Axis of Balance

Take a look for yourself, you decide.

Here is how:

Are you kidding me…

Here is a quote from one of Clinton’s top advisors, Geraldine Ferraro.

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

Are you kidding me…(yes I said it twice). This is clearly one of the dirtiest run primary campaigns in modern Democratic history. So lets see if I understand this correctly. Obama isn’t going to win any votes outside of “black areas” because he is black. Then he is only winning because he is black. Look I am a liberal black man living in America, and I don’t know what part of planet earth they are on, but its no place I have ever heard of. I guess Obama won in Vermont (which I have visited before…Go Vermont!) because of the HUGE black population there? When I visited there, I thought I was back in Baltimore with all the people who looked like me there…not. I guess Iowa was another black stronghold for Obama or maybe Idaho. When people make comments about how the Clintons will stop at nothing to win they are absolutely right. Mathematically Hillary has no chance of winning the election, yet she will destroy any and everything that gets in her way. If she can’t have it, no one is allowed to. This is the exact type of disgusting politics that keeps people from being engaged. Now we actually have a chance to see how it would work using the method of substance versus name calling. As most people already know, tomorrow is Mississippi’s primary. Obama is favored to win by about 12 percentage points. Keep plugging away at those delegates Barack…. End this childish nonsense and put her away for good.

Senator Obama wins South Carolina…by a landslide. The black vote was a strong influence on his victory. However, the win for Obama broke down largely on generational lines. I am excited and pleased to be apart of watching what I think is history in the making.

Florida for the Republicans in Tuesday. I have a feeling this will be the last we hear from Rudy Guiliani. Bye bye America’s mayor.

So Barack Obama has won Iowa…as one of his supporters I couldn’t be any happier. It was a great day in America when a black man wins a 92% white state in the primaries. Its still the beginning of a long race, and a decent amount of time before Super Tuesday, but he will have a lot of momentum to push him further in the next few races. Also, not that its any less important news but Mike Huckabee, the come behind kid, has securely trounced the rest of the Republican party in Iowa. Huckabee won Iowa with a 9 point lead on Romney, the 2nd place winner. While both Obama and Huckabee have many differences, they seem to have a general message of needed change that resonates with voters. While I do not want a evangelical preacher as my president, I appreciate his fairly progressive social views…abortion and gay rights notwithstanding.

As I read the news this morning it seems that going into New Hampshire Hillary Clinton and John McCain held the largest leads. Clinton with 9 points over Obama, and McCain 4 points over Romney. However, today those leads have shrinked significantly. Obama is now within 4 points, and Romney now within 2 points. So it looks like Iowa’s outcome will play a pretty strong part in what kind of race we have in New Hampshire. From the looks of it, the Democrats race there will be another close one going into voting day.

With mix feelings I had to read that Chris Dodd and Joe Biden have both dropped out of the race. While I think they are both great candidates for their party, realistically they had no chance at the presidency. Both are said to most likely throw their support behind Obama, as Kucinich has already done. I don’t think Clinton or Edwards will end of picking up any major amount of votes from Dodd and Biden supporters. However, this race has been all over the place, so we shall see.

On the Republican side, Fred Thompson actually got 12% of the vote, which surprised me because I think most people believe he is barely running a campaign. Ron Paul pulled in 10% of the vote. He is hoping for a big jump in NH, but I don’t think this is going to ever happen. While I think his supporters work hard to push their candidates message, I think they can be a little delusional to think 10% is enough to start a real charge towards the Whitehouse. Guiliani came in with a whopping 3%, of course he is concentrating on Florida for his first victory, which I think is a stupid idea. The little states can make of break you just as easily as the big ones. However, as much as I hate his campaign, I am sure his has some crafty stuff up his sleeve.

So we keep our eye on NH and see if this makes or breaks the remaining candidates.