there's a livestream of Howard Dean at Netroots Nation (re-named from yearlyKos) right now at Ustream.tv

Wesley Clark is opening right now:

here's the direct link to watch and live chat as well:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/exhibit-hall-4

Spread the word :-)

Posted at July 17, 2008 9:27 PM in response to Poll: Obama Pulls Into Narrow Lead In Nevada

Jorge P. reminds us that June 3rd is an important marker.
But Hillary doesn't care. When has she ever cared?

However, the DNC could take the teeth out of Hillary's move to use the May 31st Rules & Bylaws Committee meeting by appealing the ruling (and thereby prolong her the trojan horse case she's making). The DNC could do so by postponing the meeting until after this significant marker date of June 3rd.

Posted at May 27, 2008 2:03 PM in response to A Sane Discussion Of Hillary And The Popular Vote

Oh gawd, no apology needed or expected at all :-)

Agreed that for Obama to start playing dirty like Clinton, would be for the basis of his entire message to crumble.

However, that said, Rules and Bylaws Committee's efforts to settle the Florida and Michigan issue also puts an end to a justification for Hillary's campaign to continue.

I don't believe Hillary truly shares the same objective. She intends to appear publicly to play by the rules to "settle" by "getting the delegates seated" and using the Dem's language, when in fact she'll likely game the system using Republican tactics to the max solely to keep herself in the race.

And my fear is that the DNC continues to behave benignly and that it hasn't earned it's lesson from 2000 that there are SOME fights worth fighting tooth and nail for -- and to not consider in advance the very large possibility that Hillary isn't looking to use the Rules & Bylaws Committee to achieve parity for Dem voters. She's looking out for herself.

Posted at May 27, 2008 1:54 PM in response to A Sane Discussion Of Hillary And The Popular Vote

Tena... I'm an Obama supporter.

I believe Hillary is intentionally employing Democratic language, i.e. "count every vote" when she could really care less, in order to fight a Republican style "street fight" to keep herself in the game.

Posted at May 27, 2008 1:32 PM in response to A Sane Discussion Of Hillary And The Popular Vote

Tthe best thing the Democratic National Committee's Rules & Bylaws Committee could do, would be to postpone this Saturday's meeting.

Why?

In HBO's Recount, we learned that the Republican's strategy as envisioned by James Baker was that they were going to battle the Dems in a street fight, whereas as the Dems view vis-a-vis Warren Christopher was to "proceed as if this were a proper legal process".

We know how that worked out for the Dems. And so does Hillary.

Up to now, she's had no problem using Republican tactics and breaking off the end the bottle and fighting in the alley yielding it's jagged edge to win.

For Hillary Clinton, May 31st isn't a meeting where she hopes to really settle Florida and Michigan. If Florida and Michigan were settled, she'd be out of the game and would have no recourse but to concede.

Nope. Hillary's counting on using the meeting to stay in the game by appealing the ruling.

Rachel Maddow posits:

Clinton needs an argument that the game should go into extra innings. Overtime. Bonus round. Detention. Whatever. Clinton has now found that argument -- she says she will not stop campaigning until the issue of the Florida and Michigan delegates is settled to her satisfaction.

The Florida/Michigan issue get settled, of course, by the Democrats' Rules and Bylaws Committee... unless of course that committee's decision gets appealed to the Credentials Committee... unless of course that decision, too, gets appealed... to the floor of the convention.

Do you see where this is going? If there is an open, unresolved procedural issue involving the Florida and Michigan delegations, Senator Clinton will be able to cite that as her justification for staying in the race until the convention even though she is not ahead in the nomination contest at the end of the primary calendar.

If she can ensure that the Florida and Michigan issue stays unresolved until the convention (and by appealing it every step of the way, I don't see how that can be avoided), then Clinton stays in the race until the convention. Staying in until the convention buys her three more months of campaign time, three more months to make her case to the party and the country, three more months for some potential political unfortunateness to befall Senator Obama.

And it keeps the race for the Democratic nomination open, at least theoretically, for Senator Clinton to win instead of Senator Obama.

Posted at May 27, 2008 1:15 PM in response to A Sane Discussion Of Hillary And The Popular Vote

Putting Hillary on the Obama ticket would mean Obama's CHANGE message was bullshit.

Putting Hillary on the Obama ticket would REALLY UNITE a fractured Republican electorate.

Putting Hillary on the Obama ticket would energize the Republican PARTY Operatives who will also be thrilled that they will, after all, finally be able to use all that oppo research they've been collecting for the past 8 years.

Putting Hillary on the Obama ticket would mean that a loose cannon and unreignable former president -- Bill Clinton -- and major ally of his wife the Vice President -- will be incapable of resisting the spotlight and thereby undermining President Obama.

Putting Hillary on the Obama ticket means that President Obama would be forever looking over his shoulder while the 2 most divisive politicians in the OLD Democratic Party were now a mere heartbeat away from the Presidency. Again.

Posted at May 13, 2008 10:12 PM in response to It's Obama-Clinton

For the Clintons, desperate times call for desperate measures. Pathetic. Nothing admirable about their tired, out-of-date act. The End.

Posted at May 6, 2008 8:05 PM in response to Obama Wins North Carolina, Networks Project

Rock on NC. Rock on!

Posted at May 6, 2008 8:03 PM in response to Obama Wins North Carolina, Networks Project

Hillary nauseates and disgusts me. What an utter disappointment and fraud she's become. I really don't know what to believe. Perhaps she was always this way and I just never saw it. But my gawd, she embarrasses this woman and feminist to no end.

Posted at May 6, 2008 7:51 PM in response to Obama Wins North Carolina, Networks Project

DirkVA writes:
"Once again CNN (wishful thinking?) has the percentages backward on their Web site: Clinton 73, Obama 23!"

It's not only CNN.

MSNBC called OBAMA as a win in N. Carolina, yet their numbers were also backwards!

Same thing on the front page of TPM.

Whassup?

Posted at May 6, 2008 7:46 PM in response to Obama Wins North Carolina, Networks Project