Mystery post of William Arkin

Where did that come from? The Arrogant and Intolerant Speak Out A Note to My Readers on Supporting the Troops New Middle East Commander Correctly Stays in His Lane See that post tucked in the middle – it wasn’t there yesterday. In fact, The Arrogant and Intolerant Speak Out, only appeared on his side bar [...]

This just in: Kerry will not run but the real question is…

Will we be graced with an inspiring video from him on YouTube? More as this story develops. If you read from the bottom up, you see that the “botched joke” is to blame. Kerry to bow out of ’08 presidential race By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | January 24, 2007 WASHINGTON –Senator John F. Kerry [...]

Mom in Chief? Mom of the House? The political mommy-track

Betsy at Betsy’s page has a great post discussing the political mommy-track. I guess there must be some people out there whose hearts melt at the thought of mothers running for public office and relate to women talking about what they learned from raising their children. I’m just not one of them. I think this [...]

Some equal time for Gov. Richardson – sort of

Governor Richardson announces his presidential exploratory committee on YouTube. The times – they are a changin’ (apologies to Bob Dylan) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p7KL87heVQ] In Espanol [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YofibCbPcRE] Why didn’t Hillary and Barack think of that?

Old news – Hillary says, "I'm in."

Hillary Rodham Clinton throws her beret in the ring…oh wait… Last week it was the mysterious background check on Barack Obama and his Muslim education in Indonesia and then Ms. Clinton makes her announcement on a Saturday of all days. There’s some speculation that it could possibly be due to the Sunday morning news shows. [...]

Pelosi won't block funds for surge – DU feels betrayed

Why was this announcement an ABC/Diane Sawyer exclusive? Was she afraid to announce this among her peers? Exclusive: Pelosi Won’t Block Funding to Stop Iraq Troop Surge, Even Though Situation Is a ‘Tragedy’ Nancy Pelosi Tells ABC News’ Diane Sawyer Bush “Has to Answer for This War” Jan. 19, 2007 — There may be a [...]

Is it too early in the morning for Dennis Kucinich?

I hope I’m forgiven for posting this one so early in the morning. It’s strange – it’s musical – It’s DENNIS KUCINICH! As I post this, there is only one comment at YouTube under this video: This guy is like if Barney Fife ran for president. Can’t say it much better than that. Dennis Kucinich [...]