And now it begins. Clinton vs. Obama. The attacks have started: Further proving that the Democratic presidential candidates are already pulling out their swords — even over the most minor of matters — the Clinton campaign is up in arms over comments that Hollywood mogul and Obama supporter David Geffen made to the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd. In a … Read More
The MySpace Election
Which ’08 President candidate has the most friends on their MySpace page? According to this, it’s Obama: Democrats – # of friendsObama – 43003Clinton – 23428Edwards – 11593Vilsack – 1347Kucinich – 1078Richardson – 661Biden – 510Dodd – 172 Republicans – # of friendsPaul – 2501Romney – 1373McCain – 1356Tancredo – 1051Giuliani – 637Huckabee – 385Brownback – 166 I don’t think … Read More
John Edwards Establishes Campaign Headquarters In Second Life
Pictured above: Several people, including what appears to be a sailor, stand around the outside of the John Edwards Election headquarters in Second Life. Keep in mind, people, you can only vote for him in the real world.
My Political Future
I should go home to Concord, NH and run for political office as the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. Hell, everybody else there is.
Al Franken Running
As predicited, former Saturday Night Live writer/performer, actor ("Stuart Smiley"), and liberal talk show host Al Franken is running for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota. Good chance of winning, too. And why? Because he’s good enough, he’s smart enough, and doggone it — people like him.
L’Affaire Marcotte: Shakes Is Out, Too
Her announcement: I regret to say that I have also resigned from the Edwards campaign. In spite of what was widely reported, I was not hired as a blogger, but a part-time technical advisor, which is the role I am vacating. I would like to make very clear that the campaign did not push me out, nor was my resignation … Read More
Amanda Marcotte Resigns [UPDATE: Jesus Lovers Show Their Love]
If you’ve been following this story on this blog, this is the latest: Amanda Marcotte has resigned from the Edwards campaign. She explains why here: I was hired by the Edwards campaign for the skills and talents I bring to the table, and my willingness to work hard for what’s right. Unfortunately, Bill Donohue and his calvacade of right wing … Read More
“The Hoohaa Monologues”?
Are you kidding me? The whole point of the play is to demystify, confront, and embrace the concept of the vagina as a natural, healthy human organ. You defeat the purpose when you censor the damn play: A modified marquee in Atlantic Beach has been drawing some attention. "Hoohaa" replaced a word in the title of a play after a … Read More
All Right, John. We Need To Talk
The Edwards/Blogrrrls "scandal" continues today. I really loathe blogger inside-pool (where bloggers criticize bloggers about blogging about blogging, blah, blah, blah), but this has jumped to the mainstream media and become, for reason beyond my comprehension, a genuine campaign issue and a watershed moment for a leading presidential candidate. The best, sanest take I’ve read is here: John Edwards? Get … Read More
The Marcotte Brou-ha-ha
Last week, I noted in passing that the Edwards campaign had tapped Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon to assist in his presidential campaign, as his "Blogmaster" in charge of internet outreach. He also hired Melissa McEwen of Shakespeare’s Sister for the same purpose. I’m an avid reader of both blogs, and have corresponded with Ms. McEwen a few times. Both writers … Read More
Rudy’s Running For Prez
Somewhere I have a picture of me chatting with Rudy Guiliani at some private office party. It was taken in the late 80’s, when he was the D.A. in Manhattan, and I was working for the "other side" (criminal defense). He was pals with my former boss. Wish I knew where that was.
Amanda Marcotte Joins Edwards Team
Greenwald comments: In an obviously growing trend of political campaigns hiring bloggers, Pandagon’s Amanda Marcotte has been hired by the John Edwards presidential campaign. That is part of a larger trend whereby the blogosphere is slowly ceasing to be its own closed, separate system and is instead seeping into, even merging with, all of the more traditional political and journalistic … Read More
Kerry Not To Run In ’08
Good news, I’d say. He can’t win (he had his shot), and he would just muddy the already-overopulated waters.
CNN Does What News Organizations Are Supposed To Do
CNN decided to investigate the facts of a story, rather than report rumor as fact. Good for them. While Fox News and The Washington Times peddled the story that Barack Obama went to a “madrassa” when he was six years old, CNN actually went to the madrassa and discovered that it is not some school where they teach students to … Read More
Anatomy Of A Smear
The Washington Post has a nice story about the latest Obama smear. It’s about a "story" (that Obama went to a radical Muslim school and is, hence, a radical Muslim) that leapt from spam e-mail to a conservative magazine to the mainstream media — despite having anonymous sources, and devoid of actual fact. The silly season has started.