Politics
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Quote of the Day: David Axelrod
Hillary Clinton's campaign model is a very tired Washington model: 'I'll do these things for you.' Barack's model is 'Let's do these things together.' This has been the premise of Barack's politics all his life, going back to his days as a community organizer. He has really lived and breathed it, which is why it
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Debate Fatigue
I taped it, but I’m not going to bother to watch it. Everything at this point seems anti-climactic. Only interested if something gamechanging happened, and apparently nothing like that did. I watched enough post-debate highlights to have confirmed my basic assumption that Clinton is in an impossible position. Obama flicks away her attacks with humor
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Realignment
I was listening to our local public radio earlier today, and the subject was Nader. Most people calling in were supportive of his candidacy, and angry at the people who criticize him for being an egomaniac. You'll find a similar sentiment expressed here at P.M.Carpenter's blog. One woman called in who voted for Nader in
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Obama the Subsidiarist
Frank Rich's column this morning makes much the same point about Clinton's campaign I made in this post last week: for all her vaunted experience and management expertise, the two most prominent opportunities for Clinton to demonstrate her executive competency were her heading the healthcare task force in her husband's administration and now her running
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Texas Debate
Victory is in the eye of the beholder, but It seemed a clear win in every respect for Obama. Hillary had her moment at the end, but it was not the moment of a winner. It was the moment of a resigned, gracious loser. It followed her taking punches on the "get real/Obama supporters are
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McCain’s Integrity
I don’t think the argument holds that this will unite movement conservatives around McCain as the victim of the liberal media’s old gray lady. This is a terribly damaging story, and it’s hard to believe that there’s not a lot more to it that will be forthcoming. McCain’s adamant denial this morning that there is
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Obama’s Legislative Accomplishments (Updates 1-2)
I thought Chris Matthews was playing gotcha politics last night when he picked on Texas State Senator Kirk Watson demanding that he state what, if any, legislative accomplishments Obama has in the Senate. He didn’t ask the Clinton surrogate to name Hillary’s accomplishments; she might have been equally flummoxed–most people would be. Olberman clearly thought
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Wisconsin (Updates 1-2)
Obama continues to exceed expectations. There was talk over the weekend of a Clinton win or at least closiing the gap to within 5%. It’s looking at this point to be a 12-15 17 point loss. There seems to be a 60/40 pattern locking in here. I don’t know that Obama will take Texas by
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The Horserace This Week
The Clinton campaign is going to go for anything it can to bring Obama down a notch or two, even to the point of its allying itself with McCain’s talking point that insists that Obama work within the public funding campaign restrictions. (See here for a parsing of what Obama actually committed to.) More damaging,
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Getting beyond the Scopes Trial
I don’t know how many readers here were following the discussion about E.J.Dionne’s new book, Souled Out, at the TPM Book Club. I think there were some interesting things said by Dionne and the people invited to respond to his posts and the book itself. What amazed me however was how predominant were the obtuse,