Potential VP: Choosing by anagram

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Tuesday December 18, 2007 · 12:00 PM PST

2007/12/18 · 12:00

OK, this is going to be the most self-explanatory diary ever.

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Who's it gonna be?

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Who's it gonna be?

A odd bear swam

10 votes

An idea bomb

11 votes

A babe womb

5 votes

Can't con krill

3 votes

Nice tin blond

4 votes

Shit ran cold in corn

16 votes

Dad drew odds

13 votes

Chucking a liver

12 votes

Liar, Liar, Pantsuit on Fire

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Sunday December 16, 2007 · 9:05 PM PST

2007/12/16 · 21:05

Hillary's attacks on Obama haven't been sticking, so this weekend she decided to ratchet up the dishonesty another notch. From The Caucus (emphasis mine):

And after weeks of attacking Barack Obama over his health care plan, noting that it did not include a mandate that everyone obtain insurance, Mrs. Clinton knocked him in a new way. In a hushed tone, she mentioned some of the women and men she met in Iowa who did not have health insurance or were struggling financially, and said she did not want to leave any of them without health care.

"Who gets to choose who’s left out?" she said. "Who should I leave out? I don’t want to leave anybody out. I’m not running for president to put Band-aids on this problem. I’m running for president to solve it."

It's like campaign jeopardy: "Please state your lie in the form of a question."

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Monday December 10, 2007 · 10:34 PM PST

2007/12/10 · 22:34

Via a comment by poblano I found the latest on Hillary's opposition research on the NYTimes Caucus blog. It's an email sent by Hillary's 59-year-old deputy campaign manager Bob Nash. Here is the full text, with the original grammar and spelling:

If this is the kind of person the feared and mighty "Clinton machine" put in charge of smearing Obama, we are in for a landslide of hope & change come January 3rd!

(I should note the cat pic comes from a Flickr user who captioned, "Someone please lolcat this up...")

(Also, feel free to steal / hotlink this pic.)

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Which is worse?

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Hillary's deputy campaing manager writes like a 13-year-old on a cell phone.

13 votes

Hillary is digging for dirt on Obama's time spent helping the poor in a dangerous neighborhood after college.

52 votes

Obama's Experience

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Tuesday November 20, 2007 · 2:55 AM PST

2007/11/20 · 02:55

I just noticed this story on CNN's political ticker:

(Clarification: This is a quote of a CNN story, not a verbatim quote of Obama. The story contains some Obama quotes.)

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Saturday March 03, 2007 · 3:04 PM PST

2007/03/03 · 15:04

Quick notes to deter straw-men in the comments:

I'm NOT SAYING Ann Coulter's joke is okay, nor that it should go unanswered. My point is that we should respond with brief derision and dismissal to marginalize Coulter, rather than with exaggerated wishy-washy claims of hurt feelings which boost her perceived importance.

I'm talking about Ann Coulter's comments here, not the problem of bigotry at large. I'm not saying people aren't hurt by the actions and words of bigots. I'm saying the words of Ann Coulter shouldn't be taken seriously enough to hurt anyone.

This whole show of demanding phony apologies for stupid comments because of phony hurt feelings just makes everyone look bad, and it turns people grounded in down-to-earth common sense away from the political arena altogether.

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Friday March 03, 2006 · 10:39 AM PST

2006/03/03 · 10:39

I was disgusted today to see a PETA ad on the front page of DailyKos.

PETA is a tremendous embarrassment. They are to the left what the KKK is to the right: idiotic, emotionally driven radicals with no science or rationality behind their cause. Their ad will make any outdoorsman (the most influential environmentalist demographic) roll his eyes in disgust, and many will leave and never come back. Read More

Rumsfeld: There is no 'insurgency'

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Tuesday November 29, 2005 · 3:47 PM PST

2005/11/29 · 15:47

Rumsfeld has come up with a brilliant new solution to the Iraq problem: Rename it.

Highlights below. Read More

My new IM buddy icon

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 10:09 PM PST

2004/11/03 · 22:09

Well, I had a Kerry/Edwards buddy icon on IM for the last half year. But that doesn't do me much good now, so I've updated it to get with the times.

I want the next election to be the one in which the Democrats finally take off the gloves and realize that what it takes to win is not sound policies and responsibility. People who think in those terms are Democrats anyway; they need no convincing. The battles in modern politics are for the votes of the clueless, and they are won through character assasination. We need to roll up our sleeves and dive into that fray. We've tried rising above it--it does not work. Read More

Dems need to start playing dirty

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 10:53 AM PST

2004/11/03 · 10:53

In this election, as in most, we've lost because the G.O.P. will stoop to any tactics to win, and we won't. We take the high road. And guess where the high road leads? Off a cliff.

This is the sad fact in American politics today; playing it clean doesn't work. We need to get so dirty in 2008 that Karl Rove gasps in horror. Read More

My little Kerry endorsement

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Monday November 01, 2004 · 8:22 AM PST

2004/11/01 · 08:22

I run a trout fishing website that sees around 600 visitors a day, most of them anglers and most of them from the United States. I've posted this small endorsement at the top of every page on the site:

(By the way, here's a small problem with the Kos diary system. I tried to put the whole thing in the main entry, and it told me that the main entry was too long. So I moved the endorsement paragraph to the extended entry, and it told me that the main entry was too short. Hopefully this little paragraph will fix that.) Read More

Why isn't "intellect" a mainstream character issue?

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Sunday October 10, 2004 · 8:19 PM PDT

2004/10/10 · 20:19

It's amazing to me that intellect is being so ignored as an issue by the mainstream press in this election, while far less important, more abstract, more subjective character issues like "steadiness" have somehow become not only acceptable but an actual part of the mainstream discussion.

We can and should change the dialogue to include serious questions about Bush's intellect. Read More

Let's make this Bush's "Dean Scream"

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Friday October 08, 2004 · 9:48 PM PDT

2004/10/08 · 21:48

This link's been making the rounds, and we really want to see this replayed over and over in the following days:

http://www.oliverwillis.com/node/view/956

It seems there's potential for this to be turned into Bush's "Dean Scream." We just have to stay on it relentlessly. This one can't slip away...

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Potential VP: Choosing by anagram

Liar, Liar, Pantsuit on Fire

Hillary's "LOLstaff": delinquent anti-Obama oppo research

Obama's Experience

Why must everyone fake outrage over Ann Coulter's comment?

Oh, SICK! Ads for PETA on Kos???

Rumsfeld: There is no 'insurgency'

My new IM buddy icon

Dems need to start playing dirty

My little Kerry endorsement

Why isn't "intellect" a mainstream character issue?

Let's make this Bush's "Dean Scream"