Comments on: After Pennsylvania

By: The Tin Man » Internecine

The Tin Man » Internecine — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:05:55 +0000

[...] Comments Eric: McCain is toast. Seriously. Look at the campaign. PeopleNick: Using “internecine” made my inner word geek all hot andThose Abercrombie & Fitch guys behind Obama – ‘Ratfucking’ by the Clinton campaign? [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:42:09 +0000

McCain is toast. Seriously.
Look at the campaign. People keep saying Obama/Clinton is dragging down the party’s numbers. McCain enjoyed a post-lockdown bump…up to about dead even with both candidates.
Since then, as the Democratic party drags on, both Clinton AND Obama enjoy rising poll numbers in head-to-head matchups with McCain (witness Pennsylvania, where McCain was leading in general head-to-head…until the primary hit. Now both Dems are ahead of him).
I also hate hate hate hate with a white hot hatred this idea that our nomination process should be wrapped up by Super Tuesday.
But them’s the breaks. Our primary process is ridiculous and I guess we have to live with that for now.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:25:59 +0000

Using “internecine” made my inner word geek all hot and bothered for you.

That is all.

By: FI

FI — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:23:22 +0000

As your contrary Republican indicator, this is the most hopeful I have been in months that the GOP can win this fall. On the flip side, though, I’d rather see McCain lose because so that the next 2-3 years of a lousy economy don’t turn the Republicans into a totally irrelevant party forever.

By: tim

tim — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:13:00 +0000

I can’t tell you how happy the Crisis on Infinite Earths reference made me.

By: Reg

Reg — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:24:51 +0000

The Iran issue is all about one thing: Courting the Jewish vote. She’s piggybacking on concerns over Obama’s perceived (not real) attitudes towards Jewish Americans and is pitching herself as Israel’s ultimate protector.

By: homer

homer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:36:07 +0000

Maybe Obama’s not playing the “game” because the game is over, done, caput? I’ve discussed this with my friends and we are tired of the Bush-Clinton era. Bush Sr was VP starting in 1980. If Clinton were to win the presidency, it could be 2016 before someone new got to the office (unless Jeb Bush were to run in 2016). Can anyone images 36 years of our country’s history with just two families basically running the show?

As this drags on, I find myself more and more irritated by Clinton.

By: Mike B.

Mike B. — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:14:11 +0000

Hillary would have been the better nominee.

Would have. As soon as she lost Iowa, she lost everything. If, after two decades of public life, her own party isn’t strongly enough behind her to put away a first-term senator, how can she claim that the country will unite behind her? A bloodied Hillary wouldn’t be a sure loser, but she’d be at a severe disadvantage–when you run the first half of your campaign like Goliath, you can’t claim to have won like David.

I still don’t particularly like Obama and I agree with your criticisms. But McCain is a pretty weak candidate–talk about soft support–and Obama’s the more appropriate opponent now that Hillary’s made an ass of herself.