Archive for May, 2008

No Clinton for Veep


Posted by Bruno on May 7th, 2008

The talk of Obama asking Clinton to be his running mate is heating up again after her less-than-stellar performance last night in IN and NC.
Can I just say this would be a bad idea? And not only because you’d have Hillary’s negatives dragging down the ticket. Obama would be a [...]

Rice


Posted by Bruno on May 7th, 2008

Haiti’s recent food riots have caused several deaths and lots of pain and suffering. This is depressing, and a reminder of what happens when globalization and “free trade” is approached from the point of view of helping the U.S. at the expense of the rest of the world:
Thirty years ago, Haiti raised nearly [...]

Restaurant Snobbery


Posted by Bruno on May 5th, 2008

Nice point from Ezra Klein:
Our identities are deeply interwoven into our dining choices, and the hipsters ostentatiously traveling across town to try jellyfish in a hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant and then telling all their friends about the discovery are saying something about themselves just as surely as the young family dressing up for a night [...]

And After All The Hoopla?


Posted by Bruno on May 4th, 2008

Most Americans don’t give a rip:
WASHINGTON — A majority of American voters say that the furor over the relationship between Senator Barack Obama and his former pastor has not affected their opinion of Mr. Obama, but a substantial number say that it could influence voters this fall should he be the Democratic presidential nominee, [...]

I’m Stunned


Posted by Matski on May 1st, 2008

Seriously, I’m stunned. Stunned that I can still be appalled by anything GWB could do/say.
“President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said `mission accomplished’ for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday. “And we have [...]

White Pastors


Posted by Bruno on May 1st, 2008

I like’d Ezra Klein’s take on whether Wright would be a problem for Obama if he and Obama were white:
So here’s the thought experiment: If in 2004, it turned out that John Kerry’s minister of 20 years — a man who had been like a father to him, who had married Kerry and Theresa Heinz, [...]

Eyman


Posted by Bruno on May 1st, 2008

Low on funds.

“It’s Like An Airplane”


Posted by Contrarian on May 1st, 2008

Maybe you trust this man to make smart environmental policy? I wouldn’t:
Representative Anthony D. Weiner, Democrat of Brooklyn and Queens, drives a 2008 Chevrolet Impala, leased for $219 a month. Representative Michael R. McNulty, a Democrat from the Albany area, gets around in a 2007 Mercury Mariner hybrid, a sport utility vehicle, for $816 a [...]


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