The Hammond Report

George McGovern, the biggest loser ever to run for President as a Democrat, officially switched his support from Hillary to Obama yesterday.

For those too young to remember, McGovern was an antiwar Liberal running against Nixon in 1972. He lost every state except one, Massachusetts, and couldn't even win his home state, South Dakota. He also lost by a 23.2% margin in the popular vote.

You know he is hoping that by endorsing Obama, his loss won't look so bad when compared to Obama's in 2008.

The Yellowstone County Democrat website has a Cllinton/Obama poll. Cast your vote for Hillary today and show to show them Montana loves Hillary!

As of this writing she's behind 68 to 99. This is unacceptable and embarrassing! Let's put her over the top before Saturday! Tell your OC friends to help out.

This will also be good practice before June 3.

For the OC troops in Billings, don't forget to show whatever support you can for Hillary's campaign when Bill is at the Yellowston County Democrat Truman Dinner this Saturday.  The dinner is sold out but there is still room for the speaker portion of the event.

Hillary's office in Billings is located here: (Thanks cardiac!)

I see Hillary has a campaign office in downtown Billings. It's on the south side of 2nd Avenue about a half block west of Skypoint.

2 Million Democrats cast ballots in the Democratic Primary, yet their votes will not count. All those who voted in Florida and Michigan should be very upset with their party.

Clinton has been insisting that the desires of more than 2 million people who cast Democratic ballots in the two states should be reflected at the convention, which would help her catch up to Obama in the race for delegates.

These poor people are being disenfranchised by their own party. Their voices should be heard!

Ironic since it was Democrats who made the case in Florida in 2000 that every vote should be counted even though those votes were counted and recounted many times with the same result.

Come on Democrats, be consistent. Count every vote!

Obama, being the Liberal he is, is adamantly opposed the the gas tax holiday McCain has proposed.  I calculated that the savings to me over the summer would be a free tank of gas.  I'm OK with that. Any little bit helps.

The concern from the Left is the government can't afford it.  Maybe, just maybe, the government needs to figure out how to make it work with a little less.  Let me keep more of my money.

Here's a picture of Weatherman terrorist and friend of Democratic Presidential Candidate Obama, Bill Ayers. It's from an article in Chicago Magazine published August 2001. Notice what he's proudly stepping on.

Now go back to this picture and notice what Obama is not doing during the playing of our National Anthem.

Remember Obama refuses to wear a flag pin on his lapel.

Also factor in Obama's 20 year relationship with America hating Bullfrog Wright.

Seriously, Obama supporters, is this the best you can do?

I read this Missoulian article yesterday and was struck by a couple of things. First was this which seems to be a recipe for voting more then once in the primary (emphasis mine):

Meanwhile, absentee ballots become available Monday for the primary. And University of Montana students finishing final exams want to cast those ballots before heading home for summer break.

«Montana is probably one of the trickiest states because they are one of the few states that will vote when school is out,» said first-year UM law student Domenic Cossi.

Can these student absentee voters vote again on June 3 when they return home, providing they live in Montana? And if they live out of state, did they already vote absentee in that state's primary? How is this regulated? If they are voting more then once, I hope it's for Hillary.

The other item that I found interesting and amusing was this (emphasis mine):

Forward Montana, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to electing a new generation of progressive leaders, kicked the voter registration drive into full swing about a month ago. It'll focus this weekend's efforts on Missoula, Great Falls and Bozeman. It registered about 2,000 people in the last several weeks.

Nonpartisan and Progressive? Wow. Isn't Progressive the word Liberals prefer to call themselves? I guess in Missoula being nonpartisan is the same as being Progressive. I wonder how many Conservative voters Mr. Singer and his organization helped register, they are nonpartisan, you know.

Just a couple of things I found interesting

In today's Missoulian editorial, they just don't get it even though I was clear about the goal of Operation Chaos. I've highlighted the key sentence in my quote.

Now a Missoula blogger is encouraging Montanans who don't want Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama to become the next president of the United States to vote for Clinton in the state primary June 3. And yes, he seems to be completely serious.

Andy B. Hammond described the campaign on his blog, the Hammond Report, as «the creation of Rush Limbaugh to create chaos in the Democratic Primaries ... The goal is to keep Hillary in the race so her and Obama can keep tearing each other up and exposing each other for the unqualified candidates they are.» A similar effort in Pennsylvania, he wrote, helped Clinton win a 9 percentage point lead over Obama.

But that was before the recent polls suggesting that Clinton could actually beat McCain. Polls from AP-Ipsos, CBS/New York Times, Fox and Gallup all show Clinton leading McCain in votes in hypothetical elections. So campaigns to keep Clinton in the race may actually do more harm than good for McCain supporters.

I don't care which Democratic candidate wins the nomination! If Hillary was in Obama's place right now, I'd be voting for Obama and encouraging others to do the same. I just want to help make sure they both stay in the race until the bitter end so they can «tear each other up». They are both very beatable and polls don't mean much right now when McCain isn't yet focused on either of them in an aggressive way. He's playing it smart by getting out of the way and letting them go at it.

I'm not hiding my intentions and goals for Operation Chaos - Montana Division. It's all right there in the open in my posts and comments.

The Clinton Campaign has established an office in Missoula. Now I can get my bumper stickers, yard signs, posters and buttons! It's in the old Firestone building on the corner of Pattee and Main in downtown Missoula. Give them a visit!

Ironically, it's only about a block and a half away from Obama's office, located just around the corner on Front Street.

Update: I fixed the link for the location of Hillary's campaign office.

Bill Clinton will be in Billings on May 10 to campaign for Hillary and speak at the Yellowstone County Democrat's Truman Dinner at MSU-Billings. Although the dinner is sold out, there are some tickets available for $40 to hear him and others speak in the gymnasium after the dinner, I assume.

There will be some Obama supporters speaking as well so it's important that Hillary's campaign gets the message that there is more support in Montana for Hillary then for Obama. If you can, go to the speeches with Hillary campaign paraphernalia and make a lot of noise and show a lot of energy for Hillary. If there are other opportunities to show support for Hillary at the University while Bill is there try to gather up all your Conservative friends and show your support and enthusiasm. The more Clinton supporters out there on May 10th the better. It would be great if the Gazette and the local TV news would get some pictures of of the enthusiastic support and enthusiasm there is in Billings for Hillary!

I would even suggest getting Hillary bumper stickers on