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Barack Obama secured the Democratic nomination for President last night and made history by becoming the first African-American nominee to the highest office in the land, but Hillary Clinton wasn’t about to let him enjoy it.

Rather than give a gracious concession speech acknowledging her opponent’s hard won victory and begin the work of unifying the Democratic Party to defeat John McCain in November, Mrs. Clinton chose instead to take her party hostage with the veiled threat of its destruction if she doesn’t get what she wants.

In what was supposed to be a private conference call with the New York House delegation, Clinton said that if Obama offered her the job of Vice President she would accept.  The details of the conference call were then quickly leaked to the press.

By announcing her acceptance of a position that has not yet been offered to her, Hillary effectively sabotaged Obama’s freedom to choose, given the realities of the American political electoral landscape, whom he thinks would best complete his ticket  heading into the general election.

Wielding the cudgel of her 18 million strong constituency during her speech last night in New York, Hillary announced to Obama and the Democratic Party, “Put me on the party ticket - or else.”

Way to go, Hillary.  Way to put the party and the nation ahead of your personal ambition.

A new Gallup poll is showing that Americans are not buying what Bush and McCain are shoveling.  Bush and McCain are trying to convince us that engaging our enemies diplomatically is the same as Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Nazis.  My fellow citizens, it seems, are smarter than the current administration and the Republican presidential nominee would care to think.

Large majorities of Democrats and independents, and even about half of Republicans, believe the president of the United States should meet with the leaders of countries that are considered enemies of the United States. Overall, 67% of Americans say this kind of diplomacy is a good idea.

About 6 in 10 Americans (59%) think it would be a good idea for the president of the United States to meet with the president of Iran. This includes about half of Republicans, a majority of independents, and most Democrats.

Even Republican voters are beginning to figure out that talking to our enemies is not the same as bending over for our enemies.  Americans want a return to diplomacy and an end to duhplomacy.  To quote Moshe Dayan, “If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends.  You talk to your enemies.”

Americans Favor President Meeting With U.S. Enemies

It seems that the circling of the wagons at the White House also includes everyone’s favorite manwhore and former White House reporter[wink wink, nod nod], Jeff Gannon.

The Bush administration’s favorite [in the closet]gay prostitute is parroting the White House on his blog.  In the post "Scott, We Hardly Knew Ye", Gannon, like Bush, Rove, and the rest of the gang, is puzzled by the new Scott McClellan.

Add me to the growing list of those who are having great difficulty understanding McClellan’s motives. I spent two years as a White House reporter, much of it during McClellan’s reign. At no time did Scott ever indicate, either publicly or privately, he had the misgivings he expressed in this book.

What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say without fear of contradiction, that I knew Scott better than any other White House correspondent or Washington reporter.

Really, Jeff?  You knew Scottie better than any other correspondent or reporter?  How well did you know him, Jeff, and in what way?  One shudders to think.  Did you get to know him during the course of your many overnight stays at the White House?  Was Scottie a sucker for your ‘Hot Military Stud’ mangina?  Nevermind.  I really don’t want to know.

Scott, We Hardly Knew Ye

Wikipedia - Jeff Gannon

President Bush was supposed to be headlining at a planned fundraiser for John McCain this coming Tuesday at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.  The venue had to be scrapped, but not merely because they couldn’t sell enough tickets to fill the space.

Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling enough tickets to fill the Convention Center space, and that there were concerns about more anti-war protesters showing up outside the venue than attending the fundraiser inside.

Another source said there were concerns about the media covering the event.

I almost couldn’t stop laughing long enough to write this post.  You couldn’t make this up, lol!

Poor ticket sales, expected protests scuttle Bush-McCain fundraiser at Phoenix Convention Center

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Hillary Clinton has had something on her mind for a while now.  At least since March 6th, when she spoke off the record with Richard Stengel, Managing Editor at TIME magazine.  She voiced it publicly Friday while speaking to the editorial board of the Argus-Leader in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and giving her reasoning for staying in the race.

"My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it."

What the fuck, Hillary?!?  Are you so desperate to win the nomination and so incapable of accepting defeat that you are holding on to the dark hope that your opponent will be assassinated like Robert F. Kennedy?  Are you truly that batshit insane?

Get out now, Hillary.  GET. THE. FUCK. OUT!!!

Hillary Raises Assassination Issue

When John McCain was seeking the Republican nomination for President, he was doing poorly among right-wing Christian evangelicals.  Desperate to gain their support, he went shopping for endorsements and was thrilled to gain the support of televangelist pastors John Hagee and Rod Parsley.

When McCain received Hagee’s endorsement, he said "I’m very honored by Pastor John Hagee’s endorsement today … He has been the staunchest leader of our Christian evangelical movement in many areas, but especially, most especially, his close ties and advocacy for the freedom and independence of the state of Israel."

Speaking in Cincinnati on February 26th, McCain made a show of being endorsed by Rod Parsley and said "I’m very honored today to have one of the truly great leaders in America, a moral compass, a spiritual guide - Pastor Rod Parsley …"

Their support helped to shore up McCain’s weakness among the Christian Right and to secure his nomination.

Now that McCain has secured his party’s nomination, he is looking to appeal to independent voters and the endorsements he sought and was proud to receive have become a problem.  Independents, it seems, aren’t too hot on so-called men of God who believe that Hitler was God’s instrument to drive the Jews back to Eretz Yisrael or that God created the United States of America to exterminate Muslims.

What to do?  Simple.  Repudiate them and pretend you never wanted anything to do with them in the first place.

"Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them," McCain said of the remarks by John Hagee. "I did not know of them before Reverend Hagee’s endorsement, and I feel I must reject his endorsement as well."

“I believe there is no place for that kind of dialogue in America, and I believe that even though he [Rev. Rod parsley] endorsed me, and I didn’t endorse him, the fact is that I repudiate such talk, and I reject his endorsement,” McCain said in a statement.

Flip-flop accomplished.

Pro-Israel evangelical leader endorses McCain

McCain rejects pastor’s backing after Hitler remark

Preachers a problem for McCain too

McCain Rejects Parsley Endorsement

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Now that John McCain has repudiated John Hagee and rejected his endorsement - which McCain actively sought out - we are left wondering when and if the senator from Arizona will repudiate and reject Rod Parsley.

John McCain has called Rod Parsley "one of the truly great leaders in America, a moral compass, a spiritual guide …"

Parsley has openly preached since 9/11 that God created the United States of America for the purpose of destroying the ‘false religion’ of Islam.

In other words, Parsley sees it as America’s holy duty to wage genocide against 1.5 billion Muslims.

"We were built for the battle!  We were created for the conflict! We get off on warfare!"

– Pastor Rod Parsley, World Harvest Church

Preachers a problem for McCain too

After actively seeking the endorsement of John Hagee and defending Hagee’s endorsement against critics who pointed out Hagee’s record of anti-Catholic rhetoric, John McCain has finally ‘rejected and renounced’ pastor Hagee and his endorsement.

"Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them," McCain said of the remarks by John Hagee. "I did not know of them before Reverend Hagee’s endorsement, and I feel I must reject his endorsement as well."

If making a career of calling the Catholic Church the ‘Great Whore’ wasn’t enough to make John McCain reject the endorsement he actively sought out, what changed his mind?

"’And they the hunters should hunt them,’ that will be the Jews. ‘From every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.’ If that doesn’t describe what Hitler did in the Holocaust, you can’t see that," Hagee had said.

I guess Catholics now know where they stand with McCain.  It’s okay to bash the Catholic Church, calling it the ‘Great Whore’, but McCain draws the line when it comes to saying the Holocaust was God’s will to drive the Jews back to Eretz Yisrael.

I am reminded of the albatross that the GOP hung around John Kerry’s neck in the 2004 election.

John McCain: He was for Pastor Hagee before he was against him!

McCain rejects pastor’s backing after Hitler remark

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This short video highlights some of John McCain’s more notable flip-flops and helps to drive home that the Straight-Talk Express got left behind in a ditch somewhere in his quest for power.

You can find out more by clicking on the link below.

The Real McCain