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1992 Race Over Well Before June
2008-05-27 06:55:00 When Hillary Clinton recently used a claim that Bill didn’t wrap up the nomination until June to justify remaining in the race we knew she was lying. After all, we saw her lips move in the video, which is all it really takes. Even Bill has contradicted her. Nat the Dem found this line in ... More About: Race
Singularities and Buckeyballs (Andromeda Strain Part I)
2008-05-27 06:39:00 Wow, maybe its the freakiest episode of Lost yet. It’s a Jin episode and in the flash forward he’s working as a scientist in an underground government facility along with people including Jordan from Scrubs. Meanwhile Will (Eric McCormack) is missing Grace but is working as an investigative reporter out of rehab under a different ... More About: Television , Science Fiction , Part , Strain
The White Working Class Vote
2008-05-26 19:45:00 With all the talk of Obama’s alleged problems with the white working voters this year, John Harwood does an excellent job of placing this issue in perspective by quoting Ruy Teixeira, author of America?s Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters. Mr. Obama, who leads the delegate count, ?is clocking in where he needs ... More About: Politics , Economy , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Cain
Clinton Camp Blames Obama For Kennedy Flap
2008-05-26 18:51:00 With Saturday Night Live off for the summer I regretted not being able to see Amy Poehler parody Hillary Clinton ’s latest gaffe as she parodied her electability arguments last week. There’s no doubt that Clinton’s comments on the assassination of Robert Kennedy would have been her major target. Fortunately for those of us who expect ... More About: Barack Obama , Obama , Camp
Libertarian Party Provides McCain With Strong Conservative Opposition
2008-05-26 18:39:00 As I reported yesterday Bob Barr overcame considerable opposition by some Libertarian Party members to the non-libertarian candidates running to win the nomination on the sixth ballot. Barr spent much of the convention apologizing for his past votes such as for the Patriot Act. He won the nomination on the sixth ballot after Wayne Allyn ... More About: Cain , Ron Paul , Blogosphere , Conservative
The Fall of Polarization
2008-05-26 08:40:00 George Packer has a must-read article in The New Yorker on The Fall of Conservatism which shows how Republicans have used polarization as a political tool. Packer draws some parallels to this election and I would like to add some additional ones. Long before Hillary Clinton ’s supporters turned into clones of the far right and ... More About: Politics , George Bush , Barack Obama
Sci Fi Friday (Memorial Day Edition): Moffat To Run The Doctor; Terminator
2008-05-26 07:55:00 It’s been a fairly slow week due to new episodes of many shows being postponed to avoid airing over Memorial Day weekend. I thought that at least the BBC would be showing Doctor Who but when I tried to download it I found that the scheduled episode, Silence in the Library, has also been ... More About: Television , In the News , Science Fiction , Friday
Bob Barr Projected to Win Libertarian Party Nomination on Sixth Ballot
2008-05-25 23:12:00 The vote at the Libertarian Party convention in Denver is going into a sixth ballot, with Bob Barr looking like the most likely winner. Although there has been vocal opposition to candidates with questionable libertarian beliefs winning the nomination, it appears that the conservatives at the convention do hold a slight majority. The candidate receiving ... More About: Politics , Breaking News , Nomination
Are Democrats More Sexist Then Republicans?
2008-05-25 01:04:00 Donald Bordreaux has an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal which shows the absurdity of accepting Hillary Clinton ’s claim that she is losing due to sexism. First he questions her argument: So a woman who holds degrees from Wellesley and Yale ? who has earned millions in the private sector, won two terms in the U.S. ... More About: Democrats , Republicans
If Michigan Had Voted
2008-05-25 00:56:00 The Clinton camp is fighting to receive virtually all the delegates from Michigan , including both those “won” by Clinton as well as the bulk of the uncommitted delegates. Of course this will never happen as most in the party see this as absurd. Obama’s position of splitting the delegates seems much more fair, and actually ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Blogosphere
Liberals and Libertarians
2008-05-24 21:44:00 TPM Cafe is having a discussion between Eric Alterman and Brink Lindsay on liberalism and libertarianism. As is often the case in such discussions, I fall somewhere in between. Philosophically I lean more towards the libertarians while an objective look at the real world forces me to concede that in many (but certainly not all ... More About: Liberals , Economy , Blogosphere , Libertarians , Libertarianism
Keith Olbermann?s Special Comment on Hillary Clinton Invoking A Political N
2008-05-24 18:51:00 Keith Olbermann has responded to Hillary Clinton ’s recent comments on the assassination of Robert Kennedy as justification for her to remain in the race (video above). The full transcript is below the fold: Clinton, you invoked a political nightmare Olbermann: Referencing RFK’s assassination as a reason for staying in the race is unforgiveable SPECIAL COMMENT By Keith Olbermann Anchor, ... More About: Political , Barack Obama , Keith Olbermann , Special
Hillary Says the Unspeakable, Creating New Uproar
2008-05-24 18:38:00 Looking back at the year to date there are two headlines which could be repeated over and over. George Bush hits a new low in the polls and Hillary Clinton crosses the line (again). The year has seen a steady stream of Democrats dropping their support for Clinton. For some, such as myself, ... More About: Barack Obama , In the News , Creating
Is Barack Obama Muslim?
2008-05-24 17:49:00 Is Barack Obama Muslim ? Of course the answer is no, but if we all like to this web site which says he is not the page might get a high ranking in Google searches whenever someone asks the question. More About: Blogosphere
Bloomberg for VP?
2008-05-23 18:14:00 I wouldn’t pay too much attention to news reports about who each candidate is considering for vice president. Often names are floated so that a candidate might receive support from another politician (or their supporters) regardless of whether they are seriously being considered. While I am skeptical about whether John McCain is really interested in ... More About: Politics , Bloomberg , Michael Bloomberg
Even Clinton Supporters Now Believe She Looks Desperate
2008-05-23 02:44:00 While the blogosphere is now treating Hillary Clinton in much the same way that Democrats have previously treated Richard Nixon and George Bush (and the way in which Republicans have long treated both Clintons), Hillary Clinton’s campaign continues to push on Florida and Michigan. The Clinton campaign is increasingly showing their unwillingness to compromise. The ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Supporters
Outrage Against Clinton Continues
2008-05-23 02:28:00 Early this morning I posted a run down of what various bloggers were saying about Hillary Clinton ’s latest comments on Florida and Michigan. More negative reaction was posted today. The consensus in the blogosphere (excluding those rare blogs which back Clinton) is that this further demonstrates her dishonesty and lack of suitability to be president. ... More About: Blogosphere
Clinton Again Proves That She Is Unfit To Be President
2008-05-22 09:04:00 In so many ways Hillary Clinton has destroyed her chances of winning the nomination by her own actions. She decided to run a dishonest, Rove-style campaign which only created a greater demand for a politician such as Obama who has avoided such typical political tactics. Her campaign resorted to racism, losing the support of black ... More About: Politics , President , Blogosphere
The White Working Class Vote and Electability
2008-05-22 08:15:00 Marc Ambinder asks if Barack Obama needs the working class white votes. COULD IT BE that Obama’s coalition (young voters, professionals, crossover men, the educated, the economically stable middle class voters, African American voters) gives him enough of a cushion? Maybe Democrats won’t need as many working class whites to win the election; correspondingly, the polarized ... More About: Politics , Hillary Clinton , Blogosphere , White
Sidney Blumenthal Argues Against Running Against McCain as Bush III
2008-05-22 00:07:00 Add Sidney Blumenthal to the list of people who agree with my belief that the Democrats are making a mistake in campaigning against George Bush as opposed to specifically against John McCain . From Washington Whispers: Sidney Blumenthal, a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and strategist for Hillary Clinton?s Democratic presidential campaign, went ?off message? ... More About: Politics , Running , George Bush
Chuck Hagel Criticizes McCain
2008-05-21 20:19:00 While John McCain has Joe Lieberman putting on a Zell MIller act this year, there is now a Republican criticizing McCain and defending Obama. Sam Stein quotes Chuck Hagel : “We know from past campaigns that presidential candidates will say many things,” Hagel said of some of McCain’s recent rhetoric, namely his policy on talking to Iran. ... More About: Republicans
Clinton and Obama Split Primaries With Obama Coming Closer to Nomination
2008-05-21 10:30:00 Tuesday’s primaries turned out as expected. Clinton won big in Kentucky and Obama won big in Oregon. Clinton won the working class white vote in Appalachia while Obama won the working class white vote in a liberal state. This is not how Clinton will spin it, but the Clinton spin won’t fool anyone. The exit ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Nomination , Hillary Clinton
Obama Now Leading Among Key Clinton Constituencies
2008-05-20 22:36:00 Some Clinton supporters claim that since Obama has not done as well as Clinton among some segments of Democratic voters he would have trouble in the general election. Today’s Gallup Poll provides evidence disputing this belief. Obama has moved out to a sixteen point lead after weeks of the poll generally being close and the ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Polls
Obamatopia
2008-05-20 21:48:00 I think that things will be much better with Obama as president than with a third term for George Bush (regardless if it comes in the form of John McCain or Hillary Clinton). I don’t think things will be like portrayed in the video above.
Many High Schools Still Teaching Creationism As a Valid Alternative to Evol
2008-05-20 20:15:00 Wired has some distressing news on the state of science education in this country (Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan). One in eight U.S. high school teachers presents creationism as a valid alternative to evolution, says a poll published in the Public Library of Science Biology. Of more than 900 teachers who responded to a poll conducted by ... More About: Education , Evolution , Schools , Alternative , Teaching
Hillary?s New Math Demonstrates Why She Should Not Be The Nominee
2008-05-20 02:08:00 This report from The New York Times demonstrates one of many reasons why Hillary Clinton has probably lost the Democratic nomination as well as showing serious problems in her political skills. Clinton is still claiming to be leading in the popular vote, despite this claim having been debunked multiple times. Clinton’s math here is as bad ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Math
Sci Fi Friday (Sunday Edition): Leaving The Island; An Alliance With Cylons
2008-05-19 02:15:00 This week’s episode of Lost, There’s No Place Like Home Part I, was first part of the season finale, with the flash forward apparently being not very far ahead of the story on the island. Those on the island face death if they remain, but going out to the freighter might not be even ... More About: Science , Television , Religion , Science Fiction , Sunday
A Future Woman President
2008-05-18 21:08:00 The New York Times has an article today which serves as a good follow up to my post yesterday which argues that Clinton failed to win the nomination because she is a flawed candidate, not because of sexism. The article presents a plausible hypothetical description of a future woman president: That woman will come from the ... More About: Politics , President , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Future
Sexism and the Clinton Campaign
2008-05-17 20:25:00 With Hillary Clinton ’s campaign collapsing there have been many articles published outlining the many flaws in their strategy and arguments. One Clinton meme which has come under considerable criticism is the claim that she lost due to sexism. Scott Lehigh writes in The Boston Globe: LET’S SAY Hillary Clinton’s remaining primary rival were not Barack Obama ... More About: Politics , Campaign , Sexism
How George Bush Helped Barack Obama
More articles from this author:2008-05-16 20:04:00 Chuck Todd writes that Bush ’s recent attack actually helped Obama: Bush?s gift to Obama: When President Bush — thousands of miles away in Israel — decided to fire his thinly veiled shot at Obama yesterday, it was a giant gift to the Illinois senator and his campaign. Why? One, it essentially kept Clinton on the sidelines ... More About: Terrorism , George Bush , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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