Wed
Mar 12 2008
03:35 pm
Obama Wins Texas
By: rocketsquirrel

After counting primary delegates and caucus delegates in Texas, Obama wins Texas 99 delegates to Hillary's 94 delegates, according to CNN. (counting superdelegates, Obama wins 109-104.)

Does this mean, in Hillary's eyes, that Texas is:

1. no longer a big state;
2. a state that doesn't matter?

Headlines could also read "Hillary Loses Texas After Caucus Votes Are Counted." But I bet you won't see many like that.
Terry Troll's picture

Yeah...

Submitted by Terry Troll on Thu, 2008/03/13 - 7:43am.

and Bush won in 2000 even though Gore had 350,000 more votes.
But hey.

Steve Plonk's picture

Obama joke

Submitted by Steve Plonk on Thu, 2008/03/13 - 7:45am.

Have you heard the joke about the political parrot?

Parrot: Barracck! Barracck! Polly want Obama! Polly want Obama!
Pet Owner: Hmmmmmm. Polly used to like crackers.
(I got thousands of 'em.)

Bbeanster's picture

Have you heard the joke

Submitted by Bbeanster on Thu, 2008/03/13 - 8:05am.

Have you heard the joke about the political parrot?
Parrot: Barracck! Barracck! Polly want Obama!

How persuasive.

Factchecker's picture

Pet Owner: Hmmmmmm. Polly

Submitted by Factchecker on Thu, 2008/03/13 - 9:17am.

Pet Owner: Hmmmmmm. Polly used to like crackers.

I don't get it.

Bbeanster's picture

Evidently Steve's insulting

Submitted by Bbeanster on Thu, 2008/03/13 - 10:04am.

Evidently Steve's insulting crackers?

bill young's picture

crackers

Submitted by bill young on Thu, 2008/03/13 - 10:26am.

ive always heard..when you call somebody a cracker
you were saying they were

redneck dumbass racist peckerhead poor white trash.

dont want to put meaning of post where there is none but thats what i always understood a cracker be

Steve Plonk's picture

Clarification

Submitted by Steve Plonk on Thu, 2008/03/13 - 1:29pm.

The Obama joke is a "double entendre". Cracker can mean anything you want it to mean. There were a old series of puns jokes with "Polly wants a cracker". It used to be a common name for a parrot who learned to say that particular phrase to get a treat. There were many takeoffs on the old parrot jokes. Hmmmmm. You all don't remember "Amos and Andy" TV and/or radio show and folkses it ain't politically correct no more.
Where is de Kingfish when we needs him?

Bhama's picture

Who won the democratic

Submitted by Bhama (not verified) on Thu, 2008/03/13 - 6:52pm.

Who won the democratic primary in Texas?

(link...)

Anonymous's picture

Obama used the word "cracker" in his book

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2008/03/19 - 10:27am.

In his book "Dreams of my Father", Obama used the word "cracker" on page 229 to describe a white man.

How's that "bridging the racial divide"?

SteveMule's picture

Context?

Submitted by SteveMule on Wed, 2008/03/19 - 11:34am.

What is the context of the quote? As closely scrutinized as that book has been a racially imflamatory statement would have been all over the place by now. I think your either making s**t up or just plain ol' making s**t up.

Take Care, Be Good and don't play in the street!

SteveMule

Factchecker's picture

Not comfy going there

Submitted by Factchecker on Wed, 2008/03/19 - 12:22pm.

Now I get it. I don't use that word in a non-standard way, unless it's one who breaks into safes.

CW's picture

Gee, SteveMule, why don't ya

Submitted by CW (not verified) on Thu, 2008/03/27 - 7:52pm.

Gee, SteveMule, why don't ya get off your butt and look for yourself instead of calling someone a liar. Oh, that's right, you're a f**king liberal who wants everything done for you. Well, Steve-o, the context is racist and bigoted in nature. They are Obama's words describing his own feelings. But since it's obvious you're one of the minions blindly following after your new messiah, you'll need to wait for the Braille edition to come out to check it out for yourself, not that it'll change your tiny little mind.

SteveMule's picture

Again ...

Submitted by SteveMule on Thu, 2008/03/27 - 10:04pm.

Provide the context. Or go away troll.

Take Care, Be Good and don't play in the street!

SteveMule

CW's picture

Typical liberal a**hole...always looking for a handout

Submitted by CW (not verified) on Thu, 2008/03/27 - 10:42pm.

Racist comment #1:
From "Dreams of My Father." page 229,
Obama: "THERE WERE NO CIGAR CHOMPING CRACKERS LIKE BULL CONNOR OUT THERE." The use of "cracker" was unnecessary and salacious.

Racist comment #2:
From Dreams of My Father, " I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE
SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE". Gee, who wouldn't after sitting for 20 years listening to hate in that alleged church.

Racist comment #3:
From 'Dreams of my Father', "The emotion between the races could never
be pure..... the THE OTHER RACE (WHITE) WOULD ALWAYS REMAIN JUST THAT:
MENACING, ALIEN AND APART"

Racist comment #4:
From Dreams Of My Father, "never emulate white men and brown men whose
fates didn't speak to my own. IT WAS INTO MY FATHER'S IMAGE , THE BLACK
MAN, THE SON OF AFRICA, THAT I'D PACKED ALL THE ATTRIBUTES I SOUGHT IN
MYSELF.

Racist comment #5:
From Dreams Of My Father:
"THAT HATE HADN'T GONE AWAY," he wrote, BLAMING WHITE PEOPLE,- SOME
CRUEL, SOME IGNORANT, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless
image of a system claiming power over our lives."

Racist comment #6:
From Dreams Of My Father;
"There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it
came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying
close together, traveling in packs," he wrote. "It remained necessary to
prove which side you were on, TO SHOW YOUR LOYALTY TO THE BLACK MASSES,
TO STRIKE OUT, and name names"

Traitorous comment#1:From 'The Audacity Of Hope,
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an
ugly direction."

Rachel's picture

Umm, Bull O'Connor was a

Submitted by Rachel on Thu, 2008/03/27 - 11:21pm.

Umm, Bull O'Connor was a cigar-chewing cracker. And that's about the nicest thing you could say about him.

CW's picture

Only a tarbaby would put it

Submitted by CW (not verified) on Fri, 2008/03/28 - 12:12am.

Only a tarbaby would put it that way...but please don't take my comment out of context.

R. Neal's picture

Well, obviously you got your

Submitted by R. Neal on Fri, 2008/03/28 - 11:48am.

Well, obviously you got your "Obama's a racist" talking points from some hate speech oppo research site, because I doubt seriously that you have actually read his book. (I haven't either.) But racial slurs such as the one in the previous comment, especially directed at another participant, are out of bounds.

Pam Strickland's picture

Rachel, I have to agree that

Submitted by Pam Strickland on Fri, 2008/03/28 - 8:31am.

Rachel,

I have to agree that this was a nice way to describe O'Connor.

Pam Strickland

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut

Mykhailo's picture

CW: speaking of taking

Submitted by Mykhailo on Fri, 2008/03/28 - 12:49am.

CW: speaking of taking things out of context...

you know, kinda the whole point of Dreams From My Father is that ultimately Obama explicitly rejects all of the attitudes encapsulated in those quotes as wrong-headed and destructive.

bill young's picture

Tell

Submitted by bill young on Fri, 2008/03/28 - 12:56am.

You folks gave yourselves away with the cracker punch line.

Throw it out there..bait the hook

See who hits.

Myself never read a book by Obama.

But I voted for him.

And supported him for a couple of years.

We got troubles in Pa.

Looks good in N.C.

We got the Governor of Puerto Rico for us.

West Va & Ky.dont look good.

Oregon & South Dakota does.

Who Knows about Indiana,Guam & Montana.

Creek dont rise..Good Lord willin

Obama wins this thing

And I get to hear from you folks in the fall.

talidapali's picture

Folks!!!!

Submitted by talidapali on Fri, 2008/03/28 - 1:03am.

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