(POST HAS BEEN UPDATED BELOW) Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House.
The AP tally was based on public commitments from delegates as well as more than a dozen private commitments. It also included a minimum number of delegates Obama was guaranteed even if he lost the final two primaries in South Dakota and Montana later in the day.
Clinton was ready to concede that her rival had amassed the delegates needed to triumph, according to officials in her campaign. These officials said the New York senator did not intend to suspend or end her candidacy in a speech Tuesday night in New York. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they had not been authorized to divulge her plans.
UPDATE 4:50PM EST: A YWN reader (Commenter: “sammygol”), has submitted the following poem regarding this news item:
He got his nomination,
but how can a great nation,
without contemplation
at this historic station
at war and provocation
take a four year vacation
performing self-ablation?
The borders’ demarcation,
the runaway inflation,
the dollar’s deprecation,
the fiscal constipation,
the failing education,
the lack of expectation,
the overall stagnation,
the general frustration…..
What is the celebration,
why all the exclamation,
the shouts of elation,
without reservation?
Where is the trepidation
and thoughtful reservation?
As if by revelation
the whole population
avoids the obligation.
Deriving inspiration
from lack of information,
as if the obligation
of this new generation
is the lack of moderation.
Beyond imagination,
sans any explanation,
perhaps from desperation
with this administration,
or pure infatuation
with much anticipation
awaiting conflagration?
Where went the condemnation
of his affiliation?
Why give accommodation
to wishers of damnation?
Guilt by association?
Not quite – by emulation!
His wife’s vilification
of country’s obligation,
the lack of reveration
for homeland’s formation,
the bigots’ reveration,
the bland determination
to hold a conversation
with lowest of creation,
the knee-jerk adulation
of every aberration…
Perhaps the accusation
of old days’ segregation,
the feeling of relation
to Southern plantation,
with general sedation
of critical mentation,
lent votes’allocation
to Active Affirmation.
So playing integration
as if a compensation,
awaiting transformation,
swept up by his oration,
the super-delegation
gave us Obamination.
(Associated Press)
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15 Responses
You should really refer to him by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama. He shouldn’t shy away from his full name. He should be proud.
And we should be careful!!!
Leiv sarim umelachim beYad Hashem.
#3 so change it. And better yet, change your first name to it.
#3 from all your previous comments, I am shocked that it is not your middle name
#3
you are correct to be so righteous and indignant.
political satire, sarcasm, humor, poking fun.
and all at a famous political figure….
certainly “GARBAGE” (and “cheap”)
and let’s not forget: “fear-mongering”
by the way
did you ever hear of hilary rodham clinton?
#3 I think it was always your name, or at least should have in the first place anyway…
#3, as a matter of fact, I call all my children by their full names… and they all have middle names.
I’m not taking cheap potshots, and I’m not fear-mongering.
If YOU find the name Hussein fearful, then it is YOU who are a racist.
I’m just stating a fact. Everyone can do with it as they wish.
What is wrong with you people?
His name is Barack Hussein Obmama…
He is a Christian, not Muslim.
That is his name because of his father
which he did not grow up with.
to #10…when we protest indecent billboards you say “what is wrong with you people”, when we burn missionary material that was given to us you say “what is wrong with you people” etc, etc… maybe you are on the “wrong” “site” ?
Great poem….!!!
p.s. even, with all the wards I didn’t understand…
wonderful, now all we need is a conservative to run, we alraedy have a liberal (mccain,) marxist socialist (obama, whose wife is at best a fascist “black supremecist” of black panther like thought) and possibly a communist running as his mate (hillary) Please, please, a conservative must run!
I happen to frequently disagree with illini07, but all those comments were definitely uncalled for. You people are not kindergarteners in the schoolyard!
Sammygol, you did it again! BRAVO!!
(Now see if you can get this into the TIMES!)
#14 do you know how to spell word is spelled word not wurd
The AP’s calculation was based on delegates who said publicly who they will be voting for, but until the actual vote they can still change their minds (as has already happened a few times). Therefore, even though the AP’s prediction is most probable, it is still a little premature to be so sure about it. CNN (at 6/3 8:13) still has not said such a statement. Also CNN reports that Hillary’s campaign issued an official statement contrary to what AP has said regarding Hillary’s decision to concede.
Sammygo,
What you wrote is not a poem. Poems do not have to rhyme. They do have to have some form of meter and structure. (Ask any sophmore English major). Forcing every phrase to end in rhyme is not poetry.