What kind of “united” Democrat front will emerge after this 48 hour Clinton stinkathon is unclear. What is clear is that Joe Biden projects Clinton “attributes” walks and talks K Street and that’s “the right stuff” for the bad makeover DLC krewe. Its even better stuff for the GOP, already lobbing in heavy artillery on […]

A friend who’s lived in Iowa a long time, and who was a precinct captain for Joe Biden last night, checked in this morning with a report on the caucus in her neighborhood.
. . . [T]here actually was a good bit of rejection of Hillary tonight, if you look at what was happening on the […]

Our long national nightmare is almost over . . . the Iowa caucuses are tonight. One of the most ludicrous aspects of the 2008 campaign is that we’re doing this two days after New Year’s. (If a few other states had gotten their wish, we’d have done it around Christmas.) January 3 is the earliest […]

Joe Biden yesterday on Hardball…(see link to Biden video).
UPDATE:  A more expansive piece from Biden on Iran.  And one of the most thoughtful analyses and approaches to the issue I’ve read in years.

Back in the late 1960s, early Clinton health care guru Ira Magaziner was the pride of Brown University.  One might have argued that whiz-kid Ira and antiwar icon Dr Benjamin Spock were indeed separated at birth.  But something funny happened on the way to Chicago.  Ira received a foundation grant and started touring US campuses preaching […]

I give Obama two thumbs up in Manchester, New Hampshire yesterday.  He was colloquial, believeable … maybe even electable… in 2016.  He’s saying the same things Mr and Mrs Clingon said when Perot handed them the White House in November 1992.  The difference is that Mrs Clingon don’t say that stuff no more.  She’s been bamboozled […]

Barack Hussein Obama says we shouldn’t return to the “divisive” rhetoric… well, I don’t know where the likes of him and Shrum and Frum and the rest of them bobbleheads have been cuz we never left the Plains of Divisiveness.  Remember when Lyndon Johnson was around…  Labor Day used to mean something.  Welcome to post […]

While Barry Obama is getting his teeth whitened, while John Edwards is getting another $400 haircut and while Mrs Clingon is learning the focus group results of just how much cleavage her frumpy dress should reveal the number of functionally illiterate Americans continues to ramp up at a rate that makes the Guggenheim a candidate for the […]

Reading blogs and the MSM one gets the impression that the “race” for the White House is already out of the clubhouse turn and into the backstretch. In many instances coverage of “the campaign” takes on the same disconnected, soundbite-skewed characteristics as the personality stuctures of the “candidates” themselves. For an election that […]

Surf on over to www.latimes.com for a high concept view of “American” journalistic priorities in a “we’re global” economy.  Top header left reads “Law enforcement points to Islamic militants not related to Al Qaeda as a serious  threat to US.”  Down the page we find “homicide takes back seat.”  And then, in California news… “3 […]