.
He goes next to South Carolina, where he has moved most of his Iowa staff and is running TV commercials that emphasize his abortion opposition and his tax cuts as governor of Arkansas.
While Huckabee does not expect to do better than third in New Hampshire, he believes his chances are strong in South Carolina, where, like Iowa, Christian conservatives dominate Republican primary votes. Support from evangelicals pushed Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, to victory in Iowa.
Huckabee also is gearing up for states that follow South Carolina, preparing to run ads in Michigan and sending staff to Florida, where recent endorsements include the state House speaker, Marco Rubio, who campaigned with Huckabee in New Hampshire.
Credit where credit's due
The NH Republican Party has pulled its sponsorship of the upcoming Fox News GOP candidate debate because of the network's exclusion of Congressman Ron Paul.
Hit them hard with our (R) hands
It is pretty amazing watching how the Republican voters are, pretty much, forced to vote for a presidential candidate that the Machine chose for them, while the Democrats just shoot it out & may the best person win.
I have noticed that Pat Buchanan & John McCain won early & they wasn't who the Machine wanted, so the Machine smeared them to death with false information, while they ignored all the issues that many Conservatives disagreed with in the candidate that they, the Machine, had chosen for the Party members.
I have always believed that those people believed in big government for themselves & small government for the rest of us; George Bu$h has proven that to the extreme. His administration have been big spenders like it was the thing to do & his supporters spit hairs by saying things like, I support his stance on the war, but his administration spend money like drunken sailors.
I think that candidates like Huckabee make a valuable mistake when they win the early primaries by going onto shows like Insanity & Colmes. Sean Insanity is looking to trip these candidates up becuase they are a threat to his Machine. You can hear him attempting to explain away Giuliani's liberal ideals while trying to exspose Huckabee for not being a Conservative.
If Republican candidates like Huckabee avoided those shows when they win the early states, they can force the host of those shows to complain & then explain why they won't go on those shows after winning the early primaries. It will force a debate withen their base.
If Huckabee was serious about being President, he would play hard ball with the Machine because the Machine is definitely playing hard ball with him.
What Would Reagan Do?
By Black Cell
Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."
It extremely fascinating to hear how the Repug Thugs are using Fred Thompson to attack Mike Huckabee. They know that this campaign has spun out of their control & are hoping that none of the leading candidates are the clear winner & a deal can be brokered during their convention..." Pipe Dream! "
Rush Limbaugh has been attacking Huckabee & John McCain & complaining that Thompson is not hitting McCain. Limbaugh as well as the rest of the Machine has been saying thing like they (MSM) are building up Huckabee & McCain to take them the real Conservatives. Then he mentioned Rudy Guiliani & Mitt Romney along with Thompson as the real Conservatives. That is why the Repugs are so easy to defeate in a debate where Moderates & Independents prety much control the election. They are people who try to use logic as their base for making decission, & Romney & Giuliani are no Conservatives. I am sure they are not going to allow anyone the opertunity to bust up their con by questioning thier spin.
BC. You lost me on this one.
Sometimes you hear so much BS it's hard to think straight. Sort of AC/DC. SO for now I'll just say "Earth to BC, where are you?"
Smash Mouth Football... Yea!
Huckabee becomes MSNBC 'Insider' for primary night
For coverage of the West Virginia primary tomorrow night, MSNBC has a new "Insider" spouting his opinions and analysis: Mike Huckabee.
The former presidential candidate, who many see as having a future in television (as well as politics), will be paired with DLC chairman Harold Ford. That role usually goes to Joe Scarborough, who's on vacation this week.
Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews anchor from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., with Dan Abrams taking over "After Hours" coverage from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Throughout the evening, just about all the network all-stars, including Tim "The Race Is Over" Russert, will be on hand.
Change is Always Met with Resistance
The Movers & The Shakers
The Hackin-bee's Campaign (Mike Huckubee's) has been the most fascinating of all of them. Huckubee has force the machine to define & adhere to Conservatism, it has been quite entertaining watching the machine in a paralyze state, or should I say, I am "relishing" in how Hakcabee's campaign has drained votes from Rudy Giuliani's future.
The continuous draining from Giuliali's dearly needed Evangelicals support is another reason why Huckabee should remain relavent, for at least another month. The Machine is shifting their support to Mitt Romney...GREAT!! ...lol!...lol!...lol!
live free or die trying!
Hi Gailwind
I wish I could tell you but I won't right now. I will tell you this. The repugs are trying to pick off a couple of blue states.
Are you a Democrat?
Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States. The Republicans have a very dismal record in the White House the last 7+ years. Remember Bush don't you? Don't tell me you want another 4 years of Republican White House?
Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States, it is time for a change.
Protesters ask former Baptist minister, “Who Would Jesus Bomb?”
By Mike Ferner
Des Moines – With 40 percent of Iowa’s Republican caucus voters expected to come from the ranks of conservative Christians, peace activists occupied Mike Huckabee’s campaign headquarters in Iowa’s capital city today with signs asking the former Baptist minister, “Who Would Jesus Bomb?”
Eight members of the Iowa Occupation Project and Voices for Creative Nonviolence arrived at Huckabee’s Locust St. campaign office early Monday afternoon, waiting for the former Arkansas governor’s reply to a letter delivered two months ago that sought his pledge to completely withdraw from Iraq within 100 days of assuming office; halt all military actions against Iraq and Iran; fund the rebuilding of Iraq as well as health, education and infrastructure needs in the U.S.; and “…the highest quality health care, education and jobs training benefits for veterans of our country’s Armed Services.”
Brian Terrell, director of the Catholic Peace Ministry in Des Moines, said approximately 35 reporters, including a number of international journalists, were at Huckabee’s office during the protest.
Terrell said in addition to the “Who Would Jesus Bomb?” banner, the eight protesters held signs that read, “End Iraq War” and “No War with Iran,” sang the refrain from “Auld Lang Syne,” chanted ‘Who Would Jesus Bomb?’ and then read names of Iraqis and U.S. soldiers killed in the war.
Sgt. Vincent Valdez of the Des Moines Police Department said officers responded to an early afternoon complaint from the Huckabee Campaign office and arrested Robert Braam, Mona Shaw and Kathy Kelly, on charges of trespassing. He said the three were among a group “holding signs, singing and reading aloud, basically making a disturbance.” Valdez said the officers had no trouble making the arrests and the three were taken to the Polk County jail.
In a news release issued earlier by the Des Moines Catholic Worker, Kelly, co-director of VCNV, was quoted as saying, “We’re very respectful of the Iowa caucus process and the long history behind it but we feel quite strongly that the issues of this war must be inserted into the process of narrowing down the candidates for the presidential election.”
Huckabee spokesperson, Eric Woolson, could not be reached for comment after several attempts.
Give you a hint we don't want another Republican
We don't have to waste too much time on the Republicans, our mission is to elect a Democrat and the Iowa caucuses was the start to get behind Barack Obama for President.
Remember we want change and many people in America are not happy with the status quo of operating the same way. Iraq and the economy were big for Iowans.
Let's wake up and start doing what we need to do and that is elect a Democrat to the White House and worry less about giving the Republicans attention.