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Why Isn't This Bigger News
The talk the last couple days has been about Hillary, the loser of a long, drawn out and often over discussed democratic primary.
Why isn't the talk about Barack Obama becoming the first African American to become the presidential nominee for either party? This is historical.
Who cares what part Hillary is going to play, Barack Obama is the presidential nominee and no matter what anyone says about Hilary, it is his choice and no one elses. There is even a petition going around to get Hiliary on the ticket.
I have a petition and its for Hillary to shut her trap after she bows out of the race this Saturday unless it is in un-dying support for Barack Obama. In the mean time, we should be celebrating this moment, 150 years ago we were in a civil war over slavery, now, an African American has a chance to be the president of our country.
Im sure Martin Luther King and every other person who has fought the civil rights fight is smiling over this moment in our history. Shame on the media for making this about what Hillary wants.
I don't think we have seen the last of her. Don't forget about the October surprise. Who knows what the libs have up their sleve. It aint over.
Obama Was Selected, Not Elected
Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago.
When Gore won the popular vote in the 2000 election by half a percentage point, but lost the Electoral College -- or, for short, "the constitutionally prescribed method for choosing presidents" -- anyone who denied the sacred importance of the popular vote was either an idiot or a dangerous partisan.
But now Hillary has won the popular vote in a Democratic primary, while Obambi has won under the rules. In a spectacular turnabout, media commentators are heaping sarcasm on our plucky Hillary for imagining the "popular vote" has any relevance whatsoever.
It's the exact same situation as in 2000, with Hillary in the position of Gore and Obama in the position of Bush. The only difference is: Hillary has a much stronger argument than Gore ever did (and Hillary's more of a man than Gore ever was).
Unbeknownst to liberals, who seem to imagine the Constitution is a treatise on gay marriage, our Constitution sets forth rules for the election of a president. Under the Constitution that has led to the greatest individual liberty, prosperity and security ever known to mankind, Americans have no constitutional right to vote for president, at all. (Don't fret Democrats: According to five liberals on the Supreme Court, you do have a right to sodomy and abortion!)
Americans certainly have no right to demand that their vote prevail over the electors' vote.
The Constitution states that electors from each state are to choose the president, and it is up to state legislatures to determine how those electors are selected. It is only by happenstance that most states use a popular vote to choose their electors.
When you vote for president this fall, you will not be voting for Barack Obama or John McCain; you will be voting for an elector who pledges to cast his vote for Obama or McCain. (For those new Obama voters who may be reading, it's like voting for Paula, Randy or Simon to represent you, instead of texting your vote directly.)