I just read that David Bonior and Rep. Robert Wexler will represent Obama at the RBC over the weekend. I’m curious as to what their arguments will be. This is going to go into the permanent history of the United States. Will those two argue for disenfranchisement? How will History judge them–and Obama–for what happens over the weekend? The founders had “Give me liberty or give me death”. What will we hear from those arguing not to seat the...
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Pinochet-Era Soldiers and Secret Police Members Arrested in Chile
Via the Guardian, “A Chilean judge has ordered the detention of almost 100 former soldiers and secret police officers from General Augusto Pinochet’s regime as part of investigations into human rights abuses, according to reports. Among the 98 held are former employees of Pinochet’s notorious Dina intelligence service, which ran a series of secret prisons where leftwingers and other opponents were tortured and killed, Reuters said, citing unnamed judicial sources.” Oh please, let there be some testimonies involving the...
Peaceful Protest = Creating Chaos?
Ok I think we’ve finally entered silly season here folks. For a guy who got his big start by making a speech at an anti-war rally a few years back (a speech he seems to have built his entire campaign around), this statement by his campaign about this Saturday’s protest at the DNC meeting in DC does really fly in the face of reason. Apparently, one of his senior campaign managers (David Plouffe) told reporters during a recent presser...
What Is Going On At Trinity Church?
Big Tent Democrat asks today with the video below posted, “What Is Going On At Trinity Church?” BTD also clarifies that he feels this “has nothing to do with Barack Obama.” I tend to disagree. This is after all the church that Obama has been associated with for the past 20 years. Clearly Rev. Michael Pfleger, seen in this video is politicing for Obama and against Hillary Clinton with a very divisive message (see the transcript here). As Taylor...
A “Shrill, Shrieking, Shrew”
This morning, a 70-year-old visually impaired African American woman called in to C-Span’s “Washington Journal” to express her support for Obama and her opposition to Clinton. She spoke for a moment about the discrimination she had experienced as a black woman and about the hope Obama gives her. Then she spoke about how disappointed she is in Hillary and Bill Clinton and about the negative aspect of Clinton’s campaign. Then she went into a higher gear and called Clinton...
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
After, what amounts to seven days on the road, I feel like I am out of practice with this blogging thing. Obviously, from today’s Ten Post Round-Up the rest of the world did not stop finding trouble to get into, while I was away from my keyboard: 1: Hmmm…I never thought of it that way before…. Why Courts Are Reluctant To See Marriage Discrimination As Sex Discrimination–Alas, a blog 2: That’s precisely it: I quit dieting because I knew...
Late Night: Food For Thought
Personally, I gave up watchingKeith Olbermann months ago, when it was clear that his primary coverage had become biased. James Poniewozik exaimines Olbermann’s latest “gasket” blowing commentary directed at Hillary Clinton and says: But mostly his outburst reminds me of how the long Democratic primary has divided the left-of-center media (or at least, the media outlets with a left-of-center audience) into camps, like a bad divorce. Personalities and institutions that were once universally beloved by people who were sick...
Book Review – Standard Operating Procedure
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog. Standard Operating Procedure is a book co-authored by Philip Gourevitch (also author of the great We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow, We Will Be killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda and writer for the New Yorker) and Errol Morris (director of the great documentary The Fog of War , among others) who also directed the documentary of the same title (incredible website that is well worth checking out with tons of...
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