Out of Pocket...

I will be for a few days. I am having knee surgery tomorrow, so it will probably be a couple of days before I get back to this. Just so you know!

I'm rushing to get things done before I leave today to go have the surgery, but I did want to mention that Hillary Clinton is talking to the MI legislature about a re-vote, and not silencing the voices of so many voters there. (There was a crappy article about this in the Washington Post today by Anne Kornblut, who included lines like Clinton was the ONLY Democrat on the ticket - do these reporters not know how to FACT CHECK any more?!? This is the Washington Post, for cryin' out loud - surely they have access to the internet, at least!!)

And Floridians feel like they have already voted, dadgummit - count their votes already! AND, more disturbingly, 1 out of 4 Floridians say they may abandon the Democratic Party if their delegates aren't seated (that was in the St. Petersburg Times, according to TalkLeft.com). 1 out of 4. Talk about disenfranchisement! What the heck have Dean and Brazille done to the DNC?!?!? I have said this a thousand times - the right to vote, and to have one's vote COUNT, is one of the most sacred acts we have in this country. For the DNC, of all organizations, to disenfranchise over 2.2 million people is reprehensible. No other way to see it, im my opinion (there is an EXCELLENT run-down of what happened in FL here: http://wampum.wabanaki.net/vault/2008/03/004343.html)

Meanwhile, as a campaign strategy, Obama has dragged his feet on FL and MI as a way to not have them seated until after he is the nominee, presumably. Nice. After having his camp push for people to vote Uncommitted. And after advertising in FL. So much for a "different" kind of politician. Yeah. Right.

Just a quick note on Obama's speech yesterday: His campaign started all of this race talk to begin with, as I have noted. And for him to compare the long-term hate mongering of his minister to one statement from Ferraro, something that Obama himself has basically said, is insulting at the very least. Yet, this media continues to lap up everything he says, and IGNORES that he lied a number of times leading up to his speech yesterday in which he NOW claims to be telling the truth. If this was ANYONE else, the media would be all over him. But since the media has proclaimed him the Annointed One, he truly seems to be able to get away with anything - McClurkin, Rezko, Wright, not ever calling a committee meeting for his very important subcommittee...The list goes on and on. And the media attacks CLINTON. Yeah. Okay. Whatever. How I long for the "good ol' days" in which the media actually did its job...

On that cheery note, it will be interesting to see how the rest of this primary season unfolds...