Ducks 1 - Politics 0 GO DUCKS!!

Ok, so I am getting bored with the politics for the moment as it is FOOTBALL SEASON BABY!!
To start off, The University of Oregon DUCKS blow out the doggies of the University of Washington to get Pac-10 play underway on Saturday and there above is a shot from our seats.
44-10 was not what I predicted, I had thought the UW defense was better than that and had ON THE AIR predicted 35-7 Ducks, so what can I say?

Now, this Friday night the SA Crusaders play Valley Catholic and start their new season under new head coach Robby Robinson and his "veer offense". It should be exciting. Kai is the starting noseguard and will play center on offense and is the back up Quarterback, although coach also uses him at running back and wide receiver. His best friend Skyler is one of the two rotating quarterbacks that coach uses.
His other very good friend Ryan is starting at linebacker. So this is a ton of fun!

Then on Saturday it's Duck football again as the Utah State Aggies visit the House of Pain, Autzen Stadium. Poor little aggies....

Finally, the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE gets underway on Thursday night with the full schedule on Sunday.
So, how can one be TOO interested in politics when there is football and baseball (God's chosen sport) still going on with the Dodgers (God's chosen team) still fighting for a pennant?
I LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR!!!

Mike Huckabee putting foot in mouth again!

The story below is from Tokyo where Mike Huckabee is now. Although this is noble, it is not the problem with Barack Obama. With friends like this, the Republicans don't need enemies!

TOKYO (AFP) — Former US presidential contender Mike Huckabee urged his fellow Republicans on Wednesday not to denigrate Democrat Barack Obama, saying they should celebrate the historic moment of a black candidate.

"Republicans will make a fundamental if not fatal mistake if they seek to win the election by demonising Barack Obama," Huckabee told a news conference on a visit to Tokyo.

The former Arkansas governor said that, having grown up in the segregated South, he never thought he would see an African-American win the nomination of a major party for the US presidency.

"I do not want to have anyone misrepresent or miss the opportunity to celebrate what I think is a landmark achievement, not just for Barack Obama, but for the United States of America," he said.

The country was able "to get to a point where we did not see his colour but we truly saw his charisma, his message and what he brought to the campaign trail," Huckabee said.

Huckabee, who won the first nomination contest in Iowa on the back of support from evangelical Christians, said he hoped Republican John McCain would defeat Obama but urged his party to highlight policy differences and not race.
Huckabee said the troubled US economy would be the top campaign issue and doubted that Obama's race would come into play.

"When people are really hurting -- and they are right now -- they're not looking at a person's race," he said.

Huckabee declined comment on whether he wanted the vice presidential nomination, other than to say that McCain would be more likely to pick him if he chose to focus on winning over Southern and conservative voters.
"You can't accept an invitation to the prom until the football captain asks you. So I'm not going to go out and buy the outfit just yet," Huckabee said.

Thoughts on the Oscars

I did not watch so I can't comment a whole lot but I have seen some footage and heard some sound bites.

Observations:

John Stewart? Remember Bob Hope? That pretty much sums it all up.

When did the show become a political rally? I know it's been awhile but when I was a young lad, I couldn't wait to see the glamorous stars gather for this event. Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, James Stewart, John Wayne, etc.

These people came together to celebrate the craft of film making.

Now it is a platform for whatever the "artists" want to convince the "sheeple" they are missing out on.

Every year now it is foul, disgusting films and horrible characters that dominate the winning categories.

John Stewart even said that Hollywood needed a hug due to the amount of violent and dark movies that were up for nomination. The even sadder thing though was his comment "thank God for unwed mothers" referring to "Juno" a movie about teenage pregnancy.

Yep, that is the state of America!

We honor teenage pregnancy.

I do hope that you did not waste your time honoring these evil people and their foul lifestyles.

Prayer service was awesome!

She's Still "Cutie Katie" Couric, or maybe not.....

Hmm, you be the judge, watch to the very end. She ain't so cute. In my continuing quest to bring truth to Salem-Keizer. CBS News better not be your news source!!

This Presidential Election is getting Crazy!!

As your Salem-Keizer political reporter, I am back with more information on the 2008 Elections.

Please be patient and read all of this post and you may be suprised at how things are shaking out.

So we're back to square one in the Republican Party.

Mitt Romney beat John McCain handily in Michigan, which means there have now been three major GOP contests and three different comeback winners. At this rate, Thompson will win South Carolina and Giuliani Florida. The GOP primary is starting to look like a Pee Wee soccer tournament: Everyone gets a trophy!

After Romney's losses in Iowa and New Hampshire, he offered the flaccid boast that he had won the silver medal, but Tuesday night he was finally able to claim that he had won a genuinely hard-fought primary. Until now he had done nothing but watch his leads in the polls diminish, but in Michigan he trailed McCain and battled back to win. Yes, he had long ties to the state, which voters said influenced their vote; and yes, he bought nearly three times as much TV time in Michigan as his nearest rival, but McCain had advantages too. He won the state in 2000 and had momentum coming into the primary from his New Hampshire victory.
The state was essentially do-or-die for Romney. After two big losses, it was starting to look like no matter how much money, organization, and rigid smiles he threw into the race, none of it was enough to make voters like him. Romney would have had the resources to continue after a Michigan loss, but it would have been a sad death march.

The issue terrain will be different in South Carolina. The economic downturn is on the minds of voters in South Carolina, and the key bloc of voters is social conservatives, who make up 40 percent to 60 percent of the GOP electorate. Their influence will make Mike Huckabee a much stronger presence than he was in Michigan, where he came in a distant third. McCain might be able to bounce back from his loss by exploiting his strong ties to the state's considerable veteran community, as well as by winning over ex-Giuliani supporters.

And then there's Fred Thompson, long left for dead, who—while he's not climbing in the polls—is nevertheless getting aggressive in a way that might cause trouble for Huckabee and Romney.

The Republican contest is a muddle, and it's only going to get more so as the campaign heads to South Carolina. But for one night at least, the most orderly man in the race sits atop the chaos.

Now what many fear will happen by the end of this primary season is a "brokered convention". This is the worst and yet most fun way to elect a nominee. This is the old smoked filled rooms where deals are made based on who has how many delegates.

I will quote from wikipedia to explain "brokered convention better".

Brokered convention
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A brokered convention refers to a situation in United States politics where there are not enough delegates obtained during the presidential primary and caucus process for a single candidate to obtain a majority for the presidential nominating convention. Since no candidates receive enough votes on the first ballot to win the nomination, the convention is brokered through political horse-trading and multiple ballots.

Background
Before the era of presidential primaries, conventions were routinely brokered. Adlai Stevenson in 1952 for the Democratic Party and Thomas Dewey in 1948 for the Republican Party were the last two candidates elected through a brokered convention. The last seriously contested convention was the 1976 Republican convention, where Gerald Ford beat Ronald Reagan on the first ballot without obtaining a majority of delegates through the primary and caucus process.
Since then, there have been many years where brokered conventions were projected, but did not come to pass. In 1988, a brokered convention was predicted for the Democrats since multiple candidates won the Super Tuesday primaries that year.[1]

Difficulty
The possibility of a brokered convention is seen as more likely for the Democratic Party because of its proportional representation system and the large number of "superdelegates" (almost 20% of the 2008 total), who are Democratic elected officials, former elected officials, and other important figures in the Party. [2]
In the 2008 election cycle, the possibility of a brokered convention remains for both parties. On the Republican side, although some states award delegates using the winner take all system, many large states are dividing their delegation by congressional district, which will result in easier splitting of delegates. [3] Pundits argue that with the lack of a front runner in the Republican field and the number of competitive candidates, voters will not coalesce around one or two candidates and a brokered convention could result. [4] On the Democratic side, the current split of support for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and the announcement by John Edwards that he will remain in the race until the convention could result in a 3-way race where no candidate receives a majority of delegates on the first ballot. [5] Many Al Gore supporters have stated that a brokered convention would be the last chance for Gore to enter the race; some see his book, "The Assault on Reason," as implicity suggesting this strategy.
Several factors encourage decision in the primary process. First, candidates tend to get momentum as they go through the process, due to the bandwagon effect. Thus, one or two candidates will be seen by the media and voters as the front runner due to their placement in the first primaries and caucuses, and as also-ran candidates drop out, their supporters will tend to vote for the leaders. [6] Theorists have identified two types of political momentum, piecemeal and all-at-once, with different impacts on front-runners and those right behind them. [7] Secondly, political parties wish to avoid the negative publicity from a brokered convention, which has turned the nominating conventions from the rough-and-tumble affairs to the infomercial-type occasions they are today. [8] Thus, a candidate nominated from the brokered convention will be seen as weak and must climb additional hurdles to gain election.

So there you guys fans, this could be going right up to the conventions. Stay tuned to this site for more information in the months to come.

Remember I told you a Thompson-Romney ticket could be possible. Also a Clinton-Edwards ticket.