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Why Clinton Lost (And Why Obama Just May Win Big In November)
2008-06-09 01:15:00 In “The Things They Carried,” a short story about a platoon of soldiers during the Vietnam War, author Tim O’Brien describes in detail what the soldiers carry as they plod through the war. Aside from the weight of their equipment (mosquito repellent, weapons, first aid kits, etc.), the men carry with them the love for ...
Why Clinton Lost: Too Soon a Bulldog
2008-06-09 01:14:00 All day today, the contributing editors will be offering different takes on why Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic primary despite having started as the prohibitive favorite. These essays approach the question from differing angles and are not for the most part mutually exclusive, but attempt to address specific pieces of the complexity of this massive, ...
Midday Open Thread
2008-06-09 01:14:00 A massive fire has destroyed much of the Texas governor’s mansion in downtown Austin. Authorities are trying to determine the cause of the fire. Former (and likely future) Republican presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, saved the day at a North Carolina GOP fundraiser yesterday: The former Arkansas governor performed the Heimlich maneuver on Robert Pittenger, Republican ...
Why Clinton Lost: She didn?t channel supporter passion.
2008-06-09 01:14:00 All day today, the contributing editors will be offering different takes on why Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic primary despite having started as the prohibitive favorite. These essays approach the question from differing angles and are not for the most part mutually exclusive, but attempt to address specific pieces of the complexity of this massive, ...
Why Clinton Lost: Change and the Bush legacy
2008-06-09 01:14:00 Hitting the “Smite” button on the whole Bush legacy As Hunter has pointed out, Hillary Clinton lost the nomination for a variety of reasons and in a variety of ways, some of them seemingly counter-intuitive. For example, as the presumptive front-runner, she adopted a hyper-cautious strategy that offered voters a president-in-waiting more than a candidate. Voters ...
Why Clinton Lost
2008-06-09 01:14:00 Only a few short years ago, it was taken as a given that Hillary Clinton would be, in 2008, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. It was presumed to be inevitable; we were deluged with assertions that she was the frontrunner long before any true campaigning started, before any votes were cast, ...
Open Thread for Night Owls & Early Birds
2008-06-09 01:14:00 I’ve just watched for the second time the good parts of the exquisite video put up in Alyosha Popovich’s Diary, Don’t mess with Bill Moyers (vs. O’Reilly Factor). You shouldn’t miss it. But now I’m torn between wanting so very much for Bill-O to accept Moyers’s invitation to spend an entire hour on his show and ...
Sunday Talk - Lime Green Jello Edition
2008-06-09 01:14:00 Full Lineup, Full Unity and McSame mockery below…
Open Thread and Diary Rescue
2008-06-09 01:14:00 This evening’s Rescue Rangers are vcmvo2, jlms qkw, Got A Grip, Shayera, joyful and Avila as editor. Please take a moment to help one of your fellow Kossacks attend Netroots Nation in July. Lithium Cola has the details in Netroots Nation Scholarships and the Hope of the Web. Mentarch cites a newly declassified report on the ...
Indicted Saudi investor in Harken Energy gets $80 million Pentagon contract
2008-06-09 01:14:00 Gretchen Peters reports that the Pentagon has awarded an international fugitive, shadowy Saudi financier Gaith Pharaon, an $80 million contract to supply jet fuel in Afghanistan (h/t Ron Beasley). Pharaon is a fugitive from the FBI as well as the subject of investigations by France and Italy. The contract to supply jet fuel to American bases ...
Change and the Bush legacy
2008-06-08 19:14:00 Hitting the “Smite” button on the whole Bush legacy As Hunter has pointed out, Hillary Clinton lost the nomination for a variety of reasons and in a variety of ways, some of them seemingly counter-intuitive. For example, as the presumptive front-runner, she adopted a hyper-cautious strategy that offered voters a president-in-waiting more than a candidate. Voters ...
Why Clinton Lost
2008-06-08 19:14:00 Only a few short years ago, it was taken as a given that Hillary Clinton would be, in 2008, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. It was presumed to be inevitable; we were deluged with assertions that she was the frontrunner long before any true campaigning started, before any votes were cast, ...
Open Thread for Night Owls & Early Birds
2008-06-08 13:13:00 I’ve just watched for the second time the good parts of the exquisite video put up in Alyosha Popovich’s Diary, Don’t mess with Bill Moyers (vs. O’Reilly Factor). You shouldn’t miss it. But now I’m torn between wanting so very much for Bill-O to accept Moyers’s invitation to spend an entire hour on his show and ...
Does ?The Detroit News? Know Somehing that we don?t know?
2008-06-08 08:00:00 Not Photoshoped: I thought the Dems were already unified with Al Qaeda… Maybe their just trying to iron out their minor differences. h/t: Schlussel
Sunday Talk - Lime Green Jello Edition
2008-06-08 07:12:00 Full Lineup, Full Unity and McSame mockery below…
Open Thread and Diary Rescue
2008-06-08 07:12:00 This evening’s Rescue Rangers are vcmvo2, jlms qkw, Got A Grip, Shayera, joyful and Avila as editor. Please take a moment to help one of your fellow Kossacks attend Netroots Nation in July. Lithium Cola has the details in Netroots Nation Scholarships and the Hope of the Web. Mentarch cites a newly declassified report on the ...
Indicted Saudi investor in Harken Energy gets $80 million Pentagon contract
2008-06-08 07:12:00 Gretchen Peters reports that the Pentagon has awarded an international fugitive, shadowy Saudi financier Gaith Pharaon, an $80 million contract to supply jet fuel in Afghanistan (h/t Ron Beasley). Pharaon is a fugitive from the FBI as well as the subject of investigations by France and Italy. The contract to supply jet fuel to American bases ...
MA-Sen: Republicans humiliated once again.
2008-06-08 07:12:00 Jim Ogonowski in Massachusetts was one of the top NRSC recruits for this cycle. An Air Force veteran and brother of one of the pilots who died in the 9/11 tragedy, Ogonowski lost a surprisingly close election for the U.S. House in 2007 to Democrat Niki Tsongas. Ogonowski’s six-point loss to Tsongas, whose husband was the ...
Bush?s Saturday Radio Address
2008-06-08 07:12:00 From today’s radio address by George Bush: Congress will soon vote on legislation to fund our troops serving on the front lines of the war on terror. …there is no reason for further delay…the bill must not exceed the reasonable and responsible funding levels I have requested… the time has come for them to support our ...
Republican Desperation
2008-06-08 07:12:00 On MSNBC we just got a taste of Republican desperation. This from Republican strategist Brad Blakeman: But one thing that really troubled me today, is I think Hillary did an outstanding job as an American. I have to say, leaving partisanship aside, I’m very proud of what she’s done for our country. And having said that, ...
Why We Are Winning In Iraq:
2008-06-08 01:59:00 Patiently, calmly, one terrorist at a time: US Casualties are now the lowest on record since the war began. This is the fate that has been met by thousands of Al Qaeda operatives that flocked to Iraq from around the world. If this trend continues, the Iraq campaign will have been proven an unprecedented success. Both ...
Hillary on Obama - Part 2384
2008-06-08 01:59:00 I will be posting Hillary comments on Obama from now until November:
Open Thread and Diary Rescue
2008-06-07 07:02:00 Tonight’s Rescue Rangers are SmokeyMonkey, ezdidit, vcmvo2, YatPundit and jlms qkw, with Got a Grip twirling in the editor’s chair. We offer two excellent action items tonight. jlms qkw requests that everyone write to a soldier in Free! Easy! (and no teeth) while Bendygirl urges us to prod our government to do the right thing in ...
Blurb this Book
2008-06-07 07:02:00 From the Senator who refuses to go away: In a live interview on NewsChannel 7 Tuesday night – Craig, 62 - told Dee Sarton that he is in the process of writing a book on energy - that will also talk about his time in Congress – and the events of the past year. “There will ...
There?s good money in reckless endangerment
2008-06-07 07:02:00 Treat a cut immediately and nobody benefits. Wait for gangrene to take hold and lots of people can cash in. That appears to be the Republican governing philosophy. Tommy Thompson’s firm has won an $11 million contract through HHS to track the health of some 5000 workers who were exposed to toxic air while cleaning up ...
Way Down In The Hole
2008-06-07 07:02:00 How badly might Sen. Clinton need help with her post-campaign debt? Badly: Clinton will likely seek help from Obama in retiring her massive campaign debt, which has swollen to more than $30 million, including $11 million she lent the effort, advisers said Thursday. The former first lady, who plans to bow out of the race and ...
Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread
2008-06-07 07:02:00 Sunday Kos Symposium: Why Hillary Lost For nearly a week now we’ve heard paid pundits and talking heads give their opinions about why Hillary Clinton, the “inevitable” Democratic nominee at the beginning of primary season, will not be facing off against John McCain in November. Now it’s our turn. Sunday Kos this week will be presented as a ...
Setting up the climate change issue
2008-06-07 01:01:00 The Lieberman-Warner climate change bill stalled in the Senate today, after a failed cloture vote tallying just 48 votes in favor of proceeding to debate. Actually, by the time the bill went down, it had become known as the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner bill. That’s a nifty little move that comes as a perk of chairmanship of the committee ...
Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
2008-06-07 01:01:00 From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Late Night Snark to put a cork in a helluva week: “Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has written a tell-all book, and it’s full of inside information about how the public was mislead prior to the invasion of Iraq. The title of the book? Stuff That Would Have Been ...
John McCain avoiding Bush like the plague
2008-06-07 01:01:00 Once again, John McCain is avoiding being seen in public with George Bush: Sen. John McCain(R-Ariz.)will not attend President Bush’s fundraising dinner for congressional candidates in another indication that the GOP nominee is distancing himself from the man he wants to replace. It’s hard to believe that it’s only been three months since McCain, while at ...
Midday Open Thread
2008-06-07 01:01:00 John Edwards is openly dismissing any talk of him being on the Obama ticket: “I already had the privilege of running for vice president in 2004, and I won’t do it again,” Edwards told El Mundo newspaper. Sheriff John Green of Philadelphia has upset lenders by refusing to hold a court-ordered foreclosure auction. “More of ...
House and Senate Roundup, 6/6
2008-06-07 01:01:00 Senate Races NM-Sen, MA-Sen, IA-Sen, SD-Sen: The Las Vegas Sun has an article today documenting the utter and abject failure of Nevada Sen. John Ensign’s recruiting efforts this cycle. John Ensign has a terrible job, and it got worse this week. The party that once dreamed of regaining their majority in one quick election cycle has now ...
More ?judgment? from John McCain
2008-06-07 01:01:00 John McCain spends a lot of time telling people that only he possesses the right kind of judgment to be the next President of the United States. For example, last week McCain explained the judgement he used in 2002 in deciding to support going to war: I know why I supported [the war] because I believed ...
Popular vote
2008-06-07 01:01:00 Ugh. Mrs. Feinstein said she did not need to urge Mrs. Clinton to hold a meeting. “I didn’t urge anybody to do anything. I know it’s a natural instinct. People, particularly in this case because Hillary represents a very large block of voters — the largest ever for anybody that has come in No. 2, and ...
McCain: Illegal Spying? I?m In!
2008-06-06 19:01:00 Both Greenwald and Ryan Singel have important posts on McCain and FISA. He’s been back and forth all over the issue since it’s become an issue, but now that he’s running for Bush’s third term, he’s decided he’d better go all in, not only on warrantless wiretapping, but on the theory of a unitary executive ...
McCain: Illegal Spying? I?m In!
2008-06-06 19:01:00 Both Greenwald and Ryan Singel have important posts on McCain and FISA. He’s been back and forth all over the issue since it’s become an issue, but now that he’s running for Bush’s third term, he’s decided he’d better go all in, not only on warrantless wiretapping, but on the theory of a unitary executive ...
Bush uses tortured American vets as pawns
2008-06-06 19:01:00 Is it possible to sink even lower? Remember this? Bush, December 28, 2007: I am withholding my approval of H.R. 1585, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008,” because it would imperil billions of dollars of Iraqi assets at a crucial juncture in that nation’s reconstruction efforts and because it would undermine the foreign policy and ...
Bush uses tortured American vets as pawns
2008-06-06 19:01:00 Is it possible to sink even lower? Remember this? Bush, December 28, 2007: I am withholding my approval of H.R. 1585, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008,” because it would imperil billions of dollars of Iraqi assets at a crucial juncture in that nation’s reconstruction efforts and because it would undermine the foreign policy and ...
It?s The First Non-Race-Baiting Smear of The Campaign Season! Congratulatio
2008-06-06 19:01:00 Tom Delay, Indicted Republican: Unless he proves me wrong, [Obama] is a Marxist. Hunter, Blogger: Unless he proves me wrong, Tom Delay lures children into his van with candy, gasses them to death with bug spray, and uses their powdered bones as an aphrodisiac when making love to all the animals at the San Antonio ...
It?s The First Non-Race-Baiting Smear of The Campaign Season! Congratulatio
2008-06-06 19:01:00 Tom Delay, Indicted Republican: Unless he proves me wrong, [Obama] is a Marxist. Hunter, Blogger: Unless he proves me wrong, Tom Delay lures children into his van with candy, gasses them to death with bug spray, and uses their powdered bones as an aphrodisiac when making love to all the animals at the San Antonio ...
Gallup: Why McCain and Obama Are Tied — For Now
2008-06-06 19:01:00 In a fascinating snapshot of where we are at the moment, Gallup provides details of composite polling done for the month of May. Remember, this is where we are now, not where we are going to be. All the data comes from pre-Obama victory and pre-Clinton concession discussions. As we noted in mid-May: The Republicans, under ...
Open Thread for Night Owls & Early Birds
2008-06-06 13:01:00 As was widely commented upon throughout wwwLand Thursday, Patrick Cockburn at The Independent writes: Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control Bush wants 50 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, ...
Anniversary of Robert Kennedy?s assassination Today - Remarkable RFK Writi
2008-06-06 07:47:00 Robert Kennedy, age 22, reporting from the besieged city of Jerusalem for the Boston Post in April of 1948, one month before Israel declared independence:In the previous post, I posted a YouTube of George Galloway hailing Bobby Kennedy (in his reference to Obama), and I also link to a Memri post showing Galloway spewing Israel-hatred ...
Open Thread and Diary Rescue
2008-06-06 07:00:00 Tonight’s Rescue Rangers are dadanation, Louisiana1976, noddem, and ybruti, with Unitary Moonbat shuffling the scrolls. Diaries from three Kossacks help tell the history of today: Patch Adam reminds us that 19 years ago, news viewers worldwide were treated to an image of a lone man Standing Before the Tank; iampunha recalls Harriet Beecher Stowe’s first-run serialization ...
Lieberman: ?Democrat Party?
2008-06-06 07:00:00 Joe Lieberman, doing everything he can to lose his committee chairmanships next Congress, is now sending out emails to McCain’s supporters and using the pejorative “Democrat Party” language: To: Fellow McCain Supporters From: Senator Joe Lieberman Date: June 5th, 2008 Today, I asked Senator McCain if I could create and chair a new grassroots organization, “Citizens for ...
The Can?t Do Spirit
2008-06-06 07:00:00 More of what you’ve come to expect from a Republican administration — and more of what a McCain Extension would deliver in the next cycle. When it comes to making changes, just say it’s too hard. The United States will tell a July meeting of the Group of Eight rich nations that it cannot ...
White House on Phase II Report: We didn?t know, now let?s move on
2008-06-06 07:00:00 With the release of the Senate Intel Committee Phase II report (pdf) on how intelligence was used by the administration to mislead this country into war, the White House responded with the expected, “but everyone thought Saddam Hussein had WMD, it’s not our fault” line. But when it was pointed out that the report says ...
Obama rises in Missouri
2008-06-06 07:00:00 Rasmussen. 6/3. Likely voters. MoE 4% (5/6 results) McCain (R) 42 (47) Obama (D) 43 (41) That’s a seven-point swing as people decide that perhaps McCain deserves more scrutiny. And this number is 16-points better than Obama’s nadir in March in the midst of the Wright freak-out. In a 3/24 poll, McCain led Obama 53-38. This poll tracks ... |
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