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Americans Want To Talk, Even With Enemies
2008-06-03 03:01:00 I certainly would not use polls as evidence of the validity of a complex issue, but there was a certain satisfaction in reading this one. Over the weekend I wrote a post summarizing the many ways in which Obama won the nomination by outsmarting Clinton. One factor I mentioned, but only briefly so as to ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , National Security , Hillary Clinton , Cain
Bob Barr Repudiates Racist Endorsement Showing Contrast with Ron Paul
2008-06-03 00:12:00 Bob Barr might be seeking much of the support which Ron Paul received during the primaries, but at least he knows where to draw the line. While Ron Paul received considerable criticism, including from libertarians, for his associations with right wing extremists, Barr most likely realizes associating with the extreme right will prevent his campaign ... More About: Contrast , Racist
Obama To Cash In On Superdelegate Bank
2008-06-02 22:47:00 There’s been talk that Obama has a “delegate bank” ready to release this week to put him over the top. Matthew Yglesias has made the point that if he had such a bank it would be better to have them commit before tomorrow’s primaries. He argues that, “on a symbolic plane it seems to me ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Bill Richardson
Our Long National Nightmare Is Almost Over (Maybe)
2008-06-02 21:05:00 It is hard to believe that this is the final day of primary campaigning. Not even Hillary Clinton , despite all the tortured logic used by her campaign to date, can find a way to pretend that more primaries are needed to settle the nomination. With Bill Clinton, we might not be discussing what the meaning ... More About: Politics , National , Barack Obama , Nightmare
Hillary Clinton Wins Meaningless Victory in Puerto Rico
2008-06-01 22:44:00 Hillary Clinton won big in Puerto Rico . Joe Klein puts it in perspective: A Stockdale moment: What am I doing here? (Answer: I’m joining the Clinton traveling press for the last day of campaigning in South Dakota tomorrow.) But, really, what are we doing here? The Puerto Rico “primary” is a crypto-democatic act: We ... More About: Politics , Victory , Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton?s Associates and Lovers
2008-06-01 22:13:00 We learn from Tod Purdum’s article on Bill Clinton in Vanity Fair that Clinton has been angry in recent years, and that he might have cheated on Monica as well as Hillary: It may well have been Clinton?s displaced anger (at the media, the Obama campaign, or both) on his wife?s behalf that led to his ... More About: Hillary Clinton , Lovers
Further Thoughts on Yesterday?s Compromise
2008-06-01 21:19:00 While most Democratic leaders see yesterday’s deal as a positive accomplishment, there continues to be considerable nonsense coming from the Clinton camp. I’ve already discussed the deal, and the reasons why Michigan and Florida did not represent valid results, in several previous posts. At this point I will just quickly comment on the major spin ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Thoughts , Yesterday
Unity Among Democrats or Realignment?
2008-06-01 20:34:00 Despite all the protests seen from the most rabid Clinton supporters, most likely after the final primaries are over Hillary Clinton will realize that further fighting is futile and will accept a dignified settlement from the Obama campaign and begin unifying the party. To partisan Democrats that is the only rational outcome. To an independent such ... More About: Republicans , Barack Obama , Cain
SciFi Friday: The Lost Season Finale
2008-06-01 08:05:00 The season finale for Lost began just where last season’s finale ended. The difference is that, having seen this season’s episodes, last season’s finale makes much more sense. The finale also has some similarities to the premier of the series with a crash playing a major role. Instead of the crash of an airplane, we ... More About: In the News , Season , Finale , Friday
McCain?s Foreign Policy Gaffes Continue
2008-06-01 05:33:00 While the main attention has been devoted to the meeting of the rules committee and the ramifications of what remains of the Democratic primary race, there has also been some action in the more meaningful campaign between the presumptive nominees of the two major parties. Barack Obama has taken major steps to counter the perceived, ... More About: Politics , Iraq , National Security , Blogosphere
Obama Leaves Trinity Church
2008-06-01 05:08:00 I’ve said it many times before and I’ll say it again. Arnold Vinick, the fictitious Republican candidate for president on The West Wing, had the right idea in keeping talk of religion out of politics, as seen in the video above. I understand why Obama has felt the need to bring his religion into politics. ... More About: Church , In the News , Trinity , Leaves
Democrats Reach Compromise While Clinton Threatens Convention Fight
2008-06-01 04:19:00 Despite all the protests outside and hissing from Clinton supporters inside, the rules committee actually managed to end the day with a compromise. Clinton picks up a net of 24 delegates. This is more than she deserves but, as I discussed earlier, it is far smarter for Obama to accept such a deal. Obama ... More About: Politics , Democrats , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Fight
The Clinton Protest
2008-05-31 23:26:00 Looking around the blogosphere, Steve Benen quotes from the report at The Stump on the Clinton protests which I linked to in the previous post: Howard Dean may hope that the “healing will begin today,” but two blocks away from the northwest Washington Marriott where the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee is meeting right now ... More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Blogosphere , Protest
Obama Still Out Smarting Clinton By Taking The High Road
2008-05-31 22:32:00 For a politician who was supposed to be the inevitable winner of the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton really has not been very smart. Barack Obama ’s campaign has out smarted her every step of the way. They out smarted her by playing close attention to the party’s rules, and using them to win. They out smarted her ... More About: Politics , In the News , Blogosphere
Former Bush Donors Giving to Obama
2008-05-31 21:45:00 The general consensus the last several years, coming from the extremes of both parties, has been that there is no middle, no swing voters, and that us independents don’t matter. The predominant political strategy, used to great success for a small moment in history by Karl Rove, was to motivate the base to get out ... More About: Politics , Bush , George Bush , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton Argues For Uniting Behind the Presumptive Nominee
2008-05-31 03:26:00 Unfortunately that occurred in 1988, not this year when his wife has remained in the race long beyond the point where she had any real mathematical chance of winning. With the final primaries taking place in a few days there is certainly no longer any reason to expect Hillary Clinton to leave the race before ... More About: Barack Obama , Bill Clinton , Bill
What Hillary Might Be Up to With Her Bogus Popular Vote Claims
2008-05-30 06:45:00 Daily Kos (who I linked to in the previous post) isn’t the only one to show that Obama, not Clinton, leads in the popular vote. The Nation looks at who is really leading, whether the popular vote matters, and what Clinton might be up to: Moreover, the popular vote is no more than a symbolic statistic ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Blogosphere , Popular
Count All The Votes
2008-05-30 06:30:00 Obama still has the lead. More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Blogosphere , Count
Young Hillary Clinton
2008-05-29 16:21:00 This video shows the roots of Hillary Clinton ’s current behavior during her childhood. More About: Young
Clinton Exaggerates Position in Polls Against McCain
2008-05-28 22:42:00 There is a bizarre contradiction to Hillary Clinton ’s only remaining strategy at this point. There is really nothing left other than hope that the superdelegates step in and override everything which took place in the primaries and caucuses. In other words, Clinton is hoping for an extremely undemocratic outcome. The contradiction is that she tries ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Cain , Polls
John McCain is No Barry Goldwater
2008-05-28 20:26:00 Yesterday I noted the analogies between the race between Obama and McCain and the fictional race on The West Wing between Santos and Arnold Vinick. While there are some similarities such as having a young charismatic Democrat taking on an older, more experienced and somewhat maverick Republican, there are also important differences. John McCain does ... More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Barry Goldwater
Remembering Mike Gravel
2008-05-28 09:53:00 Mike Gravel has the dubious honor of having failed to win the nomination of not one but two political parties this year. After he failed to win the Democratic nomination he also ran for the Libertarian Party nomination. Some, including many Libertarian Party members and candidates, did find it strange that a non-libertarian was running ... More About: Democrats , Mike Gravel , Mike , Remembering
Scott McClellan Admits Bush Was Not Open on Iraq
2008-05-28 06:38:00 Nancy Pelosi might have taken impeachment off the table, but there is hope that Bush might spend his later years in his cell reading unfavorable exposes of his administration. Last November there were hints that Scott McClellan’s memoirs would not be very flattering to the Bush administration. With the book now ready for release on ... More About: Iraq , George Bush , Open
Andromeda Strain Concludes (Four Hours Too Late)
2008-05-28 06:33:00 Part II of the The Andromeda Strain , which I mentioned yesterday, aired Tuesday night. It was somewhat entertaining, but certainly did not do the original book or movie justice. Rather than concentrating on the scientific aspects they tried to mix in both action and rather cheap suspense by having corrupt shadow forces in a Bush-like ... More About: Television , Science Fiction , Late , Hours
Obama Rejects Iraq Invitation From McCain
2008-05-28 05:55:00 What is it with John McCain and strolling through Iraq ? Last year McCain went to Iraq and claimed, “?even Paris Hilton could ride a bicycle in a bikini through Anbar province.” Maybe Paris could move around Iraq in a bikini like above and be safe, but only if she traveled as McCain did, “accompanied by 100 ... More About: Barack Obama , Obama , Invitation
Obama Mixes Up Concentration Camp Names, Right Wing Goes Ballistic
2008-05-28 02:49:00 The conservative blogs spent most of the day getting overly excited by the minor gaffe committed by Barack Obama in the video above. While this is expected from the right wing bloggers, I would expect the Republican National Committee to show a little more restraint–if for no other reason than to avoid the embarrassments ... More About: Mixes , Blogosphere , Right Wing
Medical Secrets Exposed
2008-05-27 22:21:00 Damn, almost all of our secrets are exposed here. By the way, they did miss a few. For example, you should really worry if you go to the ER and the only order given is PBOH. (That’s Pine Box On Hold). More About: Medical , Secrets
Quote of the Day: VP Choices
2008-05-27 19:47:00 “My first thought on the running mate question is that to balance his ticket, Barack Obama should pick a really old white general. Therefore, he should pick Dwight Eisenhower. John McCain , on the other hand, needs to pick someone younger than himself. Therefore, he also should pick Dwight Eisenhower.” –David Brooks If you don’t like that choice, ... More About: Quote Of The Day , Blogosphere , Science Fiction
Obama?s Delegate Bank
2008-05-27 17:54:00 Until the DNC’s rules committee makes a decision on Florida and Michigan we will not know exactly how many delegates are needed to clinch the nomination. Current estimates show Obama only needing about fifty more delegates to clinch the nomination, but that number will change in the next week. Obama appears prepared to clinch the ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Bank
Obama vs. McCain and Santos vs. Vinick
More articles from this author:2008-05-27 16:24:00 Peter Funt (son of Allen Funt) sees an analogy between this year’s probable presidential race and the final season of The West Wing: How’s this for a political plot: Good-looking congressman in his mid-40s, married with two young children, known for his inspirational speeches, comes from far behind to clinch the Democratic nomination and face an ... More About: Television , Barack Obama , Cain , Obama , Santos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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