Can Hillary Drink Her Way To The White House?

Whoever said that President Bush was a party animal, never hung out with Senator Clinton. Pictures found on Hillary's my space page show that she is the original "Party Girl". Whether it is shots and beer in Indiana or a bottle of Presidente beer in Puerto Rico ... This chick knows how to party down.

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Can you imagine the election party if she gets elected? I hear special beer funnels have been ordered in anticipation of her election. Both the funnels and beer kegs will have the Presidential seal emblazoned boldly upon them.

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But seriously, what in the world is she thinking? Does she think that by swilling beer and shots she will be able to win the vote of the typical hard-working middle class American? I actually think this is insulting to your average American. We want someone who is better than us in the White House ... I wouldn't trust the average American with their finger on the button.

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Lest I forget to pile on to Obama, the presumptive nominee flew into El Paso yesterday and hopped in his motorcade for Las Cruces, NM without stopping at all. Who cares if El Paso has a population of over 600,000 and Las Cruces has a population of only 86,000. Obama and his wife don't seem to want the votes of this heavily Democratic city. Neither Michelle or Barrack have deigned to visit our fair city, but both have been to Las Cruces. Former President Clinton has been here twice, Chelsea once and Hillary kicked off her Texas campaign here. Is it any wonder that Clinton got 70% of the vote here in the primary and 90% of the caucus delegates. To add insult to injury ... Barrack decided to send a surrogate to El Paso. Now, El Paso has a population that is 76.2% Hispanic ... so who did he choose to send??? George Lopez!!! Hispanics I have asked about this were very insulted, they love George Lopez as a comedian ... but felt that maybe Bill Richardson would have been a better choice.

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To take a line from CFS ... Isn't Politics Fun?

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Hilary Bosnia Lie TRUE! New Footage

See ... and everyone thought she was mispeaking.

This video was proudly stolen from barelypolitical.com

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Racism In America

Judging from this picture, racism starts early in America.

Wow, this is a pretty serious title for a blog post, as well as a very serious subject. I hope I can write something worthy. Senator Obama attempted to address this issue in a speech this week ... and while it did make people sit up and notice, I don't think it went far enough. At least one statement from the speech has started a discourse into the subject that may bear fruit ... though I doubt the Senator was attempting to broach the subject when he said it.

During his speech, Obama referenced his own grandmother (who is white), and some of the racist feelings and prejudices she had. A couple of days later, after probably getting an ear-full from granny, the Senator tried for some damage control on a Philly sports radio show. During that interview, Obama stated that his grandmother was a "typical white person", and if she sees someone on the street that she doesn't know (black) .... there is a reaction.

Now, the use of the word "typical" is of course prejudicial (regardless of how true it may be). The right-wing pundits are having a "field-day" with this ... and the Clinton camp is just sitting back and enjoying the show. This is the peril that we all face while walking through the mine-field that has become race relations in the United States. The problem seems to be that we are incapable of having an "adult" discussion of race without one group or another taking offense. Until we can "grow-up" as a nation, we will be mired exactly where we are now. As for that discussion, as a "typical white person", I think we need it.

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The Chickens Have Come Home To Roost

Barrack Obama's racist pastor has said many hateful things during the 20 years that the senator has attended services, but the one that is pertinent is the chicken one.

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The Reverend Jeremiah Wright, shortly after September 11th gave a sermon in which he stated, "America's chickens have come home to roost". Seems that the reverend thinks that since the United States has been a firm defender of Israel, the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were justified.

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Seems that the chickens are currently roosting above Obama's head. In a speech this morning, Obama criticized his pastor's comments ... but praised the man. Barrack ... you can't have it both ways! Either you are going to play to the radicals or emphasize the unity that you have been espousing for the past 3 years. If you try to tip-toe your way between the two, you will fail.

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I think we are about to see the floor come out from under the Obama campaign. Already, the polls in Pennsylvania are starting to show that white voters are leaving the Obama camp ... can reasonable black voters be far behind?

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Obama, who was the wunderkind a month ago, and seemed destined for greatness ... now seems just another politician, caught up in the same usual political games as everyone else. His mealy-mouthed answers to tough questions by reporter Major Garrett last Friday brought back memories of Bill "Slick Willie" Clinton. Obama hemmed and hawed and tried not to offend anyone ... and ended up offending everyone.

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When history is written, will it be said that the Reverend Jeremiah Wright postponed the election of America's first black President? And for how long?

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Is Barack Hussein Obama the Antichrist?

The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world

I had an interesting conversation at work yesterday and the consensus opinion was that I should post about Obama as the Antichrist. I intended a tongue-in-cheek piece, but upon further thought ... maybe he is. Consider this:

When I googled "Obama Antichrist" my search yielded over 200,000 results. A search of "Blogway Boys Antichrist" only came up with 22 matches.

The Antichrist is to be heralded by a false prophet ... Obama has been heralded by Minister Louis Farakhan.

The mark of the beast is 666 ... Obama's car has 3 sixes in the VIN number.

Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him ... Obama has a white car.

The Antichrist is supposed to cause all kinds of trouble in the Middle-East ... If Obama is elected, Israel will be thrown to the wolves and Iraq will be abandoned and consumed by Iran.

So, as you can see, the evidence is incontroversial ... He is the Antichrist!

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Is Barack Hussein Obama the Antichrist?

The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world

I had an interesting conversation at work yesterday and the consensus opinion was that I should post about Obama as the Antichrist. I intended a tongue-in-cheek piece, but upon further thought ... maybe he is. Consider this:

When I googled "Obama Antichrist" my search yielded over 200,000 results. A search of "Blogway Boys Antichrist" only came up with 22 matches.

The Antichrist is to be heralded by a false prophet ... Obama has been heralded by Minister Louis Farakhan.

The mark of the beast is 666 ... Obama's car has 3 sixes in the VIN number.

Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him ... Obama has a white car.

The Antichrist is supposed to cause all kinds of trouble in the Middle-East ... If Obama is elected, Israel will be thrown to the wolves and Iraq will be abandoned and consumed by Iran.

So, as you can see, the evidence is incontroversial ... He is the Antichrist!

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An American Icon

The newest addition to American Pop Culture just may be our next President. A lot has been said about Obama's lack of experience and lack of any campaign platform. In fact the best line I heard this past week was John McCain's, where he called Barack Obama's campaign, "an eloquent but empty call for change". We here at the Blogway Boys are not going to just jump on the bandwagon and pile onto Sen Obama ... we are going to do our research.

So where do I go to find out the Senator's positions? The obvious place is his website, after all if I wanted people to know where I stood ... I would definitely put all my positions on my website. Sure enough, on his very slick web page (one that I am actually jealous of, since mine looks like do-do compared to it), once you get past all the attention grabbing calls for "Change", there is an issues drop-down menu with 20 issues plus a category entitled additional issues with 6 more. I was delighted ... this would be the easiest research I had ever done.

So with great anticipation, I opened the first one entitled, "Fiscal" and downloaded the 3-page PDF file. Wow, I thought, this guy is good ... he can solve the nations' fiscal crises in 3 pages. Well actually 2 pages, since the first one was a cover sheet ... Well one page, the second one was merely a quote from one of his speeches (triple-spaced and taking up half the page, with the remainder of the page giving a summary and an explanation of the problem). Well actually not quite a page since the last fifth of the final page gave a synopsis of his voting record. Now the meat of the rest of the issue page was that we need to cut pork-barrel spending, reverse the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy (though he didn't define wealthy), reinstate pay as you go rules in Congress, make government spending more accountable and efficient, end wasteful government spending, end tax haven abuse, and close special interest corporate loopholes.

I looked at this in shock, o-kay, I could get behind some of the policies ... but nowhere did he say how he would do them. Is he under the assumption that when he becomes POTUS that he can fix all of these things by official fiat? My mind immediately wandered to Sen Clinton's speech where she spoke about the heavens opening up and the celestial choir starting.

Every one of the positions on his website were full of beautiful ideas and ideals ... but not much in the way of how he was going to accomplish them, much less how he was going to pay for it. He also says that he is going to cut taxes on the poor, middle class and elderly. Everything will be perfect in "Obama-Land".

Looking through his voting record, he does seem to practice what he preaches, he voted against giving telecommunications companies immunity for co-operating with the federal government, he voted for pay as you go amendments and against the war in Iraq. He voted against funding the war and he voted for time-tables for troop withdrawals. Now I disagree with all of these votes ... but have to give the man credit for his consistency. The problem I have is he has missed a lot of votes (he has actually missed more than he has cast). I don't know if this is because he had no opinion on them, or if it was because he thought that by voting his conscience that it would hurt him politically ... or if he was just too busy running for President.

Anyway that you look at it, Obama doesn't have a plan ... just empty rhetoric. If he was competing on Dancing With The Stars, he would get my vote ... but for President, I would prefer Hillary (I can't believe I just said that).

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SUPER DELEGATES???

All of a sudden I am hearing about the role of the "Super Delegates" in the Democratic Nominating Convention. Are these delegates faster than a speeding bullet? Can they bend steel in their bare hands? Do they have mental powers beyond our feeble brains? What makes them so super?

Well folks, they are super because they can vote for any candidate that they want. They are the wild-card in this whole process. Your State can vote 90% for Obama, and your "super" delegate can vote for Clinton. Yes, they can be a powerful force at the convention, disregarding the will of the American people and voting for anyone they want. But who are these powerful individuals ... what are their secret identities?

This army or "Super" delegates (numbering about 842) is comprised of 450 elected members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic Governors, Democratic Senators and House members, distinguished party leaders like current and former Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and former leaders of the House and Senate), and those chosen by the DNC to get the number up to 842. With the exception of Super Bill Clinton, these delegates are un-pledged and free to vote for whomever they wish. With 2052 delegates needed to win the nomination, these Supermen (and women) represent over 41% of the delegates needed to ensure victory.

You may be saying to yourselves, "This doesn't seem too democratic", and you would be right. But, the party of change has a very good reason for this ... usurping of the democratic rights of their voters. They believe that the voters are stupid and that the political hacks of the DNC know what is best for the voters. After the 1972 primary put George McGovern at the top of the Democratic ticket, the party decided to institute "super delegates" to prevent it from every happening again. Those of you who are too young to remember, McGovern lost to Richard Nixon 520 - 17 in the biggest electoral college landslide till that time. These "super-delegates" were set up as a safety-valve in case the voters ever tried to elect another candidate that was undesireable to the Democratic Party!

I don't know about you, but I would be a little pissed off if a candidate were to be annointed the nominee by these "Super" people, because they felt I was too dumb to make the correct choice. This party of "change" ... needs to change their process.

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It's Judgement Day For Rudy's Strategy

Polls have opened in the Sunshine State and the fate of the Candidacy of Rudy Giuliani may hang on the outcome (Florida and hang mentioned in the same sentence ... where is the word chad?).

Rudy attempted a new strategy in this election cycle ... one never tried before ... and one probably never to be tried again. He started as the front-runner, and then didn't start running till the Florida primary. He lost all the momentum he had prior to the election season, but hoped that he could win all the "Big States" and therefore the nomination. What ended up happening was he was left out of all the election excitement and all of his supporters started checking out other candidates.

Now why would the initial "front-runner" choose an unproven strategy? I believe there are several reasons:

1. He felt he did not have enough money to run a National campaign and thought to put the money where he would get the most bang for his buck.
2. He knew that Mitt Romney had unlimited personal finances and hoped that other candidates could stop him in the early contests (or at least slow him down ... and that has played out for the most part)
3. Like most people from large states (myself included), he felt that too much power was placed in Iowa, New Hampshire and the rest of the "early voting States" and wanted to reduce the power of those States.

Yes folks, I believe it is unfair that a minority of voters in these little States set the agenda for the rest of the country. By the time I get to vote in March, the field has been dramatically cut, and I don't get to vote for my first choice ... yes, I actually resent that the Religious Right in Iowa and the liberals in New Hampshire get to winnow down the field before I get a chance to vote. Maybe I have just been sucking on sour grapes for too long, but we had 9 candidates when this race started and by the time March rolls along and I get to vote, I might have to choose between just two.

The primary system goes back to the same time as the electoral college and needs to be changed. We need a national primary day where everyone's voice can be heard. And the best part of having it all done on one day ... it will be cheaper for the candidates that won't have to sell their souls for votes in the early States. If Romney spent $20,000,000.00 in Iowa and received 29,949 votes, that means that each vote cost him about $667.80. Quarter 4 finance reports are not in yet, but I think the $20 million is probably a conservative estimate. We have over 100 million people of voting age in the US. That kind of spending extrapolates out into billions of dollars. How can we have an election free of the influence of special interests when so much money is needed to run under the current system. The people who set up the current system could not have foreseen such excesses in spending. When the primary system was set up, It was assumed that the time between primaries was needed in order to allow the candidates to travel by horse drawn carriage and meet with the voters in the various town halls. I say we get out of the 19th century and into the 21st and revamp the primary system.

So Rudy, though your strategy may have been flawed ... I understand where you are coming from.

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Fear Of Recession Prompts Huge Rate Cut

The Federal Reserve Board, prompted by a global stock sell off amidst fears of an impending recession, cut the federal funds rate by 75 basis points (3/4 of a percent) from 4.25% to 3.5%. The Fed is also cutting its' discount rate (the rate that it lends banks by 75 basis pts). Banks have responded by cutting the prime rate from 7.25% to 6.5%.

Now for those of us that do not have a degree in economics, what does this mean?

Well, on the positive side, for those of us that have credit cards with interest rates based on the prime rate, we will have lower monthly bills (for those of us smart enough, we can pay the same amount and actually reduce our debt faster). For those in the market for a new car, interest rates will be lower (meaning that if you finance $30000.00 for 72 months, your payment will be about $11.00 lower with the new rate). Though $11.00 doesn't sound like much, it comes to almost $800.00 over the course of the loan. A lower interest rate allows the federal government to refinance its' publicly held debt at a lower interest rate, saving taxpayer money, that would have been used to service the debt. Finally, for those that are in ARMs (adjustable rate mortgages), there should be quite a bit of relief there.

On the negative side, this looks like a desperation move, and is likely to affect consumer confidence. When consumer confidence goes down, people don't buy as much and retail outlets and manufacturers start laying people off. Lower interest rates have a direct corollary effect on the strength of the dollar. As interest rates fall, so does the value of the dollar. While this is great for American exports (a weak dollar means our exports cost less overseas while imports cost more over here), we are an import addicted nation. While we can switch to domestically produced textiles and automobiles, we still have to import the majority of our oil. If oil is pushing $100.00 a barrel now, I would hate to see it in 3 months.

So, is the Fed rate cut a good thing, or a bad thing? If it succeeds in keeping the US out of a recession, it is a good thing ... but only time will tell.

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