Monthly Archives: May 2008

The Democratic Rules and Bylaws Committee agreed to seat both Michigan and Florida delegates with half-votes, based on Party rules. Under the deal, Florida will seat its delegates based on the outcome of the January primary, with 105 pledged delegates going to Clinton, and 67 going for Obama.� Each delegate will get a half vote as a penalty.� The committee was unanimous on that decision. The big sticking point apparently was Michagan.� The Clinton camp was insisting that Obama shouldn’t get any pledged delegates in Michigan since he “chose not to put his name on the ballot”.� The Clintons felt that she should get 73 pledged delegates with 55 delegate remaining “uncommitted”.� Obama’s camp insisted that the only fair solution was to split the pledged delegates in half with 64 delegates going to each side. The Michigan Democratic Party offered a compromise that would split the difference between the two camps.� Clinton would get 69 delegates, and Obama would get 59.� Like Florida, each will get a half vote as a penalty. That deal passed 19-8.� It is interesting to note that out of the 27 committee members, 13 of those members support Hillary Clinton.� Instead of the vote breaking…

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Scott McClellan, one of President Bush’s former SpokesLiar has written a tell-all book that exposes some of the lies this administration has been telling since 2000.� He managed to distill the entire 341 page book down into twelve words that he used as the title: �“What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” There, you’ve gotten the gist of where this book is heading.� Here are some quotes from the book: The Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated “political propaganda campaign” led by President Bush and aimed at “manipulating sources of public opinion” and “downplaying the major reason for going to war.” No shit? McClellan describes Bush as demonstrating a “lack of inquisitiveness”.� Most of us call that being “intellectually lazy”.� He also admits that he was lied to by the President’s inner circle about the leak of Valarie Plame.� That would make him an “accomplice after the fact” for not reporting such an obvious crime. McClellan has harsh words for many of his past colleagues. He accuses former White House adviser Karl Rove of misleading him about his role in the CIA case. He describes Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice…

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OMG!� OMG! O.M.G.! This is going to be all over the radio, television, papers, and Right-Wing blogs for the next two weeks!� Obama told an audience yesterday: “I had an uncle who was … part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps.” The Republican National Committee quickly fired off a news release that said: �Unless his uncle was serving in the Red Army, there�s no way Obama�s statement yesterday can be true. Obama�s frequent exaggerations and outright distortions raise questions about his judgment and his readiness to lead as commander in chief.� Yes, it was the Soviet Red Army that liberated Auschwitz.� But Obama exaggerating? Obviously, Obama was mistaken.� He Misspoke.� He didn’t dodge any bullets in Bosnia, and apparently the death camp that Obama’s great-Uncle, Charlie Payne helped liberate was another notorious death camp, Buchenwald. But I expect all of the pundits to be all over it for at least the next couple of days, I am sure to find a lot of them�will�gloss over the fact that Charlie Payne DID in fact help liberate A death camp (just not Aushchwitz) and start saying that Obama is trying to pander to the…

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Bob Barr has accepted the nomination for the Libertarian party. I'm pretty sure he represents the saner wing of the party, the one that defends individual liberty and the free market, and not the Peikoff branch who thinks we have the right to invade "uncivilized" nations who have not had the fortune to read Atlas Shrugged. And there goes a good 5%-10% of McCain's base. McCain is not a libertarian by any stretch of the imagination, and a party desperately seeking legitimization is going to vote Barr. So who's left to vote for McCain? Stupid people Catholics Burned Hillary supporters Racists Shit, even the fascists aren't going to go for McCain, and he can kiss the right wing Christian vote bye bye as long as Hagee, Parsley and Dobson tell them to stay home. Oh, sweet November is almost here.  

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For the past seven years I have been working on political websites.� The person that initially got me interested in political websites was none other than my good friend Misha, of the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler.� I met a�couple of you from my earliest site, The Political Pulpit.� That site morphed into a ‘blog, The Political Puzzle, with the naive thought of maybe having a place for civil debate between the Right and the Left.� Out of that, Grouchy thought he would like to have his own site, so Liberaltopia was born. Political Pulpit and Political Puzzle have long gone on to that cyber-junkyard.� Liberaltopia has hung around, even though the daily readership is low and I don’t spend all that much time here — it pretty much runs itself, and besides, I enjoy reading what the regular writers have to say. Up until about two months ago, I spent a lot of time over at Misha’s site — because I enjoyed a good argument.��But lately I have grown tired of constantly having to repeat the same thing, correct the same false talking points, and almost diagram sentences in order for the same people to get something through their heads.� Don’t get…

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Okay, I understand that if your candidate is behind, and a minor scandal comes along that makes people notice you, then you will try to portray yourself as the victim and try to get as much traction out of it as you can. Hillary gets a little careless in a statement concerning the reason why she is staying in the primary against all odds of winning.� She points out that the RFK assassination took place in June, and there hadn’t been a clear winner then either. The Obama campaign, sensitive to the very real possibility of assassination of their candidate,�interprets the�statement as being a veiled prediction that maybe Barack Obama might get assassinated, so she is sticking around just in case.� Keith Olbermann makes the issue part of his nightly rant, and Obama supporters spread Olbermann’s rant throughout the InterTubes. Hillary makes the following statement, understanding that she made a serious gaffe: “I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation, and particularly for the Kennedy family, was in any way offensive.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, — a Clinton supporter — comes forward and says that she didn’t mean it that way. Barack Obama comes…

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