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Full disclosure, McCain style

Friday, May 23, 2008

John McCain released his health records to a selected group of reporters today. Well, he didn’t exactly release them. He gave them three hours to review 1,173 pages of medical records, which they weren’t allowed to copy. If you do the math, that means they had to review six and a half pages a minute, […]

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McCain to telecoms: Five Hail Mary’s and a sincere Act of Contrition

Friday, May 23, 2008

A McCain spokesman says his man is against giving the telecoms immunity, until, that is, they express “heartfelt repentance”. As president, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain would not support immunity for the telecoms that aided the Bush administration’s warrantless spying program, unless there were revealing Congressional hearings and heartfelt repentance from those telephone and internet […]

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Joe Courtney endorses Obama

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Joe Courtney endorsed Obama today. I suppose we can argue about timing, but better late than never, and better now than later. After yesterday, it seems likely that Hillary will die the death of a thousand cuts, as the remaining superdelegates announce overwhelmingly for Obama. Here’s Joe’s Announcement in full. It’s especially good that he […]

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McCain campaigns on fear itself

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

According to the New York Times, all John McCain has to do to put Barack Obama “on the defensive” is to criticize him on a foreign policy issue: Senator John McCain put Senator Barack Obama on the foreign policy defensive once again Monday, criticizing him here in his hometown for saying Iran did not pose […]

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Replay?

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The Republicans have a playbook that has become all too familiar. For many of their tricks to work, they need a compliant, and sometimes, a cooperative press. Eight years ago they claimed that Al Gore said he had invented the internet. Gore never said that, but the press repeated the charge, accepted it as true, […]

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Back to Basics-why Clinton lost

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Every once in a while, the conversation gets back to basics. Via Suburban Guerilla, I found myself at the American Prospect, where we find the following observation: Admittedly, this is the kind of counterfactual that’s impossible to prove, but my guess is that if she had voted against the war Clinton would be the Democratic […]

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Yet another modest proposal

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Hillary is pointing out that, while Obama is winning elections, he has to make do with fewer white votes than she is getting. This is a common complaint of many politicians and pundits, who often point out that an election would have turned out quite differently but not for the fact that black voters have […]

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Distractions continue

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

I mentioned a couple of days ago that my kids were visiting this weekend, so I wasn’t paying attention to the Jeremiah Wright 24/7 coverage. Apparently a Clinton supporter unleashed the man onto the national stage and the press, as is its wont, dutifully engaged in the pack journalism that is the hallmark of our […]

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Calling Joe Courtney

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Dear Joe: This has gone on long enough. Nothing that happens in the next few weeks is going to change the fundamentals. Obama will go into the convention with more delegates and a higher popular vote than Clinton. She will be able to win only be warping the process and tearing the party apart, effectively […]

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On to tomorrow

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

As expected, it looks like Clinton will win Pennsylvania. For six weeks we’ve been hearing that this is a critical primary. Tomorrow we’ll be hearing that it settled nothing. From here on, it’s all down hill for Clinton. The only question is whether she’ll take the Democratic party (and the nation and the world) down […]

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