She is thinking long and hard about running as an independent. Somebody needs to squash her now.

Posted at June 4, 2008 5:33 PM in response to Hillary To Campaign Staff: Goodbye

Wake up people. Hillary is deep in her bunker deciding whether it makes sense to pull a Lieberman.

Posted at June 4, 2008 5:31 PM in response to Democratic National Committee Swings Behind Obama, Declares Him Nominee

I don't know everything there is to know about politics, but I know junkies, and Hillary has a power jones. She will no more give up this campaign on her own than a skag freak will give up the needle. There is one rational framework that explains what a junkie says or does; I need one more fix for one more day. If there are those who believe this observation to be demeaning or mean spirited I invite them to join me in any AA or NA meeting.Truth is truth.

Posted at May 22, 2008 11:52 AM in response to Hillary: I Might Take Fight Over Florida And Michigan To Convention!

What? Wha'd I say? Wha'd I say?...

If smear merchants are making the false claim that Wright and his Church are a community of black racist firebrands, evangalizing the overthrow of the Satanic US Government, then an appropriate defense might be to say it was 20 seconds out of 20 years, taken out of context. Obama wasn't there.

She might as well defend claims that Obama is a Muslim by offering that if she had been tapped by Al Quaeda to pilot planes into the WTC, She would have walked out of bin Ladens cave.

...As far as I know

Posted at May 14, 2008 4:13 PM in response to Hillary Defends Obama From McCain's Hamas Attack

Wright is not a surrogate. A surrogate is one who stands in place of another or one who is appointed to take the place of another.

A campaign spokesperson or a state campaign chairperson would be a surrogate.

Mark Penn and Governor Rendell would be examples of surrogate race baiters.

Wright is neither a surporter. A political supporter is one who provides for or maintains by supplying with money or necessities; I voted for Obama, and am a supporter in the broadest sense, but I have never met him, do not speak for him, nor is Obama bound by anything I may say or do.

A Finance Committee chair, raising money for a candidate like Geraldine Ferraro is a good example of a race baiting supporter.

You could designate Wright as an Associate, that implies each person reaching out and engaging the other, usually around a common activity and interest. This would be misleading since the association is religious and not political.

The radio host who introduced McCain would be an example of a race baiting associate.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thinking. Let's be careful out there.

Posted at March 13, 2008 4:18 PM in response to Ferraro: The Obama Camp "Have Played The Race Card Time After Time After Time"

I think the media should ask why Pennthinks this is so. I know why I think Clinton will be less electable in the general election than Obama will, but I'd like to hear what Penn thinks. I believe it is the same concern that Ferraro reaises...

Posted at March 13, 2008 2:32 PM in response to Penn: Pennsylvania Will Show That Obama "Really Can't Win The General Election"

Yes, something else is at play here. Every time the Clinton campaign calls attention to Obama’s race they are hoping two things will happen. That voters will hearken back to whatever racial fears may lay dormant and failing that, they give hope voters entertain the notion that ,in the country at large, there is to much racist sentiment for a AA candidate to win and they wish to have a shadow dialogue on that point.

“ By the way, is it just me or has anyone else noticed this Obama jasper is a n*gg*r, Is the country really ready to elect a n*gg*r?”

Posted at March 13, 2008 2:23 PM in response to Ferraro: The Obama Camp "Have Played The Race Card Time After Time After Time"

From the Center for responsive politics:

This is beautiful, Hillary is somehow impervious from accepting twice as much as Obama from the Oil industry?

Oil & Gas:
Top 20 Recipients

Election cycle: 2008 List Top 20: All Recipients Presidential Candidates Senators Members of the House Senate Candidates House Candidates All Members of Congress
Rank
Candidate
Office
Amount

1
Giuliani, Rudolph W (R)
Pres
$640,158

2
Romney, Mitt (R)
Pres
$389,163

3
Cornyn, John (R-TX)
Senate
$278,830

4
Clinton, Hillary (D)
Pres
$267,650

5
McCain, John (R)
Pres
$234,485

6
Richardson, Bill (D)
Pres
$199,275

7
Thompson, Fred (R)
Pres
$161,754

8
Domenici, Pete V (R-NM)
Senate
$152,750

9
Inhofe, James M (R-OK)
Senate
$141,500

10
Obama, Barack (D)
Pres
$133,090

11
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY)
Senate
$122,050

12
Landrieu, Mary L (D-LA)
Senate
$90,650

13
Roberts, Pat (R-KS)
Senate
$89,550

14
Paul, Ron (R-TX)
House
$88,154

15
Pearce, Steve (R-NM)
Senate
$77,500

16
Barton, Joe (R-TX)
House
$76,741

17
Boren, Dan (D-OK)
House
$74,200

18
Pryor, Mark (D-AR)
Senate
$70,700

19
Conaway, Mike (R-TX)
House
$70,350

20
Dole, Elizabeth (R-NC)
Senate
$65,800

Posted at February 29, 2008 4:08 PM in response to New Hillary Mailer: "American Families Can't Afford Barack Obama"

What a tool Reid is. This hump makes
Tom Daschle look like he really had a set of balls.

Instead of some lame posturing that will give him cover/deniability for his shameless caving on the issue of Telcom immunity, Reid and Durbin should be twisting arms and breaking legs and telling Jay Rockafeller never to let immunity out of committee on the next bill.

Sweet Jesus, watching these Democrats try to stop Bush is like watching a flock of Deacons and Rotarians try to stop the New England Patriots.

Can I cc: Durbin and Reid directly from TPM when I post?

Posted at February 29, 2008 3:59 PM in response to GOPers Rebuff Dem Attempt to Extend Administration Surveillance Law

Her point is that the Democratic Majority in Congress, that has done such an abysmal job of addressing the concerns of their constituencies,who have repeatedly been turned away by the most unpopular and incompetent President in history, are the best suited to select a candidate and a strategy to defeat him in a general election.

"Most officeholders, however, were reluctant to run as delegates in a primary election — running against a constituent who really wants to be a delegate to the party’s national convention is not exactly good politics."

This is disingenuous nonsense. Since delegates are assigned to their supported candidates, they would run the risk of not going to the convention if their candidate lost. Also why not have superdelegates run on a statewide ballot?

"But the superdelegates were created to lead, not to follow."

Which is why we need to wait until 70% of the country voices disapproval of the war before our democratic congress addresses the issue.

The rest of the selfserving sophistry regarding FL, MI, and the perils of democracy is too convoluted to address in a lucid manner.

Posted at February 26, 2008 7:32 AM in response to Super-Delegates, Super-Delegates, And More Super-Delegates