Klein and "What Hillary Stands For"
I just scanned the whole Klein-bashing fest filled with exquisite analysis of Klein's mistakes in the extremely complex area of foreign intelligence surveillance. Excellent. I may be a little behind...
View ArticleClinton Aministration Officials on Obama's Experience
Former Clinton administration officials Anthony Lake (National Security Advisor, Richard Danzig (Navy Secretary) and Susan Rice (Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs know the Clintons,...
View ArticleMandatory Health Insurance: Major New Health Tax on Lower Income Americans?
Clinton and Edwards hold that mandatory health insurance this will lower health insurance premiums for all. Obama says we can't mandate health insurance until everyone can afford it. How to solve this...
View ArticleSimple Explanation of Inexperience
It was OK for Bill Clinton to be President at 46 with little national or international experience, because the Boomers felt he was "one of us." Now the boomers are older, and while Obama is also a...
View ArticleBrooks For Once More Progressive than Krugman? !
In his column in today's New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/... David Brooks (following colleagues Frank Rich and Roger Cohen) throws his weight behind Barack Obama. Moreover it is not an...
View ArticleThe Dowd-Limbaugh Duet
In today's NYT http://www.nytimes.com/... Maureen Dowd devotes her entire column to an analysis of the thought of one of today's most respected commentators: Rush Limbaugh. She uses the column to...
View ArticleKossacks to the Barricades! Research Call!
Dear Kossacks, Today could be an excellent day for proving yet again the critical value of dKOS as a vital journalistic resource for our times. I don't know how the result will turn out, it may even be...
View ArticleLatest Krugman Blog: Is He Losing it? Will He Crack?
As most of us know, in recent weeks we have all noticed some rather erratic and disconcerting behaviour from our journalistic hero Paul Krugman. Well, a blog entry yesterday shows that things are...
View ArticleKrugman X-Files? Yet Another Krugman Mystery Event
All of Paul Krugman's articles between October 29 and December 28 have mysteriously disappeared from the site of the NYT. See http://topics.nytimes.com/... There are numerous theories about their...
View ArticleRichardson/Obama Iowa Coalition Reported by NYT
Sorry for duplicate post: I'm new to searching for posts in other diaries. The New York Times is reporting http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/... that an informal agreement on mutual support has been...
View ArticleWW Miss Manners say on the RUDENESS of Obama Supporters
The latest political dispute centers on Obama supporters' disruption of Mrs. Clinton's speech yesterday in the Granite State. As a devoted gentle reader of Miss Manners, I feel obliged to comment on...
View ArticleBloggers! Take HRC blunder to the netroots!
Two rec'd diaries above have suberbly documented HRC's comments belittling the role of MLK in the civil rights movement. Unfortunately, mainstream media don't seem to be focusing on it yet. Goodness...
View Article"Progressives' Progress", a Blogging Epic, or Obama-Baiting for Beginners
We have all struggled to interpret the Clinton campaign attacks of the past months. Applying old terms: racism (certainly not), race-baiting (not only) has proven unfruitful. I believe that is because...
View ArticleKerry Speaks out on Swift-Boating Obama
Many of us have been labeling the rapid fire barrage of attacks immediately before Super Tuesday as as classic Rovian tactic: "Swift Boating" as it has become known. For this we have been received...
View ArticleSeismic Shift in Krugman Position
As a former Krugman worshipper now bitterly disappointed in my erstwhile hero, I'll admit it: I am well, er, um, rather somewhat obsessed with his stance on Obama, especially now. His column today did...
View ArticleCNN Obama mud bomb a TRAP
You thought I would have learned from the MLK slam fiasco, but no, as usual, I have to learn hard lessons at least twice. As soon as I saw the diary on the plausibly deniable Osama humor mudball thrown...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: Fighter or the New Happy Warrior?
Perhaps all the emotions regarding June 1968 will serve useful purpose in that they will help us to understand what figure in recent US presidential campaign history Hillary Clinton most resembles....
View ArticleWal-Mart Store Unionizes!
Wal-Mart employees have received the benefits of a union. Chinese Wal-Mart employees that is. The thing is that the Chinese government insisted on it. This one seemed to have gotten dropped from the...
View ArticleKremlinology in Beijing
The dispatches from Beijing today provided great substance for a "Kremlinological analysis." As someone trained by Kremlinologists, with a fancy degree in Russian History, and 18 years experience...
View ArticleTarget No. 1 of Operation Ossetia? Obama.
The April 2008 decision in Bucharest to put Georgia on a path to NATO membership surprised many of us who have been following Russia closely, but it was clear that it would lead to a Georgia-Russia...
View ArticleUpdated: Cooler Russian Heads Agree: It's Wag the Dog
Update: the information from Geiiga (in comments below) that Karl Rove made a special trip to the Crimea recently provides further evidence of the correctness of this analysis. My last diary analyzed...
View ArticleTouching Lives by Canvassing
I've been canvassing quite a bit the last few weeks. The weather has been glorious every Saturday, and it has been wonderful to get out and talk to real people rather than just banter and rave with...
View ArticleMost Serious McCain Chaos Moment Yet: Updated 3x
Getting this up so it can be front and center for those who rely on Dkos. This, taken with the "my fellow prisoners" slip, really do raise questions. Slinkerwink posted this first in her Obama ad...
View ArticleChange.gov has shut down its discussion Forum
It seems that due to the Warren fiasco Change.gov has closed down Join the Discussion for the people to talk to the transition team. They are stopped at 4,199 entries.
View ArticleMission Accomplished! Pat Robertson "Remarkably Pleased with Obama"
I have been enormously grateful to many in the Dkos community as you have struggled and grown on the issue of homophobia the last few days. And then last night Pat Robertson crows that he is...
View ArticleOn the Demise of Pie
This just a very short diary, but it is warranted because it covers a rather important item for safeguarding the efficacy of polls on dKos. I have noticed over the past few months that poll takers have...
View ArticleHelp! We're meeting Ben Nelson on Wednesday
Dear DKOS members, It was just announced that the healthcare town hall of all healthcare townhalls, the first Ben Nelson healthcare townhall, is due to take place here in Omaha on Wednesday. We need...
View ArticleLet's remember - it's Yes WE Can, not Yes HE Can
The right has been amazingly energized by their fight against healthcare reform. They think they are winning the battle. The left has become much more complacent, relying upon our electoral victories...
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Fulfilling an Investment Banker's Childhood Dream
My old friends (we worked together at the airport 20 years ago) were going to come visit me in Omaha for New Year Not now.
View ArticleOK People - It's Crunch Time!
Call for Coakley. Click here for 5 numbers: www.obama.com NOW.
View ArticleI want to thank Rush Limbaugh
Along with Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Beck and all the others. Hannity provided a particular turning point today with his observation that liberal rage over rightist rhetoric during this tragic time...
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