Daily Archives: March 16, 2008 11:47 pm

Must Read: The regular offense

March 16, 2008 11:47 pm
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I was about to sign off for the night but I took one more peek at the blogosphere and ran across this great post from Jerome Armstrong on MYDD: “The regular offense.” Jerome comments on Michael Kinsley’s recent WaPo OP/ED: “Offense Taken” and he says:  Sphere: Related Content

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Financial Mess Heats Up

March 16, 2008 11:02 pm
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The financial mess that our country is in is heating up… big time. Hold on folks, it’s really going to be a rough ride: WHAT are the consequences of a world in which regulators rescue even the financial institutions whose recklessness and greed helped create the titanic credit mess we are in? Will the consequences be an even weaker currency, rampant inflation, a continuation of the slow bleed that we have witnessed at banks and brokerage firms for the...

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The Challenge

March 16, 2008 10:48 pm
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In the wake of the news that Barack Obama is preparing for a “full assault” on Hillary Clinton, Clinton’s Internet Director Peter Daou sent out an email earlier today challenging progressive bloggers to pit a “miconception to rest.” The misconception that “Senator Obama hasn’t run a negative campaign against Hillary.” The Chicago Trib reports that Obama is ”trying to air his dirty laundry — even some items that might appear just a little wrinkled — as he prepares a full assault...

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Clinton, Obama, and the Dreaded “A” Word

March 16, 2008 6:37 pm
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One of the criticisms that has been aimed at Sen. Clinton for many years now is that she is ambitious. We hear it from talking heads, from Republicans, and now–from Democrats. Yes, she is. So is Sen. Obama, whose rise from freshman Senator to presidential candidate was a carefully and brilliantly orchestrated phenomenon. Obama’s intelligence and poise are obvious, but intelligence and poise are not enough to launch someone into political stardom. Product branding is essential, and Obama has...

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Obama Calls for Republicans To Re-Register (YouTube)

March 16, 2008 8:43 am
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Obama Calls for Republicans To Re-Register (YouTube)

While registering voters, and getting the crossover vote, is a legitimate general election technique, it has seldom been it used so boldly to capture a primary nomination. Perhaps Senator Obama learned from Joe Lieberman that getting the Republican vote is the key to success when you can’t get enough Democratic votes. From Salon’s War Room: If the Obama campaign is to pull off an upset, the new registrants will be vitally important. As the Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown observes,...

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