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Some random thoughts.

Bill, supposed master of campaigning:

 "Everywhere I go there are all these people with signs, saying I'm not bitter - I'm not bitter."
But...ABC News reports
The strong sentiments were appreciated by the crowd, but were not entirely accurate.  During Clinton's seven stops in North Carolina on Saturday there were no "I'm not bitter" signs.  There was a small assortment of people at his later events wearing stickers with the slogan, but many of those sporting the stickers weren't even sure what they meant. 
And wasn't the campaign passing out the stickers themselves?  I was too young in the 90s to see Bill Clinton's "masterful campaigning" in action.  I have yet to see it in action on this campaign.

Can you really throw around charges of elitism next to a photo of you wearing a bow-tie?

I already tire of Bitter/Cling/Bullshit-gate.  The airways and blogosphere is alit with outrage over these comments.  That's fine, and certainly within people's rights.  But where is the outrage over the fact that we've just learned that our President approved the worst kinds of torture?  That he lied about Abu Ghraib, when he pretended that was some outlier, blamed it on the troops there?  That our country has become one run by those who could be tried for war crimes?  

I have not had to re-login at all today.  

And, On Sunday, Politico helps out the Clinton campaign by telling us all what they really want us to know, about why Obama doesn't stand a shot against those mean-ol' Republicans.  Well, I for one, am sick and tired of worrying about how we're going to take the next beating from the GOP attack machine.  Not this time.  This time, the Democrats should be the ones doing the beating.  We have to stop thinking about how many punches we can take from the bully and instead, do what always needs to be done at one point or another in every bully story: Stand Up To The Bully.  



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