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Mrs. Voorhees Was Decapitated

TUESDAY JUNE 3 2008 6:00 AM

Submitted by FearTheReaper. Edited By erin_broadley.

TAGS: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Democratic Primary

Some kids went through hell at Camp Crystal Lake in the summer of 1979. By �hell,� I mean a crazy person named Pamela Sue Voorhees murdered them. Pamela was still smarting from the death of her son, Jason, in 1957. The kid supposedly drowned in the lake while the camp counselors were having a cabin party, enjoying pot, alcohol and each other�s genitals. Pamela then murdered a couple of the counselors and the place was shut down.

For years, she lived near the camp, watching to make sure it would never open again. See, Pamela was trying to save any innocent children from meeting the same death as her precious Jason. (He was a lunatic, by the way.) In 1979, when it appeared the camp would open again, Pamela killed seven people. She did this to save others. It�s what good people do. But eventually, Alice Hardy cut her head off with a machete. As far as the Democratic Primary is concerned, Hillary has been trying to save Democrats from the doom of nominating Obama. Thankfully, we have finally reached the point where Hillary Clinton meets her demise on the lake beach. All horrible monsters meet their doom, just ask Ghidorah.

It�s been obvious, for months, to anything with a brain in its head (including rabbits) that Hillary was finished. She lost the race some time ago, but decided to continue on in a Voorhees charge for the nomination. Now signals are coming from her campaign that the end is nigh. On Sunday night, after a small island a couple hundred miles from Florida, which is not allowed to vote in the general election and is not even a state, voted, the two candidates exchanged a phone call. Nobody knows what was said. The Obama camp claims he called to congratulate her. Right. He called to congratulate her on Puerto Rico after over 45 primary elections without a call exchanged. Uh huh.

Now, a phone call from an opponent is not much. Trust me, I�ve gotten quite a few in my life that don�t mean shit. (I'm looking at you, Ron Jeremy.) But there are other signs, like a fateful email went out on Monday night to all Clinton advance staffers.

There are strong signs the Clinton campaign may be preparing for the end.

Late last night an email went out to advance staffers -- the folks who usually prepare sites for future Clinton campaign events. The memo indicated that there was nothing on Sen. Hillary Clinton's schedule beyond a speech scheduled for the AIPAC conference on Wed morning in Washington.

The email told staffers this was not goodbye but there were no plans and therefore no locations where their services would be needed for now.

Certainly one could say there are no more primaries, so why would she plan any events? But anyone who would say that is a dipshit. If Hillary were to continue on, she would need to make her case day after day, hour after hour, until the convention. It appears she has no plan to do so. Good.

Oh, and Hillary has asked her staffers to get the books in order.

Clinton Campaign staffers and former campaign staffers are being urged by the Clinton campaign's finance department to turn in their outstanding expense receipts by the end of the week. That's a sign, to them, that the campaign wants to get its affairs in order soon. If Clinton were staying in the race, there'd be no real reason to collect these receipts now; she'd still be raising and spending money from the same primary campaign account. The campaign is in arrears to the tune of about $11 million.

That�s what you do when you�re wrapping it up. Next, Bill Clinton also made an interesting statement yesterday in South Dakota.

I want to say also that this may be the last day I'm ever involved in a campaign of this kind. I thought I was out of politics, 'til Hillary decided to run. But it has been, one of the greatest honors of my life to go around and campaign for her for president.

That�s a �good bye� speech. Thanks for ruining your legacy, Bill, and don�t let anything smash your asshole on the way out, or whatever that clich� is. Go back to your life on the "Fuck Jet."

Hillary has also planned an event for Tuesday night in New York. It will be the first night since the primary began that she has not held an event in a state that is voting, or will be voting. Invitations have been sent out to staffers to come to New York.

They can use a plane ticket to fly to NY for a party on Tuesday night where Clinton will address supporters.

All of her top donors and fundraisers have also been invited to the event, yet her campaign continues to say it�s just a final primary party. Too bad all the donors aren't on board with that explanation.

"This has never happened before," one donor said, referring to the personalized request by email to attend the event in New York Tuesday night.

Of course Hillary and her people continue to state that they are going to fight on until there is a nominee, just as Pamela Voorhees probably would have said she was going to keep killing � until her head was removed from her body. If Hillary doesn�t pull out on her own, the Democratic Party is sharpening the machete.

The remaining Democratic senators who have yet to pick a side in the party's presidential nomination fight will meet this afternoon at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's headquarters on Capitol Hill to plot strategy for the coming days, according to Democratic sources.

And her big political peeps are telling her to take a walk. One of her campaign�s national co-chairs, former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, laid it out.

It does appear to be pretty clear that Senator Obama is going to be the nominee. After Tuesday's contests, she needs to acknowledge that he's going to be the nominee and quickly get behind him.

And superdelegates are coming out and telling Lady Voorhees to back her shit down.

"It would be most beneficial if we resolved this nomination sooner rather than later," said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, a high-profile superdelegate who backs Clinton. "The more time we have to get through a general-election period and the more time we have to prepare in advance of the convention, the better."

"She'll do the right thing for America, and I don't think we're going to fight this at the convention," said Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell, a top Clinton supporter and party superdelegate, speaking on CBS. "Because even were we to win it, unless it's going to change enough delegates for Sen. Clinton to get the nomination, then it would be a fight that would have no purpose."

Alice Huffman, a member of the rules panel and a superdelegate committed to Clinton, said she would not support an appeal if Obama had clearly won the delegate fight.

"What's the point for a challenge, if a challenge doesn't change the status of anything?" asked Huffman.

Hillary may not bail on Tuesday night, but she will be gone by the end of the week. Her last chance to grab the nomination was dashed when the Democratic Party decided this weekend to give Obama more than zero Michigan delegates. Everyone knows it�s over now. That�s why her supporters are losing their fucking minds.

The most telling piece of information came yesterday morning on a conference call with the Clinton campaign and her top fundraisers.

Clinton strategist Harold Ickes spoke in very conciliatory terms about Obama, in contrast to his tougher rhetoric in public and on television, according to sources. He told the participants that Clinton wants to "significantly" help Obama, but he did not go so far as saying that she will announce withdrawal -- that is the prerogative of the candidate.

Ickes told the group to "take a deep breath" and let Clinton proceed in her own fashion.

Um. Done that.

If you live in California, go vote today. No on 98. It's very important. Very, very important. - FTR

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Towelly

I'm lost

January 2007

JUN 04, 2008 03:13 AM

gfvella said:
This is the sort of comparison that drives feminists mad. Female candidates are either weak or they are bullies. Same stones got chucked at Margaret Thatcher, Indira Ghandi etc.

Feminist commentators during the campaign have argued that Hilliary is being attacked for playing the mans' game like the men do. They have also complained about the Obama campaign trotting out all the usual attacks on female candidates (hence the move to using Michelle Obama to attack Hilliary) which is one reason for the vitrolic dislike of Obama exhibited by many of the Boomer feminists.

A strong approach is unnecessary for Obama as male voters aren't going to instinctively worry about whether he is strong enough to lead or what will happen once a month (he has testes and that is two of the key requirements to be a leader). So instead he has concentrated on playing to other elements.

I would be very surprised that if once he has the nomination, and he can stop playing to the left, that he doesn't get all macho to go after the moderate republicans and non-aligned voters he will need to win.

Um, forgive me for asking this, but who exactly in the course of this campaign ever asked if Hillary Clinton was not tough enough to lead the country. I believe the question being asked most prominently was that, given that, you know, the Democratic Party is the anti-dumb-war party, and she not only voted for Iraq but also joined with Leiberman in supporting ramping up pressure on Iran, did she have 1) the prudence necessary to be president, and 2) sufficiently similar views with the majority of her own party. That was a critique I heard often; I never once heard anyone say "She's weak".

Now I suppose you can of course argue that she HAD to make those votes in order protect herself from charges of weakness, but that just makes another, perfectly reasonable case for Obama: her need to protect herself from charges of weakness aren't exactly going to end once she gets elected. She has to think about covering the party during the midterms, then reelection, then she has to think about her legacy, etc. As such, given that 1) ending the war is a priority for Democrats, and 2) Hillary seems uniquely unsuited to both ending the war while guarding the Democratic Party from the inevitable stab-in-the-back narrative, why exactly should we vote for Hillary Clinton?

I suppose I could be betraying my own feminist sensibilities at this point, but I think it's fair to say that placating Geraldine Ferraro's sense of entitlement and rage at misogyny, however well placed or ill-placed, takes a distant second to saving the lives of American servicemen.

Nolan_Void

Salisbury, NC

July 2004

JUN 04, 2008 05:17 AM

gfvella said:

LostLucy said:
Actually, if anyone had a male centric campaign it was indeed Hilary, who warmongored, bullied, and ran roughshod over others.
Here is a nice
piece from July 2007 about how Obama is more of a Woman (in a good way) than Hilary will ever be.

This is the sort of comparison that drives feminists mad. Female candidates are either weak or they are bullies. Same stones got chucked at Margaret Thatcher, Indira Ghandi etc.

Feminist commentators during the campaign have argued that Hilliary is being attacked for playing the mans' game like the men do. They have also complained about the Obama campaign trotting out all the usual attacks on female candidates (hence the move to using Michelle Obama to attack Hilliary) which is one reason for the vitrolic dislike of Obama exhibited by many of the Boomer feminists.

A strong approach is unnecessary for Obama as male voters aren't going to instinctively worry about whether he is strong enough to lead or what will happen once a month (he has testes and that is two of the key requirements to be a leader). So instead he has concentrated on playing to other elements.

I would be very surprised that if once he has the nomination, and he can stop playing to the left, that he doesn't get all macho to go after the moderate republicans and non-aligned voters he will need to win.

You seem kind of deluded, since none of the things you are saying actually happened. Hillary ran a smear campaign, and Obama reacted coolly to all of it.

Yes, there are people who feel upset because their candidate lost. When people become completely identified with a cause and mistake it to be themselves, they feel like they are dying when the cause fails. Those people are the ones who are making this sexist. Those people are the ones who are making this about sex and race, and not about good policies or decent behavior. They want an excuse, so it doesn't seem like their candidate lost because (God forbid) she actually IS this weaker candidate, because she actually DOES have weaker policies, because she maybe she REALLY DOES behave like a nutcase who says inappropriate things and tries to make the focus of her campaign herself and how unfairly she's being treated. What the hell does that have to do with what is best for America?

LostLucy

USA

December 2006

JUN 04, 2008 06:33 AM

gfvella said:

DUDE I am a fucking "boomer feminist" exactly as described by the media, and guess what? MANY of us favor Barack Obama because as feminists we believe that gender alone should NOT determine who gets our vote.

And you are revealing you do not know much about the Politics in the USA. Men and women alike came out for Hilary partly bc there is indeed a contigent who wonders if Barack Obama can be macho enough. They are and will be worried.

On the other hand people supporting Barack truly do not want to continue with the idea that the person adhering most to the frat boy-cowboy mentality would make the best leader.

Reaver

Sneads Ferry, NC

August 2003

JUN 04, 2008 06:49 AM

A few points:

-- Because when Democrats don't get what they want, they always claim their votes didn't count?

-- They have policies? They have policies? Wow. If only I had heard more of these policies.

-- Does anyone else find it stupid that Puerto Rico can vote in the Primary, and not in the general election?

-- Obama got money from the oil companies, despite his commercial claiming that he doesn't. Obama lying? Really? Really?

-- Obama or Clinton is going to be mincemeat by November, though I imagine some people will give into their knee jerk reactions, political stereotypes, and bullshit and vote for them. So hey, maybe they will win.

I mean that Democratic Congress is kicking ass. Or not.

alaric

I'm lost

June 2005

JUN 04, 2008 07:05 AM

More corporate media parroting.

Hillary fought hard for something despite an uphill battle and a media that was deeply biased against here. I respect her for that even if i disagree with a lot of her positions and some of her votes. I didn't like her when this began but the fact that she fought earned my respect because its been a long time since i've seen a democrat do that.

Obama fans just won big? Yep you just elected the weakest democrat out of a field of 8 or so others. Pat yourself on the back because you just gave McCain a good chance of winning a GE.. Any other democrat would've cleaned house against McCain but you choose the one with zero experience, very little substance, and one who is ripe for personal attacks of the sort the GOP just loves to provide.

And what did you get for your risk (risk vs. reward)....Nada, nothing zilch. Obama is no progressive, no liberal. He's a more charming version of Hillary and he tends to favor nuclear energy and credit card companies because..surprise surprise, they tend to give him money.

McCain is ahead of your wonderboy in most battle states including Ohio (ouch), Florida, Indiana (this year battleground), and even Michigan according to some polls.

And that's with incessant positive coverage of the barack campaign. Just wait and see what happens when the GOP and the media ream him a new asshole.

Yes, thank you obama fans for letting yourselves get herded up like sheep into the
"GOPs best shot candidate." Thank you so much.

Hooraydiation

Boston, MA

October 2005

JUN 04, 2008 07:10 AM

-- Obama got money from the oil companies, despite his commercial claiming that he doesn't. Obama lying? Really? Really?

He got money from employees of oil companies, which is to be expected when you consider how many people oil companies employ.

Course, some people think the oil companies may have told their employees to donate, but that's ridiculous because we probably would have found out from one of the employees themselves.

Anyway, he doesn't owe the oil companies like other candidates do, and that's what is important.

ChrisSick

Philadelphia, PA

March 2008

JUN 04, 2008 07:28 AM

alaric said:
More corporate media parroting.

Hillary fought hard for something despite an uphill battle and a media that was deeply biased against here. I respect her for that even if i disagree with a lot of her positions and some of her votes. I didn't like her when this began but the fact that she fought earned my respect because its been a long time since i've seen a democrat do that.

Obama fans just won big? Yep you just elected the weakest democrat out of a field of 8 or so others. Pat yourself on the back because you just gave McCain a good chance of winning a GE.. Any other democrat would've cleaned house against McCain but you choose the one with zero experience, very little substance, and one who is ripe for personal attacks of the sort the GOP just loves to provide.

And what did you get for your risk (risk vs. reward)....Nada, nothing zilch. Obama is no progressive, no liberal. He's a more charming version of Hillary and he tends to favor nuclear energy and credit card companies because..surprise surprise, they tend to give him money.

McCain is ahead of your wonderboy in most battle states including Ohio (ouch), Florida, Indiana (this year battleground), and even Michigan according to some polls.

And that's with incessant positive coverage of the barack campaign. Just wait and see what happens when the GOP and the media ream him a new asshole.

Yes, thank you obama fans for letting yourselves get herded up like sheep into the
"GOPs best shot candidate." Thank you so much.

I'm sorry, do you have citations for any of this? Since Super Tuesday Obama was ahead in most national polls against McCain, scoring higher than Clinton. Here's some more polling data.

Ohio: Clinton beats McCain 8.3 points, Obama by 1.3
Pennsylania: Clinton 11.7, Obama 5.8 against McCain.
Wisconsin: Obama wins by 2 points, Clinton loses by 3.4
Iowa: Obama wins by 6.4 points, Clinton loses by 2.7
Minnosota: Clinton wins by 8.4 points, Obama by 11.
Colorado: Obama wins by 6 points, Clinton loses by 3.
Michigan: Obama loses by 3, Clinton loses by 3.

These are all averages of multiply polls. So what are you talking about?

When did Clinton have an uphill battle? She had name recognition, the backing of major party players, reflected by endorsements and the superdelegate lead she held until almost the end of the campaign. She started with more endorsements, more superdelegates, more money and an assumption she was going to win the nomination. She pissed it all away and suddenly that shows conviction and leadership abilities?

I'm sure I'm not the first person to tell you this but will you please, for the love of god read this before you keep talking about what he doesn't stand for. On healthcare, the war and education Obama and Clinton were pretty close. Have you read his ideas for government transparency? His pledge to not vote for any non-emergency bill for five days to give time for the public to read the bill on the White House's website and react to legislation in the pipeline? Have you examined his voting record in either the State Senate or the Senate? Have you read about how his votes were often orchestrated with groups like Planned Parenthood and similar groups?

And the media was so in the tank for Obama in Philadelphia where they asked such softball questions for him as 'Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you?' And then allowed a political plant to ask him why he won't wear a flag lapel pin? That's how they've basically been insuring he'll get elected? They're doing a piss-poor job.

So where are you many links and the through research you have done so that you have the audacity to claim that we Obama supporters have somehow let and all liberals down by handing the election to McCan?

ChrisSick

Philadelphia, PA

March 2008

JUN 04, 2008 07:44 AM

Reaver said:
A few points:

-- Because when Democrats don't get what they want, they always claim their votes didn't count?

Anyone tends to get a bit pissed off when their votes might be in jeopardy, whether the appearance is realistic or not.

-- They have policies? They have policies? Wow. If only I had heard more of these policies.

Start here. And stop complaining. Just because you can't make your fingers find a website and read a few pages does not denote a weakness of a candidate's policies.

-- Does anyone else find it stupid that Puerto Rico can vote in the Primary, and not in the general election?

No. I find it stupid that someone would point to it as any kind of realistic barometer of how they would do in a general, but there's no reason why they shouldn't be allowed to participate in a primary. Territories should have some manner of representation in a republic, don't you think?

-- Obama got money from the oil companies, despite his commercial claiming that he doesn't. Obama lying? Really? Really?

What's your source, slappy? According to this, a dedicated anti-Obama site, Obama has accepted $141,093 from 'lobbyists'. Out of $38.8 million he has in cash on hand. Not total money raised. $141k from lobbyists out of well over $40 million dollars. Wow. Shocking.

-- Obama or Clinton is going to be mincemeat by November, though I imagine some people will give into their knee jerk reactions, political stereotypes, and bullshit and vote for them. So hey, maybe they will win.

Sources? Or you could just look at another post I just wrote proving you wrong. Up to you.

I mean that Democratic Congress is kicking ass. Or not.

Well it's shaping up like they're going to override Bush's veto on Webb's GI Bill, that's pretty kickass. And pretty impressive considering the small majority in both houses, a one seat majority in the Senate and a thirty one seat majority in the House. Hardly enough to overturn the numerous Bush vetoes in this legislative session.

silversoul7

Portland, OR

January 2008

JUN 04, 2008 07:46 AM

gfvella said:
A woman willing to play attack dog for her husband is hardly Jackie O

Attack dog? I'm sorry. You must be thinking of Bill. Unless you can show me where she's attacked Hillary in the merciless way the Clintons have attacked Obama.

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

JUN 04, 2008 08:47 AM

Bitter.

LostLucy

USA

December 2006

JUN 04, 2008 08:52 AM

BlastProcessing

Knoxville, TN

OLD SKOOL

JUN 04, 2008 08:52 AM

alaric said:
More corporate media parroting:

Hillary fought hard for something despite an uphill battle and a media that was deeply biased against here. I respect her for that even if i disagree with a lot of her positions and some of her votes. I didn't like her when this began but the fact that she fought earned my respect because its been a long time since i've seen a democrat do that.

Obama fans just won big? Yep you just elected the weakest democrat out of a field of 8 or so others. Pat yourself on the back because you just gave McCain a good chance of winning a GE.. Any other democrat would've cleaned house against McCain but you choose the one with zero experience, very little substance, and one who is ripe for personal attacks of the sort the GOP just loves to provide.

And what did you get for your risk (risk vs. reward)....Nada, nothing zilch. Obama is no progressive, no liberal. He's a more charming version of Hillary and he tends to favor nuclear energy and credit card companies because..surprise surprise, they tend to give him money.

McCain is ahead of your wonderboy in most battle states including Ohio (ouch), Florida, Indiana (this year battleground), and even Michigan according to some polls.

And that's with incessant positive coverage of the barack campaign. Just wait and see what happens when the GOP and the media ream him a new asshole.

Yes, thank you obama fans for letting yourselves get herded up like sheep into the
"GOPs best shot candidate." Thank you so much.

Fixed.

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

JUN 04, 2008 08:56 AM

Reaver said:
A few points:

-- Because when Democrats don't get what they want, they always claim their votes didn't count?

Hillary claimed her votes didn't count. If you are referring to other elections, they didn't. As a Republican, you support people who obstruct Democracy. You are anti-Democratic. Swell with pride.

Reaver said:
-- They have policies? They have policies? Wow. If only I had heard more of these policies.

Troll. (as was the above comment)

Reaver said:
-- Does anyone else find it stupid that Puerto Rico can vote in the Primary, and not in the general election?

Yes. Also, meaningless.

Reaver said:
-- Obama got money from the oil companies, despite his commercial claiming that he doesn't. Obama lying? Really? Really?

I wrote about that three months ago, but thanks for the update. I guess you didn't notice all of the people being fired from McCain's inner circle for taking money from counties like Iran and Burma? I really thought this would be the big issue that comes back to bite Obama, but guess what? Johnny's got a bigger problem with lobbyists. He's Obama's dream candidate. Hilarious.

Reaver said:
-- Obama or Clinton is going to be mincemeat by November, though I imagine some people will give into their knee jerk reactions, political stereotypes, and bullshit and vote for them. So hey, maybe they will win.

Good luck with that. Everyone in the world, including most Republicans totally disagree.

Reaver

Sneads Ferry, NC

August 2003

JUN 04, 2008 10:03 AM

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obamas_oil_spill.html

Denial is such a sad thing.

Oh, and yes, FTR I do remember your lying Obama article, but sadly no matter how much I reference it? No one believes that Obama is a lying sack of shit.

In response to me hating Democracy? One Word.

Super Delegates.

So much for the party of the people.