Today's New York Times: Soldiering On, Clinton Preserves Her Options
[S]he has been steadily raising money for her political action committee, which advisers say could become a means to champion women’s issues.
Mrs. Clinton won about 17 million votes in her presidential primary campaign, and by all accounts she will emerge on Election Day as a respected force in the eyes of not only her allies but also of people around Mr. Obama, for whom she has raised several million dollars and done more than 75 rallies, fund-raisers, conference calls and other tasks.
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The study found that most of the doctors who prescribe placebo treatments typically describe them to patients as “a potentially beneficial medicine or treatment not typically used for their condition.”
“And one of the things that I strongly believe is that we are not going to, as individuals, be able to erase evil from the world. That is God's task, but we can be soldiers in that process, and we can confront it when we see it.”
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...
I don't want our government employees to view themselves as "soldiers" of God against evil.
I don't want my president defining evil within the framework of his Christian religion.
]]>Similarly, if Clinton had won by a narrow margin, she would have had no excuse to bypass a historic candidate like Obama.
Obama should ask Hillary Rodham Clinton as his top pick for VP. The reasons are so legion, so obvious, there’s no need to enumerate them further. They can be summarized as uniting, winning, and governing, with the justice of recognizing the first major woman Presidential candidate in U.S. history, highly qualified and supported by half of Democrats.
From Politico this evening:
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Yay! Sounds like we've learned something new! I don't care what they found -- more water, organic compounds, fossil bacteria, everybody's missing socks -- just, Yay! It's hard not to hope for something conclusive about life.
Meanwhile, People of Earth wonder (as summed up by Watercat at Shakesville): "Why are they briefing the US President, and how are they getting scientific facts into little tiny words so he can understand them?"
]]>Perhaps we might humbly catch a glimpse of the plans of our FKD (Formerly Known as Democratic) Party overlords by examining Kaine more closely. Kaine was, you recall, selected by the DNC to respond to Bush's 2006 State of the Union address with a call for bipartisanship.
]]>Yet, if the press craves consistency, it owes its readers some sort of assessment of Edwards.
Corrente readers know all too well that the media doesn't "crave consistency" at all. We're not press, but we are "media." And I'd rather resemble a rotting stump than the press. So here's the obligatory Enquirer/Drudge-sourced sex post. I'm desperately uncomfortable allowing such sources to shape my opinions (thus my exclusion from the OFB
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Sen. Barack Obama, on his first and likely only overseas trip as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has remade the campaign's foreign policy playing field, neatly sidestepping Republican charges that he has been naive and wrong on Iraq and moving to a broader, post-Iraq focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In essence, Obama has declared the war in Iraq all but over...
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(And for the record, Clinton wore god-damned pantsuits because if she wore a god-damned tailored SUIT, she'd be "acting like a man" or lesbian. When she tried god-damned DRESSES, her ankles and cleavage were mocked. What the fucking HELL are women supposed to DO if they want to run for god-damned office without a god-damned perfect FIGURE?! Message received: they should stay the fuck HOME so Americans won't have to fucking even LOOK at them.)
]]>Digging deeper into the numbers...
**Only 38% said they DON'T want Hillary as VP. You mean the Cheeto doesn't speak for us all?? It’s especially significant that when asked “Would she make you more/less likely to vote” for Barack, it’s a bit of a wash for Republicans at 23/26, but makes a huge difference to capturing Democratic votes, by 34/9. Other factoids:
]]>Ecologists know this. It suggests a framing that could create exciting opportunities for support for PB2.0.
]]>As the Obama euphoria fades, expect much more of this, from 23/6:
]]>The bright, shiny veils, magnificently embroidered in 18-karat gold thread bought by telecoms and other corporate interests, are woven of a breathtakingly expensive, revolutionary translucent fabric.
The fabric, called TefChange, was brilliantly designed to block light from passing to Democratic power brokers, while an unfortunate 18 million onlookers were forced to view the contempt in all its glory while marveling at the praise for the Emperor of Hope's new clothes.
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