Posted in Hillary, Obama, tagged Clinton, Hillary, national security, Obama on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I talk to friends who are worried about an Obama candidacy and possible administration, I hear the following:
Americans will not elect a black man
Obama is inexperienced and soft
The optimism of Obama and his supporters seems dangerously naive
Obama is simply a politician, like the rest, and no more like to put principle ahead of political [...]
Posted in Hillary, Obama, tagged aggression, Clinton, Hillary, Obama, pacifism, peace, toughness, War on May 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A year ago I wrote a post called The Viability of Obama, in response to to friends who thought that the United States was not ready to elect a black president (and long before Obama was thought of as anything but a foil for Clinton). So yes, I’m here to congratulate myself. In part. For [...]
Posted in Hillary, Obama, tagged Hillary, Obama on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have the sense that Clinton thinks she can take the nomination from Obama the way Manhattan was taken from the Indians. He is a black man after all.
Posted in Hillary, Obama, tagged Hillary, Obama on March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
James Wolcott and NYCweboy tell the Hillary haters to “toughen up”–politics is a rough game. The corollary here is that Clinton and Obama aren’t really different; they “both” played rough. It’s all the same.
Nonsense. Calling for decency and intellectual honesty in politics is not a matter of lack of toughness. If you don’t make that [...]
Posted in Hillary, Obama, tagged Hillary, Obama on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dick Morris has a new bit about the need for Obama to attack Hillary via surrogates. I don’t entirely agree, although I made a similar call in this post.
Here’s the difference: if the Obama campaign were to bring up Norman Hsu (or Whitewater for that matter), it should only do so to compare Rezko-attacks on [...]
Posted in Hillary, Obama, Of Interest, tagged Hillary, Obama on March 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What’s happening to Obama in the press, incidentally, is remarkably similar to what happened to Howard Dean (with the exception that Obama is less vulnerable to negative coverage). Dean, like Obama, initially received positive press–not directly, but as a by-product of being acknowledged as a phenomenon. After this coverage peaked, there was a serious attempt [...]
Posted in Hillary, Obama, tagged Hillary, Obama on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As much as I loathe Dick Morris, this is a really succinct dose of reality and it ends with a great suggestion:
The next time Hillary uses the recycled red phone ad, counter with one of your own. When the phone rings in the middle of the night, have a woman’s voice, with a flat [...]
Posted in Hillary, Obama on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Jonathan Alter, one of the few journalists who hasn’t tucked tail as a response to Hillary’s victim gambit: even do-overs in Michigan and Florida will not catch her up in the popular vote or pledged delegate count, and superdelegates will not overturn both.
Posted in Hillary, Obama on February 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Hillary Contra Obama, in five acts: http://ketchupandcaviar.com/2008/02/25/hillary-clintons-rhetorical-offenses-and-why-words-matter/#play
Act I, Scene I: Enter Clinton, stage right, wearing coronation robes—grand, radiant, inevitable. In the beginning the thought of not winning no more occurs to her than the thought of being a peasant occurs to a queen. The audience knows as soon as she walks onto stage how brittle these great expectations can be—that she’s set up for a fall, that the tragic seed of the unraveling exists in the rigidity of the expectations. When there is just the slightest hint of resistance to these expectations, things do indeed begin to unravel.
Posted in Hillary, tagged Hillary on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I watch these about seven times a day:
What I’m Reading
