Obama Lied, Canadians Cried

And other fascinating tidbits from the Daily Show Democrat nominating contest.

Dems Headed Towards Deadlock?

It was two weeks ago that the following original analysis was published here:

Is Hillary Finished?
by Mike's America
February 20, 2008

...It takes 2,025 delegates to win the Democrat nomination. Various news services have differing delegate counts, but Real Clear Politics has Obama at 1,342 and Hillary at 1,265. Reports of delegates available in remaining primaries and caucuses ranges between 716 and 941.

If Obama continues to beat Hillary, he may not accumulate the total number of delegates required for the nomination. At that point the 795 superdelegates (Democrat elected officials) may be the deciding factor.

So, I found this interesting:

The Coming Brokered Democratic Convention
By Mark Hyman
The American Spectator
3/3/2008

A Democratic candidate needs to reach a minimum of 2,025 delegates to clinch the nomination outright. Clinton will not reach that figure before the last primary election is held in Puerto Rico on June 7. Neither will Obama. The Illinois senator needs 832 more delegates to reach the magic number of 2,025. There are only 981 remaining primary delegates that are up for grabs. Three hundred seventy delegates will be decided on March 4 and 611 will be divvied up across 12 primaries between March 8 and June 7. Obama would have to win an astonishing 85% of the remaining 981 delegates in order to claim the Democratic nomination outright. There are no winner-take-all primaries for the Democrats. Obama will never get the needed 832 delegates. He may fall short of reaching 2,025 delegates by as many as 250.

I note that the author, Mark Hyman, is an award-winning commentator appearing on the television news stations for Sinclair Broadcast Group. SBG and American Spectator could have had the same analysis two weeks earlier for half the price!

Obama Lies to Canadians or U.S. Voters?

It's got to be one or the other!

After years of Democrats complaining about how bad our relations are with other countries, you'd think they would try extra hard to avoid offending any foreign government, let alone our largest trading partner and neighbor to the north: Canada.

But Canadians are left scratching their heads after learning that Obama denied that an official with his campaign told the Canadian government that his promise to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement was just campaign talk. The campaign scuttlebutt now is to blame the Candians for misunderstanding what Obama aide Austan Goolsbee said.

Blame Canada!

This comic episode of campaign funny business may remind South Park fans of the classic: "Blame Canada" (video clip).

Obama Warm and Fuzzy with Warmongering Hugo Chavez?

One of the early warning flags with Obama's naive and inexperienced approach to foreign policy was his willingness to meet America's enemies without any preconditions. We wonder if he still feels that way towards thugs like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez who is currently moving troops to the Border with Colombia and threatening war?

And let's not forget Iran, which just thumbed it's nose at yet another toothless UN Security Council Resolution to impose more sanctions on Iran for it's illegal nuclear development program. Does Obama still feel the warm and fuzzies for Iran's leaders too?

Whether it's his swipe at the Canadians or his foolishness towards our friends, Obama's inexperience and flawed thinking on foreign policy is disturbing. As Right Wing Liberal points out: "The late Patrick Moynihan once famously said of Jimmy Carter, 'Unable to distinguish between our friends and our enemies, he has essentially adopted our enemies’ view of the world' (NRO)." The same may be true with Obama. He reminds us more and more of Jimmy Carter every day.