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The car's out of gas. Kamp Klinton's $20 million in the red.
Posted May 11, 2008 at 09:49 PM L.A.
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There's Good Readin' Today
Here's Newsweek's cover story on Obama.
And here's the McCain campaign's snippy response, telling Newsweek they need to see everything they write through the eyes of a Republican. Waaah Waaah Waaah.
And here's the Time cover story. Game on.
Posted May 11, 2008 at 09:42 PM L.A.
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Smiley Says Any Shit That Pops Into His Mind
Like Obama will pick Dick Gephardt as his VP. Now there's the farewell to old politics Obama's trying to create.
Thinking stuff through has never been Kristol's strong suit.
Posted May 11, 2008 at 07:42 PM L.A.
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Seattle Times Loses Almost 90% of its Value
Hoo boy. Seattle's second paper is in trouble.
The McClatchy Co. figures the value of its not-quite-half stake in Blethen family-controlled Seattle Times Co. has tumbled to barely one-tenth of its worth just two years ago.
In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, McClatchy estimated its 49.5% stake in the publisher of The Seattle Times has a value of $12.06 million. That's a drop of more than one-third from the carrying value it assigned its Times Co. interest last December -- and represents a 88% drop from its estimated value of $102.2 million at the end of 2006.
Posted May 11, 2008 at 03:16 PM L.A.
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More Heartbreak in Myanmar
AP:
A Red Cross boat carrying rice and drinking water for cyclone victims sank Sunday, while the death toll jumped to more than 28,000 and aid groups warned of a humanitarian catastrophe.
The boat was carrying supplies for more than 1,000 people and was the first Red Cross shipment to the disaster area, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said. All four relief workers on board were safe, it said.
"This is a great loss for the Myanmar Red Cross and for the people who need aid so urgently," said Aung Kyaw Htut, the distribution team leader of the Myanmar Red Cross.
The sinking was the latest setback for distribution of aid following Cyclone Nargis. Though international aid has started to trickle in, almost all foreign relief workers have been barred entry into the isolated nation. The junta says it wants to hand out all donated supplies on its own.
Posted May 11, 2008 at 11:34 AM L.A.
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The Crackerjack Clinton Research Team Strikes Again!
Epic. In Chapter 416 of the volume titled, "Kamp Klinton Misreads the Room," Terry McAuliffe displays his ignorance of his subject this morning when he declared Tim Russert's father dead. When Russert corrected him, he still didn't catch it since he was so far into crazy-assed badger mode.
So again we ask the Hillheads...still want this team in the White House?
Posted May 11, 2008 at 11:23 AM L.A.
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Rich: An Election Year Like No Other
Frank Rich reminds us all that comparisons of 2008 to previous elections are simply null and void.
Allow us to add the old chestnut Rich forgot to mention that both Dems and Repubs love to invoke: George McGovern in 1972, whose campaign was torpedoed only by his VP choice's psychiatric history, and McGovern's handling of that situation. Therapy was still a dirty word back then (and it should be mandatory today). People tend to forget that part of the story and simply like to use McGovern as a convenient chew toy.
That election is kinda burned into my memory. It was my first presidential vote and my first involvement with GOTV during my freshman year of college. It also set me up to expect bitter (!) disappointment throughout my activist life. Rich has given me some hope this time around.
The reason that politicians and the press have gotten so much so wrong is that we keep forgetting what year it is. Only if we reboot to 2008 will the long march to November start making sense.
This is not 1968, when the country was so divided over race and war that cities and campuses exploded in violence. If you have any doubts, just look (to take a recent example) at the restrained response by New Yorkers, protestors included, to the acquittal of three police officers in the 50-bullet shooting death of an unarmed black man, Sean Bell.
This is not 1988, when a Democratic liberal from Massachusetts of modest political skills could be easily clobbered by racist ads and an incumbent vice president running for the Gipper’s third term. This is not the 1998 midterms, when the Teflon Clintons triumphed over impeachment. This is not 2004, when another Democrat from Massachusetts did for windsurfing what the previous model did for tanks.
Almost every wrong prediction about this election cycle has come from those trying to force the round peg of this year’s campaign into the square holes of past political wars. That’s why race keeps being portrayed as dooming Mr. Obama — surely Jeremiah Wright = Willie Horton! — no matter what the voters say to the contrary. It’s why the Beltway took on faith the Clinton machine’s strategic, organization and fund-raising invincibility. It’s why some prognosticators still imagine that John McCain can spin the Iraq fiasco to his political advantage as Richard Nixon miraculously did Vietnam.
The year 2008 is far more complex — and exhilarating — than the old templates would have us believe. Of course we’re in pain. More voters think the country is on the wrong track (81 percent) than at any time in the history of New York Times/CBS News polling on that question. George W. Bush is the most unpopular president that any living American has known.
And yet, paradoxically, there is a heartening undertow: we know the page will turn. For all the anger and angst over the war and the economy, for all the campaign’s acrimony, the anticipation of ending the Bush era is palpable, countering the defeatist mood. The repressed sliver of joy beneath the national gloom can be seen in the record registration numbers of new voters and the over-the-top turnout in Democratic primaries.
Posted May 11, 2008 at 03:38 AM L.A.
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The World Would Like to See Obama as President
So using McCain's logic, we must be suspicious of Obama because the world is a bad bad place. Weblo.com has the ongoing results.
Posted May 10, 2008 at 12:54 PM L.A.
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From the Pen of: Tom Toles
Posted May 10, 2008 at 12:40 PM L.A.
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From the Pen of: Ben Sargent
Posted May 10, 2008 at 12:38 PM L.A.
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From the Pen of: John Sherffius
Posted May 10, 2008 at 12:35 PM L.A.
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From the Pen of: Steve Benson
Posted May 10, 2008 at 12:34 PM L.A.
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Obama's GOTV Drive Starts Today
Let Hillary yell at the cloud. The Obama campaign is launching its November campaign today: Vote for Change.
Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic says hang on to your hats - this is going to be intense.
The Vote For Change program will lay the foundation for Obama's general election get-out-the-vote efforts. Obama aides won't say much more, but I gather that the campaign is constructing an incredibly elaborate online interface to allow its more than a million donors and volunteers to directly persuade their neighbors through a variety of media. Names gathered from the voter registration effort will be merged with names gathered through Obama's primary efforts and the names off of the Democratic Party's integrated voter file as well as lists purchased from outside vendors.
On election day, Obama might have more than a million individuals volunteering on his behalf. That should scare the beejeesus out of the McCain campaign and the RNC.
We're fascinated by this info:
Vote for Change National Co-Chairs
U.S. Representative John Barrow, 12th District, Georgia
U.S. Representative Melissa Bean, 8th District, Illinois
Anna Burger, Chair, Change to Win
Maria Elena Durazo, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
Melissa Etheridge, Musician
Billy Frank Jr., Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Reverend Joseph Lowery, Chairman, Black Leadership Forum
Dave Matthews, Musician
U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, Missouri
Secretary Norman Mineta, Former Secretary of Transportation
Governor Deval Patrick, Massachusetts
Usher Raymond IV, Musician
U.S. Representative Linda Sanchez, 39th District, California
Kerry Washington, Actress
It's one thing for people to endorse a candidate. It's something entirely different to be actively participating. Good team Obama has there.
Posted May 10, 2008 at 11:06 AM L.A.
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So...All They Have to Do Is Endorse?
McCain is giving militants and terr'ists way too much credit. According to him, all they have to do is endorse a candidate, and that candidate is sympathetic to them.
I think McCain's handing that much power to them is very irresponsible.
Posted May 10, 2008 at 10:43 AM L.A.
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The LA Times Poll: McCain Loses
We cite this poll because unlike the other ten zillion polls out there, this one actually sampled more than 2,000 people which makes the margin of error +/-3. With that in mind, America wants the Democrat, not the Republican. Oh, and hey, folks - they're BOTH electable.
In a hypothetical matchup, the poll gave Illinois Sen. Obama 46% to McCain's 40%, with 9% undecided.
Clinton led McCain 47% to 38%, with 11% undecided.
The results represent a shift from a Times/Bloomberg poll in February, when McCain led Clinton by 6 percentage points and Obama by 2, within the poll's margin of error.
"Although there is such infighting now between the two Democratic candidates, we are finding that both Democrats are beating McCain, and this could be attributed to the weakening of the economy," said Times Polling Director Susan Pinkus, who supervised the survey.
Posted May 10, 2008 at 10:22 AM L.A.
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Woot-Off Update
Day two continues. Never saw that before. They've unloaded a ton of stuff.
Posted May 09, 2008 at 12:31 PM L.A.
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West Virginia Mountain Mamas
Here it comes. We've been saying this for a while. Hillary has always been expected to win HUGE in West Virginia since day one. Now with the primary coming up, there's bigass surprise that she still leads there by a wide margin. And expect that shock to get louder as the day draws closer.
Mark my words - the comeback kid talk is on its way (again), even though she'll walk out of there with a majority of only 39 delegates. (She's behind 169 right now.)
Posted May 09, 2008 at 12:30 PM L.A.
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Republicans Hate Mothers
Posted May 09, 2008 at 10:35 AM L.A.
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Clinton's Superdelegate Margin Vanishes
Byeee. Obama has taken the lead in the only remaining broad category Hillary held.
The Illinois Democrat grabbed the superdelegate lead thanks to a switch by New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne and an endorsement from previously uncommitted Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon.
Those two votes gave Obama a 267-266 lead over Clinton. That is a huge shift since the days when Clinton boasted about a 60-plus vote lead among the party's pros back on Super Tuesday.
Posted May 09, 2008 at 10:20 AM L.A.
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Edwards Voted for Obama
"I just voted for 'im on Tuesday..." after saying the person he voted for is "very likely" to win the nomination - 9:45 in.
h/t FireDogLake
Posted May 09, 2008 at 10:11 AM L.A.
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Those New iPod Commercials?
Y'know, the latest ones with silhouettes of people dancing and stomping like they're putting out a fire?
What earbuds are THOSE people wearing? The ones that came with my iPod fall out if I chew gum.
Posted May 09, 2008 at 12:19 AM L.A.
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NYT Hedges on Its Clinton Endorsement
On Super Tuesday, they called for her nomination. In today's editorial, they're calling for her to realize the inevitable.
There is a lot of talk that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now fated to lose the Democratic nomination and should pull out of the race. We believe it is her right to stay in the fight and challenge Senator Barack Obama as long as she has the desire and the means to do so. That is the essence of the democratic process.
But we believe just as strongly that Mrs. Clinton will be making a terrible mistake — for herself, her party and for the nation — if she continues to press her candidacy through negative campaigning with disturbing racial undertones. We believe it would also be a terrible mistake if she launches a fight over the disqualified delegations from Florida and Michigan.
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Posted May 08, 2008 at 11:38 PM L.A.
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GINGER KID!
Photo courtesy Huffington Post
Posted May 08, 2008 at 04:23 PM L.A.
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If Obama's Mulling a VP Slot for Hillary...
We hope this erases that insane idea immediately.
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters — including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.
Yeah. A pattern of psychosis. What a fucking surprise. She's right back on the trash politics roller coaster again.
And what's with her fixation on "hard working white people" - which Obama apparently does not appeal to? This is extremely awkward, not just for the racial undertones, but for the inevitable convincing of her hard-workin' white folks to get behind Obama when he clinches. That is, if she still plans on doing that. I won't hold my breath.
Every day that passes, she displays a delusional imbalance which makes her unfit to run our country.
Posted May 08, 2008 at 04:01 PM L.A.
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Sometimes, You Just Gotta Say "No" to Some Ads
Posted May 08, 2008 at 03:47 PM L.A.
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