Hillary's plan is all about the Momentum
This diary is somewhat in response to the discussions about Hillary's intentions to steal the nomination, woo the superdelegates, etc. Folks, I don't think for one minute that it's about the math....
View ArticleHillary tricks the press! (again)
Again, a primary, and again Drudge screams "internal Clinton poll shows..." and the rest of the media eat it up. In Pa. the Clintonists projected a 10-point win and were (almost) right. Credibility...
View ArticleDemocratic disenfranchisement, 1976-2004
My sympathies for the heart-rending stories of "disenfranchisement" by the FL and MI speakers are limited by living in Indiana. I was 17 during the close McGovern-Humphrey race of '72. Too young. In...
View ArticleWhy did Obama win all the superdelegates?
I really don't understand this, and I consider myself a serious political junkie. As Hillary began to accumulate primary victories, more and more superdelegates went to Barack. Why? Aren't the party...
View ArticleWe can stop worrying about an Obama "sellout..."
...because with the Left now disappointed by FISA and ready to vote for Nader, Cynthia McKinney, or None of the Above; and with the MSM in the tank for McCain; and with the black community angry over...
View ArticleWhy we're all broke
Robert Reich has a great blog, http://robertreich.blogspot.com/... which is handy if you miss his great commentaries on "Marketplace." His latest takes issue with the standard insult to everyone who's...
View ArticleCall for a National Arts Summit
Petitions and ideas are flying through the internets -- Arlene Goldbard has issued a call for a new WPA for artists; President Obama himself called for an "Artists Corps" in the schools, modeled on...
View ArticleA crazy idea to save the banks (and ourselves)
What if, instead of sending cash to the banks and hoping they use it in ways that will help the people of the USA, why not pass a "bailout bill" for credit card debt? We could use government funds to...
View ArticleBrandeis and the Rose Museum: "Disaster Capitalism?"
When Brandeis University announced that it would close the Rose Art Museum to sell the art collection for $350 million, I suspected that we would see evidence that Brandeis, in this era of economic...
View ArticleHealth care: what IS the 80% everyone accepts?
Help me out, folks. No snark intended. The President started it and now everyone says it, that there is agreement among all parties (House, Senate, Blue Dogs, even Republicans) on 80% of the...
View ArticleDemocrats want to lose in 2010
Well, I don't really believe my own title on a conscious level, but what other explanation can there be for the health care bill? It will pass, Obama will sign it, taxes will be levied, and it will...
View Articlewhy tomorrow makes me disgusted to read DailyKos
I don't know why, I just thought I would get a head start. But the rate this health care thing is going, I feel that I am on solid ground with this title. Let's think: tomorrow it will be, what?...
View ArticleArts Need Major Support This Year (w/poll)
The coalition that swept the Democrats and Barack Obama into power consisted of a lot of different interests, demanding great change in the federal government. Thanks to the Culture Wars of the 1980s...
View ArticlePresident Boehner restarts the culture wars
Yes, it's true. Incoming speaker John Boehner and majority leader Eric Cantor are demanding that the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery close its featured current exhibit, which...
View Articlehow much money does the military have?
Thanks to other diarists, we've seen all the charts and graphs that show the data: Defense spending doubling in real terms in ten years, Afghanistan a billion dollars a day, etc. For the non data...
View ArticleDNC: Where are the business owners?
I don't mean this as snark -- last night was one of the most powerful and empowering nights of speeches I've ever seen. I was reminded of why I thought so highly of these people (especially President...
View ArticleKaili Joy Gray appreciation diary
Kaili Joy Gray first came to my attention when she published a heartbreaking diary about the death of a close friend. It was raw, passionate and illuminating all at once. I was in awe of her power,...
View ArticleIt's not a personality contest
Or even a race between two people. It's not an alpha male fight. It's not even about what legislation will get passed and signed (or vetoed). It's a question of who will be at the table when the...
View ArticleRomnmentum: why demonization backfires
Partisan Democrat here who thinks President Obama will be re-elected. Having said that, I wanted to muse about why the grand strategy of demonizing Romney as a caricature of a human being, a goofy,...
View ArticleOur top priority for the next 4 years
I just voted in Bloomington, Indiana. It was a pleasure, a perk of privilege. Using my passport as the required ID, I noticed that its signature was matched against my signature on the voter...
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