Obama Nails It

Looking at the news this week and the whirlwind surrounding Blago it has left me thinking that Obama nailed it. The first test Obama was faced with after becoming President Elect was his cabinet choices. We all know, Dems and Repubs that he got it right. Time will tell if his cabinet works for the best but he has certainly presented his case that he would live up to his campaign promises of a new kind of politics, or at least one different than we've seen in 8 years perhaps much longer.

But the second test came out of the blue with Blago and presented with this opportunity to completely fall flat on his face and embarass himself as a typical Chicago politician, Obama not only refuses to even stumble he somehow manages to hit it out of the park.

'...they're not willing to give me anything except appreciation. Fuck
them!''

What more could you ask for?

Venus Vs Serena in the Badger State

John Cole over at Ballon-Juice brought it to my attention today that critics are slamming Obama today saying that he can't speak well without using a teleprompter.

So I'm watching him give his speech tonight on MSNBC and lo and behold it strikes me. He is panning back and forth so quickly between his teleprompter screens that he looks like he is giving a speech while watching one hell of a tennis match.

I wonder who won?

Obama the Untouchable

I'm starting to get a little big chaffed by the members of the African American Elite who seem to feel that Barrak Obama needs to be treated with kid's gloves in this election.

Britebart is reporting that former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder 'is not ready to excuse comments former President Bill Clinton made about Barack Obama. ' This is regarding Bill Clinton's comments calling Obama's claiming that he has a different opinion from Hillary on Iraq a fairy tale that the media has played into.

The comments from Clinton were a fair play on Obama's stance, and were especially accurate in their portrayal of Obama's record in the Senate being the same as Hillary Clinton's record.

Obama and his supporters should be wary of these tactics. If they are allowed to continue and someone as liberal as I am is turned off by them, this could backfire on Obama in the general.

Most people in our country look forward to the day when we have our first African American President and our country has worked hard to come to realize the day when people can be judged by 'the content of their character rather than the color of their skin'. However a sense of entitlement or an expectation that an African American candidate needs to be treated specially only shows us that we haven't gotten there yet.

Mitt Romney - Brits Don't Like Him Either

Mitt Romney just can't get a break. Check out this online poll at the London Times that gives their readers a chance to 'vote in the US primary'. The results I got were this.

McCain - 41.4%
Romney - 4.8%
Rudy - 17.7%
Huckabee - 12.5%

And the big winner of the night placing second exceeding expectations????

Ron Paul - 17.9%

What? Don't they realize that he's a nut?

On the Dem side, no real suprises though. Obama 60%, Clinton 25% and Edwards 9%. I guess there is something of a suprise. Where did all that Clinton goodwill of the world go?

Oh, and if you do look at the actual poll, notice the option at the bottom that allows you to change your vote after you've seen the results. They have this Iowa stuff down cold.

Obama and Huckabee

Everybody knows the results of the Iowa Caucus by now. Obama and Huckster took home the gold. But what is amazing is what an amazing rebuke this was for George W. Bush. What a rebuke it was for the Iraq War. Things are going better in Iraq yet still the candidates that were able to realize that even given that Americans still haven't forgiven George W. Bush for the war. They haven't forgiven the Republicans for being so cavalier in their treatment of our national security and our troops.

I get frequently assailed over at Ankle Biting Pundits for making the claim that Republicans don't really care about our troops, but you can't possibly be for the troops and be so callous to the plight of the troops and our returning veterans. If you care for the troops then you care about giving them the proper equipment, a proper strategy for victory and the proper medical care when they get home.

The campaign of Mike Huckabee scares the Republican party. The conventional wisdom is that Mike Huckabee scares the Republican party because he can't win. He can't win because he is a religious nut. There is something bigger though that is running as an undercurrent here. Mike Huckabee is threatening to bring the evangelical vote back to the center.

I honestly wouldn't want someone in the charge of our government who has religious views as conservative as Mike Huckabee, be we should be rejoice in his victory, because if the further Mike Huckabee goes the more likely that this represents the shattering of the Reagan coalition and the resurrection of the FDR coalition. And American will Progress once again.

So congrats to Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee!!!!