Phish, Golgi. Time for some of us to relive high school.
Chat away.
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Heh.
Archives for 2008
Sounds Familiar
Fester on the topic of societies coping with PTSD-like trauma:
The end result was a quicker willingness to turn to ineffective violence to accomplish immediate goals.
Now it all makes sense. The GOP and Joe Lieberman don’t need prison, they need therapy.
Pens/Wings Game 4
Suck. On. This.
***Update***
Tie game. It’s still nice to see that the schoolyard beating of the first two games has evened out a bit.
Well Played
Obama’s campaign knew that they would have to cut ties with his controversial church sooner or later. Fair or no, the campaign clearly recognized that the antics at Trinity United were a gaping PR wound that wouldn’t heal as long as he didn’t make a clear break. Like Dunkin’ Donuts in the idiotic Rachel Ray controversy, the Obama campaign really wants to spend its finite resources talking about something else.
McCain handled the same problem by cutting his two embarrassing ties at the same time. That cut the number of embarrassing news cycles in half, but it still was THE story for at least a brief moment.
Obama did McCain one better. Most non-obsessive news readers only retain a couple of stories at a time. What do you think people will be talking about next week? What do you think the usually Wright-crazy Clintonites will be talking about?
Carpe diem.
To The Convention
Ickes just gave the signal- to the convention and the credentials committee. Apparently fair reflection means that North Korean style elections that give Clinton all the delegates are what democracy is all about in Camp Clinton.
I told you. She is not going to give up, she will not concede, and we will spend all summer with Clinton and McCain attacking Obama while Clinton and her crazed supporters scream “unelectable” and “we wuz robbed!”
I look forward to four years of McCain. Thanks, Clintons.
Good luck walking them back from the brink, Hillary
That video above should be the companion video to Geraldine Ferraro’s outburst the other day.
A Question
Why is Jim Gaffigan chairing the RBC meeting?
Consider this an open thread.
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At least the Clinton position is clear: “We have no problem taking every delegate from the state of Michigan, and fair reflection would suggest that not one single voter in the state of Michigan voted for or would have voted for Barack Obama. Plus, the Obama camp is a bunch of fools for believing the DNC.”
*** Update #2 ***
Lanny Davis’s long national emotional breakdown continues.
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Ausman to Lanny Davis– Shut up.
Rules Committee
If Michigan tries this crap again in 2012, I suggest that not only are their delegates not seated, but we move to kick them from the United States. I would prefer if we just give Florida to Cuba.
Also, I would like to thank the Clinton campaign for their bullshit and duplicity in this whole affair.
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A preview of what we can expect from the Clinton protestors:
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The only thing I disagree with regarding this HuffPo piece is that I don’t think it matters what happens at the RBC. Hillary Clinton is not quitting. She is pushing to the convention, and if she does not get the nomination, she is running again in 2012, and she will spend the remainder of the election cycle making her voters think she has been shafted, raising questions about Obama’s legitimacy, fomenting discontent, so that she makes sure her avenue to run in 2012 is clear.
This is all about the Clintons. This isn’t about anything else. Not sure why people have not figured that out yet.
*** Update #3 ***
It looks like Florida is a done deal at half a vote- this looked like theatre. Michigan will be the big fight.
*** Update #4 ***
Ickes is setting the stage to allow Clinton to beg/borrow/steal “uncommitted” delegates.
The election shouldn’t count. Period.