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Why Hillary 2008 is like George W. Bush 2000
On WashingtonPost.com, Chris Cillizza reports that the Clinton campaign is denying an AP story stating that Hillary will concede tonight. More importantly, though, notice how Cillizza describes her rationale for continuing: The Clinton campaign, in fact, released a statement insisting that the Associated Press story that fueled this maelstrom was not correct; “Senator Clinton will
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Clark Hoyt on the Luttwak op-ed
New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt, who has already outshone his ineffectual predecessor, devoted his entire column Sunday to debunking a controversial Edward Luttwak op-ed published in the Times several weeks ago (via Matthew Yglesias): ON May 12, The Times published an Op-Ed article by Edward N. Luttwak, a military historian, who argued that
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Impeaching Bush for being unpopular?
Brad DeLong, who frequently cites reasons he believes George W. Bush should be impeached on his weblog, has now called for Bush to be impeached because he is unpopular: For a president to be so unpopular that congressman who represent highly rural parts of the prarie would rather spend time with their families than go
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Scott McClellan: Late to the party
I don’t have much to say about Scott McClellan’s new book except to note the close similarities between the analysis of the selling of the war in Iraq in my favorite book on the subject and his description of it — in particular, the shared emphasis on (1) an elaborately planned PR campaign and (2)
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How to think like Maureen Dowd
On the May 25 edition of Meet the Press, Tim Russert asked Maureen Dowd about the contrast between a sharp exchange between Barack Obama and John McCain and a less cutting joke he told about Obama at a different event. Dowd’s answer, which again demonstrates her amazing ability to read minds, is revealing of the
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Protecting the Clinton brand at all costs
Todd Purdum’s long inquiry into the various questionable aspects of Bill Clinton’s post-presidency in Vanity Fair shows how wrong Hillary Clinton is to claim that she (unlike Barack Obama) had been “vetted.” But to me, the most outrageous part of the article is this response to Purdum from Clinton spokesman Jay Carson, who suggests Democrats
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Joe Klein reads Hillary’s mind
Bob Somerby flags some absurd mind-reading by Time’s Joe Klein, who claims to know that Hillary Clinton’s two innocuous references to RFK’s 1968 assassination mean “that Obama’s vulnerability to racist nutjobs has been in her mind for months now”: I take all of Karen’s points below—and the fact that Hillary Clinton mentioned Bobby Kennedy’s assassination
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Do divided parties matter?
Paul Krugman is worried that divisions within the Democratic Party will cost it the presidency in an otherwise favorable year: Here’s the point: the nightmare Mr. Obama and his supporters should fear is that in an election year in which everything favors the Democrats, he will nonetheless manage to lose. He needs to do everything
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Hillary’s bogus 1968 and 1992 comparisons
The firestorm over Hillary Clinton’s mention of the RFK’s assassination seems overblown to me — I don’t see any reason to believe she was bringing it up to suggest that Barack Obama would be assassinated. The problem is the misleading comparisons she was making to 1968 and especially 1992, which were debunked in the New
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NYT repeats phony Obama quote
The New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller repeats the myth that Barack Obama said Hillary Clinton was pretending to hunt ducks with a revolver in a Week in Review article today: Mrs. Clinton and Mr. McCain have both derided Mr. Obama as “elitist” for his remarks about bitter rural voters who “cling” to guns and