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Obama Nabs Another Super-Delegate
His campaign announces that he's picked up the support of Kalyn Free, an at-large member of the Democratic National Committee.
The campaign's super-del tally right now: 258. NBC, meanwhile, puts Hillary's total at 274.
The Obama camp claims that he is now 276 overall delegates away from winning the nomination.
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A modest proposal: Randall Robinson, Cornel West, Charles Lawrence, and a bunch of other AA "intellectuals" argue on behaf of so-called "reparations" for AAs. I'd like to propose a similar concept: "repatriations." Let's assume that unlike other immigrant groups, nearly all AAs are net-net no gain at all to the economy. But let's further assume half of them are serious sources of costs i.e. prisons, crime, welfare, pointless "educational" expense. So that's maybe 20 million people. So the Us government offers these 20 million people, let's say 100k each, in return for giving up US citizenship and being repatriated to, say, Ghana. For a family of five i.e. mommy and five kids, half a million dollars is enough to live like royalty in Ghana. And for single thug-life guys, a 100k should be enough for plenty of "bitchez," as they so colorfully say. But for the U.S. the benefits would be well worth the increased taxes necessary to pay for this scheme. Imagine, lower crime, urban neighborhoods opened up for revitalization, make-believe colleges and academic departments could be shuttered. It would be almost an American renaissance.
and at a cost of 2 trillion dollars, the benefits would be overwhelmingly greater than the initial financial investment.
May 5, 2008 8:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is there really no way to ban this IP address from TPM?
May 5, 2008 8:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Almost certainly a dynamic IP. It does look like they are shutting down the user accounts, though.
Play dead, it will get bored and go away.
May 5, 2008 9:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
It hardly matters, since "Ludmilla" is always Ludmilla. The thing I don't get is why post here? I mean, who does this worthless shitbag think they're going to convince?
Stormfront, Ludmilla. That's your true audience. Hang around here much longer, and I'm gonna take up a collection to send YOU to Ghana.
May 5, 2008 9:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Ghanaian people have done nothing to deserve such horrible treatment from us. I propose putting your collection toward buying Ludmilla accomodations at one of those expensive prisons s/he thinks African-Americans end up in for reasons having to do with an inherent criminality. Let him/her spend some time amongst the "thug-life guys" and get one of those "pointless 'educational'" experiences. Then maybe s/he'll be a worthy candidate for visiting Ghana. Right now, Ludmilla just seems like an Ugly American, and not someone I would want to have associated with our American citizenry as a whole.
May 5, 2008 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
You need some counseling for your hate.
May 5, 2008 9:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
You're like the Lou Dobbs of racism.
May 5, 2008 9:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
now that's just repetitive...
May 5, 2008 9:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is the one superdel voting bloc where Obama lags--party insiders.
Oh, and ignore the first comment. They're obviously sick.
May 5, 2008 8:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Drip, drip, drip...
May 5, 2008 8:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Obama campaign has 1494 pledged delegates (including Guam).
They claim to have 255 super delegates; if they really have 258, his total is 1752 (273 away). I don't think the total on the website includes the new one, since it is not included on the page.
May 5, 2008 9:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
hey, if I show you the spreadsheet, you'll see for yourselves how "repatriations" pays for itself several times over!
May 5, 2008 9:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ludmilla, when Obama becomes your president, I'm gonna write to him and ask him to make you illegal.
May 5, 2008 9:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama's super delegate numbers will be same as MSNCB by end of day. He's already counted the 3 supers from Illinois being named today, whereas MSNBC is waiting for the official word from the state party. So with this pickup they will have closed the gap to within 16, the closest its ever been.
May 5, 2008 9:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Although I'm not keeping nearly as close a track on the superdelegate race as many others it seems that lately Obama has been picking up more and more party officials. I wonder if this support is in any way related to his willingness to participate in a DNC fund raiser. That kind of cooperation and support has got to sit well with the party.
May 5, 2008 9:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's a big factor. Money talks. Hillary walks.
May 5, 2008 9:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
The margin is less than 20 superdelegates. This would indicate the failure of Hillary's electability argument to resonate.
May 5, 2008 9:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
I tnink the supers are really starting to take notice that Barack is still standing after all the hits he has taken over the past few months.
May 5, 2008 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
He's teflon. They've dragged him through the gutter for the past month and he hasn't buckled.
Meanwhile Hillary is driving African Americans away in droves.
Her gas holiday fantasy is not going to play in Oregon, either.
May 5, 2008 11:15 AM | Reply | Permalink