Well, we know whence he got his temper and candor:
Steve Scully: This is a political question in terms of how he gets the nomination, but just from what you have seen, how much support do you think he has among the base of the Republican Party?
Roberta McCain: I don’t think he has any. I don’t know what the base of the Repub–maybe I don’t know enough about it, but I’ve not seen any help whatsoever.
Scully: So can he then go on and become the nominee of this party?
McCain: Yes, I think holding their nose they’re going to have to take him.
Scully: Can you explain?
McCain: Well, everything they’ve done and said. … Now I’m really popping off, but he worked like a dog to get Bush re-elected. …He’s backed Bush in everything except Rumsfeld. Have you heard other senators and congressmen backing Bush over eight years? Find me it–give me a name. I’ve not seen any public recognition of the work that he’s done for the Republican party.
Video here. A timeline of his support here. Melissa McEwan says goodbye:
Probably the only people who do care at this point are Chris Matthews and the rest of the morons in the Boys’ Club, who will no longer be able to leer over his wife like the disrespectful, perv-brained douchehounds they are.
Lovely.
The data are clear: trust and honesty are the Clintons’ liabilities, as they should be.
"I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life. But most importantly, I believe in the example that Jesus set by feeding the hungry and healing the sick and always prioritizing the least of these over the powerful. I didn’t ‘fall out in church’ as they say, but there was a very strong awakening in me of the importance of these issues in my life. I didn’t want to walk alone on this journey. Accepting Jesus Christ in my life has been a powerful guide for my conduct and my values and my ideals," – Barack Obama, Christianity Today.
Greg Sargent thinks so. I think the spin war itself is a distraction from Obama’s core message – of unifying change – and distracting from that is central to the Clintons’ strategy. It seems to me that Obama needs to focus back on the case for his own candidacy, in particular, providing explicit concrete policy detail in his public presentation. The Clintons are running as prosaic general managers. Obama should not downplay his transformational potential or his broader themes. But in the battle for base voters, many people are not hearing specifics – on the economy, on healthcare, on taxes, on climate change. He has them. He needs to repeat them. With the same mind-numbing repetitiveness that the Clintons always deploy.
Henry Kissinger discovers YouTube. Hey: it beats the Washington Post op-ed page.
A reader writes:
Is there any way you can put a moratorium on the adjectives "brown" and "black?" As a first-generation American (and a Latino of Cuban/Spanish parentage), I find it a little annoying when I am described in columns and news reports (not just yours, I might add) as a "brown" voter.
Latinos are not all "brown." You have to admit–it’s a little reductionist, no? Honestly–I’m probably paler than you. A silly quibble, maybe, but it’s something that really bugs. I didn’t appreciate Hillary making reference to "brown/black" during the debate (Obama uses the terms AA and Latino, I believe). I find it patronizing.
Megan talks laundry.
This is most definitely not your average singles ad.
