Nightly Ramble: Obama’s Desperation

I’ve not turned out a single issue ramble in some months, now, Tonight seems the time.

I’ll say this at the outset; I have been predisposed to not trust what Obama has to say on much of anything in general,

(With apologies to “Sweetness and Light”, I couldn’t resist)

Brad Freidman writes at BradBlog:

“Alegre”, a longtime Daily Kos diarist, has called for a writers strike at the world’s largest supposedly-Progressive blog site, due to what she says has

Impossible Dream, Independent(UK)

Well she is a blond,  Ireland On-Line:

Patricia Arquette questioned how open-minded she was when her transgender brother Alexis first announced he was going to become a womanP

Patrica, he is still your

I keep hearing rumors around the web that Hillary Clinton’s people are behind the prostitution bust on Eliot Spitzer.

 Now, I will say up front that there may be nothing to these rumors, but they’re not going away.

One of

Ray Gustini, Radar, is reporting that Mrs. Clinton has purged her campaign website of all deferences to Eliot Spitzer:

Either way, Hillary Clinton has already delivered the first of many “You’re dead to me, Eliot”-moments, sponging her campaign website

• Well, over the weekend we got up to two feet of snow in places, mostly west of here. There’s a foot and a half in my front yard, and in my driveway.  We shovel it out, but since the yard

Former Barack Obama adviser Samantha Power was resigned from the Obama campaign for calling Mrs. Clinton a monster.

Given, the Ciintons campaigned on a promise that a vote for one would get two and Mrs. Clinton has claimed foreign policy

A wee historical question for Bacack Obama., which American Presidnet freed the slaves, George B. McClellan or Abraham Lincoln ?

Jack Nicholson on freedom:

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Steven King on radical Islamists, video:

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Text:

“I don’t want to disparage anyone

(Chicago Sun-Times)-He was “the man behind the curtain” whose pervasive influence in the Blagojevich administration stacked state boards and lined his pockets, prosecutors charged Thursday as they opened their highly anticipated corruption case against Tony Rezko. But lawyers for

When pols power is under threat, all that crap goes away to be replaced by sleeze and attack. I note a story this morning at MSNBC, which reports on the comments from Barrack Obama Campaign manager David Plouffe, who

Candidates is glass houses, the Obama campaign on the Clintons’  campaign, via MSNBC:

“As it relates to ethics and transparency,” Plouffe said, “we’re surprised that they would want to have an extended conversation about contributors and land deals and

• They’re waking up, sorta. Drum, today:

VITRIOL….Atrios:

The campaigns and candidates themselves may not get nasty, but I get the sense that supporters of the various candidates are getting angrier at the other camp. Sure a lot of

• A second place in the OTB Caption Contest.
• So, they’re concerned about a doctor shortage in the third world? And they think the US is causing the shortage? Look, Gang, I’m used the the US getting blamed for everything. But

Chris Cillizza at the WaPo Politics Blog:

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) said Monday that the media’s pro-Obama (or anti-Clinton) bias explains in part why Barack Obama is portrayed as running away with the Democratic presidential nomination (instead of being

I note Patrick Healy giving some notice to the building falling down around Hillary Clinton.

Morale is low. After 13 months of dawn-to-dark seven-day weeks, the staff is exhausted. Some have taken to going home early – 9 p.m. –