DISQUS

sittenpretty · 1 year ago

GOOD!

ChicagoKid · 1 year ago

OT: IS Michael Brodknob the new Karl Rove? Seems the closet-case is more like blogger Perez Hilton.

http://beltwayblogroll.nationaljournal.com/arch...

He's doing the GOP dirty work in Minnesota in an attempt to make Al Franken lose. Let's bring this cyber-dork down to size.

jr · 1 year ago

"Paul Kirk went to Roxbury Latin School so you know he supports Amnesty for illegal aliens"-Hillary to Sean Hannity

slappymagoo · 1 year ago

I've tried to be neutral about the way the primary race has played out. Despite the Clinton's campaign's dirty tricks and dark-horse status, I've always at least tried to believe that it's great to have the process play out, as the votes of more and more states matter now than they usually do, when a frontrunner is often proclaimed the nominee soon after Super Tuesday. But the Clinton Campaign seems to be using the heated competition and the passion of this election cycle to their advantage in a way that reminds me of horror stories of ambassadors abusing their diplomatic immunity. They're not using this time and this process constructively, to prove Hillary is the best candidate. They're using it selfishly, causing damage with no thought to what they're leaving behind in their wake, to satisfy their own egos. And what their egos seem to want is for Obama to be humiliated. After all, the nomination they see as rightfully theirs could've been locked up months ago were it not for him. So he must be punished and pity any voter who stands in the way of that happening. Now, much like the push-polling and smear tactics Rove loves to employ, people who are now considering Clinton seem to be doing it more because they've done such a great job smearing Obama and not because Clinton has convinced them she's a worthy candidate.

Which is why the recent superdelegate defections are so important, even if they don't change much of the game in Indiana. They're telling the rest of the supers, the rest of the party, the rest of the voters, that Hillary has simply become too much to bear. Whatever Obama might have to overcome (and in certain parts of the country, the color of his skin, sadly, will be a tremendous burden), those fights are worth having, because more often than not, the truth will be on Obama's side when there's another vicious smear, another unfounded rumor, another concocted controversy. Whereas with Clinton, the stories will be true, the damage will be real and the spin could easily become unspinnable.

What the media is doing is tantamount to a kid in high school goading two classmates into fighting during lunch so he can enjoy the spectacle of a bloodbath he created, but doesn't have to participate in himself. When Clinton was the presumptive nominee, they luuuuved building up Obama as the come-from-nowhere kid. Now that he's in the lead, suddenly Clinton is the Comeback Kid! What drama! What spectacle! What horseshit! If we cna all reject the way the media frames this race, then the better candidate whoever he or she is (ok, he is) will be self-evident, and then we can concentrate on the important job of taking McBushLite down.

dad · 1 year ago

(never mind)

PeoplePower · 1 year ago

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Even though these 800 some Super Delegates are allowed to nominate whoever they want, most of them are also elected officials who need to heed the will of constituents back home .

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