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Something to Do

Summer is almost here. Summer of 2008. While we do not yet have a nominee for certain, I think we can say with a high degree of confidence that Senator Obama achieving a majority of the overall pledged delegates in Kentucky last Tuesday will prove to be, ultimately, what secured him the nomination of the Democratic Party in 2008. This was, and always has been, as both candidates and their surrogates agreed at the outset, a contest for pledged delegates. The thousands of you who played a role in that achievement, that majority, deserve a massive round of appreciation and praise. Now's when the hard part begins... :: Some of us were here on the internets blogging in 2003 and 2004. (Many more were readers and have since joined the discussion.) Those were different times. To be a Democrat in 2003 was to have watched in successive election years (2000 and 2002) our party lose ground despite the hard work of so many good people with solid values and amazing ideas. 2004, we felt, was goi

Bush / McCain, McCain / Bush, Bush McSame

Brilliant stuff from Josh Marshall and TPM:

Don't miss NC coverage tonight from Pam

of Pam's House Blend .

Is it just me...

Is it just me, or has the Washington Post online had something, or, uh, two or three or four things, up on their front page about Reverend Wright non-stop for ten days? Today's WaPo Wright headline courtesy of Dan Balz . (And Richard Cohen has to get a parting shot in today, as well.) :: I read the WaPo Front Page twice a day and their obsession with Wright has been over the top.

the Judgment of Howard

I wrote months ago comparing the current demographic situation in the Democratic Party to the Judgment of Solomon where two women go before the King each claiming to be the true mother of a child and the King suggests cutting the child in half and each mother taking part. The true mother relents and cedes out of love and maternal passion for her infant, and the King, satisfied he has found the true mother, orders the infant given to her whole. Of course,we are in just such a situation now, if you'll forgive the literary metaphor. These polls spell that out on some level. The true mother has been apparent since Iowa. One wise commenter in that thread on dailykos, however, made an interesting point about the actual historical moral of that tale. As well as being about maternal love, the Judgment of Solomon is a story about how Solomon unified Israel by bringing a sword at a crucial moment, forcing a decision about Israel's future and his own leadership. Who loves the par

Moyers: "Beware the Terrible Simplifiers"

May 2, 2008 BILL MOYERS:Welcome to the Journal. I once asked a reporter back from Vietnam, "Who's telling the truth over there?" Everyone he said. Everyone sees what's happening through the lens of their own experience." That's how people see Jeremiah Wright. In my conversation with him on this broadcast a week ago and in his dramatic public appearances since, he revealed himself to be far more complex than the sound bites that propelled him onto the public stage. Over 2000 of you have written me about him, and your opinions vary widely. Some sting: "Jeremiah Wright is nothing more than a race-hustling, American hating radical," one viewer wrote. A "nut case," said another. Others were far more were sympathetic to him. Many of you have asked for some rational explanation for Wright's transition from reasonable conversation to shocking anger at the National Press Club. A psychologist might pull back some of the layers and see this c

The Gas Tax Gimmick is not a "Real Solution"

This is a great comment from a North Carolinian on Jake Tapper's blog (which now let's me post again): So all of the folks saying they want a short term solution... What do you do at the end of the summer when the 18 cents a gallon comes back PLUS the regular increased price of gas? You lose more money when the gov't and the oil companies try to make up the difference. Does anyone remember the "short term" increase in the price of gas following Katrina? Gas jumped 50 cents to a dollar nationwide and hasn't headed south since. Why do we want to give the folks that control gasoline an excuse to crush us come Labor Day? Besides, why does anyone think the same gov't that has put us in this situation would get this tax break passed by Labor Day, anyway? I for one am not looking for a Band-aid, I want a real solution. I thought Hillary was the candidate with real solutions. That's exactly right. Clinton claims she's for real solutions ye