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Hump Day Open Thread (WTG, Edwards!)

By SusanUnPC on January 23, 2008 at 1:55 PM in Uncategorized

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MyDD diarists have the latest on Edwards:
- “Edwards Evening News Roundup: Still Standing Edition”
- “Hillary’s new web ad: A knockout punch to Obama?,” by an Edwards supporter
- “The moment that put John Edwards back in the game”
- “Obama Better Grab Edwards or Do Something Big” (“Obama seems to have put himself in a box. …”)

Check out the official Edwards blog for more.

Barack? He’s getting nervous, and he’s so off his game:

From Mark Halperin’s blog, The Page, at Time magazine:

“Obama Accuses New York Times Scribe of Cheap Stunt”
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Veteran newsman Zeleny questions the candidate on the ropeline about the Clintons’ psycho-war.

WashPost David Broder’s suggests Obama doesn’t know what has hit him: “[The Clintons] have gotten inside Obama’s head and rattled his composure.”

Obama’s so off his game that he only mentioned the word “hope” twice in the South Carolina debate on Monday night.

  • silver

    I thought Edwards did a great job in the last debate, but not because of the little punches he jabbed at Hillary and Obama for their wrangling back and forth. To be honest, his little holier-than-thou attitude was a turn-off. It’s easy to stand back and play the “maturity card” when you don’t have a dog in the fight. He’s had little to defend since the press and both candidates have kept their hands off of him. Hmmm, and why would that be? Oh yeah, because he’s THIRD!! I’m sure if he was the front runner, his record would come under more scrutiny and he’d sound just as bitchy as both Obama and Hillary put together. And by the way, if I saw Hillary sit back and be all meek and polite during that debate, I wouldn’t want to vote for her. Sorry, but I don’t want a “mature” referee standing up against John McCain in the fall, I want a fighter who isn’t afraid to get down and dirty.

    • shirin

      Well, I don’t want someone who is going to make it a personality contest. I want someone who isn’t afraid to address the issues head on.

  • Sometime-CIA-Defender

    Open thread time. John Gibson on Heath Ledger’s accidental death:

    http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/23/gibson-mocks-ledger/

    What a … !

  • http://www.thelastchancecafe.blogspot.com/ Human

    I have not visited in a long while. I have “No Quarter”
    in my “Intell” bkmk file. Too bad it has turned into an Obama bashing blog. You can take that “Tired of Spin?” down on your header now. Bye Bye.

  • Bill Keyes

    Slightly OT(obama bashing that is)

    Must reading the following..

    Going Bankrupt
    Why the Debt Crisis Is Now the Greatest Threat to the American Republic

    By Chalmers Johnson

    here…

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19144.htm

    This is what is going to lead to the Republics downfall and not even Billary will be able to stop it, in fact they are so blind to what is going on they will never know what hit them.

  • Bill Keyes

    Here is another good article that should be titled

    BYE BYE POLAR BEARS AND HELLO BIG OIL

    US Censors Arctic Scientists’ Findings as it Prepares for Oil and Gas Auction

    By Daniel Howden

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19138.htm

  • Bill Keyes

    I’m on a roll now..

    Hard Times A-Coming
    The Bush Dollar Trap

    By DAVE LINDORFF

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19133.htm

  • Bill Keyes

    Continuing on the same vein….

    A Recession, If It Comes, Could Be Worse Than Those of Recent Past

    By JUSTIN LAHART

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19136.htm

  • Bill Keyes

    Sorry about the dble post please take one of them down..

    Had enough gloom and doom?? Well’s here is another…

    A Stimulus to What?

    Delusions Prevail in Washington

    Farewell to Supply-Side Economics

    By Paul Craig Roberts

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19125.htm

  • Bill Keyes

    These are the issues which are important and should be being discussed on the blog not obama bashing or with all due respect a cat fight between larissa and Sibel!!!

    • Delia

      thanks for all these links, Bill. I don’t know if this thread is already dead, but these are all great articles. Our country is in deep trouble, no matter who gets elected next.

  • Sometime-CIA-Defender

    Bill,

    It’s really incredible when you think about it, just how many bad decisions this administration has made that only made it worse. I mean, do you think tourism in New Orleans is up or down after their botching post-Katrina? That’s income. Relaxing environmental regulations leads to bad food (including the latest about sushi containing 3x the amount of Mercury it should to be considered edible). And, of course, the dumbest most illegal war in our history running up beyond the plastic’s limit.

  • Bill Keyes

    Here is another one..

    Only a full inquiry can avert another disaster like Iraq

    The government must open up to find out why it could not foresee – and barely considered – the outcomes of occupation (in Iraq)

    Jonathan Steele
    Thursday January 24, 2008
    The Guardian

    Read whole article here……

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2245757,00.html

    Hmmmmmm

    I wonder when our DEMOCRATIC controlled Congress will be doing the same sort of investigation??

    Yeh yeh I know a COLD DAY IN HELL!!! Right???

    • shirin

      “The government must open up to find out why it could not foresee – and barely considered – the outcomes of occupation (in Iraq)”

      People need to stop talking – and thinking – about how “they did it all wrong”. The wrong thing is that they did it. Period. THAT is the only lesson that needs to be learned, not how to do imperial aggression the “right” way.

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