if you ever wondered how bill clinton was twice elected president tonights speech cleared up any questions. he did exactly as i expected and was simply extraordinary. for the time and place it couldnt have been more appropriate.other reactionsandrew sullivan readers know my personal disdain for bill clinton. but longtime readers will also know i have always defended his solid centrist smart record...
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its no coincidence that the democratic convention is being held out west this year and not merely because the lack of an easy rhyme for denver makes it harder for rightwingers to make up derogatory doggerel. colorado is a key battleground in the 2008 presidential race its also ground zero in a broader democratic effort to redraw the electoral map and turn the red states of the mountain west purpl...
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clintons supporters are fighting the current roll call vote rules. we will not fall in line there was no way i was going to wait in line with a bunch of kids to get into invesco field. clinton shirts mccain buttons. clinton supporters harming the unityfest. tensions boil. the polls still arent obamas friend. ht for many links hot air......
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im going to start doing a running set of posts on interesting obama mccain posts from here and yon. not a lot of commentary but a link and a snippet. theres a lot of interesting writing going on out there... telegraph uk obama wont lose for being black but for not being american enough it is that core of experience of growing up american which obama lacks. his problem is not so much that...
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ezra klein predicts that john mccain will choose joe lieberman as his running mate and explains his reasoning for the republicans however 2008 cant be about mobilization. their half is too small. their brand is too damaged. and they recognized that when they chose john mccain whos not a base mobilizing evangelical conservative anyway as their nominee lieberman lets mccain telegraph an...
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im never sure if i should declare myself a democrat once and for all or if i should continue to sit on the fence occasionally dabbling in left wing politics lending my support to emerging populist movements like the pendejo luminoso. today on techpresident micah sifry used that highmarketingcontrived phrase world live web. micah intends to sit out the conventions in front of his flat screens foll...
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biden is what i call an old progressive and he fits right in with the old progressives running the obama campaign and his coming administration. hes a good pick for the campaign. bidens got a certain appeal to older white voters and working class voters that we in the new progressive movement dont really get. hes not from our world he was wrong on iraq and the bankruptcy bill and hes kind of a blo...
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ezra klein writes another excellent post explaining just how myopic it would be for a potential barack obama administration to include chuck hagel as secretary of defense. could we please stop buying into the radical rightwing meme that says we have to go to the daddy party to protect us as klein writes if republicans say democrats cant be trusted to handle national security and democrats keep ...
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john mccain has reached guiliani territory where he or his campaign makes a reference to his pow experience as an excuse for every issue that comes up. i dont know if theres a single issue no matter how far removed from viet nam that mccain hasnt played the pow card. its getting old now and itll get a lot older towards november. also for the record this thread is not about obama or kerry or cli...
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in an interview with the london times political consultant and apparent snake oil salesman dave mudcat saunders says the following the democrats talk of tolerance but in reality the only tolerance they ever exhibit is for their own intellectual arrogance and they dont have tolerance for my culture says mudcat. they think were a bunch of hillbilly heathens who go out and burn crosses and do crazy ...
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this week dana goldstein and ezra klein asked me for a comment on an american prospect story about barack obamas efforts to build the democratic base while working toward a november victory for the campaign and the party as a whole. heres my take from the american prospect obamas supporters have invested so much in their candidate that betrayal or even insufficient fulfillment could be devastating...
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since reading naomi kleins shock doctrine chapter 20 especially ive been thinking about what happened to new orleans after katrina. klein tells how the disaster was a business opportunity for contractors who bulldozed homes and privatized longneglected public schools. this story or rather the version of it that would be told by people whove been displaced is not something that ive heard much about...
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before reading buy nixonland. a liberal shock doctrineby rick perlstein progressive political change in american history is rarely incremental. with important exceptions most of the reforms that have advanced our nations status as a modern liberalizing social democracy were pushed through during narrow windows of progressive opportunity which subsequently slammed shut with the work not yet comp...
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august 24 2008 magazine preview how obama reconciles dueling views on economy by david leonhardt this article will appear in this sundays times magazine. i. a broken economy as barack obama prepares to accept the democratic nomination this week it is clear that the economic policies of the next president are going to be hugely important. ever since wall street bankers were call...
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during the course of writing the daily liberal mapping project i started realizing what a massive impact barack obama is going to have on this election both in minnesota and states all around the country. a great article in american prospect had some insights into how tunedin obama is to the 50state strategy and races all around the country. minnesota is no exception. in minnesota obamas voterregi...
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a little compareandcontrast. on the gop side john mccain has decided against a bitter battle to bend the party platform to match his own idiosyncratic views republicans are inviting suggestions for their party platform this year and thousands have responded online. but when a committee meets to draft the document in minneapolis next week one voice will be largely absent john mccains. the republ...
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from a piece by dana goldstein and ezra kleinif bill clintons project for the democratic party was mostly ideological obamas is mostly organizational. clinton sought to change the partys ideas obama is more interested in building its infrastructure. but for what obamas healthcare plan was the least ambitious of the three major candidates and his recent gestures toward the center on government wire...
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were building lasting infrastructure which will not only help us win in november but build the progressive movement for years to come. our 50state strategy isnt just about winning the presidential election but lifting democrats up and down the ticket. we have a historic opportunity to elect more democrats at every level from city councils to state legislatures to the united states congress and tha...
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dean baker there has been an enormous rise in wage inequality over the last three decades. most economists attribute this increase in inequality to the increased premium that highly valued skills can command in a globalized economy. fannie mae along with the rest of the financial sector is working hard to prove these economists wrong. daniel mudd the ceo of fannie mae has earned tens of millions...
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the u.s. veterans affairs administration released the first portion of a threepart report on its marion illinois va hospital yesterday and found the facility was in desperate need of leadership and oversight. in the last two years there have been 19 deaths caused by substandard care at the hospital. of those nine have been at least partially linked to one surgeon dr. jose veizagamendez wh...
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american prospect for all the talk of postpartisan unity barack obama has been proving himself the most partyfocused presidential candidate in recent history possibly ever. paradoxically although obamas success has been more dependent on personal charisma than any recent nominees has hes been leveraging that charisma to build a broader democratic infrastructure less dependent on the presidential ...
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the obama 15 the american prospect robotheart a great writeup on 15 of obamas campaign advisers. i feel like i know much more about mccains advisers than i do about obamas so its interesting to learn more about the people i read about so often. this is an excellent roundup especially the links in each minibio to deeper profiles done by various periodicals and newspapers.......
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a few months ago on the long island railroad in the evening on my way home after work a young black woman asked me if she could sit on the inside seat. i always sit on the outside and this was a three person seat. after she sat down she noticed the barack obama button i had on my bag at the time and pointed to it and said thank you. we went on to have a conversation about the campaign and the broa...
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