Jump to content

Barack Obama Elected President!


Max

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 8.7k
  • Created
  • Last Reply
  • Members

I guess this is also being covered up.

From CNN:

Poll: Obama leads in Montana

Posted: 01:15 PM ET

From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart

(CNN) – Sen. Barack Obama appears to be headed for a win in one of the final contests of the Democratic nomination race, according to a new poll of likely Democratic primary voters in Montana.

Obama’s support stands at 52 percent and Clinton’s is at 35 percent. Thirteen percent of those who participated in the survey were unsure who they preferred as the Democratic nominee.

The poll of 400 likely Democratic primary voters in Montana was conducted May 19-21 and has a margin of error of plus or minus five percentage points.

Montana and South Dakota will hold the last Democratic presidential primaries on June 3; sixteen pledged delegates are up for grabs in Montana’s primary and 15 in South Dakota.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

The Clintons are further damaging their reputation, the longer Hillary stays in the race. As a supporter of them, it pains and angers me. Everyone seems to already be referring to Obama as the nominee, which by rights he should be. Hillary's argument died many, many weeks ago, maybe even months now. I would respect her so much more if she just ended this. Cover ups? You know what they say about desperate times.....

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

After June 3rd, it will be time to take the bull by the horns and just end the whole thing. This is just getting very silly. Every day it's something new. And all they are doing is playing into the Republican's hands.

I guess that's what happens when the same MSM that touted you as the nominee for two years all of a sudden "turns on you" and actually let the people decide.

I felt then, and still feel, that BO is the nominee. It wouldn't hurt anything to let this go until June 3rd.......provided when it is over, she bows out and lets it go.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Thanks but in the spirit of disclosure be advised that I was label a right wing Republican something for having the audacity to not care for the Clintons lying about she who was labeled some words I won't repeat Flowers. It was along the lines of saying that a woman who has a very active sex life always lies.

June 3rd is right around the corner so there's no need for anyone to drop out now since the mission is to give everyone their chance to vote. This is really about the super delegates stepping up to the plate anyway since the pledged delegates aren't enough.

I'm still all for ignoring the claim to the most popular votes since Puerto Rico is about to make my case for me. What difference would it make to get 10 million votes from PR and argue that it proves that one is more electable if none of those voters can vote in the November general election? My response is none at all. Their delegates are another story and they aren't going to go at 100% to either and that's the bottom line.

Cokie Roberts may be suffering from confusion because she seems to have temporarily abandoned her sexism chant and acknowledged that there are young people and even black people who would be upset if the super delegates gave the nomination to HC. Imagine that.

I say Bill Clinton's cover up theory is good short term political strategy but not as effective as the cry of the angry females who took out the ad to fight for the female president. I seriously doubt that the segment of the population to which good ole Bill was appealing is going to get angry enough to fight the fight. I don't think they'll put the pressure on the party as he hopes and I do think the cost of that strategy is that he may have ticked some super delegates off as well as party members. If you make an accusation of bullying, you really have to make sure you are not perceived as one as well.

Long term it hurts because it's reminder # fill in the number, that he and his put upon wife are discounting certain segments of the population that they need in order to make this work. How shocking would it be if HC is the nominee and Republicans are running ads featuring her comparing FL to the fight against slavery?

Voice over: In order to secure the nomination, Hillary Clinton had to claim a conspiracy in the Democratic party, what will she claim in order to win the general election? Is this the kind of leader we really want? Cue up the KO rant.

As for Fox, this is who Terry McAuliffe called fair.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Cokie said what?!

Guess she took her hood and sheets off long enough to actually recognize that fact.

The biggest reason why I don't recognize the PV argument is because the Clinton campaign leaves out caucus states that Obama won. If we're going to be fair.......then let's be fair. Across the board.

How can you make the claims that you're winning the PV and that every vote should count when you don't recognize all the states that voted and use your own math to get to this conclusion?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I think Cokie Roberts was just having a moment. I think when people are passing themselves off as journalists then they should be providing information and not trying to make the news. The problem with ABC News is clear bias although there may be members of their news team that are not on the same biased page. I heard one of them try to distort the statement about the 1992 Democratic primaries to include Ross Perot which was a huh moment and too bad for the viewers he misinformed.

CNN and their best political team is a sham to me. Some of the analysts are okay and the ones that have their candidate picked out are usually the best since their bias isn't hidden under neutrality. I get the feeling that CNN is in the business of trying to create news instead of providing news information. They have too many unnamed sources and most of what these sources say aren't any different from whatever agenda CNN is pushing at the moment.

After June 3rd they will pay more attention to McCain because they won't get to totally blow up moments on the primary trail anymore.

The popular vote doesn't matter to me with or without caucuses because it will still include Puerto Rico's vote count and they can't vote in the general election. If you're talking popular vote minus PR then the argument is a little better but it's still not what determines the nomination so I would drop it as an argument altogether. It's hollow. And it creates unneeded confusion.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Everything that's been tried has created needless confusion.

Screw CNN. The only reason why I respect Pat Buchanan on MSNBC is because he tells you exactly where he stands. CNN's people try to come off as unbiased and then show their bias every time they open their mouths.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

CNN does have analysts who have stated where they stand and they tend to be okay. There are a few others that are okay and not overtly bias one way or the other. The ones that try to create the news are the most annoying. I also have no interest in anyone who expresses support for any of the candidates then puts on blinders. I prefer Obama supporters who can admit when he's wrong, Clinton supporters who can admit when she's wrong and McCain supporters who can admit when he's wrong. The ones who pretend their candidate is always right and none of their wrongs ever matter aren't credible and need to be replaced with people who can exercise some degree of objectivity.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • I've been looking at the ratings during and after each head writer switch.  The ratings during Marcus' tenure (Oct 74 to April 75) were very good but at first not quite as high a Upton's (who was there six months prior. Marcus left when Mary Hartman was picked up as she was a creator and head writer). I've watched Marcus' interviews on Youtube; she discusses most of the soaps she worked on. She liked the money; she's not all warm and fuzzy about writing for them. She loved nighttime genres that gave her writing more flexibility than soapy dramas. But she was good at writing soaps.  By April 75, SFT was no.2 in the ratings behind ATWT. O'Shea was next (lasted 18 months) and in May 75, SFT high No. 1. When O'Shea left the show as still in the top five. O'Shea moved to OLTL in 77? but not as head writer so not sure why she left SFT. The Corringtons were the safest bet to keep long term. They needed to change direction by 1980 as the ratings were  dropping but still very solid 6s/low 20s share). They should have expanded the show to an hour and given the Corringtons some direction and more budget. One has to wonder about two people who were with the show for a long time: Mary Ellis Bunim was promoted to EP when she was about 28, amazingly and a woman! She as talented but she went through at 11 head writer changes if she started in 1974.  Here's her list of writers: Theodore Apstein (January 1974 – May 1974) 5 mo Gabrielle Upton (May 1974 – November 1974) 6 mo Ann Marcus (October 1974 - April 1975) 6 mo Peggy O’Shea (April 1975 – November 1976) 18 mo Irving Elman (with James Lipton) (November 1976 – Summer 1977) 9 mo Robert J. Shaw with Charles/Patti Dizenzo (August 1977 - Spring 78) 6-9 mo? Henry Slesar (Spring 78 to August 78) 3-4 mo? Corringtons (August 1978 to May 1980) 1 yr/9mo Linda Grover/John Porterfield (May 1980 to mid July 1980) 3 mo. Gabrielle Upton (July 1980 to at least through March or April) Harding Lemay April to June 81 writers' strike Don Chastain (Summer 1981 writers' strike - replaced by Ellis/Hunt Dec 81 or Jan 82) Then Fred Bartholemew comes in when Bunim goes to ATWT (Oct 81?) and he brings in Ellis Hunt for the NBC switchover, they lasted 11 months. Mary Stuart is the other mystery to me: how was she to work with? Did she instigate many of the writer firings? Was she not involved at all. No other P&G show went through this kind of frenetic change. (The Doctors might be a close second but wasn't on as long and not P&G).
    • I'm getting the sense that something happened between Anita and Dante Green that wasn’t exactly copacetic, to say the least. I wonder — did he promise her fame and fortune as a solo artist, and then attack her when she rebuffed his advances? I hope it’s not a long-lost child plot lurking out there for her. Maybe she left behind an sibling in poverty or something instead, back in Cabrini-Green/Chicago. It does seem like neither Tracy nor Sharon’s solo careers turned out the way they dreamed — both ended up singing at City Wineries. I still think Leslie is connected to the Duprees — maybe her mother is Sharon, and she's going after the Duprees because she believes she could’ve had their lifestyle if things had gone differently for her mom. She does have ties to Chicago. That said, I hope this is the last disguise from her toolbox for a while — I’d hate for that to get played out. But I do wonder if she’s going to use Nicole 2.0 to frame Nicole for something down the line? I’m all for giving Shanice more time on canvas, and I wouldn’t hate it if she and Andre became an item — someone who doesn’t mind being public, unlike Dani. Or I can see Doug finally getting fed up with their arrangement and turning to the nurse for some “relief.” Vanessa was, in a way, telling herself off in those scenes with Ted about his cheating. And I have to say, Keith Robinson’s Ted brings a broader range of emotion than Maurice Johnson’s did — though I think Ted 2.0 is benefitting from better writing than OG Ted, whose arc relied more on MJ’s charisma and physical presence. That said, as someone else pointed out, Keith looks like he’s drowning in the clothes they’ve got him in. Hopefully, they’ve got some better-fitted attire lined up now.
    • They are just right there in your face.  It's hard to not see Ciara's boobs at all times.  And simmer down camera man, this is a family show!! The high school stuff makes it weird.  Physically the actors all look fine together.  It just makes me think Doug needs to find friends his own age.   With Ari at least Doug was under the impression she was over 21. I liked JJ and Eve too lol!
    • Specifically that's Kat & she is, there's no other way to say it except like pulling off a band-aid. She's Chad's "#1 fan" IOW, basically, kinda sorta she's an albatross around Chad's neck.  Kat can turn any conversation into a discussion of Chad & what he ate for breakfast or the most minute of minute things about Chad Duell's life & times.  We hope she's not dangerous. We hope she's just boring. That Chad is not back has lit a fire under her. She's upped her number of posts, which all relate in some way to Chad. Now you know what there is to know about as I said Chad Duell's #1 fan.     
    • The Duh-prees - Count me in as someone who cannot stand Kat’s fashion. No one walks around town dressed like that. And those wigs? Completely immovable. We have incredible wig technology these days—can’t the show find something better? - Vernon’s sermons are total FF material. - It looks like they’re setting up a past drinking habit for Anita (with all the “drowning” references), and maybe even a rape/child plot? Also—remember when Dani was an alcoholic? Lol.   Ted / Nicole / Leslie - Some people are projecting way too much onto OG Ted. Sure, he had screen presence, but his line delivery was pure caricature. He wasn’t menacing or threatening—he was a joke. NuTed may be meek, a bit one-note, and smaller in stature, but his confrontation with Leslie on Friday worked. Also, let’s be real—Bill’s not scary either. Total softie. Couldn’t scare a fly. - The ATWT reference was cute, but wasn’t the Duncan storyline from the ‘80s? Are we supposed to believe Nicole was already practicing back then? Since she said it was her patients who watched… like others pointed out, God forbid she watched herself! - Also: I stand corrected on Leslie. I think she’s starting to make more sense as a character. She’s fearless and provocative—that’s what drives her. I actually loved her mirror scene where Nicole 2.0 made her debut.   The non-Dupree characters - You guys were a bit dramatic about Monday’s show. It just had too many unlikeable storylines crammed into one. That’s all. Also, I stand by what I said about Derek and Ashley—their storyline is totally rom-com coded, and I’m into it. - I’ve developed a soft spot for Doug!!

      Please register in order to view this content

      And I thought that Vanessa ripping into Ted had a subtle layer of self-reprimand to it   - I officially can’t stand André. I don’t buy him as a playboy at all. Same goes for Pamela with her transatlantic accent. It’s such a shame that this is the first character CML had to create… and this is what we got?
    • party pics and vids from Don Diamont's wife Cindy Ambuehl https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ9X--uxnF2/
    • You’re really starting to see panic in the other actors’ eyes as they watch him struggle to get through his lines. There is a shot in yesterday’s episode in which  Swickard is standing behind Mo while he drones on and on, and the younger actor is clearly doing everything he can to hide his “WTF” face.
    • Don posted May 12th for 16th anniv of his B&B debut, and Michele Val Jean replied on May 21st: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJknIr8y4ra/

      Please register in order to view this content

    • I just saw this & I liked it. Maybe you will like it too. You do not have to attend every argument you are invited to. It seems to me to be a suitable adage for today's internet.  
    •   oh wow, yes!  (if written by BTG writers, their time wouldn't be wasted discussing Dumas)
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy