Category: Liberals suck

The New York Observer makes the point that the reason that Obama can’t pull ahead in the polls is because Democrats have lost the fire in their belly;

It’s also probably a mistake to assume that all, or even most, of Clinton’s 18 million voters feel a sense of personal loyalty to her – and that, by extension, millions of votes will come flowing Obama’s way at the snap of his former opponent’s finger.

To be sure, many Clinton supporters are fanatically loyal to her…. But their loud noise and on-line activism can be very misleading, as Ron Paul’s supporters proved this year. The “PUMA” crowd represents some of Clinton’s 18 million voters, but their devotion is probably not representative of the attitudes of the 50 percent of Clinton voters not currently backing Obama.

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Clinton’s primary-season coalition certainly included its share of anti-Obama voters, those who don’t like the Illinois senator or those who didn’t think he’d make a strong fall candidate (or a strong president, for that matter). This didn’t mean they had warm feelings toward Clinton; only that they found her more palatable. Just as significantly, her campaign became the home for much of the old Democratic coalition – less-educated and lower-income white voters, senior citizens, Hispanics and women.

Wonkette translates;

Ever since Obama clinched the nomination, all the fun’s gone out of it. And so Clinton voters have by and large returned to their natural habitat, in front of the teevee, eating the last unpopped kernels of popcorn out of their microwave bags. If Hillary Clinton tells them to vote for Obama, they’ll all just say, “But that meerkat show is on Animal Planet,” and then they’ll go back to resentfully scrapbooking.

Of course, this could all be smoke and mirrors so the media can herald Obama’s defeat of the Democrats’ doldrums with his inspiring and historic speech to the 75,000 supporters (instead of the delegates) and declare his sudden 5-point jump next week proof that he can defeat McCain (and Putin and Il and Ahmadinejad and Chavez, et al.)

When Democrats start predicting the failure of their candidates in public, I get suspicious.

Concretebob emailed me a link to his article on some Hillary supporter suing to stop Obama’s nomination.

Americas Right is reporting that a Philedelphia lawyer with ties to Hillary has filed suit in Federal District Court in Philadelphia to stop the nomination.

A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States.

Now, I know, from my own experience, that a child born to just one American citizen outside of the United States proper is still an American citizen. I would also assume that a lawyer would know this, too. This is just publicity – and who is committing this publicity stunt? Bob Owens reminds us;

Berg cites inconsistent accounts of Sen. Obama’s birth, including reports that he was born at two separate hospitals–Kapiolani Hospital and Queens Hospital–in Honolulu, as well a profound lack of birthing records for Stanley Ann Dunham, though simple “registry of birth” records for Barack Obama are available in a Hawaiian public records office.

And just so we’re clear here: this latest attempt to disqualify Barack Obama is fratricide—sniping done by Hillary Clinton supporters loyal to the Democratic Party, and not by Republicans.

Just like the rumors of a Michelle Obama “whitey” tape.

Just like attempts to claim Obama never registered for the Selective Service.

Just like an attempt to claim Obama is a Muslim, and an Indonesian ineligible for executive office, because of what his step-father wrote on a school registration form when he was a child.

Yeah, I don’t believe for a minute that Obama is not a citizen and I’m not perpetuating that rumor an iota, especially given the recent attempts to smear Conservative bloggers by the Hillary crowd. I’m just a spectator.

There are a thousand other reasons to vote against Obama than just worrying about his birth records. Like why won’t he release his Annenberg Challenge records? And what was his real relationship to Rezko?

But, chasing his birth records around the world looks like it’s just good wholesome entertainment. But Little Green Footballs links to FactCheck.org which claims to have “seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate”.