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by Julianal on Oct 12, 2007 at 9:05 AM
House guests equals a do-it-yourself open thread. Chat away.
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So that's where you've been. We were about to send out a search party.
Richardson videos are up at Off the Bus if you want to go let the editors know it was worth their while.
"hell to the no" LOVE IT!
Ooooh! Nice new digs. Thanks M.
Nice video, Shelby. Thanks for the GT Dems shout-out at the beginning too.
Love the new banner.
Ditto on the new banner!
I can't believe this rumor about John Edwards having an affair is getting MSM press now...
Holy Bad Decision Batman if it's true.
La Times, US News and 5+ pages on google..wow
I thought Barbara Ehrenreich's recent "Runnign on Ambien" hit the nail on the head...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...mpaign-run_b_66638.html
Just a year ago the hot question was: Is America ready for a black or female president? As the campaigns wear on, the question has shifted to: Can America survive the tedium of its black and female candidates?
Obama, for example, hasn't turned out to be any more challenging to white America than re-runs of the Cosby Show. He was slow to pick up on the Jena 6 case and never showed up at the rally - although, to be fair, neither did Clinton or Edwards. Like the others, he has refrained from noting that Giuliani, in addition to being a cell phone exhibitionist and a 9/11-abuser, presided over a New York City police department famed for its torture and killing of young black males.
But it's Hillary who's causing the citzenry's heads to pitch forward and collapse on their chests. Every time she opens her mouth, her flat, monotonic voice lays out yards of opaque white gauze, muffling any possibility of "discourse." Where does she stand? Over here, and a little to the side, and maybe a few steps to the right. Hers is known as the "flawless" campaign, but no one in it seems to be able to turn off the endlessly triangulating tape in her head.
Lately she's taken to emitting to sudden, inexplicable, bursts of deep laughter - known in the media as "the cackle." Whether this is a deliberate "humanizing" touch or a glitch in the computer program no one knows. According to the New York Times, the "weirdest moment" came in response to a question from Bob Schieffer about Republican charges that her health plan would lead to "socialized medicine." As the Times reports, "She giggled, giggled some more, could not seem to stop giggling -'Sorry, Bob,' she said - and finally unleashed the full Cackle."
Maybe she has a better sense of humor than I'd imagined, because the thought that her plan to turn health care over to the private insurance companies might be "socialist" has me rolling on the floor too.
The "perfect campaign" in the minds of pundits and consultants is one in which you don't screw up. That may be a necessary condition (I'm not fully convinced of this), but it is quite hard to believe that it is a sufficient one.
This is a war for mind-share - at some level, simple and declarative statements that hit our human needs for food, shelter, sex and freedom from fear are going to have an advantage over over-intellectualization.
People are still forking over butt-loads of checks, though. Too bad we don't have bundler disclousure, that may make things pretty interesting!