Is it me or does this sound like panic from Rush Limbaugh:
It’s entirely possible, this newly constituted Republican Party which stands for nothing but liberalism lite might end up winning because a lot of the country might look at this socialist bunch the Democrats are offering and say pooey, and want no part of it, and then where are we?
You’ll have a Republican president with Bush-style immigration reform, and a cap-and-trade carbon emissions scheme.
Fordham is hosting a conference on the HBO classic. Among the highlights, these papers:
Laura Cook Kenna (George Washington U), “’I can’t turn the other cheek on this . . . My father was a Knight of Columbus’: ‘Christopher’ and the Contested Construction of Italian American Identity”
Matthew Leporati (Fordham U), “’Sometimes what happens in here is like taking a shit’: Confession and Identity in ‘The Test Dream’”
Cynthia Burkhead (U North Alabama), “Fishes and Football Coaches, Oh My! The Narrative Necessity of Dreams in The Sopranos”
Shama Rangwala (McGill U), “Creating a Little Dysentery in the Ranks: Epistemology and Class Relations in The Sopranos”
Sean O’Sullivan (Ohio State U), “Episode Five, or When Does a Narrative Become What It Is?”
The first one moves to Obama. More defections could neutralize any gains Clinton could make from Florida:
He has a mere 19 left over from the four primaries he participated in, but he has, at the lowest estimate, 13 delegates from currently-disqualified Florida. If Clinton succeeds in seating all of Florida’s delegates as elected in the state’s non-contested primary, she’ll net only 28 delegates more than Obama and Edwards combined. Joe Trippi’s fantasy about his ex-client as a kingmaker isn’t that far-fetched.
Joe Klein laments the decline of the Connecticut senator.
Robert Gates vents:
"I have noticed too much of a tendency towards what might be called “next-war-itis” – the propensity of much of the defense establishment to be in favor of what might be needed in a future conflict. …it is hard to conceive of any country confronting the United States directly in conventional terms -– ship to ship, fighter to fighter, tank to tank -– for some time to come. The record of the past quarter century is clear: the Soviets in Afghanistan; the Israelis in Lebanon; the United States in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Smaller, irregular forces -– insurgents, guerrillas, terrorists -– will find ways, as they always have, to frustrate and neutralize the advantages of larger, regular militaries. And even nation-states will try to exploit our perceived vulnerabilities in an asymmetric way, rather than play to our inherent strengths."
I hope a president Obama keeps Gates at Defense. They’d get along.
Dick Morris spikes the unity ticket. That probably makes it inevitable. He’s almost always wrong.
Higher turnout helps Clinton?
I posted the classic video here. I didn’t realize it recently became a Number One hit in Poland: re-mixed as a disco song.
