What a Saturday! Watching the Democratic Party's handling of the Florida and Michigan primary votes, I found myself admiring Ione Herman, a hated enemy in the Clinton years. She was sad-faced but uncompromisingly open-minded and fair. Then Barack Obama delivered the most brilliant speech of this political season. Then came Harold Ickes, showing his deep hatreds. This election is not about Iraq, oil, the economy, or the environment. It's about character. On that basis, Senator McCain has no opposition.
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- Charles F. Huber II
- Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States
- Charlie is seventy-eight years old, a securities analyst and pioneer "supply-sider." He engineered numerous mergers and acquisitions in the 1980s and 1990s, lectured on capitalism throughout the former Soviet Union, has been an active participant in GOPAC for 20 years and is an avid jazz enthusiast. As writer, he has been a speech writer for the Krieble Institute and his work has been published by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Greenwich Time, and the Princeton Review. He is a graduate of Princeton University and lives in Bloomfield, Connecticut.
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I just wanted to share this really neat map I just found on FoxNews, it shows the projected 2008 Battlegrounds, here's the link: 2008 Battlegrounds on FoxNews
The joke that should have sunk McCain and all about his character.
"Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly?" he told big Republican funders. "Because Janet Reno is her father."
The remark packed into its 15 words several layers of misogyny. It disparaged the looks of Chelsea, then 18 and barely out of high school; it portrayed Reno as a man at a time when she was serving as the first female US attorney general; and it implied that Hillary Clinton was engaged in a lesbian affair while the Monica Lewinsky scandal was blazing. Not bad going, Senator McCain.
Any one of those elements would seem potentially terminal for a public figure. Yet here he is 10 years later presenting himself as a champion of feminism by appointing Sarah Palin as his running mate.
The puzzle is explained partly by the US press, which barely reported the story. The Washington Post broke it in June 1998 but declined to relate the joke on the grounds it was "too vile to repeat". Such coyness has long been ingrained in the US media, which has an annoying tendency to regard its readers as wayward children in need of moral protection. That's one important reason, incidentally, that blogs are doing so well in the US - they have no such scruples and behave in ways more akin to the British than the mainstream American media.
Think of presidential candidate John Edwards' affair and alleged love child. The refusal of most newspapers to touch the story was ridiculed in the blogosphere for weeks before Edwards himself "legitimised" it by confessing.
After his misogynist joke, McCain said sorry to Bill Clinton (though he made no direct apology to the three women involved) and the incident was all but forgotten. Should he win on November 4, his friends in the press might have some answering to do.
Character...No opposition...Hmm... When did it become acceptable to cheat on your wife.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-divorce11-2008jul11,0,2177702.story
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