February 5, 2008 – 10:05 am
Josh Marshall made this joke before I got a chance to. Damn him.
Dheeraj
p.s. Quick on the full post to get the link. It’s actually pretty funny.
February 3, 2008 – 8:05 am
Hey, this is a quick hit…(Click on the full post to get links.)
1. Much to my chagrin, John Edwards apparently will not endorse before 5 Feb. Damn it. Neither will Al Gore. The combined effect of those two nominations would break the floodgates and superdelegates would go swarming to whomever they endorsed. Odds are that it would have been Obama.
2. Also, remember when I said that Hillary’s black v brown race baiting didn’t work? Here’s more proof. In the words of my best friend, suck it dry. The politics of division will no longer work on the Democratic Party. You will not win by dividing us and showing the rest of the country how much better than we squabbling fools you are. SUCK IT DRY.
Carry on, as you were.
Dheeraj
January 30, 2008 – 1:17 pm
So, it’s been an eventful two days. HRC wins the exact same amount of delegates from FL as Dennis Kucinich. John Sidney McCain and Charlie Crist beat back Romney and the Bush machine in FL.
And most importantly, John Edwards exits the race.
All of these things would merit long posts and short posts on their own, but I have a job, so I’ll have to combine my take on all these things into one gigantic post and hope to do justice to the topics at hand.
Read on. […]
January 29, 2008 – 5:02 pm
UPDATED: It turns out that I was completely wrong.
Here are some predictions before the polls close.
1. Clinton wins the beauty content in FL.
Okay, so HRC won. She received the same amount of ballots as Mike Gravel - zilch.
Given that no one else is on the ballot, this is not a difficult feat.
Okay, so everyone else was on the ballot, too, but HRC was the only one who made an effort and committed campaign resources there.
2. Romney. Romney will win this.
Wow, looks like the Crist coalition beat the Bush coalition.
More after the polls close.
More tomorrow.
Dheeraj
January 28, 2008 – 6:21 pm
Hey, everyone. This is a Plural Politics first: we’re liveblogging Bush’s last SOTU. Plural Politics alumnus Stephen Stetson will also be liveblogging with debate luminary Kate Shuster. Be sure and check them out.
I am personally convinced that there’s not enough bourbon in Kentucky to allow me to take a shot every time Bush lies or says something stupid.
Read on […]
January 28, 2008 – 2:11 pm
Come on, he pardoned Keith Richards - he must be soft on crime!
Dheeraj
January 28, 2008 – 9:31 am
(This is a quick hit, sorry. Mondays at work are never pleasant.)
Now, some of you may think that this blog has pretty much turned in to All Obama, All The Time, but that’s really not intended to be the case. But hey, when the guy is making headlines and changing American politics, it’s hard not to write about him.
Anyway, the rumours began over the weekend, and Caroline Kennedy’s op-ed made things even more buzzworthy, but it’s out - Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) endorses Senator Obama in the 2008 election.
This is incredibly significant. As much as Bill Clinton remains a political leader of the Democratic Party, Senator Kennedy remains an ideological leader. He brings with him the legacy, vision and power the liberal wing’s history and accomplishments, and passing the torch to Obama is almost the equivalent of a coronation or investiture ceremony.
Wow.
Carry on, then. As you were.
Dheeraj
January 27, 2008 – 8:39 pm
(H/T Amanda Marcotte)
Now, given how much I’ve “piled on†to the Clinton campaign around here, one would think that I take pleasure in anything bad that happens to them or to her. I really don’t. In fact, I think that it’s incredibly awful how much the media at large delight in nasty coverage of her and what kinds of deranged things that people do in response to her. Clinton Derangement Syndrome is one of the most fascinating things that you’ll ever come across.
Is there any possible room in our political discourse for these kinds of attacks?
Read on. […]
January 27, 2008 – 4:52 pm
In a comment thread of my most recent post, visitor hamedross asks why it is that we’re focusing on things like Obama’s blackness when there are other, more pressing issues [sic] to be addressed. I know nothing about hamedross, as he’s never been an acquaintance or correspondent of mine, and so I can’t speak as to his motivations - all I can do is assume that he’s asking bona fide, and not being a troll.
So, on with the discussion. Read on. […]
January 24, 2008 – 8:27 am
As a young Indian-American who had just arrived in Texas at the age of twelve, I was very, very confused at the political climate around me. I had grown up abroad and in a British school system, rather removed from the nasty back and forth of the Reagan years. I was raised as what you’d call a Rockefeller Republican - to us, the Democratic Party was full of Southern racists, union toughs and out of touch champagne socialists who had no idea about the conditions on the ground in the very slums and third world countries that they claimed to champion, but avoided like the plague. The joke in our family growing up was that every Democrat had one, and only one, black friend: The Reverend Jesse Jackson. Now, was this fair or accurate? Not at all. But it was what my parents thought, and so what we thought as kids, too. I remember being confused by how awful Reagan was, and thinking that there was going to be some kind of return to sanity when Bush was elected in ‘88.
Then came Bill Clinton. […]