Blog Nightline
01 May 2008 8:15 pm by Taylor Marsh
Blog Nightline
guest post by Grey
Craig Crawford on “Obama’s crowded bus”:
Barack Obama is a politician after all. He has shown little reluctance to throw his political patrons under the bus:
Tony Resko is a “boneheaded mistake.”
William Ayers is a “flimsy relationship.”
Jeremiah Wright is an “outrage.”
Even his grandmother is a “typical white woman.”
Maybe Sen. Obama should upgrade to a semi.
riverdaughter tells the DNC to “stuff it:”
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
What’s next? Howard Dean giving a speech at the United Nations with pictures of trailers in the desert filled with voter registration forms for unregistered voters?
Will you people get a grip?
I believe Sen. McCaskill has successfully auditioned for the role once played by Gen. Powell. At any moment, I expect she’ll roller blade out of the Senate while waving about her special superdelegate abacus.
Ben Smith has Rev. Jesse Jackson’s reaction to the Obama/Wright affair:
“It was a painful break he had to make – a break between pastor and politician, parishioner, who have different agendas,” he said after a press conference in New York.
“There’s so much pain in this whole process,” he said. “It may be premature to get a reconciliation– at least we can have a cease-fire and get back on the agenda items that matter to the American people.”
The circle is now complete; yesterday it was Sharpton’s turn, and today it’s Jackson’s. This is the only thing I want to know: in this duo, who is Batman, and who is Robin?
Jonathan Chait blogs about the “gas tax demagoguery” and lays out how Sen. Obama might benefit from it:
1. Obama needs to move the narrative past race/class/gender splits, and the gas tax — a substantive issue where the campaigns clearly differ — is the only path that’s offering itself right now.
There are four points in the list, but I had to stop there because I’d like to know how candidate Obama can get past the “class split” when Clinton is out there telling people gas it too expensive and she wants to help (and hit the oil companies at the same time), while he’s waxing poetic about the gas tax only passing on a saving equivalent to a half tank. He’s not wrong on that, but there are two factors at work against him; first, we can generally rely on the American people to want immediate action no matter what the long-term consequences may be (not our finest trait, we can all agree) and, second, once you’re tagged as an “out of touch elitist,” sneering at a saving of a half tank is really not going to help you.
Andrew Sullivan is upset with the media, or maybe just with ABC:
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It seems to me that if ABC News wants to retain any credibility, they have to yank Stephanopoulos from hosting a Clinton town hall event. The pro-Clinton bias is getting ridiculous. |
Andrew. First, ABC extended the invitation to Sens. Obama and McCain, too. Second, are you teething?
Open thread.
