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Why Clinton Lost
2008-06-08 21:34:00 In most nomination battles the front runner wins or there is a single event which is commonly blamed for the loss. Ed Muskie cried in New Hampshire, before the same act gave Hillary Clinton a temporary reprieve. George Romney admitted he was brainwashed about Vietnam, while Hillary Clinton stubbornly refused to admit she was wrong ... More About: Politics , Lost , Barack Obama
Crushing Doctors
2008-06-08 00:05:00 Matthew Yglesias provides a good example of what Democrats must avoid if they are to become a majority party. He presents a graph on Medicare spending and concludes that the solution is “crushing of the doctor’s lobby” and “some kind of doctor-crushing initiative.” Fortunately he has many readers, which presumably includes liberal Democratic voters, who ... More About: Economy , Doctors , Health Care , Barack Obama , Blogosphere
Attempts to Con Jewish Voters About Obama
2008-06-07 22:43:00 Although Jewish voters represent only a very small percent of the population, there certainly seems to be considerable effort to scare Jewish voters away from voting for Obama . Yesterday I noted the attempts of the Clinton campaign to use race to create a wedge with Jewish voters. There was another report yesterday from Christopher Hayes ... More About: Religion , Barack Obama , Voters
Quote of the Day: Clinton Endorses Obama
2008-06-07 21:33:00 The way to continue our fight now, to accomplish the goals for which we stand is to take our energy, our passion, our strength, and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama , the next president of the United States. Today, as I suspend my campaign, I congratulate him on the victory he has won ... More About: Politics , Hillary Clinton , Quote Of The Day
Even Conservatives and Libertarians Are Debunking Attack From Crazed Clinto
2008-06-07 03:29:00 As bad as all the dishonesty and racism which came directly from the Clinton campaign was, even worse has come from some of the blogs backing Clinton. This includes one prominent Clinton blogger spreading rumors of a nonexistant tape of Michelle Obama using a derogatory term for whites. This attack is so lame that even ... More About: In the News , Blogosphere , Conservatives , Libertarians , Attack
Clinton Superdelegate Exposes Racist Strategy of Clinton Campaign
2008-06-07 02:21:00 The use of racism as a strategy by the Clinton campaign has been discussed frequently, and, along with other dishonest tactics, has been a major reason why many Democrats backed Barack Obama . Finally a superdelegate who supported Clinton has come clean and admitted that this was part of their strategy. The (New Jersey) Star Ledger ... More About: Politics , Strategy , Hillary Clinton , Campaign
John McCain Remembers William Jennings Bryan
2008-06-06 19:46:00 John McCain appears to be demonstrating his long memory in an interview with USA Today: “I believe that people are interested very much in substance,” McCain said. “If it was simply style, William Jennings Bryan would have been president.” (Bryan, a noted orator, lost three presidential elections as the Democratic nominee in 1896, 1900 and 1908.) It ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Al Gore , John
Clinton the Wrong Choice For Obama
2008-06-06 19:15:00 I don’t imagine that George Will is tops on the reading list for most readers here. Therefore it might be worth pointing out his current column as it pretty much echoes what I’ve written in the past about the prospect of picking Hillary Clinton to be Obama ’s running mate. The key point is that, while ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama
Just Say No
2008-06-06 07:35:00 It is unfortunate that there will not be a new episode of Saturday Night Live on this week (something I haven’t felt since the original cast left) and that Jon Stewart won’t be on until Monday. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton met Thursday evening. There’s no word on what they really talked about, only increasing ...
An Obama/Kennedy Ticket?
2008-06-06 01:32:00 Back in 2000 George Bush had Dick Cheney conduct a search for a running mate. Dick Cheney looked far and wide for possible choices, and picked himself. This year Caroline Kennedy is helping Obama look at potential running mates. In light of the example from Dick Cheney, I have joked elsewhere that perhaps Kennedy would ... More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Ticket
Bush Lied, People Died
2008-06-05 19:32:00 After a long delay the the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the run up to the war was finally released. The full reports (pdf) are available here: “Report on Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq by U.S. Government officials Were Substantiated by Intelligence Information” “Report on Intelligence Activities Relating to Iraq Conducted by the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group ... More About: Congress , Bush , Terrorism , People
Preparing For The Rapture
2008-06-05 19:06:00 Wired reports on how the internet helps true believers prepare for the rapture. One offer sounds a bit silly but harmless to those willing to throw away $40 per year: For just $40 a year, believers can arrange for up to 62 people to get a final message exactly six days after the Rapture , that day ... More About: Religion , The Rapture
McCain Trails Obama as Bush Falls to New Low
2008-06-05 17:38:00 The latest CBS News poll has bad news both for the current Republican president and the Republican who seeks to replace him. Obama leads McCain 48 percent to 42 percent. We can’t count on this holding as polls this far out have not had very good predictive value in the past. Look at George H. ... More About: Politics , Bush , George Bush , Barack Obama
Vetting Bill Clinton
2008-06-05 05:56:00 There are many reasons why Hillary Clinton should not, and probably will not, be offered the vice presidential spot by Barack Obama . I discussed some of these here and here. The Wall Street Journal points out another reason–Bill Clinton ’s business dealings since leaving office. A hurdle for an Obama-Clinton ticket, Clinton associates say, might well ...
Obama Receiving Jewish Support, Along With ?Unendorsement? From Hamas
2008-06-05 03:56:00 Sometimes an unendorsement helps more than an endorsement. In April, Ahmed Yousef, an advisor to Hamas, made some favorable comments about Obama in an interview. This was spun by conservatives as meaning that Hamas had endorsed Obama. If so, today he received the unendorsement after speaking before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Reuters ... More About: Politics , Religion , International , Jewish , Barack Obama
Finally!
2008-06-05 01:32:00 Multiple news sources, including ABC News, CNN, and The New York Times are sending out alerts reporting that Hillary Clinton will drop out of the race on Friday. While details remain sketchy, it appears she will announce this at a meeting of supporters, most likely to be held in New York City. Reportedly she will ... More About: Politics , Breaking News , Barack Obama , Finally
?Fair and Balanced? Teaching on Evolution
2008-06-05 00:51:00 We’ve already seen the religious right turn to intelligent design when their attempts to teach creationism in the schools was shot down. With this tactic not working, The New York Times reports they have come up with a new strategy: Starting this summer, the state education board will determine the curriculum for the next decade and ... More About: Religion , Education , Evolution , Teaching , Fair
It?s Obama?s Party Now
2008-06-05 00:18:00 As nominee, Barack Obama is now leader of the Democratic Party . We can expect to see him quickly take control of the party mechanism, which will be directed towards the election of Barack Obama and other Democrats running down ticket. There’s one early sign of this at the Democratic National Committee’s web site. There is ...
The Top Ten Things Heard At Hillary Clinton Campaign Headquarters
2008-06-05 00:06:00 David Letterman presents a list of The Top Ten Things Heard At Hillary Clinton Campaign Headquarters (video above).
Why Obama Should Not Negotiate With Terrorists (Like the Clintonistas)
2008-06-04 23:46:00 There are signs that Hillary Clinton really is seeking the vice presidential nomination, although this is far from certain. Earlier I argued against Obama choosing Hillary Clinton as his running mate. Jimmy Carter agrees: “I think it would be the worst mistake that could be made,” said Carter. “That would just accumulate the negative aspects of ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Terrorists
Hillary Clinton Should Not Be Obama?s Running Mate
2008-06-04 09:16:00 Hillary Clinton appears interested in running for vice president. Hopefully Obama does not allow this to happen. There are several reasons why Clinton would be a poor choice. From a purely electoral perspective, Clinton does not offer very much. Many of the people who voted for Clinton over Obama are traditional Democratic voters who will vote ... More About: Running , Hillary Clinton , In the News
Obama Won First Skirmish With McCain
2008-06-04 07:29:00 If we can consider tonight a view of the general election campaign, Democrats should feel very good about their presumptive nominee and Republicans should feel very bad. Comparing the speeches made it clear that Obama is setting the agenda and the election is his to lose. Barack Obama campaigned with a slogan, “Change You Can Believe ... More About: Politics , Iraq , Cain
We Still Have Hillary Clinton To Kick Around
2008-06-04 06:39:00 It looks like we still have Hillary Clinton to kick around. Instead of conceding after Obama clinched the nomination, it sounded more, as Ezra Klein quipped, that the message was, “I think Clinton may be willing to offer Obama the vice presidency.” When Richard Nixon conceded defeat after running for Governor of California in 1962 many ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , In the News
The Nominee
2008-06-04 03:05:00 AP, CNN, and NBC News have declared Barack Obama the winner of the Democratic nomination. At the moment the South Dakota polls closed he was projected to win more than enough delegates for victory. More About: Breaking News
Gwyneth Paltrow Models Mini-Dress and Endorses Obama
2008-06-04 00:08:00 From Harper’s Bazaar: ?I don?t feel there?s any lip service with [Obama]. I don?t feel like he?s one of those jaded politicos who say one thing and are talking out of both sides of their mouth. I also feel we?ve done such damage to our reputation ? and as someone who lives outside America for half ... More About: Entertainment , Gwyneth Paltrow , Models , Barack Obama , In the News
Kerry Challenger Fails To Qualify For Ballot
2008-06-03 23:58:00 On today, the day that Barack Obama clinches the Democratic nomination, I had been thinking back to 2004 and John Kerry ’s (much quicker) victory for the nomination. While there really has not been much doubt for a while that Obama would win the presidential nomination this year and that John Kerry would be reelected to ... More About: Politics , Ballot
Clinton Rules
2008-06-03 21:23:00 Even though the nomination race is effectively over, we are faced with the effects of Clinton -logic on the nation. Many Clinton supporters are threatening to vote for John McCain because they have fallen for Clinton’s fallacious claims, such as that she leads the popular vote, and her erroneous application of calls to count all the ... More About: Rules
Obama To Clinch Nomination
2008-06-03 20:49:00 History is being made today. Nothing is official until the convention meets, but for all practical purposes Barack Obama will clinch the Democratic nomination today in a sensational upset over Hillary Clinton , whose nomination at one point was considered inevitable by many. In the absence of an official victory point until the convention, the closest we ... More About: Politics , Breaking News , Nomination
Hillary?s Brother Might Vote For Bob Barr
2008-06-03 07:18:00 We’ve seen a lot of Clinton supporters swear they will vote for John McCain should Obama win the nomination. Among the Clinton supporters who threaten not to vote for Obama are Hillary ’s brother, Tony Rodham. (Hat tip to Freedom Democrats). However he might not vote for McCain: ?I didn?t say that. It could be Bob Barr,? ... More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Vote
Will Wilkinson on Liberaltarianism
More articles from this author:2008-06-03 06:53:00 If you think of libertarianism in terms of the prominent political candidates this year, it looks like there is basically a choice between conservatives who are at very least friendly to racists and white supremacists (Ron Paul ) and conservatives who reject white supremacists (Bob Barr). While there are some areas of common agreement on civil ... More About: Economy , Blogosphere , Libertarianism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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