With apologies to Bagehot, the following is twist on an Economist magazine piece critiquing Gordon Brown, Tony Blair’s successor. (Months ago a colleague of mine, a fellow progressive, who lives and works in England pointed out the similarities betwe…

Lately, I’ve been trying my best to be positive about Barack Obama as our next President. Well, at least in so far as to imagine Hillary as our Vice. But some of Obama’s recent actions are really disappointing to me. I’m not talking about his lame att…

As most readers know various Blogspot blogs are being tagged as Spam and shut down by Google. The owners are being locked out, forced to submit to word verification to post on their own blogs. See Uppity Woman’s post if you don’t know the story- http:/…

In the Obama campaign’s most recent bizarre moment, Barack Obama, exercising the judgement he has become famous for, decided it was a good idea to send Wesley Clark onto the Sunday talk show circuit to criticize John McCain’s war record and military s…

There was no rain, no thunder and no lightning crackling across the sky. There was no foreboding mansion with creaky doors and broken windows as a stand in for Democratic National Committee headquarters in Chicago. But there just as well could have be…

Some friends have asked for my sense of the “feel of the room”. Ok. I am happy to report that, but please understand that this is just my own perspective. I did not care to stick around and chat with all and sundry. I think there were two groups in the…

Well, I have not yet been able to sleep on it.

I know why: Senator Clinton and Terry McAuliffe were absolute troupers, somehow delivering simultaneously a message of Democratic unity and a recognition of the unique relationship between Senator Clinton…

Tonight’s event, sponsored by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, has left me with a complicated mix of feelings. But my feelings should, I think, take a backseat to the best job I can do with regard to relating what went on, in a relatively descriptive fa…

Since so much of what Barack Obama has had to say has sounded like nonsense and snake oil to so many people and since many people consider him to be an underhanded and dishonest politician that cant be trusted , and given that he has recently made new…

From my Google page this morning I followed a link to the Politico http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11263.html?loc=interstitialskip for an article entitled “First Obama attack book in the works” by Jonathan Martin. http://www.politico.com/new…

Apparently, some people (including Senator Obama himself) are becoming rather miffed that not every Democrat is prepared to support or vote for Senator Obama. (My own position remains the same: I will not vote for Senator McCain because I disagree wit…

-Going along all these months reading the various news and blog sites I have seen the comments of the trolls and wondered about the term ‘Obots.’ Where did it come from and what does it signify?With the recent spell of hot weather we have had the annua…

There was copious discussion of the Florida and Michigan delegate situations on this blog. I always maintained that should Obama claim the victory (which he now has, lugubriously), he would struggle in those two states. Swing voters would not be forg…

Most of my closest pre-campaign friends either favored Senator Obama or at least regarded him as a an acceptable candidate. Most have not engaged as intensely as I have with this campaign season. Most cannot understand why I will not “stop beating a de…

Is the DNC preparing for 1968?No one knows if Howard Dean and the DNC are taking seriously the threat of massive demonstrations against the strong arm tactics of the DNC this year but it seems that the city of Denver is taking it seriously.A report on…

In the past few days this blog has been victimized by a hacker. Where Flineo’s wonderful videos were there appeared horrible anti-Hillary videos. I spent some time e-mailing back and forth with Flineo, whose work shows incredible talent.In order to avo…

I wonder if Hillary was thinking this, when she gave her suspension speech:
 
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Voting “present”For quite a while now I have said that while John McCain’s policy positions make it impossible for me to vote for him. But perhaps I, along with millions of other Democrats and Independents, have not been clear enough for Senator Obama …

In all my wildest imaginings I never imagined that less than 24 hours after Hillary suspended her campaign some of her most ardent supporters would overdose on (as Pagan likes to put it) the Cult-Aide. I read and learned from a lot of these folks, they…

I watched Hillary’s speech today, and like many of her supporters, I cried.  Halfway into the speech I started to shake uncontrollably. I had to turn it off. I sat there for a while and just took some breaths. This is not normal for me. I am a realist who faces problems and defeats head on. I have indured some debilitating [...]