DROP OUT, OBAMA?

By Chris Wilson

Even as Hillary Clinton trails Barack Obama in pledged delegates, the popular vote, and number of states won, she has made it clear that she plans to stay in the race for the nomination. All of which brings me to this logical conclusion: It is time for Barack Obama to drop out.

If Clinton had the good of the Democratic Party in mind, she would have given up her bid the day after the Mississippi primary, which Obama won by 25 points. The delegate math was as dismal for her campaign then as it is now, even after Pennsylvania, and she was facing down a six-week gulf before the next election.

But Hillary Clinton isn’t going to drop out. There simply isn’t a function in her assembly code for throwing in the towel.

Obama, on the other hand, is fully capable of it. And if he’s really serious about representing a new kind of politics, now is the time for him to prove it in the only meaningful way left. Moreover, were he to play it right, dropping out now nearly guarantees that he’ll be elected president in 2012. Here’s the roadmap:

Obama drops out next week, stating that although he could almost certainly win the nomination by fighting it out until the convention in August, he is simply not willing to drag the party through a battle that will cripple its chances against John McCain. He then pledges to help support Sen. Clinton in her bid—with full knowledge that she will not take him up on the offer.

In one stroke, Obama will regain his messiah creds by making the ultimate sacrifice for the good of the party. His followers will be furious. The mere mention of Clinton’s name will provoke unspeakable acts. They will abandon Clinton in numbers sufficient to hand McCain the election in November.

Losing the presidency again after eight years of Bush will ruin the Democratic Party. It will become obvious that Clinton’s decision to stay in the race was the turning point in the election. The base will turn its wrath on party leaders like Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi, who failed to push Clinton out. Obama, as the de facto head of the party, will broker negotiations to install new leaders loyal to him.

McCain will be eminently more beatable in 2012. Demographics will continue to shift in Obama’s favor as his 14- to 17-year-old supporters come of voting age. Anyone foolish enough to challenge Obama for the nomination—and don’t rule out Clinton—will go nowhere. Obama’s utopian vision for a Democratic party unified around him will be complete. QED.

Published Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:52 AM

HUMAN RACE - FAMILY HISTORY

A little girl asked her mother, "How did the human race appear?" The mother answered, "God made Adam and Eve and they had children and so all mankind was made." Two days later the girl asked her father the same question.

The father answered, "Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved."

The confused girl returned to her mother and said, "Mom, howis it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?" The mother answered, "Well, dear, it is very simple ..."

"I told you about my side of the family and your father told you about his."

Easter Bunny Humor

A man is driving along a highway and sees a rabbit jump out across the middle of the road.
He swerves to avoid hitting it, but unfortunately the rabbit jumps right in front of the car. The driver, a sensitive man as well as an animal lover, pulls over and gets out to seewhat has become of the rabbit.

Much to his dismay, the rabbit is the Easter Bunny, and he is DEAD .The driver feels so awful that he begins to cry.

A beautiful blonde woman driving down the highwaysees a man crying on the side of the road and pulls over.She steps out of the car and asks the manwhat's wrong. 'I feel terrible,' ! he explains,'I accidentally hit the Easter Bunny with my car and KILLED HIM.'

The blonde says,'Don't worry.' She runs to her car and pulls out a spray can. She walks over to the limp, dead Easter Bunny, bends down, and sprays the contents onto him.

The Easter Bunny jumps up,waves its paw at the two of them and hops off down the road.Ten feet away he stops, turns around and waves again, he hops down the road another 10 feet, turns and waves, hops another ten feet, turns and waves, and repeats this again and again and again and again, until he hops out of sight.

The man is astonished. He runs over to the woman and demands, 'What is in that can? What did you spray on the Easter Bunny ?' The woman turns the can around so that the man can read the label. It says... (Are you ready for this?)(Are you sure?) (You know you're gonna be sorry) (Last chance)(OK, here it is)

It says,'Hair Spray: Restores life to dead hair, and adds a permanent wave.'

Happy Easter!!!

PURPLE Beverage Stock (PPBV) is the Next Pepsi

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The U.S. Beverage Sector is where $Millionaire Investors are Made!
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Each and every one of us grew up drinking Pepsi but few of us bought PepsiCo stock in its infancy. Of course, the company is now one of the greatest success stories in American history with over $100 BILLION in annual sales – and those foresighted investors who jumped in early are now $Millionaires many times over.

Hansen Natural (HANS: Nasdaq) has taken Top Honor on the list of the “Market’s 10 Best Stocks” the last three years running and has returned an incredible 21,201% from 1998 to 2007. Early Snapple investors walked away with a colossal payday in 2000 as the company was purchased by Cadbury Schweppes for around $1.45 Billion. Similarly, Dr Pepper/Seven Up was bought out for $1.7 Billion in 1995.

Purple (PPBV) is Set to become the Most Profitable Beverage Stock of All-Time
During my early years as a Wall Street broker, I followed the incredible stock-performance of U.S. beverage titans like Hansen Natural and Dr Pepper/Seven Up.

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What’s the Secret behind Purple’s New Antioxidant Beverage? Who Cares…as long as it makes YOU RICH!

Did you have any stock-market losses in 2007? Purple Beverage (PPBV) is the ONE stock you can buy today below $3 and immediately make up for of those losses along with an opportunity to amass your first stock-market fortune of 2008 as Purple increases its share of the booming $40 Billion-plus specialty beverage sector.

Important: Purple is NOT in the product-development stage! The company’s hot-new antioxidant beverage is on U.S. store shelves NOW – and GNC, the world’s largest specialty retailer of nutritional products, is set to feature Purple in select stores nationwide beginning this month.

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FACT: America is the undisputed “KING” of soft-drinks and specialty beverages with PepsiCo and Coca Cola leading the way – each commanding market-caps above the $100 BILLION mark. PepsiCo became an industry dominator because of its refreshing soft-drinks AND catchy marketing campaigns.

Purple Beverage (PPBV) is led by industry veterans who understand the importance of both, and early PPBV investors can take added comfort in knowing that PepsiCo legend Michael K. Lorelli is now spearheading Purple’s look and feel to the American consumer. With such marketing talent at the helm, PPBV shares could make their projected move toward $100 much sooner than expected!

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Obama Answers: "Why Should I Vote For You?"

This Month Remember Your Five Black Presidents

We keep hearing that this year will mark the first time a major political party in the United States nominated a woman or a Black person as its presidential candidate. For women, that is true, but some historians say Sen. Barack Obama, if elected, would not be the nation's first Black president. They say he certainly won't be the first president with Black ancestors--just the first to acknowledge his Blackness.


Which other presidents hid their African ancestry? Well, it's not Bill Clinton, even though the Congressional Black Caucus honored him as the nation's "first Black president" at its 2001 annual awards dinner. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge all had Black ancestors they kept in their genealogical closets, according to historians.


Harding did not deny his African ancestry when Republican leaders called on him to deny his "Negro" history. He said, "How should I know whether or not one of my ancestors might have jumped the fence?"


Does African ancestry make these men Black? If the bar is the one-drop rule, then yes. The one-drop rule is a historical term used during the Jim Crow era that defines a person with one drop of sub-Saharan-African ancestry as not white and therefore must be Black. If that's the bar, then there have already been other Black presidents, says historian Leroy Vaughn, author of Black People and Their Place in World History.


The first president with African ancestry was Jefferson, who served two terms between 1801 and 1809. Jefferson was described as the "son of a half-breed Indian squaw and a Virginia mulatto father," as stated in Vaughn's findings. Jefferson also was said to have destroyed all documentation attached to his mother, even going to extremes to seize letters written by his mother to other people.


President Andrew Jackson, the nation's seventh president, was in office between 1829 and 1837. Vaughn cites an article written in The Virginia Magazine of History that states Jackson was the son of an Irish woman who married a Black man. The magazine also stated that Jackson's oldest brother had been sold as a slave.


Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, served between 1861 and 1865. Lincoln was said to have been the illegitimate son of an African man, according to Vaughn's findings. Lincoln had very dark skin and coarse hair and his mother allegedly came from an Ethiopian tribe. His heritage fueled so much controversy that Lincoln was nicknamed "Abraham Africanus the First" by his opponents.


President Warren Harding, the 29th president, in office between 1921 and 1923, apparently never denied his ancestry. According to Vaughn, William Chancellor, a professor of economics and politics at Wooster College in Ohio, wrote a book on the Harding family genealogy. Evidently, Harding had Black ancestors between both sets of parents. Chancellor also said that Harding attended Iberia College, a school founded to educate fugitive slaves.


Coolidge, the nation's 30th president, served between 1923 and 1929 and supposedly was proud of his heritage. He claimed his mother was dark because of mixed Indian ancestry. Coolidge's mother's maiden name was "Moor," and in Europe, the name "Moor" was given to all Blacks, just as "Negro" was used in America. It later was concluded that Coolidge was part Black.

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