Hey, Spitzer, you're a CUCKOLD!

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Thursday March 13, 2008 · 11:29 AM PDT

2008/03/13 · 11:29

Picture this: Bill Clinton walks alongside Hillary, she’s a bit sheepish, naughty girl, but keeps her head up nonetheless, and their dog and their daughter dutifully tag along. Hillary has just announced to the world that she did, in fact, have sexual relations with that young intern. Is that Bill taking her hand?

Or Elliot Spitzer, the cuckolded sex crusader, looking stoically into his wife’s face, giving a nod and slight smile to someone in the audience, as Silda announces her regret for having slept with men much younger and much hotter than her husband, and spending enough money to have sent one of their daughters through college, or help a bunch of the rich kids in her husband's charity find their compassion. Silda would let the world know that they have work to do and that they need to heal, and Elliot would let the world know that he is standing by his woman.

Or John McCain’s first wife saying he was just too used up after he returned from Nam, and her wandering eye just happened to land on a young (superduperrich) hottie to further her career – and then she still had a career to further!

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Tuesday March 11, 2008 · 10:31 AM PDT

2008/03/11 · 10:31

The Bush mentality of going after anyone who doesn't walk in step has changed the Justice Department into the Department of Homeland Vengeance. Scott Horton, writing for Harpers magazine, has been looking at the shenanigans of the Bush Justice Department for some time now. And he ain't liking what he's seeing.

Read this,
and this,
and here titled: Vote Machine: How the Republicans Hacked the Justice Department (thanks to DNHN blog for the link).

Read Horton's work. And then let's see if there is something to be done.

People! All this fighting is a gift to McCain.

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Thursday March 06, 2008 · 10:31 AM PST

2008/03/06 · 10:31

Daily Kos is an influential blog. Let's use it to our advantage, not to knock out the Democrats. This vitriol about Clinton and Obama? Where is it going to get us? I can't imagine all this ugliness and nastiness and pettiness is helping our cause. Let's send a message instead to Obama and Clinton that we demand that they keep it civil and remember who the real opponent is. Let's keep it that way here, too.

How much fun was it during the Republican primary to see right wing blogs hating McCain, dismayed about Romney? I had such hope that it would keep givin'. But no, like they will, the conservatives have everything cleaned up and put away now. And all eyes are on the Dems.

That means a blog like Daily Kos is getting scrutiny. What do they see? Shrill charges back and forth about our Democratic candidates. Nasty accusations to each other. Nasty remarks about the candidates. Statements that we are going to sit this out if our candidate doesn't win. Are we drowning in complete hysteria? Are we seeing only the trees, folks, and not realizing that there is a whole big forest out there and if the Republicans win it's going to get clearcut?

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Tuesday March 04, 2008 · 10:30 AM PST

2008/03/04 · 10:30

It was a hope of many that the tangly, convoluted and often painful issue of race would be transcended in this campaign. In fact, race has stepped front and center ever since Barack Obama stepped there himself. The walls of Jericho have fallen down, the floodgates are open and the question now is to what extent will his race make him very visible and consequently invisible? There are fewer well researched profiles now, and lots and lots of hit-and-runs. Has the level of discourse sunk to an unreturnable low? Is this dialog necessary, but not necessarily helpful for a candidate? How effective are the skirmishes and rants in leaving indelible stains on Obama's image? Curious, I have listened in, scrounged around for discussions of race and the affect that it is having on the 2008 presidential dialogue and candidacies. Here is some of what I've found:

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Hey, Spitzer, you're a CUCKOLD!

Bush Justice Dept. Hunting Democrats

People! All this fighting is a gift to McCain.

Obama In The Heat of the Election: Can Mr. Tibbs Become Chief of Police?