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Archive | May, 2008
Obama Leaves Trinity Church
BY TAYLOR MARSH via The New Yorker Let’s just call it an inconvenient church. Timing is everything, baby. Besides, let’s face it, he doesn’t need them anymore. He joined. Solidified his place in Illinois politics. Then shed it today like skin off a snake. Obama quits his church following Father Michael Pfleger’s sermon ridiculing Sen. [...]
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Meanwhile, in Puerto Rico…
Guest post by Scan Pretty amazing that Pat Robertson’s network has the best reporting on the Puerto Rico primary that I’ve seen thus far. But very little about this season has made sense…so whatever. Hillary is making stops in nine Puerto Rico cities on the eve of the election, by the way. Not too shabby. [...]
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Evening Arguments Thread
Guest post by Scan Results: [6:40pm] Alice Huffman’s motion to fully seat the Florida delegation has failed 15 to 12. Room breaks out in cheers and boos, followed by chants of “DENVER! DENVER! DENVER!” from many in the crowd. Wow. [6:48] Motion to seat Florida’s entire delegation with a 1/2 vote each passes unanimously. [7:00] [...]
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If Exit Polls Determined Delegates…
Guest post by Scan President John Kerry on election night We all remember how close it was in 2004. It appeared that John Kerry was falling short in the vote totals in Ohio and was on the verge of conceding. However, since the exit polls suggested him doing better than the actual vote totals, the [...]
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Liveblog IV – The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting
Guest post by Scan Is it lunchtime yet? DAVID BONOIR: Presents Obama’s case. Went over how Michigan got itself in this situation. Rolled out the Hillary Clinton quote that Michigan “doesn’t count”. Twice. Delegates should be split out of “simple fairness” – lots of cheers and boos. Says the idea that Obama blocked a revote [...]
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The Clinton and Obama Possibility
BY TAYLOR MARSH Still watching the live RBC meeting, which you can watch live here, but it’s time for a little mind break. Die hard supporter Lanny Davis lays it out today. The final argument for Hillary comes down to three points – with points one and two leading to the third. First, Sen. Clinton [...]
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Liveblog III – The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting
Guest post by Scan Michigan presentations are beginning. MARK BREWER, Chairman, Michigan Democratic Party: Pushes the compromise allocation of 69 delegates for Clinton and 59 for Obama. States that supporters, independent from the Obama and Edwards campaigns, organized the uncommitted vote of 40%. This assertion will hopefully be challenged. Says that since Obama’s supporters seemed [...]
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Liveblog II – The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting
Guest post by Scan Take note of Jon Ausman’s wrap-up: “Florida has been well and truly punished. We are responding to a Republican game and it needs to stop.” SENATOR BILL NELSON: Committee should seat the delegation, and do so without penalty. Almost two million FL voters showed up, and violated no rules, yet they [...]
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Liveblog – The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting
Guest post by Scan Will we be able to retire this graphic after today? Watch the meeting live on the cable news networks and CSPAN, or online at CNN.com. Arguing the case for Clinton will be former Michigan Governor Jim Blanchard and Florida state Senator Arthenia Joyner. Former Michigan Congressman David Bonior and Florida Congressman [...]
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Bitter Michigan and Florida Cling to Counting the Vote
BY TAYLOR MARSH graphic by TM.com reader esand It starts tomorrow at 6:30 a.m. CNN.com will stream it live. As I told a Boston Globe reporter yesterday, the bottom line is count the votes. I simply find it impossible to comprehend that the Democratic Party is going to stand for the disenfranchisement of voters. That [...]
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Wingnut of the Week
Guest post by Grey Linda Chavez on “Picking Judges:” Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are graduates of Ivy League law schools, Harvard and Yale respectively, and Obama taught constitutional law for a decade. Both approach the Constitution as a “living document,” which they believe must constantly be interpreted anew depending on changing circumstances, mores, [...]
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FACTS: McCain Zero
BY TAYLOR MARSH Oops. “I can tell you that it [the Surge] is succeeding. I can look you in the eye and tell you it’s succeeding. We have drawn down to pre-surge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr City are quiet.” — John McCain, Town Hall meeting, May 28, 2008. Congratulations John McCain. You were [...]
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TACTICS: Advantage McCain; Obama Reacting
BY TAYLOR MARSH One of the things I will do going forward until a nominee is picked is talk about the battle brewing between McCain and Obama, looking at it with an analyst’s eye, even though I’m a Democrat who will not support McCain no matter what happens. It’s a credit where credit is due [...]
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TM Must Reads
THE 21st century world offers ways to tweak your appearance, or alter it altogether, with women finally able to combat directly the comparison that’s always been around. Men look distinguished as they age, while women look old, unattractive, or to use Rush Limbaugh’s favorite comment, who wants to look at a woman with wrinkles? The 2012 plastic surgery statistics are out and the American Society of Plastic Surgery tells the story.
The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details what’s been going on.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.
“Norma Rae is a survivor and for the first time in her life she’s got a chance to become something more… a winner.” – Promo for “Norma Rae” CRITICS like Anne-Marie Slaughter, but especially Maureen I-Love-My-Pearls Dowd, and others [most of whom didn't read the book or do their homework] who are blaming Sheryl Sandberg for being a billionaire Ivy League graduate, while accusing her of letting corporations and government off the hook, are missing a major point.
Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, light a candle or two, and queue up a sexy playlist on your iPod.
“You Don’t Own Me” PSA -Official from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo. WHO DOESN’T know the song “You Don’t Own Me,” sung by Leslie Gore? The movie First Wives Club helped to reignite the relevancy of the song.
“Last night I interviewed Jill Stein the presidential candidate for the Green Party on this show. And I confess right now, I should have asked her to just get out of the race.” – Jennifer Granholm, “The War Room” [Current TV] THE ARGUMENT Jennifer Granholm makes above is a tactic that no longer fits the times.
“With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute,” Chief Oates said. [New York Times] IN THE GAPING MAW of our leadership vacuum stands Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates, whose resolve, vulnerability and humility inside the vortex of a man made hell revealed what nobody in Congress or either political party has shown in decades. Leadership without regard to anything but his own duty to the people, which included the cops in the eye of volcanic carnage.
“Rick Doblin has done a lot for the field, but he is more of a populist,” Grob says. “We need careful and controlled scientific studies showing the efficacy of these drugs so funding can continue.” Broader awareness of these sorts of end-of-life psychedelic studies could be good for everyone, the researchers say.
*updated below* So much for keep calm and carry on, what Joe Scarborough proclaims to be his motto. It was the weirdest one-on-one back and forth with a high profile talking head imaginable. It makes high school look mature.
**UPDATED** Would we be any worse off with Stephen Colbert as president? I doubt it. Politifact has watched the video “(repeatedly!
Despite rising public concern about the federal budget deficit, Americans favor keeping Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are rather than taking steps to reduce the budget deficit (by 60% vs. 32%). – Public Wants Changes in Entitlements, Not Changes in Benefits This is starting early, so it’s time to revisit the facts.
“If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.” – Sect. Hillary Clinton Women can do it, too.
The interview with Obama by George Stephanopoulos wasn’t nearly as contentious as the interview with the Edwardses. No Republican talking points from Stephanopoulos yesterday, like when he accused Edwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: “Do you think the Democrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off funding for the troops?” Or this one: “You know, a lot of Democrats still in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater.
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