Obama Rumor Update

Noam on the trail:

Obama seemed pretty exercised about it, saying he won’t stand for this kind of innuendo and repeatedly pointing out that it took the Clinton campaign three iterations to completely deny that they were behind it. Obama invoked Kerry’s swift-boating in 2004 and said he was so quick to respond because this kind of thing can be all over the world in seconds on the Internet. As you might expect, there was some debate among the press corps here about whether Obama was so adamant because there might be some truth to the charge, or because he was trying to nip some ugly gossip in the bud. Whatever the case, he was probably right to approach it that way. The story hasn’t just captivated the lurid imagination of Washington insiders. It’s broken through to the local media here, too.

Mickey enjoys himself here.

An AOL Vent

I don’t know why I’ve stuck with AOL all these years. I guess I’m a traditionalist, and liked my old email addresses. But the past week I’ve hit a bit of a wall. The AOL online mail program is now so unreliable, slow and easily jammed that I’m stymied several times a day. I haven’t been able to access my mail for the past hour or so. Am I the only person this frustrated? Or do we all have to get Gmail in the end?

Quote For The Day

"As far as I can tell, my politics, with regard to American foreign policy and projection of American power haven’t changed very much from what they’ve always been—what I would call revolutionary liberalism. I have always resisted reactionaries from the left or right, Democrat or Republican. At the moment, the reactionary forces on the left, the Democratic netroots and their supporters—Mickey Colitis from the Daily Cuss, MoveOn.org and the Moores and Sheehans—are more fearful to me than the traditional reactionary forces of the extreme right. And the Democratic Party seems to be listening to them," – Ron Silver, explaining why he remains a Bush supporter.