Nader again?
Month: January 2008
From Obama To McCain?
No doubt this represents disgust at the core of the Obama coalition and little else. But I have received too many emails on these lines not to pass it along:
I am a lifelong Democrat and have been a strong Obama advocate–even donating money for the very first time in my life. (And I am over 50.) Still, all along, I thought, if Clinton gets the nomination, I’d vote for her over a Republican. Especially after the past decade of the Republican experience. However, after seeing Clinton in action in these past weeks and at last night’s debate (as well as Bill’s "contributions"), I will never vote for her. Never. If she gets the nomination, I will have to hope that McCain is nominated and give him a good look.
While I have considerable disagreement with him on a policy level, he is a man of integrity. (Mostly; but that’s another email.) Perhaps a McCain presidency balanced by a Democratic Congress will serve the country well. But no matter the Republican nominee, one thing is certain: I will not vote for Hillary. The person who once bemoaned the politics of personal destruction now applies them with stomach-turning zeal. Not to mention her well-crafted art of the politics of distortion. No, that’s not what I want for this country. We’ve had enough of destruction, distortion and manipulation. Obama is a breath of welcome fresh air. If the country does not see it, well, then I suppose we’ll "get what we deserve." Again.
It’s About Bill
Eugene Robinson diagnoses the source of Bill Clinton’s anger toward Obama.
“50 Versions of Right And Wrong.”
Competing truths is anathema to Christianists. So last night, in Florida, Huckabee made the classic liberal case against federalism on moral matters.
The Clintons vs Obama
Jake Tapper looks at the question of whether the Clintons have been deliberately misquoting and misrepresenting the Illinois senator. It’s a helpful piece simply laying out the evidence. And it’s damning for the Clintons.
Obama’s Potential
I loved this Byron York anecdote from South Carolina:
I went to Barack Obama’s rally here, on Sunday night, with a Republican friend who had never seen the Illinois senator in action before. Watching the crowd of more than 3,000 fill up the convention center, watching the people send up waves of energy to Obama, and watching him play off that energy in a speech that was one of the best political performances anyone has seen this year, my Republican friend said, simply, "Oh, shit." He recalled the scene from Jaws, in which the small seaside town’s sheriff realizes how big the shark he’s tracking truly is, and says, "We’re gonna need a bigger boat."
Why is something so obvious to Republicans not clear (yet) to Democrats?
Reverse Von Hoffmann Award Nominee
Check the definition here. The nomination goes to RIch Lowry, yesterday morning:
"It can’t be long before the Clinton team uses Obama’s relationship with a shady Chicago developer named Tony Rezko to try to make him seem as if he’s running the most corrupt political operation since, well, the 1996 Clinton re-election campaign."
And last night:
"I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago."
A Clinton-Edwards Pow-Wow?
The Cynics’ Case For Clinton
The very tendentiousness of some of her attacks on Barack Obama is sort of the point.
Limbaugh Loses It
The internecine war in the Republican party if McCain wins the nomination will be brutal to watch. The photo-image is taken from Rush’s own site:
Those of us who are opposing these McCain… Let me set this up a better way. When Huckabee was coming out of nowhere in Iowa, we had numerous pundits on the left who write
their conservatism to be read by liberals, jumping on the Huckabee bandwagon. And then McCain came out of nowhere in New Hampshire, and then they jumped on the McCain bandwagon. Romney wins in Michigan, and they didn’t jump on the Romney bandwagon. They stayed on the McCain bandwagon. Then we go to Wyoming, and Romney won all the delegates there, and they didn’t jump on the Romney bandwagon. They stayed on the McCain bandwagon and hoped for Huckabee. And then we get to South Carolina and Nevada. In Nevada, Romney cleans up, and nobody talks about it. "Romney is nowhere. He’s off the charts. He should quit. Thompson should quit. He should get out of the race!" They remain on the McCain bandwagon. Now the people on the McCain bandwagon are telling those of us who aren’t on the McCain bandwagon, to shut up. Just be quiet. We are supposedly damaging the Republican Party.
We are supposedly damaging the conservative movement. We should just shut up. Just sit by and watch all this stuff and let it happen and just be quiet. What is the point?
Hewitt and Limbaugh face off against Kristol and Brooks. And they say the Democratic race is getting nasty.
The Dish 