Tell me this is just another speech, and I'll take my bike and go home. This was delivered in October of 2002 when opposing the president was a mortal sin against patriotism. That month, President...
Author - Bob Cesca
Suggestive Sales
When I was in high school, I worked at a Sam Goody record store and learned about something called "suggestive sales." At the register, we were instructed to suggest to people that they should...
Don't Listen To Them
The talking drones on the morning shows today are repeating their most recent mantra which is that Senator Obama ought to get nasty and "fight." I wish I had a word count on the number of times...
Today's Meet the Press…
...as described by Paddy at Cliff Schecter's place: Meet The Press: Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA) & former Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD). Very Serious discourse with a roundtable of journalists that sounds...
The Math
Delegates won in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont: Clinton 177 Obama 171 Net gain for Clinton: 6 delegates. Delegates won in Wyoming: Obama 7 Clinton 5 Net gain for Obama: 2 delegates Net gain for...
Morning Awesome
Description: "An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict." Cheat sheet here.
Self-Sabotage
Times Online UK: One Clinton aide yesterday derided Mr Obama’s victories in "boutique" caucus states rather than the hardscrabble terrain of the rustbelt, saying: "Obama has won the small caucus...
Wyoming Caucus Blockus
2:54PM Obama 61 Clinton 38 11 out of 23 counties reporting
Adopt A Mountain Gorilla
This made me smile. Attenborough recently announced his retirement and the natural world has lost an important ally. Meanwhile, if you have $50 to spare, adopt a mountain gorilla here. (h/t...
President Bush To Veto Torture Ban
The Gestapo. The Spanish Inquisition. The Communist North Vietnamese who tortured John McCain and countless others. Imperial Japan during World War II. And President George W. Bush. Let's see to it...
Operation Ignore
Here are some titles of various memos sent to then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice from Richard Clarke prior to the 9/11 attacks. The dates are all 2001: “Bin Ladin Public Profile May...
Morning Awesome
Presidential Campaign? Feh. Whatever.
I love it when smart people accidentally accept a Republican talking point that the Democratic campaigns are cult-like. All due respect to HTML Mencken, whose stuff I read every day, but to suggest...
Awwwww
WASHINGTON - GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul is hinting to supporters that he is ending his long-shot campaign for the presidency. Atlas just shrugged.
Morning Awesome
In All Fairness…
...this was really goddamn stupid. Obama foreign policy advisor Susan Rice today: “Clinton hasn’t had to answer the phone at three o’clock in the morning and yet she attacked Barack Obama for not...
The Liebercratic Party
Just now, Newsweek's Richard Wolffe and Keith Olbermann both compared Senator Clinton to Joe Lieberman. For a while there, I thought I was the only one (here and here). Many in the blogotubes thought...
Screwing Thyself
I'm wondering if this is such a smart thing to keep saying: “I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center...
DLC Lines You Can Xerox
Bruce Reed, president of the DLC, wrote the "change you can Xerox" line for Senator Clinton. How meta-wrong is this? Let's start with the fact that someone else wrote the line for Senator Clinton ...
Freedom From Fear
Picking up on Rachel Maddow's mention of freedom from fear: And you don't attain freedom from fear, by conjuring more fear.