Think South Carolina...
...which held the Democratic presidential primary two years ago today.
It was two years ago today that Barack Obama won the South Carolina primary with 55% of the vote and got his presidential campaign back on track. I knew a few people attending a watch party at McCarty's in Cleveland and went up to take in the atmosphere. One of the people I was looking forward to meeting at the time was Jerid from Buckeye State Blog (pictured above). He turned out to be a good guy and I really enjoyed following his blog that year. I had planned to do a post on the evening for the new blog Ben Keeler and I had started working on for the Akron Beacon Journal, but Ben and I had just come off our suspension and were still learning what we were allowed to say. Suspension explanation post. It turned out we were given pretty free reign after the initial hiccup. It is amazing how time flies.
I am always excited to watch a State of the Union address, but am particularly looking forward to tonight and wonder if it could be the turning point it was two years ago. If you recall, candidate Obama had lost the New Hampshire primary in early January and needed to pull out a win in order to begin his comeback. He did just that and had methodically worked his way through the rest of the primaries to pull out the nomination and win the presidency. I know healthcare is unpopular and some former nude model won Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. I get it. We're down. However, we've seen candidate Obama stage a comeback before and I believe tonight will mark the beginning of President Obama doing the exact same thing.
Side note: Two days after coming in third in his home state of South Carolina, John Edwards dropped out of the race. Anybody heard anything on him lately?
It was two years ago today that Barack Obama won the South Carolina primary with 55% of the vote and got his presidential campaign back on track. I knew a few people attending a watch party at McCarty's in Cleveland and went up to take in the atmosphere. One of the people I was looking forward to meeting at the time was Jerid from Buckeye State Blog (pictured above). He turned out to be a good guy and I really enjoyed following his blog that year. I had planned to do a post on the evening for the new blog Ben Keeler and I had started working on for the Akron Beacon Journal, but Ben and I had just come off our suspension and were still learning what we were allowed to say. Suspension explanation post. It turned out we were given pretty free reign after the initial hiccup. It is amazing how time flies.
I am always excited to watch a State of the Union address, but am particularly looking forward to tonight and wonder if it could be the turning point it was two years ago. If you recall, candidate Obama had lost the New Hampshire primary in early January and needed to pull out a win in order to begin his comeback. He did just that and had methodically worked his way through the rest of the primaries to pull out the nomination and win the presidency. I know healthcare is unpopular and some former nude model won Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. I get it. We're down. However, we've seen candidate Obama stage a comeback before and I believe tonight will mark the beginning of President Obama doing the exact same thing.
Side note: Two days after coming in third in his home state of South Carolina, John Edwards dropped out of the race. Anybody heard anything on him lately?
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By Kyle - Wednesday, January 27, 2010
6 Comments:
He'd better pull off a triple double tonight.
I don't think one speech is going to change everything but hopefully its a start. The right wing echo-chamber is going to go nuts about whatever the Dems do - its time for reconciliation. Having something tangible to show the American people come election time is what is important.
After watching Glenn Beck's special on communism last week (don't ask), I feel, given his and others' sway, there is no chance for reconciliation. Additionally, the Supreme Court decision has opened up the floodgates so that politicians will be even more in debt to big business. Lastly, what's with Lady Gaga?
By reconciliation I mean the process by which the Senate only needs 51 votes to pass a bill...
Jerid Kurtz has always been an idiot when it comes to blogging. You must have some sort of twisted way to judge him a "good guy." I am glad he is out of the blogosphere. Good riddance.
I doubt they could get it through with even 51 votes now.
Our "suspension." I forgot about that. hard to believe it was 2 years ago, and that we caused a crisis at the ABJ
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