JFK’s love child endorses Barack Obama
by Janette
Not really, but would you be the least bit surprised?
You can read the actual story on JFK’s possible “love child” at the Globe and Mail.
February 11, 2008 No Comments
Twisted logic in an open letter from American Feminists
by Janette
Katha Pollit has written an Open Letter from American Feminists opposing the atrocities being perpetuated against women in the Middle East. I’m glad to see that American feminists are finally at least responding to accusations that they’ve been ignoring the oppression of Muslim women. Too bad that the long overdue response is flawed.
EM Zanotti points out Pollit’s illogical excesses in Twisted Logic.
February 10, 2008 No Comments
Hillary Clinton strong-arming Barack Obama?
by Janette
According to the Telegraph, Hillary Clinton is planning to call on Democratic party leaders to persuade Barack Obama to give up his presidential bid. Hillary is reportedly hopeful that people like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid can persuade Mr Obama to stand down. Fearful of Obama’s momentum and worried that the parties uncommitted superdelegates may not fall her way, the Clinton camp is looking to broker a deal before the Democratic convention.
As interesting as this story is, there’s one paragraph that’s a little shocking.
But the Clinton camp fears that a failure to engineer a deal could lead to bitter battles at the Democrat convention in Denver in late August, which could even end with Al Gore, the former vice president, emerging as a compromise candidate.
Whether that’s inside info gleaned by the article’s authors, or pure speculation, I don’t know. I guess that could be yet another reason why Al Gore hasn’t endorsed anyone as of yet. (Did you know that Al Gore is a superdelegate?)
I think Barack Obama would be nuts to accept the job as Hillary’s vice president. Obama just needs to take one look at Gore’s eight years in that position to Bill Clinton to see what a thankless and frustrating job it would be.
As for Al Gore he’s doing just fine for himself, financially and otherwise, as the world’s global warming guru. He’d probably think that, at this point in his life, the job of President of the United States would be a step down.
UPDATE: According to Dale Franks at QandO, Clinton still holds the lead in the delegate count but only because of the superdelegates.
February 10, 2008 6 Comments
There’s no crying in politics!
by Janette
There’s no crying in politics - unless of course it’s Hillary Clinton anticipating the need of an extra little boost from women voters. Maine’s caucus is tomorrow so, staying true to a formula that works, Clinton turned on the water works today.
Hillary Clinton CryingDemocratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., wipes her eye as she listens to a disabled U.S. veteran in the audience tell his story during a campaign stop at The City of Lewiston Memorial Armory in Lewiston, Maine., Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008.
I gave her the benefit of the doubt the first few times, but now? Seriously?
Professional women don’t have the luxury of breaking down and crying on the job each day.
Either it’s keen political manipulation on Clinton’s part or the woman needs to take a break from the campaign trail.
February 10, 2008 No Comments
No third party run for Ron Paul
by Janette
Ron PaulIt’s a sad day for Ron Paul supporters. Ballot Access News has reprinted a statement from Ron Paul acknowledging that he has no chance of being the Republican nominee and ruling out the possibility of a third party run.
“Let me tell you my thoughts. With Romney gone, the chances of a brokered convention are nearly zero. But that does not affect my determination to fight on, in every caucus and primary remaining, and at the convention for our ideas, with just as many delegates as I can get. But with so many primaries and caucuses now over, we do not now need so big a national campaign staff, and so I am making it leaner and tighter. Of course, I am committed to fighting for our ideas within the Republican party, so there will be no 3rd party run. I do not denigrate third parties—just the opposite, and I have long worked to remove the ballot-access restrictions on them. But I am a Republican, and I will remain a Republican.
Say what you will about Ron Paul, the man makes a good point. Those abandoning the Republican party just because they’re dissatisfied with its current direction are wrongheaded and self defeating. Working for change from within the party will not only make Republicans stronger but the country stronger as well.
February 9, 2008 1 Comment
Fred Thompson endorses John McCain
by Janette
Fred Thompson has called for Republicans to “close ranks” behind John McCain.
“This is no longer about past preferences or differences. It is about what is best for our country and for me that means that Republican should close ranks behind John McCain,” Thompson said in a statement reported by the Associated Press.
See The Trail at the Washington Post for more.
February 8, 2008 3 Comments
David Shuster suspended for Chelsea Clinton remark
by Janette
In case you missed David Shuster’s idiotic comment about Chelsea Clinton being “pimped out”, here’s the video. The Trail at the Washington Post has some new details on Shuster’s response to calls for an apology.
Last night, after Shuster made the remark as the guest host on “Tucker,” Clinton spokesman Phillippe Reines contacted him and said the pimping reference was offensive. Shuster e-mailed back that he was referring to the fact that Chelsea is making calls to convention superdelegates but refusing to talk to the press. Shuster did make that point on the air — after his pimped out comment, which was not delivered as a joke.
Reines was incredulous at the lack of an apology, but Shuster stood his ground.
According to TVNewser Shuster has now been suspended.
You would think that as a media professional Shuster would have more class and common sense than to publicly refer to anyone’s daughter in such a demeaning manor much less the daughter of a former president and sitting senator. What an idiot.
February 8, 2008 No Comments
Cher dated Tom Cruise?
by Janette
Cher told Entertainment Tonight that she and Tom Cruise dated in the 1980s. All together now. “Ewwww!”
Cher and Tom CruiseAlthough Cher found Tom, now 45, “amazing” and truly “loved” him back then, she sure doesn’t feel that way now as she wonders where the Tom she once knew went.
“When we were together he was such a private person. Now it’s hard for me to look at this person and this press. How many times can I watch him jumping up and down on Oprah’s couch?”
Trust me, sweetie, we wonder the exact same thing.
February 8, 2008 No Comments
Barack Obama pie
by Janette
No, really. Do you think I just make this stuff up? It’s a “multi-culti spin” on the apple pie cliche celebrating Obama’s Kenyan and American heritages.
I hate to toot my own horn, but I will say that the filling was so delicious that both me and my husband stood around the pan “sampling” the fish mixture so generously that there was barely anything left for the pie.
Get the recipe for Barack Pie II at The Nest.
Anyone have a recipe for Hillary pie? No? Good, forget I asked.
February 8, 2008 No Comments
seeding the crowd
by Janette
Via Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO, it’s confirmed that yesterday McCain’s people did indeed seed the CPAC crowd with his supporters. In what was expected to be a hostile audience, the McCain people would have been fools not to have packed the place with as many vocal and enthusiastic supporters as they could lay their hands on.
I heard Tom Delay complaining about this yesterday on FOX News. Please. Like that man couldn’t have used some more media savvy advisers in his camp.
February 8, 2008 No Comments