“Hillary Addresses 88th National Beauty Culturists’ League Convention Tonight”
Via HillaryHub.com, which lacks permalinks and and an archive for its front-page images.
UPDATE: Rag on me all you want for not being serious, but keep in mind that this image and bit of news came from the Hillary campaign, who actually lobbied me to post …
Prepare yourselves, American public, you are going to see a lot of these two people for the next few months, which will soon begin to feel like the rest of your life.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing in this debate is the tacit agreement on both sides that comparing Hillary to Bush/Cheney is new lowest of the low. I think Republican …
That, in essence, is what Romney said this morning to some Iowans. I guess he’s not reading those right track/wrong direction numbers too closely. I’m not sure that his observation about Americans’ anger over Iraq amounted to a “stinging assessment of the Bush administration’s handling of the conflict from a Republican candidate,” which …
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This has been building for four years now. From the start of the war, the standard Saudi/Sunni position was: We don’t like Saddam, but we’ll live with him. If you’re going to take him out, though, replace him–quickly–with a reliable Sunni general. (I heard a variation on that line in visits to the following countries: Saudi Arabia, …
To add a little more to what Joe and I are wondering: Though some in the media have suspect that Fox is somehow behind the GOP’s ditching of the debate (and yes, I mused about it outloud), the campaigns I spoke to insist that Fox has nothing to do with it. One staffer, however, did speculate that if, say, Fox were hosting the YouTube …
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As I feared, the Republicans are getting skittish about participating in their CNN/YouTube debate. The New York Post is reporting today that Rudy Giuliani isn’t going to play. My guess is, more to follow. Too bad.
OOOPS: I missed Ana’s earlier post on this. Kudos to her.
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Numerous readers seem to assume that my earlier post about the silly, sarcastic use of the word “serious” was a response to Glenn Greenwald’s post about Joe Lieberman, a right-wing nutcase minister named John Hagee and, somehow, me. It wasn’t. I read Greenwald on occasion, but not today. I was actually responding to this sort of comment, …
Despite my admittedly snarktastic coverage of this week’s YouTube debate, I was mildly intrigued by the prospect of the GOP version. Would they get videos from troops in Iraq? Maybe a pregnant woman asking about abortion? There would be opportunities for theater and for real people, if also for more hillbillies and singing snowmen. …
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In which the candidacy of Hillary Clinton is discussed.
You can tell that the Bush Administration has no problem with torture because they keep sending Gonzales back to the Hill. The fact that he hasn’t already admitted that he’s bin Laden’s driver, a 9/11 planner, and the one who told Bush about Santa Claus is, truly, a testament to his fortitude.
Think Progress has collected some of …
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Some epithets are really quite brilliant: wanker, for example, with its intimations of onanistic futility, is one of the best. (But then, the Brits, who invented the term, are so much more elegant than we are when it comes to the creative use of the mother tongue.)
Others, involving defecation and copulation, can be effective and …
I have a piece in the coming print issue of Time on the hard-to-meet expectations being heaped by fretful Republicans on Fred Thompson’s I’ll-get-in-someday campaign for the GOP nomination. The piece is already posted here. It says volumes about the state of the party, and about the level of discontent among GOP voters with the current …
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This seems to me a significant statement from two prominent conservatives on the Bush Administration’s stubborn, foolish and disgraceful efforts to continue to evade the Geneva Convention.
Update: Those commenters–you know who you are–who wonder why it’s taken me “so long” to get on the torture and Gonzalez cases might want to read …
