THE TITLE BOUT
By Dr. Lynette Long on July 23, 2008 at 9:20 AM in Barack Obama, DNC, Delegates, Democracy, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Nomination, Democratic Party, Disenfranchisement, Electability, Hillary Clinton
Don Fowler, the former head of the DNC sent a letter to Democratic leaders and major contributors this week urging party unity.
Intended to get resistant Hillary supporters on board, the unity letter is likely to produce the opposite effect. The letter repeatedly stated, “Barack Obama won. It’s over!” In other words, “Get over it,” or as an astute Clinton supporter put it, “Get in line, it’s not your time.” Mr. Fowler chided Hillary supporters, “I must confess a bit of fatigue and irritation with the people who continue to carp, complain and criticize the results of the primary and lay down conditions for their support.”
The paternalistic nature of this statement and the implication that the issues raised by Hillary supporters are trivial is troubling. “It’s time to act in a mature fashion,” Fowler implored.
Demographics will prove that if Hillary supporters are anything, they are mature. Maybe there is wisdom in old age since they did not select Obama.
To illustrate that Clinton supporters are sore losers, Fowler compared the Democratic Primary to men’s basketball and men’s tennis. Attempting to appeal to the broadest base of Hillary’s supporters, women, by comparing the primary to men’s sports illustrates a continuing insensitivity to women and women’s issues by the DNC. In fact the DNC, the party of the people, has never had a female chair.
If sports were the metaphor of choice, the Democratic Primary is more like boxing than tennis or basketball. One could equate the primary to the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. The two fighters in the ring, Senator’s Clinton and Obama, went the distance, 15 rounds, or in this case 52 primaries, but neither candidate scored a knockout blow.
The fight will be decided by decision. The judges in this fight are the superdelegates and they will announce their decision at the Democratic Convention. There is one caveat however. These superdelegates are not impartial and both a carrot and a stick have been used to get them to declare for Obama.
Many superdelegates have had large sums of money donated to their campaigns by Barack Obama under the guise of the Hope Fund or the Hope Pac. Others have received warnings that the DNC will not support their next campaign if they do not support Obama and still others have had death threats from the African American community.
The referee in this title bout, the person entrusted by the people to ensure a fair fight is Howard Dean, Chairman of the DNC.
Dean stood silently by as Dodd, Kennedy and Kerry called for Clinton to throw in the towel early in the contest. He was mute when the main stream media called Hillary a bitch or said she should be taken out behind the barn.
Dean did not enforce with the full authority of his office to ensure a fair shot at the title for both candidates. Dean turned his back on the fight while Obama threw numerous sucker punches in the early rounds of the bout.
Obama won 93% (13 out of 14) of the caucuses and only 46% (18 out of 39) of the primaries. It is impossible to explain the disparity in primary vs. caucus results due to superior organization or demographics alone.
Dean and the DNC turned a blind eye to the fraud, busing and data manipulation by Camp Obama at the caucuses. Not only did Dean not investigate voter fraud, suppression and intimidation, he further engineered Obama’s nomination by giving the Florida delegates, a state where Clinton had a commanding lead, half a vote each. In Michigan Dean orchestrated the decision that gave Obama delegates for punches Clinton landed and gave Obama credit for votes logged as undecided. When Clinton Camp tried to raise some of these concerns they were labeled whiners.
The bout is not over until the judges officially announce their scoring of the fight in Denver in August. The DNC wants to deny Hillary’s name being put in nomination and to prohibit a state roll call that reflected the results of the primary. The DNC wants t he judges, in this case the state delegations and the superdelegates, to declare that all votes went to Obama. But there was no knock out blow.
In fact, based on the results in the swing states, the primary states, the blue states, the largest states, and by winning the popular vote, Hillary Clinton won the fight by decision. The referee can hold Senator Obama’s arm up in the center of the ring, but everyone watching the primary knows who won. If a football game is decided by an unfair penalty, a soccer game lost by an undeserved red card, a title match lost by a sucker punch, fans typically become embittered and resentful.
Senator Clinton was the first significant female candidate to run for the presidency and her nomination was stolen by a corrupt party. No letter chiding Clinton’s supporters is going to change that. Red Sox fans will never become Yankee fans, and Clinton supporters are not coming home.
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Also, when the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl, nobody started screaming that Patriots fans now had to “be mature” and throw their full support behind the Giants. Nobody told the Patriots to drop out of football and help the Giants win another Super Bowl. Nobody even told them to “get over it.”
DNC, your analogy: epic fail. Ditto your patronizing tone.
It looks like even the FRENCH Press are paying attention to PUMA!
WILL BOWER being interviewed by the FRENCH PRESS
who would have ever imagined! Mon Dieu!
lol
That’s great news. I’ll bet the French pronounce “PUMA” so that it sounds sexy and chic.
it sounded that way!
oh this is a month old btw (almost)
I just found it though.
It’s pronounced the same way in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese. (POO-MA)
Puma
And Hungarian.
PUMA!
Yeah, but the accents will make it sound nicer.
PUMAs stalk Obama —
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/23/preston.puma/index.html
ABSOLUTE PROOF OF A FIXED PRIMARY ELECTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Important new development uncovered by a Hillary Loyalist Now For McCain.
In early February Don went on record describing the Democratic Party process and the way the superdelegates roles should be played out. Now he writes a letter demanding we back Obama.
Read the whole story and watch the video you will become all the more determined to PUMATIZE the NATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://hillaryloyalistnowformccain.com/absoluteproofofafixedprimaryelection.aspx
No matter what you say, if you use SHOUTING caps and 20 !’s, I immediately hate you. Try following normal conversational rules and people might pay more attention to you.
You hate someone if they use too many exclamation points or capital letters? That’s weird.
I know it’s “considered” shouting, but it’s not literally shouting. Shouldn’t you lighten up a little?
That’s the way people respond to each other at Huff Po…not here.
I know I get VERY EXCITED sometimes!
And other times I’m just too tired and may hit the caps key and I”m in the middle of something and thing getting it out there is better than correcting
(I’m hyper too) lol and I do LOL often!
so bet it
see
many typos above
Me too. and combined with very bad typing, not so good.
get over it, Dan.
DAN, DAN, OVER HERE DAN!!!!!!!
OH, YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME, DAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HEY…THE CONVERSATIONAL RULZ IS THE CONVERSATIONAL RULZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dan, Dan ,DAN. When you’re not speaking to someone, but writing, what would you suggest for emphasis? You do know we can’t see you, don’t you?
DAN…IS….HARD….OF….HEARING….TURN…DOWN…THE….CARTOON….DAN….SO…YOU…CAN….HATE…ME….PROPERLY…..WITH….FULL…
FRONTAL….HATE…..THANKS…..DAN…..
Actually, that would make a great SNL sketch. of course, afterward we’d have a whole week of The [Humorless] One’s surrogates buzzing around telling us that laughter is divisive and distracting.
ATTENTION FLORIDA WEXLER IS A FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The question I ask all Floridians is how and why would a Democratic House of Representative want to consider you a ½ a person translated into a ½ a vote at the Convention in Denver? Hillary Loyalist witnessed the most shocking and damning eveidence as to why he sold his soul to the Liberal Senator Obama. Newsflash Wexler is not a Floridian. Wexler does not own a house in the state of Florida.
READ THE WHOLE STORY AND DEMAND HE BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://hillaryloyalistnowformccain.com/attentionfloridawexlerisafake.aspx
Hi Val, is your ! key stuck perhaps?
eff off Dan and get a sense of possibility.
No one elected you the blogger nazi. Or are you just practicing for the Obama regime?
Your posts have been more annoying than an over abundance of exclamation marks.
When they complain about your typing, you’ve won the argument!
shut up dan, in other words close yer piehole.
DAN. i think your brain might be leaking.
get over it.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I bet he thinks we’re racists for using capitals and exclamation marks too.
I have written the way I write for 41 years. The internet protocal ain’t gonna change it.
OOOO…and guess what Dan….I still type the words HAHA!!!
And the post about Wexler not living in Florida is very important.
We almost let you get away with changing the subject Dan.
I wouldn’t know a tennis or basketball analogy if it bit me in the leg. Those people have no clue, do they? If they sat down calmly and thought about what it was like when their mother got mad, it might start sinking in. When mamma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.
Fowler stated in the video that it would bother him if the superdelegates voted against the will of the people in their states. What, then, does he intend to do about it, since that exact scenario did occur in many states? Or is he like Pelosi, that scenario is okay ONLY when it benefits THEIR candidate, Obama??
Again, coded language against Hillary supporters who want to follow party rules and have a roll call vote. Coded, ’cause in their hearts, they know their position is anti-democratic.
Indeed. And no one rigged the scoreboard at the Giants-Pats game, either, by not allowing “certain” points to be recorded. The Pats blew that one on their own.
“It’s time to act in a mature fashion,”
Hello Kettle.
This is how I will act maturely…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_jH5QJ6ncg
I am fed up and frustrated with this mess. They truly have awakened a sleeping giant.
That about sums it up. Thanks Dr Long.
This DEMANDING tone by the DNC and Bot supporters of Obama makes me nauseous- everytime one of them does it. Whatever happened to free/personal choice, freedom, vote for who one wants, democracy etc.??
The desperation shows insecurity. Well THEY should have thought, listened and made their decision with information, integrity and maturity instead of pandering and idolizing a loser like Obama. They should have voted for the best candidate-Hillary- and THEY didn’t.
NOBAMA! EVER!
roseeriter — The Democratic Party will not tell me what to do. In the words of Obama if Israel’s best friend is Israel then my best friend is myself and myself tells me to vote Republican across the board. The Party of the people doesn’t give a chit about the people.
Funny that….on all counts….
This has become more important than just Hillary. This is about the future of our party. If and election can be stolen America and all we stand for is in peril. I will not vote for Obama, that is my pledge. I will do all I can to have Hillary nominated and to rebuild the party into the one I joined 25 years ago.
Yes, my fatigue and irritation will display itself in the voting both when I vote for the “mature” candidate.
kcfromtx — By mature you mean the guy who didn’t pose for 2 hours in a humvee in a war zone while reporters got great pictures of him in his sunglasses? McCain is my mature guy. Cause my problems can’t be fixed by an overgrown kid who gets excited when he shoots a 3 pointer.
S Hall - yes, we will both be voting for the same mature man, the immature boy needs to go back to Chicago.
the immature boy needs to go back to Chicago.
To a Chicago JAIL.
PUMA
was there a dukakis moment photo there? Or is it that he just looks “cool” in a humvee?
let’s find that dukakis moment photo and get it out there!
(preening sob!)
Good Post….Funny how chiding tends to make recalcitrance habitual…chuckle…
Besides as I remember it…In the New Party HRC’s recalcitrant followers were declared both undesirable and unnecessary by comrade Brazeal. The New Party should already be unified given that the traditional base for the Old Party has been dismissed….No?
They’re starting to realize that fat, pimply potheads who live in mom’s basement aren’t always reliable voters, maybe?
An Election Day Scenario:
Mother: “Josh…JOSH!! Hurry up, wake up, get dressed, I’m going to vote! I’ll give you a ride to the polls–you have FIFTEEN MINUTES young man, FIFTEEN MINUTES…and then I’m leaving. I’ve got other errands to run, too, you know. You’ve eaten up all those HOTPOCKETS again along with the rest of the food in the fridge, I’ve got to get to the supermart. Croutons are NOT a snack food, Josh–and I hope you don’t get sick from that raw bacon you apparently ate last night. And then there’s that suspicious stain on the basement couch–I have to stop by the Rent-a-Center to get a steam cleaner. I don’t have all day, JOSH, it’s two PM, you need to get up and out of that bed, young man! And stop smoking that pot all the time…I can smell it, I’m not stupid! It sure seems to be turning you into some kind of zombie, though–I don’t like you spending your entire allowance on that crap! You’re twenty four, time to get a J-O-B and start acting like an adult…this “Blogging for Obama” shit hasn’t made you any money–those twenty dollar checks for eighty hours of typing shit on the computer won’t even buy a supreme pizza, delivered, and that’ll end today, anyway…wake UP, Josh, wake UP! I’m leaving in FIFTEEN MINUTES–I MEAN it!!!”
JOSH: Mmmmmmnnnnnnfffffbvvvlllllhhhhh ….hope, change, believe….. mmmmmmfffbllllllllsnnnnnflbbbbhhuh….
(Rolls over and goes back to sleep)
( knock at the door )
Mother opens to find a process server standing on her porch….
After Mom is served with multiple warrants from Comrade Josh’s hijinks in Denver….oh yeah! that August weekend he stole the car and her wallet and dear ol’ Dad left her for his secretary….she paused to wonder as she reflected on her son’s blissful face as he snored….
Why do I put up with this ?
Stay tuned readers as Comrade Josh learns the meaning of change and how to pray for hope….
*** Good one Clinton Fan….chuckle….Josh, what a perfect name….***
ot—–Edwards busted with mistress and lovechild.
Yes. New York Magazine has a blurb, too. And the National Enquirer story has some long details. But no pictures? What kind of tabloid reporter who is working on a hot tip doesn’t even have a cell phone camera?
Interesting.
I think something is going down behind the scenes. There is no other reason for Edwards to be brought down at this time.
Maybe the psychic predicting a Clinton/Edwards ticket in the fall is hitting too close to possible considering the way Obama is tanking and going after Edwards now is one way to block it.
Who knows, but it sure is a weird story especially without pictures considering he was being stalked by the NE.
Well, maybe he hasn’t done enough for Bambi lately. For example, perhaps he’s refusing to release his delegates. Maybe he likes democracy. The thugs would sure go after him for that.
Yeah, what is it with that? A reporter without a camera?
If it is true…that’s what you get for crossing Hillary Clinton.
Karma is a bitch.
LOL…..read about that too….The Great National Hypocrisy Club is surging in membership….chuckle….Wonder what the kids name and I’ll bet he/she was born with a full head of….GREAT HAIR….
W H A T?????
really?????
ohhhhh my friend is going to be very upset! She was such a loyal fan of his.
Me? Not so much. Pretty boys. Enough said.
what was all the big hoopla about edwards? i could never understand that following either. sure, he is probably a nice guy… to your face…
he is too much like a used car salesman to me. i can’t stand the way he blinks all the time. he seems soooo fake to me.
i didn’t like the way he always bragged on his father being a coal miner for 37 years (or whatever). it got to the point to where i was no longer hearing bragging on his father, but rather bragging on himself for getting out of there. i could have sworn i even saw his dad roll his eyes about it once.
he reminds of of they type of person like Jim Baker - acting like he’s all righteous, but really isn’t.
I agree- Edwards was a phony and at the bottom of my list. Poor Elizabeth- but isn’t that typical- an older woman works her butt off for her man, only to get dumped for immaturity. Gee that sound like Obama vs Hillary situation too.
Elizabeth was the only thing I liked about the guy. She was real, he seemed shallow.
Elizabeth is a homegirl from SW FLA (I adore her and feel very bad for her situation)
Eddie is the “SON OF A MILL WORKER”
roflol not a coal miner (but it’s funny)
Yep in 04 Clark was my pick
never Eddie and I was PISSED when Kerry picked him over the MORE EXPERIENCED CLARK!
I’m tired of this crap with us always putting up the worthless or LESS than Adequate candidate JUST because the RIGHT does!
Why not go for STELLAR PERFORMER?? She barely missed a beat or a note or a cue and I say we NEED the best politician for the job. Since Bill can’t run again his equal Hillary is the BEST choice!!
Again, very simple. It’s Economics! It’s MATH!
I wasn’t sure what his dad did, that’s why I said (or whatever). I got to where I couldn’t listen to him.
Wes was my favorite too! I wish he wouldn’t have drank the koolaid though.
He’s very rude to Elizabeth. My daughter has a habit of watching what’s going on in the background of events. She has seen him acting pushy and downright rude to her.
Clinton supporter Roger Altman is one of the major owners of the ENQUIRER. I can’t decide if their busting Edwards right now was coincidence; Rovian ratfucking to disgrace a prominent Clinton supporter and potential VP; or Clintonite revenge ratfucking. (I love the Clintons, but can’t imagine that being in their bad graces is much fun.) In any case–BOOYAH!
Whoops–edit: “to disgrace a prominent
ClintonBarky supporter”timewilltell — Wasn’t Edwards one of Clinton’s harshest critics. Real Nice Johnny — while your wife suffers from inoperable cancer have a girlfriend and another baby just waiting in the wings. Hypocrisy rules.
Wow, sex with a grown woman! How refreshing.
I use the football analagy…”O” had a fourth down, with 20 yards to go…and the rules committee distracted the referees long enough to move the yard marker! This “hail mary” ain’t going to work…if the voters get their heads out of their A$$! I’m never coming home, and that entire letter was insulting!
Oh, wait has he missed offending the catholics yet?
THE NEW OBAMA PARTY SHOULD BE NAME The Village Idiots. HOW DARE THEY THINK THEY CAN TELL PROPLE WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR VOTE. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY ADULT LIFE I AM ASHAME I WAS EVER A DEMOCRAT
I feel the same way.
I thought the new party didn’t need us???
They don’t need unity with all the young and energetic new voters they have!
I’ll just stay over here being immature!
I used to volunteer and give money and rally around them, but I’ll just stay over here so as not to embarrass the new democratic party with my oh, so immature attitude!
The O dious BO Party
heheheh
If barry was a musical instrument
it would be an ObO (hehe purposely misspelled)
Please don’t dis the oboe. It’s the most difficult instrument to play proficiently. Nothing that the wuss Oblowme would be able to even consider trying.
I know you’z jus messin wit us. However, I majored in music - oboe was my instrument - at Indiana University Bloomington. Have to defend fellow oboists, or are we under the bus now, too?
You’re right about the oboe. I’ve never played it but my wife was a Big Ten school music major. The book “Mozart in the Jungle” gave me insight on its difficulties.
woops
Oboe’s under da bus!
so we’ve got
Trumpets
Oboes
?
The Organ (lol)
HA!
Actually, I kinda wish Waffles would take up the oboe.
All that carbon dioxide building up in his blood stream with no way for all that hot air to escape except maybe through his ears and he’d probably explode.
(For the non-musical, there’s a running joke that oboe players can’t get life insurance coz of the strain playing puts on the heart.)
hehehehe
Here Here! Maybe a Gazoo would work for the BO band.
Try making your own reeds. Not an easy thing to do.
Peter and the Wolf comes to mind.
I am so grateful we can all rally around to defend the noble Oboe…
If we could just get some UN action I think we could all rest easy….
*** Sorry….Most clarinetists tend to be a little nuerotic about the attention other woodwinds are always getting….scuse….***
i prefer
oh boy
I thought he was a flute
I wish I was a poet.
An Ode to The Odious Bo
I am a poet. I’ll work on it.
YAY!!
I’m going to write a book called “it takes a village to raise an idiot!”
OMG!
Cottage-friggin’ cheese on the keyboard!
tattie — Obama thought after he gave himself the nomination he could become a defacto Republican and the Democratic Party allowed him to diss them and their platform. Now he thinks he can win without, Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. He thinks he can win without the Democratic base of Women, Seniors, Boomers, Hispanics, Gays and White Workers. All he needs are Republicans, The Christian Right, The Youth, and Latte Liberals. The Republicans are voting McCain and the Right Wing will never vote for Obama. Sorry you don’t qualify for the job of President — NEXT — Perhaps you could come try again when this country has 57 states.
He has Acorn and he just may have fixed voting machines and that is why he is not worried. He should though, he is not getting the Hispanic vote no matter what the polls tell you.
Acorn has been here in the Pacific Northwest having meetngs with people losing their houses. Supposedly they can help them. What are they pulling?
The DNC and its lackeys must really be hurting over the lack of financial support for their candidate for them to issue out a pathetic plea like this. Well, they fully deserve what they got in anointing the Messiah. They know that their heads will roll once the GOP again captures the White House in November.
http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/07/22/tar-baby-john-kerry-uses-racist-term-to-describe-attacks-on-obama/
BTW, hasn’t anyone told John Kerry that when he’s defending Obama he should not use the “tar baby” phrase?
THE STRATAGEM THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME!!!!
what are Kerry’s words exactly? Interesting that term should come up again. The last time it was used by a public figure when Romney referred to something in Massachusetts, the Big Dig, probably. There was such a PC outcry that the word could only be whispered among trusted friends. Now Kerry uses it. Wonder what made him think of it?
north carolina
WTF do you mean by that, dumbsh#t?
I’m a North Carolinian, and I don’t freaking aprreciate your inference about my state.
msybe audacity was thinking of tar heels?
Oh, but it’s cool. He gets to be an honorary member this year for services rendered. Better remember that status once conferred is easily revoked without notice (sorry, Bill!) So, Kerry should enjoy the ride while it lasts. Have fun fist-bumping and using “okie doke”, “bamboozled”, “hoodwinked” and now “tar baby.”
CORRECTION “PEOPLE”