U2isthebest
ONE love, blood, life
oh, look, Terry McAuliffe is hyperventilating on MSNBC.
I hope he brought enough Bacardi for everyone this time! His delusions would be adorable if he didn't scare me so much.
oh, look, Terry McAuliffe is hyperventilating on MSNBC.
That was a good line.The Twin Cities line was classic.
He better be as good or better than HRC or some people may openly question his selection, instead of her, for VP.Now, I'm really looking forward to Bill's speech tomorrow night, along with Joe Biden's.
Joe Biden better be as good or better than HRC or some people may openly question his selection, instead of her, for VP.
There's a term occasionally used in political science, 'electoral nepotism' (not just with reference to the US), that might be more applicable here--and you're right, nepotism properly speaking does refer to appointed offices. 'Electoral nepotism' entails a diagnosis that it's become prohibitively difficult for 'outsiders' to successfully campaign for office at some or all levels of the polity in question, due to an inability to match the resources supplied by the support and fundraising networks available to candidates from established political families. (Sometimes 'dynasty' is also used to describe this--though that too is technically wrong, as dynasty properly refers to direct, uninterrupted 'inheritance' of some specific office). It's not per se an accusation that a given officeholder from an established political family is corrupt, or hasn't performed to the standards of the job; it means that there's a systematic pattern of such officeholders having enjoyed quantifiable campaign advantages that their competitors couldn't possibly match.Nepotism is when someone is appointed or given a job because of friendship or family relationships.
If you are going to list people that use a family members name to help them get elected as an excuse to complain.
Than you should put Edward Kennedy and the whole Kennedy clan way ahead of Hillary for taking advantage of a family member's name.
I must say, as a Republican, this convention is going wonderfully for us, for a number of reasons.
1) I just read an article on Drudge saying how some Clinton supporters are saying her speech didn't heal the wounds. And I just saw that 30% of Hillary supporters are going to vote for McCain or stay home. Thirty percent. That is unbelievable. That is a game changer, easy.
I don't know if you've noticed lately, Bill has lost some favor lately, I think one of the reasons Hillary lost. I don't think this is a big deal at all, in fact if anything it's good for Obama, it says it's no longer the Clintons's party.2) Plus, I just read that Bill won't be attending Obama's speech on Thursday. That will be a step backwards in uniting the party. And yesterday, he said this:
"Suppose for example you’re a voter and you have candidate X and you have candidate Y,” Clinton said. “Candidate X agrees with you on everything but you don’t think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues but you believe that on the other half, the candidate will be able to deliver."
Big bounces are rare from VP picks, normally within the margin of error percentages.3) Obama got NO bounce from his VP pick. None. If anything, he lost ground. Gallup had Obama up last week, then on Monday it was tied, and yesterday McCain was up by 2. Rasmussen also has McCain up by one today. Even CNN has them dead even.
I find it interesting that the right is pouncing on this, is it so hard for some of you to understand? Plus did you see Kucinich's speech?4) I've heard very little mention of Bush or McCain so far. That could change tonight and tomorrow, but I expected every other word coming out of their mouths to be "Bush." They have done very little attacking so far, as James Carville pointed out earlier.
5) I think the polls start to matter slightly right about now, and right now they're extremely close. The RCP average has Obama up by only 1.6, and like I said, multiple polls have come out the past couple days with McCain ahead. Do convention bounces only come after the convention, not during? Shouldn't we be seeing, in the middle of the convention, at least a slight widening of the gap for Obama? With McCain's VP pick coming Friday and their convention next week, Obama needs to be up by at least half a dozen points on Friday or Monday or else they should be very worried.
HPo
Round 3 of MSNBC infighting came Tuesday night during coverage anchored by Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann. After Joe Scarborough squabbled with Olbermann and Matthews — and then with David Shuster — this time it was the two anchors who revealed the tension within the MSNBC camp.
Discussing Hillary Clinton's upcoming speech, Matthews began talking about women 's reactions to Hillary. His producers, likely wary of any more cries of sexism against the host and the network, presumably tried to get him to wrap, as he said, "I'll wrap in a second, I'll wrap in a second."
Olbermann then tried to attribute Matthews' point about women voters to Rachel Maddow, to which Matthews said, "Good ideas can be shared."
Then, when introducing Steny Hoyer, Olbermann mocked Matthews for "[going] off at the mouth" and made a hand gesture implying that Matthews talked forever.
"You make that sound, Keith," Matthews said. "I can do the same to you. That's what I thought. And I said it."
In other MSNBC-related tension, Page Six reports that Keith Olbermann is trying to ban Tom Brokaw from the network over claims he's made about the fine line Olbermann and Matthews walk as anchor-commentators:
Insiders say Olbermann is pushing to have Brokaw banned from the network and is also refusing to have centrist Time magazine columnist Mike Murphy on his show.
"The idea of anyone trying to ban Tom Brokaw is ludicrous," said one MSNBC-er. Brokaw was on MSNBC for an hour yesterday afternoon. Murphy, who was bumped from Olbermann's show on Monday night, told us, "They told me technical problems and I have no reason not to believe them."
YouTube - Matthews
1) I just read an article on Drudge saying how some Clinton supporters are saying her speech didn't heal the wounds. And I just saw that 30% of Hillary supporters are going to vote for McCain or stay home. Thirty percent. That is unbelievable. That is a game changer, easy.
That network is imploding. Their ratings are abysmal. Nobody over there likes Olbermann, except maybe Maddow and the few select people ever on his show, yet he's running the whole thing, and can hire and fire people as he pleases.
When Maddow was 19, two years after she came out of the closet, she watched with horror as Pat Buchanan took the podium at the 1992 Republican convention and called for a culture war against such liberal notions as "homosexual rights."
"I felt my country was declaring war on me," she says.
On Monday night, seated on a makeshift stage overlooking Denver's train station, Maddow recalled that experience on the air, turning to her left -- where Buchanan, her fellow MSNBC analyst, sat.
I love Rachel Maddow, I think she is a rare shining star.
Pat Buchanan isn't good enough to hold her shit in a shovel, much less sit next to her.
I love Rachel Maddow, I think she is a rare shining star.
Pat Buchanan isn't good enough to hold her shit in a shovel, much less sit next to her.
Most of the polling I've seen on that topic puts it around 20%. That works out to about 2.6% of the electorate--not enough to swing anything unless they were all concentrated in one or two swing states, which they aren't.How did they possibly come up with the 30% number?
He's always reminded me a bit of Sharpton in this way--one moment you see him ranting wildly and think "OK that does it, I'm permanently writing this guy off as terminally, dangerously out of touch with reality," then six months later you see him on some debating panel and think, "Damn, he's the only one here who's actually offering an internally coherent, logical argument."i remember that speech. it was terrifying. absolutely terrifying.
who knew that, 16 years later, i'd come to actually kind of enjoy good old Pat in all of his paranoid nativism. at least he's consistent.
Even though I was only 4, I actually remember my mom and dad watching the Democratic Convention, the Clinton inauguration and all that
Does anyone know what time President Clinton is speaking tonight? I know Joe Biden will likely have the same time slot as Hillary and Michelle Obama did.
Jaysus do you have to post things like that?
I want you banned for that
Not sure but it will probably be at/around 9 ET, since Biden must be at/around/ after 10
If it makes you feel any better, I started feeling really old the other night when my friends and I were talking about how we've been out of high school for 2 years.