I commented yesterday that I felt very conspiratorial about thinking that Hillary Clinton might in someway have her hands in the appearance of Rev. Wright yesterday at the National Press Club. I even sugessted that perhaps his appearance on Bill Moyer's Journal might be tied to the shows sponsors being affiliated with the Clinton machine. My first point has garnered some attention. Late this afternoon Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC noted that Clinton supporter Rev. Barbara Reynolds was directly involved in working on Wright's appearance. Soon after word filtered out, her online post on her backing of Clinton disappeared... But Buzzflash has retrieevd it.

just about to call it a night but wanted to post a few links to some local news stories out of NC and Indiana so we can all go to sleep with smiles on our faces...

Damned if he does. Damned if he doesn't. Seems like Sen. Obama is trapped in a classic Catch 22, as definited by Wikipedia as a situation in which "bureaucratic nonsense has gotten to such a high level that even the catches are codified with numbers."

How does he reference the highly well ordered and expertly constructed 'psych-ops' being thrown at him by MSM, right wing extemists, and even members of his own party?
Maybe he just needs to identify the problem... using some literay allusions, humor and play acting.... and frame the whole thing as 'nonsense.'

estimates of a crowd of about 15,000 ... michelle is with him and is recorded and no on CSPAN

After reading through the debate threads, watching Keith's post-game analysis, checking out the initial feedback, I am finally watching the 'real thing'

Some feedback...

The route of the Olympic Torch through San Francisco has been changed. As hundreds of thousands were reported to have turned out along the Embarcadero, torchrunners are about to begin a new route on Van Ness Ave.

Global Voices Online, a nonprofit aggregate of global conversations and citizen reportage, recently created an offshoot Voices Without Votes for nonAmericans to write and reflect on the 2008 presidential elections...
A March 14 posting from one of its resources The World Wants Obama is searingly beautiful ...

Everyone always asks me what's going to consume my life once the elections are over ... well, I think I've found it...

A phenomenal online community is in its infancy, perculating into relevance and much in need of writers, researchers and experts to 'steward' an extensive range of areas of focus ... There's no doubt in my mind that the Kos Community could have a major impact on forwarding the mission of WiserEarth which is working "Towards a just and sustainable world created by community."
Maybe it's time we start planting our seeds in the fertile landscape of Wiserearth

Obama's path towards the Presidency currently symbolizes a proportional rule of nature, The Golden Section, considered by many to be the most aesthetically pleasing and ubiquitous ratio in art, design, physics, and architecture. Totally the percentages by which he was won and dividing by the number of races completed yields a percentage that is less than 1% of the perfect golden section ratio!

While both Obama and Clinton currently share 'space' in the golden section of the primary, after Wyoming Obama now holds the golden section of the vote.

Just what factored into Hillary's win in Texas? Disturbing numbers seem to indicate that it was Republicans voting FOR Hillary in an effort to continue the Democratic bloodbath ...

GREENVILLE — South Carolina election officials say they still plan to use touch-screen voting machines despite the fact that other states have banned the use of similar systems made by the same company.

Last month, top election officials in Ohio and Colorado declared that Election Systems and Software's iVotronic is unfit for elections.

The ban was prompted by a study done for the state of Ohio in which researchers found electronic voting systems could be corrupted with magnets or handheld electronic devices such as Palm Treos.

"We've reviewed the report and we remain confident in the security and accuracy of South Carolina's voting system," state Election Commission spokesman Chris Whitmire said. Link

crossposted at One Million Strong

"This pantsuit, it’s asbestos tonight." (Sen.Hillary Clinton. CNN Debate, Las Vegas, Nov. 15,  2007)

Ah, is that what it was! I for one thought there was something peculiar about Clinton’s choice of attire last Thursday evening.

But of course, commenting on Clinton’s wardrobe is distasteful when we do it. But when she tells us her clothing is toxic, well that’s just fine.

A message for Obama supporters. Maybe we need to reprioritize. Shut off our laptops, open our doors again, and talk real time about the big "O."

Is America really looking for a candidate who has the blessing and backing of DC?
I think not.
Not only are the Democrats disillusioned by their representatives failure to take decisive action in the first 8 months (the latest being the inescusable midnight hour passage of the new NSA/FISA debacle) against this administration, but I believe potential Republican voters are shell shocked by a party run amuck by the Bush Crime Family.

MSM’s ongoing positioning of HRC as the heir apparent to the imperial Bush-Clinton-Bush dynasty continues to weave and cast veil upon veil of glutinous gauze over the true mechanisms of these nefarious US administrations.

Disgracefully, Senator Clinton is allowed sans challenge to conflate her own experience in international affairs with her 8 years as First Lady in the White House.

Okay. So lets give her that.

MSMs obsession with currying favor with the Clinton camp is becoming so blatant to be insulting the intelligence of any conscious viewer with a mere speck of political awareness. .... Friday's MSNBC article which characterizes the latest overblown interaction between presidential candidates as a move by Obama to "plunge into charge-countercharge politics after a promise to run "a different kind of campaign" is over the top.

okay, so I am aware of PACS and 'bundling' and all the games candidates play to collect as much as  they can from big contributors without seriously bending the law, but a look tonight through Clinton's April and July and Obama's July figures rasies some questions... Admittedly, I am  not privy to all the regulations but

Next up on the debate circuit: Gay Rights. Is that how we are marketing it? More like let’s watch the Democratic Candidates squirm as they linguistically navigate their way through a series of questions engineered to render them "formulated, sprawling on a pin, ... pinned and wriggling on the wall."