Barely Political has a new spoof video on Barack Obama, mixing parts of his speeches and dubbed over profanity with what looks like audience footage from Def Comedy Jam or Night at the Apollo. Whatchu think? Is it racist… or any more racist than the Obama-Richardson rap video? (Thanks Emiliano for passing it on.)

Updated: I think this next video is what they’re referencing when Obama talks about Hillary having “Geico Lizard Eyes.” That video, in turn, is in reference to conspiracy theorist David Icke, who postulated that the world’s most powerful people–from Hillary Clinton to Kris Kristofferson–are actually Reptilians. Icke worshippers have been harassing our new staff writer Mark Sanders ever since he epitheted the guy as an antisemite in Winners & Losers.

Updated: In case you were wondering what candidate Icke would vote for if he weren’t British: A site called Rumormillnews.com has an essay attributed to Icke in which he slams Obama and backs Ron Paul. Take this with the grain of salt that is it’s domain name. Dailypaul.com has it too.

Updated: We’ve been getting a lot of traffic from MSNBC’s First Read blog because we got linked in the first comment on one of their posts. It’s a good blog. I check it a couple times every day. Anyway, further down the post, Patty from San Diego linked this video, HILLARY’S DOWNFALL written by James Adomian. It’s just a scene from Downfall, that physically exhausting German film about Hitler’s last day in das looney bunker. The creator has resubtitled for the night after Indiana-North Carolina. Way way harsh, but genius. A must watch.

So, Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame appear in the latest Hillary Clinton ad running in Oregon. But what’s up with their style in the spot? Joe’s sporting a crew cut and a bland polo shirt and Valerie’s dressed like, well, a soccer mom. They look more like characters from Michael Moore’s Sicko than the spy-elite we normally see Prius-ing around Santa Fe.

I just don’t get why they’d bother at this point. Ain’t it over? Guess not. Truthout.org’s got an AP story showing that Plame’s no quitter either; her lawyers are trying to resurrect her lawsuit against the Bush admin.

Whoa…. Entertainment Weekly has pictures of Josh Brolin as George W. Bush in Oliver Stone’s forthcoming biopic, W.

Brolin ain’t a bad match, huh?

Finally, someone has cleared up all this double-talk and rule changing that Hillary Clinton seems to be constantly engaged in. In just a few short minutes Keith Olbermann lays it all down and gives a preview of what we’d be in for with a Hillary Clinton administration. Fortunately, Olbermann also shows just how unfeasible her landing the Democratic nomination is.

Will a GOP uprising take place at the Republican National Convention?

(Crossposted at Sfreporter.com)

As the mainstream media obsesses over the Democratic Party’s brewing civil war, supporters of Republican presidential candidate US Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, are already staging their own quiet uprising at GOP conventions across the nation.

If, by a strange twist of fate, the Republicans’ presumptive nominee, US Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., fails to win the first ballot at the national convention, “all hell will break loose,” one Santa Fe County delegate tells SFR.

In New Mexico, Paul would need to collect 15 percent of the popular vote to win delegates to the national convention. That’s exceedingly unlikely in New Mexico. McCain barely broke 10 percent in 2000 after George W Bush, like McCain in 2008, became the presumptive nominee following Super Tuesday. Instead, Paul’s grassroots and netroots campaign is attempting to stack the deck with what can only be called “cryptodelegates”—elected delegates to the national convention who are privately supporting Paul’s presidential bid. They would be “bound” to vote for McCain on the first ballot, but may vote for whomever they choose if the nomination is forced to a second ballot.

Already, hell is breaking loose at the county and state levels, especially in the Southwest. YouTube video of the Nevada State Convention last week shows chaos and confusion after a super-majority coalition of state delegates, organized by Paul supporters, overturned party rules to allow new national delegates to be nominated from the convention floor. The Nevada leadership shut down the convention and is currently negotiating a new date. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Nevada caucuses with 51 percent of the vote, but Paul beat McCain 14 percent to 13 percent. New Mexico Republicans will not vote for their nominee until June 3.

Similar skirmishes have been reported in small-town newspapers from Maine to Texas. Furthermore, much of Paul’s campaign is driven by the 9/11 Truth Movement, which has grown increasingly aggressive, staging disruptions at events ranging from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher to public appearances by Bill Clinton.

In New Mexico, Republicans are allowed to self-nominate themselves as national delegates, provided they were registered with the party before the Governor’s Address on Jan. 15. Last week, the local parties held their County Quadrennial Conventions to nominate delegates to the state convention, where the national delegates will be elected. The New Mexico GOP does not release the names of the state delegates to the media.

However, according to Paul’s New Mexico field coordinator, Jeff Wright, Paul’s delegate count looks good. Wright tells SFR that 19 out of 25 of Santa Fe County’s delegates, seven out of nine of Lincoln County’s delegates and more than 50 of Bernalillo County’s 156 delegates, are Paul supporters. Read the rest of this entry »

Conservation Voters New Mexico today released its annual legislative scorecard. This would be a little more exciting if any of these folks actually had a race this year (although I’m personally just a bit grateful they don’t, as we have our hands full). The Santa Fe delegation did pretty well, although only one, State Sen. John Grubesic, received a 100 percent rating. Grubesic, of course, isn’t running for re-election, but his heir apparent, Peter Wirth, received an 88 percent rating (the second highest). After that, we’ve got Sen. Nancy Rodriguez, at 83 percent, State Rep. Lucky Varela at 75 percent and Sen. Phil Griego at 63 percent.

The two lowest scorers? Speaker Ben Lujan only received 56 percent and Rep. Jim Trujillo bottomed out at 44 percent.

The scores are a bit of a shake-up from last year’s ratings, (you can find them at the bottom of the article, in the Quiz). Trujillo’s marks seemed to tank because he helped kill the video-game tax, which was partly designed to get kids outside. You can read more about the rankings at CVNM’s Web site .

Mere minutes after we posted our interview with Benny Shendo, Jr., Democratic candidate for New Mexico’s Third Congressional District, we received a call from his competitor, Ben Ray Lujan’s campaign. They wanted an “irreverent” interview, too. So, in the spirit of the Equal Time Rule, we obliged them.

Lujan is an elected member of New Mexico’s Public Regulation Commission and the son of New Mexico House Speaker Ben Lujan. So far, Lujan’s picked up the bulk of labor endorsements and embarked on aggressive campaign of townhalls in both rural and urban areas in northern New Mexico.

SSOM: During the last presidential debate, I think everybody in New Mexico who was watching got this weird Ben Ray Lujan subliminal message while Hillary Clinton was speaking. Did you have anything to do with that?

BRL: No sir. That was just by luck. I was actually on the road. I was at a townhall up in Colfax County and we received some messages that evening about that happening. I was really excited when I heard that.

When whatever magazine that it is releases its 100 Most Attractive Elected Officials next year, where do you think you’d rank on it?

Well, I think the horse that I rode on in the commercial would probably rank ahead of me, Dave. You know, Geronimo, who is a wonderful Arabian that I was able to ride in the TV commercial would probably do better than I would. I’m not sure that I would make that top 100.

If you’re elected to Congress, that automatically makes you a superdelegate. If you were a superdelegate now, what would you be decide?

Right now I haven’t formally endorsed either of the candidate, but I can tell you, after eight years of the Bush administration, I’m just happy to have two great candidates that are ready for president. There’s so much more that we have to be able to get done to reverse so many of the Bush policies.

Let’s keep imagining you are a superdelegate. At what point would you announce who you’re for?

Well, I think that, to a superdelegate it’s important to announce as early you feel comfortable, but definitely, it can’t go on long. I think what what we’re seeing now is that there’s a real big concern that we’re not going to know who our presidential candidate is until August and the Democratic Party needs to come together to be able to stand behind our candidate so we can start working on getting our Democratic candidate elected.

Read the rest of this entry »

Today, Pres. George Bush made his “National Military Spouse Day” proclamation (RealMedia clip):

While our men and women in uniform are protecting our country’s founding ideals of liberty, democracy, and justice, their spouses live with uncommon challenges, endure sleepless nights, and spend long periods raising children alone. Many military spouses are also committed volunteers, serving other military families and local communities. Our Nation benefits from the sacrifices of our military families, and we are inspired by their courage, strength, and leadership.

On Military Spouse Day and throughout the year, we honor the commitment spouses have made to freedom’s cause. To learn about ways to support our troops and their spouses and families, I encourage all Americans to visit www.americasupportsyou.mil.

Ugh. According to AP, between Oct 2006 and Oct 2007, 25,000 of our 755,000 married active-duty troops have suffered failed marriages. According to the Department of Defense, “Military wives on average earn $3 less per hour than their civilian look-alikes and their unemployment rate is three times as high as civilian spouses.”

And so, in “honor” of military spouses today, here’s Eminem’s Mosh, a call-to-arms music video the hip-hop star released in the weeks before the 2004 presidential general election.

Michelle Obama also addressed military spouses yesterday, calling for counseling services for military families and federal studies of the effects of long tours of duty on the family unit.

I wish the media would stop using the term “game changer.”

If Hillary wins Indiana and North Carolina, do we stop playing Risk and instead pick up Monopoly?

Barack Obama + Bill Richardson = Pure Gangsta

It never ceases to amaze me, the creativity of 2008 voters. But what is up with all this subtle Richardson for VP propaganda suddenly up on YouTube?

(Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised: Richardson emerged victorious from DailyKos’ elimination round Obama Veepstakes.)