Obama romps over Clinton in Virginia

Wow, I cannot believe it! Obama won in Virginia! I'm over 60 and never thought I would see the day when my beloved country would live up to its shining ideals--that all men and women are created equal, etc. Thank you, Virginia. You have made me so proud to be an American today.

Well this just keeps getting better all the time. Maybe I was wrong, maybe people DO recognize Hillary Clinton for the Phony she is. It should be interesting to see what kind of sleazy deal the Clinton's try to pull to get the Superdelegates to vote contrary to their constituents. You KNOW that's what they're planning. Hillary can't WIN the nomination honestly and she knows it. But that doesn't mean she can't STEAL it. And I'm betting thats EXACTLY what she's gonna try and do. Whoooeee it's gonna be a fun time when the writers strike ends and the comedy writers come back. Hee hee!

Boom-Shocka-Locka!

HOw can you possibly know this at 7:03pm??? I just voted 45 minutes ago...shouldn't you wait to be sure of your facts???

P.S., blogger who didn't go to journalism school (or if he did should be ashamed to admit it)
One can romp.
One can win in a romp.
One cannot romp another person. Possibly you meant trounce. Completely different word. Dare you to post this.

Shirl: Don't believe all the Republican propaganda about Virginia. While we haven't voted for a Democratic candidate for President for over 40 years, we have elected the Country's first African-American Governor (D), unseated a neo-con US Senator with Jim Webb(D) and voted back-to-back Democratic Governors. We will likely replace another Repub with Democrat in the US Senate race for John Warner's post. We don't bellweather change, we just sort of chime it.

This nation needs a hopeful message and Obama is the only candidate now that bridge the inter-party hostility that has poisoned Washington. I admire Hillary, but I think she's a good candidate, but just not what this country needs now. Honestly, I can't see how Hillary can take a major victory in Texas and Ohio if he continues to win through February. Good going, Virginia.

http://in99wordsorless.com/2008/02/12/the-hillary-vs-barack-race-so-far.aspx

I too am proud of my country at this moment. This is not an anti-Hillary campaign or or an anti-Hillary vote. It is a strong voice for Barack Obama as our first choice to energize disillusioned folks across America to get involved and elect this creative, authentic, inclusive, fresh leader as President of the United States of America.

I too, am a proud American today. I am a 60's teenager. I was walking around dumb-founded after the killing of JFK and I never felt I would see another JFK "incarnate"! My prayers are answered! Go Obama!
Coachslife

Overseas all of our prayers and thoughts are with Derek Obama, his wife Michelle and his family as they, with the help of the American people, set about to make history. The thought of Derek Obama entering the United Nations in New York to give a speech as President of the United States brings tears of joy to my eyes. After all of these dark years, hope has returned to the United States. We are all watching and praying hard.

Hillary needs to shed a few more tears.

Xiao,

Perhaps you are thinking of 'Derek and the Dominos'?

RE:

Obama romps over Clinton in Virginia
By Christi Parsons

WASHINGTON—Sen. Barack Obama scored a solid win in Virginia Tuesday
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PLEASE, SEE: “ BILL A RI AND THERE WAS LIGHT !”
By Lucien Bonnet
in http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca
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IN THE DEPTH OF THE UNKNOWN, THERE ARE NECESSARY CONQUESTS

The well-known NASA scientist and author of popular scientific works, Professor Carl Sagan, together with his wife Linda, among other people, wrote the famous Space Message engraved on Pioneer 10 and meant for possible extraterrestrial civilizations which might be discovered — who knows? — somewhere in our Galaxy. Professor Sagan is a master of the art of using humor, and he is fond of allegories. That is why Lucien Bonnet wrote to him in the form of a parable on April 10, 1978.

Montreal, April 10, 1978

Dear Dr. Sagan:

It sometimes happens that a dreambecomes a reality. That’s the case today. Through Mr. Emil P. Ericksen, Economic Officer of the Consulate General of the United States of America in Montreal, I am in communication with the American scientist whose works and research I most admire.

I would like to address a simple message to Professor Carl Sagan and his wife, who feel, as the year 2000 approaches, that the time is ripe to make our presence known by sending signals to other possible intelligent beings in the Universe. The message, which is the result of my patient research, I formulate as follows:

On the cosmic scale, as on the terrestrial scale, blackness is an integral part of color and light processes.

My purpose is to inform you of this particular subject and the reasons that have led me to carry out my research, in the context of the problems of the very small country, whose history is as tortured as its geography, where I was born and grew up: Haiti, whose name means “land of mountains”. This country has been faced for years with the difficulties inherent to any collectivity confronted with a problem of identity. In Canada, where I live and to which I have become acclimatized, this subject still motivates my research, propels my efforts and explains the audacity of my words. In the particular context of a centuries-old conflict, where personal interest and racial origins confront each other, it is essential that we get to the bottom of things. At this point, it would be as well to point out that branch of energy physics, namely optics, where scientific taboos concerning color, darkness and light are furthered and maintained by trade secrets, patents and vested interests. A rational search for original, and even avant-garde, answers on a scientific and intellectual level would seem to be a necessary prerequisite to establishing a balanced situation.

Not being a “scientist”, (because sometimes, facts are so obvious that they “hit you in the eye but, like ostriches, people bury their heads in the sand) but rather, perhaps the most obscure of all obscure researchers of all obscure ages, I amasking a special favor from Professor Sagan. I would like him to agree to examine my modest results and the demonstration there of, backed up by photos and films. Needless to say, they may be freely used for any purposes deemed necessary to the success of my undertaking. On one film, I wanted to assemble in my own way the elements and conditions that I think are indispensable to the analysis and synthesis of colors. I amsubmitting four films called “color separations” and the color proofs to support this finding.

The sentences I quote below are yours. They are taken from an interview that you gave to a French magazine reporter:

“…after Apollo, scientists were discouraged. Do you know why they were disheartened? Because the sky above the Moon is black. That made them depressed. Do you think this is a joke? Not at all. Scientists are more fragile than they look. But the sky above Mars is rose-colored and that gave them hope.”4

4 Delaprée, Catherine “ L’homme clef de Viking: Et maintenant il faut tout revoir…”, (Le Point, August 16, 1976, pp. 48,49) [our translation]

I can see you and Mrs. Sagan smiling, seeming to say, “Roses live the life span of a rose, the space of one morning.”

The solution to the enigma of Space is not a “one-morning” task. Its darkness of an extraordinary depth, always so secretive and so intriguing, bordering on despair and insanity, fear and disgust, hatred and damnation, a consequence of ignorance or indifference, jealously hides incredible resources that would be of benefit to science, perceived only by such advanced, and wise, researchers as Professor Sagan.

With all due respect to the biblical Genesis, which from generation to generation teaches those who wish to hear it their way that “God divided the light from the darkness” (Gen. 1:4), and with all due respect to Sir Isaac Newton, who showed us all the colors of the rainbow with his prism, but who left us in the dark about the greatest unknown of all times, darkness itself, I insist that darkness — “the black rose of space”, arbitrarily denied as a positive value, always perceived negatively, discreet, hardly envious of the light which it absorbs, the better to conserve it — has passed for the absence of light, while in reality it is the extension of light.

Since the beginning of time, a harmonious and complementary state has existed between light and darkness, whose equivalent effects are carefully balanced at the cosmic level, making us think, as sages of all ages have suggested, like Lavoisier, that in this coherent universe, “nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything is transformed”.

The question we ask ourselves most often is this: “What would our lives be without light?” All things being equal, and according to the Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy, we might ask, “What would life be without darkness?” Whether we say “darkness is an absence of light” or “light is an absence of darkness”, is this not a simple question of semantics?

Reconciling light with darkness is a simple message that any future human or extraterrestrial space traveler should be able to grasp without too much difficulty. In the interests of any advanced civilization, obtaining a workable combination of visible and invisible forms of matter or energy is a chance to surpass ourselves by extending our own limits.

The so-called luminous part of the Universe, be it ever so brilliant, so forceful, that it seems to eclipse all the rest, while left in the shadow of its over whelming radiance, cannot by itself constitute a whole. The latter is left to the perception and investigation of scientists—but again, we must have the courage to get to the bottom of things.

The bottom of things is often veiled by mentalities. Mentalities depend on the human brain. It is interesting to note that the thing we are most proud of, this wonderful human brain — physically, without our realizing it — has always functioned in utter darkness. Man’s skull constitutes, without a doubt, the best model of a dark room which has ever been conceived. On the optical as well as the psychological plane, one can easily imagine what roadblocks are likely to be encountered. When we wish to refer to the superior abilities of man, weuse the term “gray matter”. Gray matter in a dark room, with or without a prism — what a delicate situation! Isn’t it where all the subtlety lies?

From the gray lunar soil of the Moon and in the concerted harmony of constructive forms, visible and invisible, of channeled light energy, the white rose and the black rose of the Cosmos and the possibility of roses in all color shades — enough to make the sky of Mars blush red — represent the true challenge of space and the spaceship in modern times. Inertia, spectral speed, speed equal to or higher than that of light, and the scientifically controlled reversibility of the phenomenon, what a new synthesis, but also what a liberation! To compare is not to prove, but the dark hidden side of the Moon, however mysterious it may be, is not a path of no return.

At the edge of light, there is darkness. At the edge of darkness, we can find light. Reconciling the “Children of Light” (I Thess. 5:5) — of the zenith, the rising sun and the setting sun — with the “Children of Darkness” (I Thess. 5:6) could perhaps one day become a question of scientific mentality.

“And there was evening and there was morning…” (Gen. 1:5).

Could this, Professor, be one of the most harmonious aspects of the vital cycle of space?

Thank you for your attention to my letter.

Yours very truly,

Lucien Bonnet
http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca
PLEASE, SEE “Bill A Ri And There Was Light!”

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LETTER TO PRESIDENT CLINTON

Montreal, March 22, 1995

President William Jefferson Clinton
President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
U.S.A.

Mister President:

Please allow me to take the opportunity of your visit to Haiti, as President of the United States of America, on March 31, 1995, to pay due tribute in all sincerity to you and your distinguished wife, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

You honor Haiti and the Haitian people with your presence and support.

Thanks to you and your allies in the United Nations and the Organization of American States, the return-to-democracy process has been successfully carried out. Now that the legitimate President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, has been reinstated in his official status, it is with legitimate pride, I am sure that he welcomes you to his country. For you, as well as for us, the “Uphold Democracy” operation is truly a beautiful historical moment.

Mr. President, I come from Haiti, that underdeveloped country.

With underdeveloped tools — a camera and a few films — I have tried, in order to serve my country’s cause, to demystify the word “light” and denounce Newton’s Theory of Colors.

With that same desire to serve constitutional legitimacy in my country, I have written the enclosed book entitled Haiti, Let There Be Light! I hope that you and Mrs. Clinton will accept this privately produced copy, especially intended for you, while you are getting ready for your trip to Haiti.

May I make a confession to you, Mr. President? I followed, closely and with intense interest, your electoral campaign, election, and swearing-in ceremony as 42nd President of the United States. What a great nation you represent! Please believe me: your courageous commitment to facilitate the restoration of democracy in my country has escaped no one. On the very day of your swearing-in ceremony, I wished to send you my book, Haïti, Que La Lumière Soit!, which questions Newton’s Theory of Colors. I did not do so, because I felt an English-language version would be more appropriate.

Since I could not send you a copy of the yet-to-be-published English version of my book, I contented myself with dreaming — dreaming that on one of your first evenings in the White House, you were seated in the Oval Room with Mrs. Clinton and your daughter Chelsea. You were reading Haïti, Que La Lumière Soit! I imagined you carefully examining certain passages of that work in its English version, which is now in preparation — typed by a sightless, multilingual Haitian. Those paragraphs deal with the so-called missing matter, darkness in space, “black holes” — in a word: the invisible mass of the Cosmos. You notice Dr. Carl Sagan’s research on Exobiology and the DNA found in the dark matter in the universe, and you suddenly remember a Time article from April 10, 1978 entitled “Black Holes and Martian Valleys”, which contained the following passage:

“A while later, astronomer Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden) found himself lugging his slide box into the Vice President’s big new house and, after coffee, taking the Mondale and Carter families on a journey through the heavens.

Jimmy Carter is the closest thing to a scientist we have had in the White House since Thomas Jefferson.

Nixon could not run a tape recorder.

Johnson could not fully figure out his alarm wrist watch.

Not Jimmy. He was fascinated by the discussion of “Black Holes” and the speculation that they might provide answers to what holds the Universe together.”

“Well,” you exclaimed, “O.K. for former President Carter. It is normal for the President of a star-spangled republic to choose between “Star Peace” and “Star War”. As to the former President’s inclination toward Einstein’s physics and/or Planck’s Quantum Theory, there is a great temptation to apply certain laws of the Cosmos to politics and diplomacy. Consider the “Tunnel Effect”, the way that energy escapes from black holes.

“Carter goes back to the sources and draws inspiration from them. That makes me think about Aristide — both of them are well at ease in both the Western world and the Black world: the visible and the invisible. However, there is one difference: the Haitians follow Aristide everywhere, like a comet’s tail. If Aristide is considered as a “Black Sun”, then the Haitians are “space refugees”.

“Yes, Haiti! We are pulled down to earth. Democracy… the exodus of the Boat People… with the Law of Probabilities, whether we think about Planck or Carter, it doesn’t seem that a solution will be found tomorrow…

“What business did the Haitians have in that “boat”?”

“Say, there above, the Black Twin! Is it still broad daylight in the shadow of the “Black Sun”?”

“Oh God,” you say aloud to Mrs. Clinton: “Eureka! I have found it! Fiat lux! Let there be light! Que la lumière soit! Black holes, black sun, tunnel effect, Aristide effect, boat people, space refugees, Carl Sagan, Jimmy Carter… six of one and half a dozen of the other.”

There is loud laughter in the Oval Room.

Bill a ri
Bill laughed

Hillary a ri
Hillary laughed

Chelsea a ri aussi
Chelsea laughed too

Humor is American, Mr. President, and so are dreams. Let my book Haïti, Que La Lumière Soit! be the “dark matter”, arguing in favor of the development of the Black world — visible and invisible!

In the area of science, high technology, creative innovation, and space exploration, I think there is nothing that America cannot deal with. That is why, in that spaceship of universal energy, I dare sail with a dream.

In my dream, it is your first trip inside your SPACE AIR FORCE ONE, propelled by the energy of invisible and concentrated dark matter, like black holes. A mini black hole of an avant-garde design whose motor sequence develops inertia, spectral speed, speed equal to or higher than that of light, and scientifically controlled reversibility of the phenomenon.

What a new synthesis, but also what a liberation!

Synthesis and analysis of two wings of the same bird — contracted and unfolded at the same time, following the heartbeat of the Universe tamed inside the infinitely small: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind!”

This would be the natural and constructive counterpart of Newton’s Theory of Light and Colors, which slows down that impulse. This is a necessary change in the name of development and progress humbly submitted on behalf of Haiti: a testimony of gratitude toward mankind. Let us go further, to the other side of the Universe, as suggested by an eyewitness: the Hubble telescope, with its camera.

“… Hubble focused on the centre of the galaxy [M87], an area 500 light-years across. The pictures revealed a spiral structure formed by fast-moving gas clouds being drawn toward the centre, rather like water going down a drain.”

Dr. Harms said the Hubble spectrographic camera was then focused on points 60 light-years across on opposite sides of the spinning disc. This camera breaks down light into its wavelength parts, rather like a prism separates colours in sunlight.” (The Globe and Mail, Thursday, May 26, 1994)

Let us in the long run, replace the camera by a motor run by the ENERGY OF THE YEAR 2000, transforming the DARK MATTER from the invisible to the visible and vice versa. We would there by take advantage of the sequence of colored and colorless light speeds, so as to better visit the Universe, where law and order are transcendent, just as in democracy.

I have decided to write this letter because your leadership, Mr. President, like an inevitable and immeasurable energy, has practically absorbed me, allowing me to express myself.

On October 4, 1994, in the General Assembly of the United Nations, a voice echoed the power of your leadership. In new words, on March 31, 1995, that same voice will repeat:

“Even now, with the peaceful launching of the operation “UPHOLD DEMOCRACY” on 19 September last year, a tropical smile has shed light upon the faces of those who espouse and love peace — Peacemakers, Peacekeepers, and Peacelovers. Together, President Clinton and we have managed to open up a “tunnel” of hope after so much suffering.”

That testimony by President Aristide at the U.N. emphasizes the magnitude of the efforts needed to bring about such a happy conclusion.

Your present trip to Haiti is the strongest confirmation of that sequence of events, and illustrates an unprecedented chapter in the annals of Haiti, as well as in the life of the Haitian people.

Thank you, Mr. President, for associating Haiti with your Strategic Development Initiative (S.D.I.) at the dawn of the “Star Peace”.

Lucien Bonnet
http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca
PLEASE SEE "BILL A RI AND THERE WAS LIGHT !"

To the person who thinks the blogger got the headline wrong: It says "Romps Over Clinton", not romps Clinton.

Romp on Barack. Break the barriers.

The link in your widget read "Obama romps Clinton"

I want President BUSH for 4 More YEARS!

CHANGE THE RULES! NOW!

While Hillary may likely lose the nomination, I certainly believe in her message and I will be campaigning my heart out to assist her. I know all my fellow Hillary supporters believe that she is the candidate that will bring a new day to America with her seasoned leadership and lifelong quest to give those who are outsiders a better life.

I trully hope that the attack rhetoric and hate from Obama supporters stops. It is really TURNING ME OFF TO OBAMA. I think he may win the nomination, but with the tone of the Obama supporters, I think I will cast my vote (if Hillary loses) to another campaign that is also taking the high road: John McCain.

I can't believe so many people are foolish enough to take Obama at face value when he's not saying anything of substance. "Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice --" remember that? Americans have lost their capacity for critical thought. This is a dark day.

What on Earth is that posting by Lucien Bonnet? This is why a 500-word limit is needed in the Swamp.

Also here -

http://www.buzztracker.com/permalink/35841/60477603/Obama-romps-Clinton-in-Virginia.
Notice the other item with Silva now reads 'trounce'.

WHY IS OBAMA CAMPAIGN ABOUT RACE?

I read that Obama's surrogates embrace political gain based on sentiments of resentment and prejudice. And hearing african-americans on the radio and looking at the polls I start to think that this might be true.

I just reviewed the results of Virginia with Obama's leading by large margins. It is incredible but the african-american community is voting in large numbers and voting close to 90% for Obama.

According to exit polls in Virginia, Hillary Rodham Clinton took her base, white women, getting six in 10 of them. Obama and Clinton tied among whites overall, giving Obama one of his best showings yet among white voters. Obama won the votes of nine in 10 blacks in Virginia.

Comments what do you see in your community. Do you get that idea? If so, I'm afraid this support is not very strong because african-americans are concentrated in states that are not necessary swing states in the General elections. Also, this Campaign should be about choosing the next President the most equip to lead, regardless of race.

I'm latina and I think it is different in our community, we support Hillary, because Clinton reminds us of good economic times for the country, because we like her and trust her even though she is not latina. I think we latinos should also stick together and support Hillary for President, because she is the best candidate for President.

I think the race issue will backfire if he makes it to the General Elections.

Thank you, shirl, for admitting that you voted for Obama simply because you feel bad that this country has never elected a person with dark skin to the White House. Thank you to all the others who feel the need to use a candidate to "prove" that this country isn't racist, after all. While I understand that some individuals are racist, as a collective whole I think the American people generally aren't. But I suppose if it takes the election of a black man as president to convince you of this and take away the race card from American politics forever, then I say, whatever.

Among its headlines today, MSNBC published an article today quoting some Clintonite suggesting that some people are not ready for a black president. Seems that guy hasn't heard the news. Even the Aryan white supremacists have endorsed Obama. Go to theire web site and see. A

A Reaganite who had voted Republican all of his life and despised liberals with all his might, recently almost gave his son-in-law a heart attack when he told him he had voted for Obama.

If the only good Obama had achieved was to woo the Aryans to his corner and that one single Reaganite, he could have gone to his grave an ecstatically fulfilled black man. But he is more, so much more than that.

Obama is not winning because African Americans are supproting him. He's winning because he's Obama and African Americans don't suffer from racism towards blacks to be blinded to all of his qualities. They voted 80% for Bill Clinton and the same for Al Gore and heavil too for John Kerry. They were also reluctan to vote for Obama until they had gotten to know him a lot better. At one time the polls showed that they heavil supported Hillary over him even though every African American in the land knew he was running.

So this has nothing to do with Obama's color but has to do with him and his whole philosophy. At most his blackness is just a bonus for blacks.

I have to give Obama credit...he makes the best speeches...about absolutely nothing.

Obama's platform of [change] is nothing more than a code word for higher taxes, more government rules and regulations and more entitlements.

And....a vote for Obama would be a vote for the appeasement of terrorism...like B.J. Clinton was famous for, as we were attacked time after time in the 1990's and B.J. did absolutely nothing, except wag his boney finger at the camera and state, 'We will hunt them down and bring them to justice.' Get your finger ready Barack...B.J. is a tuff act to follow.

Paulo

Paulo, that isn't the change Obama's talking about, not a Hillary Clinton grocery list but something much more fundamental. While Clinton wants to patch up the past and paper over the cracks, Obama wants to overhaul the entire system. Americans generally know that American politics is sick to the core, which is why voting numbers had dropped so drastically at the last two elections for the presidency. Clinton appeals mostly to those who haven't yet recognized that or who are afraid of what they might lose with a radical change in the status quo.

Paulo, that isn't the change Obama's talking about, not a Hillary Clinton grocery list but something much more fundamental. While Clinton wants to patch up the past and paper over the cracks, Obama wants to overhaul the entire system. Americans generally know that American politics is sick to the core, which is why voting numbers had dropped so drastically at the last two elections for the presidency. Clinton appeals mostly to those who haven't yet recognized that or who are afraid of what they might lose with a radical change in the status quo.

To J, according to at least one dictionary the verb romp can mean to win a contest easily. So it seems one can romp over another.

Dear Lucien,

A few here may have read your extra long post, but I didn't. The unwritten rule of the blogosphere is: "If the post is longer than the original story, you are a windbag."

Avec mon amour -
Tomi

" Obama's platform of [change] is nothing more than a code word for higher taxes, more government rules and regulations and more entitlements." Paulo

And that's all good.

The taxes will help reduce the deficit, the regs. will rein in the unfettered environmental destruction and Wall Street malfeasance going on under GWB and the entitlements will insure a solid safety net for the American people.