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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Hillary sheds a tear and the press pack attacks

Monday, January 7, 2008

Of the big three, Hillary is my least favorite candidate, but that doesn’t mean I don’t get irate about the way she’s treated in the press. Everything she does is put in the worst light. If she shows no emotion, she is criticized for that. If she shows emotion, she is criticized for that, or, […]

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Change

Monday, January 7, 2008

When I first moved to this area I was paid my legal services salary through a CETA grant. CETA was a job creation program that was abolished several years later. Besides funding me and a host of others, CETA provided funds to hire an artist to do an art installation at City Hall in Norwich, […]

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When a guy like Rudy is down, there’s only one thing to do: stomp on him.

Monday, January 7, 2008

These must be bittersweet days for the folks at RealRudy.org. On the one hand, Rudy’s days as a presidential candidate are numbered, and their work will soon be completed. On the other hand, Rudy’s days as a presidential candidate are numbered, and their reason for being will disappear. But they seem ready to keep at […]

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Chris Dodd returns home

Saturday, January 5, 2008

My wife and I went to East Haddam today to join a a crowd of folks welcoming Chris Dodd back from the campaign trail. Chris never caught on, but he earned the gratitude of Constitution lovers everywhere by holding off the latest assault on the Constitution, taking time off from his campaign to do so. […]

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Clinton to go negative by attacking the Democratic base?

Saturday, January 5, 2008

The word is that Hillary will “start” going negative against Obama. Bill Clinton says that they are being forced into it by the media, and there’s a kernel of truth to what he’s saying. The press has treated the Clintons unfairly ever since the brief honeymoon period in 1992. But if this is any indication, […]

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Iowa

Friday, January 4, 2008

All of a sudden all kinds of people are coming out as Obama fans (I won’t mention names, but one sleeps with me). Talk about fickle. Not to take anything away from the guy, but if you wanted to design a system least likely to do the best job at picking a president, you might […]

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Random notes

Friday, January 4, 2008

Good news and old news in the business section of the Times. Apparently the new Fox Business Channel, it of the all good economic news, all the time (while there’s a Republican in the White House) mindset, has so few daily viewers that Nielsen cannot reliably report it. Leaked figures indicate that a little more […]

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Drinking Liberally a success; is there anything else going on?

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Just returned from our Drinking Liberally get together, and, much to my surprise and relief, it was a success. We had about as big a crowd as we could handle and still stay as a coherent group, everyone seemed to have fun, and we did indeed drink liberally. One of the hits of the evening […]

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How I spent my evening

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Among the many frustrations in my life at present is my position as Treasurer of the Groton Democrats. If you’ve ever served as a treasurer of a political campaign or committee in Connecticut you will understand what I’m talking about. The reporting requirements are such that it is virtually impossible for a non-expert to set […]

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Chris Powell: Excepting Chris, Joe’s critics are bigots

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

This morning’s Day ran a very curious column by Chris Powell, entitled Hatred of Jews Poisons Criticism of Lieberman. The argument in a nutshell is as follows. Lieberman is indeed a slimy liar who, among other sins Powell enumerates, misled the electorate in the last campaign. However, many of those (but apparently not Powell) who […]

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