Are you trying to tell me something?... Is that code?

Posted at January 29, 2008 2:10 PM in response to Teddy Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Toni Morrison -- and me!

Noon Tuesday?

Posted at January 28, 2008 3:11 PM in response to Teddy Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Toni Morrison -- and me!

Well said, Michael. Now, can we meet at the Corner Room (or Websters) in the next few days so you can sign my petition to be an Obama delegate? :-)

Posted at January 28, 2008 2:28 PM in response to Teddy Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Toni Morrison -- and me!

Good points. I'm also a "prepare for the worst, hope for the best" kind, myself. But my sense is that there is a time to prepare, and a time to seize the day and that this is of the latter variety. We may just have a different view, and you may be right. But this has the feeling of a different kind of phenomenon.

Posted at January 28, 2008 9:43 AM in response to The Clintons, Atwater, Rove, and the Future

You'll have to explain how pointing out that this couple is running as a unitary executive candidate is sexist, when I should have thought the opposite-- Hillary running on her own merits, and not on Bill's-- would be true. 

Posted at January 28, 2008 9:39 AM in response to The Clintons, Atwater, Rove, and the Future

A zero, BevD?

Posted at January 28, 2008 9:20 AM in response to The Clintons, Atwater, Rove, and the Future

Destor:

Saying "Bill Clinton went too far", in referring to this campaign, is most certainly within the bounds of fair comment.

And the marriage of Bill and Hillary, or more precisely, the nature of the negotiation between them that comprises the marriage, is fair game, as well, because they have explicitly made it so. There's no pretense of privacy by either of them, and at this point it would be impossible to achieve. You can't unring a bell.

The way they are handling the campaign so far, particularly how Bill has been assuming such a prominent role (presumably with her full knowledge and consent) in 'handling' issues in South Carolina and elsewhere, cannot be segregated... um. bad choice of words-- from their relationship.

So, like it or not, they've made their 'psychodrama' an integral part of the package they're selling. It's fair game, and they seem to want it to be. What choice do they have, after all? I can only imagine the forces at play there that keep them together after everything.

I don't want to peek into their private lives any more than the next person. God knows, no ordinary marriage could sustain the kind of battering theirs has. It's fascinating, though, when something like that is paraded down Main Street all the time. Simply saying that I'd rather they didn't have to do that, or that I want something different now, is not betraying anyones' ideals. I'm simply making a common, and common-sense observation. I don't want to attack them, I want them to go away and they won't listen.

Posted at January 27, 2008 7:43 PM in response to The Clintons, Atwater, Rove, and the Future

deleted while thinking it over some more...

Posted at January 27, 2008 7:42 PM in response to The Clintons, Atwater, Rove, and the Future

BevD, perhaps your memory is incomplete: there were attacks aimed at Obama in SC, by your candidate's surrogates and probably with her tacit approval. There were 'screams', and rightly so. I don't remember if you were upset about those attacks...? The tone of this comment seems totally focused on a one-sided victimhood that seems more sour grapes than anything  else. You tend to rely on personal invective a lot, so I know what I'm letting myself in for here. 

I don't like attacks on Hillary on purely gender grounds. I don't think that gender should be the determining factor in this race, but we're faced with a choice here between two good things, what I feel are brilliance and competence on the one hand, and brilliance and the potential for true greatness on the other. I'm left with a choice that is based on character and judgement, not gender. 

I prefer the greatness alternative.  

Posted at January 27, 2008 2:58 PM in response to The Clintons, Atwater, Rove, and the Future

Charity,

This is a difficult choice, and I wish you well as you struggle with it.

On hope itself: "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

-- Epicurus

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up."

-- Anne Lamot

Posted at January 27, 2008 1:05 PM in response to The Clintons, Atwater, Rove, and the Future