nobody’s opinions

Over at (shudder) the Daily Kos, this gem from a poster with the handle “Jsn”:
Saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle.
The Dems are nastier to each other than a couple of mongrels snarling at each other over a week-old bratwurst!

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In this case political wisdom, from the oddest of sources: David Mamet in The Village Voice. Mamet has a fine essay, colorfully titled “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’”, recounting how he rethought his personal political geography while writing a play about politics (November, currently at the Barrymore Theater, Broadway).
Sample from his essay:
What […]

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Hillary praises McCain while slamming Obama:
I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. Sen. John McCain has a lifetime of experience that he’d bring to the White House. And Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.
More at Los Angeles Times “Top of the Ticket” […]

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Like many others, I have been waiting for a “man behind the curtain” moment to descend on Barack Obama. It may have come in a literal sense.
Dana Milbank reports in The Washington Post that when Obama was pressed by reporters on NAFTAgate and Rezkogate at a news conference in San Antonio Monday (the day before the Texas […]

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Henry Waxman, very liberal California congressman whose district includes Beverly Hills, appears alongside the very conservative John Shadegg (who, thankfully, recently reversed his decision to retire from the House) and House Minority Leader John Boehner, on this list of congressmen who have “sworn off pork.”
Although politics does indeed make strange bedfellows, perhaps Waxman, well-known for taking […]

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I don’t know what she was thinking, but (despite the Clinton campaign’s tepid disavowal) I sure know what she said, including: 
“Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible […]

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TIME Magazine has a surprisingly good article by Bob Geldof, called “Geldof and Bush: Diary From the Road.”
On assignment for TIME, the musician and humanitarian escorts the President on a farewell tour of the troubled continent
Pictures too.

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