Puffin’s Place

Gotta say that good as George Bush 43 made Bill Clinton look, the ex pres has been major tiresome during his wife’s campaign. I can see the stats that make the in-crowd call for Hillary as Obama’s veep, but I like Obama way too much to imagine him waking up every day of the next [...]

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Just heard HRC’s speech as she suspends her campaign. Good for her. If she sustains this supportive graciousness she will make many of us forget some of the worst moments of her campaign.
This has to be an excruciatingly painful moment for her, but she is turning it into a plus for the Democrats and, I [...]

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From today’s Washingtron Post by Dan Froomkin:
A British newspaper reports new details about the ongoing secret negotiations: Bush wants to retain the use of more than 50 military bases in Iraq and is insisting on immunity from Iraqi law for U.S. troops and contractors, as well as a free hand to carry out military activities [...]

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Is anyone but me dying to see a headline about Obama that does not have the word black or the words African-American in it? If we are frantic to spotlight the uniqueness of this candidate, why not notice that he is the first supremely eloquent candidate in decades? Why not note that he is the [...]

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