Delegate [chat]

We'll update delegate math here as it happens. Then you can [chat] about it.
As of 6/5/08 @ 11:38 a.m.:

	Obama	Clinton
Pledge Super Edwards Total	1744 403.5 21 2168	1641 291 0 1932

GH3: Expert 100% Fire and the Flames

Why We Argue

The first post in the comments is a long, and terrible reprinted conversation.

I am clearly full of holes in it, and yet, I'm certain, you'll note what I'm up against, and weep with me.

Macie Hope: Born Twice for Mockery

There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him." Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?"

I do not know if this is a bigger "fuck you" to Nicodemus or Jesus. But the double birth of Macie Hope is most assuredly a big old FUCK YOU to one of them:

The first “birth” was about six months into Keri McCartney’s pregnancy, when surgeons at Texas Children’s Hospital took the tiny fetus from Keri’s womb to remove a tumor that would have killed Macie before she was born.

The second time was on May 3, when the McCartneys welcomed their surgically repaired — and perfectly healthy — baby girl into the world.

So let the records show that Jesus Christ was incapable of shoving Nicodemus back into his mommy's snatch while surgeons as Texas Children’s Hospital were more than able to yank out Marie Hope, cut her up, and then shove her back in. And if fuckheads in Texas can do something your lord and savior cannot? It's time to rethink your life.

Also, I don't know if being "born twice" is somehow a requirement for being the antichrist any more than homosexuality or partial judaism are required. But I'm still keeping my eye on you, Macie Hope. If we can't trust something that bleeds for five days and doesn't die then we most assuredly can't trust someone who was born, shoved back in, and then born again.

Finally, if you take a cake out of the oven before it is done but then put it back in? There is a chance that the cake will collapse in on itself. Let's hope the same is not true of babies.

American Teen: The Trailer

AmericanTeenTheMovie.com

This is going to be surreal.

Howard Wolfson speaks for Clinton, Contradicts Self

Of all the confusing things the Clinton campaign did over its 17 months this has to be the most mentally perplexing:

“While Senator Clinton has made clear throughout this process that she will do whatever she can to elect a Democrat to the White House, she is not seeking the vice presidency, and no one speaks for her but her,” Howard Wolfson, one of the campaign’s chief strategists, said in a statement provided to The New York Times.

If you did not catch it then let me restate it for you: Howard Wolfson said, "No one speaks for Hillary but Hillary". As negative statements are sometimes confusing allow me to restate it as a positive:

"No one speaks for Hillary but Hillary" = "Only Hillary speaks for Hillary"

You see the problem. How could Howard Wolfson say "only Hillary speaks for Hillary" and it be meaningful?

Let me begin by saying that it can be the case that "only Hillary speaks for Hillary" and people other than Hillary can say that; they would merely be stating a fact. The problem is that in this particular example Howard Wolfson appears to be speaking for Hillary, which is impossible given what he said.

This leads to the main point with which I am struggling: Is it the case that "no one speaks for Hillary but Hillary"?

Simply googling "clinton spokesman" produces what appears to be an abundance of evidence to the contrary. Throughout the 17 month campaign multiple individuals with the title of "Clinton spokesman" made statements on behalf of Hillary Clinton. But let us assume that "only Hillary speaks for Hillary". What then of these spokesmen and spokeswomen?

Obviously these spokesmen and spokeswomen, if we are to believe that "only Hillary speaks for Hillary" could not have been speaking for Hillary; that would be impossible. So then what were they doing? Is it possible that they could communicate true information about Hillary Clinton without speaking for her? Certainly. But it would be impossible for them to communicate this information on her behalf. They would have to be speaking on their own behalf, for themselves. Could the speak on behalf of the campaign? Yes, assuming that Hillary Clinton and Hillary Clinton's campaign are separate entities. But they absolutely could not speak on behalf of Hillary Clinton.

Of course, it is also possible that "no one speaks for Hillary but Hillary" is a false statement and that Howard Wolfson is a fucking moron who doesn't know what he's saying most of the god damned time.

Personally? I tend to settle on the "Howard Wolfson is a fucking moron" option given that over the past 17 months a metric shit ton of people have spoken for Hillary Clinton, most of whom are fucking tools.

Except for Terry McAuliffe. That guy totally has his shit together.

Indiana Beat Hillary Clinton

Per this Washington Post article:

Hillary and Bill Clinton were optimistic as they approached primary day on May 6. They dipped once again into their personal fortune, lending her campaign $1.4 million more in the week before the Indiana and North Carolina votes. At least three campaign officials described the Clintons as furious when they saw the results in the two states.

Indiana proved to be the bigger disappointment, even though Clinton won there. What irked her advisers was that Clinton got no credit for what they saw as a come-from-behind victory. Even more irritating was that, because ballots were being held back in the Obama stronghold of Lake County, across the state line from his home town, Chicago, the networks declined to call the race for Clinton until after midnight.

The most effective phase of her campaign "came to a screeching halt the night of Indiana and North Carolina," said a senior aide. "The change was discernible almost immediately.