What does Nicole Scherzinger (formerly of the Pussycat Dolls)…
…Scarlett Johansson…
…and Don Roberts….
…all have in common?
They are all supporting Barack Obama in today’s Super Tuesday primaries. From Alameda Daily News:
Barack Obama is intelligent, articulate, innovative and has the best leadership qualities of all of the candidates for the President of the United States of America. He offers America the best chance for bi-partisan leadership. America will be a better place with President Obama. Please vote for Barack Obama for President.
And from will.i.am (of the Black Eye Peas):
Personally, It always strikes me as odd every time I am reminded that Don R. is indeed a Democrat. But this is one endorsement that I will, once again, disagree with Alameda Daily News.
An expected 8.9 million votersare expected to cast ballots for these primaries in California, with the tight presidential races and California anticipated to actually “count” toward deciding who will be the Democratic and Republican candidates for November, it’s pretty exciting for voters rather than just being fait accompli to whoever the rest of the country had already selected.
Generally I don’t get too into the presidential primaries, I’m not necessarily in love with choosing up sides within my own party and then trying to tear down the other candidate who I might have to end up supporting come November. In the case of Clinton and Obama, it was a struggle for me and I will be all right supporting either one of them wholeheartedly for president. But regardless of the election, I always vote, absentee that it. So if you have not yet voted, make sure you make time to get out to the polls today.
Oh yeah, and there’s a City Council meeting tonight.
I cry foul! Stop trying to dissuade Alamedans from voting for Obama. You are shameless! Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
By the way, I found it amazing that the video you posted was watched by over 1,000,000 people in the first two days after it was posted.
Comment by John Knox White — February 5, 2008 @ 7:23 am
There was a ripple in the atmosphere this morning, for just a fraction of a second everyone and everything in the world stopped and went “wha….?”
John Know White and Don Roberts were in perfect harmony.
Watch out for pigs, they might fly over any minute.
(Full disclosure, I also have become a right thinking alamedan and support Obama. Sorry Lauren!)
Comment by notadave — February 5, 2008 @ 8:20 am
Upon hearing Mr. Roberts had published his endorsement Obama campaign manager David Plouffe issued the following memo:
February 4, 2008
To: Interested Parties
From: David Plouffe
RE: Putting Tomorrow into Perspective
Two weeks ago, a Clinton campaign adviser told CBS News that they believed they could “wrap up” the nomination on February 5th. As the “inevitable” national frontrunner, tomorrow should be the day when she sews up the nomination or builds a formidable delegate lead. But because of Obama’s growing momentum across the country, the Clinton campaign is now unlikely to reach their stated goals of wrapping up the nomination tomorrow.
Senator Clinton is certainly the favorite on February 5, given the huge leads she has held in many of these contests throughout the course of the campaign and the political, historical and geographic advantages she enjoys in many of these states.
For example, California, which Clinton led by 25 points in October and 12 points two weeks ago, was once seen as the Clinton campaign’s firewall and where they planned to run up an insurmountable lead in delegates. Former Governor Gray Davis, a Clinton supporter, said on MSNBC last week, “I am pleased to be for Hillary Clinton and I expect her to do very well in Super Tuesday. I expect her to win California by a sizable amount, at least double digits, do well in New York and New Jersey and Connecticut.”
Based on her huge head start, Hillary Clinton should still win California, but is unlikely to achieve her goal of getting a sizeable share of the delegates.
Our path to the nomination never factored in a big day for us on February 5. Rather, we always planned to stay close enough in the delegate count so that we could proceed to individually focus on the states in the next set of contests.
We fully expect Senator Clinton to earn more delegates on February 5th and also to win more states. If we were to be within 100 delegates on that day and win a number of states, we will have met our threshold for success and will be best positioned to win the nomination in the coming months.
A performance that exceeds those benchmarks, while unlikely, would put is in a surprisingly strong position heading into the rest of the February contests.
While the Clinton campaign is furiously trying to spin the expectations game, it is important to look at where they were in some of the key states just a few weeks ago.
Comment by Mike McMahon — February 5, 2008 @ 8:44 am
Lauren,Perhaps you forgot to post a picture of Ann Coulter and her very likely endorsement of Mrs.Clinton?
Comment by MarkD — February 5, 2008 @ 9:42 am
For those who think that the majority of commenters on this blog blindly follow Ms. Do in lock-step, I should point out that I respectfully disagree with her on the Democratic primary contest, and I am siding instead with Don Roberts! Wait, something big and pink just flew past my window…I could have sworn it was oinking…
Despite the kiss of death from Mr. Roberts and the lowered expectations set forth by Senator Obama’s campaign, I’m still hoping for a big Obama upset today!
Comment by Michael Krueger — February 5, 2008 @ 10:38 am
We are screwed ’cause the lunatics have the keys to the asylum. It’s all smoke and mirrors and whoever “wins” in the end, the Corporatocracy will remain in power and we pawns remain an occasional after thought. Think about it. Can a system in which two parties have a virtual choke hold on the process really be called Democracy? (We are actually a constitutional republic founded on democratic “principles”.) Having said that I did what I always do and held my nose and voted. This time for Obama.
Comment by poguemahone — February 5, 2008 @ 1:20 pm
It should come as no surprise that Ms. Do endorses Hillary Clinton. After all, most of her views are pro-establishment.
Comment by a dave — February 5, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
#7: What a lame comment. That is, to support full disclosure, I believe the comment to be lame, not the commentator.
Making nice …
Comment by Linda Hudson — February 5, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
In my mind, there’s not a single candidate worth voting for this time around. All three are crying about saving homeowners from foreclosure. I don’t support the notion of my tax dollars going to help people who made stupid mistakes.
A report came out yesterday that all three are also getting huge donations from -you guessed it- large lending and financial service corporations. So naturally there’s a reason that the idea of saving “poor homeowners” is being paraded around: They’ve all been bought.
Either way, we’re bound to get yet another corrupt politician to lead our increasingly corrupt country.
Comment by edvard — February 5, 2008 @ 1:53 pm
The ADN jinx is back at work
Comment by alameda — February 6, 2008 @ 10:33 am