Many of you have commented on how violent the bloggers for BO have become. Also many now see how the mean-stream media [msm] and so-called Liberal Talk, Air America Radio are in collusion.

When AAR began, it criticized the msm for its myopic, one sided presentation of the news but now they are joined at the hip, with “stars” of both being exchanged to join the celestial chorus for the Precious one, their Messiah, BO.

So anti-Hillary comments are now de rigeur on AAR as the various hosts call on her to quit for the good of the party. They are backing up in spirit and fact MSNBC’s Keith Oldermann’s calling for a hit on Senator Hillary Clinton. Yes indeed – birds of a feather flock together, you are known for the company you keep.  Read more 

Elton John says so!

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on another note
Caroline Kennedy to lead “women from Obama rally”, she is going to be handing out the cutesy Obama buttons “Hot Chicks dig Obama”

I’ll keep my own free stickers thanks

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Oh I’ll take a few dozen one for all my friends.

It speaks for itself… Enjoy!

I wrote this in response to a Facebook message from a friend of mine to a few other friends. The backstory is about that silly little “Black-eyed Peas” tune and whether or not cool points win Obama the election. My friend who brought this up is very bright and don’t let that backstory let you think he’s not thinking deeper.

But this is my response.

I don’t know the dynamics of this blog well, and I’m not even sure if I should be posting this here, I’m new. But I think it might be appreciated and it’s informed by previous posts I’ve read here. I would like to add more to this, there is always more, but I think I like what I wrote. Again, I think it will be appreciated.

Here we go:

Cool points do count. I like the new faces. I like the new involvement.  Read more 

Novak writes today:

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Giuliani has stubbornly held on to first place in national surveys of Republican voters. His elevated status cannot be written off as merely superior name identification. He no longer seems uncomfortable as a Republican and clearly dominated last week’s presidential debate in Dearborn, Mich. The real possibility that Giuliani might be the Republican nominee led a group of religious conservatives, who met in Salt Lake City on Sept. 29 under the leadership of James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family, to consider a third-party alternative.

But the situation is not a simple confrontation between the Christian right and Giuliani. The Gallup data suggest that Dobson and the Salt Lake City group may be out of touch with rank-and-file churchgoers. A well-known social conservative, who asked that his name not be used, is disturbed by Dobson’s statement he could not vote for Giuliani under any circumstances. Instead of being considered the lesser of two evils in a possible race against Sen. Hillary Clinton, Giuliani seems to be the positive choice of millions of religious Americans.

Yeah, well, the conventional wisdom as generated and propagated by the Village in which Novak is happily ensconced is always slow and wrong, which is why we read Glenn Greenwald, who called his shot on Tooliani months ago.

Greenwald wrote back in February:  Read more 

Of course, it’s Chris Cilizza writing this, so we can’t be sure if it’s the pundit class exhibiting some dim form of self-awareness, or if he’s setting the Democrats up for a loss (just like the press gamed Obama into declaring early, thus making the whole process start absurdly early, and putting a premium on—surprise—money and bucks for the consultants, instead of a candidate really tested by the voters).

t’s official: Washington insiders believe Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the Democratic presidential nominee. … [A Times front pager, appearances on “FIVE” talk shows, Bayh’s endorsement, outraising Obama this quarter] — not to mention President Bush saying that he expects Clinton to be the nominee — and, voila, you see the Washington establishment lining up behind the Clinton “inevitability” view.

Which should give us some comfort, since the Beltway is almost always wrong about the “inevitable” candidate, going all the way back to Ed Muskie.  Read more 

Apparently so. That’s all I need to know.  Read more 

Times:

“[CLINTON] We’ve begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas, particularly in Al Anbar Province, it’s working,” said Mrs. Clinton, the New York Democrat and candidate for her party’s presidential nomination.

Great lead in. Jeebus, couldn’t you at least wait for Bush to write General Petraeus’s report? I can see the capitulation coming a mile off, this time.

“We’re just years too late changing our tactics.”

Ah yes. The ol’ incompetence dodge. Purely tactical issues. No strategic mistakes. Let the imperial good times roll.

But here’s the kicker:  Read more 

Words fail me.

Via Bernstein’s WaPo chat:

In the first month of the Clinton presidency she joined a women’s prayer group whose members included Susan Baker, the wife of Reagan-Bush chief of staff/sec. of state James Baker, as well as the wife of the Washington Redskins chaplain who was also the minister of the McLean church where Kenneth Starr and other conservative Republican luminaries worship.

These women sent Hillary scripture readings, came to the White House to pray with and for her, and generally were a welcome source of strength and friendship for her throughout the White House years, and especially as the Lewinsky ugliness moved relentlessly through her life.

Kneel down with dogs, get up with fleas, eh?

No, but seriously. The “ugliness”? WTF? Did the “Lewinsky ugliness” drop like the gentle dew from Heaven? Like an act of God?  Read more 

Does she even understand we’re in a Constitutional crisis?  Read more 

What the hell is Joan Walsh, Salon’s editor, thinking of?

After what this country has been through in the last six plus years — a disastrous abnegation of constitutional government, stolen elections, the institutionalization of a permanent state of war, being lied into a disastrous actual war, the self-neutering of an increasingly enfeebled, corporate press corps; unapologetic cronyism, the sale of government functions to the highest bidder, constant lying at the highest level of our government…well, one could go on and on…in the face of all that, why is Salon once again welcoming back to its virtual pages the ridiculously passe Camille Paglia, among whose fetid, fevered observations you will find no references to any of the above depredations of our national culture brought to us by the modern Republican Party.

Are we still in that same cultural moment, even after the 2006 elections, which requires of a liberal online magazine that it feel compelled to prove it’s independence from some imaginary left-wing, politically correct ethos by publishing the work of a hack writer and a worse thinker, who has made a career of bitter, partisan attacks aimed exclusively at her natural allies? Do we really need a post-modern lesbian Joe Lieberman? Isn’t Lieberman’s joementum more than enough of such foolishness?

Apparently no.  Read more 

Via AWB.

OK, OK, I promised not to blog on Hilbama. But what Steve Gilliard said:

These Democrats didn’t just enable Bush’s war, they sat by and let the Right Wing smear machine attack those of us who waged our lonely battles to end this thing.

And it’s still happening: Amanda is Exhibit A.

And while most have come around, Hillary remains the notable exception.

Those who have admitted their mistakes are now free to train their sights on the GOP. It doesn’t absolve them from their terrible judgment, but it mitigates it. While it’s best to not make a mistake in the first place, it’s even worse to compound that mistake by refusing to come to terms with it.

Which is why the Edwards fiasco is so bad. Not only did the Edwards campaign stand by while one of us got smeared, they showed terrible judgment about the nature of the VRWC, and the role that the winger noise machine plays in polluting our political discourse. Can the consultants advising Edwards really have told him that any other solution than going on the attack would work? Could he have believed them? Why?

Clinton doesn’t have that. And what’s worse, she has pretty much lost the window of opportunity to do so. After resisting for so long, she finds herself in the thick of the presidential primary (yes, even a year out) with no room to maneuver. If she suddenly reverses course and decides that yes, she’ll take personal responsibility for her vote, it’ll feed into the strongest anti-Hillary narrative — that she’s a panderer and will say what is most politically expedient at the moment.

It’s a sad state of affairs, but Hillary has made her bed. And while her advisors may cringe that voters demand she account for Iraq at every campaign stop, I hope she continues to get grilled on it. She deserves nothing less.

As CD would say, I’m playing the world’s smallest violin.  Read more 

Tom has a lot of really fascinating things to say about women and voting. This is a “I learned something new” moment, because although I suspected it was a trend, I didn’t know the numbers were this unbalanced:

So if you’re an African-American woman - and therefore, presumably, a Democrat - how do you choose between Senator Obama and Senator Clinton in what could turn out to be a precedent-setting presidential election?

That was the question on my mind as I wandered the lobby Friday at the Democratic National Committee’s 2007 winter meeting, which doubled as the first cattle call for the party’s 2008 presidential contenders. Before getting to the responses from several notable African-American women I cornered, let’s pause to consider for a moment just how significant the black female vote might be in next year’s Democratic primaries.

According to Census Bureau figures, in 2004, African-Americans cast 14 million votes nationwide. Now comes this stunner: Because African-American men not only are fewer in number but also register and vote at much lower rates, black women cast almost three of every five of these votes - 59 percent, to be precise. White women also outnumber, out-register and outvote white men, but the disparity is smaller (53 percent to 47 percent).  Read more 

I’m sure you’ve probably heard all about the recent back and forth between various organs of the SCLM about Obama and his early education. Short verision: a website published a claim that he was educated in extremist madrassas when young, and that he is a kind of ’stealth-Muslim’ now as he runs for the highest office. These claims were picked up by FOX, and later complicated by other claims that even though the story was false, it originated from the campaign office of Hillary. Smears within smears, if you will.

The smearing continues, but not perhaps as you may think. Let’s take a walk down Highbrow Smearing Lane, shall we? (I’m leaving out the livelinks which you can find in the original article)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 — Jeffrey T. Kuhner, whose Web site published the first anonymous smear of the 2008 presidential race, is hardly the only editor who will not reveal his reporters’ sources. What sets him apart is that he will not even disclose the names of his reporters.

web site + anon smear + won’t disclose = blogs are not real reporting, don’t trust them.  Read more 

$500,000,000.

Naomi is rapidly becoming one of my favorite women here, and she reminds me of a point I’ve been meaning to make (again). Previously she asked:

The presidential campaign season has never opened this early before. And who is driving it? The MSM. Who is failing to ask the probing questions? MSM. Who seems to be promoting certain candidates from both parties? MSM. Who, as gatekeeper of information, has a rotten track-record on fairness, balance and accuracy of reporting? MSM. I mistrust what they report and, most importantly, their motives. And so should you. The MSM protect their executives and shareholders at the expense of Freedom of the Press. And the MSM may have an agenda to pick the worst or least-electable Dem candidate for us…  Read more 

Oh ye of little faith. Thinkest thou that thine tasks set before thee surpass thy merit? Nay. Seek, and ye shall find, ask and ye shall receive:

Her chief adviser based in New York, Howard Wolfson, is selling his apartment on Central Park West and plans to move here soon. Mr. Wolfson had been planning to do so, Clinton advisers said, because his wife, Terri, is a top aide to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and they have a young child.  Read more