The William Holmes Blog

It seems every four years we have a Democrat that runs on a Liberal platform during the primary. And each and every time, they decide, once they’ve cleared that hurdle, that they don’t need their base any more.

What Obama and the Dems don’t get is we don’t want wishy-washy, let’s go to the center, bullshit. They lose us every time when they do this. And I can tell you right now…The enthusiasm Obama had is starting to wane .
The reason? Like all the other losing candidates in our recent past, he’s forgotten what got him one and a half million donations. He forgot that we WANT a Liberal/Progressive agenda first and foremost. We expect it. And until we GET IT…we aren’t a lock (for votes) by any stretch of the imagination.

You abandon us? Guess what? We abandon you. This FISA thing, these Faith-based Bush initiatives…NO NO NO. We didn’t vote for more of the same. We didn’t “get involved” for more of the same. We opted in on the notion that CHANGE IS GOOD…IS NEEDED…and nothing less will satisfy us.

What the Dems don’t seem to understand is…THIS WILL NEVER CHANGE. We aren’t gonna vote for a slogan. Wake up. We WANT Liberalism to be a GOOD word. We want someone fighting for us. We’re the people who didn’t show up in 2000. We’re the people who voted for Nader. We aren’t afraid to send a message with our vote. We expect to be represented.

Obama talks about the youth vote, what’s on his iPod (some suprises there), and his top priorities if he becomes the President.

Read it here

Today marked Hillary Clinton’s lowest point in a campaign of many low points.

Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert
Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack
Obama.

“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the
California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all
remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t
understand it,” she said, dismissing calls to drop out. from New York Post

Watch a video of the editorial board meeting here

Whether it’s the Vote Different ad that kicked off the primary season’s viral warfare, or a completely loopy set of videos called Barack in 74 that imagine a man who may well be our next president as a resolutely nerdy stoner at Occidental College, this has been the best campaign ever for ads and videos.

Read story at NewsCloud.

I think this combination is a winner. Rumour has it Webb is at the top of the list. That’s the best guy for the ticket , in my opinion. Webb has all the missing pieces as part of his natural personality. He’s tough. He knows foreign policy.

He’s got a kid in Iraq that he wants home. Enough said.

Serial interrupter and McCain groupie, Joe Scarborough ran to the bathroom to cry for his Saint McCain at the end of MSNBC’s “Race to the White House” today. If you watch the video you’ll see that the exchange, in which Joe claim’s he ISN’T trying to be condescending…when he clearly is doing just that…ends without him on the show.

Why?

Jeremy Gaines tells the Huffington Post:

“Joe didn’t walk off. He chose not to participate in the final couple of minutes of the discussion because he felt the conversation didn’t fit his role as a political analyst.”

(Thanks Crooks and Liars.com for this little update)

Watch video here

Rachel Maddow has got the nuts. You gotta lover her.

From Newsweek, this is a photo of the “headquarters” her campaign gave the unfortunate press corps assigned to follow Hillary while she rallied in Texas. (Yes, it’s for real.)

As one reporter quipped, “Hillary’s campaign is in the toilet.”