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I’m about up to here with this woman.

No scratch that. I’ve been fed up with her. A few months ago, I thought, “Well, if she wins, it would suck balls, but it could be McInsane, so she’s slightly better.” Then I was thinking, “Well, if she loses she could still be an okay Senator.” Now? Well, now, I use a lot more cursewords when I say her name and I want her gone. I want her to slink away back to the slimy bowels of hell from which she reigns and live out the rest of her sad, pathetic little existence in obscurity. Now. I just don’t like Hillary Clinton as a person.

I get that politics is just a free play for the masses and everyone is playing their part. The audience is in on it, but we pretend to be observers. It was never personal for me before. I tend to justify a lot that politicians do, simply because I figured to be a politician you must have a defective morality gene…or something. Hillary Clinton proves my theory true.

“My take on it is a lot of Senator Obama’s supporters want to end this race because they don’t want people to keep voting,” she told CBS affiliate KTVQ in Billings, Mont. “That’s just the opposite of what I believe. We want people to vote. I want the people of Montana to vote, don’t you?”

She actually said that out loud. To people.

Sen. Clinton actually said that Obama supporters don’t want people to keep voting. What a load. Of course we want people to keep voting…for Sen. Obama. I mean, if Obama supporters didn’t want people to vote, then they’d probably pull bullshit voter suppression stuff like the Clinton’s campaign has done all year long, right? The Obama campaign responds:

“That is completely laughable from a campaign that thought the race would be over on February 5. We have encouraged our supporters to do no such thing and Senator Obama was very clear he supports her carrying on in this race.”

The only reason I want this primary race over is so that I’ll never have to hear Grandma Clinton spinning tall tales and acting as if only she knows all the family secrets. The Senator has proven that as a leader, she’s completely unqualified to deal with a county as large and as diverse as America. The Senator has proven that as a humanoid, she’s completely lacking in compassion, courage and fortitude. The Senator has proven that she really doesn’t deserve anyone’s vote.

Top of the Ticket had an amazingly pointless blurb on the thought processes of craptastic rapper, 50 cent or “Fiddy”, complete with–wait for it–video.

50 Cent — he’s a rapper, for you political junkies who never turn on anything but talk radio — tells MTV that he’s getting bored with the whole presidential campaign. Last fall he was backing Hillary Clinton but after the race speech he says he’s now backing Barack Obama.

But 50 Cent said the whole thing had gone on too long and now he might not even vote.

“To be honest, I haven’t been following that anymore. I lost my interest,” the rapper told MTV (the clip is below). “I listened to some of the debate and things that they were saying, and I just got lost in everything that was going on. … Don’t look for my vote, for me to determine nothing on that. Just say, ‘50 Cent, he don’t know, so don’t ask Fiddy.’”

There’s your political bumper sticker of the day: “Don’t ask Fiddy.” For some reason that reminds us of Alice Cooper’s 1988 slogan when the shock-rocker “ran” for governor of Arizona: “A troubled man for troubled times” — which has been resurrected here for the current presidential cycle.

And when we figure out which poll “Fiddy’s” endorsement switch might influence, we’ll let you know.

– Scott Martelle

So…I took the ball and ran with it. Now you can get your own Don’t Ask Fiddy t-shirt straight from my Zazzle store.

Not that you care, but I’m not having trouble with my blogging editor. All of a sudden, it’s not letting me do a WYSIWYG and it’s annoying the crap out of me.

Booman has a post up entitled Gangsta Rap Has Nothing to Do With It. You should read it, but more importantly, you get linked to the racist bile that has become Larry Johnson’s M.O. I gotta lot of stuff to say about that post.

The Militant Angleno has a map describing Los Angeles. By all rights, that should stop the holier-than-thou faction of Silver Lakers from claiming Eastside status. (h/t to Jason Burns over at Metblogs LA)

My daughter’s ballet recital is tomorrow and I’m nervous because of the costume. This time around they’re doing The Wizard of Oz songs and they were supposed to dress like Dorothy. I wonder what the boys were supposed to wear. Anyway, I looked into buying her a costume, but I couldn’t really afford it, nor could I justify spending $20 - $40 on something cheaply made. So, I bought her a blue and white seersucker sundress. I figured it’s close enough and she can wear it all summer.

Darrel Bell’s Candorville comic for today is hilarious and spot on as usual.

A couple of weeks back, Omir the Storyteller, posted a funny skit over at Booman Tribune. We all laughed and thought it would be great to see in video. Real History Lisa found some people and some money and got it done.

h/t to Poplicks…here is a pro-campaign video that is actually worse than any of those horrid pro-Clinton videos:

I’m trying to figure out what was worse: the message or the singing.

I’m sad.

For the past 4 days, I’ve been unable to watch YouTube videos no matter where they are online. I can press play, then the video stops playing at 0:02, while it continues to load. Once the red bar is full, the black screen pops up. I can’t even begin to guess what the problem is. At first I was blaming it on the new Firefox update, but I didn’t update until late Friday evening and it had stopped before then.

If anyone has any suggestions, let me know. I’ve tried everything so far.

UPDATE: As of 11:54pm last night, I’ve now been able to watch YouTube videos without going to IE. It may have had something to do with the FF update after all. The other updates were downloaded, but on my computer I just did the insta-update thing. Last night, I downloaded it and installed it that way. After that, no more YouTube problems.

In this, “Who woulda thunk?” category, I found this over at Political Ticker:

FARGO, North Dakota (AP) — North Dakota State University is investigating complaints about a campus skit in which a white student in blackface portrayed Barack Obama receiving a lap dance.

The same skit, part of a charity fundraiser held at a campus theater, also featured a depiction of cowboys having sex with each other, witnesses told The Forum newspaper, which first reported the backlash Friday.

Not to excuse the kid, but when a nationally broadcast “comedy” sketch show has a white actor in blackface portraying Sen. Obama, is there any doubt that this would filter down to the masses.  It still amazes me that SNL coudn’t find one funny light-skinned brotha in all of NYC.  I know I’m not alone in thinking that SNL went overboard, by yet again, having another non-black actor donning blackface (this is a constant in their 500 year history):

Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune put the question bluntly: “Call me crazy, but shouldn’t ‘Saturday Night Live’s’ fictional Sen. Barack Obama be played by an African-American?” Ryan went on to conclude: “I find ‘SNL’s’ choice inexplicable. Obama’s candidacy gives us solid proof of the progress that African-Americans have made in this country. I guess ‘SNL’ still has further to go on that front.”

Hannah Pool, a writer for the Guardian newspaper in Great Britain, suggested the whole setup had “minstrel” overtones.

“Casting a black actor wouldn’t have guaranteed the quality of the sketch, but it would have made the whole thing a lot less shoddy,” Pool wrote. “Let’s get one thing straight. The moment anyone starts reaching for ‘blackface,’ they are on extremely dodgy territory. Anyone who thinks it’s either necessary or, for that matter, remotely funny to black-up needs to have the gauge on their moral compass reset.” (WaPo)

Considering the amount of press coverage the SNL skits received thanks to Hillary’s pimping of it during a debate, is there a wonder why a college kid in North Dakota wouldn’t think twice about this?  Perhaps he never saw The Chart.

This is my leftover steak from dinner last night.  Now, here’s an America I really and truly love.  With steak sauce.

Last night, the Texas Democrats had their county conventions where they sat the delegates from the March 4th primaries. As you remember, the Clinton’s tried to sue to get the results for those caucuses not read on March 4th. In a way they were successful, as the media stopped reporting the results of the caucuses with only 41% reporting. Sen. Obama was leading at the time.

Release from the Obama campaign:

AUSTIN — With more than 56% of the results tallied from today’s 284 Democratic district conventions across Texas, Senator Barack Obama currently is projected to earn a 38-29 pledged delegate win in the Texas caucuses, exactly as projected on the day after the March 4th precinct caucuses. The nine delegate margin in the caucuses means Obama will gain a net margin of five pledged delegates from Texas because Senator Clinton narrowly won the Texas primary by only four delegates, 65-61.

“Despite the Clinton campaign’s widespread attempts to prevent many Texans from participating in their district convention, the voters of Texas confirmed Senator Obama’s important delegate win in the Lone Star State,” said Obama spokesman Josh Earnest. “Today’s record-shattering turnout sends a clear message that the American people are ready for change in Washington and new leadership in the White House that will stand up for working families.”

The Obama campaign will release a more detailed tally of the results tomorrow.

The Clinton’s campaign disagrees:

Clinton’s campaign objected.

Garry Mauro, coordinator of Clinton’s Texas campaign, conceded Obama may have gained on Clinton. But he said it was too early to say.

“I’m stunned,” Mauro said. “That’s not the way I count it.”

Which shouldn’t be no surprise. This is a campaign that has claimed LOUDLY wins from Florida and Michigan. And as Booman, pointed out they also clai

Well, it’s been rolled out. The one I voted for didn’t, but my second favorite did, so I’m okay with it:

At any rate, Kleeb’s campaign is having a big donor push right now. The goal is $25K by midnight on Monday. As of last night, the total had reached $11,100. You can donate to Mr. McHottie’s campaign here.