Hillary's Hard Working Whites

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Wednesday May 14, 2008 · 6:24 PM PDT

2008/05/14 · 18:24

This is from the political blog, Last Kaul.

I'm every bit as sensitive to racism as the next liberal who grew up in the suburbs and attended a Big-10 university. By which I mean, I've rarely seen it in person and pretty much never had it practiced upon my person. I am, however, aware that it exists in America. To argue otherwise would be the height of folly. It would be like claiming we never landed on the moon and citing as proof the fact that I wasn't there as an eyewitness. It would be analogous to insisting global warming was a Green Party scare tactic, evidenced by this past week's unusually cool temperatures in my hometown of New York City. It would be a non-starter.

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Wednesday May 07, 2008 · 2:04 PM PDT

2008/05/07 · 14:04

As Tuesday turned to Wednesday, Tim Russert declared the race for the Democratic presidential nomination over. He called it firmly, but with a trace of melancholy, as if Barack Obama's defeat of Hillary Clinton represented a sort of metaphysical expiration. As if we were all of us Romans at the Colosseum, witnessing the death of some noble beast after it fought valiantly for our pleasure. The rest of the crew -- Olbermann, Matthews, Brokaw -- were appropriately somber and respectful of the moment. (Except for Norah O'Donnell. Nothing seems to dampen her wide-eyed enthusiasm and continual amazement at the secrets uncovered by going "inside the numbers.") We hate seeing a slugfest halted. Americans, to quote David Halberstam, "liking competitions as much as the end results of them."

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Saturday May 03, 2008 · 12:50 PM PDT

2008/05/03 · 12:50

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Distracted by the fun of watching the Obama/Clinton steel cage, death match in North Carolina this week, I almost missed the opportunity to celebrate the five-year anniversary of "Mission Accomplished." Five years ago Thursday, George Bush dressed up as a fighter pilot and had a real one set him down on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln. All decked out in his costume, he paraded in front of the assembled crew and press, like a kid getting ready for Halloween, and then stood in front of the now infamous banner and told the nation, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."

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Thursday May 01, 2008 · 1:27 PM PDT

2008/05/01 · 13:27

A popular topic of conversation this year has been whether America is ready for Barack Obama as our next president. It began as a philosophical debate amongst political junkies but, as his campaign gained momentum, it quickly became the subject du jour at water coolers and bus stops around the country. Every amateur pundit has an opinion on whether Obama is truly a post-racial candidate, if voters tell the truth in exit polls, and if Alabama, Pennsylvania has evolved far enough to step into the booth and cast a vote for a black man. These are all fair questions and perfectly germane to the contest at hand.

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Wednesday April 23, 2008 · 11:19 AM PDT

2008/04/23 · 11:19

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Watching the Democrats these past weeks in Pennsylvania has been ugly. There has been none of the exuberance that characterized the contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. Little of the policy debates we were treated to in California and Nevada. John McCain has been given a free month-and-a-half to self-correct his economic message blunders and embark on a tour of America's "forgotten places" (forgotten, I suppose, if you're rich and white and have no children in Iraq -- let's just go ahead and call you Republican). He's spending the week in places like Appalachia, the Lower Ninth in New Orleans and Gee's Bend, Alabama, where white cops beat black demonstrators on the march to Montgomery in 1965. Whether his Pander Tour bears fruit is yet to be determined -- he spoke to a mostly white crowd in Gee's Bend -- but it certainly won't hurt his chances in November. Meanwhile, Clinton and Obama have moved into a clinch, trading kidney punches and low blows as they stagger towards the convention in Denver. On second thought, "ugly" doesn't do this justice. It's becoming tragic.

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Wednesday April 16, 2008 · 2:55 PM PDT

2008/04/16 · 14:55

This is from Last Kaul, a political blog.

Watching the Hardball College Tour with Chris Matthews and John McCain last night from Villanova University confirmed what I had suspected after the Obama version a couple of weeks ago. This isn't hardball. It isn't softball. It isn't even beanbag toss.

It's Midnight Madness.

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Tuesday April 15, 2008 · 3:34 PM PDT

2008/04/15 · 15:34

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Here's how bad a week it was for the Democrats:

Hillary had to distance herself from her top strategic advisor when it became apparent he was playing both ends of a trade deal for his own profit. She was faced with a similar dilemma when the news broke that her husband earned a suitcase full of money for pimping the very same deal. A deal, by the way, that Hillary opposes. She would probably further distance herself from Bill too, if she could, but to do so more than she already has would require moving to Europe. However, if history has taught us anything, it's that she is willing to put up with a certain amount of Bill-induced headaches. Nevertheless, it raised the question of where her loyalty may actually lie on the Colombian deal if she became president. As she stumps in Pennsylvania, amongst its shuttered factories and unemployed workers, the last thing she needs to deal with is a perception that she might waffle on the free trade issue. Throughout the week, most polls showed her lead over Obama narrowing, albeit slowly.

And she had a good week compared to Obama.

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Thursday April 10, 2008 · 2:58 PM PDT

2008/04/10 · 14:58

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When it comes to the War on Terror, the Bush administration is cynical almost beyond measure, but it would be difficult to accuse them of hypocrisy, at this point. They obfuscate, exaggerate, and flat-out lie to further their agenda, whether they be justifying the prosecution of the Iraq War, illegally surveilling American citizens or torturing "enemy combatants" that may or may not be guilty (I hesitate to say, "as charged" -- many prisoners are still waiting, years after they were detained, to learn of their supposed offenses).

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Tuesday April 08, 2008 · 3:41 PM PDT

2008/04/08 · 15:41

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I'm thinking about visiting Lake George, in upstate New York, this summer. To do so, I will have to pass through the state capitol of Albany. Home of the New York State Assembly which just rejected Mayor Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan for New York City. It was a lousy, cowardly move on the legislature's part and they need to be held accountable.

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Monday April 07, 2008 · 2:54 PM PDT

2008/04/07 · 14:54

This is from the political blog, Last Kaul.

Where are we, exactly, in the race for the democratic nomination?

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Thursday April 03, 2008 · 6:11 PM PDT

2008/04/03 · 18:11

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Obama pissed me off last night. I'm curled up on the couch, eating popcorn and pizza, watching Chris Matthew's Hardball College Tour, starring Barack Obama. The West Chester University band is playing, the cheerleaders are hopping around, doing all the silly things cheerleaders do, Matthews is dropping Pennsylvania pols names like a kid from Jersey trying to get into the Limelight. Plus he's serving up softballs for his guy, Senator Obama, for the full 60 minutes. I'm a happy guy.

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Friday March 28, 2008 · 1:52 PM PDT

2008/03/28 · 13:52

This is from Last Kaul, a new political blog.

Then Obama was led up by the Spirit into the desert of central Pennsylvania, between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, to be excoriated by the Clintons. And he campaigned forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was bloodied. And Hillary came and said to him, "If you are a worthy nominee, denounce these words of your spiritual mentor." But he answered, "I will not. Judge not by 30-second, YouTube sound bytes alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of Reverend Wright."

Do the six weeks between the Mississippi and Pennsylvania primaries feel like the longest forty days since Jesus wandered into the Judean wilderness, or is it just me?

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