What the Goddamned Hell? An Epic Rant

I was looking at articles on the Twitter feed, and what should I see but Sanders, who has lost the nomination, going on yet another fundraising binge by trying to raise money so his broke delegates can attend the Democratic National Convention at the end of next month.

I am just so pissed off I can't see.

So this LOSER is pushing for donations for his delegates while insinuating the HRC delegates are fat cats who are corrupting the system. I am so sick of this man I can't see.

Meanwhile, what is the CLINTON CAMPAIGN doing to help us delegates to try and afford the 2k or more in expenses to be able to make the trip in about a month? Not all of us are well-to-do and/or have large credit lines. I can tell you from personal experience that it is almost impossible to raise the funds through crowdfunding, and I do not have any income during the summer months when school is out (I am not currently a teacher but am a classified worker) to spare on a trip that has been on my bucket list and somehow I was elected an Oregon delegate? What I get is the same old, same old from the various party organizations. Okay, Hillary, what are YOU going to do to help US so we can help YOU get elected the next president of the United States?


Here are the crowdfunding links, which are about as useless as tits on a boar. I have tried everything.

Go Fund Me

Generosity

Campaign Outrages

Now that Obama has said "no" to Harry Reid over sharing any of "his" money, it should become obvious what Obama is really all about, and that's helping the other side by starving out the Democratic Party in critical races.

Supposedly Obama doesn't have the money to share, which leads one to ask why the hell didn't Obama go on public financing.

And here the DNC thought they had a golden goose in Obama to help them in downticket races. He has no intention of doing one goddamned thing for them.

Fundraising Fiasco

One of the reasons, if not the chief reason, the DNC ultimately rigged the game in favor of Obama was because of the obscene amount of cash he raised in the primary race. They, and many of the nutroots, thought it was just peachy keen to jettison a key Democratic plank, public financing of elections, and act like Republicans in this regard. They thought all of the money raised by Obama would somehow trickle down to downticket races. It ain't happening.

Can you believe this shit?

"It's not just the limitation of dollars when you accept public financing, it's the limitations that go with that spending," said Tad Devine, a senior strategist for Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004. Devine added that choosing to accept public financing was the Kerry campaign's single biggest mistake because it limited the campaign's resources.

Bullshit. The biggest problem with Kerry's campaign was the fact the GOP stole the election that he won.

In any case, this left open the door for the other side to be for "clean campaigns" by taking public financing for the general election. McCain decided to do it, and he and the GOP have plenty of money to compete in this campaign. Obama, it is rumored, is struggling. Well, no wonder. Many of the Clinton donors refuse to give a dime to him thanks to the treatment she received in the primaries.

More:

The Obama campaign set a goal in mid-June of raising $300 million for the campaign and about $150 million for the Democratic Party over four-and-a-half months, fund-raisers said. As of the end of July, however, the Obama campaign was well short of the $100 million a month pace it had set, taking in about $77 million between the campaign and the party that month.

It is not yet clear whether the Obama campaign will be able to ratchet up its fund-raising enough in the final two months of the campaign to make up the difference.

Once Obama goes down to defeat, let's hope the DNC finally acts like Democrats and quits falling sucker to schemes like jettisoning public financing. There is a reason for it.

You Know,

if I had hits every day like I am getting today, I could run ads on this site and actually begin to make a living blogging.

Now that I am strapped for cash at the moment having to do with my place of employment, it would be nice if people could contribute a few bucks here and there to support my efforts.

I enjoy blogging and would do it full time if I could support myself and my dogs on it.

Miscellaneous Crap.

Because there is going to be a cash crunch and because I want to relocate to another area, I have set up this site for any kind of donations people want to make.

I know it's tacky, but things are pretty dire here. I can't get unemployment insurance, and I want to leave the area.
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If you want to find serial killers, hospitals are a good place to look.
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More Campaign Notes.

Mr. Campaign Finance Reform is looking for some fat cats to donate to his campaign.

Speaking of McCain, I am reading a book co-written by David Brock of Media Matters about McCain's relationship with the media. It is a book that needs to be written, for it is one of the most corrupt relationships imaginable.

In the end, the favorable coverage is a result of the virtually unlimited access McCain provides to reporters.
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Thanks to Our Corrupt

political system, our leading candidates are spending money like it is water.

According to

this, Hillary Clinton has just slightly more money than the Audacity of Hype to throw away and be bankrupt.

She plans to campaign in both SC and NV.

However, I haven't heard anything about anybody campaigning here in the coming days.

Campaign Notes.

About the only place in the country where Republicans are outraising Democrats in the fundraising race is in Nevada.

I like these reasons:

# Established relationships the candidates have nurtured with Nevada's monied elite.

# Desire from the state's leading industries -- most importantly the gaming industry -- to curry favor with and gain access to government leaders.

# A desire among some to prevent U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton from being elected.

Mitt Romney, though, is the only Republican candidate who has made a serious effort to campaign in Nevada so far.

Campaign Notes.

While Obama tries to be all things to all people, he may discover he is nothing to a lot of Democratic voters.
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Meanwhile, GOP donors are hedging their bets over which loser to back.
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John Edwards should know better than to believe anybody other than Hillary Clinton will win the nomination.
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Campaign Notes.

Fred Thompson didn't do so bad in the fundraising race last quarter. He was just behind Mitt and Rudy.
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Hillary Clinton vows to keep politics away from science although that would be next to impossible.
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Obama, although all but out of the game, still insists he is going to surprise Clinton in Iowa.

I suspect Edwards will surprise them all since he has spent little money as of yet and is still in a statistical dead heat.
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Since we all know, but some of us refuse to admit, Bill Clinton is actually running for a third term but is putting his wife out there to front for him, he sees himself taking a major role in shoring up the U.S.'s tarnished reputation abroad.

He'll be calling ALL of the shots, especially on foreign policy, assuming he can fool enough people into thinking it is his wife's idea of running for president and not his and can actually get back into the White House again.

The guy cannot get on with his life and enjoy his retirement from public life. He's like an Elvis and feeds on the attention. It's time for him and his old lady to hang it up and let somebody else try to clean up the mess our dictator and his puppetmaster have made over the past several years.

More Campaign Notes.

Still more about the fundraising game.

More hype here.

Hell, my "donations" to the Obama and Clinton campaigns are included as well. I spent money on memorabilia at their campaign-sponsored events (Michelle's and Bill's appearances, to be exact).
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Former presidential candidate Tom Vilsack will be in Reno tomorrow to campaign on behalf of Hillary Clinton.

Unfortunately, he is here during work hours, so I can't attend.
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It sounds as if an Obama or Clinton supporter is getting very testy.

It's a fact neither of them can win the general election. Nobody should have ever taken either of them seriously, especially when the media have been promoting them forever.
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Campaign Notes.

Something is seriously fucked up when "experts" claim candidates have to have $100 million to compete in the primaries this year.

That's a wild exaggeration.

Clinton outraised Obama this quarter, though not by that much considering a significant amount of the money she raised was for the general election.

Edwards raised $7 million for a grand total of $30 million, which is more than adequate to compete.

The money race is a phony one.

Oprah

may not be able to buy Obama's love, but she sure is going all out to buy him the Democratic nomination.

Presidential Notes.

While I was in Florence, Italy, enjoying all of the sites, Elizabeth Edwards was speaking in Reno in front of a group of about 200 promoting her husband's candidacy.

She spelled out one of the reasons why he is our best bet in 2008:

“After he gets the nomination, he is going to come back to Nevada,” she said. “And he’s going to be in Louisiana, and he’s going to be in Missouri, and he’s going to be in Kentucky. We can win these states. You just have to have the right candidate, and we have to be willing to compete.
“John promises you that he is going to be everywhere. He’s not going to concede anywhere. It’s his style to fight.”

Economic issues should benefit Edwards, but the media will make sure his message gets buried.


You can find how much money the candidates raked in here.

Presidential Notes.

Several candidates for president were talking to the National Education Association about that piece of shit NCLB and what they would do about it.

It needs to be thrown in the garbage can, just like every other "reform" put forth by business and right-wing interests. They couldn't care less about kids.
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Here is more about who raised how much money this past quarter.

Democratic presidential candidates in general out-raised Republicans.
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John Solomon tries to trash John Edwards again by focusing on Edwards' hairstylist.
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Hillary Clinton tries to get her husband to join her on the stump in Iowa in order to shore up her support.
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Presidential Notes.

Without Fred Thompson being in the race as yet, it appears Mitt and Rudy are neck-and-neck in the GOP fundraising race.

Rudy raised around 17 million this past quarter while Mitt raised 14 million.

Both pale when compared to Clinton and especially Obama, but I think in Obama's case, it may be that he raised a shitload of money following his big rallies, as it has been reported he raised most of his money with small contributions. I know he was pushing for contributions at the end of his speech here in Reno. Edwards also decided to use that tactic when he was here.

Presidential Notes.

John Edwards just reached his goal of $9 million for the quarter.

Knowing how careful he was with his campaign money in 2004, I suspect he has a pile left over from last quarter.
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It Appears

the John Edwards campaign is easily going to reach its goal of $9 million for the quarter, and it will probably reach that goal today.

Currently it is at just over $8 million. The campaign has raised well over a million in a day, thanks in part to Ann Coulter's stupidity.

Speaking of Coulter, I think she believes she is some kind of wit and thinks what she says is funny, but actually it comes across as extremely offensive.

It's a good thing she never performed in vaudeville; she would have been a redhead instead of a blonde from all of the rotten tomatoes thrown at her.

Presidential Notes.

Has the Double Talk Express been finally derailed and is ready for the junk heap?
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Oh, yeah?

I don't think Gore is jumping in regardless of how Bill Clinton does in the primaries.

Speaking of Clinton, I don't think his wife is any more a flip-flopper than anybody else. Her problem is she is willing to be a tool for her old man.
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