I had to laugh in agreement with Steve Benen’s opening statement on The Carpetbagger Report on the WaPo editorial today about whether Clinton should stay in the race. Benen said: With about seven months to go before voters choose the next president, Democrats are not only divided over which candidate should get the nomination, they’re divided about whether the fight for the nomination has gone on long enough. Great. He’s right. We spending more time bickering over whether the...
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Fact Checker Finds Obama Overstated Kennedys’ Role in Helping His Father
Will wonders never cease… The WaPo has a piece today that outlines how Barack Obama overstated the Kennedy’s role in helping his father come to the United States. Michael Dobbs reports: Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his “very existence” to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother. The Camelot...
The “Progressive” Blogoshpere’s Deal With The Devil
Via lambert, Suburban Guerilla quotes Eric Boehlert: What’s happening online now is potentially dangerous: HRC has gotten dreadful press, not fair, “gotcha,” and so on — there’s a portion of the blogosphere that has ignored that and there’s a portion that has encouraged that. It’s dangerous because the media criticism has to be consistent and relentless, and we can’t very well say, “You can’t go after our candidates … except this one.” I get nervous about pushback regarding disingenuous...
The World Is Watching
Among the must reads of the day, is a post from Steve Clemons on the HuffPo: “The World is Watching and Wants More: Clinton-Obama Race Should Go All the Way.” Clemons says: Sphere: Related Content
Sean Wilentz Deconstucts the “race card” issue
Professor Sean Wilentz of Princeton, who wrote “The Worst President in History?” for Rolling Stone last year, has a piece in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer–”Obama was the first to play the race card.” Wilentz discusses not only the “race card” charges and their origins, but also some of the racial insensitivity shown by those in the Obama camp. Sphere: Related Content
Listen Up Everyone — ‘Just Relax’
Listen up everyone – ”just relax.” Enough already with the moans and groans from Clinton and Obama supporters about who sould do what in this race. “We just need to relax and let this happen. Nobody’s talking about wrecking the party,” Clinton said. “Everywhere I go, all these working people say, ‘Don’t you dare let her drop out. Don’t listen to those people in Washington, they don’t represent us.’” Barack Obama had this to say about all the hoopla...
Think About This When Talking About NOT Supporting the Nominee
I’ve grown weary of the calls for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race. I have grown weary of the claims by supporters in both the Clinton and Obama camps that they will not support the nominee. And I have had it up to hear with all the pitching of the various scenario’s of what may or may not happen in the future with not only this race but onward into 2012. I tire of it all because...
Could the U.S. elect someone as ignorant as Bush? Yes!
John McCain recently had a tough time with an interview in Iowa. Apparently, he doesn’t quite understand some simple facts about contraception and disease prevention: Q: What about grants for sex education in the United States? Should they include instructions about using contraceptives? Or should it be Bush’s policy, which is just abstinence? Mr. McCain: (Long pause) Ahhh. I think I support the president’s policy. Q: So no contraception, no counseling on contraception. Just abstinence. Do you think contraceptives...
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