Tête-à-Tête-Tête

I don’t pretend to understand Hillary Clinton’s motivation for being stubborn about endorsing Obama. I don’t claim to know why she doesn’t take the dignified approach.
But all of this hand-wringing over it is ridiculous. She has her reasons and she has her supporters. She has a right to do this thing [...]

After watching John McCain and Barack Obama make their respective cases on Democratic nomination night, my thinking is somewhat changed.
First, I realize for the first time that Republicans - the hard core, conservative Republicans who have trouble imagining anything worse than a Democratic Presidency - must be feeling now much the same way I was [...]

… we do so belatedly, because we have been busy with other things. We only speak for smijer, though we expect jadarm & Buck concur.
Excluding Michigan and Florida, Obama has won the pledged delegate race. With 86 pledged delegates remaining unsecured, Obama leads Clinton by 161 delegates. If Clinton wins all of the uncommitted pledged [...]

This helps. Probably not enough… Hold on to your wallets - the current economic crisis is just going to gather speed under McCain. Two side notes — 1) It’s good to see the kind of religion where the parishioners aren’t afraid to call their preachers out for nonsense. 2) Chuck B. - I feel [...]

… and our long national nightmare will continue…
Barack Obama’s pastor.
It’s a shame really. I wonder if Jeremiah Wright will get a footnote when “The Decline and Fall of…” book is written.
Update: I should add… the focus of this post is about the weird cultural reasons that this country will continue to self-destruct [...]

At the outset, both candidates did well in the debate last night, both produced what they needed to produce, and, I think, Hillary won it by a narrow margin.
Barack did something that will help him with a lot of skeptics who want to want him, but are fearful of a cult of personality. He [...]

I have to say I’m very tickled about Saturday’s result. I still have some reservations about Obama, and he still has a long uphill climb to get to the nomination. But, it is hard to argue with a win like that one. The one blemish on last night’s result is that Edwards couldn’t [...]

I was kind of hoping that would become tradition.

I spent a few minutes checking through some various outlets today. I saw Keith Olberman, Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, Kos, Atrios, and John Cole all slamming hard on Democrats over the war vote and on ethics.
And I was cheering them on.
If these guys don’t wake up soon, I would hate to be [...]

It’s 12 days now, or thereabouts, that the Democrats have controlled Congress. Having fumigated the old stink of corruption from the GOP side, it’s time to start the sniffers up for early signs of Democratic putrescence. So far, we have a minor ding for Harry Reid - worth John Cole dusting off the [...]