Why can't Obama close the deal when he's not on the ballot?

[cliffordu]

What did Michigan teach us??

He's UNELECTABLE.

:rofl:

[2rth2pwr]

1. Is that little rolly guy a permanent part of your posts?

[Occam Bandage]

2. Mr. Rofl is an epileptic. Don't make fun of him.

[cliffordu]

3. As far as snarks go, that wasn't very good. Maddy McCall can give you

a few pointers if you need them.

[cboy4]

6. We have to dumb down our snarks so you people get

them, cliffordu.

jeez

[grantcart]

25. fuck that

If your going to get advice on snarking Obama supporters please go to Maddiejoan

this Ode to her records a past encounter:


Ode to a great snarker

pointed but not hostile

brief but penetrating

searing but not personal

relevent but not tedious

self mocking but not depressing

How I look forward to your snarks. And yet you never seem to snark my threads Maddiejoan, have I insulted you?

Your snarks smack leave a mark like the hand print on a pristine bottom during erotic foreplay.

They are always clever but not boastful.

You are the snarkmaster and I bow to your snarkiness.

When your candidate's tepid and dying campaign has experienced the last twinge of electro pulse through the nervous system and we have a formal presumptive nominee will your snarks be endangered will they be gone forever?

Will we be left only with the memory of the perfect snark?


Oh by the way nice snark



And then tonight she has me dreaming again

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5959082#5959276

When you get snarked by Maddiejoan you not only feel the hot slap across your face you want more


and



you don't have to worry about that fucking rabid frog

[cliffordu]

28. MaddieJoan IS the world heavyweight champion of the snark...

she has nuclear snark, gentle snark, alliterative snark, poetic snark, multicultural snark, scatological snark graphic snark, wry snark, ironic snark, iconic snark, recursive snark, elliptical snark and ridicule.


(Ridicule used only when Nuclear snark is just not enough...)



She is the state champ of Snarkistan.
She is Snarkenstien
She is the Snarkzilla
She has the shizzle of the snarkizzle

She is the snark, the whole snark and nothing but the snark, so help you God.

You can't handle the snark.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

33. She's Snarkoriffic

!

[mcctatas]

4. You're just saying that because you're bitter...

;)

[virtualobserver]

5. personally, I think that he was trying to throw the race.....

Secretly, he wants Hillary to win.

[cliffordu]

8. Yep, that HAS to be it.

I understand that in Oregon, Kelly Services has 45,000 temps trying to white out his name on the ballots there...(NO RACIAL MOTIVE IN THE USE OF THE TRADEMARKED NAME "WHITE OUT". DAMMIT).


I understand that this President stuff is all Michelle's doing. Like my wife wanting me to take up Bridge.

[Liquorice]

7. Does Obama plan to take his name off the ballot in the GE

when it looks like he's going to lose a given state? Then he can claim the state shouldn't count because his name wasn't on the ballot.

[mcctatas]

11. seriously?!11!11!!!!

He followed the DNC rule, where have you been?

[Liquorice]

14. If you don't know that Obama removing his name from the ballot

was a political stunt, you're not thinking clearly. Seriously. By the way, why didn't he take his name off the ballot in Florida?

[mcctatas]

17. again...

:wtf: Even the truly delusional do not think it was a stunt, unless it was a conspiracy between Obama, Edwards and Richardson...

From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro
Obama, Edwards and Richardson have all filed paperwork to withdraw their names from the Michigan ballot, the Detroit Free Press reports. Obama and Edwards filed paperwork today to do so and Richardson sent a letter yesterday requesting the same.

Michigan Democrats violated the so-called Feb. 5 pre-window, moving their primary to Jan. 15. But the Democratic National Committee only sanctioned four states to be inside that date – Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/09/403731.aspx

[Liquorice]

20. Obama and Edwards weren't required to take their names off the

ballot. It was a stunt.

http://iowaindependent.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1264

[anonymous171]

21. Fact remains that they weren't on the ballot. Not a legitimate election.

[mcctatas]

22. It was a show of unity for the party...

"There’s the fact that Hillary Clinton’s name and the uncommitted slate was the only thing that was on the ballot in Michigan because the Democratic National Committee asked the other candidates to withdraw their names from the ballot. So, here you have the institution itself asking people to pull their names off the ballot.



All of them, yes. That’s what--I don’t know what I just said-But, OK, that’s what I thought I said.

In any event, and you also have the uncommitted slate on the ballot—you have an uncommitted slate on the ballot and, you know, one of the proposals that came forward that I’ve seen is: Why not give half of the delegation to Clinton and half of it to Obama and that way it won’t make any difference and people can be seated. Well, what do you do with the fact that there was an uncommitted delegation that got votes and is entitled to delegates? I think that one is a whole big mess.

Posted on May 04, 2008"

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2008/05/dnc_rules_commi.html
your theory is based on speculation and desperation.....:eyes:

[Greyskye]

32. Your 'source' is an opinion blog?

Weak. Very, very weak. :thumbsdown:

[charlie]

19. Because you had to declare

you weren't running for the presidency to do that.

[JustinL]

24. A "stunt" that was also pulled by Biden, Edwards, and Richardson

and that Kucinich tried to pull. (link) Both Gore and Bradley pulled the same "stunt" in 2000. (link)

Here's why he couldn't take his name off the ballot in florida:

A candidate's name shall be printed on the Presidential Preference Primary ballot unless the candidate submits an affidavit to the Department of State on or before November 12, 2007 stating that he or she is not now, and does not presently intend to become, a candidate for President at the upcoming nominating convention.

State of Florida Federal Qualifying Handbook, page 2. (link)

[boppers]

27. Why didn't he take his name off in Florida?

Simple answer: Florida rules require a candidate to *drop out* entirely to have their name removed.

Obama didn't feel like ending his whole campaign simply to appease their messed up non-election.

[TLM]

18. Only in states that move their elections to that week before election day.

And as a result aren't counted.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. He couldn't leave a mark in WV.

:rofl:

[anonymous171]

10. Huckabee won the GOP WV primary

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. So what?

[anonymous171]

16. ...

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[PBS Poll-435]

15. If you can't win, drop out.

Save face.

:-)

[Triana]

23. Because the Hillarybillies are hoping that those non-college-degreed voters are as ignorant as

the Hillary campaign is dishonest - so they claim Obama "can't win" a state he was never on the ballot in - and hope Bubba won't notice.

[MonkeyFunk]

26. exit polls show he would've lost handily

had he been on the ballot. That's one of the main reasons he removed his name.

[cliffordu]

31. God, I love that bullshit.

Under your "logic" he should have stayed off of West Virginia too. Right??


Bogus posit. Fail.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

34. So he removed his name from the ballot weeks before the election

based on exit polls that came out after the election?

Wow.

[barack the house]

29. Folks stayed home as they were told it didn't count. Also some voted HRC 2nd choic.

[Vinca]

30. I would like one Hillary supporter to tell me why she signed the DNC

agreement that allowed Michigan and Florida to be disqualified. I want to know why she was willing to allow voters to be disenfranchised then, but now she's just beside herself over it.