tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38161582008-05-19T23:02:18.958-05:00Lenorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13057280296153171740noreply@blogger.comBlogger986125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-72588318693626707682008-05-17T13:05:00.006-05:002008-05-17T13:38:20.943-05:00

Adolph Reed's lastest gem on Barack Obama in this month's issue of The Progressive brought to mind Robert Preston in his finest role: Obama’s style of being all things to all people threatens to melt under the inescapable spotlight of a national campaign against a Republican. It’s like what brings on the downfall of really successful con artists: They get themselves onto a stage that’s so big

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-2271214414178891342008-05-17T10:46:00.005-05:002008-05-17T10:55:13.400-05:00

Squirrel watching. Or squirrel, watching.

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-86641805098615301702008-05-16T16:58:00.004-05:002008-05-17T00:20:08.661-05:00

Mike Huckabee has just moved to the top of the shit list. I'm not shy about making Obama the butt of a good joke, but this isn't funny: “That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he's getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.” And the audience laughed. Of course, he was giving a speech to

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-3880467041496429392008-05-16T11:26:00.002-05:002008-05-16T11:30:30.323-05:00

This just doesn't get old. Thanks Felicia!

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-18971317952457158492008-05-09T23:06:00.006-05:002008-05-09T23:14:38.251-05:00

Have bone... ...will travel.

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-81003843845032808502008-04-30T11:11:00.014-05:002008-05-19T13:53:38.464-05:00

Obamarama has come full circle as Barack's own private chickens are now coming home to roost: Alice Palmer is campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Indiana. Remember Alice Palmer? She was Barack's political mentor before he kicked her to the curb in '95, and then took her seat in the Illinois state senate, not by making his case to the voters, but by using tried-and-true hardball political tactics

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-22867499582924345262008-04-25T15:04:00.001-05:002008-04-25T15:06:51.426-05:00

Wake me up when the election is over.

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-48956600130171779922008-04-20T16:20:00.004-05:002008-04-20T18:15:29.257-05:00

Going through old papers this weekend I found a Harper's Magazine from May 2006 with a piece by Michael Hudson on the upcoming crisis in real estate debt, titled The New Road to Serfdom. Writes Mr. Hudson: Most everyone involved in the real estate bubble thus far has made at least a few dollars. But that is about to change. The bubble will burst, and when it does, the people who thought they

the professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04513527011479688937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-80310476193013980082008-04-04T13:41:00.005-05:002008-04-08T14:38:49.792-05:00

In marking the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., I went back 41 years to April 4, 1967, and reread his speech "Beyond Vietnam." ...I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-48047725956688455112008-04-04T13:17:00.004-05:002008-04-04T13:27:18.493-05:00

I'm not surprised. According to a Democratic strategist unaligned with any campaign but with knowledge of the situation gleaned from all three camps, the answer is simple: Obama blew it. Speaking to Edwards on the day he exited the race, Obama came across as glib and aloof. His response to Edwards’s imprecations that he make poverty a central part of his agenda was shallow, perfunctory, pat.

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-66918225052355016642008-04-03T17:25:00.003-05:002008-04-03T17:42:21.340-05:00

Elizabeth Edwards brings the fight to John McCain. I freely admit that I am confused about the role of overnight funding in repurchase markets in the collapse of Bear Stearns. What I am not confused about is John McCain’s health care proposal. Apparently Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a senior policy advisor to McCain, thinks I do “not understand the comprehensive nature of the senator’s proposal.” The

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-55370131347960474972008-03-24T12:33:00.002-05:002008-03-24T12:37:20.653-05:00

4,000. By the time Specialist Jerry Ryen King decided to write about his experiences in Iraq, the teen-age paratrooper had more to share than most soldiers. In two operations to clear the outskirts of the village of Turki in the deadly Diyala Province, Specialist King and the rest of the Fifth Squadron faced days of firefights, grenade attacks and land mines. Well-trained insurgents had

Lenorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13057280296153171740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-42897497346207045402008-03-17T14:17:00.004-05:002008-03-18T00:11:23.171-05:00

Almost two decades ago Barack Obama chose Trinity United Church of Christ and Jeremiah Wright. Lest anyone mistake this choice for racial passion, belonging to Wright’s church in the first place was part of establishing a bourgeois nationalist street cred. He was still proud of Jeremiah a year ago, warts and all. But last week he tossed the reverend overboard. It's no surprise that Obama's

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-10956047948312061802008-03-14T17:32:00.002-05:002008-03-14T18:59:10.254-05:00

Having cried "foul" at the canard about Hilary's promoting McCain over Obama in the general election, will the Obamites now turn on one of their own for saying straightforwardly that should Clinton win the nomination it would be better if she lost the White House to McCain? Professor Lawrence Bobo in The Root has recently asserted: Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro have gone too far. Should

the professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04513527011479688937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-29990910418118876472008-03-09T18:50:00.004-05:002008-03-17T14:28:41.764-05:00

Though I have no love for Hillary Clinton, I've been somewhat amused at the way that some of her critics (read, Obama's supporters) have gone about characterizing her motives and tactics. First, there's the much ballyhooed Daily Kos charge that a commercial released by Hillary's campaign revealed "a concerted effort by Clinton's ad people to make Obama look darker, more sinister, and with a

the professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04513527011479688937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-56475625246037105702008-03-01T12:41:00.002-06:002008-03-01T12:44:10.374-06:00

Snow bunny?

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-36681321396704577812008-03-01T11:48:00.006-06:002008-03-01T12:23:02.747-06:00

Poor, poor Pat Buchanan. When it comes to the glorious events in American history where bravery, intelligence, strength of mind and body are called for and achieved, he's like Stephen Colbert—he doesn't see skin color. And like a bisexual narcissist, he doesn't see gender. "[W]hat did white males do? OK, they were the only guys signing the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, all the

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-32697525814437602822008-02-29T11:08:00.001-06:002008-02-29T11:10:24.305-06:00

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-55773219883598170632008-02-23T15:49:00.000-06:002008-02-23T15:49:36.657-06:00

Ben Smith at Politico does Musings & Migraines no favors by quoting me grossly out of context in his latest attempt to paint Barack Obama as a closet leftwing radical. He's trying to make a very circumstantial case on an event that happened 13 years ago. The only reason he needed my quotes is to establish that Obama, Ayers and Dohrn were somewhere, anywhere, together. The fact is Ayers and Dohrn

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-27839814451665955422008-02-21T22:23:00.000-06:002008-02-21T22:24:41.693-06:00

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-8211270862893708932008-02-16T21:22:00.003-06:002008-02-16T21:37:29.754-06:00

Two relatively recent posts here at Musings & Migraines regarding Barack Obama’s run for the Illinois State Senate in 1995 have picked up a lot of attention of late. Those who’ve expressed interest in those posts, which mentioned Obama’s appearance at a meet-and-greet fundraiser for the candidate, hosted by Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn, have included Thomas Edsall from Huffington Post, Ben

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-26053860676146699202008-02-11T20:24:00.000-06:002008-02-11T21:45:39.083-06:00

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-27382940512320009742008-02-10T12:12:00.000-06:002008-02-12T11:26:57.223-06:00

Air temp is -4° with the wind chill at -34°--Kodi does not want to come inside. Talk about chillin'...

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-12411965183377314932008-02-07T15:32:00.000-06:002008-02-07T15:46:53.503-06:00

In an email Adolph Reed writes: Obama's biggest victories on Super Tuesday (not counting Illinois, which is a gimme, just as I wouldn't count either Arkansas or New York for Clinton) were in either 1) primary states where black voters make up a very large share of the Democratic vote -- Alabama, Georgia (about half) -- of Democratic voters, though in Delaware blacks were about a quarter of

red rabbitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816158.post-9850284767039827712008-02-04T15:52:00.000-06:002008-02-04T16:21:59.634-06:00

I've never been more disillusioned at this point in an election year. Ever. And I love me some Kennedys, but even their endorsements don't move me in the direction of Saint Barack. And Hillary? She's too damn far to the right. Although I get the feeling that she's more likely to bring the fight to the Republicans than our boy, Barry, is. They hate her guts and she apparently thrives on it.

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