You need to go check out his resumé. This guy has some serious experience. I think the thing that most people aren't aware of is how much foreign relations experience he has.

He would make an awesome VP. His manner of honoring everybody's dignity and displays of wise, independent thought are very compatible with Obama. I think they'd make a great team.

Posted at May 7, 2008 10:27 AM in response to Hillary Holding A Public Event Today, After All

But she's claiming her years as First Lady to be part of her 35 years of experience serving people. And she's asking to be given credit for any policy successes of the Clinton Administration. And she's claiming that her presence in the administration qualifies her as experienced to be Commander in Chief.

So, it's only at this one meeting that she shouldn't be seen as doing work to serve the people? Being a meaningful part of the administration?

For me, the point isn't that she said what she said. It sounds like she was being pragmatic, in perhaps not the most gracious or eloquent way. She might have said, "I don't think it matters what we do, they've decided to vote based on things we can't do anything about."

This is similar to what Obama was saying. So, for me, I take issue with Hillary for trying to use the same type of sentiments she has expressed as some kind of launching pad for attacking his character and his commitment to serving people. Her attacks are disingenuous in that she likely doesn't believe these things about him. But they are also hypocritical given that she has espoused the same theories herself.

Nobody would be talking about her comments in 1995 if she hadn't gone on the attack. This is where she's a terrible campaigner (and likely a terrible coalition builder): she can't leave well enough alone.

Posted at April 18, 2008 12:24 AM in response to He Said, She Said

I don't see how Wright being angry makes Obama angry. This is a false logic.

Many Catholics support the right to abortion. The fact that their priests vehemently speak against this right doesn't make them less committed to it.

Posted at March 17, 2008 3:37 PM in response to So White People Can Freely Talk About Black Problems Angrily...and Blacks Can't?

You don't really mean to say that women haven't been angry and polemic? That women haven't cursed the Old White Boys Club of power?

I think you better get off this horse before it runs you over a cliff.

Posted at March 17, 2008 3:29 PM in response to So White People Can Freely Talk About Black Problems Angrily...and Blacks Can't?

Racism is far from over in this country.

A few years ago, I lived upstairs from a black family. He was medical technician and she was a teacher. They have two lovely daughters and are respectable member of society.

When we would go run errands together, I was ashamed of the way people behaved. At the CVS, they were clearly watching her with suspicion. There was *always* an employee in the aisle with her. Every time we went. I am white, and have never experienced such a thing.

This is just a small example of the constant bombardment of degradradation and disrespect launched at a person of color in the United States. People of color are arrested for crimes at much higher rates than white people who commit the same crimes. They are denied services based on the color of their skin. They are assumed to have less intelligence. They are beat up or even killed. They are denied promotions and equal pay checks. It is a daily abuse that eats away the soul of anyone who doesn't have a way to express the effects of this inhumanity. Like Pavlov's dog, you come to accept or even seek the abuses because they have been meted out along with the means of your survival.

The miracle is that that there any people of color who do not harbor deep, bitter, suspicion of the institutions of this country. If there is any truth at all to Ferraro's comments of last week - which I found deplorable - it is that we have every reason to have even *more* respect and admiration for someone of color who has managed to rise above and make positive contributions to our society and offer us a vision for a way forward.

Posted at March 17, 2008 3:28 PM in response to So White People Can Freely Talk About Black Problems Angrily...and Blacks Can't?

Um, not to be a nerd, but multiples would be: 55.11 or 105.21.

you know 5.01, 10.02, 15.03.......

Posted at February 9, 2008 11:47 PM in response to $5.01 Barack Obama “Money Bomb” Set for February 12th

I think the fees referred to the fees that the campaign would have to pay. I don't know if political campaigns get a break on processing fees or not. If not, it can run between 2.5 and 4 percent.

Whatever it is, they seem to doing just fine.

Posted at February 9, 2008 11:44 PM in response to $5.01 Barack Obama “Money Bomb” Set for February 12th

I do wish that it was Bill who would show public outrage over the treatment of his daughter. Where's the protective father?

Posted at February 8, 2008 2:38 PM in response to Breaking: Hillary Campaign Goes To War With MSNBC Over Chelsea "Pimp" Comment

This is how I felt. It's outrageous that any news outlet would make these kind of statements. Just as it's outrageous some of the things that have been "reported" about Obama. I think these people should be fired.

But I don't see that either party should use this kind of thing as a political advantage. It wasn't Obama or his people that used this unacceptable language. So, why exactly doesn't it mean I should vote for her instead of him?

Posted at February 8, 2008 2:36 PM in response to Breaking: Hillary Campaign Goes To War With MSNBC Over Chelsea "Pimp" Comment