This blog is amazing. It’s filled with real reporting and real stuff that one would think would be on blogs. This is non-mainstream stuff, not the stupid mainstream stuff just cherry picked and posted on the innertubes.

Thanks for being here.

1) In order to beat Hillary, McCain also has to beat Bill. Given (as donnas mentions below) the economic boom of the 90s and our current dip into the red, I don’t think that will be a simple matter.

2) Hillary might actually pick Obama as her running mate. If so, McCain has to beat all three of them.

3) Obama will get swiftboated with (true or not) various ties to muzlimizms, terror networks, or just ‘accidental’ plays on his name. It will work. We saw Chickenhawk Shrub beat two Viet Nam vets in a row. All it takes is repeating the lies over and over.

4) Hillary actually has some plans in place and a political machine to fight back. Obama will have to build one. It will take time, and given that this crap won’t be over until June (yes, JUNE, not March 4th or whatver-the-hell), McCain/Romney/Huckster/Rove will be months ahead with plans to beat the crap out of Obama.

5) Her healthcare plan covers more people than his does and only costs a little more money (scaling economics). If you don’t like the fact that it’s mandatory, you may still prefer Obama’s.

6) Rezko/Auchi/Alsammarae (the latter being one I hadn’t heard of previously. Iraqi electricity minister who was convicted of fraud and then ‘rescued’ from Iraq by everyone’s favorite security contractor). Regardless of how close he is/was to these people, whether he actually helped them or not, it will instill doubt, causing some people to vote McCain.

7) Hillary and Bill have been through this before and know how to fight back.

Obama’s top campaign attorney tried to make the ‘progressive case’ for pardoning Scooter Libby. I think it’s a crock. Though the campaign says the attorney did it on his own, I cannot see how that could possibly happen in the midst of his primary campaign being in full swing.

9) Claims that Hillary will be attacked are true. The problem is, so will Obama no matter how much GOP butt he kisses. If they bring up Monica Lewinsky, well, McCain had his own indiscretions. Evened out on that. I will say, though, she has the big lie to overcome: people dislike her just because they’ve heard so many other people say they dislike her. Ask them for an actual reason and they stare like deer in the headlights and sputter something about Bill. None of that will compare with alleged ties to terrorists (again, even if they aren’t ttrue, BillyJoeBob will not take any chances).

No one cares.

He essentially said the area would never be stable, always subject to the wars we see now.

I should research more, I wonder if he had any solution.

Just one of the smartest prescient men, ever, a model, in my head, anyway, of how one should approach the world, peace, but with strength, and intellect.

I can never be, obviously, but if I could choose, I would emulate him. He was wrong, sometimes, but he learned from his mistakes, and applied that knowledge.

Kennedy, a wealthy man’s son, fought bravely in world war two, understood the horror, and learned empathy toward those with less.

Can we please stick to the weightier aspects of his comparison to/contrast with HRC?

He didn’t DO anything, though, Obama, in fact in examining his record, he seems to have carved out a very careful definitive course, just so he could run for president, in this way.

How I would love to go back in time, and listen to his advisers, as if we could break, or decode, another’s memory, and replay it, like an unalterable holographic record..

And that’s what I thought John’s post was referring to, I took it as metaphor, accurate metaphor.

Can we please stick to the weightier aspects of his comparison to/contrast with HRC?

He didn’t DO anything, though, Obama, in fact in examining his record, he seems to have carved out a very careful definitive course, just so he could run for president, in this way.

How I would love to go back in time, and listen to his advisers, as if we could break, or decode, an other’s memory, and replay it, like an unalterable holographic record…

And that’s what I thought John’s post was referring to, I took it as metaphor, accurate metaphor.

What was the Harriet Tubmann quote?
She prefaced her remarks about Tubman by saying that she is “one of my favorite heroines”…

…in her autobiography, Living History, Clinton refers to Tubman as an “inspiration to Americans of all races”

http://mediamatters.org/items/200704260001

See my post here: Obama and Kennedy: Gut vs. Experience,” in which I draw on a particularly well-written, sharp article by an eminent historian written for the Washington Monthly. (I also dug around and found a lot of GREAT old photos of Kennedy and proof of his intellectual prowess.)

His essay is a marvelous read.

Her father sold draperies as a small businessman!

Her mother was abandoned, and taken in by a family that let her stay there in return for housework and childcare.

Quiet,

I don’t know how wonderful she is (don’t care either) but I sure agree that the tactics used by her campaign staff and supporters are hurting her.

I started to feel a bit sorry for her as I watched her quoting Harriet Tubmann in a speech other the weekend. She looked sad.