In the public restroom at Waterfront Park there is a smidgeon of graffiti which reads: “Silly Obama.  It’s a White House, not a Black House.”

Curious item, that.  Such things are inevitable, and it is a bit difficult to figure out how to ascertain the effect in the nomination or the election.  I see some curious analysis from the — er– “politically correct” saying that complaints of “inexperience” skew toward the old standby of him being an “Affirmative Action pick”, when — really — he’s just not been in the Senate all that long.

Two competing effects came out of yesterday’s election.  First, he lost a primary election in his most hostile Democratic primary in the nation by a whopper of a percentage, which was to be expected, and off of some firm race baiting (and really tedious pandering) on the part of the Clinton campaign.  The win is, in Marvel Comics terminology, a “no prize” for Hillary Clinton and doesn’t much bring her anywhere.  The sheer numbers probably matters only slightly to Obama’s electoral chances — this is the most potent concentration of a specific “Appalachian” demographic which is diffused in other swing states.  (The border state of the “Solid South” where below it this vote has switched parties.)  Obama is not going to win West Virginia, and the only things you can say signs here speak of some trouble in other states.  While West Virginia is closing, other states are opening up.

Meanwhile, an anti-Obama and race themed campaign failed to keep a Republican House seat in Mississippi, which is a signifier to be sure.  It may be that the thrashed Republican brand will just end up dragging down McCain down enough and that’s about where it is going to end up.

I now present to you the most self-serving version of the old Lakota philosophy that decisions should be made with seven generations in mind, Lyndon Larouche talks about the importance of “grandfathers” to his “Youth”, and the generation which does not honor the grandfather.

No longer do they believe — in successive generations, no longer do they believe in immortality of the individual personality: that even after the individual is dead, their personality continues to live and have an effect on future generations. We used to be a society in which we thought grandfathers would give their lives to provide a better way of life for, not only their children, but especially their grandchildren. […]

That has been lost! We have now become, especially with the 68ers and that generation, which lost their morality almost at birth — actually, this was something done to them. Don’t blame them entirely for it; it was done to them, by their parents, and the consent of their parents, and done by teachers and so forth.

They lost that sense of immortality, they lost that sense of culture. They lost the sense of a continuity of culture. They lost a sense of what the meaning is of national cultures, of cultures of people, the importance of preserving and promoting these cultures, because that’s the way in which [… blah de freaking blah…]

Losing a sense of continuity of culture? Tibet? In the meantime, the “68”ers were either lost in terms of morality at their birth. Or done to them by teachers and with the consent of their parents. Which means we’re losing that generational schism already shown with the statements on how some things skip a generation. Or, actually… we’re supposed to blame Harry Truman, as with this quote:

You don’t like Baby Boomers? Blame Harry Truman!

And let it be done. DAMNED YE, HARRY TRUMAN!!!

Okay. But what about the current election. Well, Clinton is being brought down by the British in the form of Obama who will be brought down shortly thereafter (perhaps by assassination??? Have we learned anything from our dealing with the British back in the 60s visa vie Kennedy — Kennedy — King?) and… I don’t know how Bloomberg figures into these things anymore. But the problem with Clinton is, as discussed here…

Clinton’s continual pledge to represent the lower 80% of the U.S. population, and the unspoken fear that some of her policies seem to lean too far in the direction of the proposals put forward by Lyndon LaRouche

because

As it stands at this moment, unless Senator Hillary Clinton continues her campaign for the Democratic nomination, there is no presently visible chance that the U.S. will come out of the presently skyrocketing hyper-inflationary crisis in any form easily recognized as being, still, our constitutional republic.

This all goes back to Abraham Lincoln… (if it doesn’t go back to the Babylonians), when…

What we are facing in our nation, is what we have faced in this nation, since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and that is, a war for the survival of republican forces, uniquely, American forces, against those of the British Empire. And today, that war has come to its final stage.

Because

The post-Civil War conflict between Lincoln’s republican United States and the British Empire, which has defined world politics over the last 140 years, is coming immediately to a head in the course of the current United States presidential campaign. Can the United States and the planet, come out the winner?

But don’t fret. Yet. The Man Has The Plan.

Larouche, as head of LPAC, has committed himself to forming a new United States Presidency which will defeat this barbarism. As the most reliable long-term forecaster over recent decades, Larouche is uniquely situated to outlining the successful strategy to defeat the British.

So vote for Hillary Clinton. Or don’t, as stated:

The issue here is not the election results. The issue is not the president. Obama is not competent to be a president; he has none of the makings of competence. Many of his constituents are valuable people, who are tied to the interests of the lower 80 percent, and they should be encouraged and defended, and their rights defended.

Very nice of him to reference the Obama constituents as “valuable people”, and very civil libertarian of him to support the defense of their rights. Anyway, one more thing Larouche wants done:

In a statement released today, former Democratic Presidential candidate and the world’s leading economist declared that the Democratic Party should stop promoting former Vice-President Al Gore, now.

I don’t believe in Unilateral Withdrawal. I think the Democratic Party should be forced to quit promoting Al Gore until the Republican Party is forced to stop promoting Bob Dole. Anyway, Larouche remains magnanimous:

“Gore should be allowed to keep his party membership.”

Meanwhile, it worth noting, as posted by “realme” at factnet:

The list of delegates to the 10th Congressional District (Leesburg and environs) Democratic convention includes the following delegates and/or alternates pledged to Clinton: Nancy Spannaus, Anton Chaitkin, and Kathy Notley. I believe this local convention chooses delegates to next month’s state convention, which in turn chooses delegates to the national convention in Denver in August.

I may or may not have one further bit of news about that particular item which I will, if it is what I remembered, link to a later.

States that Gore and or Kerry carried which loom as problems for Obama and areas of opportunity for McCain:  Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Additional states McCain may win which loom not as large:  New Hampshire.

States Bush carried in 2004 which a betting man and/or woman would figure Obama will win:  Iowa and New Mexico.  (Not coincidentally the two states Gore carried and which Bush carried by less than one percent.)

States Kerry won which Obama figures to win more easily:  Wisconsin (won by Bush by less than one percentage point), Minnesota, Oregon.

States which figured not at all in Gore’s electoral calculus, somewhat in Kerry’s, and figure prominently in Obama’s:  Colorado and Virginia… and Nevada

Obama’s hope for the semi-outlier Virginia: That Mark Warner has coat-tails which can bring along a presidential candidate.

States certainly figured in Gore and Kerry’s electoral calculations which Obama will be placing as secondary of importance (ie: not essential):  Florida.

“Swing” states with Senate races liable to switch from Republican to Democrat:  Virginia, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Minnesota, Oregon, Colorado.

States that Dukakis carried which Obama wouldn’t win if his life depended on it:  West Virginia.
States that Dukakis carried which Hillary Clinton wouldn’t win if her life depended on it:  West Virginia.

Vice presidential selections you will know Obama stared at the map in guiding his selection:  Bill Richardson, Ted Strickland, Ed Rendell, Jim Webb.

Vice presidential selections you know McCain stared at the map in guiding his selection:  Florida governor Charlie Crist, Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty.

Puzzle of the moment:  Why is the unlikely combination of a “Obama / Clinton” ticket considered a “Dream ticket” for the Democrats where the somewhat more likely combination of a “McCain / Romney” ticket not so much.

Good thing for Obama:  Where there was no Democratic Party in Ohio for Kerry to lean on, the Republican Party in Ohio has since exploded.

4 states that I guarantee will be voting for McCain:  Wyoming, Idaho, Oklahoma, Georgia.

4 states that I guarantee will be voting for Obama:  Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Illinois.

I have been scratching my head a little bit about Chelsea Clinton.  She seems to be part Clinton surrogote (like Bill Clinton), part someone just kind of untethered doing her own thing for her own reasons (Kind of like Jeremiah Wright).

Now, Bill Clinton has taken to traveling mainly to “Bubba Country”.  It was an odd tactical move and part of Hillary Clinton’s tactical choice of transforming into Annie Oakley (and now that she is in Oregon she is Calamity Jane).

Chelsea Clinton has been prowling the gay bars.  In Pennsylvania, she did so with (um… noted gay icon?) Ed Rendell..  In Oregon she, naturally, pops over to various Portland gay bars — reportedly at a Lesbian Bar this weekend.

I have a hard time imagining she is popping into a gay bar in West Virginia, where Hillary Clinton hopes to get the, ahem, “hard working white people” to climb her to a 50 point victory, and where Obama hopes to hold Clinton to a mere 30 point victory without anyone seeing him sweat for that 20 point margin.  I would think it would hamper the effort out there in Hicksville, but what do I know?  I would think better of the Hillary Clinton campaign if, indeed, Chelsea Clinton did pop into one in West Virginia… and/ or Kentucky.

Politics always quilts together contradictory coalitions, I suppose.  But after a pause I just wonder if the campaign is using Chelsea as an ambassador to GLBTs or if Chelsea is using the campaign as an excuse to crawl the nation’s gay bars?  (Something akin to her amazing campaign weekend where she book-ended a campaign stop in Minnesota in the middle of winter with two campaign stops in Hawaii.  Minnesota a little more important than Hawaii in terms of picking up delegates, but who’s counting?)

Oh No!  Rush Limbaugh has spoken, and says that he wants Barack Obama to be the Democratic nominee.  Why, with that, I doube-back and say WE MUST NOMINATE HILLARY CLINTON.

Oh, wait.  Maybe this is a trick.  Maybe by encouraging the nomination of Obama, he figures we will all think past him and go ahead and vote in Hillary Clinton, who will then be crushed by the great John McCain machine.  Dear Lord!

Now I’m completely in a bind.  How do we, oh the Great Progressive Conspiracy, defeat “Operation Chaos” when the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is sending us these mind tricks?

In other news, “Operation Chaos” has been a success.  Because, as we all know, the end game of riots in the streets of Denver looks oh so likely to happen.  And just as Limbaugh orchestrated Clinton’s Pennsylvania victory, he also orchestrated Obama’s North Carolina victory.  Operation Chaos, I barely knew ye.

Tony Zirkle, one for the road as I depart from any thought of him and leave his 15 minutes of fame in the dust.  Perhaps he will have another 15 minutes of fame in two years, but no matter.:  In the 2008 primary, I probably had more negative attacks directed my way than any other congressional candidate in the nation.  I invited it and deserved it.  I knew that I’d take a major hit this year, especially when the democrat (sic) presidential race nearly monopolized the press.

I didn’t have a chance to explain why my positions, which surely appeared to be novel to much of the public, were correct and best for this nation. Additionally, the Republican non-leadership would not allow debates and dis-invited me to speak before voters. I couldn’t get even one of my economic proposals substantially published to the public in the local media. I was shooting for 20%, and it looks like I’ll get close to that.

And his campaign he deems a success.  The idea of speaking before a giant photograph of Adolf Hitler in a celebration of his birthday?  Brilliant campaign ploy!  But, alas, a bit disingenuous in terms of saying “don’t know what that group is all about.”  (Shouldn’t Bill White have had a problem with that line?)

I engaged in an experiment to see if the Great Porn Dragon could withstand my onslaught of humor. He can, or perhaps, I’m just not as funny as I think I am.

He has hemmoraged votes.  Down to 16 percent of the vote.  Does this make a mass movement squelched by the Republican Party machinery?  I don’t know; I don’t think so.

Meanwhile, the interesting little experiment of blogging.  Looking around, I see that two people took an especially strong interest in leaving comments to blogs relating to this controvery.  Tony Zirkle, for one.  And, Bill White.  I get Bill White, (and news reports stating he lists a website at “nazi.org” seem to fail to mention that that leads to… The Libertarian National Socialist Green Party, which makes some things hard to take seriously); this guy gets Tony Zirkle.  How one happens to one place and

But now I can turn my attention to waiting for the next election campaign of Gordon Allen Pross.  Not a Nazi, but entertaining nonetheless.  (25 percent of the vote in a 1998 general US House election!)

We just passed the thirtieth anniversary of the first unsolicited mass commercial Internet message, ie, spam message.  I did not mention it here or provide a link to it because I did so a year ago on the twenty-ninth anniversary, and there is nothing to say about it so much as “There it is.”  A museum piece.

Today I go to my email inbox, and see a message from a “Greg Chan” with the subject line “I’m In My bedroom wearing nothing.  I want u: at www.”.  A little curious to see if the name matches the nature of the spam, which is to ask am I being sent a url to an address that will get me naked male pictures, or — as I suspect, did the name generator popped out “Greg Chan”?  The url does have a name in it.  Kathy.  The latter.  The spam generators don’t make sense to me… Greg is not sending me naked pictures from his bedroom; Kathy is… theoretically. 

And… delete.

The charade continues, though I gather a few more people are now viewing it as the charade it is.  Fine and dandy it is, and perhaps not as party smashing as various pundits believe it to be.  Or maybe it is still providing John McCain that hole he can use to ride a truck through.

Wait.  That Home Spun style Aphormism doesn’t even make any sense.  I am not worthy of Hillary Clinton.

Give them both credit for taking their wins and making the most of them in the arguments.  Barack Obama referenced North Carolina as a “swing state”.  And, it is.  Kind of.  North Carolina lags behind Virginia as southern states where demographic trends are tugging it into the Democratic direction.  If Obama wins by 7 or 8 percentage points, significant as that was Bill Clinton’s 92 and 96 margins of victory, North Carolina will probably be in his column.

Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, set up her narrative for her almost certain victories in the next primary states of West Virginia and Kentucky.  They have been allowed to fall out of the Democratic side, and she intends to WIN THEM… in the fall.  These are two states that voted for Bill Clinton.  And which are trending that other direction.  Sorry, but it will take a bigger blow-out for these two states to win, and frankly Hillary Clinton’s big poll advantage in these states argure poorly for any Democrats’ chances.

I see this new editorial line out there that Clinton “found her compelling message” — fighter and all that — basically after she lost her real chance at the nomination.  It is a filling in for Obama’s least natural constituency message-wise and racial-wise, and nature abhors a vacuum I suppose.  But her tailoring of a message to the “white working class”, in addition to leading to some cringe-inducing home spun tedium of pandering, also shows how contrived these things can be.  I think I made part of this point with John Edwards, but he at least seemed to be building off some themes he deveolped ini 2004 and carried forward through his post-election pre-campaign career.

Somewhere in hearing Clinton calling on the juant in Burma to accept humanitarian aid (will the Burma Juanta heed Clinton’s calls?), I had a gut feeling of her closing call.  Michigan and Florida.  And so we got to see or hear (I was listening to NPR) the crowd chant “Count the Vote!  Count the Vote!  Count the Vote!”, and Clinton smirks in with a “Little weird to pick a nominee based on 48 states.”  Which, it is, but as some were trying to order an order-less process, two states jumped the gun and provided two phony elections.

But, you know, Clinton closed the lead in North Carolina… funny, as that is not anything her campaign will take seriously about Pennsylvania’s less than desirable results for Obama.

After a spell, it occurs to me that the line about “a refreshing policy discussion suddenly broke into the Democratic presidential campaign” is a sign of how empty this trends to.  The gas tax holiday issue, I suppose, might have broken into the first 45 minutes of that infamous Stephanopolis debate.  And, notwithstanding the merits or detrimets of the policy proposal (and, yes, I am with Obama)… good gawd this is a pittance of an issue.  “Let them eat Cake”, indeed.

Well, today’s the day of the big Primary in Indiana, where results will give us a roadmap of where we are.  The big question everyone is asking, of course, is…

What percentage of the vote will perpetual candidate Tony Zirkle receive in his race against Luke Puckett and Joseph Rousch in the Republican primary in Indiana’s Second Congressional District?  In 2006, he received 30 percent of the vote.  How much lower will it be in 2008?  Or… will the Silent Majority rise up to Slay The Porn Dragon and bring him to a smashing victory?

I do have a basic problem with Tony Zirkle, and his answer in defense of speaking before any group in speaking at a gathering celebrating Hitler’s birthday, which riveted over to “Don’t know enough about the group’s ideology”, when the honest answer appears to be simply, “Me?  Nazi.”  Say it loud, say it proud.  Or… He’s fighting against the Jew run Porn industry on behalf of the honest Jew.  AND… from his campaign website, and Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner.:

In sum, my theory of the case is that a dollar vote for porn in one generation is equal to 2 votes for war and jihad in the next, yet we’ll not give up murders, thefts, drugs, and porn.  66:9:15.  The hippies gave us Generation X.  Gen X, thanks to Clinton, skipped right over XX and spawned Generation XXX.  The jihadist will never tolerate what Gen. XXX will sire.  That should keep the snarky bloggers in business. Someone has to stimulate this economy.

Tony Zirkle.  Keeping the Snarky Bloggers in Business.

There was this special election held in Louisiana which resulted in a Democratic victory in a deeply Republican district.  It is worth a shrug, and it does show that the “Liberal Blogosphere” is more partisan than it is ideological, for good or bad, in its celebration of such a thing, despite many pleadings of “moonbattery” from the conservative blogosphere in referencing your dailykoses and et al — the man preparing himself for service in the “Blue Dog Democrats” coalition of congress critters we are going to look over to scan votes for and see on the wrong side of that “Lib / Con” (whatever that means) ledger with frequency.

He won despite being aligned with Obama who was aligned with Wright.  A harbinger of the future?  To answer that question demands a precise explanation of what is being harbinged.

In the meantime, a bit of a disturbing trends.  According to this, one of the two people competing for the Democratic nomination in Nebraska is a Republican.  Which might simply be an anomolie, except for the fact that one of the people who might end up with the Democratic nomination in Georgis is also a Republican.  Go figure.  Maybe we can go ahead and extrapulate the trend.