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Posted at 8:13am on Mar. 11, 2008 Those who hunger and thirst for justice, shall be fully satisfied
By Taniwha
So The Steamroller finally throws a rod.
Pretty much everyone who has paid any attention to Elliot Spitzer always assumed, I think, that he would bring himself down in the end. Ally or enemy, anyone with the brains of a sea cucumber could see that he would one day go too far. But I don't know anyone who would have guessed it would be a tawdry sex scandal that finally got him.
This is a guy who made enemies for sport; Who put on his white shirt like a armored breastplate every day, and went after the rich and powerful just for the body count. Friend, foe, it didn't really matter. It didn't even matter if they had done anything wrong. Not to put too fine a point on it (can you, in a case like this?), but this is the guy who manufactured false evidence against his principal political enemy, in an attempt to shove him from office, and politically survived getting caught. When he put his shoulder to the effort to give drivers' licenses to illegal aliens, his approval ratings went into the tank, sure. But in the end, he did more harm to the hapless presidential candidate he supports, who couldn't keep from backing his play in a national debate, even as, knowing better, she tried to back away from it in the same sentence.
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Posted at 12:15pm on Jan. 17, 2008 What happens if they win?
By Taniwha
The damndest thing occurred to me as I was reading an article by the incomparable Kathleen Parker about identity campaigning when the candidates are a woman and a black man. We can all imagine the anger and claims of oppression when either, as at least one must, loses. But what happens if either of them wins? The regret might just not end where you think it will.
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Posted at 12:08pm on Jan. 4, 2008 Identity campaigning just got a lot more interesting
By Taniwha
What an interesting piece of data has just been thrown at upcoming democrat primary voters. OK, maybe not all of them, but I suspect that it may be a lot of them. Assuming that they ALL want to win very badly (who doesn’t?) and are thus at least somewhat concerned about identifying the most electable candidate, I’m talking about the ones who have spent the early part of the contest wondering, or even worrying, which America is less ‘ready for’: the first African-American President, or the first woman.