I don’t know.  Something about this 1995 statement by Hillary Clinton regarding white working class Democrats comes off to me as– what’s the word?– oh, yeah… elitist:
Screw ‘em. You don’t owe them a thing, Bill. They’re doing nothing for you; you don’t have to do anything for them.
This coming from a woman who, at the age […]

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For some reason, I thought there was a debate scheduled tonight.  At 8:00 p.m., I turned my television to ABC expecting to see Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama answering questions posed by objective journalists.  Instead, they were showing some two-hour infomercial on why Hillary Clinton should be the Democratic nominee, hosted by former Clinton senior political […]

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Over the past few days, a number of writers have expressed disappointment bordering on shock at the political tactics of the Clintons. The short of it is that they’ve basically become everything fought against in the 1990s.
Andrew Sullivan:
…after decades of hardball politicking, she and her husband have become completely indistinguishable from the forces that […]

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First, the official Clinton campaign Bitter-gate attack ad, set to run in Pennsylvania all this week:

Here’s my view on these kinds of attack ads: Either do real interviews with real people, or do scripted lines with actors. Mixing scripted lines with real people almost always falls flat.
In any case, it’s clear the Clinton […]

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So after months of this blog basically being me talking to myself, I check in on things tonight and there’s a sudden crushing avalanche of traffic.

Yep, that’s TWP, somehow on the front page of Digg, sandwiched in between HuffPo and the Boston Globe. Crazy. But I guess one of the advantages of that is you […]

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Without a doubt, this was a poorly-worded statement on the part of Barack Obama:
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, […]

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A lot of people are jumping on Bill Clinton regarding his mind-boggling move Thursday to defend Hillary on the Bosnia sinper fire tale– a lie that even her campaign would acknowledge is indefensible and best left alone to be forgotten.  Worse yet, Bill Clinton resorted to more lies– lies that were even easier to debunk than the original– to make […]

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End Politics As Usual reports that Hillary Clinton is expanding her sore loser-ism into the world of sports.  This is just phenomenal creative writing: 
In a move that’s sure to be seen as controversial, Hillary has contacted the NCAA Board of Directors to argue that Memphis is actually better qualified to be National Champion.
Ms. Clinton stated that […]

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Pretty much:

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Barack Obama plays chicken with YouTube and loses:

For the record, the exact exchange in question between McCain and a town hall questioner went like this:
QUESTIONER: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years…
McCAIN: Maybe 100. We’ve been in South Korea… We’ve been in Japan for 60 years, we’ve been in South […]

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That sound you hear is pure unadulterated jubiliation, even from inside the Clinton campaign.  Maybe especially from inside the Clinton campaign.  The obituary from campaign manager Maggie Williams:
After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as Chief Strategist of the Clinton Campaign; Mark, and Penn, Schoen […]

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Ben Smith over at Politico offers up some completely irresponsible, incredibly premature, and wildly entertaining speculation on who is in the early running for the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton veepstakes.  The short version:
Barack Obama VP picks
Joe Biden - DE senator
Bill Richardson - NM governor
Mike Bloomberg - NYC mayor
Tim Roemer - former IN representative
Sam Nunn - […]

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In attempting to find a rationale… any rationale for their candidate to remain in the race, Clinton supporters have soared to new heights of desperation, most recently resorting to this argument:
In the race for the most popular votes in the Democratic Party’s presidential primary contests, Sen. Barack Obama’s lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton is about 711,000 […]

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Earlier this month, it was revealed that the footage the Clinton campaign used to make its 3 a.m./Red Phone ad was eight years old, and one of the sleeping children in the ad turned out to be a now grown-up Obama precinct captain in Washington state named Casey Knowles.  The video Knowles made for YouTube criticizing […]

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Or maybe I’m the only one who finds enormous irony in the fact that Hillary Clinton is claiming to be the most qualified candidate to manage the economy and lecturing everyone on fiscal responsibility, yet can’t even balance her own campaign’s budget:
A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign […]

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