John McCain: Domestic Violence is Hi-fncking-larious
Now here’s a surefire strategy to win over those mythical feminist Clinton supporters who refuse to support Obama no matter what–channel the spirit of Henny Youngman:
As the Huffington Post reported, McCain in an interview with the Las Vegas Sun headed for the gutter while trying to explain why he did not choose Republican Governor Jim Gibbons (now in the midst of a messy divorce and previously the subject of sexual assault allegations) as his Nevada campaign chair:
McCain: I appreciate his support. As you know, the lieutenant governor is our chairman.
Q: Why snub the governor?
McCain: I didn’t mean to snub him. I’ve known the lieutenant governor for 15 years and we’ve been good friends….I didn’t intend to snub him. There are other states where the governor is not the chairman.
Q: Maybe it’s the governor’s approval rating and you are running from him like you are from the president?
McCain: (Chuckling) And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago…
I’m sure clever one-liners like that totally crack up his man-crushing Beltway fanclub during bourbon-fueled late night josh sessions on the Straight Talk Express, but it’s a safe bet they aren’t the sort of entreaties that feminists (or, I’d wager, most women in general) find particularly persuasive.
Yr doin’ it wrong, McSogynist.
Sphere: Related ContentThrowing darts at a board
As the countdown to the clinch continues, the Village Idiots are growing ever more idiotic at the prospect of talking gibberish when Senator Barack Obama becomes the first black nominee for president of the USA. David Gergen, charter member of The Best Political Team on Television™, just gave a preview of what’s to come by noting that Obama’s now-all-but-inevitable nomination comes “exactly” 200 years after the end of the slave trade.
Got that, folks? We can now officially start talking about racism in the past tense.
With that–and, as this “historic” campaign goes to the next level, the promise of even more hoary, overinflated rhetoric from a punditocracy addicted to soundbite significance–in mind, this refreshingly grounded LRB essay from David Runciman couldn’t be more timely.
Sphere: Related ContentA History Professor Rewrites History
There’s a myth that the first Clinton, the Big Dog as he’s been called, was able to win in 1992 because he won back the working class vote for Democrats — taking away an electoral advantage from the Republicans. So with another Clinton in the race, 2008 sounds a lot like 1992.
There’s just one thing that everyone offering this argument in support of the second Clinton conveniently forgets, though: Perot.
Sphere: Related ContentBreaking: John Edwards Endorses Barack Obama
Former Sen. John Edwards is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy Wednesday evening, in a dramatic attempt by the Obama campaign to answer concerns regarding Obama’s appeal to working-class voters, several senior Democratic sources tell ABC News.
The Obama campaign confirms Edwards will endorse Obama at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan Wednesday. The event was originally scheduled to start at 7pmET, but was moved up to 6:20pmET, presumably to have the announcement make the evening news.
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A source close to the Clinton campaign said the Edwards camp gave the Clinton folks a heads up.
“Clearly it’s upsetting” the source tells ABC. “He brings the workers” to Obama.
Another senior Clinton advisor said “it’s not great news.”
“Well I don’t think it’s good news, but there’s a lot of news in this business and we move forward and move past it,” he said.
Asked what effect the Edwards endorsement might have, he said: “We don’t know. We’ll see. We’ll see how much of it is transferable,” referring to Edwards’ popularity with white working class voters.
“We would’ve preferred it,” to be our endorsement the advisor said. That’s not a secret.
Update: video of the endorsement below the fold
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The End is Nigh?
Dan Conley, who served as an aide to former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, posted a must-read article at Salon this past Thursday (h/t jrootham @ BnR) detailing how any future concessions by the Clinton campaign might play out. Using Wilder’s departure from the 1994 Virginia senate race as an example, Conley calmly outlines what could potentially be involved in any backroom negotiations between the two prospective Democratic presidential nominees:
Sphere: Related ContentRight Wing Watch: Phony ‘National Day of Prayer’ Pushes Right-Wing Judges
Sphere: Related ContentObama Nets Another Superdelegate
In what’s become nearly a daily phenomenon Barack Obama has netted another superdelegate, this time Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor to President Clinton. Given Howard Dean’s call on superdelegates to buck up and choose some will likely think that this had something to do with his decision. Well, the New Yorker had a chance to speak with Mr. Reich and he’s saying that’s not so: Read more
Sphere: Related ContentWhat’s the Matter With America’s Progressive Intellectual Backbone?
Joining in on the dead horse flogging previously initiated by my esteemed co-bloggers Kyle, tas and Dustin, Chet Scoville examines how the reaction in some quarters to, in the words of Joe Gandelman, Senator Obama’s “politically flat-footed” comments re: small town voters exposes the failure of the American liberal intelligentsia to adequately build the intellectual foundations that progressive politicians can later safely expand upon without fear of blowback like what Obama is currently facing (quote after the fold):
Sphere: Related ContentSay It Ain’t So
Seriously, over the past several weeks I could feel the Gravelmentum building up within the ranks of the Democratic grass roots. If only he’d waited till the convention. The superdelegates may have come to their senses and chosen the *ahem* most experienced candidate, the only one who had a chance of beating McCain at shuffleboard, the only white male Democrat left in the race!
Now we’ll never know what might have been.
Sigh.
Sphere: Related ContentThe 2012 Theorem
Well, things seem to slowly be fading back to normal, or as close to normal as they are likely to ever get. After weathering a few harsh weeks, the Obama campaign comes out with a high profile endorsement and the political discussion is easing back into one of delegate math.
Sphere: Related ContentGetting Suckered by Our Own Guys
Our political system has devolved into a cross between a bad Don Rickles joke and a high school fire drill during freshman orientation. Obama is at best a hypocrite and at worst Hillary in drag, only with less heavy eye-liner. Hillary seems to be going for Nixon Redux, and McCain is Fright Nightwith the Kewl Kids at the National Review Dorm, surrounded by an army somebody gave them for Xmas to play Dungeons ‘n’ Dragons with.
Not a pretty future we’re looking at here, and attention should be paid before it’s too late. Meaning, of course, that it already is. We’ve saddled ourselves with a crew of right-wing choices, all of them corporate stooges, all of them hawks to greater or lesser degree, and none of them have the slightest interest in challenging the Beltway status quo or the punditocracy’s assumptions. What to do?
Sphere: Related ContentHappy Democracy Fatigue Day
Digby asks a (simple) question that a number of us Canucks watching from the sidelines have also posited numerous times during the (over)extended run up to November:
Sphere: Related ContentIs there any reason why the parties choose a nominee through this delegate system at all? Why don’t they just count up the votes and give it to the one who won the most?
Time for Accountability: Dump Them All
canuckgal (via eRobin) notes that the furor over Obama’s chief economic advisor assuring a Canadian official that BO’s anti-NAFTA remarks lately weren’t serious but merely whimsical, light-hearted, unserious “campaign rhetoric” has heated up. The Obama advisor was named by CTV as Austin Goolsbee after Obama and his camp denied the report. canuckgal wastes no sympathy on them.
Sphere: Related ContentThe Red Phone
Dark, ominous music? Check. Vulnerable children fast asleep without a care in the world about the ever-present threats lurking around them? Check. Low, foreboding narrator’s voice? Check.
All that’s needed now is a symbol–a symbol of fear, of universal terror… A red phone.
Check.
Sphere: Related ContentObama Still Winning The Fundraising Race
The Clinton campaign would initially seem to have some real good news to announce today; the camp has is on track to raise $35 million dollars by the close of business tomorrow.
Sphere: Related ContentMcCain Ineligible For Presidency?
Right, so there are lots of reasons why I’m sure folks may believe Senator John McCain would be ineligible to take up residence in the White House; he’s too old, too tied to Bush policies, too willing to hop off the Straight Talk Express for the sake of a little political expediency, too tied to lobbyists and too tied lying about it, and my personal favorite, because he has an R after his name.
But would you believe one of the things that makes him ineligible might be because he just might not meet the constitutional requirement of a “natural born citizen”? Yeah, me neither.
Sphere: Related ContentFun With Polls
There’s a whole lot of polling going on out there, and some very interesting data coming through. When you put it all together it paints a very clear picture; the Obama campaign has transformed into a kind of steam roller that is poised to rollover the Clinton campaign, as well as possibly the McCain camp as well.
So let’s have some fun with polls.
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