I applaud HRC for employing militant atheist fundraisers. A pox on the theocons!

Posted at March 19, 2008 4:56 AM in response to Will Hillary Reject & Denounce Celebrity Fundraiser Who "would ban religion completely."?

Interesting observation. There's not really much to grab hold of here ... my guess is recommendations are from 30 percenters hoping and praying that Sobel has a clue. Hint: she doesn't.

Obama is on the right side of EVERY major concern the voting, tax-paying citizen of the US has in 2008. McCain has to argue against himself in order to defend his flip-flop support of tax cuts for the wealthiest. He has to defend himself against a very clear embracing of the most unpopular president since Nixon. He has to defend Iraq policy and convince 70% of Americans it's a good idea to stay for another 100 years or so. He has to say the surge is a success ... that's why more US soldiers died last year than any other single year. He has to defend the deficits and the bankruptcies and the weakest job creation record since 1932 because he's clearly allied with the bush economic policies that created them. He's going to have to live with every idiotic, stupid, "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran"-type statement he's made over the last couple of years, pandering to the more extreme right wing. And he can't. He doesn't have the numbers, he doesn't have any solutions and he doesn't the united funding and base Obama brings to the general election.

Posted at February 13, 2008 3:38 AM in response to The McCain Primary

I don't know about you, but outside the beltway, 70% of Americans think the occupation in Iraq is wrong, the country is heading in the wrong direction, the economy sucks and health care issues need to be addressed.

Not one of these issues can be credibly addressed by a bush-embracing, tax cut flip flopper like McCain. Clinton ran on the experience and grit ticket. It was punched by Obama. McCain's gonna find that out real quick.

And while you're at it? Check the numbers of people coming out to vote democrat. None of this is good news for McCain or the republicans.

Posted at February 13, 2008 3:26 AM in response to In Victory Speech, Obama Trains Fire On McCain

Oh William. You mention the "experience" of idealogues like Condoleezza Rice, Richard Armitage, Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney. You opine: "Whatever one thinks of their views (and I don't think much of them), there was no question that these were people with experience at crafting and implementing foreign and national security policies."

You still miss the point. The real point. The only point. It doesn't matter how much experience you have if your messianic, corporate fueled ideology blinds you to the most basic understanding of tradition, culture and history in places like the mid-east. That's what we call a no-brainer, a deal-breaker, game set and match. And there you go ... nattering on about experience.

There's no doubt Huckabee isn't qualified to be a competent president. But the bar has been lowered mightily, hasn't it? There's no need to resort to window dressing. Bush had a closet of idealogues posing as policy wonks. Huckabee has God. Neither "source of experience" knows how to broker truces, promote peace or encourage increased involvement in self-governing.

Posted at January 5, 2008 12:21 AM in response to On Foreign Policy, At Least Two Huckabees