Denny K hearts Barry O–but will Denny’s people follow?
Bedfellas?
Dennis Kucinich is urging his supporters to throw their votes to Barack Obama on the second Iowa ballot. Second choices matter in Iowa. (Candidates who receive less than 15 percent of the vote are considered non-viable. Their followers can go home or cast ballots for their second choice. Front-runners Obama, Clinton and Edwards will likely snap up roughly three-quarters of the Iowa caucus vote. All of the them have been courting the second tier for second-choice votes.) From Denny K’s campaign website:
Democratic Presidential candidate and Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich opened the New Year by publicly asking his Iowa supporters to vote for him in the caucuses this Thursday, and suggesting that if he did not make the 15% threshold, their second ballot should be for Senator Barack Obama. “This is obviously an ‘Iowa-only’ recommendation, as Sen. Obama and I are competing in the New Hampshire primary next Tuesday where I want to be the first choice of New Hampshire voters.
“I hope Iowans will caucus for me as their first choice this Thursday, because of my singular positions on the war, on health care, and trade. This is an opportunity for people to stand up for themselves. But in those caucus locations where my support doesn’t reach the necessary threshold, I strongly encourage all of my supporters to make Barack Obama their second choice. Sen. Obama and I have one thing in common: Change.”
So, does Obama still oppose impeachment–Denny K’s hobby horse–as straightforwardly as he did six months ago? Flashback:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama laid out list of political shortcomings he sees in the Bush administration but said he opposes impeachment for either President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney…
…Obama, a Harvard law school graduate and former lecturer on constitutional law at the University of Chicago, said impeachment should not be used as a standard political tool.
“I think you reserve impeachment for grave, grave breaches, and intentional breaches of the president’s authority,” he said.
“I believe if we began impeachment proceedings we will be engulfed in more of the politics that has made Washington dysfunction,” he added. “We would once again, rather than attending to the people’s business, be engaged in a tit-for-tat, back-and-forth, non-stop circus.”
Will Denny’s people really do as he says?
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Meantime, InsiderAdvantage reports that “Reallocated Numbers Based on Second Preferences [Give] Edwards A Solid Lead.”
Marc Ambinder sheds light on the falling out between Denny K and Johnny E:
Kucinich’s supporters could help Obama in non-liberal precincts where the two or three Kucinich supporters could wind up enlarging Obama’s preference groups just enough to get that extra delegate…
Note: Last cycle, the Edwards and Kucinich campaigns agreed to tell their supporters to join each other’s preference groups if one or the other didn’t make “threshold.” Edwards advisers now believe that the deal hurt them more than it helped them.
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They will if they want on the ship.
Wow, it seems Dennis Kucinich is lobbying for a cabinet seat in an Obama White House… Secretary of the Paranormal? Bill Murray must be jealous.
Poor, poor, pitiful Hillary. . . nobody wants to dance with her. Vast left wing conspiracy.
I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking that leaves the all important extraterrestrial vote pretty much disenfranchised. I’ll be on a warp over IP call later with Light Colonel Mepplethorp Zwakafroon from Planets For Kucinich to ask if he’ll throw his considerable girth (and contingent of 12 armed battle mistresses) behind Barack Obama, or if he actually CAN. Seeing as how the entire planet of his origin bases it’s entire religion on a toddler’s play area placard from Chuck E Cheese’s that accidentlaly fell through a rip in the space/time continuum, Obama may be in violation of their most sacred regulation: Being too tall to enter the ball pit.
The staffers held a vote to see if this would benefit the campaign, Obama didnt vote.
Kucinich was a presidential candidate?
To me, Obama sounds like Richard Pryor and looks like Howdy Doody.
Here is my PSP of Obama as Doody. It may take some time for the
Obama Doody Morph to warm up on your download.
http://www.painterwebsite.com/Obama.html
Yes. He’s trying to take Zaphod Beeblebrox’s job.
I cannot wait until the Iowa and N.H. primaries are finished. I don’t remember ever hearing so much about their primaries. Am I just more aware or are we being beaten over the head with these caucuses?
Yea,this move is pretty transparent….Congressmidget Kookinich wants to be Secretary of Rainbows & Unicorns in an Oreobama administration
ROFL AJ, how true. Go Sliky!
#10, that’s unnecessary.
At a minimum, Obama could make Kucinich ambassador to the Intergalactic Nations.
You’re just more aware. Which is good–I wish more people were more aware!!
I’m looking forward to 2008 but from a politcal standpoint I wish it was Nov. already…all the rhetoric, anaylsis and BS is tiresome. Whomever gets the office all of it can be thrown out the window….. were talking a whole new ballgame in the White House and reality plays out. “I’m going to do this and I’m going to do that” blah, blah, blah….
Are the Dimocraps still running against Bush? I am soooo confused!
MM, I think rather than Barry you should have written BO’s people.
While the MSM seeks to “amuse” us with ever ever ever ever longer Presidential campaigns, they obscure what the other hands of government (Congress, Executive agencies) are doing.
Watch this hand, dummy dhimmis, while the other tries to stab you in the back using the power of darkness.
Crazy has spoken, and his Messiah is Obama!
I just want to see Hillary get her butt kicked in the primaries and I don’t care who does it.
I hope she wins the primary. I believe that she is completely unelectable in the presidential election.
I’m with you RRep. As much as I delight in HillBill getting hers (theirs?) she would be a delight to have as the Dem candidate.
Geez….but can you imagine the dirt coming out from under rugs, beds and dark corners..the Soaps in American will suffer quite a ratings drop.
Caucus for Hillary - Yeah!!!!
Diver, I am with you on a finish to the caucuses. I just wish those carpetbaggers would leave. Every 4 years we are invaded by these clowns and the hype and mis-truths and promises are made by those that can’t possibly ever keep them. It gets a little much!
Yeah I have also been writing Bloomberg and encouraging him to run as a third party candidate. It would all but hand the election over to the Republicans…… Can you say Ross Perot boys and girls????
Thank you #s 1 & 4 for the laugh.
If Obama does win he would probably end up as the future Secretary of Intergalactic Peace and Prosperity another opportunity for the Government to grow more bloated under Democratic leadership. Would love to see “she who must not be named” annihilated in the Iowa caucuses by the followers of Commander K the Space Ranger backing Obama.
The entire thing is so strange that I would love to climb into one of Dennis K’s
space ships and stay there until election day 2008.
Do you think that if a GOP candidate wins in ‘08 there will be recount upon
recount again? The dems cannot seem to comprehend losing.
“Denny K hearts Barry O–but will Denny’s people follow?”
Of course they will. It’s their nature.
“Geez….but can you imagine the dirt coming out from under rugs, beds and dark corners..the Soaps in American will suffer quite a ratings drop.
Caucus for Hillary - Yeah!!!!”
I agree, except that most donks have realized the messy circus that would be and want no part of it…which gives us the Oprah-washed, apparently squeeky clean Obama. As a friend of mine from Chicago points out, “there is no such thing as a “clean politician” from Chicago.” His dirty laundry just hasn’t come out yet.