Edwards, if he is truly a man of conscience, needs to speak out on Obama’s poor health plan.

These coy dances are getting old. He’s playing the “who’s winning” game too.

(I’ve had plenty of positive things to say about Edwards here, but he is not a “profile in courage” at this moment in history.)

But I do love your quote. It’s just that it’s getting awfully cold out here. I felt the same way when aquaintances seemed so willing to be bamboozled by GWB.

Are these just a couple more Senior Moments where my rememberer doesn’t remember so good?

So if Hill doesn’t get the nomination, we will go back to McCain anyway.

Some might say we are racist. But I beg to differ. Latinos and Asians (Mostly Chinese/Indians) both embrace immigrant mentality, unlike some, who only have entitlement mentality. I think that’s the biggest difference among us, though sometimes we are grouped together as minorities.

By the way, I think Cee is an achronym for full of shit.

Chris Hedges, Robert Fisk, Nir Rosen, Seymour Hersh, Robert Perry, Eric Margolis, Robin Wright, Laura Rozen, Dhir? Jamal, Jeremy Scahill, Lynn Sweet

Sir,

The guy who introduced McCain today must read NQ. :O

At least McCain had the good grace and sense to apologize for and denounce him.

Thanks for the Perry article.

Why the War on Obama

By Robert Parry
February 26, 2008

While some cynics still view Barack Obama’s appeal for “change” as empty rhetoric, it’s starting to dawn on Washington insiders that his ability to raise vast sums of money from nearly one million mostly small donors could shake the grip that special-interest money has long held over the U.S. government.

This spreading realization that Obama’s political movement might represent a more revolutionary change than previously understood is sparking a deepening resistance among defenders of the status quo – and prompting harsher attacks on Obama.

Right now, the front line for the Washington Establishment is Hillary Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign, which has been stunned by Obama’s political skills as well as his extraordinary ability to raise money over the Internet. Obama’s grassroots donations have negated Clinton’s prodigious fundraising advantage with big donors.

Powerful lobbies – from AIPAC to representatives of military and other industries – also are recognizing the value of keeping their dominance over campaign cash from getting diluted by Obama’s deep reservoir of small donors. It’s in their direct interest to dent Obama’s momentum and demoralize his rank-and-file supporters as soon as possible.

So, neoconservatives and other ideological movements – heavily dependent on grants from the same special interests – are now joining with the Clinton campaign to tear down Obama by depicting him as unpatriotic, un-vetted, possibly a “closet Muslim.”

On Feb. 25, the New York Times’ new neocon columnist William Kristol attacked Obama’s patriotism by citing the Illinois senator decision to stop wearing an American flag lapel pin because, Obama said, he saw how George W. Bush was exploiting the flag to stampede the nation toward war with Iraq.

“You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin,” Obama said when asked about his lack of a flag pin in October 2007. “As we’re talking about the Iraq War, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest.”

In a column entitled “It’s All About Him,” Kristol mocked this explanation as an example of both Obama’s dubious claim to patriotism and his pomposity.

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Time to suck it up, Winter Soldiers.