Obama continues to win

It appears that as this primary fight draws on, Obama gains more and more momentum. He won Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia tonight.

Wisconsin will go next week Texas, Vermont, Ohio, and Rhode Island on March 4th. Clinton will need to win Texas and Ohio, and even then, there can not be a clear winner at this point. Obama has a slight delegate lead, and it looks like it will have to be decided at the convention, unless the Super delegates switch from their representative pledge delegates.

Wow! Wow! Wow!

FAACES

It's back! When we moved into this house (almost three years ago) I had to take down the faaces.org web site. Actually, I transferred it from a box I was running in our old house to a hosting service. I said I would get the site back up and running when I got around to it ... but I never did.

I was never very happy with the hosting service. Our email would not work randomly and I never seemed to be able to edit anything the way it was suppose to be edited with their stupid tools.

Well, I finally said enough was enough and moved the site to a new service. I had wanted to host the site from home again, on my own box, but Verizon doesn't allow static IP's. There are ways around that ... but this was easier.

So, after transferring the site I even managed to put together the forums I meant to do three years ago! So come on down, join the forums, enjoy!

McCain vs. ?

Mitt Romney announced that he is suspending his campaign today. McCain is on the television looking rather Presidential. McCain will surely win the nomination now, since he was more than halfway there after super Tuesday. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a McCain Huckabee ticket at this point. Huckabee provides a link to the southern Christian conservatives. They will play well together and will be a formidable opponent to either Clinton or Obama.

I supported McCain in the past. In 2000, I would have voted for him over Gore, had he won the Republican nomination, and I urged him to run as an independent in 2004, but somewhere in the past four years, he has lost my support. I think it was when he stopped criticizing President Bush and was suddenly a "Yes" man for him. It was a rather abrupt about face during the 2004 campaign, and it became clear that McCain was thinking about 2008, not about the present. It may have been smart politics, but it was antithetical to everything McCain stood for prior to that moment.

I always admired McCain's independent nature, even if I didn't always agree with his policies. I think some of that is still there, but watching him speak, he is clearly cowing to the far right of his party. He has decided that in order to win the white house, he will have to bend his principles.

In his speech today, he said several things that make it difficult for me to vote for him this year.

1. He supports Bush's warrantless wiretapping and amendments to FISA.
2. He wants to make Bush's tax cuts permanent.
3. He believes that we should remain in Iraq for the foreseeable future.

While I have said that we need to win in Iraq, and even suggested that we remain there until we do. It is clear that such a victory will not be achieved by the current strategy and McCain has shown no indication that he will change the current course in Iraq.

McCain was correct at the beginning of the war that we needed more troops. I was in total agreement with him, but things have changed since then. I don't believe we should just turn tail and run, but I don't believe we should remain there for decades to come either.

My hope is that Obama will win the nomination for the Democrats now, as he has the best chance to defeat McCain. If Clinton wins, and McCain has Huckabee on the ticket ... they will probably win. I like many of Huckabee's positions, but I will never agree with as many or more.

What an interesting time ... more to come.

Obama! Obama! Obama!

What an exciting Presidential primary this is. I was an early supporter of Obama and it is great to see what he has been able to do in the past several months. I hope that this goes all the way to the convention and is decided there. I think Clinton will still win the nomination, but it is wonderful to see Obama doing so well all across the country.