Gore gets Nobel prize, flies to Bali, and identifies the United States as major obstacle to talks there on global warming. Two days later the United States relents, and agrees to a compromise that apparently produces at least some progress. For this obvious contribution to the global effort to address climate change, Jack Cafferty of CNN rewards Gore by calling him a "pompous jerk."
And we wonder whether the mainstream media helps or hurts our country?
I know Mr. and Mrs. Shaheen. I raised money for her candidacies. I think she served her state well.
But Billy Shaheen went way way too far in his attack on Obama. This is what happens when the inevitable candidate finds the race is not over after all, and when the old guard local chairman has just gotten chewed out by the inevitable one's campaign.
The Shaheens helped Gore pull out New Hampshire against Bradley in 2000. But this sort of nasty campaigning may mean not just that Clinton is in trouble, but that the Shaheens are. New Hampshire may have moved on to a new generation, and it is possible that an Obama victory will spell the end of the Shaheens in New Hampshire politics.
