Campaign Stupidity

Retired general Wesley Clark has been told to get lost, no doubt because he was an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton.

If Obama isn't the mirror image of George W. Bush I don't know who is.

Campaign Follies.

The New York Times blog asks who is responsible for the shutting down of a number of anti-Obama PUMA blogs.

Google says it isn't the "flag" function that is the problem:

If so, that would be an embarrassment for Google. On its Web page explaining the “flag” feature, Google says that “it can’t be manipulated by angry mobs. Political dissent? Incendiary opinions? Just plain crazy? Bring it on.”

On Monday, Google would not explicitly rebut the idea that it had been tricked but said that the cause of the temporary blockage appeared to be elsewhere. “It appears that our anti-spam filters caused some Blogger accounts to be blocked from creating new posts,” Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich said in a statement. “While we are still investigating, we believe this may have been caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the ‘Just Say No Deal’ network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam. We have restored posting rights to the affected blogs, and it is very important to us that Blogger remain a tool for political debate and free expression.”

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Wesley Clark should have kept his big mouth shut.

Criticizing McCain's military experience is about as bad as making racist remarks about Obama.

You just don't do it. It isn't done.
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I Am Dead Tired, Readers,

absolutely dead tired. After a full day of work I headed down to the Grand Sierra Resort to take in Hillary Clinton's final speech in Reno (at least of the caucus). I had planned to volunteer at the Edwards headquarters tonight, but I don't think I am going to make it.

The crowd at the resort was packed. The speech was held in the Silver State Pavilion, the same room where John Edwards spoke day before yesterday. Unfortunately for many, there were no chairs, only bleachers for a select few on the sides of the room. When Hillary spoke, one of the people in the audience literally fainted near where she was. Clinton was very concerned about the person and paused somewhat until the person was okay.

A similar thing happened to my landlord at our dictator's speech at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center back in June of 2004. The honor guard and Secret Service were very helpful to him, giving him water to hydrate himself. After a while, he was fine and sat down on the cold floor.

I don't know what in the hell is the matter with my camera and Hillary Clinton. I had some wonderful pictures of her which I posted on this blog when she was in Fernley back in November, but the last two times I have seen her, the pictures have turned out shit. I had beautiful pictures of John Edwards last night, of Barack Obama Monday night, and of her husband last Sunday, but I'll be goddamned if I can figure out why the Hillary pictures have been blurred. I think my camera may have turned sexist.

A couple of the pictures I took of her night before last made her look downright haggard, and I began thinking of the picture posted on the Drudge Report (and posted here) which made her look like hell wasn't photoshopped at all. No doubt all of the travel and stress have really done a number on her.

Yet she doesn't look like that in person. Go figure.

I did videotape her speech, and I was able to get her most of the time. The video, when I could focus on her, was wonderful. After her speech, she made the rounds of posing for pictures and signing autographs. She signed my copy of Living History. Wesley Clark was also there and introduced her to the crowd of about 1,500.

Campaign Notes.

Wesley Clark decided to make what he considered to be a safe bet and endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.

Some of his more rabid supporters believe he will be on the ticket with Clinton. I seriously doubt it, assuming Clinton even gets the nomination.
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Is Newt seriously plotting a revenge on the Clintons by running for president himself, after self-destructing in 1998 and being laughed out of Washington?
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