Interesting data

This is a link to a site where you can make a graph of the page views (per million) of each candidates website. Tried to use their html code to make visible on this site but it is not working. I wonder what kind of indicator this could be of support, or momentum. I still have to analyze the numbers and timeline but I instantly thought that this is somehow significant.

Hillary v. Obama Part II

I was reserving this second post to write about how it was mathematically and politically impossible for Hilary to win the nomination, barring a political miracle (i.e. Obama pulls a McGreevey). But since the stories about the clintons tax returns....I have veered in a new direction.

One of the things that I could not wrap my mind around for the past 6-8 months is why Hillary Clinton is running for President? I have been asking myself this question for a while now in the context of the thinking based around this thought: "What more could two people really ask for out of America?" And with the release of their tax returns which shows earnings of $109 million since 2000. That is right. $109 million, DOLLARS in the past 7 years. That is an average of just over $15 million a year. Talk about cashing in, hey, I don't blame them for it, not one bit. There isn't wrong with making a buck. However, as a regular working joe, I do have a problem with a couple who has lived in a governor's mansion, then THE WHITE HOUSE, for eight years (conventionally the longest time one could realistically live in the most coveted house in the country). After which they cash in on to the degree that they now are in the top one hundredth of the top one percent wealthiest people in the country, essentially at the least, the 0.09%, at the most, 0.01% richest people in the country. For perspective's sake 1% of 300,000,000 population of the U.S. is 3,000,000 people. They are in the top 3,000,000 richest people in the U.S.

O.k. Let's Digest that for a minute.

Now, let's take a look at who these people are:

1.) Bill Clinton: former four term (2 years) governor of a state and two term President (he maxed out on that!)
2.) First lady of a State, First Lady of the Greatest Country Ever (For what it is worth, I am actually wearing a flag right now, and it is sexy) then a Senator of NEW YORK! The Empire State, need we say anymore.

So the only questions about these two people I have left is: "Who the hell do they think they are, that they believe that they should go BACK to the WHITE HOUSE for 4-to-8 more years making it a total of 16 years, with a over a hundy million in between? How much is enough? Why the hell can't they ride off into the sunset and just be friggin' grateful. A large percentage (waiting on the polling results, come on Gallup!) of Americans would be enormously satisfied with a fraction of the cash or a fraction of the notoriety or a mix of both, would retire satisfied. Again, Who the Hell do they think they are??? Royalty?

Going the Distance Hillary v. Obama Part I

"I'm not a member of any organized party. I'm a Democrat."

--Will Rodgers--

The nomination as it stands today, is Obama's. As long as he stays competitive, in Pennsylvania and wins the rest of the states he should win, he will walk into the convention with the most votes (Florida and Michigan notwithstanding), most delegates and most states won.

So the question remains is why is Hillary Clinton doing this? What does she have to gain?

Some would say the Presidency. Yet the question remains is, at what cost? Hillary is staying in the race and is ready to slice and dice Obama into little bits until her crew bolstered by the media looking for a story will try to rip him to shreds in hopes that something damaging enough will surface and torpedo the Obama juggernaut.

This situation is untenable and cannot go on all summer. Something has got to give. What it is will be one of the following (in no particular order):

1. Superdelegate Vanguard: Al Gore, John Edwards, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Jimmy Carter et al come out early to end this for one or the other.

2. Hillary loses Pennsylvania, possible but not likely.

3. Hillary and the Media and the Republicans can find better dirt than Obama's pastor (btw where's Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton when a black preacher is being slimed??? not enough money to be made, if you don't know I'll address this in a later posting.)

4. Obama bombs, they find something irreparably damaging that kills his candidacy.

5. This drags on, and the time comes for Obama to give up the high road and come out swinging, and the winner of the slugfest is the nominee.

More posts to come.