According to Tweety & the Gang, it's no big deal for David Bellavia to compare Barack Obama to Tiger Woods, because Tiger is a great golfer.
But when Bill Clinton compared Barack Obama's win in South Carolina to the earlier victories in South Carolina by Jesse Jackson, it was vile racism. Read below the fold...
The New York Times and the GOS Hardy Boys are on the case, proving . . . something.
Hillary has been telling a story about an anonymous pregnant woman in Ohio who died (along with her child) because she couldn't afford healthcare. The alleged hospital, previously anonymous, came forward to deny liability and to breach patient confidentiality.
I'm 48 years old. I was born when Eisenhower was still President.
The kids today have no idea what I've seen.
One of my earliest memories was JFK's assassination. I was three, and I remember I couldn't understand why if JFK was dead (gone to Heaven) he was still on television.
I remember Vietnam and the turbulence of the Sixties from nightly television, but not from daily life. I saw riots on television, but I never attended one.
I remember getting up for school one morning and my mom telling me that Martin Luther King had been killed. I kind of understood who he was and knew it was significant.
Two months later I woke up to find out Bobby Kennedy had been murdered too. Five years, three leaders murdered. Read below the fold...
On Sunday, Donna Brazile took to the airwaves to explain the Credentials Committee of the DNC and why Obama will control the Credentials Committee. Unfortunately, almost everything Ms. Brazile said was wrong (is she a lying shill or simply uninformed, you decide). After learning Ms. Brazile was wrong, I decided to try to figure this Credentials Committee thing out myself. I mean, how hard can it be? Read below the fold...
Elizabeth Drew is a sad testament to the fact that even the NYRB has succumbed to the Clinton Rules (check out the image of HRC devilishly laughing on their front page). The article is a mixture of projection, lies, and just plain asshatery. I could only shake my head as I read the following: Read below the fold...
And I'm someone who would be happy with either candidate as nominee -- but this is just a sad thing to see Josh self-immolate himself like this.
And wouldn't it be nice if Josh would hire himself an editor? The various errors in his posts are a bit annoying from a "professional" blogger. You'd think if you just wrote 5-6 paragraphs per day you could, um, you know, proofread them? Read below the fold...
Maybe we could just stop printing all these new colorful Third World-style Monopoly-money bills, take it all out of circulation, and start over with money that's solid green, like real money ought to be?
That City of Satan? That would be Washington D.C., according to Senator John McCain.
Yes, that's right.
The city where is found the seat of our democratic republic, where we have located The White House, the Congress, and the Supreme Court, the city where are found our monuments, those devoted to Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, those reminding us of our wars, even as divisive a war as VietNam, where those who demonstrated against and those who demonstrated in support can go and contemplate the cost of all wars because the name of every American life lost in the war is carved in granite, the city where are housed our founding documents, where we gather the artifacts of our American culture, yes, that city is, for John McCain, "the city of Satan." Read below the fold...
Pushing to seat the Florida delegates, at least one top Clinton fund-raiser, Paul Cejas, a Miami businessman who has given the Democratic National Committee $63,500 since 2003, has demanded Democratic officials return his 2007 contribution of $28,500, which they have agreed to do.
“If you’re not going to count my vote, I’m not going to give you my money,” said Mr. Cejas, who was the United States ambassador to Belgium from 1998 to 2001.
Krugman has good perspective on Bear, Stearns ("If you can keep your head when all about you / are losing theirs and blaming it on you...")
When push comes to shove, financial officials — rightly — aren’t willing to run the risk that losses on bad loans will cripple the financial system and take the real economy down with it.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Friday that it would be "harmful" to Democrats if superdelegates were to give the party's presidential nomination to a candidate who is trailing in the delegates awarded in primaries and caucuses.
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"But what if one candidate has won the popular vote and the other candidate has won the delegates?" asked Stephanopoulos.
"But it's a delegate race," Pelosi replied. "The way the system works is that the delegates choose the nominee."
