First Thoughts on the Edwards Affair

This guy made his committment to his wife the centerpiece of his campaign and his political identity when he was having an affair.  That fucker. We have a society where any mistake at all is torn wide open and we all watch in bleed on national television.  No wonder no one good wants to run.  [...]

Farewell Edwards

Your run for President had its moments of frustration and triumph, and ultimately, some despair. You’ve dropped out, and left the race without a fully liberal candidate anywhere near the top.  Its no wonder Nader is making noises again. Newsweek has already hit the floor with an awkward and sweaty eulogy.  They use the word [...]

Democrats United: Pre-Existing Conditions

Right now, you can be as hard working as you like. Got a pre-existing condition? Health Care denied. One thing all of the Democrats share in common, from Obama to Clinton to Edwards, is the desire to pass a law outlawing discrimination based on previous conditions. (Edwards is the only candidate to support universal health [...]

Will Edwards Drop Out?

Edwards is the only thunderous progressive left in the race with even a hope of scraping a victory, and it looks like he might drop out.  He’s making brave noises to the contrary, but if he loses badly in SC, how will he gather enough delegates to win?  Where is Edwards leading in the polls?  [...]

The Media’s Soft Censorship of Edwards

Ignoring is a practical way to censor without the messy legal issues, and usually allows one to avoid inviting ethical criticism.  But the media’s censorship of Edwards is unmistakable (The Crone Speaks): The Edwards campaign is coming close to drowning in a media black-out. Greg Sargent has the breakdown and analysis here. Comes now some [...]

Sexual Violence: Candidates and the Media

Dear Presidential Candidates: Why aren’t you talking about rape? (Bob Herbert in the NYTimes via Feministing): The sexual mistreatment of women in the military is widespread. The Defense Department financed a study in 2003 of female veterans seeking health assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Nearly a third of those surveyed said they had [...]

Why Clinton’s NH Win Hurts

SFGate: The homegrown, Granite State feel of the Clinton organization mimicked that of Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 win here. And we all remember how well that worked out. There are a host of reasons why people oppose Hillary. Some are pigs who can’t stand the idea of a woman in power. Some are Republicans with [...]

Ending the Health Care Debate

Countries that implement socialized health care are able to prevent deaths we are not.  How many?  Approximately 101 thousand a year.  Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on [...]

The Iowa Primary Reader

Kos sums it all up perfectly with a post titled The Triumph of our Democratic Field: Ezra: Barack Obama won tonight, but, in a sense, John Edwards’ campaign also triumphed. The progressivism of the race, the focus on ideas, the courage of the Democrats — all were products of his early example. He began the [...]

Iowa ROCKS!

I’m so excited right now!  I’ll right more later, and link to some muy excellente posts, but hot damn, thank you IOWA! Obama took first with an authoritative 31 percent.  Edwards came in a respectable second at 27.  And Clinton trailed at 24. On the Republicans side, Huckabee took first (also with 31 percent, weird [...]

HuffPo Misses the Point on Edwards

In discussing the 527 group “controversy”, Sam Stein of the Huffington post writes: In 2004, ironically, Edwards was on the opposite side of the 527 debate, criticizing President Bush for not personally stopping Swift Boat Veterans for Truth from attacking John Kerry’s Vietnam service. “There’s one person, one person who can put an end to [...]

Obama’s Big 527 Mistake

Barack Obama is criticizing Edward’s connection with a 527 group that plans to run an ad in his favor (ABC Political Radar, via The Huffington Post).  That in itself is a pretty normal move to make during a campaign season.  The problem is in Obama’s own attitude towards 527 groups: Obama would not definitively answer [...]

Fox Really Doesn’t Want Edwards or Obama

They are scared to death of any Democratic candidate other than Hillary Lieberman Clinton being the nominee (via Tom Tomorrow):

Darfur and the Candidates

The invisible genocide hasn’t made inroads into the 2008 election for most “major” candidates.  For those who have, you have the sane few who have stated policy on Darfur like Bill Richardson and John Edwards.  Then you have those on the insane side who think we can safely ignore the Darfur conflict because its just [...]

The Candidates and Blackwater

Overcompensating: Who needs an Army when you can have a private, civilian security company with a license to kill that charges a lot of (beer) money and isn’t actually accountable to anybody? Not the United States of America, that’s for sure! Wait… Where does your candidate for 2008 stand on mercenaries? Mine stands against them [...]