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LIGHTNING ROUND: MOUNTAINTOPS, MEMOS, MCCAIN, AND DMX. ANOTHER NORMAL DAY IN 2008.
- Clinton "equivocates" on the desirability of Mountaintop removal mining.
- A poll shows Clinton doing better against McCain than Obama and suddenly Mark Penn thinks hypothetical matchups matter. Why anyone takes anything he says seriously at this point is beyond me.
- So far the only new information to come out of Clinton's schedules as First Lady is that she held meetings on NAFTA and didn't hold meetings on the Family and Medical Leave Act.
- The right wing is outraged that Obama disrespected his grandmother... really.
- Even David Broder isn't impressed with McCain's rhetoric on Iraq.
- Finally, just for fun, DMX is rather surprised to learn there's a man named Barack Obama running for President.
--Sam Boyd
COMMENTS (10)
You do realize that that WaPo piece is from January 2007?
Posted by: Isaac | March 20, 2008 6:02 PM
Um, I missed that actually. My bad. I just took it out.
If anyone is wondering what we're talking about I included a link to an old op-ed advocating a Clinton-McCain ticket thinking it was a new one (read a link to it, thought it was new). The op-ed is here.
Posted by: Sam Boyd | March 20, 2008 6:27 PM
"So far the only new information to come out of Clinton's schedules as First Lady is that she held meetings on NAFTA and didn't hold meetings on the Family and Medical Leave Act."
You cited an old editorial and yet completely bypassed the real take-aways from the HRC schedules.
I mean AT LAST we know the answers to the truly important questions like whether HRC was in the White House while her husband was consorting with Monica ... or even lovelier, her whereabouts when Vince Foster committed suicide.
It really is pretty telling that the majority of the progressive blogosphere ignores this slimy stuff masquerading as journalism ... I can only imagine the fervor if the target had been Obama. Sad really that far too many of us seem willing to allow ANYTHING this shitty to be lobbed at another Democrat.
Posted by: The World's Turned Upside Down | March 20, 2008 8:24 PM
FYI: TAPPED does know that entries like prospect.org/cs/articles?article=southwest_passage are chock full of commercial spam, right?
In fact, that's hurting TAPPED, by associating this site with spam sites.
As someone who's familiar with these matters could tell you, at the same time as you're helping spammers, you're hurting yourself and legitimate commentors. I won't go into details, but someone who's familiar with these matters will know what I mean.
Posted by: TLB | March 20, 2008 11:10 PM
Goddamn, I hate that racist white granny.
Posted by: Jed Clampett | March 21, 2008 12:12 AM
it wouldn't be so bad if she just weren't so "typical."
Posted by: Anonymous | March 21, 2008 2:14 AM
Yup, typical white person always stereotyping us brothers.
Posted by: Jethro | March 21, 2008 2:36 AM
So, have they yet decided whether that (absurdly mild) comment by Obama threw his grandmother under the bus or that he threw her to the wolves, or is it possible that he threw her to the wolves who live under the bus?
In general, does this mean that Republicans are no longer in favor of throwing grandmothers to wolves or under buses?
Because the evidence seems pretty consistent to me that unless your grandmother is related to a Republican crony, they will be just as happy giving her to wolves as to buses or to bus-wolves or any combination thereof.
Posted by: El Cid | March 21, 2008 5:21 AM
Yeah, TLB, we've definitely noticed all the spam. And we don't like it any more than you do. We're in the process of implementing some filters and cleaning out the existing spam, it's just taking longer than we'd like.
Posted by: Ann Friedman | March 21, 2008 7:55 AM
Cracking up at El Cid.
Weird how phrases like that bounce around the 'sphere.
Posted by: Trevor J | March 21, 2008 9:57 AM