"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 7th, 2008
Firedoglake » Enough! I’d Like Some Answers, Please Should we conclude that the Clinton campaign believes their best strategy for capturing the nomination is to convince the superdelegates/party leaders they must choose her because she’s prepared to make it impossible for Senator Obama to beat John McCain? Give me the nomination or the party gets [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 7th, 2008
She can’t win. She’s hurting the party. And she keeps praising John McCain. Maybe she wants a spot on his ticket… Hillary’s New Math Problem | Newsweek Voices – Jonathan Alter | Newsweek.com Hillary Clinton won big victories Tuesday night in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island. But she’s now even further behind in the race [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 6th, 2008
Clinton raises specter of a ‘dream ticket’ with Obama – The Carpetbagger Repot I agree with the argument that it benefits Clinton more to have Obama at the bottom of the ticket, than it does Obama to have Clinton as his running mate. He brings new voters in that may stay home without him. Her [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 26th, 2008
Andrew Sullivan writes about a Charles Krauthammer op-ed in the Washington Post, that cites Anthony Cordesman’s latest report on Iraq. He riffs on McCain’s policy for Iraq and what it will take to win in the process: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan If McCain is going to give us straight talk – one [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 25th, 2008
Kinda like Xmas for the democrats, if it’s true: Top of the Ticket : Los Angeles Times : Breaking News: Mitt Romney to rejoin GOP race? Josh Romney, one of former Gov. Mitt Romney’s five sons, says it’s “possible” his father may rejoin the race for the White House, as a vice presidential candidate or [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 19th, 2008
The Clinton campaign has plans to take the nomination even if Obama has wins the delegate count. This has the potential to be more destructive than using super-delegates to steal the election. Perhaps this come up as the possibility of having enough super-delegates to make difference fades. It doesn’t really matter to me that party [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 15th, 2008
Crooks and Liars » Countdown: John McCain’s Tortured Logic And Flip Flop On Torture After courageously opposing the Bush Administration’s love affair with torture, the Straight Talker himself voted against a Bill to outlaw torture. The only real satifiying explaintion for this is that he sold his soul to win the approval of the torture [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 13th, 2008
Who’s Singularly Lacking In Specifics? – THE NEW REPUBLIC Jon Chait points out that Obama has made very specific policy recommendations and that it’s Sen. McCain who’s been all fuzzy and non-specific. Voicing a criticism of an opponents positions is certainly valid, but pretending that they don’t exist is just stupid.
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 13th, 2008
EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect I strongly agree with Ezra’s post. Job one: Close Guantanamo. No dallying around thinking about it. Scrap the military tribunal kangaroo court. Put them in a Federal maximum security facility and start civilian trials. The issue will be that evidence gained through torture won’t be admissible, and it shouldn’t [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 12th, 2008
The Potomac primaries are a sweep for Obama. It gives him some momentum going into the final stretch. But Hillary still leads in the large states. Ohio and Texas still appear to be Clinton country. Obama has gained considerably in Texas since November when he was 34 points behind, which has been cut to 10% [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 9th, 2008
Now if only Fox would hold their employees responsible for stupid statements… Chelsea Remark Earns MSNBC Correspondent A Suspension – washingtonpost.com In case there was any doubt, using a prostitution metaphor for the daughter of a presidential candidate is not a good career move.
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 8th, 2008
Mr. Bush speaks to to the Conservative Political Action Conference: Bush Urges Conservatives to Rally Behind 2008 Nominee – New York Times “We have had good debates and soon we will have a nominee who will carry the conservative banner into this election and beyond,” Mr. Bush said to a boisterous audience. “Listen, the stakes [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 7th, 2008
Lying about it must be congenital for republicans: The Associated Press: McCain Seals GOP Nod As Romney Suspends John McCain effectively sealed the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday as chief rival Mitt Romney suspended his faltering presidential campaign. “I must now stand aside, for our party and our country,” Romney prepared to tell conservatives. “If [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 6th, 2008
22 states up for grabs and it looks like very little was resolved on the Democratic side. Clinton wins 8 states: Arizona 51% Arkansas 69% California 52% Massachusetts 56% New Jersey 54% New York 57% Oklahoma 55% Tennessee 54% Obama wins 13 states: Alabama 56% Alaska 74% Colorado 67% Connecticut 51% Delaware 53% Georgia 66% [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 3rd, 2008
The Clinton-Obama race is tied at 41% each. They report 14% undecided. Could it be possible that the democratic party can move past the moribund narrative of the Vietnam Era? I still have a sinking feeling that Hillary will manipulate the convention and try to steal the nomination using super-delegates and we get stuck with [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 2nd, 2008
This morning on MSNBC New live, Pat Buchanan was talking about how conservatives would feel about a Clinton v McCain race: “In a Clinton versus McCain race, there’s always a third choice, the pistol on the bedside table.” Ouch, they really really don’t like McCain. About the only thing that would get them out the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 1st, 2008
Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008 If Obama had another week before super Tuesday he might just lead the race.
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 1st, 2008
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak – xoverboard.com I don’t watch Fox Noise, if I can help it. There’s nothing worse than being forced to listen to a fool like Steve Doocy blather on in a waiting room because it someone’s bizarre idea of a “good news show”. Ewwww Anyway, Auggie took [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 31st, 2008
Things are looking better for Obama: Gallup Daily: Tracking Election 2008 Barack Obama has now cut the gap with Hillary Clinton to 6 percentage points among Democrats nationally in the Gallup Poll Daily tracking three-day average, and interviewing conducted Tuesday night shows the gap between the two candidates is within a few points. Obama’s position [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 30th, 2008
The Times sums it up nicely: For Giuliani, a Dizzying Free-Fall – New York Times Perhaps a simpler dynamic was at work: The more that Republican voters saw of him, the less they wanted to vote for him.
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