johnnyhongkong says…

John Edwards has dropped out of the race.  

The ideas were all bold and new for Edwards personally as well, making him a different candidate than the moderate Southerner who ran in 2004 while still in his first Senate term. But the themes were eventually adopted by other Democratic presidential candidates — and even a Republican, Mitt Romney, echoed the call for an end to special interest politics in Washington.

We are sad and right now, we don’t want to vote for any of these other fuckers. 

In the event you missed it a few weeks ago, John Edwards mentioned that it was unacceptable that there are at least 200,000 homeless veterans in America.   Bill O’Reilly then made an idiot ass of himself when he said that he didn’t believe that there were that many and pledged to look for them.

I don’t usually let O’Reilly rile me up but this is just fucking mental.  He has begun backtracking, saying in a recent show that what Edwards “really” said was that the economy was so bad, that that was the reason for all the homeless veterans, as opposed to what Edwards actually said, which was, it’s a goddamned shame that big corporations are making record profits while there are 200,000 homeless vets on the street.

O’Reilly’s “No-Spin Zone” has officially crossed over into Mr. Mytzlplyk’s 5th Dimension.

Maybe this hits close to home because of the thing I am working on and because of Mary Milan’s internship interviews  but will someone please trick O’Reilly into saying his name backwards or something?

Anyway, today is the day that the Edwards campaign is trying to raise $200,000 to help give voice to the homeless veterans and the others who need his help.

Let us show our support for the mouth from the South, the Carolina anti-corporate crusader, the “angry” guy who just keeps on smiling, the voice for the voiceless, the man who proudly walks in the shadow of Martin Luther King Jr, the Truth-teller, the First on Universal Healthcare, the First to sound the alarm for the Recession we’re in, the First to present an Economic stimulus plan, the enemy of O’Reilly, the voice for 200,000 homeless veterans, the champion of the 37 million Americans who live in Poverty, the man who doesn’t know how or when to quit, the man smart enough to marry Elizabeth, the guy that makes Wall Street shake in its Gucci boots, the one guy Washington can’t stand, the son of a mill worker, the Right to Organize candidate, the Raise the Minimum wage to a Living wage candidate, the guy who lets Dave Letterman mess up his hair, Ann Coulter’s worst nightmare, the man who has and will move our Corporate Democrat party to the Progressive wing come hell or high-water.

Give early.  Give lots.  We did.

Context later.  Video now:

Oh snap.  Apparently rumors of Obama’s conservatism are not overblown. 

For the candidate of change and bold ideas, Obama’s tepid response to the overwhelming mortgage crisis suggests a Republican-orientation rather than a Democratic one — and should be subject to debate in the remaining presidential primaries.

In John Edwards’ news, he’s running strong in some polls, threatening to take second from Chillary.  Let’s go South Carolina!  You got more to gain with Edwards in the White House than you do with those other fools. 

In other, other news, things have been sort of nutty, which explains the blogging-blackout of late.  Will update soon…hopefully… 

Big day tomorrow.  South Carolina and Nevada.  The People’s Candidate must drop the people’s electoral elbow on one of those states and it looks like Nevada is the more likely recipient.  It’s a caucus state and from all his folks I’ve talked to, Edwards has good organization in Nevada.  Not so much in South Carolina.  However, with reports that Hillary and Obama are splitting the black vote in S.C., maybe Edwards can sneak in between them and finish second. 

Anyway, there’s been a lot of chatter on the interwebs by Obama supporters about how Edwards’ should drop out of the race and how Edwards’ supporters should help hasten this process by voting for Obama.  Then, Edwards won’t maintain the 15% threshold, get no delegates, and in essence, expose his vanity candidacy and shame him into dropping out of the promary.  The extreme proponents of this also seem to be the ones claiming that Edwards is acting Nader-like in the 2000 general.  They also assume that all Edwards supporters will magically become Obama supporters, so therefore, if only that pesky Ken doll would just get the hell out of the race, the annoited one will capture the nomination, ascend to the White House and change the way shit works.

Nir-fucking-vana.

First, with regard to the Nader issue – please, shut the fuck up.  This is exactly how it’s supposed to go – it’s an intraparty primary, we’re supposed to determine who is our best candidate to go in the general election.  And with seven delegates separating Obama and Edwards, I don’t see why Edwards should drop out. 

Byond that, I used to be one of the Edwards, then Obama, then Clinton guys but the more and more I’ve seen and heard from Obama, the less and less I like him.   The inspiring speeches are so paper thin on substance and dictionary thick on self-puffery and they fail to give me any indication that he will be any different than Hillary or any of the other centrist fuckers running.  I also have no damn idea what he actually stands for.   

I know that Edwards stands for the poor people.  I can dig it. 

I know that Clinton stands for her experience.  Whatevs, but i can dig it. 

Obama?  From all of the speeches and debates I’ve seen, it sure sounds like the only thing Obama stands for is Barack Obama, the hopeful uniter (more on this later).  
 
Folks tell me that I should jump ship on Edwards and support Obama because like Edwards, Obama is more progressive than Hillary Clinton.  Really?  It sure sounds like he and Clinton are exceedingly similar.     

Also, I’m not sure how many progressives would find themselves punching a ticket for for Ronald Reagan, “the Annakin Skywalker of the Conservative movement.”

But jhk, you say, “But he looks like change.”

Oh yeah?  Here’s how he doesn’t look like change: 

If elected, he’ll be a president who struggled with drug use, is a born-again Christian, isn’t so good with details, and ran a campaign based on being a “uniter, not a divider.”

Sound like anybody we know? 

Personally, after having eight years of someone trying to unite, I’m soooo over that uniting shit.  I’m willing to change course, instead of simply changing a person.

“Barack is so full of hope,” you say.

Look, I don’t want a president who fucking hopes.  I think we’ve had quite enough of hoping for the best after fucking shit up (see War on Terror, the Economy, Iraq, the Middle East, Katrina, Enron, etc.). 

I’m not saying that I wouldn’t vote for him if he is nominated; he’s obviously better than GWB.  I’m just saying that upon closer inspection, he just doesn’t seem like the agent of change he so feverishly claims to be. 

We deserve better than that.

So proclaimed Howard Fineman at MSNBC after the Democratic candidates debate last night in Nevada. 

I can dig it.  Check out the rest of today’s hot fire: 

Reports of John Edwards’ primary death have greatly been exaggerated, as have Barack Obama’s progressiveness. 

This isn’t new but it’s great that the lobbyists admit that they’re scared of John Edwards.

The WGA doesn’t care about foreigners but does care about black people!

John Edwards is going to be dropping some science in Los Angeles tomorrow at the offices of SEIU Local 721 at 12:30 pm. If you’re planning on voting for the illusion of change (Hillary) or the idea of change (Barack), I suggest you go and listen the man talking about real change. The event is free and open to the public, you just have to take a moment and RSVP here.

In other appearance news, cinetrix has the plumb duty to cover Mike Huckabee’s rally at Clemson tomorrow. I won’t lie. I love the folks associated with Huckabee. How can you not love the Christian, white-boy karate, stylings of Chuck Norris? Their alliance finally explains why Huckabee doesn’t believe in evolution (we just belong to a list of creatures that Chuck Norris allowed to live).

Or how about the limousine ridin’, jet flying, kiss stealin’, wheelin’ and dealin’- WOOOOO!-16-time-champion-of-world, Ric Flair?

Hell, the poet of post modern irony, Stephen Colbert, is his “running mate.”

Besides, don’tcha just love that his name is so ammenable to making those celebrity marriage combo names? Chuckabee, Rickabee, Huckabert.

And it’s for this reason that jhk endorses Mike Huckabee. I want a celebrity marriage combo name like Kongabee.

Well, that and the fact that Huck can’t win a national election for garbage man because no matter how many “rangers” he’s got working for him, that dude is out of his goddamn mind. To that end, there’s going to be a whole lot of crazy on sale tomorrow at Clemson and cinetrix gets to see it firsthand.

I’m jealous.