Daily Kos: The Clinton civil war: "It is Clinton, with no reasonable chance of victory, who is fomenting civil war in order to overturn the will of the Democratic electorate. As such, as far as I'm concerned, she doesn't deserve 'fairness' on this site. All sexist attacks will be dealt with -- those will never be acceptable. But otherwise, Clinton has set an inevitably divisive course and must be dealt with appropriately.
To reiterate, she cannot win without overturning the will of the national Democratic electorate and fomenting civil war, and she doesn't care.
That's why she has earned my enmity and that of so many others."
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Thus spake Kosathustra. The Daily Kos, in case you don't know, is the biggest left-wing blog. In other words, this is the loudest web voice on the American left, and it carries a lot of weight. Read the whole post to see where things are heading if Clinton pushes this fight all the way to the convention.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Court Will Examine Profanity Rules: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
Court Will Examine Profanity Rules: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday stepped into a legal fight over the use of curse words on the airwaves, the high court's first major case on broadcast indecency in 30 years.
The case concerns a Federal Communications Commission policy that allows for fines against broadcasters for so-called 'fleeting expletives,' one-time uses of the F-word or its close cousins."
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POLS 354:
We were talking about this issue area on Thursday. Here is the USSC getting into the act for the first time in a long, long while.
The case concerns a Federal Communications Commission policy that allows for fines against broadcasters for so-called 'fleeting expletives,' one-time uses of the F-word or its close cousins."
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POLS 354:
We were talking about this issue area on Thursday. Here is the USSC getting into the act for the first time in a long, long while.
Friday, March 14, 2008
THE NEW REPUBLIC | Blogs
THE NEW REPUBLIC: Making Obama Unelectable: "She needs to convince the remaining uncommitted superdelegates to split for her by about a 2-to-1 margin. The only way she can get a split like that is if she can persuasively argue that Obama is unelectable. And the only way she can do that is to make him unelectable. Some people have treated this as an unfortunate byproduct of Clinton's decision to continue her campaign. It's actually a central element of the strategy. Penn is already saying he's unelectable. It's not true, but by the time the convention rolls around, it may well be."
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This analysis says that Clinton's strategy is to trash Obama so badly that by the time the convention rolls around he will be unelectable as president. That leaves her. Charming.
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This analysis says that Clinton's strategy is to trash Obama so badly that by the time the convention rolls around he will be unelectable as president. That leaves her. Charming.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
ABC News: Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11
ABC News: Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11: "Sen. Barack Obama's pastor says blacks should not sing 'God Bless America' but 'God damn America.'"
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And he has a lot more to say about America as well, all of it vehemently negative. This has finally hit the mainstream media. Barack Obama has been attending this church and listening to this pastor for 20 years. Now Obama will have to explain why he is comfortable with this pastor.
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And he has a lot more to say about America as well, all of it vehemently negative. This has finally hit the mainstream media. Barack Obama has been attending this church and listening to this pastor for 20 years. Now Obama will have to explain why he is comfortable with this pastor.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Geraldine Ferraro lets her emotions do the talking - The Daily Breeze
Geraldine Ferraro lets her emotions do the talking - The Daily Breeze: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,' she continued. 'And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.'"
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Well. So says Geraldine Ferraro, former VP candidate for Walter Mondale in 1984, currently major player in the Hillary Clinton campaign and undoubtedly speaking as one of the many surrogates for the candidate, saying the things Clinton wants said but doesn't want to say herself. How's that for tossing a stink bomb into the room? See what I mean when I say that the Clinton's will do and say absolutely anything to win, no matter how destructive it is for the party?
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Well. So says Geraldine Ferraro, former VP candidate for Walter Mondale in 1984, currently major player in the Hillary Clinton campaign and undoubtedly speaking as one of the many surrogates for the candidate, saying the things Clinton wants said but doesn't want to say herself. How's that for tossing a stink bomb into the room? See what I mean when I say that the Clinton's will do and say absolutely anything to win, no matter how destructive it is for the party?
Monday, March 10, 2008
2News' Exclusive Interview With Sen. Barack Obama
2News' Exclusive Interview With Sen. Barack Obama: "'Senator Clinton hints that both of you could be on the same ticket. Do you see any circumstances where that would happen?' Mullahy asked.
'Not with me as vice president,' Obama replied. 'I am running for president.'
'If she is suggesting that she is interested in the vice presidency, then obviously that is something we would take into consideration,' he added."
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POLS 101:
Bill and Hillary Clinton have been floating publicly the idea that after she steals--I mean wins--the nomination, Hillary will magnanimously extend the VP slot to Obama. But Obama isn't having any of that, and calls BS on it, as he should, because he is solidly ahead. For Clinton to talk about Obama as VP after she just lost (by my count) 13 out of the last 16 state contests, leaving her so far behind that she can't possibly catch him in pledged delegates, is a new high in chutzpah, even for a Clinton.
'Not with me as vice president,' Obama replied. 'I am running for president.'
'If she is suggesting that she is interested in the vice presidency, then obviously that is something we would take into consideration,' he added."
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POLS 101:
Bill and Hillary Clinton have been floating publicly the idea that after she steals--I mean wins--the nomination, Hillary will magnanimously extend the VP slot to Obama. But Obama isn't having any of that, and calls BS on it, as he should, because he is solidly ahead. For Clinton to talk about Obama as VP after she just lost (by my count) 13 out of the last 16 state contests, leaving her so far behind that she can't possibly catch him in pledged delegates, is a new high in chutzpah, even for a Clinton.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
The real delegate trend on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
The real delegate trend on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
POLS 101:
The press coverage keeps making it a horse race, as though Hillary Clinton seems to have a chance, but this chart shows why she really doesn't...unless she can work miracles strong-arming the superdelegates. She needs a greater percentage of a smaller remaining pool of pledged delegates. All Obama has to do is keep the remaining primaries reasonably close.
POLS 101:
The press coverage keeps making it a horse race, as though Hillary Clinton seems to have a chance, but this chart shows why she really doesn't...unless she can work miracles strong-arming the superdelegates. She needs a greater percentage of a smaller remaining pool of pledged delegates. All Obama has to do is keep the remaining primaries reasonably close.
abc13.com: Katy homeowner loses fight over landscaping at her home 3/08/08
abc13.com: Katy homeowner loses fight over landscaping at her home 3/08/08: "The homeowner thought the yard was beautiful. However, the homeowner's association disagreed and took drastic measures to resolve the situation. Now it's the homeowner who says her trees and her rights were pruned back too far.
On a blustery morning, Lisagay Wright surveys what's left of a yard she's spent the past 17 years landscaping."
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The Taste Police strike again. I guess one of the great pleasures of HOA living is being subject to the whims of your neighbors.
On a blustery morning, Lisagay Wright surveys what's left of a yard she's spent the past 17 years landscaping."
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The Taste Police strike again. I guess one of the great pleasures of HOA living is being subject to the whims of your neighbors.
Tucker Carlson unintentionally reveals the role of the American press - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Tucker Carlson unintentionally reveals the role of the American press - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
POLS 101:
This is a devastating comparison of US journalistic practices with those of the United Kingdom. It is based on the Samantha Power goof, in which the Obama foreign policy advisor referred to Hillary Clinton as a "monster" who would "stoop to anything." She then said that the comment was "off the record." But the newspaper ran it anyway. That's because it was The Scotsman, in the UK. In the US, it would never have run because she said--after blurting out the comment--that it was off the record. In the UK, it's too late to specify that after you say it. In the US, the press is so worried about "burning" official sources and thus losing access to them that they honor such requests. Check it out, complete with video.
POLS 101:
This is a devastating comparison of US journalistic practices with those of the United Kingdom. It is based on the Samantha Power goof, in which the Obama foreign policy advisor referred to Hillary Clinton as a "monster" who would "stoop to anything." She then said that the comment was "off the record." But the newspaper ran it anyway. That's because it was The Scotsman, in the UK. In the US, it would never have run because she said--after blurting out the comment--that it was off the record. In the UK, it's too late to specify that after you say it. In the US, the press is so worried about "burning" official sources and thus losing access to them that they honor such requests. Check it out, complete with video.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Clinton Again Raises Running With Obama
Clinton Again Raises Running With Obama: "HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday again raised the possibility that she might run with rival Sen. Barack Obama on the same Democratic presidential ticket. Speaking to voters in Mississippi, where Sen. Barack Obama is expected to do well in next week's primary, Clinton said, 'I've had people say, 'Well I wish I could vote for both of you. Well, that might be possible some day. But first I need your vote on Tuesday.' It is the second time this week that she has hinted at a joint ticket with the Illinois senator; he has not ruled it out but says it is premature to be having those discussions."
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POLS 101:
Note that this time she raised this prospect on her own in a speech. Her plan is pretty obvious. She is going to trash Obama to the point where she gets the nomination. By that time she will have ticked off his supporters. So then she will offer him the VP slot, figuring that his supporters will then vote for the joint ticket because having Obama as VP is better than nothing. They won't like it, and they won't be happy with her, but all she wants to do is win, so if they vote, who cares how they feel? That's her calculation. And Obama is expected to think that he will be next in line in 8 years, by which time he will still be plenty young enough. But if he goes for that deal, not only will he never be President, but he will end up politically ruined. If Hillary Clinton is elected, she will continue in the Clintonian path of destroying the people around her, sabotaging their careers, or placing them under some sort of ethical cloud. She will set Obama up for a fall somehow.
And as for the Obama-Clinton ticket, with him as the President and Hillary as VP, if he is dumb enough to do that (and I think he is way too smart to do it), he had better hire himself an army of food-tasters and make sure that somebody starts the car before he gets into it.
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POLS 101:
Note that this time she raised this prospect on her own in a speech. Her plan is pretty obvious. She is going to trash Obama to the point where she gets the nomination. By that time she will have ticked off his supporters. So then she will offer him the VP slot, figuring that his supporters will then vote for the joint ticket because having Obama as VP is better than nothing. They won't like it, and they won't be happy with her, but all she wants to do is win, so if they vote, who cares how they feel? That's her calculation. And Obama is expected to think that he will be next in line in 8 years, by which time he will still be plenty young enough. But if he goes for that deal, not only will he never be President, but he will end up politically ruined. If Hillary Clinton is elected, she will continue in the Clintonian path of destroying the people around her, sabotaging their careers, or placing them under some sort of ethical cloud. She will set Obama up for a fall somehow.
And as for the Obama-Clinton ticket, with him as the President and Hillary as VP, if he is dumb enough to do that (and I think he is way too smart to do it), he had better hire himself an army of food-tasters and make sure that somebody starts the car before he gets into it.
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