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Category Archives: Presidential Politics

Nancy laments

Friday, February 1, 2008

What do I find in my inbox today, but a missive from Nancy DiNardo, telling me how shocked, truly shocked she is at that fact that Joe Lieberman is not a man of his word: “I continue to be disappointed beyond words with Joe Lieberman, as are a lot of Connecticut Democrats — saddened, surprised, […]

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Debate blogging

Thursday, January 31, 2008

We turned our TV on for the first time in months to watch Clinton and Obama debate in California. For my own part, it made me feel great about the party, because I got the impression that each of them is ready to take it to the Republicans and either of them would make a […]

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Crunch time

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

The Time has come, as the Walrus said. With John Edwards dropping out today, I find I must finally make a choice between Hillary and Barack. I knew this day would come, but I’m still not ready. My wife is no help. This is an even numbered day, so she’s for Hillary. Odd numbered days […]

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America’s Mayor

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Via Atrios, I couldn’t resist: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH47iuMTuC8[/youtube]

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Was Willard Wired?

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

In the interest of fairness (and in Willard’s case it’s hard to be interested), I must report that my source for the claim that Willard’s handlers admitted he takes direction at debates from a remote puppeteer (a la George Bush), now reports that his source is suspect. This doesn’t mean that he wasn’t wearing a […]

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Willard wearing a wire

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Willard Romney’s campaign confirms that he wears an earpiece so that his handlers can feed him debate responses. I wonder if he wears it in other venues, and whether they tailor his responses to suit the audience of the moment.

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New rules in the Senate

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Harry Reid teams up with Mitch McConnell to lecture Chris Dodd: only Republicans get to declare filibuster and win. Democrats, members of the majority party, members of Reid’s own party, have to actually filibuster. New rules: it takes 60 votes to get something Democrats want; it takes only 51 to get something Republicans want, and […]

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The choice

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Having trouble making up your mind between Obama and Clinton? Good reading at the New Yorker. Lot’s of arguments, pro and con for each. Food for thought, etc. I’ve decided to vote for Edwards, but I’m still wrestling with the Obama/Clinton choice because it does look like they’ll be the finalists. This article helps, though […]

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Reagan, yet again

Monday, January 21, 2008

Lot’s of new developments on the Reagan front. Seems that Krugman doesn’t like Obama’s implied praise for Reagan either, for a reason similar to that offered by other commentators: that it reinforces a right wing narrative that we should be attacking. Meanwhile, despite Tim Russert’s spin, Hillary Clinton does not follow Obama down that path, […]

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Reagan redux

Friday, January 18, 2008

Now it looks like I may have retracted yesterday’s piece about Obama too soon. Turns out he did use the quoted phrases about Reagan. You can judge for yourself by watching this video clip, which unfortunately is not something I can post here. It can certainly be argued that Obama was not endorsing Reagan, or […]

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