I gotta admit it doesn't look to good when people in the Mid-Atlantic states aren't voting for Obama at all. Hillary has had two lopsided wins in West Virgina and Kentucky, and it makes me wonder what's going to happen when it's McCain vs. Obama. It doesn't seem like Clinton is going to back out tho and I believe she may have or is very close to leading in the popular vote while Obama leads in the delegate count. I don't know why these two just don't get together and make a joint ticket with him as President and her as VP, but I think they both want it too bad for either to end up as VP. If she stays in the race till the end and has more of a popular vote she'll have that to help convince the superdelegates to give her the nomination, altho Obama is now less than 100 delegates away from securing the nomination. I'll have to look up where the rest of the primaries are cuz I'm not sure off the top of my head. Well I gotta get to work at some point and I'm in the middle of making Alyssa's lunch so later.

Obama '08

the first two are Georgie jokes, one good one and to show I'm fair I even tossed an old Clinton joke in there

Bush and Cheney are at a restaurant for lunch. The waitress comes over and asks what they will be having.

Bush says, "I'll have a quickie."

The waitress steps back in disgust and says, "Mr. President, I thought that kind of piggish behavior went out with the last administration!"

She storms off and Dubya looks confused. Cheney shakes his head at the president and says, "George, it's pronounced QUICHE."

One day there were three boys walking down the street, and suddenly they heard cries for help. When the boys got to the noise they saw George W. Bush in a lake drowning. The three boys saved him from drowning.

Dubya asked the boys how he could ever repay him. The first boy said, "I want a boat."

The second boy said, "I want a truck."

And the third boy said, "I want three tombstones with our names all on them."

Dubya asked, "Why is that, son?"

The little boy said, "Because when my Dad finds out that we saved you, he is going to kill us all!"

A man dies and goes to Hell. The devil greets him.

"You may choose which room you wish to enter. Whichever you choose, the person in that room will switch with you. They'll go to heaven and you'll take over until somebody switches with you. So go on, pick a room."

The devil leads him to the first room where someone is tied to a wall and is being whipped. The second room has someone being burned by a torch. The third has a man getting blown by a naked woman.

"I choose this room!" the man says.

"Very well," the devil says. He walks up to the woman and taps her on the shoulder.

"You can go now. I've found your replacement."

Hillary Clinton went for her annual exam. After the exam, the OB-GYN told her that she was pregnant, and in great shape. Hillary couldn't believe the news and stormed out of the office. She rushed to her limo and picked up the phone to call the Oval Office.

"You got me pregnant! How could you be so careless?" There is a silence on the other end. Finally, she hears Bill's voice.

"Who is this?''

I wasn't going to really get into the West Virginia primaries discussion as Obama has pretty much won the nomination now anyway and Clinton was expected to win with about 80% of the vote. I don't know what the final numbers were just yet but I do know she won by a large margin and took about 20 delegates already from the state. But looking at the numbers it appears that it's near impossible now for her to win, I'm thinking she may drop out soon. The one fear that I have is that she stays in too long and somehow gets more superdelegate votes than he does and gets the nomination from that, we all know how I feel about politicians who lost a race but by some glitch get the win anyway. I don't know if she would be willing to join Obama on a ticket as the VP, but who knows she just might. That would be something huh, a black President with a woman VP. It seems strange that the United States has never had a woman President, so many other countries in the world have had women as their leaders but in the country that talks about equal rights for all there are people who won't vote for Obama because he's black, won't vote for Clinton cuz she's a woman and won't allow gays to marry. There are actually women out there who don't think a woman should be president regardless of what party they are with, remember when Elizabeth Dole thought about running? There were actually women Republicans who thought a woman shouldn't be behind the desk in the Oval Office, strange. Okay well I'm getting off subject and I do have to get to work now anyway.

There's been something going around in the house this week,like a bad cold or something. I just realized I haven't put up a real post in a while so I figured I'd put an update up here. Last weekend we went to the park with my sister and niece and nephew. Alyssa was very happy to see them as they just moved back to Ct from Florida and we haven't seen them in about a year. So, now if we go to Florida again we'll have to stay in a hotel, altho I can't think of any reason why we'd go to Florida again. I would like to go back to North Carolina and spend some more time in Asheville area. We stayed at a hotel out there and it didn't really feel like we were far from home, it seemed like we were just in Mass. in the mountains or something. I'd really like to live down that way one day, maybe when we retire or something. Dev is getting really big and very aware of the world around him. He is now grabbing at everything he sees and picking up his arms to be picked up, he laughs alot more now too. Alyssa is eager now for the school year to end, I think she's more excited about going to the first grade than she is about summer break. She'll be going to day camp for most of the summer then she has about 3 weeks off in August before starting school again, I'll be taking one week off from work and Heather has a few days off too, then the girl on the first floor will take her for a few days also. She'll enjoy a 3 week break from a structured environment altho I don't think they do any teaching in day camp at all just a lot of field trips and walks and other outdoor activities. Anyone else out who wants to watch her for one of the days that aren't accounted for yet are welcome to (i mean family members, not weird people who read my blog). so that's about all that's going on here. later

Obama '08

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Wearing a flag lapel pin, Sen. Barack Obama emphasized his patriotism and support for a strong and humane military Monday, while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton implored West Virginians to sustain her hopes of somehow denying him the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Obama expects Clinton to win Tuesday's primary in West Virginia, which has large numbers of working-class whites — a group that usually backs the former first lady — as well as a strong military tradition. He used his visit to Charleston to combat critics' claims that he is not particularly patriotic or ready to be commander in chief, in part because he never served in the military, usually does not wear a flag pin, and opposed the Iraq war from the start.

On Monday, Obama broke from his usual practice by sporting the flag pin on his suit jacket and reading his speech instead of talking without notes. He told several thousand people at the Charleston Civic Center that patriotism means more than saluting flags and holding parades. He criticized Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain for opposing a Democratic bill to expand education benefits for veterans.

"At a time when we're facing the largest homecoming since the Second World War," Obama said of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, "the true test of our patriotism is whether we will serve our returning heroes as well as they've served us."

Pointing to the Bush administration, he said, "we know that over the last eight years we've already fallen short of meeting this test." He cited once shabby conditions at such facilities as the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and long waits and bureaucratic obstacles facing many who seek care from the Veterans Administration.

"When our troops go into battle, they serve no faction," Obama said. "They serve no party. They represent no race or region. They are simply Americans."

He proposed expanded veterans' benefits for health care, education, housing and psychiatric treatment. He said McCain opposes a Democratic-crafted bill in Congress to expand education benefits "because he thinks it's too generous."

McCain's campaign said the Arizona senator backs a Republican alternative that is better because it enhances benefits for those who stay longer in the military, thereby encouraging recruitment and retention of troops.

Clinton planned four campaign stops in West Virginia on Monday, hoping for a big margin Tuesday that could slow the continuing drift of Democratic superdelegates to Obama's camp. Implying that the party could lose in November if he is the nominee, Clinton told patrons of Tudor's Biscuit World in Charleston: "I keep telling people, no Democrat has won the White House since 1916 without winning West Virginia."

At a campaign stop in Logan, W.Va., Clinton was introduced by state Senate Majority Leader H. Truman Chafin, who talked about Clinton carrying the state 80-20 percent or even 90-10.

"You think this crowd's noisy, just wait till we win like 80-20," Chafin said.

After the speech, Obama stopped at Schultzie's Billiards hall, where he showed much greater skill at pool than he had shown at bowling last month in Pennsylvania.

As a small crowd oohed and ahhed at his third consecutive good shot, Obama said his skill was "the sign of a misspent youth. I wasn't doing wholesome things like bowling."

Still, Obama lost to Iraqi war veteran Paul Scott, 24, because he accidentally knocked in the eight ball prematurely.

Obama told reporters he will have to consistently fight rumors that he doesn't say the Pledge of Allegiance, among other falsehoods widely spread on the Internet. "This is something that's been systematically fed into the bloodstream," he said. He said he had no idea who is doing it.

Obama's campaign announced Monday that he will visit politically neglected Florida and Michigan, as he pivots to a general election strategy.

It will be Obama's first time in either state since signing a pledge nine months ago not to campaign in the two states that violated national party rules with early primaries.

All the Democratic presidential candidates agreed on boycotting Michigan and Florida. Clinton won both states, although Obama's name was not on the Michigan ballot, and no delegates were awarded. Restoring the delegates is a major part of Clinton's longshot strategy for the nomination.

Clinton's last best hope is to use strong showings in West Virginia and Kentucky to make the case that Obama is weak among key Democratic constituents.

Obama's campaign announced a five-state tour over the next two weeks that includes stops in remaining primary states South Dakota and Oregon but is dominated by swing states where he hopes to run well against McCain.

Obama leads in delegates needed to secure the Democratic nomination. He'll try to rebound from Tuesday's expected loss in West Virginia by campaigning this week in Missouri, a state that President Bush won in 2000 and 2004.

On Wednesday, he plans to make two stops in Michigan — the swing Macomb County and the GOP stronghold of Grand Rapids. He plans to spend three days starting May 21 in Florida, with stops in Tampa, Orlando, Palm Beach County and Miami. The area is a popular stop for political fundraising, but the Obama campaign says the candidate will mostly be appealing for votes.

"Our schedule reflects the fact that we are still fighting for votes and delegates in the remaining contests but also that we are going to places that are going to be competitive in the fall," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton.