Footage from the 5/31 DNC Rules Committee Meeting. Much less drama than was promised/feared:
...and Clinton operative Harold Ickes gets a bit of a reality check:
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Olbermann's interview with Scott McClellan
This Week With Barack Obama has all of Keith Olbermann's interview with former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. A crystal-clear indictment of the Bush presidency.
James Carville gets down and dirty
This video accompanies an article from The Field entitled "Carville: We Want a Hostage Crisis Because Our Feelings Are Hurt". Not really that far from true, it seems...
Michelle
There's no way to choose a fitting excerpt from this amazing piece on Michelle Obama by Dawn Teo. Please just read it top to bottom...and be inspired.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
May 31st Rule Committee Meeting in DC
UPDATE, 5/28/07:
Obama HQ has he following suggestions for countering the drama that the Rules Committee meeting is likely to cause this Saturday: voter registration in Virginia --- which is NOT likely to go red this year!
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Eugene Robinson's column
Robinson's Washington Post column, excerpted below, received the most comments of any in the history of the column.
What Clinton's evocation of RFK suggests isn't that she had some tactical reason for speaking the unspeakable but that she and her closest advisers can't stop running and rerunning through their minds the most far-fetched scenarios, no matter how absurd or even obscene. She gives the impression of having spent long nights convincing herself that the stars really might still align for her -- that something can still happen to make the Democratic Party realize how foolish it has been.
Clinton campaigns as if she knows she will leave some Democrats with bad feelings. That's the Clinton way: Ask forgiveness, not permission. But every day, as more superdelegates trickle to Obama's side, it becomes a surer bet that she will not win. She and her family enjoy good health and fabulous wealth. They'll be fine -- unless, while losing this race for the nomination, Hillary Clinton also loses her soul.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Polls in Puerto Rico
Radio Isla AM 1320 has a poll up on its site.
Please vote!
And a newspaper poll, too.
Both of these can be polished off in under a minute!
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
temper, temper
Christopher Hitchens in Slate:
An excerpt:
So, a fresh and sly political subtext in a very bizarre campaign season. The two Democratic nominees remain icily calm when in each other's vicinity—plain as it is that they cordially loathe and despise one another—while huge shudders of molten rage continue to shake the ample and empurpled yet graying frame of Bill Clinton as he broods on the many injustices to which life has subjected him. What a good time to shift the subject to the temperament (or temper) of Sen. John McCain and to hint, as did Michael Leahy in a major piece in the April 20 Washington Post, that we should wonder whether the Republican nominee has his tray table in the fully locked and upright position, whether he lives happily or unhappily in his own ZIP code, whether there are kittens in his granary or bats in his belfry, and whether his elevator goes all the way to the top.
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Friday, May 23, 2008
implosion
Why couldn't she have just said "Bobby Kennedy was still running for the nomination in June of 1968, so I should be allowed to continue"? Instead, she brings up the A-word. Why...what more did that comment add to her nominal argument of "I should continue to be in this race"?
By the way, Sen. Clinton, this isn't 1992...California voted weeks and weeks ago, not in June this time...This New York Times article actually suggests that Bill Clinton's primary race was effectively over in March 1992.
From Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish:
I saw the apology as well - an apology to the Kennedy family, I might note, not to Senator Obama. Since some seem unwilling to point out why this remark was more than unfortunate, it is worth remembering that we have the first black candidate for president. You only have to spend a few minutes talking with African-Americans about this campaign to discover that the fear that Obama could be assassinated is very much on their minds. It is in everyone's subconscious, especially Michelle Obama's. To refer to the June assassination of Bobby Kennedy in the context of reasons to stay in this interminable race against Barack Obama is therefore catastrophically inappropriate. Coming after her pitch for "white votes", it is reckless.
As for her argument that June primaries are nothing new, she is correct. But in no previous primary election did the voting start just after New Years' Day. The New Hampshire primary in 1968 was on March 12, two months later than this year. For June, therefore, read August. Yes, this season has gone on for ever. And for Senator Clinton, it has now obviously gone on too long.
She's been waiting for Obama to implode. Instead, she just has.
More opinion here from icebergslim on Daily Kos.
Please contact DNC Chairman Howard Dean to protest this bomb throwing from Sen. Clinton.
Click the link above, or call (202) 863-8000 (Comment Line), or email: deanh@dnc.org
Also please contact the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (202) 225-0100 (Comment Line),
Finally, Donna Brazile:
donna@brazileassociates.com
To sum up, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's special comment on the topic:
Please write to Olbermann's bosses to support him (he's taken a lot of heat for his special comment, above):
countdown@msnbc.com
phil.griffin@nbc.com
and more here:
Finally, make sure to vote at AOL about this issue.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
another of McCain's Reverend supporters
You've probably heard about Rev. Hagee, but have you heard about Rev. Parsley?
UPDATE, 5/22/08: ABC news seems to be picking up on this story, finally.
UPDATE, 5/23/08: Rev. Hagee speaks! McCain has distanced himself from the Rev. and Hagee thinks that's for the best...
Rev. Parsley now finds himself out in the cold, as well...
UPDATE, 5/22/08: ABC news seems to be picking up on this story, finally.
UPDATE, 5/23/08: Rev. Hagee speaks! McCain has distanced himself from the Rev. and Hagee thinks that's for the best...
Rev. Parsley now finds himself out in the cold, as well...
Erica Jong changes course
Erica Jong, feminist author, was a Clinton supporter until recently. She's reconsidered.
Excerpt:
It's time for Democrats to put all personal bias aside and unite behind the things we believe in: a planet we can live on, reproductive choice, workers rights, health care for all, education for poor and middle class students, fair taxes, a Constitution made whole, rescuing America from war profiteers -- if indeed there is still time.
It's already very late. It's too late for quarrels about whether race or gender is more restricting. It's too late for prognostications about a future presidency we won't know until it has unfolded. Remember so-called compassionate conservatism? It turned out to be neither compassionate nor conservative. Why anybody believes election slogans mystifies me. But we do know this: a landslide for Democrats will change the direction of this country. So let's join forces to make it happen--and let's start now.
Get-well card drive for Sen. Kennedy
Sadly, progressive champion Senator Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor this week. Senator Kerry will hand deliver a card (initiated by MoveOn.org) with all the signatures and well wishes to Senator Kennedy. Please add your name and message.
While you're at it, here's a dispatch from one of my fellow Obama Rapid Response members:
MSNBC has been plaguing Senator Kennedy at his home in Hyannis. There is a helicopter dispatched to gather "news" while this man is attempting to recuperate and face cancer. Honestly, this is repugnant and this is part of the politics and media behavior these past years that is truly inhumane and disrespectful.
I know everyone is working on Obama's campaign, but we have some influence in numbers and calling off this kind of invasive torment on behalf of our supporter Senator Kennedy may be a way we can help.
Please join me in writing to MSNBC to ask that they stop the helicopters over the compound and stalking papparazi lurking around the ocean and grounds.
Letters@msnbc.com
McCain seeks internet troops
As Crooks and Liars says, it's like a desperate personal ad!
Head on over to the McCain-approved sites mentioned in the link and spread the, um, good word about the Arizona Senator!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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