Geraldine Ferraro is dead to me.

Sure thing shithead! Republicans suck eggs!

Airbus lobbyists are advising McCain's campaign.

If EITHER candidate had any guts, or gave a shit about our workers, or had the balls to back up their claimed concerns with NAFTA/WTO/ and Trade Issues, maybe we would hear about McCain's role in torpedoing Boeing at a time of a recession, and in the face of trade protests. Unions supported the Boeing deal. Instead Kevin has buried it. Why Kevin? Why are you secretly working for John McCain. 'Fess up Kev, the truth shall set you free.

" WASHINGTON - Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to referee for more than five years.

Two of the advisers gave up their lobbying work when they joined McCain's campaign. A third, former Texas Rep. Tom Loeffler, lobbied for the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. while serving as McCain's national finance chairman.

EADS is the parent company of Airbus, which teamed up with U.S.-based Northrop Grumman Corp. to win the lucrative aerial refueling contract on Feb. 29. Boeing Co. Chairman and CEO Jim McNerney said in a statement Monday that the Chicago-based aerospace company "found serious flaws in the process that we believe warrant appeal."

McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in waiting, has been a key figure in the Pentagon's yearslong attempt to complete a deal on the tanker. McCain helped block an earlier tanker contract with Boeing and prodded the Pentagon in 2006 to develop bidding procedures that did not exclude Airbus.

EADS retained Ogilvy Government Relations and The Loeffler Group to lobby for the tanker deal last year, months after McCain sent two letters urging the Defense Department to make sure the bidding proposals guaranteed competition.

"They never lobbied him related to the issues, and the letters went out before they were contracted" by EADS, McCain campaign spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said Monday.

According to lobbying records filed with the Senate, Loeffler Group lobbyists on the project included Loeffler and Susan Nelson, who left the firm and is now the campaign's finance director. Ogilvy lobbyist John Green, who was assigned the EADS work, recently took a leave of absence to volunteer for McCain as the campaign's congressional liaison."
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Why do we support such gutless, pre-corrupted candidates? When do we get a candidate from the Democratic side of the Democratic Party, and one with integrity?

You wouldn't be in this position you're in if you weren't a pudgy middle-aged Irvine resident.

/just guessing on the "pudgy"

Ferraro's comments - and the subsequent defense of those comments by Ferraro and the Clinton campaign - are among the most startling campaign stories in decades... and you want to change the subject?

Hillary's negative campaigning was divisive enough and threatened to damage the chances for a Democratic victory in November, but Ferraro's comments actually threaten to alienate arguably the single most important voting block for Democrats: African-Americans.

Hillary appears to be holding a knife to the neck of the goose that laid the golden egg for the Democrats and none of the leaders in the Democratic party is stepping forward to condemn these tactics? You could forgive people for assuming this means the leaders in the party are fine with kind of race baiting and division.

If this primary continues on like this, the Democrats are going to lose more than just the presidency in November. They could lose a decisive chunk of their voting base for the foreseeable future.

That's what's at risk here. And as usual the Democratic leadership are either asleep at the wheel or are too chicken to take a stand on principles. Or any stand, really.

How worthless is the Democratic party!?! If the GOP hadn't drifted into cartoonish super-villainy, this party would be on its way to extinction. And thanks to the incompetence of its leadership, may yet be.

It kinda got buried and lost under Spitzergate and Fallon's departure and [the topic I must not mention], but last week Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R, Reagan Country) took to the floor of the House and called out the Bush administration for criminality, obstruction of justice, and lying to Congress. H/T Maru, who points to a very complete excerpt from the Congressional Record on After Downing Street. Apparently Mr. Rohrabacher is tenaciously following a trail of evidence that links (I kid not) Ramsay Yousef to Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, and is outraged to find that the Administration is obstructing such investigation.

Who knows? Every day this country just gets more and more weird.

Joel, you have to admit that Rohrabacher likely knows Taliban when he sees (meets) one.

It is pathetic that it takes a Republican to have the balls to muster this outrage and not be worried about the consequences.

It is pretty interesting the "coincidence" of the phone calls....

Every day this country just gets more and more weird

Well of course, what planet would engage in wars killing its own, thats not sane now is it?

Here ya go Kevin.

The Spitzer thing [wiretap] shows that the republican worry about the PAA act is rubbish,

But they knew that. And Spitzer also shows that immunity is about campaign contribution to the Publicans

enozinho: "Sure thing shithead!"

It was funny once, a few days ago.

When properly and judiciously used, profanity is a fuckin' art form. Learn from the masters.

"The House Republican brand is so bad right now that if it were a dog food, they'd take it off the shelf," said retiring Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (Va.), who chaired the NRCC for four years earlier this decade.

Normally I would have said the GOP is headed for severe electile dysfunction.

But, while the GOP brand is damaged, the Democratic brand appears to be split into two large market segments with similar user requirements but completely different senses of style.

We can bash Republicans all we want, but we'll have a hard time winning in Novemeber if there is no unified front.

The clock is ticking...

Kevin,

Apropos of all the dem on dem fighting, and all the who is more liberal dick fighting, you may wish to read David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'

I don't think he's a conservative just yet. I think he is urging everyone to question authority, and to question ourselves and our own bigotry, racism, and sexism.

George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Dick Cheney turned the GOP into one large, organized crime operation. In a just world, they would be shut down under the RICO statutes. That the GOP still garners any popular support at all, speaks volumes about the blind fealty some people have to a political party, which the Founding Fathers feared so much.

The news coverage is still not getting what I think, anyway, is the real Chris Ward story. They're always written like he was embezzling. In fact, I think he was funding campaigns illegally, moving money raised by Congressman in safe districts to those in swing districts.

Impeach and try for war crimes.

"The House Republican brand is so bad right now that if it were a dog food, they'd take it off the shelf," said retiring Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (Va.), who chaired the NRCC for four years earlier this decade.

Actually, the Bush FDA would find 'no evidence' of contamination and declare any withdrawal of the dog food 'precipitous' and 'harmful to consumers', since it would restrict their 'choice'.

jayackroyd, it's certainly convenient that there was only one bad guy behind a system that benefited so many.

George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Dick Cheney turned the GOP into one large, organized crime operation

After the last several weeks, this is looking like a compliment when one considers the Democrats look like a large disorganized petty crime operation that for all their efforts to look tough end up getting hauled in front of their parents for an ill-fated scheme to shoot out a street light.

The U.S. is a thug worshipping culture in general. We love and admire our pop culture notion of what it means to be a "gangster." I wonder how many powerless beer swilling schlubs out there fantasize about being a made member of a powerful family? Knuckling under to a strict authoritarian code of conduct doesn't seem that bad as long as you get to kick some other poor guy's ass and occasionally sniff the boss's cigar.

I guess I'll have to read the David Mamet piece. His profanity is usually a work of art in and of itself.

Mamet's written a couple of nice plays, but he's an ijut on some matters. For example, in that article he repeats the canard that JFK used fraud to win the 1960 election in Chicago.

Great story. Received wisdom. Oft repeated lie. It didn't happen. Nixon had it investigated. 3 times. The fraud didn't happen. There was piddling stuff. The kind you'd find if you investigated closely enough any large election. But nothing coordinated by Mayor Daley, JFK and/or the Democratic Party and certainly nothing widespread enough to have swung the election. But Mamet believes in corruption like a foot believes in a shoe. And he's Manichean enough to believe in cheap dichotomies. In short, a born ijut. And worse, one who works at it.

How droll Donald. I guess only you are allowed to go off subject and use profanity.

McCain Begins Vice President Search

By Eric Allen Bell

San Antonio, Texas. (March 12) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Wednesday he has begun the process of finding a vice presidential running mate and wants someone who shares his rage and can take his place.

Speaking to reporters on a campaign plane, loaned to him by lobbyists for oil companies and war machines, the expected Republican nominee said he had seen news reports that famed serial killer Charles Manson, had expressed interest in the job, but he offered no comment one way or the other on whether Manson would be a candidate.

"Manson shares my views that human beings can and should be tortured and killed," McCain said of Manson’s interest in the No. 2 slot on the Republican ticket in November's election.

Manson told Fixed News Channel's "Hannity and Colmes" on Tuesday that "any Serial Killer in this country would be honored to be asked to serve as the vice presidential nominee for John McCain, myself included." He went on to say that, “The over 1 million innocent people killed since the Iraqi invasion makes George Bush the ultimate serial killer, especially given that half of those murdered were innocent children. I feel that McCain has what it takes to carry on that legacy and even outdo Bush with the upcoming invasion of Iran. This is history in the making.” Said Manson, “And I’d like to be a part of it.”

Charles Manson endorsed McCain in February after the Arizona senator defeated Gulianni in an often caustic campaign battle. McCain will face either Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York or Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in November. Clinton, herself an aspiring serial killer who supported the Iraq invasion, has the blood of a half million innocent dead Iraqi children on her hands and seems to feel no remorse. Said Manson, “She is gifted with the ability to harm others and feel no pain but rather seek the spotlight to increase her base of power. I feel that, given the opportunity, she will kill again”.

When asked about Democratic Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, Manson went on to say, “He is not ready to mass murder on day one. He lacks the experience of taking human lives for pleasure or for personal gain. I don’t know how anyone can take him seriously.”

At a town-hall meeting in San Antonio, Texas, McCain went out of his way to praise Manson as well as more notable and effective mass murderers such as the late Edi Amin, China’s Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and of course the great Adolf Hitler.

"My friends, I fought in Viet Nam. I was a trained killer" Said the Arizona Senator, “I don’t remember what we were fighting for, but I loved to kill and, given the opportunity to serve this country as Commander and Chief, I can promise you a blood bath in the Middle East. America will never be looked at the same way ever again once I leave office.” he said.

Talking to reporters on his campaign bus, the Double Talk Express, the 71-year-old McCain made clear he has not put together a list of candidates yet but has some ideas in mind. He said he could not say whether Charles Manson was "on or off the list." There have been some unconfirmed rumors on the Beltway that McCain was also in talks with other serial killers and military commanders at Guantanamo Bay for the number two slot.

NO DECISION EXPECTED SOON

Offering some details on what type of person he was considering, McCain said he did not believe having a "personal bond" with the running mate was all that critical as long as they shared the same views and philosophy.

He also said he did not think the vice presidential candidate needed to be from a certain region, “So long as he is male, not a homosexual, a devout Christian and white.”

No decision was expected anytime soon. Presidential nominees often wait until just before their party's nominating convention in late summer to announce their running mate.

McCain said he and advisers have begun discussing "what was the process that was used in other campaigns, what process should we go through." He added, “I just can’t wait to get my finger on the button of this nation’s Nuclear arsenal. That’s just some straight talk, my friends. Power makes me feel high and I want to destroy things, entire villages, men women and children. I don’t care about oil. I keep saying this war is not about oil. This is about showing my father that I am number one and showing the world that America is number one.”

He said his prime criteria is someone "who can take your place, shares your principles, your values and your vision and your priorities." He added that “Given the principals of the Neoconservative movement, I believe that Charles Manson would be on anyone’s short list.”

McCain talked about his vice presidential search as he came to San Antonio, Texas to hold a town-hall meeting at the Church of Pastor John Hagee, where he thanked the Right Wing bigot for endorsing his candidacy. “Pastor Hagee hates human beings and I share his values. If I am elected into office, I will appoint Hagee to head up a task force on how to promote American values here at home.”

When asked if the Senator would consider Ann Coulter for the Vice Presidential nominee he remarked, “Now that would be going too far.”

www.WeCanStopMcCain.org

If it is really that much of a "slow news day" maybe you'd consider commenting on this:

Government Reports Warn Planners on Sea-Rise Threat to US Coasts
By Cornelia Dean
The New York Times
Wednesday 12 March 2008

Excerpt:

A rise in sea levels and other changes fueled by global warming threaten roads, rail lines, ports, airports and other important infrastructure, and policy makers and planners should be acting now to avoid or mitigate their effects, according to new government reports.

... the greatest and most immediate potential impact is coastal flooding, according to one of the reports, by an expert panel convened by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences.

Another study, a multiagency effort led by the Environmental Protection Agency, sounds a similar warning on infrastructure but adds that natural features like beaches, wetlands and fresh-water supplies are also threatened by encroaching saltwater.

...

Noting that 60,000 miles of coastal highways are already subject to periodic flooding, the academy panel called for policy makers to survey vulnerable areas ... and begin work now on plans to protect, reinforce, move or replace on safer ground. Those tasks will take years or decades and tens of billions of dollars ...

... the report offers three estimates for sea-level rise by 2100: about 16 inches a century, a rate it said had already been exceeded; about two feet, an estimate many scientists regard as optimistic; and up to three feet, which the report says would be catastrophic for wetlands and other coastal features but that is "less than high estimates suggested by more recent publications."

... The report says that if the sea level rises by two feet or even a bit less, 70 percent of port property will be affected ... such a rise in sea level would leave almost 2,200 miles of major roads and almost 900 miles of rail lines in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and the District of Columbia "at risk for regular inundation."

Which presidential candidates are addressing the fact that the now inevitable consequences of anthropogenic global warming will cost tens to hundreds of billions of dollars to protect and/or relocate much of the crucial infrastructure of the USA's densely populated coastal areas -- within decades?

Not to mention that the same infrastructure is already decaying from neglect, and already is in need of trillions of dollars of investment in maintenance, repairs and upgrades, just to keep it functioning as it is.

The most bizarre aspect of this campaign is that the most important issues -- issues that threaten the viability of the USA as a nation -- are mostly ignored, while the campaigns and the electorate focus on bogus issues, like the nonexistent "threat" from nonexistent "global Islamo-fascist jihadism", and which candidate is best suited to be the Maximum Leader who will protect us from nonexistent enemies by launching wars of unprovoked aggression and shredding the Constitution.

What do you think is going to happen to this country when our essential infrastructure starts collapsing from long-term neglect combined with the impacts of rising sea levels on the coastal regions, while at the same time industrial agriculture fails due to prolonged mega-droughts, while at the same time major cities run out of fresh water, while at the same time oil production begins to decline and the cheap energy that our industrial civilization depends on disappears?

These are the issues that the next president will need to deal with -- not bogus "defense" against bogus "threats".

Ooh, ooh, I heard on the way in that the FAA looked the other way at Southwest Airline's ignoring safety and maintenance requirement.

That non-mandatory honor system for businesses sure works just fine, eh?

Change the subject?

Whew, as long as we do not have to mention the deaths of 13 American military personnel in Iraq, since Sunday.

Huh? Hillary Clinton ISN'T a Republican?

(moment of self-reflection: I coulda sworn... hmm, pro-war. check. Pro-torture.check. Uses Rove's playbook. check. Accuses the media of bias against her. check. History of suspicious financial shenanigans. check. Badly run campaign. check. Uses anti-black, anti-gay, and fear appeals.check. Pro-executive privilege.check. Endorses John McCain.check. assumes special privilege due to family connections. check. claims more experience than she has.check.....(lightbulb goes on!) Wait, she's pro-healthcare! By golly, Drum is right! HRC is a Democrat!)

Republicans are just icky, icky people with bankrupt policies.I'm so glad to realize that HRC isn't one of THEM.

The first CNN.com headline yesterday about the EPA smog standards told me this:

"EPA Tougher Smog Limits to Cost Billions"

Of course, the EPA's own report says that the standards will likely more than pay for themselves in health-related savings.

Later in the day, somebody got wise and changed it.

Leave Donald alone. That shithead one of my heroes.

Appearently we can't leave off bashing each other. The McCain/Parssley story shouldn't get any play. There are a lot of people out here who love that shit and will think better of McCain for it.

I tremble.

SecularAnimist is at it again with another necessary reality check. But to add a little speculation to the mix, why doesn't that report mention what happens when the Greenland Ice Sheet slides into the ocean in a big whoosh? 30 feet of sea level rise in one year? 2012?

The problem with the David Corn article about John McCain and televangelist Rod Parsley is that people like my parents are likely to think it's entirely appropriate (not that they will ever read this article). They don't understand anything about evangelical beliefs. They are scared to death of terrorists and would be grateful if Islam were wiped out. They just wouldn't see the problem with McCain seeking this guy's support. You can try, as I have, to educate them about the rapture but it's lost on them. They are way more worried about Muslim fundamentalists than they are about the homegrown variety. I couldn't find anything in this article that I could use to try to convince them. It wasn't even worth emailing to them because they were just going to think, "Wow! This is great!"

SecularAnimist,

See, the problem with liberals is that you guys are just so negative. Billions of dollars to "protect" coastal roadways?!

In Conservoworld, we develop simpler solutions:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/14/ncar114.xml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJC7E06IBXI

hmm. How about a contrarian post on Silda Wall Spitzer, taking off on this post by Wolcott about the kewl girl posturings over at the Corner.

Sally Quinn piled on this morning, too, on Morning Joe.

Here's the gripe: stricken wife stands next to powerful husband while he confesses to gay lover/"private" matters that cost $4300 an assignation/money laundering/sex with subordinates, and so forth. "It's so retro," complained Sally Quinn. "This picture could have been taken in 1978!"

Here's my take. Rich, well-educated wives of powerful men get trashed all the time for having only derivative power. They're there for the galas and the inauguration balls. They're there for the fundraisers. That's the "for richer" part of the vows.

Why shouldn't they be there for the "for poorer" part too? He's a schmuck, oh, my, yes. He's been disloyal. He's humiliated her. Yup. So what does Silda show her daughters? I think she says, you know, I wasn't in this for the glamor and the derivative power. But I've had more than my fair share. And I enjoyed it. So I'm going to stand with him when he's down, too. Because that's who I am.

JM, thats funny, the cercopes of los pinos have been doom and gloom fear factor for years with its terror alerts.

What paxr55 said. I've always wondered why the Family Values crowd don't have more respect for a woman who "stands by her man."

Oh, I remember now. They're a bunch of stinking hypocrites and don't believe most of what they say. Never mind.

(How'd that Viagra work out for you in the Dominican
Republic, Rush? Did it enhance your character? How's that first wife, St. John?)

But, while the GOP brand is damaged, the Democratic brand appears to be split into two large market segments with similar user requirements but completely different senses of style.

*lightbulb*

Suddenly I understand why the left side of the blogosphere has gone insane; it's Windows Versus Macintosh.

"Ferraro's comments - and the subsequent defense of those comments by Ferraro and the Clinton campaign - are among the most startling campaign stories in decades... and you want to change the subject?"
Posted by: Augustus on March 13, 2008

What part of "change" don't you understand?

Heh, 'change', Obama supporter, heh.

The progressive blogosphere has become almost unreadable. I might as well be going to LGF. Between the oh-so-righteous sexism dressed in the sheep's clothing of racial tolerance, the anti-Clinton triumphalism, the lack of perspective on the presidential race (note to self: McCAIN is the one who represents reactionary forces), the downright stupdity in the coverage, progressive blogs in general are useful only as a quick fix to low blood pressure. Teh stupiid, it burns!

"Manson shares my views that human beings can and should be tortured and killed," McCain said of Manson’s interest in the No. 2 slot on the Republican ticket in November's election."

"When asked about Democratic Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, Manson went on to say, “He is not ready to mass murder on day one. He lacks the experience of taking human lives for pleasure or for personal gain. I don’t know how anyone can take him seriously.”"

""My friends, I fought in Viet Nam. I was a trained killer" Said the Arizona Senator, “I don’t remember what we were fighting for, but I loved to kill and, given the opportunity to serve this country as Commander and Chief, I can promise you a blood bath in the Middle East."

"He added, “I just can’t wait to get my finger on the button of this nation’s Nuclear arsenal. That’s just some straight talk, my friends. Power makes me feel high and I want to destroy things, entire villages, men women and children."

"When asked if the Senator would consider Ann Coulter for the Vice Presidential nominee he remarked, “Now that would be going too far.”"

Posted by: Eric Allen Bell on March 13, 2008
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Teh funny.

In this surreal Bush era this somehow fits.

Parsley, eh?

And, here, poor John thought he was getting the needed endorsement from Rev Ian Paisley. Paisley and Hagee marching as one.

Anything but more Geraldine Ferraro?

Absolutely. But does anybody with half a brain not think that if Obama is elected, we won't be hearing 4 more years of this? Seriously?

Do you think that on every occasion in which Obama is criticized, his staff and supporters won't be ratcheting up this argument? Are, say, Kos and Josh Marshall going to develop some maturity and responsibility? Will the staff Obama puts in place in the WH to handle PR differ in any important way from the staff he has on his campaign? Why, I'd like to know, won't this viciousness be the standard MO for an Obama Presidency, given their eagerness to use it on every occasion to date? And Kevin, are you foolish enough not to think that the American people will be only more disgusted with this than you are already? The American people at large won't even possess the patience and tolerance for fabricated charges of "racism" that Democrats do.

What we are seeing now is the preview, in microcosm, of the Obama Presidency, pure and simple. This is, in fact, what his "unity" will amount to.

Sorry Kevin, but if you want to support Obama, you will have to sleep in the bed you made. You wanted "hope", but you'll get the ugliest and longest pie fight in American political history.

Oh, and I forgot to mention to you the beauty part, Kevin, about the Obama Presidency.

Every single time President Obama, or his staff, or Kos, or Josh Marshall makes up still another wild claim of racism, you absolutely will be required to back them up, on penalty of being charged with being a racist and a Turncoat Democrat if you don't.

Imagine the fun.

Doesn't "Reverend Parsley" sound like someone's mocking nickname for a rural fundie, like "Reverend Cornpone"?

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Damn, mhr, it's a tough call for you guys. Run with the Obama's Christian pastor line and you have to let go of the "secret Islamofascist" thing. Decisions, decisions.

Maybe not, though--in the minds of the deranged, Hillary managed to be both a hardcore lesbian and Vince Foster's lover, so you guys will likely find a way to make this all work out in your own heads when you're lying awake at night. Best of luck!

mhr,

I'd suggest opening up a line of attack that involves tying Rev. Wright to Muqtada al-Sadr, if possible. Muqtada is believed by many (some say!) to be in routine contact with the Hidden Imam, who will eventually be revealed - with Jesus by his side - on the Day of Judgment.

If you can do that, then you won't have to let go of either the Obama's Christian pastor line or the secret Islamofascist thing, as shortstop suggests.

I don't really have any suggestions, though, for how you cover up the Robertson/Falwell statements that 9/11 was God's punishment for our sins, or Hagee's similar statements about Katrina.

Geraldine, the Racist, Ferraro was found singing today over her double whiskey and pack of Camels:

“Oh Mickey You're so fine,
You're so fine you blow my mind.
Hey Mickey
Hey Mickey

From Conoson:

As Village Voice investigative reporter Wayne Barrett later revealed, the Republican oppo researchers knew much that Mondale evidently didn't about Ferraro and her family's connections with organized crime, dating back at least two generations, and how she had personally profited from those unsavory bonds. (Barrett and William Bastone continued to report on those links for the Voice when Ferraro ran for the Senate in 1992, discovering literally dozens of contributions and deals that involved the worst thugs in New York.)
To Ferraro, reports of her husband's criminal associations proved only the "anti-Italian" bias of the press. Her claims of ignorance about her husband's real estate business -- he rented space in lower Manhattan to a Mob porn operation and a Chinese sweatshop, among many other questionable deals -- were not entirely plausible, since she was an officer of his company and shared office space with him. There were tax problems, too, and despite a spirited performance at a press conference where she evaded as many questions as she answered, her image never quite recovered before Election Day.
Such are the perils of tokenism. As she has forthrightly acknowledged, to her credit, her sudden elevation was attributable to her gender rather than to any innate quality of her own. She had no discernible qualifications to serve as president if anything happened to Mondale. And she had done nothing to earn her place on the ticket that had not been done by a couple of hundred other House members. Many if not most of them had done more.
Obviously the same cannot be said of Obama. He has run a masterful national campaign against a rival whose nomination was said to be inevitable when he began, and he has had to rely on his own powers of inspiration and persuasion to get this far. And the polls indicate that his story may have a far more uplifting conclusion than hers did.
Either way, she still owes him an apology

Good job, Kevin.

What Jeffrey Davis said! (at 9:05 AM above). It's worth pointing out that William Safire, who was one of Nixon's speechwriters, regularly denied that the claim that the Daley machine had delivered Illinois for Kennedy. He pointed out that voting irregularities downstate had overwhelmingly favored Nixon, and that any investigation of Democratic chicanery in Chicago would uncover an anthill of similar problems in southern Illinois. Since this was an issue on which Nixon could not win, it was better to leave it alone and take the credit for remaining above the fray. I guess it worked!

Great story. Received wisdom. Oft repeated lie. It didn't happen. Nixon had it investigated. 3 times. The fraud didn't happen. There was piddling stuff. The kind you'd find if you investigated closely enough any large election. But nothing coordinated by Mayor Daley, JFK and/or the Democratic Party and certainly nothing widespread enough to have swung the election. But Mamet believes in corruption like a foot believes in a shoe.
Posted by: Jeffrey Davis on March 13, 2008 at 9:05 AM |

P.S. PTate @ 10:23, your schtick is getting really, really tiresome. We all know that you nurture an absolutely irrational hatred for the Clintons, and that Hillary bothers you simply because she's Bill's wife, in addition to all of her other "crimes" real and imaginary. Like that well-documented, bipartisan condemnaton of her "history of suspicious financial shenanigans" (as opposed to the non-suspicious sort of shenanigan?) But honestly, "Rove's playbook"? "Endorses John McCain"?!

I guess it's beyond you to note that HRC's voting record on economic and social matters is just as liberal as Obama's, because of far more important indicators of her GOP secret identity like "running a bad campaign" and "assumes special privilege..." as well as the shit you just plain make up -- things unique to HRC in this campaign yet also associated overwhelmingly with Republicans.

Here's a suggestion: just start all your posts with "I hate Hillary Clinton. Hate, HATE, HATE!" You'll have the same effect. Christ, you're like an intellectual black hole, sucking the IQ out of anyone who crosses your event horizon, simply because you're so goddam dense.