Bent Corner

Everyone knows that Barack Obama is a transformational figure. Everyone knows that Barack Obama has an overwhelming money advantage. Everyone knows that Barack Obama has the admiration and support of the Democratic establishment. Everyone knows that Barack Obama is Powered by Hope™.

With all these advantages, why can’t Barack Obama win?

Because Hillary Clinton wont let him. It’s all Hillary’s fault. Hillary Clinton has been very mean to Barack Obama and she continues to be very mean. Right now at this very moment, Hillary Clinton is in Indiana asking Democratic voters to vote for her on May 6. What she conveniently fails to mention to these Indiana Democrats is that if they do what she asks, they wont be allowed to vote for Barack Obama on May 6.

Election laws only allow voters to vote for one of the presidential candidates on May 6.

She’s pulled this dirty trick before. It’s right out of the Clinton dirty play book. It’s not fair and it’s mean.

Why can’t Hillary Clinton be more like Alan Keyes? When Barack Obama ran for the Senate in 2004, Republican Allan Keyes ran against him. Keyes ran a much more subdued campaign against Obama. He didn’t make things so difficult for Obama.

He wasn’t tough on Obama like Hillary has been.

If Hillary would simply drop out and let Obama win, he could concentrate on running against John McCain. John McCain is a Republican like Allan Keyes. Because of this, we know he won’t be mean to Barack Obama like Hillary Clinton has been. He will be more like Allan Keyes. With Hillary finally out of the picture, Obama wont have to answer any more tough questions about his positions or his judgment. The scrutiny by the national mainstream news media will finally stop.

Let the Obama win.

Super Tuesday part VI took place two days ago and Hillary Clinton won not only the Ohio primary, but the Texas and Rhode Island primaries too. Even though her campaign was outspent 4-1, she won Ohio by a whopping 10 points. This is important because if the Democrats hope to win the White House in November, they will need Ohio. Every four years some states almost always go Democratic, while others almost always go Republican. The remaining states — the so called swing states — can go either way. States with a substantial amount of electoral college votes such as Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

Barack Obama can’t seem to win the states that Democrats normally win. Most of the states that Obama has won are the states that will most likely be going into John McCain’s total in the general election. Not only has Hillary Clinton been able to pull ahead in the states that historically go for the Democratic, she has won in the swing states of Florida and Ohio too.

Part of the problem is the methodology the Democrats use to pick a candidate. Unlike the general election, it’s not a winner-takes -all for the Democrats. During the primaries, Democratic candidates are able to lose a state and still take a proportional share of the delegates.

This isn’t going to happen in the general election.

If Barack Obama wants to win the general election in November, he has to win the states that he has lost in the primaries. The states that Hillary Clinton is constantly and seemingly easily winning. I think he has to win in Pennsylvania. If he loses another big swing state, the Democratic superdelegates may very well likely give Hillary Clinton the votes she needs to secure the nomination. At this point, neither candidate will be able to lock up the nomination without assistance from the superdelegates.

The photo of Barack Obama dressed up in regional garb while visiting Africa has been circulated online, supposedly from somebody connected to the Clinton campaign. The Drudge Report was the first to show this photo and he says someone from the Clinton campaign sent it to him. That omission from Drudge kind of destroys his claim of “ANONYMITY GUARANTEED”. Then again, if you believe anything on the Drudge Report, you are an idiot.

I think it was incredibly stupid for Barack Obama to dress up like this.

I realize it’s common for American politicians to dress up in local ethnic gear while visiting abroad. I’ve never understood why they do it. Maybe I’d feel differently if somebody from Europe came over here and dressed up like an Indian chief or a cowboy.

Obama simply doesn’t have the luxury of playing dress up when it comes to clothing of the middle-east. He already has to contend with things that are outside his control. Things such as the fact that the name Obama sounds a lot like Osoma. Having the middle name of Hussein certainly doesn’t help him. Quite a few Americans still incorrectly believe he is a Muslim. He’s not. He’s a born again Christian. Photos like this only help confuse people.

Democratic superdelegates are delegates that are not bound to the will of the voters. They fall outside the primary election and caucus system. For 2008, the Democrats will have 796 of these superdelegates attending the 2008 Democratic Convention. They will be casting votes along with the 4,049 regular non-super delegates. The superdelegates are not beholding to anyone. They can cast their vote as they please.

Who are these superdelegates?

• Former Democratic presidents
• Former Democratic vice-presidents
• Democratic governors
• Democratic senators and congressmen
• Democratic Committee muckety mucks

Out of all the groups that make up the superdelegates, it’s the later that bothers me the most. Who are these people?

Some of these superdelegates have already committed their votes to a candidate. For instance, even though nobody here in Maryland has yet to cast a single vote, Governor Martin O’Malley has already made a commitment to cast his superdelegate vote for Hillary Clinton. The same with Sen. Barbara Mikulski. She too has agreed to vote for Clinton.

This doesn’t mean that O’Malley, Mikulski, or any of the other committed superdelegates cannot change their mind. Superdelegates might be super, but they don’t have to keep their word.

What does all this mean? It means that Clinton or Obama could get the most votes going into the convention and still not get the nomination. A candidate coming into the 2008 Democratic convention with fewer regular delegates could make up for their shortage by locking in some of the 796 superdelegate votes.

There is nothing democratic about Democratic superdelegates. It’s about as undemocratic as you can get.

Did you hear that Hillary Clinton got choked up yesterday at a campaign event when she was asked how she puts up with the riggers of the campaign? By the way she answered, you would have thought someone had asked her how to felt to lose the Iowa caucus to a guy with Hussein for a middle name.

I haven’t seen someone cry that much since the time I tossed my hamburger wrapper out the car window and it landed at the feet of some guy with a feather in his hair.

I think he was a hippie.

I’m not against people crying. I myself tend to get choked up when I watch “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition“. That’s the TV show where they take the run down home belonging to a mother dying from cancer and turn it into a mansion. Every time they move that bus, I get choked up.

The thing that strikes me about Hilary crying is that it seemed she was crying because she felt sorry for herself. Even that hippie with a feather in his hair cried because he felt bad for the environment.

It wasn’t because he was feeling sorry for himself.  Like Hillary Clinton.