Oh.my.god. Won’t this guy ever go away? From ABC:
He was set to announce that he had formed an exploratory committee Wednesday, even before former Sen. John Edwards made it known that he’d be ending his candidacy. But with Edwards — who has made economic populism and ending poverty cornerstones of his campaign — […]
Considering that Barack Obama is currently vying for the Democratic nomination, I’ve held off discussing his “liberalness” — primarily because I want him to win the nomination, and at this juncture, the competition is still for “the base”. In exactly the same way Republicans are forced to pander to the hard right, the Democrats […]
The AP is reporting that John Edwards will announce his withdrawal from the Democratic nomination process today at 1pm:
The two-time White House candidate notified a close circle of senior advisers that he planned to make the announcement at a 1 p.m. EST event in New Orleans that had been billed as a speech on poverty, […]
There’s some consternation in the conservative blogosphere this morning about the Florida results. They’re trying to understand how a closed GOP primary could include Independent and Democratic voters. Considering we’re talking about the Sunshine State here (they have such a wonderful history with elections), I can’t say I blame them.
It’s worth noting, though, […]
Hey! This freedom of speech thing is pretty cool!
It allows people to write crap like this, and likewise allows people like me to call it out for what it is: bigoted, racist, sexist tripe!
Full story here and here, with a h/t to Pam.
There will be a lot of resistance to believing he’s sincere, but myself, I tend to believe Quanell X when he says:
“I apologize to every Jewish (Holocaust) survivor that may have heard anything I have ever said,” Quanell said at the end of his tour, which culminated with his placing a stone at an outside […]
In the US, you can always tell when you’re nearing a local courthouse by the number of signs and storefronts for bail bond services. These entrepreneurial bottom-feeders are an integral part of our Criminal Justice System — the method society has allowed to develop to ensure an accused person’s appearance in court. Bail […]
NOW-NY is really, really, REALLY upset that Ted Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama:
“Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in […]
This will trigger some reactions:
Sen. Barack Obama easily won the African American vote in South Carolina, but to woo California Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he is taking a giant risk: spotlighting his support for the red-hot issue of granting driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
It’s a huge issue […]
Making the rounds of my “(Usually) Politically Sane” links this evening, I encountered an odd Google ad over at Donklephant. It said,
“Barack Obama: Muslim?
Do Barack’s Muslim roots make him a ‘bad guy’ for many Americans?”
The ad linked to an Obama smear piece from April 2007, published by The First Post — an online UK […]
I wanted to write last night about Barack Obama’s huge win in the Dem. SC primary, but so many people were already doing so, I got caught up reading them, instead. There was such energy online, and it was every bit as satisfying to bask elsewhere.
What a triumph! But that was yesterday, and […]
Peggy Noonan’s piece in the WSJ is funny beyond words — especially for a non-partisan like Polimom.
She started off with the Clintons:
There are many serious and thoughtful liberals and Democrats who support Mr. Obama and John Edwards, and who are seeing Mr. Clinton in a new way and saying so. Here is William Greider in […]