How can the Washington Post justify hiring a former politico to fairly cover politics? How do they not see a conflict of interest?
Via Crooks and Liars: Let’s define ‘vulgar’
Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, Bush’s former chief speechwriter, has spent most of the year devoting his columns to bashing Barack Obama. Today, he mixes things up a bit by bashing a different Democrat he doesn’t like: Senate candidate Al Franken.
long after it would of made a difference…
BUSH: WE’LL BE IN IRAQ FOR 40 YEARS, HAMAS ELECTION WAS “GOOD THING”
Everyone keeps saying that Grumpy Old Man McCain is the same as Bush. Not so, McCain thinks we’ll be in Iraq for 100 years
Thanks to Atrios: Sigh
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I’m so sick of politicians I want to vomit
- Randi Rhodes
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Crook and Liars: CNN: al Qaeda congratulates Obama on WI primary victory
Do yourself a favor, stop watching cable network news. Get your political information from the Internet. Start with some of the fine blogs referenced on this site.
Look out Ohio, swift boat tactics from Clinton coming your way.
She has no shame,
Clinton allies are raising millions in a desperate, last ditch effort to defeat Obama by ruining his image with a Swift-Boat-style 527.
ABC’s Jake Tapper reports the new group, called “The American Leadership Project,” is planning to run anti-Obama ads in Ohio — and maybe Texas and Pennsylvania, too. According to Tapper, the ads are “aimed at tarnishing” Obama. Marc Ambinder adds these details:
Americablog: Clinton supporters raising “at least” $10 million for anti-Obama Swift Boat campaign
Clinton’s supporters are absolutely obsessed with driving up Obama’s negatives. You get the sense that they cannot believe that Obama’s campaign is making them work for what they rightly deserve. Now, instead of picking out their White House office furniture, they’re forced to raise large amounts of money to tear down the Democratic front-runner. After all these years in power, the Clintons clearly have rich, rich friends who can chip in $100,000 on their behalf. To contrast, Obama’s campaign hit an unprecedented landmark today: over 500,000 contributors. Clinton’s campaign couldn’t come close to that — so she needs her wealthy friends to bail her out.
She would rather give the Republicans a test market for smearing Obama than concede gracefully and help unite the party. The selfishness of the Clintons rivals the Bush clan.
And don’t feed me some BS about how this is not of her doing, she could stop it if she wanted to regardless.
Dot one (emphasis mine):
In reality, though, Pelosi and the Democrats were actually engaged in some serious point-shaving. Working behind the scenes, the Democrats have systematically taken over the anti-war movement, packing the nation’s leading group with party consultants more interested in attacking the GOP than ending the war. “Our focus is on the Republicans,” one Democratic apparatchik in charge of the anti-war coalition declared. “How can we juice up attacks on them?”
Matt Taibbi: The Chicken Doves: Elected to end the war, Democrats have surrendered to Bush on Iraq
Dot two (emphasis mine):
Tom Mattzie, leader of Americas most well-financed anti-Iraq organization, has resigned his position and dissolved the organization, Americans Against Escalation in Iraq.
Profiled recently in the New York Times as the most important new leader of a pragmatic and well-funded anti-war movement, Mattzie deployed over ninety staff members and spent $12 million last August in an unsuccessful effort to pressure vulnerable Republicans into opposing the war. The groups stated intention at the time was to continue pressuring the political establishment in the coming year.
Mattzie, a skilled campaign operative, has reportedly taken an unspecified position in one of the partisan campaign committees associated with the Democrats for the duration of 2008. His organization no longer exists, though some of its staff are absorbed into local organizing.
Tom Hayden: Anti-War Group Collapses
From Paddy at BNF
Calling Bill-O a buffoon seems redundant these days, but what caught my ear was how Joey defends it as fair:
According to Joey, forget the rude and ridiculous behavior because he did the same thing to Hillary. Go that kids? As long as your an asshole to everyone… it’s ok!
I wish this clip was longer so we could finnish hearing what Joey had to say…
