Archive | February, 2008

Got Scrutiny? bumped The media fluff fest on Mr. O. is ending. Dan Balz wrote yesterday that is was “time to question Obama, too.” But the conversation that really needs to begin is what started here a while back, when everyone was piling on Clinton. Today Sean Wilentz goes at the heart of the Obama [...]

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Right-wing Radio Host Gets Smacked by McCain updated “They told me to fire up the crowd. You’re talking to conservatives,” Cunningham said of the McCain campaign. “Get them fired up and give them some red meat. And I did. In fact, when I left, John, the crowd was cheering,” Cunningham told host John Roberts. – [...]

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Clinton fights for children and families. She fights for women’s rights around the world. She fights for health care. She fights for veterans’ health care too. After a year in the primary season, Hillary Clinton has found her theme: I’m a fighter. It does not go unnoticed that she’s fighting to win this nomination even [...]

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Whew, Clinton and Russert do not like each other, that’s for sure. But Timmy channeling his Iraq roots is just too much to take. However, it was the best Clinton has ever been on Iraq, the clearest, too. She’s also finally got a theme: She’s a fighter. Discuss.

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Russert on Iraq sounds like McCain and the Republicans. This is not good for Democrats, with Russert driving this debate. Once again, he’s inserting himself, just look at his voice levels. He’s more emotional than the candidates. … .. Finally. Somebody brings up the NATO committee Obama co-chairs, but hasn’t called one single meeting. It [...]

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The Ohio River They’re sitting next to each other tonight at the debate, with few rules. There’s been a lot of talk. Will she or won’t she attack? In an event today, a clip played on cable revealed that Clinton said she “got a little hot over the weekend in Cincinnati.” She went on to [...]

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‘Bro’s Before Ho’s’ “Bro’s Before Ho’s” And people wonder why I question whether this country is ready for a female president. This type of stuff proves we haven’t come any further than the 1800s, not that we needed t-shirts, mugs, baby clothes, buttons and hats to teach us about the misogynistic culture in which we [...]

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Whatever it is, it’s stuck on Obama’s shoe and the stench will follow him into the general election, if he’s the Democratic nominee. It doesn’t matter that there is absolutely no proof of any wrong doing by Obama. It’s the perception that matters. What we know right now points to a lot more than a [...]

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It’s the Dick Morris plan, thus the re-air of the video above. We’ve talked about this before. … .. “The argument I’ve seen is, ‘Let’s get rid of Clinton once and for all,’ ” said Ralph Bordie, who conducts the IVR Poll in Texas. Bordie’s latest statewide poll released last week found that 15 percent [...]

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Got ideology? Not so much. … .. The Clintonites were moderates, but they were also ideological. They explicitly rejected the liberalism of the 1970s and ’80s. The Obamanauts are decidedly non-ideological. They occasionally reach out to progressive think tanks like the Economic Policy Institute, but they also come from a world– academic economics–whose inhabitants generally [...]

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photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times A Clinton – Clark ticket, what a winner that would be. Last week’s debate Clinton let Obama off the hook. Then let fly the “xerox” line that she didn’t feel. Her closing was compassionate, but it’s not going to close the deal with voters still torn: … .. The [...]

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It’s so last century. “I’m a believer in knowing what you’re doing when applying for a job, and I think that if I were seriously consider running on a national ticket, I would essentially have to start now before having served a day in the Senate. Now, there are some people who would be comfortable [...]

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If Hillary Clinton gives what is being billed as a “major foreign policy speech,” and only MSNBC covers it, but by the time I un-mute the tv it was over. It doesn’t say much for the respect Democrats garner on the issue. It may also say something about the coverage Clinton gets, which may be [...]

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Taylor Marsh LIVE! 3:15 p.m. eastern – 12:15 pacific Missed the show? Podcast is up. You’ve got to wonder if Drudge isn’t playing Democrats like a violin, which is clearly been in evidence so far, with several bloggers in The Progressive Village automatically taking Drudge’s word for it. See DaveJ. In a conference call that [...]

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