Friday, January 04, 2008

The Headline That Should Have Been

IOWA VOTERS DIVIDED ON WHO SHOULD LEAD COUNTRY

Anything other than that dismisses the votes of the majority of Iowa caucus participants.

Two things are crystal clear from the Iowa caucus yesterday. A three-way Democratic split demonstrates that Iowans are in some disagreement over which specific candidate should be the nominee, but the nearly 2:1 Democrat:Republican caucus turnout and the fact that Hillary, the 3rd place Democratic vote-getter received nearly twice as many votes as the leading Republican candidate, Huckabee, leaves little doubt as from which party Iowans think the next president should come.

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Obama's Premature Ejaculation Oration

Yes, with more than 60% of the caucus voters in a single state voting for a candidate other than him, he makes a speech as if he's not only won the Democratic nomination, but the presidency.
...Years from now, you'll look back and you'll say that this was the moment, this was the place where America remembered what it means to hope...
America? Hardly. Yes, this the change we need. We've never had a sanctimonious empty suit in the White House before.

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