Paul Krugman: Barack Obama like George Bush in a flight suit.
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Ah, how I love own-goals - and watching Paul Krugman give himself one has a certain nostalgia to it (Hate Springs Eternal) (H/T: Glenn):
I won’t try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody. I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. We’ve already had that from the Bush administration — remember Operation Flight Suit? We really don’t want to go there again.
Alas for Mr. Krugman, his time in TimesSelect exile has perhaps atrophied his ability to sense danger. This isn't 2004, where Democratic partisans (and he's fairly clearly a Clinton partisan) could face off each other fairly cleanly, secure in the knowledge that it wasn't going to really matter anyway*. This is 2008, and the eventual Democratic nominee actually has a shot at winning this time around. That means that he's going to be possibly surprised at the, ah, vehemence of the reaction to this otherwise innocuous enough article (I expect that certain people are likewise going to be very unhappy with Susan Estrich, but she's probably expecting it more). Which is a real shame, isn't it? No really:
I’d like to see more moments like that, perhaps starting with strong assurances from both Democratic candidates that they respect their opponents and would support them in the general election.
You almost have to feel bad somebody who is that dead to irony. Particularly since he's also clearly suffering from acute amnesia...
Pass the popcorn, folks.
Moe
*Folks, it's been four years. You Democrats can safely admit that Kerry was just a caretaker candidate nominated for your pride's sake, because your Party would never live down actually passing on a Presidential election. It's OK. It happens.
"I believe we must adjourn this meeting to some other place." - The last recorded words of Adam Smith.
...going to get tougher.
But Shrillary has already basically said she doesn't expect to win anywhere until March. She's dug in her heels and has a fresh supply of pantsuits for the next few weeks
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
Abortion and adultery hurt him as much as anything, with voters fleeing to Huck and others.
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"If we want to take this party back, and I think we can someday, let’s get to work." – Barry Goldwater
He lost too much of his appeal when it became clear that we were winning in Iraq after all.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
...when you keep losing you get the smell of a loser.
Momentum is 9/10 of elections... or some such saying.
...for the last seven years: yes, indeed.
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...one of those people?
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...if this is your road to salvation it goes nowhere fast.
If the arena is going to be "capitulation/defeat/surrender" vs. "100 years of war/bomb-bomb-Iran" that's going to be fought to an exact draw and so there better be another angle if you're going to beat "charming cult of personality" with "old petulant and angry."
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And that pretty much says it all, not that I expect you to admit that before you're on your deathbed.
Moe
PS: Do it before the last heartbeat, not after. Just to be on the safe side.
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That was a burn with a flamethrower
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Giuliani never won anything, anywhere. Giuliani's strength was "on paper". He never won votes.
Clinton has won all the big Democrat stronghold states, and Obama didn't even get close to her.
I'm not saying Obama can't win, but this primary is far from being over. The only way Clinton is leaving the race is in a straight jacket. And don't forget, she will fight tooth and nail to have those delegates from Florida and Michigan seated.
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
is that his supporters are pushing "Racism, misogyny and character assassination"?
Mmmmmmm.......popcorn.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
should find work as a cinematographer.
"I believe we must adjourn this meeting to some other place." - The last recorded words of Adam Smith.
... Jewish leaders signed a letter condemning the smear campaign claiming that Mr. Obama was a secret Muslim. It’s a good guess that some of those leaders would prefer that Mr. Obama not become president; nonetheless, they understood that there are principles that matter more than short-term political advantage.
The second best part was when he tried to say that Democrats are held to some kind of higher level of scrutiny. Puh-leeze.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
who argues that Hillary's campaign is pushing the Democrats to the brink of racist civil war:
The campaign’s other most potent form of currency remains its thick deck of race cards. . . . This decision was a cold, political cost-benefit calculus. . . . [O]nce black voters met Mr. Obama and started to gravitate toward him, Bill Clinton and the campaign’s other surrogates stopped caring about what African-Americans thought. In an effort to scare off white voters, Mr. Obama was ghettoized as a cocaine user (by the chief Clinton strategist, Mark Penn, among others), “the black candidate” (as Clinton strategists told the Associated Press) and Jesse Jackson redux (by Mr. Clinton himself). . . [T]he wholesale substitution of Hispanics for blacks on the Hallmark show is tainted by a creepy racial back story. Last month a Hispanic pollster employed by the Clinton campaign pitted the two groups against each other by telling The New Yorker that Hispanic voters have “not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates.” Mrs. Clinton then seconded the motion by telling Tim Russert in a debate that her pollster was “making a historical statement.”
It wasn’t an accurate statement, historical or otherwise. It was a lie, and a bigoted lie at that . . . The real point of the Clinton campaign’s decision to sow misinformation and racial division, Mr. Rodriguez concluded, was to “undermine one of Obama’s central selling points, that he can build bridges and unite Americans of all types.” . . . Mrs. Clinton did pile up her expected large margin among Latino voters in California. But her tight grip on that electorate is loosening. . . .Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign’s attempt to drive white voters away from Mr. Obama by playing the race card has backfired. . . . The question now is how much more racial friction the Clinton campaign will gin up if its Hispanic support starts to erode in Texas . . . [D]oes anyone seriously believe that Howard Dean can deter a Clinton combine so ruthless that it risked shredding three decades of mutual affection with black America to win a primary?
Read the whole, wonderful thing.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
Anyone who has ever been considered a bigot for being a Republican has to love the emergence of these truths.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
That President Bush WAS an aviator, the son of an aviator and walking onto a flight deck full of aviators. What a lame comparison.
What the hell is going on out here? - Vince Lombardi
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on anything more controversial than the day of the week, he's actually correct.
Obama is Rorschach test for his supporters. They look an him, see whatever they wish, and go away happy to vote for him.
None of this means, as Hillary! is finding out, that he is not formidable.
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling
in American politics today.
He could not be more wrong on more topics than he is.
He is wrong about being wrong.
Here.
1. McCain, 2. Thompson, 3. Giuliani, 4. Romney
Now they are trying to take the empty suit to the drycleaners.
It really is an odd take on Frankenstein when the villagers with torches are being lead by the monster.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777