Elections
You want “specifics”?
I am so tired of people, like James Wolcott, regurgitating the line that Hillary Clinton offers “specifics” while Obama offers none. Please. Go here to the “Issues” section of Obama’s website and you will find specific after specific on no fewer than 20 relevant policy categories. Wolcott sniffs: “… [Obama’s] summons to history and call to hope seems to transcend
Political bits, bytes cont’d.
~ A friend noted that I’d yet to offer my take on Ron Paul, so for the record: he’s an irrelevant kook with ties to the xenophobic paleo-right, and he’s stated that he doesn’t accept the theory of evolution. (Like others similarly ignorant of science, Paul seems to think that the word “theory” is synonymous with “wild guess.”) And yet
The day after
You look at the Democratic electoral map and you see something incredible: a resounding “yes” vote for Obama’s message, stretching from Connecticut to Georgia to New Mexico to Idaho. Andrew Sullivan says it best: “…the race goes on and [Obama] may not ultimately win the nomination. But he will have won this campaign. And he will have won the argument.”
Yes We Can
Yes We Can. (Herbie says so.) Obama on Super Tuesday.
State of the Union: Obama responds
Here for video. From the final graf: Each year, as we watch the State of the Union, we see half the chamber rise to applaud the President and half the chamber stay in their seats. We see half the country tune in to watch, but know that much of the country has stopped even listening. Imagine if next year was
Hitchens on Huckabee
Something to take note of post-MLK Day: Mike Huckabee recently said this in support of South Carolina’s right to fly the Confederate battle flag over the statehouse: You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag. In fact, if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with
Political bits, bytes
~ Seems clear enough that the Clintonistas, not the Obamites, are playing dirty politics at this stage. BET founder Robert L. Johnson, one of the most cynical operators around, has lined up behind Clinton and touched off a firestorm with comments that seemed inteded to smear Obama. Johnson’s unsavory record as a propagandist for Social Security privatization, estate tax repeal
The real Giuliani
I saw this footage when it first aired years ago on NY-1, and I felt that it spoke volumes about Rudy Giuliani’s character. Now that he’s campaigning, if questions are raised about, say, his dealings with Bernard Kerik, it won’t be so easy for him to bully his way out. I shudder to think of this man with runaway executive