New PPP Poll

The poll shows Hillary's continuing trend of pulling away in Indiana, confirmed also today by SUSA where she was up +9%.  Polls also show Hillary eroding Barack Obama's national lead and closing the gap in North Carolina.  There's a great front page diary that has these figures in them.

Hillary also maintains a whopping lead in Kentucky, per the new SUSA poll.

The tide is definitely turning.  

Lord of the Flies is all over Dailykos today as the shocking groupthink cannibalizes a new target:  Markos Moulitsas Zúniga.

This diary is designed to contemplate the implications that Barack Obama's perceived inability to deal with adversity may have on both his decision to engage Clinton's Lincoln-Douglas style debate challenge and his dubious capacity to serve as President of the United States.

I'll start with one of the most glaring recent examples.  Last week, at the Glider Diner in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Barack Obama spazzed out on a woman who asked him a question regarding Jimmy Carter's meeting with Hamas.  As if the GOP and even Hillary Clinton didn't have enough tailor-made-for-TV unbelievable Obama gaffes, at a publicity breakfast, he gave them another remarkable treasure.  

"Why is it that I can't just eat my waffle!" he surprised onlookers, "Just let me eat my waffle right now."  

This diary is dedicated to everyone here who is disgusted with the repetition of twisted spinning pseudo-facts like:

"Hillary can't win."

"It's the math, stupid!"

"He has the nomination locked up."

"He's winning everything."

"She lost her 20% lead."

Enough of the lies.  We have our own sound-bytes and it's time to use them.  

One of the GOP's greatest strengths, in terms of sales-pitch marketing, has been its ability to subsume powerful and resonating themes into short and effective punchlines.  Each one sends the self-styled academic far-left wing of the Democratic party into a dialectic frenzy.  First comes the list of 1,000,001 reasons the GOP is wrong (mind you, the GOP is almost always wrong, but it shouldn't take a novel's worth of "high minded" platitudes to explain why).  Next comes the usual give-and-take lovefest of faux intellectual strutting and high fives.  Finally, the enlightened ones dictate with painstaking and painfully longwinded detail why everyone else's perception of the truth is actually quite "incorrect," from whatever ad hoc perspective du jour their chosen result requires them to adopt.  As many of us already know, logicians have outlined theorems showing how one can "prove" that 2 + 2 = 5.  Bring the political equivalent to the fore, and what may be the GOP's response?  "Democrats can't do basic arithmetic."  Fitting.

Hello again,

Thank you to everyone who gave positive feedback and constructive criticism in my first diary here.  Every day, I grow more and more impressed with the balance of viewpoints I see on this site.  So I'm going to write a little bit more.

There's something about this primary that has been bothering me a lot recently, and I cringe everytime I see it.  It's the recurring notion that this primary is "over," that Hillary only has a "5% chance to win," or, as stated prematurely by partisan Obama supporter Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), that his nomination is a "foregone conclusion."  I have to disagree.

(This is my first diary here.  I love it here so far.  Cross posted at dailykos.)

We all love someone who can stand up in front of a potentially hostile audience and speak their mind candidly, despite fear of retribution.  Some would argue that's exactly what Barack Obama did at his now notorious fundraiser in Pacific Heights, California.  But I'm hearing arguments being used to defend his speech that are, in my opinion (call it the "truth" if you're willing to afford me the same generosity afforded to Obama's opinion), completely missing the mark.  So I have a few points to raise.