It's time for Obama to concede

[lame54]

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/05/barack-obama-should-concede-nomination.html

Barack Obama Should Concede the Nomination to Hillary

Although one can't help but admire Barack Obama's tenaciousness, it's time that he face the facts and abandon his quixotic quest for the Democratic nomination. We all know that the Clintons will stop at nothing to get the nomination for Hillary and the best thing Obama could do for his country and his own political future is to concede defeat and preserve one last shred of dignity. After his trouncing in Kentucky and his lackluster win in Oregon, the writing is on the wall. It is obvious he will not have enough delegates to secure the nomination and all he is doing is prolonging the misery. Perhaps he can run again in 2032 when he will still be younger than John McCain is now and people will have forgiven him for the divisiveness he has caused by trying to get people to vote for him.

[papau]

1. He has lost popular vote with no hope of catching up - loses election w/o Hill on ticket

[grantcart]

21. maybe the only one who fell for it lol

[democracy1st]

40. they learned from the master how to turn a lie into the truth & turn the truth into a lie

[yardwork]

44. I am dying here in my cubicle! This is too good!

[Political Heretic]

26. Um... what? He's won the popular vote by every metric that can actually be measured.

Seen as how the only way Clinton "wins" the popular vote is if you count BOTH FL and MI, and you can't "count" MI since her name was the only name on the ballot, due to rules she agreed to - its both IN PRINT AND there is audio of her saying that MI will not count. So if you pretend Obama got ZERO votes in MI, then yes, in that completely fabricated world Clinton gets the majority of ....something. It's not the "Popular vote" but its some subset of that.

However, in the reality based world the rest of our community lives in, Obama has the popular vote well in hand.

Sorry.

[DAGDA56]

42. His friends know him as just plain Jon Swift...

...others address him more formally http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

[Citizen_Penn]

30. Please, for your own sake

stop drinking the damn kool-aid.

It isn't good for your mental health.

The OP is a joke, duh!

[shadowknows69]

38. Proof?

Or are you just blindly believing the Queen of Denial again?

[Terran]

you forgot

:sarcasm: (I hope)

[lame54]

5. I was hoping I wouldn't need it

[Cant trust em]

15. In other forums, maybe not.

But in GDP, land of doom and gloom, most people have their humor switches set to off.

[Terran]

57. It's not lack of humor

it's the degree of deliberate obtuseness certain people display in GD-P...hard to tell who's being serious and who's playing satirist these days. I'm glad it's the latter in this case.

[boobooday]

16. You would think the blogger's pseudonym would have given it away!

On to Lilliput!

[ecstatic]

apparently you did for response # 1

:rofl:

I thought maybe you were serious after seeing that!

[dipsydoodle]

6. great minds.........

.

[Occam Bandage]

The sarcasm smilie is an admission of absolute failure as a satirist.

[dipsydoodle]

2. You forgot

the sarcasm smile.

[mckeown1128]

11. The best sarcasm doesn't need the sarcasm smile... nt

[myrna minx]

3. LOL.

Quite a modest proposal. :rofl:

[grantcart]

4. a post truely fiting your name

:sarcasm:

[CatsDogsBabies]

7. I thought Obama won Oregon by 18 % points

[kid a]

14. 19%

[ecstatic]

24. wow! I never knew the final result--thought it held at 16. Great news! nt

[Iceburg]

60. He won Oregon, but by the night's total vote (KY+OR) Hillary netted 58% to BO's 42%

she thrashed him.

[NYCGirl]

8. That blogger certainly lives up to his namesake. NT

[WeDidIt]

9. From the Link

I am a reasonable conservative who likes to write about politics and culture. Since the media is biased I get all my news from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Jay Leno monologues.

[mcctatas]

18. ....

:rofl:

How fucking funny, " get all my news from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Jay Leno monologues." Talk about a low-information voter;)

[Occam Bandage]

10. Fun blog, though the name is a sledgehammer.

[mcctatas]

is this satire? The popular vote is NOT the metric we use to determine our nominee, delegates are no matter how much rending of clothing, gnashing of teeth or tearing of hair hillary's supporters do, and if he can't win it without her, it's very likely she can't win it without him.....

I think they can both beat McCain, unfortunately for Hillary, she couldn't beat Barack....

[kid a]

12. He hasn't even won a state yet, is losing the delegate math, and doesn't have 1 Super delegate!

[redqueen]

13. !

:rofl:

Thanks for the laugh. :)

[indimuse]

17. KNR!

[Cant trust em]

20. The post was sarcastic.

[lame54]

28. thank you...

finally, someone who gets it

[Cant trust em]

32. At this point what else could an "Obama needs to drop" thread be? NT

[SwampG8r]

54. i got it too

but im being quiet and watching the hillary "supporters" take it for real
their disconnect is now complete

[bvar22]

36. Shhhhhh

Low Information Voter
(Hillary's Base)
:shrug:

[Cant trust em]

37. This poster isn't Low Information, just selective

Good for Hillary = :party:

Reality = :banghead:

[Occam Bandage]

33. ...

[cliffordu]

49. LOL Nice one!!

[dchill]

51. OK, that's REALLY good...

:rofl:

[yardwork]

45. Nooooo! My stomach hurts. This is killing me.

[dchill]

47. Gee, now YOU are the joke...

attention grabber!

[lame54]

will have forgiven him for the divisiveness he has caused by trying to get people to vote for him.

Obvious :sarcasm:

[kid a]

19. lame44

[End Of The Road]

22. Obama is tearing the party apart!

We need to focus on beating McCain, and how can we do that if Obama doesn't withdraw?

He wants to win at any cost, what an ego...

[MindMatter]

39. In teh same way that Bush says

The country would be a better place if it were a dictatorship, as long as Bush got to be the dictator -- which he effectively did, as it turns out.

This is Hillary's only real claim. She will make such a mess of everything if she is not given the nomination, then we might as well give it to her.

[End Of The Road]

55. Huh? This is a humor thread! I don't get your joke. nt

[MindMatter]

58. I'll admit, it's not a great joke

But it is a joke. I mean, that is Hillary's only argument -- that she is here and can't leave and as log as she's here, we might as well give her the nomination, because it would be really messy otherwise.

I hope at some level she is having one of her famous cackle laughs when she reflects on just how gullible her supports have been.

[DevonRex]

23. LOL! Thank you. nt

[oviedodem]

25. The sad thing; he believes it.

[lame54]

27. his campaign has done nothing to win over the double secret superdelegates.

another hint at :sarcasm:
sounds like this primary has stripped some of their sense of humor

[myrna minx]

29. This thread is just killing me.

:rofl: Thanks for posting this. Swiftian indeed.

[unblock]

31. racist!

anti-skinny people-ist!

:rofl:

[backscatter712]

34. Never mind... /me sees the sarcasm in the OP...

[SurfingAtWork]

35. To the Hillary supporters who take this post series:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Spazito]

41. LOL, like flies to honey!

I LOVE this thread, it will be great fun keeping tabs on it.

:rofl:

[union_maid]

43. Jon Swift is back!

I'd given him up for dead or having gotten a life. Thanks for the heads up! He's been sorely missed.

[panhead1961]

46. LAY DOWN - and take it - like a good American

Seems to be the Red State thing to do

[sudopod]

48. Irish babies taste like CANDY! nt

[zulchzulu]

50. You mean PROCEDE

Typos...

[michaz]

52. He doesn't sound too "swift" to me. n/t

[Occam Bandage]

53. But quite Swiftian.

[mkultra]

56. replace Obama with clinton and your spot on.

[crickets]

59. Best laugh of the day so far.

Thank you!