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Soap-Opera Over???
May 7, 2008 | 11:51 AM
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Is it possible our nation's longest running political soap-opera is over? Tell me it ain't so!

What are we going to do with our lives if the Barack and Hillary show is really over. Take up knitting, kick-boxing? Join the ladies auxiliary club or an Irish drinking society? Stop e-mailing the latest dish on Hillary or Barack? Go cold turkey on surfing the web for the latest You-Tube video of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Noooooo! We want our conflict, deceit, explosive revelations, videos from the past, constant do-or-die moments, hail-Mary passes, the possibilities for endless speculation and rumination, blogging and flogging the blogs!

But let's face it. The time for kindly fortune or hoary providence to come sailing in from the sky to save the day for Hillary is over...North Carolina and Indiana ended it. It's been great folks - now it's time to return to earth. There is no saving deus ex machina to pull her irons out of the fire.

Even Democrats, after all this agony, excitement, ecstasy must be having post-partum blues after Tuesday's results that left the cyborg Hillary with an impossible mission of trying to patch her political fortunes back together again.

Of course, you must guess my secret ploy here.

Every time the pundits, the bloggers, the guy slumped at the bar, the editorialist and the guy next door have pronounced this contest over, it has acted like a contrarian tonic, an elixir of life, that has caused the dying patient, the flagging contest, to sit up and amaze us with his, her or its latest irrepressible, miraculous sign of vigor...or flirtation with disaster. And how much better is this than Lindsey and Brittney, Oprah and Mylie? How much better is this food - for our brains, our civic muscles?

So let us all join hands and pronounce our dearly beloved dead, with a wink, knowing it will only jinx the inevitable, humiliate our predictions, confound the gods.
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jpapagan read my blog view my photos
May 7, 2008 | 2:08 PM

So far Hillary is granting the media's wishes saying "I am staying in the race until there is a nominee" - well, obviously, that won't officially happen until the convention since the magic number can't be reached without the supers.

A lot of heavyweights in the party are going to try to get her to bow out now. My prediction - she drops out before June 3.
craftyguy read my blog
May 7, 2008 | 3:13 PM

she has invested over 11 million dollars of her own money while saying shes from the middle class she is a vindictive evil woman who dose not give a damn about her party or what they want she has only carried 7% of the African American vote you cant possibly win being a democrat with those numbers and she knows it ..I'm loving to see her go down in flames and taken down by the same people who put her loser husband in ..i guess he wasnt so great if those people don't want to see him back in the white house even as first lady..
John_Schwada read my blog view my photos
May 7, 2008 | 5:41 PM

crafty: ur in the movie biz, where's your love of drama...aren't you sad the circus is leaving town? do you only see the elephant manure in the street? what about the clowns, the flying trapeze artists, the human cannonball?
DfDeportation read my blog
May 7, 2008 | 6:50 PM

John,

I think it's over....for now.
craftyguy read my blog
May 7, 2008 | 8:16 PM

John i really don't relate movies to politics its more like sports..everyone wants to laugh and put it in your face when you win but cant because that would be bad sportsmanship..then again maybe your right when you look at the Oscars..and i don't think the circus just left town its now just under new ownership and the real circus is just about to start.this is going to be the worst election ever..send in the clowns there ought to be clowns ..don't bother there here.....vote craftyguy for American idol..
dasvics read my blog view my photos
May 8, 2008 | 5:01 AM

Hi John, I don't think it'll be over (the Hillary/Obama craze) cause one of them is going to choose the other as their VP- I'm 98% sure. So that'll be pretty cool. And how the Democrats will win over the Republicans.
John_Schwada read my blog view my photos
May 8, 2008 | 10:09 AM

i am actively soliciting your prescriptions for dealing with the post-partum distress? what are you now doing with your life now that the best show in town is over?
DMMickie read my blog view my photos
May 8, 2008 | 10:38 AM

John: So, when do you predict Hillary will drop out?
- Postpartum distress? Solution, Betty Ford's Poli-rehab center for burned out reporters. There you will not be allow to read newspapers, use the internet, or discuss politics. Instead your will be asked to step down from your pedestal and write children's stories for kids in the inner city.
-Me, I am going to, sigh a breath of relief.
-Like the new photos! (Clean up your desk.) I have a better caption for the last pic looking in the mirror.
" mirror, mirror, on the wall who looks the most like Harrison Ford?"
- BTW tuned in to that 10 o'clock show just to watch your report of the primaries and Phil Shuman reported the story?!?!? WHat is up with that?
Moogie read my blog view my photos
May 8, 2008 | 2:54 PM

Hillary doesn't know what "over-staying your welcome" means. Even if she realizes the nomination is slipping away, she will linger longer in order to receive monetary concessions from Mr. Obama, which I hope will not happen.

The party's not over yet, Mr. Schwada, but when it is, just get yourself a bowl of pretzels and sit down, put your feet up, and take a snooze.

Mr. Schwada's desk is fine, especially if Mrs. Schwada doesn't mind.
craftyguy read my blog
May 8, 2008 | 3:15 PM

Clinton /Huckabee..two people you never invite to dinner
DMMickie read my blog view my photos
May 9, 2008 | 12:20 AM

John: because you will need filler for your blog due to the end of the OBAMA vs Hillary drama I have an idea for you. A blog called "Ask the reporter?" You answer questions that we, your adoring fans, get to ask. You can set limits such as no questions about your sex life, or your boss, or do you dye your hair. Stuff like that, you know. Might be interesting?
statueman read my blog
May 9, 2008 | 9:27 AM

Oh yeah this has been funnnnn.

Race, Religion and Politics... all those things we are not supposed to be discussing.

But the great and wonderful thing is the cliche beliefs of all of us are being put on the table and challenged.

You know I thought I understood "white" people better then I actually did. I now know that if you make a white person feel like a minority that well... oh man I gotta stop. White is Beautiful... you know... in fact I'm starting a line of beauty products just for white folks called Euro-Sheen.

Yeah... thank God Hillary is still running cause you know... white folks need that. She ain't no token in fact she reminds me of some of my best white female friends... tough, yes tough resilient people they are... keep hope alive!
craftyguy read my blog
May 9, 2008 | 4:19 PM

what if Hillery gets the nomination..will their be riots ....excuse me uprisings?
statueman read my blog
May 10, 2008 | 3:30 AM

if Hillary steal the nomination that could happen... all the food banks are drying up and it only takes a spark to get a fire going...

but don't be so one-sided...
DfDeportation read my blog
May 10, 2008 | 9:27 AM

ha ha ha Euro-Sheen. You could probalby sell a whole bunch of that stuff over on Rodeo Drive. ha ha ha Or on spanish television...
drerunner read my blog
May 10, 2008 | 4:12 PM

What are you talking about? Have you people completely lost your minds? This race aint over and Hillary would be nuts to get out.


1.Obama dint win Indiana,michigan,florida, Pennsylvania ,texas,newyork and california. It' will be a HUGE problem in november! If he can't win in these states ,it's a pipe dream to think it will be diffrent in november.

2. If the DNC is foolish enough to leave out voters in michigan and florida ,because of idoit type rules created by party boss leaders ,they can kiss the election good bye. If you dont think those voters are signifucant now, then they will make sure you pay for it in november.

3.Hillary is still wining. What's with this rabbit cry of wanting her to quit? The more she wins , more delegates flee to obama. Something is wrong here.Sounds like loony fascism.

4. Mathematically , with the help of Puerto Rico ,wins in Kentucky ,west Virginia and Oregon ,it is still possible Hillary can still take the nomination. This has the possiblities of stuning the world and the loony left. Oh The horror people!

5. The people who are voitng for Obama are the same people who are loking for someone to give them something for free. What ever happen to "ask not what your country can do for you ,but what you can do for your country?". Oh wait , this new democratic party that supports obama is really a soicalist party in disguise.

6. Mcain will beat Obama on the issues. You can count on it, because promises and reality are two diffrent things in government. It is what it is!
DMMickie read my blog view my photos
May 10, 2008 | 6:33 PM

Drerunner: Iraq will be a thorn in McCain's side.
craftyguy read my blog
May 10, 2008 | 6:51 PM

the race is completely over she couldn't win no matter what happens she pulling a mike Huckabee she is campaigning for 2012 ..there is no way Obama can win in a general election ..i think George Bush could beat Obama ..stop with all this political correctness when it comes down to it we are a conservative country ..Kerry was white and a ex military man do you really think in a conservative country that is 70% plus white would vote for not just a liberal but a black liberal? a black liberal who never served who wont even wear a American flag pin in a time of war ..give me a break ..if this guy was such mandate why hasnt he sewn up his parties nomination.? he has done everything with liberal whites and the African American community and between the two Clinton is the wiser choice but all the idiot democrats think they want to kling on this special thing of the first African American running for the presidency..damn it this guy isn't Jackie Robinson or Martin Luther King he is a liberal con man who has fooled the biggest party in this country to think he is a viable candidate..there is no way any one could possibly lose after George Bush the liberal idiots democratic party found a way and i want to thank them from the bottom of my lily white conservative heart..
drerunner read my blog
May 10, 2008 | 6:58 PM

Maybe DMMickie, maybe. But it would be a compelete nightmare for Obama. Just imagine him pulling out troops as alqeda come in by the thousands. Bin ladin leaves pakinstan and make Iraq his base. What would Obama do? nothing? On top of that, Iran invades the southern borders and declare it theirs. It picks up it reteoric that Isreal must be destoyed at all cost and now (at that time) is the time. Will obama blink? You honestly think the world would let the united states off the hook on "we will do nothing"?. Hells no! The world will always say we are this or that ,but behind closed doors ,they will pray to their gods and ours that we come in and kick butt ,restoring order in the process . The world will be watching come the next 2 years and they will demand from us to act(if Iran act as they say they eventually will) , whether some americans will like it or not. This aint the reality show or movie. Spider man can not save the day, Ameirca has to do it. It is the devine order.
John_Schwada read my blog view my photos
May 11, 2008 | 10:46 AM

drerunner: you may be right abt hillary being the better general election candidate but perhaps only if - and this is a big if - she could win the nomination w/o alienating a really big bloc of the democratic party...i.e., blacks and young people.

it could be argued these voters would have no one to vote for but hillary in the general. but that's a prediction that fails to take into account some of the realities of campaigns. these voters could be so disappointed that they sit out the election or sit on their hands - and not do any heavy-lifting (fundraising, organizing, precinct-walking, etc) that is an essential part of campaigning.

the problem for the democrats (of course, we're only talking abt their problems right now - the republicans have their own set of problems) is that whoever wins there's going to be some very disappointed folks. look at the exit polls that show sizeable numbers of hillary voters would NOT vote for obama if he were the nominee
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As a reporter at Fox 11 News, I have covered national political conventions, presidential impeachment hearings and gubernatorial recall campaigns. I've done double-duty as an investigative reporter and, in this capacity, won Golden Mike and Emmy awards. I also have labored in the newspaper biz: LA Herald-Examiner, the LA Times, the San Diego Union, the Arizona Republic and the Riverside Press-Enterprise. I went to UC Berkeley and learned to respect the sharpshooting ability of Alameda County's "blue-meanies" who could hit protesters in the derriere with buckshot from 50 paces. I'm now looking for a wealthy benefactor who will donate their villa in Spain to me and my family.

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