Condoleezza Rice is the GOP’s white whale. http://t.co/zj80tKyk18 pic.twitter.com/gxZgfvECHd
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) February 24, 2015
The Washington Post article, by Nia-Malika Henderson, is perfectly reasonable:
The ‘Draft Condoleezza Rice for [fill in the blank office]’ movement will never ever die. And with an open Senate seat in California in 2016, the unquenchable desire among Republicans for candidate Rice has an actual office that she could run for in sight…
Based on this (name recognition) poll, which shows Rice leading current California Attorney General and declared Senate candidate Kamala Harris in terms of peoples’ “inclination” to vote, the Conservative Action Fund launched yet another attempt to get Rice to run. The Black Conservative Fund has also joined the efforts…
Obviously, lots of these groups that have nothing to do with actual candidates are really only in business for themselves. And Rice, who remains a rarity as one of the most high-profile black Republicans in the country, will always be good for business–even though her every move suggests that she would rather spend time on the links and in the classroom rather than glad-handing for votes. A pile of signatures and web site won’t convince her otherwise.
And yet, from the responses to Cillizza, I think there’s a lot more people reading his tweet than will bother reading her words. Speaking of microagressions.
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Apart from a round of “I can deal with my enemies, Goddess protect me from my allies”, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
humanoid.panda
To be fair, this form of grifting is really one of the only things that both sides do indeed. To wit: the myriad petitions to “draft Warren” in my email…
Hal
There is no way in hell Rice can win a Senate seat in California. Though I doubt she would even remotely consider running anyway.
Baud
@humanoid.panda:
“Draft Warren” may be part of a strategy to persuade the powers-that-be not to ignore liberal issues. “Draft Rice” is hard to explain except as grift, unless Rice is, in fact, persuadable.
Dee Loralei
speaking of helpful…. is Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies the only books in the Thomas Cromwell series?
The Moar You Know
Hal got it. She can’t win here. Absolutely not possible. Yeah, she has some “name recognition”, but you know, so does Hitler.
I am very concerned that we don’t have a stronger candidate that Kamala Harris, but it will probably work out fine unless that jackass Newsom decides to jump into the fray. He could really fuck up what should be a sure thing.
Baud
@The Moar You Know:
Why is Harris not strong? I hear her name quite a bit.
MattF
There’s heavy competition at the WaPo, but Cillizza is very much in the running for ‘most useless’ commentator. Has he ever had even a flicker of interest in policy? I don’t read him that much and I don’t keep score, but I’d start with the assumption, based on past performance, is that the answer is ‘no, no, no, no, no.’
Mike J
@Dee Loralei: The Mirror and the Light is due out this year.
SatanicPanic
@The Moar You Know: yeah seriously, people probably don’t even know Rice is a Republican. No way she’d win and I’m pretty sure she knows that which is why she’s not going to run.
NotMax
Ms. Rice is human slime.
Dee Loralei
@Mike J: thanks muchly. I enjoyed the first two and was hoping there was more. I guess I’ll be patient and just wait.
kc
@Dee Loralei:
Yes, but I understand Mantel is working on a third one.
Another Holocene Human
@Baud: She is strong but she’s an AG, and AG’s pick up enemies on the left, even if they aren’t vile thieves of oxygen, which I don’t feel that KH is. But I don’t live in California.
Villago Delenda Est
Cillizza is wrong.
Chris Christie is the Rethug’s White Whale.
Condi Rice is the White Hope (or, more accurately, the hope of some whites)
Another Holocene Human
“Speaking of microagressions.” What is this, trolling? What on earth is the point because I missed it. “Provocative comments on twitter draw more flies than actual articles with complete sentences and paragraphs and words of more than two syllables. Film at 11.”
Calouste
I’m fairly sure the GOP’s white whale is in New Jersey.
trollhattan
@The Moar You Know:
Harris is so under the radar I fear she’s using an entrenching tool, but the Republicans have a big hill to climb to challenge her.
I’m more flummoxed the same Field Poll shows Walker as California’s top Republican presidential candidate, ahead of even JEB!.”Not once people get to know him!” is insufficient to convince me he can’t be 2016’s GWBush. Nobody “got to know him” until it was way too late.
lol
@Baud:
She’s not a white man and thus not a “real progressive” like Tom Steyer.
Another Holocene Human
@Villago Delenda Est: You are correct. I think Obama is more of the GOP’s white whale personally, the obsession that drives them to ruin. But in the sense of going down with him, Christie qualifies and I suspect Walker does as well. Maybe the Kochs are confident they can make Walker’s legal problems “go away”.
Gravenstone
If you’re considering Cillizza an ally, you’re doing it very very wrong. He’s a self aggrandizing attention whore whose loyalties concern only his own advancement. T’was ever thus.
Another Holocene Human
@trollhattan: GWBush was a Bush, though.
trollhattan
@The Moar You Know:
Newsom has opened his fundraising organization for governor and won’t be challenging Harris (and vice-versa, yo). But he has DiFi’s seat in his sights if the governorship doesn’t work out.
The state Latino machine has yet to be heard from and won’t stay on the sidelines forever.
Gravenstone
@The Moar You Know: Newsom has already thrown down his marker on the Governor’s mansion, has he not?
Villago Delenda Est
@Another Holocene Human: Well, Obama might be the object of obsession, as Moby Dick was for Ahab, but the white part is just right out because their problem is, at a visceral level, with the color of his skin.
BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan:
Tony V’s looking for work.
lol
@trollhattan:
IIRC, Harris and Newsom have some major consultants in common so they have a big incentive to avoid their clients battling it out against each other.
trollhattan
@Another Holocene Human:
I know you’re trying to make me feel better, but it’s not quite working…. The guy creeps me out more than the rest of the lot, even Curz (mostly because he strikes me as truly unelectable).
Anne Laurie
@Another Holocene Human:
White man Cillizza (who is senior to Henderson, if not her actual boss) decides to “help” black female reporter by tweeting out an analogy that’s going to suck all the oxygen away from her story. This is rather more than a micro-aggression, IMO, but there’s a longstanding progressive problem where it’s easier to “forgive” (ignore) the Cillizzas than to stop nitpicking each other.
trollhattan
@lol:
Agree. I figure they were talking long before Boxer announced and the delay before Harris announced indicated deals were still being brokered.
Bobby Thomson
@Another Holocene Human: yes, the president is their white whale. This tweet offends me because he fails utterly to understand the metaphor.
Anne Laurie
@BillinGlendaleCA: The Hill says Villaraigosa’s not running.
Baud
@Anne Laurie:
Wow. Who knew tweets had so many layers?
gogol's wife
@Dee Loralei:
If you’re in the New York area, there’s going to be a stage production based on the first two novels. I don’t know how hard it is to get tickets. It got great reviews in London, and it stars Nathaniel Parker (of Inspector Lynley) as Henry VIII. There’s also going to be a TV mini-series on PBS of Wolf Hall, with Mark Rylance as Cromwell. I’m not sure when that starts.
Baud
@efgoldman:
You monster!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Anne Laurie: Trollhatten was talking about Newsom running for Governor or DiFi’s Senate seat if that doesn’t work out. Tony V. wants to be Governor, he was Assembly speaker(been there done that with that lege stuff).
Hal
Harris was elected DA when I was living in SF. One thing I like about Harris is that she does not believe in the death penalty and ran as DA in California with that position. A police office was killed on duty and Harris declined to seek the death penalty as promised, even though the police association and Feinstein as well as other were all up in arms and tried to get her to change her position. She’s tough and I have no doubt she can run an effective campaign.
The Moar You Know
@Baud: I think this is a NorCal/SoCal thing. Most of my friends in NorCal know of her. NOBODY here in SoCal does, not even most of my political junkie friends.
@trollhattan: Yeah, that’s what it looks like from where I’m sitting.
Dee Loralei
@gogol’s wife: I would love to see the play. I think the PBS miniseries starts in March which is why I read the first book, read the second because I liked the first. And finished Bodies late last night hoping to slip immediately into number 3, but alas….
Bobby Thomson
@Anne Laurie: I really doubt many people would have read the article without the tweet or that many will read it with the tweet. That’s because people are lazy, not because Cillizza is a white man and ignorant of literature.
Mike J
@Anne Laurie:
What does Cillizza have to do with progressives?
Aaron
Nobody could have predicted what an incompetent Rice would be.
On the plus side she is the highest profile black lesbian in the USA (AFAIK) as well as the republican party.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Dee Loralei:
I can tell you how it ends. ;-)
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@The Moar You Know:
I know who she is, and I’m in So Cal. I even have her book. I think you’re asking the wrong people.
geg6
@Aaron:
Has she ever come out? I don’t recall hearing it, if she did.
raven
OK let’s hear the freakout about calling Condi a lesbian.
JDM
Condi’s pros:
1. People know who she is.
Condi’s negs:
1. People know who she is.
SatanicPanic
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I do too, but I suspect that even among political junkies, BJ readers are extreme
Cephalus Max
@Anne Laurie: Yes. This was clearly an attention-grabbing move by Sleazilla. He’s hoping for a “liberal-media” scandal here.
SenyorDave
Condi Rice’s qualifications would have to be her strong foreign policy background. So basically, her signature achievement is her role in the Iraq policy under Bush. I think the commercials against her write themselves.
Pogonip
How’s Ginger?
Mike in NC
@raven: Impossible. In a Freudian slip she once referred to Dubya as her “husband”.
Rice, Cain, and Carson are the sort of people Republicans like to talk about voting for but never actually would. Not in a million years.
JPL
@raven: Have you been to the store to purchase supplies yet? I have milk and bread plus a freezer full of vegies and meat so I’m all set. I have a few eggs but since I am an egg snob, I’d do without before I purchased them in a store. hah
Major Major Major Major
@geg6: yeah, you have to have come out to qualify.
Which means the highest profile black american lesbian is..
raven
@JPL: Ha, there’s gonna be less than nothing here.
This weather has put the kibosh on our paving and I don’t think it’s going to get better next week.
JPL
@Mike in NC: this.. There were rumors that Powell was considering running in 2000. It didn’t take long for the repubs to leak a couple of items for him to reconsider.
John
Just a clip of her saying “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” over and over again, juxtaposed with 4000+ caskets.
Mike J
@Major Major Major Major: Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray.
Peale
Hmm. So could I start a PAC called “Draft John Cole”‘ take donations and pocket them if it turns out I was unsuccessful in getting him drafted? I’m just trying to figure out how this grift works.
JPL
@raven: Well, GA Tech has already canceled class for tomorrow, so there.
raven
@JPL: That has zip to do with the weather in Athens.
JPL
@raven: I know.. I just figure that the UGA students will get a laugh especially if it’s a non event.
Truth be known, I wish I bought myself a snow shovel, especially if we get the upper limit of snow.
Major Major Major Major
@Mike J: controversial choice.
Wanda Sykes perhaps?
Another Holocene Human
@BillinGlendaleCA: Better Villaraigosa than Newsom, imo. I can’t stand Gavin Newsom, never like that self-aggrandizing s. uva b. Gavin Newsom has always been loudly, out and proud, front and center about Gavin Newsom. Don’t trust him. Can’t trust him. The sort one hopes to weed out early in politics.
I’ll be in the back gagging when they eulogize his political career in 20 years, if I’m not dirtnapping, that is.
raven
@JPL: My boys over at Normal Hardware have had sleds in their window for a while now!
Mike J
@Major Major Major Major: I was stuck thinking politics. You’re probably right that more people know Sykes.
ThresherK
@JPL: How will you qualify for the “French Toast Blizzard Index” without eggs?
I am personally down to about two pounds of good dark chocolate, and a pound of unsweetened. That should last me until Easter–by which I mean Palm Sunday. Gotta restock for Easter treats.
Woodrowfan
@Peale: make it “Draft Lily” and I’m in!!!
JPL
@ThresherK: Hey I admit, it’s a first world problem because the farmer doesn’t deliver until Thursday. Since he lives in West GA, that’s doubtful. I could go another week without eggs.
Another Holocene Human
@trollhattan: Cruz creeps me the fuck out because he does seem electable. The sort to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes until it’s too late. (Although he kind of peaked early in DC it seems.) Walker is a shifty-eyed weasel who would have a tough time winning his own state in a presidential contest no matter how hard they “true the vote” up in beer and brat land. He won’t win Ohio. He doesn’t have any history in Florida to get our crazies fired up. He doesn’t have the Eastern seaboard newspapers in the bag. The record of fail of his state compared to its peers like MN since he took office is astounding. He has nothing to run on but Koch money. If anybody but the Kochs doesn’t imagine Hilary is going to dropkick Koch Walker at a hundred yards they’re dreaming. He SUCKS.
JEB! can pull off that smug misogynistic attitude way better than Scotty can. That’s all the GOP will have, btw. Misogyny. Racial solidarity is not going to work as well if Hilary Clinton is the nominee, assuming Bill doesn’t make it all about himself. Hilary’s whiteness if you will has never truly been in question. Far from it. I’m not saying those few percent Mittens picked up over McCain won’t stay GOP but that stratagem is played out. RNC PR BS is a great Dem organizer, making sure people of color vote Dem by adding insult to injury on a daily basis.
Another Holocene Human
@Anne Laurie: The lack of passion is probably a function of the lack of relevance. And is he “helping” or just click/troll baiting on his own twitter feed? Attention seekers gotta seek attention.
JPL
@Another Holocene Human: Cruz’s wife has a pretty sweet benefit plan that they don’t have to pay taxes on. I think a good democratic candidate can point out, that is their subsidy and they want to take away yours.
Dee Loralei
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): me too dammit, I watched The Tudors ;-p
Another Holocene Human
@The Moar You Know: Must be a SoCal thing to have NorCal on permablock/ignore setting because I live on the East Coast and I know exactly who Kamala Harris is.
Although to be fair, some of the old, transit cities have cultural ties to each other that transcend geographical barriers. I grew up in Boston and still keep up vaguely with SF transit, housing, land use news. I hear a lot about LA these days through labor channels. Also they are redoing LAUS, which is pretty exciting.
mai naem mobile
Condi ain’t interested. She’s got a very sweet gig at Stanford right now and whoring around for whatever corporation or sports org. wants to demonstrate they are diverse too!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Another Holocene Human:
Walker is the reincarnation of Tricky Dick. Be afraid, be very afraid.
MomSense
My puppy ate all the chilis off my Thai super chili plant. How did she not feel any pain or discomfort?? I’m in big trouble.
Another Holocene Human
@Bobby Thomson:
@Mike J:
I read her response to me that she’s angry about the Arquette back stage shade twitterstorm and wants that ire directed at Cillizza. But here’s the thing, nobody (except for Chris Cillizza) gives a toss about Chris Cillizza. If he started picking fights and making tons of enemies, he might get some hate-attention from the left but as is, it’s Chris who?
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Dee Loralei:
I think I can see where it’s going, theme-wise, from the last book. Obviously, we all know where it’s going plotwise, so the only question is how Mantel is going to get us there and make it tie in with the way she set up the characters.
Another Holocene Human
@Major Major Major Major: BARBARA JORDAN RIP
ETA: @Mike J: But if not politics, Wanda Sykes gets my vote as well. Audre Lorde is too high brow and deceased.
Joseph Nobles
@Hal: Yes, but serious money could be made in a Rice campaign.
Anne Laurie
@MomSense:
Maybe she was just interested in the totally new sensation?
But, you’re right, better carpet your entire house with newspapers before the “processing” is finished!
Another Holocene Human
OT: More Billo lies have come out. I see he has a new name: “Bull Oh Really?” http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/02/24/oreilly-lied-about-suicide-of-jfk-assassination/202655
The comments are so sweet. It’s one of those sites where they let con and liberal commenters fling insults at each other. Well the liberals are just falling all over themselves laughing and the cons are floundering without clear direction from the mothership. Nothing they say is working and they seem dazed and confused. I haven’t enjoyed a pvp comment section like this is a long time.
Anne Laurie
@Another Holocene Human: Not “angry”, just forty years’ worth of tired with the infighting. Nobody cares what our enemies are doing! We just wanna attack each other, because that makes us feel strong & enlightened!
Thereby, no doubt, adding AGEIST to all my other sins.
Another Holocene Human
@Joseph Nobles: Better yet, fundraise on it anyway, even if it never happens.
You know there are liberal/progressive PACs running fundraisers on Warren’s image right now, or stupid “draft Warren” online petitions.
trollhattan
@Joseph Nobles:
Meg Whitman’s team are tanned, toned, fully vested and ready!
Perhaps the best poligrift in US history.
jl
@trollhattan: Whitman should run for another statewide CA office. There are a few more California cities left that she has not insulted.
And, I really think the epithet ‘white whale’ should be reserved for Christie.
Another Holocene Human
@Anne Laurie: I don’t know, it was a shitty thing to say. Why is it wrong to say, hey, stop, that was a shitty thing to say?
Tribalist thinking goes to a bad place fast, as it clear from the way the lines have been drawn. Yeah, my ox got gored too, but even if it hadn’t I still think (as a fellow white person) she should have been circumspect enough not to call people of color out, off the cuff, if you will. It doesn’t take much thought on my part to pick apart why her statement is just factually wrong, but let’s say it’s the heat of the moment, you don’t say shit that alienates the people you want on your side in the heat of the moment. If you dislike or resent somebody, they should never know it. I mean come on, people.
Expecting a little respect in the movement makes us wrong? Isn’t that how 2nd wave feminism got founded? Disgruntled coffee girls from lefty organizations who were tired of being disrespected in “the movement”? You call yourself an old, surely you remember this.
BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan: What about Carly?
Another Holocene Human
@jl: He’s their white elephant at this point.
Another Holocene Human
lol, dictionary.com has three definitions and not one of them is the one I heard from my folks (from Kansas), “A white elephant is a chamber pot!”
to be clear I relate Christie to 1. and 2. although he does have a potty mouth and something does stink in the state of Jersey
JPL
@MomSense: Years ago, a neighbor had a compost that had decaying cabbage, that the golden found. He survived it, but I didn’t survive the smell. I kicked him out of the bedroom.
Hope the pup is okay.
MomSense
@Anne Laurie:
HA! She needs a long walk but it’s so cold outside.
BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
Temecula was feeling left out.
PurpleGirl
@Mike J:
Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray.
I think that qualifies her as bi.
Botsplainer
Fucking melt and refreeze got me in the driveway. I took a Cole-worthy fall while walking the dog back in from a pee at the mailbox. Came down on my left hand/wrist, really hard. Hurts like a motherfucker. Took three ibuprofen and put some ice on it.
catclub
@Another Holocene Human:
Until Federal Agents and US Attorneys are involved, I think they will.
jl
From everything I remember seeing and hearing about Rice, I have no reason to believe should would have the slightest interest in representing a US state in the Senate. As I remember from her testimony during hearings from Bush II, she saw herself as some sort of vague font of wisdom about history and grand strategy. Kind of hard to pin down exactly what she thought she was responsible for in her job.
People like Biden or HRC, or locally, Willie Brown can get into the broken street lights and unfilled potholes, or whatever corresponding nitty-gritty issues are at state level, with interest and zest. Any indication from anything in Rice’s career she has any interest in that?
As I said when this topic came up before, probably be unpleasant experience for Rice to be responsible to CA constituents for getting anything done.
JPL
@Botsplainer: Ouch. Who peed at the mailbox. You might need to have your wrist checked out by a doc.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Botsplainer: It’s only Cole-worthy if you were not wearing pants, otherwise it’s amateur night. Hope if feels better and you didn’t break anything.
gogol's wife
@Dee Loralei:
I think the miniseries will only do the first book, but I’m not sure. I assume that because it’s called Wolf Hall.
jl
@BillinGlendaleCA:
‘ Temecula was feeling left out. ‘
Whitman sure had an interesting approach to trying to make voters like her, especially in areas of CA where she had a natural advantage.
Temecula is part of the Inland Empire. She could make some white trash meth head jokes about it, I guess. Or make fun of the air pollution, say it’s worse than than in that garbage dump Fresno.
Didn’t work out for her very well last time, but maybe she just needs more practice at that approach.
Botsplainer
@JPL:
I will admit to occasionally joining the dog in a yard pee (heavily wooded large lot). The mailbox, however, is next to the road.
Hal
@MomSense: Ugh. My little terrier mix somehow managed to eat the chili my nephew was eating (I say somehow because I’m sure he let the dog eat it on purpose but passed it off as a big shoulder shrug IDK how he got into it) and a few hours later I hear from the kitchen what sounds like a mini explosion and go in to find the back sliding door cover in dog shit. Not to mention how it kept dripping as he ran all over the house. I could have killed my nephew that night.
Botsplainer
@BillinGlendaleCA:
The twinges seem to be more hand and forearm. Not good.
Another Holocene Human
@catclub: You might be right. But Walker also strikes me as so fucking dumb that he will repeatedly dig holes … that fill up with water … faster than his campaign can bail them out, never mind fill them. Christie was arrogant. Nixon was a mean cuss. Walker … is an idiot.
Mike J
@PurpleGirl:
BillinGlendaleCA
@Another Holocene Human: Did you see the Wonkette link near the top of the page? SHOCKING New Poll Shows Majority Of GOP Total Idiots.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Botsplainer: No, the wife had a similar fall, while on jury duty. She was told to see a medical professional. You might want to do that as well tomorrow.
Origuy
I really don’t think Meg Whitman is going to run for office again. She’s made some comments about her political career at employee meetings and she seems to be enjoying running HP. Carly on the other hand has nothing better to do.
MomSense
@Hal:
Oh my dog the “processing” was explosive. I think I’m going to go take a shower for the next hour or two.
She ate an entire plant full of chilis.
Hal
Donald Trump though the Oscars weren’t white enough.
And thanks Obama, of course.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: In my 20s I was young and stupid. I fed my pup everything. (except chocolate) My cocker spaniel started having diarrhea so I took her to the vet. They tested for this and that, couldn’t figure it out.
So I’m on the phone with my sister and just as I am explaining to her that the vet still can’t figure out what’s causing it, I am handing my pup one of the hot peppers I was eating – bing, the lightbulb went off. Current me just shakes my head at how stupid 20s watergirl was.
That’s my long way of saying that I’m with Anne Laurie – keep her in her crate or the smallest room you have that has only tile floors, and newspaper everywhere.
Not sure if it will make you feel better or worse, but I have suddenly reached a much easier phase with Henry. It really can happen almost overnight.
@MomSense: And i see that I’m too late…
Mike E
@Another Holocene Human: I thought you were referring to an actual NJ white elephant…but Lucy has way more class than that blowhard!
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
So glad Henry is mellowing with you. We are at 15 weeks and in the thick of the puppy testing phase. I was comparing her to my old lab when my oldest reminded me what a brat he was as a puppy. He chewed up a camera, palm pilot, coffee table, and my brand new boots (paid a fortune for them)from my trip to Australia. That was just one week in his puppy life.
I’ll forget this crazy phase and think she is the sweetest dog who ever lived — in a couple years.
jl
@Mike E: Lucy is cute and seems nice. If I am in Atlantic City NJ area, I will go take the tour.
To bad a certain political party has decayed to the point that it may giver her a bad name, or even (horrors!) cause some confusion.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: Two years, plenty of wine and chocolate, plus a lobotomy ought to do the trick. :-)
mclaren
All the front-pagers including John Cole have very carefully avoided posting anything about this blockbuster story:
The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site,’ The Guardian, 24 february 2015.
I have been warning about this kind of thing for more than 10 years now on this site, and everyone has just laughed and laughed and laughed at me. Now, here we are.
I can only speculate on the reason for the blackout by Cole and the front-pagers on this news. This kind of overtly totalitarian stuff would reflect very poorly on our glorious Democratic overlords, including the sainted Rahm Emanuel, now Chicago’s mayor, the Obama’s former chief of staff.
Read my back posts in which I relentlessly warned that if the American people didn’t start rising up with mass protests and general strikes that shut own the whole country, we were going to wind up very soon in a situation where ordinary Americans on the street get “disappeared” to secret prisons and held, tortured or executed without being arrested, without a trial, and without getting charged with a crime.
I was called deluded and mentally ill and a troll.
Now it’s happening.
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
@mclaren:
And by “ignore,” you mean you didn’t bother to scroll back four days because the story only just came to your attention:
https://balloon-juice.com/2015/02/20/from-chicago-to-gitmo/
Peale
@Hal: Well this failed project might have something to do with that “rip off”. It’s the old “I just gave my name” routine that comes out when his project goes bust, even though Ivanka was selling condos saying that Donald was supervising the project. Apparently, that’s called fraud.
Otherwise, I think Donald is pouting because he was once overcharged for a blanket on the beach.
Matt McIrvin
I keep thinking about this TV interview I saw Condoleezza Rice do right after Obama was elected in ’08. She was talking graciously about the historic nature of the election of a black President, and she looked happy, relaxed and smiling, completely unlike any body language or facial expression I’d seen her use on television before.
She’s no particular fan of Obama; she campaigned for Romney in 2012.
I think she was mostly just happy to be getting out of there. I don’t see her going back into government and definitely not into politics.
BruinKid
BTW, Ron Paul said that the Congressional Black Caucus only opposes war because they want more food stamps.
Can’t wait to see how my libertarian friends try to spin that one as totally not being racist at all.