Who do these people think they’re talking to?

I got this picture from Corrente in one of Lambert’s posts.  It’s a picture of the inside of Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago.  If you’ve ever wondered why so many of his fanboys sound like young guys who don’t have families or responsibilities, well, here’s your answer: Do you see any women in that picture? [...]

Wednesday: Ponderables

So, the results are in for the Arkansas and Kentucky primaries and there’s reason to be concerned for the Democratic party: With 61 percent of precincts reporting in Arkansas, Obama took 60 percent to 40 percent for Wolfe. In Kentucky, with nearly all precincts reporting, 42.1 percent of Democratic primary voters opted for “uncommitted” rather [...]

Speechless

I was headed out to the library but I bopped over to Digby’s to see if she’d posted.    She hadn’t but the next young clueless pundit-in-waiting-for-a-paying-gig male who stalks her site had.  I don’t know how you felt about your tax return ordeal yesterday but I was shocked by how much I had paid [...]

Obama’s “post-racial” presidential campaign starting early

Corrente has the links to James Clyburn’s accusation that criticism of Obama’s performance is driven by racism.  Actually, he’s saying something completely different.  He’s saying that the president’s problems are due to his skin color.  I assume he is referring to the question about Obama’s future electoral prospects.  You be the judge: QUESTION: What do you [...]

Weak tea

I was reading this article by Dave Weigel at Slate and I realized that “What the fuck?” month is still going on. It starts with this: We sit down and we’re given the full details for the conference: “Fractures, Alliances, and Mobilizations: Emerging Analyses of the Tea Party Movement.” It’s the first event of its [...]

Dirty pool

From the Kansas City Star: Three months ago in Kansas City, the NAACP first raised charges of racism within the tea party movement. Today a report is being released accusing tea party groups of providing platforms to anti-Semites and other bigots. “These groups and individuals are out there, and we ignore them at our own [...]

Friday Late Morning News and Views

Hello Conflucians!!! TGIF!! I’ve got a potpourri of articles this morning with no overarching theme. I supposed Elena Kagan’s confirmation is the big story today, but I really can’t get too excited about it. She seems to me to be such a mediocre choice. The Politico says that the vote totals were a shot across [...]

First!

No, you are not in an Eschaton comment thread. What first means is that The Confluence was the first blog, formed by Democrats (now mostly Independent Liberals), who saw what was going on in the Democratic party in 2008.  By January 2008, we saw that the party was actively engaged in deep sixing one candidate [...]

“A nation of cowards?” I don’t buy it.

I came across this brief opinion piece last night, and I’m still annoyed by it: “A Nation of Cowards.” by Jamelle Bouie. It’s about the race-related events of the past couple of weeks. Bouie begins with this: I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that we’ve seen a steady drumbeat of racial “incidents” over [...]

Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!!! It’s an iced coffee-type of day here in the Boston area. Boy, this hot weather just won’t quit. We had a couple of days break awhile back and other than that it’s been hot and humid here. The big news right now is that something is seeping from the ocean floor around [...]