My is MS-01. All the scoop here, here and here. I love that the broke and embezzled RCCC had to spend serious coin in this race. Love it!
Chelsea heads to PR to campaign, yeah I know you all wanted that gig!
West Virginia Predictions?
Delegates at stake =28
West Va blogger link here
Kentucky Predictions?
Delegates at stake =51
KY Blogger link here and here.
Here is your funny for the day: Things that are younger than McCain.
Comments on this Entry:
(RuralDem on
May 13, 2008 10:09 AM)
I’m with you Juliana about MS-01 being “the race to watch” today. I’m glad to see our entire party, both liberals and moderates/conservatives coming together to support Childers. Taking this district will be a HUGE victory for us.
I read that Gene Taylor’s been helping Childers, which to me is a great thing.
Now, I just wonder if the Blue Dogs will allow Childers (if he wins) and Cazayoux to join the Blue Dog Coalition since they’ve both been touted by the group as great candidates.
(odinseye2k on
May 13, 2008 10:37 AM)
It’s a question of who the Dogs will have to kick out, since I think they are capped at 48 (?) members. Maybe they’ll plan an expansion.
Meanwhile, for predictions, I’d say Obama gets smoked in WV by 40. I’ll turn that into 18-10 on delegates since O traditionally outperforms a little delegate-wise from raw totals. He should probably give up on the Clean Coal thing since it isn’t grabbing him votes out there.
(nicolette on
May 13, 2008 10:41 AM)
“Alaska - the freaking state - is younger than John McCain.
And, for that matter, so is Hawaii. McCain is older than two of the fifty states.”
hehehe LOVE IT
*1 for 1 in todays google reader game*
(Mouth of the South on
May 13, 2008 10:47 AM)
The use of Chelsea in this campaign has been amusing. I like to take a shot every time she says “my mom”. Try it, you won’t last long.
(RuralDem on
May 13, 2008 10:53 AM)
I think it’s 47. Cramer’s leaving, so that’s one seat that’ll be open. He’s a founding member so I doubt he’d step down as a member.
I know they’ve turned down a few people, including one woman, maybe Boyda, who hyped up her credentials back home as a Blue Dog but then didn’t make the cut, but these two candidates have been promoted by the coalition, hence the reason I’m wondering if they’ll actually get in.
(Jules on
May 13, 2008 10:55 AM)
Ok Nicolette, I’m mystified by this game of yours. please explain yourself.. or am I the only one.. oy
(nicolette on
May 13, 2008 11:01 AM)
i explained it to a couple of people, i’m guessing you are not there.
so i recently started using google reader to read all of my blogs (totally awesome recomend to everyone). but what is super fun about reading blog for democracy through google reader is that it does not say who wrote the entry. so it is always a fun guessing game for me to guess who wrote the blog entry. today your entry was the only one that was up, and i guess correctly that it was you! yay me!
(nicolette on
May 13, 2008 11:02 AM)
and by “are” i meant “were”
(CatherineAtlanta on
May 13, 2008 11:19 AM)
I just love Travis Childers running in the MS01 race. We had an excellent exchange with him on Kudzu Vine back in March.
You can download and listen to it here: http://tinyurl.com/6mz44z
(innerredneckexposed on
May 13, 2008 11:23 AM)
funny story when yall interviewed him i was like, why they interviewing this dude, he ain’t got a shot at winning.
(Jules on
May 13, 2008 11:30 AM)
Inner, dude when are you going to realize, when BfD speaks it automaticlly is now “cool”.
(CatherineAtlanta on
May 13, 2008 11:35 AM)
I totally loved that guy! I made a contribution to his campaign while I was talking to him on Kudzu Vine.
(JerryT on
May 13, 2008 11:59 AM)
McCain’s older than this guy too:
http://tinyurl.com/2w4apm
(odinseye2k on
May 13, 2008 12:35 PM)
We are so Rick-Rolling McCain’s vote this year.
(innerredneckexposed on
May 13, 2008 1:26 PM)
Jamie Lidell=awesome.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=89Qa5rNAeEs
(Rubyduby on
May 13, 2008 1:45 PM)
JerryT, you are a terrible person for rick-rolling the blog.
Shame on you. As punishment, you have to wear a Curious George Obama ‘08 t-shirt. 
(JerryT on
May 13, 2008 1:48 PM)
Ah yes, the one place on the internets you thought you were safe.
Hey, at least it wasn’t a picture of Truck Nutz. (McCain’s older than them too!)
(Rubyduby on
May 13, 2008 2:33 PM)
I think the best one I’ve ever seen is the Yoda rick-roll.
And yes, I thought this place was my safe haven, where I could be as mean as I wanted to be while trying to destroy Jim Marshall with my words.
It’s Slinky, it’s Slinky, for fun it’s a wonderful toy.
It’s Slinky, it’s Slinky, it’s fun for a girl and a boy.
(Jules on
May 13, 2008 3:23 PM)
As much as it pains me to say it, Jim has no competition. Not this cycle anyways. I realize someone is on the ballot, but Jim’s a fixture, now Barrow, that’s a kettle of a different fish. go Ruby Go..
(odinseye2k on
May 13, 2008 4:49 PM)
Meanwhile, Mr. McCain is in my home state (at near my old school) charging serious dough for dinner.
Yes, that is the area of highly educated, relatively young and future-oriented folk, but there are also a lot of rich and backwards people out there too.
I’d actually enjoy plopping some of the those Microsoft libertarians in Barrow’s district and seeing how they’d fare with their new neighbors.
(Tim on
May 13, 2008 6:01 PM)
If all goes according to plan, the Democrats will easily have the BEST looking candidate for US Senate in November.
http://www.scottkleeb.com/
(RuralDem on
May 13, 2008 6:22 PM)
Well from a straight guy’s point of view, we have Jessica Wolfe running for Congress, and Stephanie Herseth (Sandlin) already in, so we’re good on that front as well!
(odinseye2k on
May 13, 2008 9:54 PM)
It’s fun to see that Bob Barr has jumped in as a 3rd party candidate.
I was really hoping for Ron Paul as the L for this run, but Barr will probably be quite fun to use to antagonize McCain and pull him right.
And I love Libertarian thinking:
“I do start-up companies. It is sort of an addiction. As opposed to what many outside of Silicon Valley believe, most start-ups go bust and one doesn’t normally make gads of money off of them. For the most part you work a lot of hours, with a lot of stress, for egomaniacs, for very little pay and the promise of a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Most of the rainbows dissipate before you get to the end with the gold.
“Anyway, one of the start-up companies I did in the early 90s had a very successful IPO and was then subsequently acquired for over $2.6B. It wasn’t a home run for me as I still had to work, but it was a solid double. I sold a bunch of my stock and bought a house. At the time, the capital gains tax was a whopping 28%; I had to send the mother of all tax checks to Uncle Sam. The day I sent it I became a conservative.”
And what follows that bit is an immediate assumption that the money simply disappears. No thought of public investment in the Internet, the SEC, University of California Berkerley (which made Silicon Valley in the first place), or anything else that promoted that wealth. Just the vacuum of a singular brilliance and bootstrap-pulling.
(innerredneckexposed on
May 13, 2008 10:41 PM)
CHILDERS WINS! Conservative Dems HOLLA! We in the house! And the House.
(JerryT on
May 14, 2008 11:42 AM)
Nice post Odin.
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