Hillary vs. the Haka
Reposted in full from The Reclusive Leftist. I just sent $10 to Hillary. Take action today here. Ignore all the sexist bullshit in the media and Obamablogs for the next three weeks.
Hillary is on track to recover the lead in the popular vote, winning strong victories in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico. She’ll go into the summer with the majority of popular votes, a near-tie in pledged delegates, and a strong argument for the supers that she should be the nominee.
But you wouldn’t know that from the media.
Let’s review: Indiana was the tie-breaker, as Obama himself said it would be. He predicted that Hillary would win Pennsylvania, he would win North Carolina, and Indiana would break the tie.
Hillary won Indiana. She broke the tie.
But a strange thing happened: the media – and the Obama campaign – simply ignored reality. They created their own reality (and where have we seen that before?). In one of the most striking incidents of Orwellianism I’ve ever seen in this country, the pundits and politicians ignored the fact that Hillary had won the tie-breaker and instead declared that Obama was now the “presumptive nominee.” Tim Russert announced that “we now know who the Democratic nominee’s going to be, and no one’s going to dispute it” (as if it were up to him). Time magazine rolled out a cover with a big picture of Obama and a headline reading, “And the winner is….”. The Obama campaign leaked word that Barack would hold a <a href=”http://www.correntewire.com/who_da_kingvictory party on May 20.
It’s the ultimate haka.*
And it’s effective, make no mistake. If you ever doubted that the media in this country creates the news rather than reports it – that the Village idiots are the ones picking our presidents – then this should settle it. The media colluded with the Bush campaign in 2000 to destroy Al Gore and force Shrub down our throats, and now they’re doing the same thing with Hillary and Obama.
It’s so effective that many of the Hillary blogs are in a miasma of despair. Hillary supporters are discouraged. Hillary voters in West Virginia and Kentucky are wondering if they should even bother.
Which is the whole point.
A haka is a war dance designed to intimidate the opposition. It’s a psych-out. A mind-fuck. It’s not a victory dance, because the battle hasn’t happened yet; it’s an intimidation dance. It’s designed to scare the opposition into freaking out or going home.
This haka-to-end-all-hakas is happening because of what I said in the first paragraph up at the top of the post. The Obama camp is desperate to stop Hillary in her tracks.
I realize now that this particular haka was originally scheduled for the night of the Pennsylvania primary. The Time magazine cover, the editorials, the “presumptive nominee” crap – all that was in the chute and ready to go a couple of weeks ago. That’s why the media boyz were so glum that night; all their plans had been ruined. Hillary’s victory margin in Pennsylvania was just too big.
But Indiana – that was close. Somehow, somewhere it was decided that if Indiana was close enough, the haka would go forward. It’s possible that the chicanery in Gary was actually part of the plan to make sure the margin was narrow.
And so the haka is in full blast, everywhere you look, every time you turn on the tube, every time you pick up a newspaper. And I say to hell with it.
The most important thing now is to get out the vote in West Virginia and Kentucky. Those states are overwhelmingly for Hillary, and if the voters there get the message that their votes still count, then Hillary can still win the race.
What you can do right now is call. Phone bank for Hillary. It’s easy as pie – I’ve done it, and it’s simple and painless. It’s especially fun in West Virginia, because the folks there love Hillary so much. They just need to be reassured that their votes still count. That there’s still a reason to go to the polls next Tuesday.
Kentucky also needs callers, and Oregon has an impressive ground game for Hillary that’s going on right now (it’s a mail-in primary).
From there it will be on to Puerto Rico, where Hillary could net a quarter of a million votes in one shot.
Come on, folks! Let’s do it!
Filed under: Clinton Campaign, Obama Campaign, The Media
Yes, Hillary won Indiana. The media says “Obama won NC and lost IN by a small margin” - giving Hill no props. It is a disgrace. This woman, who has worked her entire adult life to serve others, is being marginalized in the media.
A week before the Indiana primary, an article came out in Politico.com “Obama a punctuation problem”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9867.html
Here is a quote from the article:
“This is the significance of Indiana. Obama can and probably will win the Democratic nomination no matter what happens in the May 6 primary.
But a victory in the Hoosier state is critical to Obama gaining at least some of the political and psychic momentum that ordinarily flow to a nomination winner.
A loss—on top of a succession of losses in Pennsylvania, Ohio and other big states—would mean the nominee would enter the general election defined to an unusual degree by his vulnerabilities.”
And this quote:
As it happened, the place where RFK showed his ability to unite was in Indiana. In May 1968 he entered the state urgently in need of help from moderate white voters, whom he enlisted by emphasizing the importance of law enforcement and public safety at the same time he talked about equal justice for inner-city blacks. On the strength of this coalition, he won a critical primary.
If Obama really is a new RFK, Indiana would be a fitting place to prove it.”
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He didn’t close the deal. He took a win in NC as a victory and is ready to declare himself the presumptive nominee. Yet, NC is a red state and so are many of the “victories” he lays to claim.
There’s a rumor that Obama plans to annoint himself the nominee on May 20. If I were a superdelegate, that would absolutely push me over the edge. This hubris has gotten out of control. (He’s even rumored to have a Transition Team–that’s transition to the Presidency, not the nomination, apparently. Mere elections are only a formality).
You do awesome posts here.
I didn’t write it! Thanks.
Donna, no sooner had I posted the Hillary vs. the Haka thing than this came in:
Voter Suppression in West Virginia happening NOW
The Obamabots are actually calling people in West Virginia telling them the race is over and there’s no need to vote Tuesday.
In case that tag doesn’t work, here’s the URL:
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/?p=915
Violet, what do you think of my post about white male blogger shenanigans? Not all in my head, right? No one ever responds. But when have I ever been wrong especially re: politics and gender?
I’ll reply in a comment over at that post.