Obama Riots - Dumb Carville Remark or Voter Suppression Attempt?

Amid reports that some cities are preparing their police forces for riots and civil disturbances and that some Democratic groups are calling for civil disobedience in the event of an Obama loss, the "Ragin' Cajun" Clinton political svengali James Carville added to predictions of unrest.

“If Obama goes in and he has a consistent five-point lead and loses the election, it would be very, very, very dramatic out there,” Carville was quoted as saying.

This leads me to multiple conclusions, of which I am not sure is the definitive answer:

1. Carville is an idiot.
2. Carville is an agent provocateur hoping to scare folks into voting for Obama for fear of riots, hence suppressing the McCain vote.
3. Carville still hopes Obama will lose to clear the deck for Hillary in 2012.
   
4. Carville is selling Obama supporters short that they would riot if their candidate loses.

I think number one is certain, if anything else.

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday

I say he's running, he says he's not. The Times thinks that if Zev tells a bunch of reporters he's not running for Mayor in 2009, he's not running. Didn't Tony Villar say the same thing? Oh, and Bob Hertzberg's running too.

The No2HomeDepot website is reporting that massive stakeholder meetings will be held featuring "1000 or more residents and 100 facilitators" as part of the shady deal, uh, settlement worked out between the City and Home Depot in the hardware giant's effort to open a controversial branch in the rural community of Sunland-Tujunga. Other shady dealings reported on the No2HomeDepot site as well, check it out.

Team Clinton gets more desperate. Following the endorsement of Democrat Barack Obama by former candidate and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, perennial Clinton slimeball James Carville referred to Richardson - a longtime Clinton confidant - as "Judas." Latinopoliticsblog.com views Carville's and other Clintonista comments as anti-Latino and calls on Hispanic leaders who support Hillary Clinton such as Mayor Villaraigosa and Dolores Huerta to speak up. We saw how the Clintons have slimed Barack, its not surprising they'd attack another person of color to go against them.

If you want some entertaining reading check out the "talk" page for Mayor Villaraigosa's entry in Wikipedia. The discussion includes interesting debate among Wikipedia's volunteer editors and contributors about what should and shouldn't be said about Tony Villar (including "Should it be noted his birth name is Tony Villar?" Answer: yes).

City Controller Laura Chick has a plan to get more police officers on the street - get them away from working desk jobs that civilians could do. Makes sense to me.

And finally, for one there's a ballot measure that isn't a Tony Villar sham. The folks at Guiness sponsored a petition drive for Proposition 3-17, to get one million signatures by March 16th in order to call on Congress to declare St. Patrick's Day a national holiday. Looks like they fell fall short. I guess not enough people drink Irish beer.