Sigh... got to love Fox (Faux?) News

I know he's not as conservative as some of the other former candidates, but jeeeeez...

Super Tuesday

Today, the November election probably gets murkier as 24 states have primaries or caucuses to determine delegates for the next Presidential nominees for each party. It's important to understand delegates are up for grabs, not states like the general election. For instance, in California, if 60% of the people vote for Hillary and 40% of the people vote for Obama, then they split California's delegates 60/40, Hillary doesn't get the entirety of the delegates.

For the democrats, 2,025 total delegates are needed to secure a party's nomination. Entering today, Obama has 63 and Clinton has 48. For the Republican nomination, 1,191 delegates are needed; McCain has 93, Romney has 77, and Huckabee has 40.

I think not much will be settled on the Democrat side; Clinton & Obama will continue to be close in delegates all the way to the convention. I think McCain wins Super Tuesday, but Romney is so wealthy he can continue his campaign if he so chooses, unless McCain kicks his ass so badly that he is deemed totally irrelevant after today.

It is interesting that the hard-line right-wing media, such as Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, & Sean Hannity are railing vociferously against McCain, who is seen as more moderate and less partisan than most GOPers. Coulter went so far as saying if the general election were Clinton vs. McCain, she'd vote for Clinton.

I know I'll be watching Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann on MSNBC tonight, November should get a little clearer.

Go Huck Yourself

In the spirit of Obama Girl, Mike Huckabee has an internet song by the Huckabee Girl devoted to him as well. Funny!

Yikes.

I saw this on Alec Baldwin's blog on The Huffington Post. It was an article taken from a weekly newspaper in Baldwin's hometown on an extremely affluent and exclusive part of Long Island. Kind of makes you sick. If this is what educated and wealthy "liberal" New Yorkers act like, what is going on in other parts of the country?

Alec Baldwin writes:
"For those of you wondering how the Obama ascendancy is playing out in
Small Town America, I offer you this column from the Independent, a weekly newspaper published on the East End of Long Island by Jerry Della Femina, the former advertising executive turned restaurateur and columnist. This particular piece was written by Rick Murphy under his weekly "Low Tidings" column. Murphy is also credited as a publisher of the Independent.

This article has caused quite a stir in East Hampton and beyond. So much so
that the paper has pulled it from their website and Murphy, a regular antagonist
of the Democratic Party, both locally and nationally, and the Clintons in particular, has replaced it with a brief apology. The Independent is considered the more
right-leaning and Republican-endorsing paper of the East End community. Della
Femina himself is regarded as one of the great Hillary-Haters in all of the
world.

On the heels of Barack Obama being endorsed for the presidency by the
normally close-to-the-vest Caroline Kennedy, whose invocation of her father's
enduring legacy carries, in some people's hearts and minds, more weight than any
ten such endorsements by others, please read what the local Republicans in my
home town are thinking, and publishing, about Senator Obama. This is, quite
clearly, not to be believed."

Ted Kennedy's endorsement speech of Obama

I was born almost a decade after JFK was assassinated and about 6 years after RFK, I always felt wistful that I had missed seeing those two inspirational politicians. Since I have been cognizant of politics (I remember watching Reagan's inauguration live on TV when I was home with the chicken pox in 1980, but probably didn't really pay attention to anything until the 1992 election) no politician has seemed to capture what the Kennedys seemed to possess- the genuine compassion and longing to help the everyday American. Perhaps it's through the nostalgic view history has given them, the sense of "what could have been"?

That being said, Ted Kennedy gave ONE HELLUVA endorsement speech for Barack Obama. Watch below. I hope you voted in today's Florida primary. (I equally hope the votes, you know, like, actually get counted correctly by the state).

Shalom, Rudy

and this time "shalom" means "goodbye" not "hello"