Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Just a few random notes. I don’t read much of John Cole’s web-site any more. Lately, there hasn’t been much there that hasn’t already been said on Daily Kos. But I was glad to see him counter the idea that we should go after McCain for his crony’s big payments to terrorists. [...]

Please, please, do not let election 2008 become Bible Wars 2008. For the record, it’s very doubtful that Dobson or Obama have a proper understanding of the book behind their religion. Obama’s may have the advantage of being more vague and more self-consciously informed by modern ethical notions. Dobson’s may have the advantage [...]

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 [...]

If he wasn’t going to be the next President, this McCain gaffe would be absolutely the most hysterical campaign mistake I can remember. This coming from a candidate for President of the United States, or in the new parlance, Commander in Chief. The sole executor and protector of national security. This is a [...]

After the House race / special election in Mississippi that everyone is talking about, there is definitely a Democratic surge in the air for November. Possible veto-proof majorities in either house or both.
Too bad the Executive has All Power and Authority now.
Look, I may have been overly pessimistic about the Presidential [...]

The news today is this:
Among the office’s recent inquiries was whether former White House political director Karl Rove and others improperly used U.S. agencies to help elect Republicans.
Mr. Bloch’s investigation of the White House political operation began after a Rove deputy gave a series of political presentations to government agencies on Republican prospects in specific [...]

Over the next few weeks, we’ll all figure out that the Democratic Party nominee for POTUS is Barack Obama.
Then, over the following months, we’ll all figure out that John McCain is the next POTUS. That’s unless 51% of us figure out that John McCain will govern in exactly the same manner as 71% of [...]

I know I should probably be waterboarded for saying it but I love what the Democratic Primary is doing to  Republican shills and Hilbots.
Joe Scarborough is beside himself. He just can’t get over Hillary’s shocking win in Pennsylvania.
Shocking win? Joe she was once a 20 point favorite there. Nobody in their right mind expected Obama to [...]