Obamarama
Last night Hillary won three out of the four states that had primaries or caucuses, and that made me very sad, even though Obama has firmly held his delegate lead. As an entirely welcome email from the Obama campaign read:
I felt especially bad about mini-Super-Tuesday because I had clicked on some buttons on the Obama website and indicated that I might be willing to call people in Texas from my house, but honestly I've always been terrified of calling strangers on the phone, and really, isn't that why a person has a comedy career and a blog and such, so I never have to talk to someone on the phone who doesn't already want to talk to me? So I just froze in the face of calling strangers, and now I feel like Texas is my own damn fault.
So I just went and donated another $300. That means I've donated $500 so far, which is by far the most I've ever donated to a political campaign.
This, in my view, is how feminism happens: women have to make money and use it to make the things they want to happen, happen, and then tell everyone about it.
"We can debate John McCain about who can clean up Washington by nominating a candidate who's taken more money from lobbyists than he has, or we can do it with a campaign that hasn't taken a dime of their money because we've been funded by you."
Go donate to Obama or I can't sit with you in the lunchroom anymore
Our projections show the most likely outcome of yesterday's elections will be that Hillary Clinton gained 187 delegates, and we gained 183.(As a side note, I like how the Obama campaign sends me messages with normal human email conventions. The email above was titled "The math." I also received one titled "What happened last night" and signed "Barack").
That's a net gain of 4 delegates out of more than 370 delegates available from all the states that voted.
For comparison, that's less than half our net gain of 9 delegates from the District of Columbia alone. It's also less than our net gain of 8 from Nebraska, or 12 from Washington State. And it's considerably less than our net gain of 33 delegates from Georgia.
I felt especially bad about mini-Super-Tuesday because I had clicked on some buttons on the Obama website and indicated that I might be willing to call people in Texas from my house, but honestly I've always been terrified of calling strangers on the phone, and really, isn't that why a person has a comedy career and a blog and such, so I never have to talk to someone on the phone who doesn't already want to talk to me? So I just froze in the face of calling strangers, and now I feel like Texas is my own damn fault.
So I just went and donated another $300. That means I've donated $500 so far, which is by far the most I've ever donated to a political campaign.
This, in my view, is how feminism happens: women have to make money and use it to make the things they want to happen, happen, and then tell everyone about it.
"We can debate John McCain about who can clean up Washington by nominating a candidate who's taken more money from lobbyists than he has, or we can do it with a campaign that hasn't taken a dime of their money because we've been funded by you."
Go donate to Obama or I can't sit with you in the lunchroom anymore
posted by JenIsFamous at 3/05/2008 10:32:00 PM
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By the way, the Clinton campaign is now showing a video of an Obama aide remarking that "neither candidate" is ready for a 3 a.m. phone call. And they're calling this a gaff.
I think it's brilliant. The Clinton campaign is so ravenous for miscues that they're just shoving this out into the media, but the Obama camp is basically just acknowledging that both of them have the same credentials on national security, so if you cut me down, you're cutting us both down. This, obviously, being something neither democratic candidate wants.
So, essentially, they're establishing that by even raising an argument about inexperience, both are tethered to it, which ought to give the Clinton camp serious pause. Instead, they're still throwing anything and everything into the wind.
Desperation is rather painful to watch.
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