Jeez, the MSM really should connect the dots explicitly. McCain has one of 2004's swift-boaters go after Clark and we're just two weeks past the "scandal" of Obama opting out of public financing?

Posted at July 3, 2008 12:21 PM in response to Today's Must Read

Electability is a phony, tautological argument. And I also don't think it is an argument that helps HRC... her negatives are very high--

Posted at May 27, 2008 9:14 AM in response to Rick Horowitz and Hillary Clinton's "My Way" & Paul Krugman Plays the Tool

I seem to remember Harry Truman threatening to punch a guy in the nose for attacking his daughter. It played well later, but not so well at the time. So let's not recommend the "manly" approach!

Listen, Michelle and the rest of us have plenty of reasons not to be happy with our country's performance since she came of age. Reagan was elected in 1980. Since then we've had subversion of the consitution, secret deals with Iran and Iraq and other dictators, woeful performances in South America (see naomi Klein) and Africa, and many other things to be not so proud of. And for the last 8 years the decline has accelerated under W. She is 100% right, and the blame can be laid directly at the feet of the Republicans.

Obama wants to avoid this argument because quite rightly he does not want to make Michelle the issue. But that doesn't mean that we can't make the argument for him.

It gets tricky because we had 8 years of Clinton in there, but I would argue that his best intentions were hamstrung by the Republican ascendancy in 1994 and by the Starr "investigations." So the point remains, we are not proud of our country during our adult lifetimes (I am about her age) because the Republicans have driven the car into the ditch since 1980.

Posted at May 19, 2008 12:24 PM in response to Obama: GOP "Should Lay Off My Wife"

Good timing ... Obama knew that WV would be a bad outcome for weeks ... nice to have a major, "game-changing" endorsement lined up for the next morning!

Posted at May 14, 2008 2:48 PM in response to NARAL Endorses Obama -- Hillary Spokesperson Is "Surprised"

Hillary?

Posted at May 14, 2008 2:45 PM in response to NARAL Endorses Obama -- Hillary Spokesperson Is "Surprised"

Did you have to repeat yourself twice?

Try spell-check before you pronounce on the credibility of a figure like Obama. Doesn't do much for your own when you misspell common words.

Obama is a loser, huh? Maybe we're all losers.

Posted at March 19, 2008 9:59 AM in response to The Race Debate: Albany Swears in an African-American Governor a Day before the Obama Speech

You guys should get a grip. I am a 50 year old white guy, and Obama is by far the best politician I have ever seen. Best at politics, smartest, and potentially a great president. The speech he gave today was dynamite, an opening gambit for the conversation about race and class that the nation needs to have.

If you go to his website you'll find most of the specifics you pretend to yearn for.

Posted at March 18, 2008 9:33 PM in response to The Race Debate: Albany Swears in an African-American Governor a Day before the Obama Speech

MKyleM, that vote on the Iranian Rev. Guard was obviously a ploy to enable Bush & Co, to attack Iran if they wanted to. Some senators called it "Cheney's pipe dream." So please take that troll's point elsewhere.

Posted at March 11, 2008 10:56 AM in response to Obama Memo: "No Support For Claim That Clinton Has Passed `Commander-In-Chief Test'"

After the dust settles, somebody had better make a similar case that McCain hasn't passed the test either. Otherwise we're all playing into his hands. ...And that case can be made.

Posted at March 11, 2008 10:54 AM in response to Obama Memo: "No Support For Claim That Clinton Has Passed `Commander-In-Chief Test'"

Here's the real question: is George W. Bush qualified to be Commander-in-Chief?

We've seen over and over again how his recklessness, his duplicity, and his lack of concern for the troops he sends into harm's way make him the last person you would want in that role. That was America's judgment, too, in the 2006 elections. And yet there he is.

And there is John McCain promising four more years of the same.

And there is Hillary Clinton saying that McCain is ready for the job!

You've just seen Obama's counterattack in a nutshell. I sure hope he uses it.

Posted at March 7, 2008 6:33 PM in response to Wolfson: We'll Keep Hitting Obama For Lack Of "Commander-In-Chief" Cred