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Old 04-23-2008, 02:26 AM
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My two cents on the PA primary

lol OK, I'm sleepy, give my freakin bad jokes a break! Leave WEB alone! I'm a HUMAN!

Well anyway, so these are my thoughts on the primary for what they are worth.

Obama got his ass kicked. He not only took a big hit in terms of the symbolic value of PA, but he took a kick in the nuts to his popular vote total (she ate into it by 200,000). The reason for that is Obama's "bitter" remarks. Obama has enormous problems now, IMO. Exit polling showed that more Hillary supporters would not support Obama, than vice versa. Half of Hillary supporters will stay home or vote for McCain if Obama gets the nomination. Obama's got some REAL problems.

What's even worse than that is that Obama has lost his mojo. I watched Obama's concession speech. It was nothing compared to his concession speech in Texas, which was a complete masterpiece.



I guess that happened before the Reverend Wright, but Obama was such a pristine candidate back then. Now he's sullied by Reverend Wright and him getting mauled by his relationship with Ayers and "bitter." The Repubs are going to maul him North Carolina with a special propa....I mean piece on those men in Obama's life. Obama will be mirred in this kind of stuff.

At the same time, Obama's speeches are a compilation of what we've heard before and even though the Indiana crowd he was talking to was energetic, you could tell that the enthusiasm was markedly lower. It was a lot more mundane than it was before. Obama's problem is that he runs on high grade fuel, like aviation fuel. He has to keep injecting some super high amazing speeches into his campaign because he lacks the legislative accomplishments and experience to campaign on less exhaustive means. Obama is running out of things to say.

I guess we'll see what happens. The next elections in May will also be very important. Obama can probably get by, but we could say that he's past his peak in the Democratic race. You can still win when you are past your peak though.


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