Maybe a riff on Barack Obama is your new bicycle (or at least a very interesting counterpoint), here are some things younger than John McCain. Included are—well, I won’t spoil the surprise. Just visit the site.
I know it’s silly and clichéd and unoriginal for me to say this, but I love the Internet.
John Nichols, a great writer for The Nation, writes that Bill Clinton “has proven to be about as useful to Hillary Clinton prospects in 2008 as former Florida Congressman Mark Foley was to House Republicans in 2006.”
Hilarious. The whole blog post is here.
From Karl who? White House downplays Rove’s role in the LA Times:
“He controlled a great deal of the real estate and no matter how the White House spins his departure, the truth is that he leaves a gaping hole inside the White House,” said Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist who has forged a friendship with Rove despite years of combat.
Honestly, this is exactly the problem with Washington campaign consultants. They’re incestuous.
Brazile was Al Gore’s campaign manager in 2000. Gore 2000 was possibly the worst-run campaign for president in my lifetime, in which he ran away from the popular incumbent president and ran away from what he actually cared about (the environment and global warming, in which he was far ahead of his time). I don’t know what she’s won since then. And now she’s described in the media as a friend of Karl Rove? Yeesh.
The sooner we can get rid of this brand of Democratic consultant (see also James Carville and Mary Matalin), the better.
Well, well. Apparently some other bloodthirsty, self-promoting neocon thinks that we need another 9/11 to “save” America. Watch. Learn.
I initially intended to write this as part of my “other projects” page. When I noticed how long it was getting, however, I realized (to my astonishment) that I was actually writing a blog entry.
I have decided to stop doing politics outside of work. Though that decision may be a big surprise to some people, it’s what I need to do now, and maybe permanently.
Okay, this is long, but here’s what Steve Kirsch, MIT-educated multi-millionaire founder of Infoseek and other things (also, his foundation contributes to my employer), thinks about who would make the best President.
Obviously one condition of my linking to it is that it just happens to reflect my preference for John Edwards….
So I went to the California Democratic Convention in San Diego last weekend. It was a productive experience… I networked with some people, got to see most of the Democratic presidential candidates speak, and got a resolution that I wrote passed on the convention floor (and did almost no promotion for — meaning it passed solely on merit, which is kind of cool).
[This paragraph didn’t age well, but we all make mistakes. – JG, 5/29/21] I went to the convention already having committed to supporting John Edwards, and my conviction that he should be the next President of the United States has only strengthened. However, I know a lot of people went in with an open mind. One friend of mine, fellow delegate, and fellow DFA’er (Dean for America and Democracy for America) Dan Wood, decided during Edwards’ speech that he was now on board with Edwards ’08. So here he’s already gone and started Deaniacs for Edwards. What an achiever! I’m impressed and humbled by his insanely efficient effectiveness.
Much coverage today devoted to John Edwards’ global warming plan: from the SF Chronicle, for example. Not a very in-depth article, but it’s encouraging that (a) Edwards has a good plan and (b) it’s getting covered in the MSM.
Below is another article from “Environment & Energy Daily” (subscription only; it was forwarded to me) about John Edwards’ global warming plan.
I agree with the sentiment that this takeoff of Apple’s famed “1984” Macintosh commercial expresses about Hillary, though I humbly suggest we elect John Edwards instead.
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