The Friday Presidential Race ‘BushWhack’ing

Another week down, there are now 24 weeks remaining in the campaign season…

• Read my “Plea to Democrats.” It’s a moral imperative… even Sen. Clinton agrees unity is important as she said earlier this week that it would be a “terrible mistake” for her supporters to vote for McCain over Sen. Obama.
• While Sen. Clinton won the West Virginia primary (handedly) she’s also been making a move to help repair the fractured Democratic Party. Yesterday she came to Sen. Obama’s defense regarding AppeasementGate… much like every other Democrat did. With everything she’s done this past week, I still believe (as do others), that Ms Clinton is starting to work towards re-uniting the party that she knows she fractured. Winning in West Virginia and, most likely, Kentucky, she’ll be able to bow out more gracefully with her head high. If I’m wrong, I will be the first to say so… well, probably the second as one of the trolls trolling here will jump on it in some desperate attempt for gratification of beating a complete stranger...
• Obama picked up the endorsement of former Senator, Vice-Presidential candidate and Presidential candidate John Edwards, which is already paying off with the United Steelworkers Union, who had been backing Edwards, changing their endorsement to Obama.
• Sen. McCain’s definition of ‘middle-class’ is a little different than everyone else’s… and by little I mean absolutely gargantuan…
• A new Quinnipiac University poll showed earlier this week that both Democratic candidates could beat McCain in November. Giggity...
• Former Georgia republican congressman Bob Barr threw his hat into the presidential ring this week and sees himself as the true conservative candidate… this could be more trouble for McCain, so stay tuned.
• McCain wavered on the environment… if this surprises you, you should stop paying attention to politics and concentrate on entertainment fluff… …
• McCain gave his vision of the future this week… I would write more, but I can’t stop laughing.
• Former presidential candidate Gov. Mike Dukakis gave his support, he refused to call it an endorsement, to Obama this week, saying he is better prepared to weather a gop assault in the Fall. Mr. Dukakis also had some great advice to the party, and I pray they pay heed to it…
• McCain’s campaign threatened to cut off access to Newsweek… cuz if there’s one thing we DON’T want is our media asking tough question to the person wanting to run the country.
• Time magazine asks “How Healthy is John McCain?”
• McCain tried to compromise on Sen. Webb’s GI Bill, thus eliminating a potential embarrassment for the McCain campaign… Webb’s response was, essentially, ‘suck it.’ (Okay, truth be told that wasn’t the exact wording, but wouldn’t it be great it he did put it that way?)
• McCain has not backed down and has still “accepted” the endorsement of eternal dumbass, Reverend John Hagee…
• Two of McCain’s campaign aides, Doug Goodyear (whom McCain chose to run this year’s republican Convention) and Doug Davenport (a regional campaign manager), were forced to quit the campaign earlier this week because they had ties to a firm that once represented the Burmese military Junta. (Representing a Junta… nice. Stay classy guys…)
• Has anyone else noticed that with each new day in McCain’s campaign we get a bold statement of American values from him… which we then find out he’s on the record rejecting that value within the last 5 years? Anyone want odds as to what’s next?
• A handful of Obama's top fundraisers asked campaign donors to stop contributing to independent political organizations in a move aimed at controlling the tone and message of the upcoming general-election campaign. In essence they’re trying to stop the influence of the so-called 527 groups. McCain has done the same… (Good idea. These groups have been a pox on ALL political parties since their inception, and putting a stop to them is the only way to ensure the end of swiftboating a candidate which tends to focus more on fear and a lack of understanding the issues then the truth)
• And have we mentioned? That a new study by the Center for American Progress Action shows that the US would be fucked from an economical standpoint (and others for that matter) if McCain wins the presidency? According to the report, McCain’s fiscal proposals for his presidency would increase the federal deficit to its highest level in 25 years while at the same time raising the national debt to heights not seen since WW II… (and once again, as if we needed any more proof, we see how a McCain presidency would be a continuation of the Bush presidency… and we don’t want that… do you?)