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We can continue to chew off our own legs...

Or, we can consider this:

<blockquote>Why don't we try "he is/she is" for a change? Both Democratic candidates represent diversely layered demographics--ones that describe our future. Clinton is a strong, determined, immensely resilient woman; Obama is a culturally amalgamous, quietly brilliant, elegantly intellectual man. They are both tremendously well educated, making all of us the lucky beneficiaries of affirmative action policies that have reconfigured the playing field to include the two of them.

Now we need to direct our attention where it belongs. As President, McCain would do away with what's left of affirmative action, Roe and habeas corpus. He has been schooled for war and more war. He is committed to and implicated in almost all the domestic and economic lunacies of the Bush Administration. It would be tragic if he strolled in for a touchdown while the rest of us were playing card games in the end zone.</blockquote>

Patricia Williams, in the most recent <i>Nation</i>

If you have the time to chime in on every post about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (and face it, a lot of us apparently do), then you owe it to yourself, the Democratic Party, and to both candidates to take the time to read the entire piece:

<A HREF="http://http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080324/williams">Some extremely wise advice from Patricia Williams</a>


 


Thanks.  And pass this along, will you?


Comments (5)

LOUD NOISES!

Okay, you're right.

Nice post. Here's that link:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080324/williams

I think it'
s also worth looking over a few right wing blogs to see what they're saying about us "lefties."

RedState's Moe Lane loves Ferraro's comments: "Oh, that's just fine, Ms. Ferraro. Keep it up: we've got weeks and weeks to go before Pennsylvania. What? Oh, don't mind me. I'm just going to be over here, watching Democrats scream 'racist' at each other while sharpening their knives. You keep on doing what you're doing."

http://blogometer.nationaljournal.com/

And for those that somehow think it's "cool" not to vote for the Dem nominee if it isn't your pick, it's not "cool."

Unless you're a Republican.

Thanks for fixing my inept html tags....don't know why they didn't take.

Seems it has come to pass that TPMCafe's columnists and commenters sound like the 1980's The Nation and a Nation columnist sounds like the 2005 TPMCafe.

Reading the "Mad Professor", all I thought was: what an inaccurate pseudonym for her, and what a pity, what a single good non-inflammatory and reality-based columnist could do with TPMCafe in moving commentary to a higher level above the knee-jerk reaction game.

Some of us try--it doesn't get much traction here.

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