Archive for the 'elections' Category
A Realist, Not a Cynic
“But the larger point is that you can’t bring yourself to make any distinctions between any of these groups. You’ve given up.
I actually wrote the Four Lethal Cynicisms for you.
–Booman
The Four Lethal Cynicisms:
The first lethal cynicism is the conviction that the people are too stupid, too susceptible, and too selfish to be counted upon [...]
Grace and Class
Hillary Clinton’s Concession Speech is both. H/T Peter Daou at daily Kos:
Thank you so much. Thank you all.
Well, this isn’t exactly the party I’d planned, but I sure like the company.
I want to start today by saying how grateful I am to all of you – to everyone who poured your [...]
Like a Teacher in Summer: No Class
For quite a while, I referred to the candidates vying for the Democratic nomination as Oblahma and Clintoon as a way of representing my general dissatisfaction with these two choices. Although I voted for Bill Clinton in 1992, by 1996 the bloom was off the rose when the president passed policies like NAFTA, DOMA, [...]
Read More..>>Will George W. Bush and John McCain Condemn Israel?
Bush in Israel, May 15:
On a visit to Masada earlier in the day with Prime Minister Olmert, Mr. Bush promised that the fortress, where the Jews lost their homeland more than 2,000 years ago, “shall never fall again.” Later, at the Knesset, he said, “Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists [...]
McCain Goes Flippity Floppity
The Real John McCain is double-talking liar. It’s a wonder his pants don’t spontaneously combust!
Read More..>>What Sadly No Said.
Sadly, NO!:
Have Obama and his supporters fucked up and been nasty and divisive and shitty at times? Yeah. So has she and so have hers. Both deserve to be raked over the coals when they sling Rovian mud at each other or blatantly and unconstructively break the 11th commandment or fling race and gender cards [...]
Send In the Clowns
Riverdaughter:
I think what we’re seeing here is a real racial divide. It was engineered, deliberately, by Obama’s campaign in order to separate African Americans from the Clintons. It has worked spectacularly well. Obama consistently wins urban and southern AA voters, by lopsided margins. It didn’t have to be this way. There was no reason for [...]
Gas Tax
When I read really dumb posts about what a good idea it would be to repeal the gas tax for the summer, I’m not sure how to respond.
I think I have to reject the idea that economists are only “invested in protecting the academic class”, because it assumes that economists are monolithic [...]
Clinton Attacks MoveOn Voters
While others are arguing about whether Obama sent a secret signal to Clinton (and no, he didn’t), Clinton has certainly sent a very CLEAR signal to Democrats like me:
At a small closed-door fundraiser after Super Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton blamed what she called the “activist base” of the Democratic Party — and MoveOn.org in particular [...]
Oh God, No.
They’re heeeeere:
The front door had no sign, and the newly installed banks of computers have no Internet access.
But hanging in a cavernous fourth-floor room, lit by skylights today, was a large banner that declared “Yes, we can!”
Barack Obama’s Philadelphia headquarters near 15th and Sansom Streets was bustling by 7 a.m. this morning in offices that [...]
