The Democratic Party has two weakened candidates. Mrs. Clinton started as a deeply flawed candidate: the palpable and unpleasant sense of entitlement, the absence of a clear and optimistic message, the grating personality impatient to be done with the little people and overly eager for a return to power, real power, the phoniness and the exaggerations. These problems have not diminished over the long months of the contest. They have grown. She started out with the highest negatives of any major candidate in an open race for the presidency and things have only gotten worse.
And what of the reborn Adlai Stevenson? Mr. Obama is befuddled and angry about the national reaction to what are clearly accepted, even commonplace truths in San Francisco and Hyde Park. How could anyone take offense at the observation that people in small-town and rural American are “bitter” and therefore “cling” to their guns and their faith, as well as their xenophobia? Why would anyone raise questions about a public figure who, for only 20 years, attended a church and developed a close personal relationship with its preacher who says AIDS was created by our government as a genocidal tool to be used against people of color, who declared America’s chickens came home to roost on 9/11, and wants God to damn America? Mr. Obama has a weakness among blue-collar working class voters for a reason.
Bloggers, to the ramparts!
Is that kind of like a Pro Hillary piece in the Washington Times?
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p>… I’m not sure which is more useless. No offense, Mr. Frank.
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p>No, this wasn’t a Hillary-hit piece but an indictment on the clusterf**k that is our political discourse…
I said it was written in the Wall Street Journal, not exactly home to the audiences that need to be convinced on the matter. And I was mainly making a goof…
An indictment of the Clinton campaign’s efforts over “Bittergate,” and, “an indictment on the clusterf**k that is our political discourse.” The two are not mutually exclusive. Anyway, I think the quotation speaks for itself.
I sure would like to know where the “deceptions” and “partial truths” are in our Weekly Standard piece about the Patrick administration. While some will be tempted to dismiss it as the work of a “right-wing think tank,” the fact is that Pioneer supported Patrick and worked well with the administration on reforming local pension funds, addressing public employee retiree health care liability and housing.
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p>But when it comes to corporate welfare (the biotech proposal), proposing to add $16 billion to the Commonwealth’s already staggering debt burden, and — most importantly — systematically dismantling education reforms that are the national model, we’ll continue to register our dissent.
State Sen Karen Johnson speaks out about 911 truth, don’t look for it in lamestream news.
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p>UK based website picks up story of rice rationing at Costco.
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p>Torch team cops with submachine guns patrol NYC subways.