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Wednesday, May 14, 2008


I've been pretty quiet about Clinton for months now because the whole spectacle is a little sad. I've found over the years that I'm only a Hillary fan when she's getting unfairly attacked, which has happened quite a bit over the course of her political life. I've always thought she was less than inspiring but often worth defending against the talk radio flying monkeys. I expected to vote for her, but I'm frankly relieved I won't have to.

So I don't post this picture out of malice, but because I'm mesmerized by it. Did a supporter really think "Until the Last Dog Dies" was a stirring campaign sign? There's a sad, mean fatalism here dressed up as cheer. I'm just going to assume it's a supporter and not someone playing a joke. Should someone sneak into Clinton rallies with a sign saying "Time to Kill the Last Dog"? I don't type this as just an animal-lover. Obviously, dog is a metaphor for campaign workers, money, Democratic voters and political capital. Shouldn't they be pledging some kind of success with these things rather than death.

"What do we want?"

"To be left frozen and starving on a lonely tundra!!"

"When do we want it?"

"As soon as the sun goes down and the winds pick up!!"

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10:08 bone daddy

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Obama read Letterman's Top Ten list. Is there nothing he can't do? (Except bowl.)

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23:22 bone daddy

Thursday, February 14, 2008

I alluded to the Clinton tendency to fight things out. Even with Obama's recent 8 for 8 string of victories, even if Hillary doesn't take both Ohio and Texas, I fully expect her to be in it. If you are hoping for a orderly conclusion to the Democratic primaries, you should read this post at Ghost in the Machine. In order to avoid some ugliness, Obama needs a knockout. Hillary will fight to turn this thing on the unrecognized delegates of Florida (Obama hasn't won a major state), on the superdelegates (The mature leaders of the party have an obligation) or on P.R. (They're picking on me again) She didn't lend herself five million (try it, it's fun!) just to concede.

Here's hoping the voters do their bit and/or Howard Dean earns his pay.

Fortunately, upcoming Romney harmony aside, I expect a bit of mess among the GOP as well.

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11:35 bone daddy

Whenever anyone - anyone - tries to pass off that media-inspired bit about McCain being a "maverick" or "independent" around me, I spew forth about how McCain always caves in to his party about everything. The only exception I allow is McCain's speaking out against torture.

Never mind.

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11:31 bone daddy

Monday, February 11, 2008

Daniel Negreanu, poker player, Obama supporter. Possibly also Canadian, so don't expect him to do all the voting work.

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11:02 bone daddy

Thursday, February 07, 2008

When a candidate drops out, it's often a time to say nice things about him. (Usually a him, of course.) So I'd like to take a moment and say Screw you, Romney! I might have ignored his dropping out altogether except for his comment that a Clinton or Obama win is some sort of "a surrender to terror."

Really? If a Democrat wins we'll have to roll out the red carpet and greet our terrorist overlords on bended knee? If they put that in their speeches I wouldn't vote for them.

Seriously though, Republicans have elevated this kind of shrill overstatement to the point where no one notices anymore. If a reasonable candidate suddenly suggested this, we'd all be talking about the slip. But if you're crazy all the time ...

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15:53 bone daddy

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Something Happening Here
When Rep. Rosa DeLauro endorsed Barack Obama for President, she did it in front of her house that has an entrance hall filled with pictures of Bill and Hillary Clinton. DeLauro's husband is Stanley Greenberg, Bill Clinton's longtime pollster. I don't read more into DeLauro's endorsement than what she says,

"We all were challenged to engage and serve our country by John Kennedy. That is my starting point," DeLauro said. She believes Obama is now the charismatic figure inspiring the young to register for the first time. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime moment, and I felt compelled to join."


Still, she travels quite a bit of personal distance to reach that conclusion.

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11:05 bone daddy

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Knows When to Hold 'Em James McManus on Barack Obama's poker history. Obama took up the game in the Illinois legislature apparently as a way to make connections. This is the third time or so I've heard he's a decent player, which makes me more inclined to vote for him. (I plan to drop this info at my next home game, which has members that lean too far rightward. That Obama's poker playing may switch votes says a lot about the fanaticism my group has for poker or the utter lack of enthusiasm many republicans have for their field.) McManus wrote Positively Fifth Street, about covering and playing in the 2000 World Series of Poker and the Binion murder trial. It's a decent book and he's supposedly at work on a book about the history of poker, which might be even better since the parts of Fifth Street that I didn't like were mostly autobiographical. (Link via Ghost in the Machine, which has become a nice clearinghouse for all things Obama.)

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20:18 bone daddy

Sunday, January 27, 2008

When Bill Clinton was running for President and the Gennifer Flowers story broke, it was Hillary Clinton who was fierce and ready to fight back and power forward.

During the Lewinsky saga, Clinton probably could have settled for a censure but he decided to fight. Clinton cared little for how embarrassing things might have been for him and his family. He decided to fight every inch of the way.

Reportedly, Clinton thought that Gore should have given up the noble approach and fought more during the Florida recount.

Now, I don't bring these things up to say the Clintons were in the wrong on any of these issues. They weren't. But I just don't think anyone should entertain the notion that the Clintons will step aside or back off anytime soon. There will be no "toning it down" or "stepping aside for the good of the party" so don't get your hopes up.

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22:18 bone daddy

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Hillary's inner Tracy Flick.

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11:01 bone daddy

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Mike Huckabee will not be our next president. He will probably never be president. But just in case you encounter anyone suffering from Huckabee fever, familiarize yourself with the name Wayne Dumond. Dumond is a serial rapist who had his sentence commuted by Huckabee at the urging of anti-Clinton freaks. Bear with me, this is fairly sordid. See one of Dumond's victims was a seventeen year-old named Ashley Stevens. Because Stevens is a distant relative of Bill Clinton, Dumond is innocent.

Did your brain just make a TWAAANG sound like a rubber band stretched aaall the way across the kitchen? Good. You're still sane and not a conservative activist. See, Dumond became a cause celebre among right wing types. As a new governor Huckabee was petitioned by many anti-Clinton types to grant Dumond parole. Huckabee was also advised by the parole board and several of Dumond's victims not to release him. Guess who he listened to? I need to know nothing else about Mike Huckabee.

Read the articles. I apologize for dragging something so depressing here, but I don't really see who the Republicans will eventually stagger behind. It really could be Huckabee and everyone should know the name Wayne Dumond. You've probably already guessed but yes, when released, Dumond raped again and this time murdered one of his victims.

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22:21 bone daddy

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Ask a simple question Chris Dodd submits a YouTube question for the citizen's questions GOP debate. This is actually quite funny and a clever idea, whether or not the question itself helps terrorists.

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22:56 bone daddy

Monday, October 08, 2007

Good News, Bad News. Well, the Yankees lost, which means the Indians will have to knock the Red Sox out since you can't count on the National League to do anything. In good news, C-dog and I both won our bets with Phinster in the same week. C-dog picked the Red Sox to go farther than the Yankees and I picked a ticket other than Gingrich/Rice to win the 08 election. Gingrich is not running, which will make it really hard for him to win. (That's the second bit of bad news, by the way. A Gingrich campaign would have been hysterical. Dan Quayle level of comedy. And he had no chance to actually win and damage the country. There was no downside to Newt '08 so I'm sad tonight, except for winning $20.)

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23:42 bone daddy

Thursday, August 23, 2007

No Sense of Decency ... Bush scratches at the wounds of Vietnam in an attempt to smear his critics and prop up faltering support for his Iraq folly. I've long maintained that the pro-war right will get loonier and more violent as the debacle that is Iraq becomes less and less deniable. No reason Bush would be exempt from this I guess. There's two ways of looking at this - either a man with little ability to grasp the present is showing his trouble with the past as well, or Bush knows perfectly well that Iraq is and will continue to be a disaster for some time and he is setting up others to take the blame.

In a small sense, Vietnam War protesters have helped set up Bush's blame-those-who-were-right strategy by taking too much credit for ending Vietnam. We lost Vietnam because of the Vietnamese and, to a lesser degree, because we shouldn't have been there. Not because of the hippies.

Less than a year ago, Bush floated this analogy, prompting Robert Scheer to write ...

The lesson of Vietnam is not to keep pouring lives and treasure down a dark and poisonous well, but to patiently use a pragmatic mix of diplomacy and trade with even our ideological competitors.

The United States dropped more bombs on tiny Vietnam than it unloaded on all of Europe in World War II, only hardening Vietnamese nationalist resolve. Hundreds of thousands of troops, massive defoliation of the countryside, "free fire zones," South Vietnamese allies, bombing the harbors ... none of it worked. Yet, never admitting that our blundering military presence fueled the native nationalist militancy we supposedly sought to eradicate, three US Presidents--two of them Democrats--lied themselves into believing victory was around some mythical corner.


Lastly, I'd like to ask, if Bush knows so much about winning in Vietnam, why didn't he go ahead and fight there?

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14:21 bone daddy

Monday, August 13, 2007

Tommy Thompson was running for president. Who knew?

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13:08 bone daddy

Friday, July 20, 2007

c-dog's 2008 President Selector Rankings

1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100 %)
2. Barack Obama (81 %)
3. Dennis Kucinich (77 %)
4. Christopher Dodd (72 %)
5. Joseph Biden (72 %)
6. Hillary Clinton (71 %)
7. Alan Augustson (campaign suspended) (71 %)
8. John Edwards (70 %)
9. Wesley Clark (not announced) (70 %)
10. Al Gore (not announced) (67 %)

Try if yourself ...

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12:04 c-dog

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Great video on Generation Chickenhawk.

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10:33 bone daddy

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Can they sink any lower? Newt Gingrich has joined fellow creep Rush Limbaugh in blaming the Virginia Tech tragedy on liberals. I hope Gingrich runs for president. His idiocy on parade will do nothing but damage to his own party. Follow the Gingrich link, it's a doozy. Did you know video games were liberal? Me neither. Did you know you can no longer say "Murder is wrong" in America without some liberal getting all in your grill? Me neither. That liberals alone support dehumanizing name-calling? Me neither. Thanks Newt. Please run for president.

(BTW, Gingrich and Limbaugh have at least three divorces, at least one drug habit, tons of ethical problems and two long histories of de-humanizing name-calling between them.)

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15:46 bone daddy

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Go, Al, Go!

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11:01 bone daddy