Obama seems to have entered a new political lifetime. Certainly opposition among Hillary supporters is hardening against him. The Left Coaster articulated the Clinton Rules and the Obama Rules. At Daily Kos, the Clinton diarists finally had enough and announced a boycott. Yes, as Lord Kos said, it's a big internet.
You can see them all right here.
You've hardly heard a word about it in the media, I know, but on the night before events rather dire to Obama, she most certainly did.
First, I most definitely did NOT like this story about a woman who stayed on a toilet for so long (two years) that her skin grew around it, her legs atrophied, and she had to have surgery.
While I did like Sean Wilentz's piece in The New Republic (written in response to that awful NYT op-ed), I did not like reading about the tactics used by Obama's campaign and I did not like hearing any Dem accuse others of race-baiting, even when the shoe is on the other foot.
I did not like Keith Olbermann's nakedly partisan and unfair comments on Hillary and her campaign.
I did not like the implications of some of Obama's 2006 earmarks or the fact that he is calling for Clinton to disclose all of hers at the same time he is refusing to disclose his earmarks during the period he was in the Illinois legislature. Meet the New Politics, just like the Old Politics!
I did not like TPM's Josh Marshall blaming Hillary Clinton---I forget through what twists of logic---for the revelations about Obama's angry minister.
To see the whole set of things I did not like, you can just click here.
There was quite a lot today that I didn't like. I don't like the ever more vicious feeding anti-Hillary feeding frenzy in the media and on the blogosphere, and I'm very grateful for Obama supporter Kevin Drum for calling them out.
Meanwhile, Paul Krugman commented something I don't like: the ever-decreasing sanity of the progressive wing of the Democratic party.
At Salon, Camille Paglia unleashed some Hillary hate---to the pleasure of Ann Althouse, be it said (didn't like), to which the good people of Sadly, No! and certain other blogs responded with admirable style (did like). (Why is she still writing for Salon? Why?)
Ferraro stepped down (did like), but her doing so was accompanied by further ridiculous accusations of 'racism' among their fellow Dems (did NOT like); once again, Kevin Drum spoke up on behalf of balance, proportion, and sanity (did like).
Satirist Jon Swift suggested a way that just-resigned New York governor Eliot Spitzer could turn the politics of identity to his advantage (did like).
Conservative bloggers mutter among themselves that Obama didn't ever fully state the full amount of contributions he received from Rezko, even when freely owning up to a 'boneheaded' decision. Hmmm.
Lefty bloggers line up the evidence that the Spitzer sting was motivated by politics and at Mercury Rising, Phoenix Woman points out that Vitter and Craig haven't yet resigned.... Meanwhile, Dr. Laura Schlessinger thinks that if Spitzer had to turn to prostitutes, his wife must not have been making him feel like a man. But who wants to make her husband feel like that sort of man, I wonder?
All ventings available for your perusal at "I Don't Like You Either" (of course, not YOU); more reasoned and researched discussion at BUCK NAKED POLITICS (click on the link in the left-hand sidebar).
Not a lot, maybe. Anyway, I changed Versus/Reversus to "I Don't Like You Either." And no, of course I don't mean you. I mostly mean them.
More designs added: Springtime Remembered (c. 1977); Mobile Rainbow; and Dove & Palm Cross (in honor of Easter). See them here.
The list is way longer, actually, but here are four things I wrote about: a crybaby Dem who ran off bawling because he decided that Hillary Clinton is really very mean; the Wall Street Journal's disturbing hints about the scope of the NSA's domestic spying; the hypocrisy of Eliot Spitzer but also the probable politicization of the processes that brought him down; and the worrying inconsistencies in Obama's NAFTA-gate statements. I had more to say, and more coherently, in my official blog, Buck Naked Politics, but you can read my ventings in "I Don't Like You Either." (NOT....you---them).
Obama won Wyoming, as expected----scoring yet another victory in a state that will almost certainly vote Republican in the general, 'winner-take-all' electoral college..
Michael Barone commented on the state of play between the Dems. And...hey!...he called Obama a 'demagogue' (or as good as)! Why did the lightning not strike him down on the spot?
I have all sorts of reasons for not wanting Obama as the presidential candidate, even though I think he'd be fine in the second chair; in fact, I'd love it. But because I prefer Hillary, the endless and unfair Hillary-bashing by her fellow Democrats has been making me angrier and angrier---so I was glad that she finally started to fight back.
I am bemused by the spectacle of Obama's supporters pissing and moaning and whingeing now that she's finally fighting back against the nasty right-wing-style innuendoes being circulated by loyal O-bots. Do they really believe he's a saint? Yes, they really believe he's a saint.
So anyway: Gary Hart disses Hillary; Samantha Power calls her a 'monster'; and Obama's intelligence adviser advises the public that he really doesn't agree with Obama on telecom immunity. (How does Obama pass for a liberal, much less for a progressive? He's practically a Republican.)
Meanwhile, 42% of those polled would rather have John McCain answer the red phone at 3 am---as if he wouldn't yell about having to get out of bed past his bedtime----and Sadly, No! points out the stupidity of being overly attached to either Obama or Hillary. All here at Versus/Reversus.
