Billy Paultz Reconsidered

I’ve tried to stay away from politics for a while now because…. I’m not sure, exactly. Maybe I wanted to avoid a big, sloppy omnibus thing about Obama that would be embarrassing in retrospect.
But I can’t keep quiet any longer about one thing: Naming Hillary Secretary of State is an awful, horrible, insane idea on […]

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One problem with Hillary’s “experience” argument vis-a-vis Obama is if she was running against Joe Biden or Chris Dodd (or John McCain), you’d never hear the word come out of her mouth.
But, as George Will points out today, that’s not the only problem:
“Nothing, however, will assuage Clinton supporters’ sense of injustice if the upstart […]

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Right after I shut down the computer last night, MSNBC went to a panel including Joe Scarborough, who said people shouldn’t be critical of the punditocracy getting the Hillary thing so wrong because it was like sportswriters predicting the Yankees would beat the Red Sox (in the 2004 ALCS) after having a 3-0 lead.
Ugh. This […]

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Watching the New Hampshire primary coverage…. Ron Paul knows he can’t win, so instead of blathering nonsense about how hard his people worked in his “concession” speech, he’s actually using the forum to talk about issues.
Either I’m nuts or it’s the libertarian in me or both, but I like the dude….
We had an interesting conversation […]

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