Just wondering how many of you are watching the series. So far, I have really found it interesting. I do have to say, though, that during the scenes when he was ill last week, John Adams looked a great deal like Homer Simpson. Consider this an open thread.
Archives for March 2008
Obama Breaks 50%
According to the new Gallup: Barack Obama has extended his lead over Hillary Clinton among Democrats nationally to 52% to 42%, the third consecutive Gallup Poll Daily tracking report in which he has held a statistically significant lead, and Obama’s largest lead of the year so far. Two caveats- first, as always, remember this is …
Hillary’s Endgame
Josh Marshall discusses Donna Brazille’s appearance this morning on This Week here, and in another posts states the following: So there it is. Since neither side now seems to think revotes are likely and the Obama campaign and the DNC will never agree to seat the delegates from the non-sanctioned primaries, Sen. Clinton seems to …
Sadr’s Incredibly Humiliating Defeat
As always Cernig has the most thorough rundown of developments in Iraq. Go read. Meanwhile, I have a couple of questions for the people who think that Sadr lost something. * Which goal did Maliki accomplish? Did the JAM disarm, lose territory, surrender any leaders? Unless you count retreating to Baghdad, watching his most disciplined …
Post #10,000
That means I have written a whole lot of gibberish in the past few years. Maybe this will make up for it: Tunch, resting on top of the printer, where he spends most of the day. That is actually where Tunch spends most of the day, although some days he lies on the desk in …
No End In Sight
More election news, this time from a Clinton interview in the WaPo: In her most definitive comments to date on the subject, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton sought Saturday to put to rest any notion that she will drop out of the presidential race, pledging in an interview to not only compete in all the remaining …
Basra Not Burning
This was unexpected. NAJAF, Iraq, March 30 (Reuters) – Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on his armed followers on Sunday to leave the streets and stop battling government forces in Basra and other southern towns. […] In his statement Sadr denied that his followers possessed heavy weapons. He said the government should stop large-scale …