Comments on: The Magic Tape

by: mikefromtexas

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:01:11 +0000

One positive from all this for me. Starting with NoQuarter and then including about a half dozen other sites that were daily reads but are now no go zones, I’ve found quite a few other high quality sites to take their place.

by: skippy

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:04:16 +0000

the whole clinton “ahead in the popular vote thing” is very pertinent, because, after all, the president of the united states is determined by the popular vote.

oh, wait…

by: Kevin Hayden

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:37:58 +0000

You’d be better off coming to Oregon for the Waterfront Blues Festival or the Oregon Country Fair. Both are good ways to cleanse oneself from the foolishness and rejuvenate the spirit, so we all can be ready for the fall campaign

by: felicity

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:44:29 +0000

Been interesting listening to Repub operatives try to explain away McBush’s gaffes. Invariably they wrap up with the Obama-Wright affair which at least now seems to be about the only thing left in their trick bag. Even now it’s met with a lot of eye-rolling. By November, it’ll probably be met with a lot of snoring.

by: joanr16

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:10:27 +0000

I was having a terrible morning at work until I read the news about Fafblog. Bless you, maha, for spreading the word.

Nothing more to say about Hillary that hasn’t been said above….

by: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:11:30 +0000

If she doesn’t do that, I think her position as a leader in the Dem party will be over.

…if she wants to reprise Ted Kennedy’s role in the 1980 primary campaign, Democratic chances for taking over the White House may be over by the end of the convention, too…

by: Swami

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:18:36 +0000

Hillary say, “the super delegates are going to have to decide who’ll make the better President and Commander-in-Chief”. The fact that she’s pushing the Commander-in-Chief title is a real turn-off to me, I understand the designation, but accentuating a militaristic aspect of the Presidency is just a continuation of Bush’s ego driven propaganda bullshit that’s been foisted upon us for the last 8 years. Where in American history have the candidates jockied for a slot to be Commander-in-Chief apart from the Presidency?

by: Rick Massimo

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:15:59 +0000

I can’t even get this straight anymore. Clinton is saying that she is ahead in the popular vote (minus the caucus states, of course), and therefore that is, um, the case to take to the superdelegates. Who make the real decision. Heck, even pledged delegates can change their minds, Harold Ickes tells me.

So much for that will o’the people I keep hearing about.

Basically, what I’m hearing from the Clinton camp is that an election is an audition for the people who make the real decision.

All of which would be OK if she and her camp were still out there pitching actual policy differences - if she was still out there because there were some issues that she felt needed to stay in the national spotlight. But there’s actually been less of that in the past few months. I’m losing patience.

by: Sunny Jim

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:36:34 +0000

Is this the best they can do to discredit Obama’s character? If so, it’s not gonna work. Last week I checked in on O’Reilly and Hannity, who both spent hours on their radio shows trying to lather up their audiences into rabid hysterics over Father Pfleger, a SUBSTITUTE preacher at Obama’s church. It seemed to be working on a few yahoos who called in to agree with the host. But if Wright-gate, Madrassa-gate and flag pin-gate are the best they can drum up, Obama has already survived those storms. I would expect more of the same attacks to continue on a daily basis until November, though.