May 05, 2008
Contempt
By proposing the gas tax holiday, an idea only a fool or an ignoramus could take seriously, Hillary Clinton has advertised to the world that she thinks her voters are easy marks. Some of them probably resent it, or could be encouraged to do so. And the same goes for John McCain in the general election: the press has already more or less announced that the idea is bogus.
May 04, 2008
Pandering as a character issue
What do "obliterate Iran" and the gas tax holiday tell us about HRC's character, the quality of her experience, and her fitness to be President?
HRC in 2005: 50 years in Iraq would be just peachy-keen
HRC on Face the Nation, 2005: Senator McCain made the point earlier today, which I agree with, and that is, it's not so much a question of time when it comes to American military presence for the average American; I include myself in this. But it is a question of casualties. We don't want to see our young men and women dying and suffering these grievous injuries that so many of them have. We've been in South Korea for 50-plus years. We've been in Europe for 50-plus. We're still in Okinawa with respect to protection there coming out of World War II.
Not a gaffe
No, she meant to say "obliterate Iran." Cowboy diplomacy joins voodoo economics to make a sort of synthetic Republican.
May 03, 2008
Ooooops!
Hillary Clinton says her gasoline tax holiday will help farmers, who don't pay tax on fuel used on the farm.
May 02, 2008
The Republican war on science, continued?
For going on eight years now, we have had a White House that profoundly believes that politics trumps reality, and that the Presidency carrries with it the right and the obligation to ignore inconvenient facts. People in the Bush White House say things like: We believe the presidency requires leadership. There are times that a president will take a position...
May 01, 2008
Questions for Hillary Rodham Clinton
What did she know, and when did she know it, about Sid Blumenthal's emails? And what does his conduct say about her managerial capacity and competence as a judge of character?
Dinde Clinton et dindon Obama à la sauce Krugman
Contra Krugman, there's a good campaign parallel between health care and climate change.
April 29, 2008
April 25, 2008
March 27, 2008
March 25, 2008
Limits
No matter how much of a Hillary-hater I am, at least I'd never consort with Richard Mellon Scaife or use his newspaper as a vehicle for a political attack.
March 18, 2008
Retraction
John McCain just gave Hillary Clinton a good excuse for taking back her comment that he was ready to be Commander-in-Chief. Will she take it?
March 17, 2008
March 16, 2008
March 10, 2008
March 08, 2008
Hilzoy on Hillary and Rwanda
HRC seems to be fibbing about her role in the Rwandan crisis. No wonder Samantha Power, who literally wrote the book on that crisis, should think of the world "monster" in describing HRC. And no wonder HRC and her minions were so eager to keep throwing mud at Power even after she had resigned. The truth hurts.
Meantime...
McCain surrogate launches full-throated attack on Obama's heritage. Will the Clinton campaign be smart enough to respond?
The truth hurts
Hillary Clinton's handlers have been padding her foreign-policy resume. Her purported advocacy of action by the US to stop the Rwandan genocide left no trace in any contemporary record, and isn't mentioned in her memoir, in her husband's, or in Madeline Albright's.
March 07, 2008
Question for Hillary Clinton
Does Hillary Clinton think that someone who believes that the CIA should employ torture is fit to be Commander-in-Chief?
March 06, 2008
More praise for Hillary Clinton
Hillary has kind words for the man who called her daughter an ugly bastard. Truly, she must be a saint!
Hillary's consistency
Having done her best to keep the "Obama is a Muslim" smear alive, HRC has refrained from criticizing McCain's embrace of that world-class bigot, Pastor John Hagee.
March 02, 2008
February 28, 2008
This may cause a little discomfort
Obama is right to propose federal spending on electronic medical records.
February 25, 2008
Another fake scandal
Newsday goes after HRC for serving as a court-appointed attorney for the indigent defendant in a rape case 40 years ago.
February 19, 2008
February 18, 2008
February 16, 2008
February 08, 2008
Quick quiz ...
Which candidate is against the use of cluster bombs? Which candidate was just endorsed by David Obey, the liberals' liberal?
February 03, 2008
"And now abideth ... these three" ... but not with HRC?
So far, HRC is 0-for-2 on the theological virtues, having spoken ill of both faith and hope. Is charity next?
February 02, 2008
Concerning spine and clean needles
Needle exchange for addicts is like driver's licenses for illegals. The merits point one way, the politics point the other way. Guess which of the two Democratic candidates is facing the right way?
January 31, 2008
And the painted ponies go up and down
Obama's half-sister seems ok. Hillary's brothers are classic presidential siblings.
"I'm always proud of Wal-Mart"
That's the voice of Hillary Clinton, speaking as a Wal-Mart board member in 1990. Now she says she's learned better.
December 17, 2007
"A liar needs a good memory"
Mark Penn says Billy Shaheen voluntarily resigned from the Clinton campaign. Billy Shaheen says that Billy Shaheen voluntarily resigned from the Clinton campaign. Hillary Rodham Clinton says that Billy Shaheen was fired from the Clinton campaign.
December 14, 2007
(Im)plausible deniability
HRC apologizes to Obama for a smear against him by her New Hampshire co-chair. Mark Penn then goes on TV and says "cocaine," just in case anyone had forgotten the substance of the smear.
December 12, 2007
Defending Hillary
Why shouldn't a Democrat preview Republican talking points against a rival and try to suppress the youth vote?
November 14, 2007
Am I deranged?
Yes, there's lots of irrational Clinton-hatred in the world. But it's not deranged to fear the prospect of four or eight more years of carefully crafted half-lies from the White House.
