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Obama on track to win the nomination and lose the election
The pundits and bloggers are obsessing over the delegate math, pointing out that even with Hillary’s new burst of momentum, Obama is still in a better position to clinch the nomination. The problem is that Obama’s support is all wrong for a general election. He does great in red states where it doesn’t matter because [...]
What a beautiful smile to wake up to
I’m just now waking up after a late night of reclusive stuff, so it’ll take me a bit to grok the news. But in the meantime, I just gotta say: Look at her! Boring? Uninspiring? Makes it look like being a woman is no fun (per the increasingly delusional Maureen Dowd)? Bullshit! Hillary is glowing [...]
Jack Nicholson for Hillary
What you can do right now, tonight, to keep alive the dream of a feminist woman for President
Make calls. Tomorrow’s the big day. Help get out the vote for Hillary. If you need a little courage, a little fire in your gut, read this letter. A snippet: We write to you now because it’s time for feminists to say that Senator Obama has no monopoly on inspiration. We are among the millions [...]
Obama: the next Republican President
Paul Krugman: After their victory in the 2006 Congressional elections, it seemed a given that Democrats would try to make this year’s presidential campaign another referendum on Republican policies. After all, the public appears fed up not just with President Bush, but with his party. For example, a recent poll by the Pew Research Center [...]
An uncharacteristic post on fashion
Fashion, as my regular readers may have guessed, is not my thing. They may have guessed this because I’ve never posted on it. I don’t follow it, I don’t think about it. But today — today, all that has changed. I’m in shock and I don’t know where else to go with this. I need [...]
Juan Cole doesn’t know that he’s descended from Mohammed
Juan Cole has a post up about the fact that Queen Elizabeth is descended from the Prophet Mohammed. He says: I was surprised that the writers of comments over at Salon.com did not know the below. It is common knowledge to anyone interested in genealogy. True. But what’s also true is that pretty much everyone [...]
More not-sexism
Both from Echidne of the Snakes: 1. Echidne fisks a piece by Joel Stein that is so astoundingly sexist I’m actually surprised it’s running in a major national newspaper. 2. Someone needs to tell Chris Rock about rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, wife-murder, prostitution, sexual slavery, FGM, and various other items that he seems to [...]
Two quick hits: White Men For Anybody But Hillary
There’s a piece in Salon this week about the dude vote, those guys who lurve Obama and/or McCain but would rather stab their eyes out with a fork than vote for Hitlery. It’s an amazing phenomenon, really, second only to the phenomenon of people deluding themselves into thinking that the first phenomenon has nothing to [...]
You know Hillary Hatred has reached a new height of pathology when Democrats suddenly think Matt Drudge is reliable
So, that picture of Obama in some kind of turban? Matt Drudge says he got it from the Clinton campaign. The Clinton campaign says that’s bullshit. I thought everybody knew that Matt Drudge was a notoriously unreliable right-wing gossip monger with a direct line to Republican operatives. Certainly Democrats have known that for years. But [...]
