Monday’s Mini-Report

March 24, 2008

Today’s edition of quick hits.

* At the breaking point in China: “One policeman was killed and several others injured in riots Monday in western Sichuan province, China’s state media reported…. Xinhua also said that 381 people involved in protests in another Sichuan county, Aba, had surrendered to police, according to local authorities.”

* XM and Sirius merger clears another hurdle: “The U.S. Justice Department approved the merger between satellite radio companies Sirius and XM Monday, more than a year after the two companies first announced their deal…. In its decision, the Department of Justice determined that an XM-Sirius merger was not anti-competitive…. The Department of Justice did not place any conditions on the merger.” The Federal Communications Commission still has to approve the deal.

* The reversal was inevitable in light of the evidence: “The Clinton campaign says Senator Hillary Clinton may have “misspoke” recently when she said she had to evade sniper fire when she was visiting Bosnia in 1996 as first lady.”

* I ran out of time before I could dig into John Yoo’s latest missive in the Wall Street Journal, but it doesn’t appear to be going over well. Pay special attention to Steve M.’s gem of a response, which concluded, “Hackery. Absolute hackery.”

* This is more than a little discouraging: “The U.S.-led effort to choke off financing for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups is foundering because setbacks at home and abroad have undermined the Bush administration’s highly touted counter-terrorism weapon, according to current and former officials and independent experts.”

* The latest Gallup Daily Tracking poll shows Obama with a narrow lead over Clinton, and both Obama and Clinton with narrow leads over McCain.

* On a related note, Kevin did everyone a favor by stitching together two months’ worth of Gallup Daily Tracking polls. Guess what? “[F]or two nearly two months straight they’ve polled within three or four points of each other. Two months! All this new information, all the spitballs, all the ads, all the spin, and both candidates have held on to almost precisely the same level of support they had right after Super Tuesday. That’s remarkable.” It really is.

* Raise your hand if you’re skeptical about the official White House line about the hard drives the Bush gang destroyed.

* Why, oh why, won’t Pat Buchanan go away?

* A Connecticut newspaper that endorsed Joe Lieberman in 2006 regrets it now. Good.

* Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) raises the right question about Iraq: “As we mark this painful milestone, we must ask ourselves: what is the moral justification for allowing this war to continue?”

* I’m starting to get the sense that Eliot Spitzer had some real Nixonian issues.

* On a related note, what role did Republican hatchetman Roger Stone have in Spitzer’s scandal?

* Everyone read Krugman today, right?

* Dems can blow this, can they? “During the segment, NBC’s Norah O’Donnell said that McCain was ‘not smart to make himself sort of a G.I. Joe candidate’ because ‘a whopping 76 percent, in our latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, said they want a candidate who has policies different than President Bush.’ ‘This country wants to move on from that,’ said O’Donnell.”

* In case you missed it, be sure to check out the McCain Debates.

* I think it’s safe to say that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D), who was indicted today, is in real trouble.

* And finally, there’s been a Fred Thompson sighting! “After a failed run for president, Fred Thompson is getting back to pretending to be commander in chief. Hollywood’s high-powered William Morris Agency announced this week that it has signed the actor/politician, signaling a return to the screen for the former senator from Tennessee.”

Anything to add? Consider this an end-of-the-day open thread.

so shillary’s campaign now has to admit that she lied – well, they can’t say that – taking a queue from the senile republican candidate – she “mispoke.”

Gosh, what if someone calls her at 3 AM and she can’t get the story right – oh yeah – that girl in the ad doesn’t support shillary either.

So much dishonesty – too much like dur chimpfurher – not only in style but also in substance.

  • another tidbit — HRC claims to have had to duck and run for cover from sniper fire when landing in bosnia some years back; WaPo video proves that a complete lie and gives her a 4 out of 4 ‘pinnochios’. her campaign manager says she may have “misspoke” (sound familiar?)

  • I am sure it was an honest mistake on her part – she must have just gotten confused with all the other times she dodged bombs and civil war when she traveled on US business for bill….

    Oh wait – there weren’t any times when anything like this ever happened at all – its a pure fabrication.

    But who can blame her for pulling this one out of her a$$ – a trick that the record is increasingly indicating she does a great deal of.

    I can understand why some think this represents “presidential timber”, but most of America has had enough of this type of dishonest campaigning from politicians that cannot or will not tell the truth.

  • …It would be costly and time-consuming for the White House to institute an e-mail retrieval program that entails pulling data off each individual workstation, the court papers filed Friday state…

    What???

    They deliberately dismantled (at taxpayers’ expense) the archival system that was had been put in place (at taxpayers’ expense) but of course the media wouldn’t want to burden us with that information. No, they just repeat the lies they were told, like good stenographers.

  • Actually its Mccain who has a narrow lead over both in the gallup poll but both are within the margin or error which is good, once hillary drops out we will be seeing a bump for Obama

  • axt113 – and remember the bogus polls that showed chimpy was leading going into 2000 & 2004? They had to steal both and even then could only claim by the thinnest of margins.

    Remember the polls showing Hugo Chavez losing by a landlside? Exactly the opposite.

    The lying liars in the MSM know that they have nothing to loose by skewing polls now, they can always claim that some unknown factor moved public support leading up to the election.

    The polls about mclame versus whoever that are being released now are just for propaganda purposes, just like in the examples I cite above.

  • She was moved to a more secure location on the tarmac to protect her from potential snipers.
    Did she exaggerate? Yup
    Is Obama and his campaign exaggeration free? Nope.
    Do we care? Nope
    Is it a tight race? Yup
    The candidate that puts up the best fight against McCain should get the nomination.
    We ought to help.

  • Nell, you sound like a Bush supporter. Make your pro-Hillary arguments, but don’t use Bush logic please.

  • 1) Firedoglake is having a contest to find “most hypocritical quote from John McCain on campaign finance laws and the need to prosecute those who break them.” The winner receives a copy of John Anderson’s book “Follow the Money.” I’m sure there are some gems out there.

    2) The San Francisco Chronicle actually noticed that McCain actively sought Hagee’s endorsement and that it might be trouble for him in California. The article also says that McCain is having a town hall for the military in San Diego. I’m sure the audience will be carefully screened.

  • * This is more than a little discouraging: “The U.S.-led effort to choke off financing for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups is foundering because setbacks at home and abroad have undermined the Bush administration’s highly touted counter-terrorism weapon, according to current and former officials and independent experts.” I guess enough traitorous bureaucrats leaking perfectly legal weapons to fight the terrorists has finally made a dent. For the terrorists.

    * Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) raises the right question about Iraq: “As we mark this painful milestone, we must ask ourselves: what is the moral justification for allowing this war to continue?” Because we’re winning. And people wonder about McCain’s age.

    * Everyone read Krugman today, right? Some of us had the good sense not to.

    * I think it’s safe to say that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D), who was indicted today, is in real trouble. At least CB notes that Kilpatrick is a (D). How much does anyone want to bet that either Kilpatrick’s mommy or the Conyers’ (Rep. John, who represents much of Detroit, or Monica, who sits on the City Council) try to intervene on this (Monica Conyers had the sole “nay” vote from the recent symbolic City Council resolution to have Kilpatrick resign)?

  • She did more than exagerate – equating statements like that with vague, undocumented references that you proclaim someone else also did is just dishonest rhetoric.

    Sure, like, they all do it, ummmmmmmm, even lie about being shot at, you know, making themselves out to be WAR HEROS…..

    Yeah, everyone does it…. sure, Obama did it too….. Besides, it doesn’t matter anyhow cuz we all do it….. you know, pretend to be war heroes that face down direct gunfire. That is presidential alright. And if it didn’t really happen, that is OK too, cuz they all probably did it sometime – we all do this, right? Hey its not fair to even talk about it – cuz, you know Obama would have said the same lie if he were married to clinton.

    But that would be a gay marriage – and that would be even worse. Hey they all lie anyhow even if I can’t give you an example where Obama pulled false stories of bravery in the direct line of fire out of his a$$.

    You that don’t support shillary all expect too much – she is not an honest person and never will be one – now just shut up and vote for her cuz Obama did it sometime too.

    …at least I choose to think that so that I can continue to berate people that believe presidential candidates need to be held to a higher level of accountability.

  • * Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) raises the right question about Iraq: “As we mark this painful milestone, we must ask ourselves: what is the moral justification for allowing this war to continue?” Because we’re winning.

    SteveIL, you’re just doing that to pull our chains, right? You don’t really believe that “winning” ipso facto makes a war moral? A slight variation on “might makes right?”

    Is there really so little hope for enlightened civilization?

  • 2. On March 24th, 2008 at 5:34 pm, Always hopeful said:
    Sirius and XM are the only two satellite radio companies out there, no? So allowing them to merge into one is NOT a monopoly, how?

    Three main reasons, two stated in the DOJ decision, one that I assume was the elephant in the room.

    1) It depends on how you define the market. DOJ found that audio programming services was the market, and that it included internet radio, iPods, and others. So while there would only be one satellite-based provider, there would still be intermodal competition. (When Iridium was the sole commercial satellite mobile phone provider, it was technically a monopoly and that was never a big deal, for example, because it was competing with land-based mobile telephony).

    2) This one surprised me: per the DOJ findings, XM and Sirius don’t meaningfully compete today. A significant number of subscribers take whichever one comes via an exclusive agreement with their automaker, and even for those who compare competitive offerings for the initial purchase, the non-interchangable hardware means the ongoing competition for a given customer is trivial — very few people, having made the upfront investment in customer equipment, will switch providers.

    3) The elephant in the room: XM and Sirius are both so economically fragile that there is a real possibility that neither can survive. Neither has yet turned a profit. Yes, two competitors are better than one monopolist, but one provider of an innovative service is better than none at all.

  • Senator Hillary Clinton may have “misspoke” recently when she said she had to evade sniper fire

    She didn’t misspeak. She lied.

    She’s a delusional as Reagan was when he talked about having fought in World War II.

  • I am probably not the only sentient being on the planet who thinks that an op-ed from John “Boo Hoo” Yoo using the words “So much for unfiltered democracy” is quite similar to listening to a compare/contrast discussion on Shakespearian theory vs. Quantum theory between a panel consisting of Harpo Marx, Bart Simpson, James Carville, and Karl Rove.

    Getting Pat Buchanan to “go away” requires something known by its scientific term: “Buchanicide.” Suggestions and comments on how this might be accomplished should be forwarded to Mr. Buchanan personally.

  • The article also says that McCain is having a town hall for the military in San Diego. I’m sure the audience will be carefully screened.

    Nope – proof of having had a lobotomy is required to establish residence in San Diego. They were all ex-m,ilitary morons way back in the early Triassic, when I was there on the old USS Rustbucket.

  • Let me tell you about Mayor Kilpatrick…actually i won’t go into the whole thing, but i can sum it up pretty nicely. The City of Detroit (Bless it’s everlasting heart) decided…for reasons both unknown and unfathomable…to elect a mayor who used to play football for the University of Miami. No, seriously, the University of Miami’s football team…that den of inequity, convictions, drug busts, rapes, weapons charges, et al.

    But you know what, Big Kwame’s got style. He knows what livin’ large means and he knows how to roll. And maybe that’s enough. I mean, maybe you wouldn’t want to have a beer with him, but you have to consider demographics.

    It should also be noted that the people most upset with him are the suburbanites, the ones who ran away across 8 mile or past Telegraph and left the city to rot…the ones who might go downtown for a ball game or an afternoon at the DIA, but who don’t have any trouble with their local law enforcement following any car that has black people in it. Because you know, black people come from Detroit; Detroit is scary and black people are scary…best to keep them tucked safely away.

    Kilpatrick is a shit mayor, no question. But the chances of any mayor succeeding in Detroit are slim, especially since the suburbanites have no intention of putting money or effort into the city that they tell everyone they’re from (when they wouldn’t be caught dead off of Woodward after dark). Then again, nobody knows where Livonia is…and for good reason too.

  • I followed the daily Gallup tracking polls for a while and then stopped as I found they did not seem to show anything meaningful. Most of the time Obama and Clinton were within a few points. Every now and then one would seem to have momentum and start to move ahead, but they would quickly move back together. I also found that sometimes I could devise a rational for the changes based upon events in the campaigns but often the small ups and downs seemed like random events. The tracking polls also weren’t of much use in predicting the results of primaries.

  • TPM: “Speaking this morning, on Fox and Friends, [Clinton supporters] all agreed that the only fair way to decide the Democratic nomination is to base it on who has given birth more times. Upon the miraculous realization that Senator Clinton is winning that battle in a very close 1-0 match up and after further revelations that Senator Obama has absolutely no chance of catching up, the Clinton backers called on Senator Obama to give up and give the party a chance to heal.”

  • Mark Pencil (#14): SteveIL, you’re just doing that to pull our chains, right? You don’t really believe that “winning” ipso facto makes a war moral? A slight variation on “might makes right?”

    Is there really so little hope for enlightened civilization?

    Winning by itself? No. Winning to take out a murderous dictator or regime, with real ties to those who attacked us on 9/11 (I didn’t say he was involved in the attack, so don’t read into this), and putting the country on track to become part of the “enlightened civilization”, definitely. It would have been cheaper to do this 15 years ago than today, and it is cheaper today than it would be later on, since there was no way to avoid a war with Saddam Hussein. No disrespect to John Lennon, but the world he imagined doesn’t come close to being the world that is.

  • Another metric that shows why Obama needs to drop out: Length of state names. Hillary has the two longest, having won both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (the state’s official name); while Obama’s longest state was the Commonwealth of Virginia; a pitiful twenty-two letters. And if Hillary wins the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania too; she’ll have a lock on the top three.

    I don’t know about yall, but I find that all very convincing. Obama needs to drop out immediately.

  • Winning to take out a murderous dictator or regime, with real ties to those who attacked us on 9/11 (I didn’t say he was involved in the attack, so don’t read into this), and putting the country on track to become part of the “enlightened civilization”, definitely.

    wow, we overthrew the house of saud? i must’ve missed that one.

  • cause anyone who’d make excuses for those fundamentalists must really hate this country or is at the least, seriously deluded and simple-minded.

  • there was no way to avoid a war with Saddam Hussein.

    In whose fantasy world?

  • The Clinton campaign says Senator Hillary Clinton may have “misspoke” recently

    Who hasn’t done that? Why, I remember one time I was in Germany and I made this embarrassing gaffe. I was trying to impress people with my language skills and I said, “Ich bin ein Berliner.” Turns out that means I’m a donut. I should have left out the word “ein”. Oh, wait a minute… 🙂

  • A new study reveals a Republican Party ever more out of touch with the mushrooming crisis of the American health care system. Predictably, 68% of Republicans believe the U.S. has the best health system in the world, compared to only three in 10 Democrats. Ironically, those findings come just as new studies show a growing “income gap” in Americans’ life expectancy and the painful impact of rising health care costs on Americans’ stagnant wages. Most ironic, the failure of the health care system is at its worst in precisely those states that voted for George W. Bush.

    For the details, see:
    “U.S. Health Care in Red and Blue.”

  • benjoya (#25): wow, we overthrew the house of saud? i must’ve missed that one.

    A lot must have been missed. Who invaded Iran? Not Saudi Arabia. Saddam Hussein. Who invaded Kuwait? Not Saudi Arabia. Saddam Hussein. Which government murdered about a million of its own citizens? Not the one ruling Saudi Arabia. The one ruled by Saddam Hussein. Who was the one who did all of these things and supported Al Qaeda? Saddam Hussein.

    Personally, I agree that the Saudi government has got to go. But that isn’t going to happen from the current crop of politicians in Washington.

  • “Internationally, the sense of urgency over terrorism financing has waned since the 2001 attacks. As political climates have changed and negative perceptions of the United States have risen, key allies are cooperating less, current and former officials say.”

    The Bush Administration’s dismissive attitude toward the rest of the world is paying off. For the terrorists. Talking to people, those we like, those we tolerate and those we may not is key to getting even a modicum of international cooperation. Bulls in china shops have to live with their aftermaths.

    Speaking of China, where is Bush’s freedom agenda concerning China and the areas fighting to wrest themselves freedom from its oppression? Let’s see … dictatorial regime, oppressed peoples yearning to be free, lack of free and fair elections, possessing weapons of mass destruction, augmented or directly attacked US citizens (Korea, Viet Nam) … oil? Oh, no oil. Sorry, no freedom agenda for you Tibetans.

  • Raging @29 – Obviously you’ve been reading the socialist media too much if you think those studies you mention mean anything. As I’ve had it explained to me repeatedly, the real gauge as to which country has the best healthcare is based entirely on the top quality of care by those who can afford it. If Warren Buffett or Donald Trump can get better care here in the USA than they would in Old Europe, that proves that our entire system is better than their entire system. And it’s obvious that care here is better than there, as they’re too socialist and can’t possibly have better care. This can be proven anecodotally and that’s good enough for me.

    Similarly, American wages aren’t stagnating if the rich are getting richer and we’re not in a recession if some Americans’ wealth is increasing. There’s only one America, and as long as one American is doing well; we’re ALL doing well.

  • Could people please stop feeding SteveIL? He’s now suggesting that we needed to invade Iraq because Saddam invaded Iran almost thirty years ago, yet…our current government and our Republican nominee want us to invade Iran NOW. This is just absurd. SteveIL obviously doesn’t give a damn what he writes and I don’t see why we should either.

    Or perhaps SteveIL thinks we need to invade the Whitehouse too. After all, we invaded Iraq TWICE, as well as wanting to attack Iran and possibly Syria and North Korea. And what about our aggression in Vietnam, which history has shown was unnecessary and dangerous? Should have invaded LBJ and Nixon too? And what about the Spanish-American war?

  • Just a few more clinton lies:

    Hillary’s Lies: Darfur, Rwanda, Bosnia
    Politicians lie. That’s a fact. They lie to get elected and to stay in power. Some lie about other countries so they can justify invading them. Others lie so they can portray themselves as experienced leaders.
    http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/24/134622.php

    Hillary Lied About China Briefings
    Sen. Clinton has made much of a September 1995 speech she delivered in Beijing, in an effort to show she is willing to get tough on China. She said in her book “Living History” that she was briefed by the State Department and the Secret Service in advance of that speech, and was even fed “intelligence information” during those discussions. The schedules don’t reflect such briefings, however…
    http://sweetness-light.com/archive/shocker-hillary-lied-about-her-china-briefings

    Hillary Clinton Again Lies about Iraq
    At the forum in Los Angeles, Hillary Clinton declared, “We bombed them for days in 1998 because Saddam Hussein threw out inspectors.” That statement was totally false. The bombing campaign had been planned for months and the inspectors were not thrown out. They were ordered out by President Bill Clinton in anticipation of the four-day U.S.-led bombing campaign.
    http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/02/6802/

    Clinton Lie Kills Her Credibility on Trade Policy
    What is the proper word for the claim by Hillary Clinton and the more factually disinclined supporters of her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination — made in speeches, briefings and interviews (including one by this reporter with the candidate) — that she has always been a critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement? Now that we know from the 11,000 pages of Clinton White House documents released this week that former First Lady was an ardent advocate for NAFTA; now that we know she held at least five meetings to strategize about how to win congressional approval of the deal; now that we know she was in the thick of the manuevering to block the efforts of labor, farm, environmental and human rights groups to get a better agreement. Now that we know all of this, how should we assess the claim that Hillary’s heart has always beaten to a fair-trade rhythm?
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080320/cm_thenation/1300860

    Clinton lied about sniper fire
    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/03/25/1206207057921.html

    CBS Video Contradicts Clinton’s Story
    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/24/eveningnews/main3964921.shtml

    Put a fork in her, she’s done!

  • But Biobrain, SteveIL clearly has a more accurate world view than you. See, it was necessary to provide him with weapons and assure his continued power… then when he didn’t need us anymore, it was necessary to remove him.

    The problem is that the US is locked in a gun-first foreign policy mindset.

    Someone’s in trouble? Send them guns…
    Someone’s making trouble? Send their opposition guns…
    Someone’s not doing what we want? Send our guns…

    Clearly, I’m oversimplifying (and it’s sad that I feel the need to point that out), but the fact remains, the “best defense is a good offense” mentality has made the almost every aspect of our foreign policy extremely short sighted.

    Obama seems like the only candidate interested in challenging this mindset. Hillary is to intent on proving herself “tough enough” and loves the life of a “liberal” hawk. The insidious “patriotism” and “strength” arguments are directly from the warmonger playbook. McCain may be a decent enough person, but putting his finger on the button could be the worst decision the US ever makes.

  • Ah, little bear!

    You seem to have misunderstood me on a pretty fundamental level (I voted for Obama, I find Clinton’s tactics and duplicity disgusting)… I was just suggesting that the venomous arguments wouldn’t sway anyone from the other side. Now I’m not so sure you really care about “converting” anyone, which makes my argument moot.

    Apologies if I misjudged you.

  • She was moved to a more secure location on the tarmac to protect her from potential snipers.
    Did she exaggerate? Yup
    Do we care? Nope

    WTF?

    I care.

    I don’t want a sitting governor with three children screwing young prostitutes.
    And I don’t want a sitting president who lied about his service in the National Guard.
    And I don’t want a future president who lies about the danger she stood down in Bosnia.
    And I don’t want a future First Gentleman who has a history of sticking a cigar up a young woman’s vulva in the Oval Office.

    Sheesh.
    How anybody can be so flippant towards ethics, and condescending towards the truth is beyond me. Ignorance doesn’t win elections. Wakey up.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    CB: Kevin did everyone a favor by stitching together two months’ worth of Gallup Daily Tracking polls. Guess what? “[F]or two nearly two months straight they’ve polled within three or four points of each other. Two months!

    Which is the last nail in her coffin.

    The math going forward won’t vary much either. Especially since Barack has begun to play some of the many negative Clinton cards he holds in his hand. When both candidates go negative it effectively freezes the numbers. Although… her blatant Bosnia nonsense may erode her base a bit…

    No matter. No mind. She needs much more than miracle math to flip the election. Hillary winning the nomination? You might as well ask: Is Bush winning the war in Iraq? Same dumb bunker mentality. Same refusal to see reality.

    For all her supposed brains…. she really is as dumb as a republican.
    And a serial liar to boot. Yuck.

  • Mark Pencil @ #14: One of the most simply stated, yet unbelievably powerful comments I’ve seen in quite some time. Well said Sir.

  • NB, @36,
    Based on today’s overall performance (all threads, cumulative), my guess is that little bear is a (Ron) Paulbot, with a Clinton-hate, heavy finger on cap lock and nothing to do in his — ample — spare time. Far from trying to convert anyone to his point of view or for a favoured candidate, he doesn’t seem to have either (a point of view or a favoured candidate). He’s a — possibly brainless — pest. He seems to “mis-read” and misunderstand even those comments which are in agreement with him. His *only* function seems to be attack — of any- and every- one. He’s a drone.

    Give me (Evel) SteveL any time; he may be misguided and intractably so but, at least, he’s human… not some mechanically-controlled ‘bot or some geek’s idea of an artificial intelligence experiment. “Little bear” is just too much to bear 🙂

  • Dr. Biobrain (#33): …yet…our current government and our Republican nominee want us to invade Iran NOW.

    Sure we do, because you say so. Brilliant.

    NB (#35): But Biobrain, SteveIL clearly has a more accurate world view than you.

    Apparently I do. This post at the good “Doctor’s” website is enough to prove it.

    Clearly, I’m oversimplifying (and it’s sad that I feel the need to point that out)…

    That’s the only accurate statement in that whole comment.

  • Oh, just put a bullet in my head already:

    O’Hanlon: Surge architects are the ‘Vince Lombardis’ of Iraq war.

    “In an event at the American Enterprise Institute today, Brookings analyst Michael O’Hanlon — sitting next to hawks Fred Kagan and Ken Pollack — praised the Iraq surge, saying the surge architects would make former Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi ‘proud’.”

    http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/24/ohanlon-iraq-architects-are-the-vince-lombardis-of-iraq-war/

    Yeah, okay.

    More like the “Bill Callahans of the Iraq War”.

  • libra – nice lies – great work, you see in others EXACTLY what you are yourself! Thanks for provin’ the point.

  • The latest shillary lie:

    I just don’t think this is over yet, and I don’t think that it is smart for us to take a position that might disadvantage us in November. And also remember that pledged delegates in most states are not pledged. You know, there is no requirement that anybody vote for anybody. They’re just like superdelegates.

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com

    2 weeks ago, she made a similar comment and her campaign responded that it had no intention of doing this.

    If we wanted a lying liar – we would vote for mclame

  • If it will make little bear happy, I’d like to stipulate for the record that we’re all idiots, morons and liars — the Obama people, the Clinton people, and even the Republicans trolling here, all of us — and that only the great, powerful and all-knowing little bear can see the truth that’s out there.

    I, for one, am just happy to know that our nation’s insane asylums have internet access now.

  • Senator Hillary Clinton may have “misspoke” recently when she said she had to evade sniper fire.

    It seems she was confused as to where she was, she was actually relating a story of the time that she had had an (out of body) dream experience of being taken to the “high ground”. Truth was she was so unfamiliar with the territory that she had to run and duck the questioning of why she would be on the high ground in the first place.

    And over the weekend her attack dog, James Carville (aka Gollum) wants to label Richardson as a “traitor” after he backed Obama. “Oh, my…preciousssss. It came to me. I must have it.”

    Her pursuit of this nomination, the story line and her cast of characters has all the makings sometimes of a Hollywood fantasy film, but only a with a “BS” rating.

  • From Krugman:
    In retrospect, it’s clear that the Clinton administration went along too easily with moves to deregulate the financial industry. And it’s hard to avoid the suspicion that big contributions from Wall Street helped grease the rails.

    Last year, there was no question at all about the way Wall Street’s financial contributions to the new Democratic majority in Congress helped preserve, at least for now, the tax loophole that lets hedge fund managers pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries.

    Now, the securities and investment industry is pouring money into both Mr. Obama’s and Mrs. Clinton’s coffers. And these donors surely believe that they’re buying something in return.

    Ruin, thy name is DLC.

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