Liberal Talk Radio

Maybe it’s time for Obama to give a big come-to-Jesus red state-blue state speech to explain to America the cultural milieu in Hyde Park, Chicago that allows yahoos like Bill Ayers to remain unrepentant. It could be as groundbreaking as his Philadelphia race relations explainer!
Sample opener: “I have already deplored, in unequivocal terms, the [...]

Obama’s up 10 points in Washington State, but Gregoire’s running dead even with Rossi, 48-48. Eli Sanders asks:
What’s that about?
Now, I may be an unfrozen caveman lawyer, but what I do know is that the Guv stopped governing a couple of years ago, afraid that if she actually did anything, Rossi might use [...]

Jaw-dropping hurricane of House leadership not getting it, as dday points out over at Digby’s place. From the NY Times article:
WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats have scrapped plans for another vote on expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, thus sparing Republicans from a politically difficult vote just weeks before elections this fall.
Before the summer recess, [...]

It’s obvious that the GOP found The Nasty right where they left it. What’s less clear is what the effect Palin’s speech will be. My sense is that the McCain campaign designed it to shore up the core of a party in serious danger of fracturing. If the delegates in the venue are any indication, [...]

I woke up this morning to the thought — it may have been in a dream — that no one will watch the GOP convention.
We know this election is a referendum on Obama. Voters are deciding if they like him. If they don’t, the safe pick is the crusty old white dude. [...]

Wired has the goods:
On June 16, 2008, John Zimmerman, chief financial officer of Tomkins, gave nearly $7,000 in campaign contributions to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Lo and behold, nary two months later Obama’s in Springfield, Missouri, suggesting drivers inflate their tires to save gas (and, by the [...]

Reading this Doris Kearns Goodwin article on whether or not Obama should assemble a “team of rivals,” for his cabinet, the thought that immediately came to mind is that Obama should nominate Hillary Clinton for Secretary of Defense.
She’s certainly qualified, having served on the Senate Armed Services committee. But more than that, it would [...]

Cory Booker update — 2008 homicides on track to hit 10-year low. Cue zombies*:
Like Barack Obama, Booker embodies a promise kept, a deferred dream finally come true, living proof that the stain of slavery, our original national sin, might yet be lifted from our collective soul. Booker knows this, too — he has shown up [...]

If you want the blow-by-blow of how Obama’s team pulled of one of the greatest political upsets in recent history read this WaPo story. Obviously something like this is going to look like genius in retrospect, but it’s still striking how well they played the game.

Great speech last night, as per usual. It still hasn’t quite sunk in that the Democratic primary is over, and he won.
It’s easy to forget in the heat of the moment, but it has been pretty amazing these last few months tuning in every other Tuesday or so and watching him speak [...]