Liberal Talk Radio

Time was, John Edwards perseverated about two Americas. No longer:
John Edwards gave his long-awaited endorsement to Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday, bolstering Mr. Obama’s efforts to rally the Democratic Party around his candidacy and offering potential help in his efforts to win over working class white voters in the general election.
“The Democratic voters in [...]

Read Jon Cohn on why Medicare is awesome and how the only way to make it more awesome would be to cover everyone and have us all pay for it via a payroll tax deduction.

. . . is using the example of being forced to set your thermostat at 60 as “a teachable moment”:
Conservationists swoon at the possibility of it all. Here in Alaska, where melting arctic ice and eroding coastlines have made global warming an urgent threat, this little city has cut its electricity use by more than [...]

Noam Scheiber dismisses the idea that Hillary Clinton has any kind of advantage with the white working class over Obama in a general election match-up with McCain:
I mention this now because there seems to be some support for it in the latest Washington Post-ABC poll. According to the WaPo write-up, Clinton and Obama do more [...]

Obama detractors on Left and Right have both taken pains to paint him as a closet Muslim. The willing mix up of “Obama” with “Osama” is just the most egregious example of a pattern that’s emerged over and over in this campaign – point out Obama’s differences in an effort to marginalize him and [...]

Surprise, surprise… the military junta ruling Myanmar is a real bunch of a**holes.

It’s a little too wonky and academic for my, um, tastes, but Goldy has the definitife solution to our education funding problems in Washington State.

Rogue regimes in Myanmar and North Korea; the Democratic presidential race winds down while public transit use heats up.
Links Mentioned: The fall of Dien Bien Phu … Food shortages in North Korea … Trouble in Myanmar … Police chief gunned down in Mexico … commuters are switching to mass transit.

Longtime reader Nihilist Easter Bunny wrote in with his own reinterpretation of Hillary Clinton’s comments about the strength of her white support:
White men! White women! Clinton is calling you! The Muslim is using the black as muscle against you. And you are left there helpless. Well, what are you going to do about it, whitey? [...]

He’s being incredibly charming on The Daily Show right now. Must… resist…