Bob Herbert: ‘Obama’s Creating A Credibility Gap’
One of Barack Obama’s biggest cheerleaders has awaken with a hangover today. For Bob Herbert it’s a matter of credibility. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c [...more]
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Now, It’s Your Turn
Yesterday, I sent out a massive mailer that included part of “The Obama Brand Implodes,” which also invited people to tell me how they were feeling as Pres. Obama starts his second year. It was ugly. I’ve not even been able to read them all yet, but I’ve posted a few responses below. [...] [...more]
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An Old Problem Resurfaces
The “panic” stories are starting. No panic here, just telling it like it is. Obama’s brand is kaput. His second year begins in the hole. Health care is on life support, after spending a flipping year on it. Democrats are endangered everywhere, and they’re evidently surprised by it all. I am not and neither are [...] [...more]
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A Side of Dish from Election 2008
updated below Jackie Collins, eat your heart out. The teases from John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s new book, ‘Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime’, are deliciously salacious. Check out New York Magazine, whose excerpt on John and Elizabeth Edwards is a reputation killer for all time, for [...] [...more]
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Bill Clinton for Coakley, Stunning Ad from Fiorina
The video featuring Carly Fiorina stunned me. I interviewed Ms. Fiorina last year, someone who, regardless of her politics, is a fearless female who has ascended the business world, had plenty of troubles doing it and staying there, but just keeps on going. Having known many people struck by cancer out of nowhere, I have [...] [...more]
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Tiger, Tiger, Tiger
What was he thinking? er… Or more to the point, what was he thinking with? No brainer. No kidding. But I’m more interested in the politics of sex and power and what could have possibly possessed a young billionaire with the world at his feet to rely on the loyalty of a Los Angeles cocktail waitress (LACW), [...] [...more]
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The Long Walk Away From Women
updated “We won because [the Democrats] need us,” Stupak said. “If they are going to summarily dismiss us by taking the pen to that language, there will be hell to pay. I don’t say it as a threat, but if they double-cross us, there will be 40 people who won’t vote with them the next time [...] [...more]
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WJC to the Rescue
When you’re in trouble, who are you going to call? When it’s economics, it’s William Jefferson Clinton. No one around does it better, and with health care in the balance, he made the case on the most practical of terms: Clinton argued that even “the most cold-hearted person” ought to support health care reform simply from [...] [...more]
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In Pelosi’s House, 64 Democrats Sell Women Out
expanded from cross-post at Huffington Post The first female Speaker of the House makes history by passing a health care bill that not only doesn’t have a robust public option, but also sells out women’s civil rights. The Republicans acted reprehensibly today, heckling women lawmakers like the chamber was a frat house. Then there were the [...] [...more]
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Selling Out Women’s Civil Rights
Pres. Obama opened the door to sell us out when he decided to put the Hyde Amendment in the budget, something Bill Clinton never did. But Mr. Obama didn’t stop there. During the stimulus fight, at the first sign of displeasure, our President personally asked that contraceptives be taken out. Now the President seems ready [...] [...more]
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GOP Opposition Mission: Make Obama Fail
For one thing, we learned that the modern conservative movement, which dominates the modern Republican Party, has the emotional maturity of a bratty 13-year-old. – Paul Krugman Paul Krugman offers questions and answers today. … How did one of our great political parties become so ruthless, so willing to embrace scorched-earth tactics even if so doing [...] [...more]
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Serious New Trouble for John Ensign
Forget another shoe dropping, think waste high hip boot. The New York Times nails John Ensign in a new report that weaves it all together. Ensign flashback: railing against Bill Clinton When admitting his extramarital affair, hypocrite John Ensign made a point of saying that his “mistake” was not as bad as WJC’s. Ensign slammed [...] [...more]
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Polanski Lawyers to Ask Clinton for ‘Clemency’
If Roman Polanski weren’t an award winning film director, having made one of the greatest films of all time, “Chinatown,” we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Ann Applebaum agrees, but for very different reasons. Though if this post is true Ms. Applebaum has some explaining to do. If an ordinary citizen, instead of a brilliant [...] [...more]
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Bill Clinton Said What?
William Jefferson Clinton seldom misreads the political tea leaves. But a couple of things he said on “Meet the Press” Sunday, as far as I’m concerned, went well wide of the mark. That is unless he believes playing his audience actually works these days. WJC is anything but stupid so that’s not it. He’s simply [...] [...more]
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Under Obama, Our Banking System Still Sucks
The vast majority of those declines were accounted for by the absence of large donors who, strategists say, have shut their checkbooks in part because Democrats have heightened their attacks on the conduct of major financial firms and set their sights on rewriting the laws that regulate their behavior. – Democrats Are Jarred by Drop [...] [...more]
