Margolis Considers Joining Obama Campaign
Jim Margolis, a well-regarded Democratic media consultant, is in talks with the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama about playing a formal role, according to three Democratic sources familiar with the discussions.
Margolis has been a 2008 free agent since former Democratic Virginia Gov. Mark Warner dropped out of the presidential race last fall. Margolis was the lead media consultant for Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry during the 2004 primaries but left the campaign in April 2004. He is a close adviser to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and currently is a partner with GMMB, a political consulting firm.
If Margolis officially signs on with Obama, he would join David Axelrod on the media team. Axelrod has been with Obama since his 2004 race for the Senate. David Plouffe, who is a partner in Axelrod's firm, is Obama's campaign manager.
Highlighting the close-knit nature of the consulting community, Margolis used to work with Mandy Grunwald, the lead media consultant for Democratic presidential aspirant Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York., at Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, Grunwald & Associates.
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Posted by: Mecca B Agosta | March 20, 2007 5:49 AM
US President Tim Kalemkarian, US Senate Tim Kalemkarian, US House Tim Kalemkarian: best major candidate.
Posted by: anonymous | March 17, 2007 12:04 AM
Kucinich is pretty good on the issue too why don't you give him money too? Oh right he's not hot I forgot.
Posted by: mountain man | March 6, 2007 8:10 PM
Sue if you don't think Obama can win the general why on earth would you give him money and possibly sink the dems 08 chances?
Posted by: mountain man | March 6, 2007 8:09 PM
And now we're hearing that there are problems in VA facilities across the country, something that came up in Bob Woodruff's ABC special last week. FEMA was run by Brownie, who came from the Arabian Horse association. The VA is run by Jim Nicholoson, a former Republican Party chairman. It's all reminiscent of the less-than-qualified conservative loyalists who helped staff the CPA after the Iraq invasion.
"For all its cries of 'support the troops,' the Bush administration has treated veterans' medical care the same way it treats everything else: nickel-and-diming the needy, protecting the incompetent and privatizing everything it can. What makes this a particular shame is that in the Clinton years, veterans' health care -- like the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- became a shining example of how good leadership can revitalize a troubled government program."
Posted by: 3rd world cronyism and privatization | March 6, 2007 9:12 AM
IS TODAY'S 'CONSERVATISM' BASED ON ANYTHING BUT HATRED?
'Today, David Keene, president of the American Conservative Union, which co-sponsors CPAC, issued a statement which not only refused to condemn Coulter's specific statement, but more important, say whether she will be disinvited from next year's event. "ACU and CPAC leave it to our audience to determine whether comments are appropriate or not," the statement says.
Also tonight on Fox News, Michelle Malkin, who has condemned Coulter's remarks, acknowledged her positive role in the movement: "She is very popular among conservatives. I have been a longtime admirer of much of her work. She has done yeoman's work for conservatism."
if by 'conservatism' you mean advocating the murder of judges and other government officials. If by 'conservatism' you mean slurs and insults and attacks and vicious lies. If by 'conservatism' you mean bigotry and racism, yeah, sure.
Posted by: THEY LOVE TO HATE | March 6, 2007 9:00 AM
you will turn blue, judge...
tsk, tsk. more republican corruption what a surprise!
'Meanwhile, the papers mention that the Justice Department officials who oversees federal prosecutors announced his resignation. Michael A. Battle said this was not related to the firings, although many aren't so sure.
McClatchy says the chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty contacted one of the fired U.S. attorneys and said that if any of the prosecutors who were dismissed continued to criticize the administration for its decision, previously undisclosed details of why they were fired would be released. The message was passed on to other fired U.S. attorneys, and at least one of them interpreted the comments as a threat. The Justice Department denies the call ever took place.
In an interview with the WSJ, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez defended the firings but admitted the Justice Department could have handled the situation "more smoothly." Gonzalez denied the U.S. attorneys were fired because they failed to carry out certain prosecutions.
And if that's not enough, the NYT fronts the former U.S. attorney in Maryland saying that he was forced out of his position in 2005 because of political pressure. Thomas M. DiBagio says his office received lots of pressure not to pursue an investigation involving associates of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., a Republican.'
Posted by: drindl | March 6, 2007 8:44 AM
'The WP fronts news that Rep. Heather A. Wilson, R-N.M., admitted that she was the other lawmaker who contacted fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias. '
Hey CC, I told you so... you ought to try to keep up with the news a little better. If I can do it....
Posted by: drindl | March 6, 2007 8:42 AM
More nails in Mitt Romney's coffin:
"By JENNIFER DOBNER and GLEN JOHNSON
The Associated Press
Saturday, February 24, 2007; 9:25 PM
SALT LAKE CITY -- While Mitt Romney condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his Mormon church, the Republican presidential candidate's great-grandfather had five wives and at least one of his great-great grandfathers had 12."
I can see Faux News hyperventilating over that one. Mitt Romney, a product of polygamy!!!!! Of course, that depends on whether they can stop trying to smear the D candidate long enough to report on any gross excesses of the R candidate. I won't hold my breath.
Posted by: Judge C. Crater | March 6, 2007 8:41 AM
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Who's the insider favorite for the Republican nomination? The answer may come as a surprise.
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Republican National Committee members to find out their preference for their party's 2008 presidential nomination.
Their top pick? Mitt Romney -- former governor of the bluest state in the country, Massachusetts. Twenty percent of RNC members polled said he was their top pick. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani came in second with 14 percent and Sen. John McCain of Arizona came in third with 10 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was fourth with 8 percent.
The Times interviewed 133 of the 165 RNC members between February 13 to 26.
Romney tried to woo conservatives last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference, telling delegates "coming from Massachusetts, I saw the liberal future first hand, and it doesn't work."
Oh lordy, lordy, he's rich. 'it doesn't work'... really? How does it not 'work'? Didn't you help create it? Weren't you governor?
Run, mitt, run. You have all the credibility of a deathbed conversion, which is to say, none. What an embarrassment CPAC was -- what an insult to the intelligence of America. A bunch of braying morons.
Posted by: Lara | March 6, 2007 8:18 AM
What I was pointing out to you, King, not that you Bush cultists can ever comprehend nuance, is the stupidity of using dumb phrases like cut and run.
You Busheviks feel brave to use them if you think they'll work against Dems...they did for a while but Nov. 6 proved you've lost your mojo.
Yet clowns like Cheney try to sell us that the Brits aren't cutting and running. They try more Mission Accomplished abracadabra and say the Brits can leave, because they were successful.
You KoolAid drinkers want to us swallow that one, want us to check our reason at the door because you have (misery loves company), and forget to ask why we don't ask the Brits to help out in Baghdad, when Abazaids original counter-insurgency manual called for 120,000 troops to establish stability in the city.
According to your Braveheart generalship, apparently the US could have declared victory in WWII after Italy capitulated, and packed it in. Who Knew?
You chickenhawk lawnchair generals are all the same. You try and blame the disaster in Iraq on liberals. It was YOU who created it, you who have supported it, and YOU who are only left now to say it will get even worse if we leave.
These tribes have been fighting each other since the fifth century. It was only your King George who was foolish enough to travel half way around the world to open Pandora's Box, and supposedly now it's up to the rest of us to clean up your mess.
It's been a mess for four years. It will continue to be a mess whether we stay for 50 more days or 50 more years, and all your keyboard courage ain't gonna change that fact.
Try rejoining the reality-based community. We are approaching the point where Bush will be responsible for more deaths than Sadaam, yet we're supposed to be moved by what may happen if and when we leave.
Get thouself to a deprogrammer, or sign up and go find some IEDs for us, won't ya, Johnny Courage?
Posted by: filmex | March 5, 2007 11:28 PM
I don't know if Obama can win a general election but I went to his website today and donated $50 because I read that he told a crowd of people last week that he needed them all to contribute money to the campaign and that "Everybody's got $5." I thought that was great. For such long time I've had that idealistic dream the 100 million ordinary people would each contribute $100.
Its fine with me that Obama is hiring top drawer political people. The Dean campaign ran amok because their many of their top people didn't know what they were doing, IMO.
Posted by: Sue | March 5, 2007 11:20 PM
kingofzouk--your links are interesting.
In the first one, a *single* 'certified meteorologist' singlehandedly debunks the entire report leaving no doubts in the enlightened minds of his readers. Most impressive.
The second piece, from a beacon of high journalist integrity the Daily Mail, has a headline that is pretty much in direct contradiction to the last paragraph of the text.
Anyway, I do not understand why the capitalists are not giddy at the prospect of all the wealth coming in from retrofitting old stuff and coming up with all kinds of ingenious solutions for green energy. Money is all the incentive anyone needs to invent stuff, I believe?
Posted by: roo | March 5, 2007 11:14 PM
Musical chairs for the media consultants.
Does any president or presidential aspirant do anything without media orchestration these days? Will we continue to see fewer fresh comments and more canned soundbites?
Posted by: Loomis | March 5, 2007 10:14 PM
Musical chairs for the media consultants.
Does any president or presidential aspirant do anything without media orchestration these days? Will we continue to see fewer fresh comments and more canned soundbites?
Posted by: Loomis | March 5, 2007 10:13 PM
"I'm sure that guy's name is also William, so he's not doing anything wrong. Maybe you should add a last initial or something to be more unique."
I would have assumed that it was just an honest mistake, but someone (probably the same person) is also posting under KOZ's handle.
Furthermore, this person's posts are all spam, which consist of a stupid comment (usually a stereotype of a conservative statement) and a link to some stupid site which I have not even bothered to take a look at.
But I would guess that it is a racist or offensive site, since this person is attempting to make KOZ and me look bad.
Why should I have to change my handle? I started using William first.
If this new person is not a troll (which he is) then HE should add an initial.
If I'm not mistaken, the terms of use state that it is not allowed to sign someone else's name to your posts.
Since anyone can choose any moniker it seems like common courtesy that everyone stick to their own user name.
This person has refused to do so, and his posts should be erased.
Posted by: William | March 5, 2007 8:26 PM
I'm sure that guy's name is also William, so he's not doing anything wrong. Maybe you should add a last initial or something to be more unique.
I'd like to see registration here also. The whole blog comment system could use a lot of improvements. (Banning anonymous posts would take about 2 lines of code and be a huge improvement.) But I wouldn't hold my breath.
Posted by: Blarg | March 5, 2007 7:31 PM
"Margolis' primary television was excellent... If he signs on with Obama, Barack better keep him on through the General Election.
http://www.solidpolitics.com"
STOP posting under my handle. You are violating the terms of use.
(Though following rules and laws never really mattered to relativist liberals.)
CC, is there any way there can be registration for this site?
Posted by: William | March 5, 2007 7:17 PM
RACIST ALERT ! !
William is on another thread threatening to post the same entry on all open threads.
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 7:09 PM
Anybody seen Scooter around lately? Or, is he still at the malt shoppe with Dusty?
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 7:03 PM
excuse me, why are you NOT in the military? i've noticed that the most ardent supporters of this war don't actually want to fight it themselves. hmm....
hypocrites or cowards? scumbags or pond slime? hard to choose...
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 6:29 PM
'most of the goons on this site ' hilarious. the guy who talks about 'ideas' and civilized discussion -- what a friggin joke.
why are you in the military, chickenhawk?
all you can do is blame jimmy carter! for chrissakes... because your president is a miserable failure.
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 6:26 PM
Cut and Run? That was discounted in the first week of November.
We won three years ago. Why aren't the boys home yet?
The Administration changed the mission to suit its political and ideological needs, didn't it. Then when the need became "appearing not to lose", although we had already won militarily, the "return home" milestone just kept being moved further away.
You don't have to Re-Up boys (and girls), we do that for you by extending your enlistments. Get ready for your next rotation!
Ain't nothing like an Emperor's Army, always at the ready to do his bidding. Anybody seen the Emperor's (or King's) Clothes
Cindy Sheehan is coming to your house at the end of next week Zouk. (and then again for Halloween)
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 6:11 PM
Walter Reed is also about a prized piece of real estate on the edge of the District of Columbia, which the District of Columbia government and the private sector just can't wait to get their hands on.
BRAC blew it in this case.
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 6:08 PM
filmex, I have no doubt that you and most of the goons on this site would prefer to cut and run. thankfully, that urge has not been taken up by the congressmen who actually might have to answer to the consequences one day. have you thought this through? what do you think will happen if we leave right away? do you Libs ever get past the gut-wrenching emotional response and continue into the intellectual reasoning required for strategic world affairs like this? Large, complex decisions are not decided very properly by relying on your heart over your head. there are many things to consider and many trade-offs which are not open to emotionalism. Carter's failure to take strong action long ago had long-lasting effects on morale and motivation. we dare not repeat that mistake. the 90s showed that talking and stalling is not a recipe for success, only additional attacks.
Posted by: kingofzouk | March 5, 2007 6:07 PM
'It's getting hard to keep track of all the times Malkin is wrong on a story and now she adds to her pile. She writes: Newsflash: Government-run health care sucks...
Did she miss the memo from C&L: BREAKING: Did Privatization at Walter Reed Put Troops at Risk?
The memorandum "describes how the Army's decision to privatize support services at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was causing an exodus of 'highly skilled and experienced personnel,'" the committee's letter states. "According to multiple sources, the decision to privatize support services at Walter Reed led to a precipitous drop in support personnel at Walter Reed."
The letter said the Defense Department "systemically" tried to replace federal workers at Walter Reed with private companies for facilities management, patient care and guard duty - a process that began in 2000."
She probably needs to read this piece which explains that government can run health-care effectively. "The Best Care Anywhere "
This pathetic attempt to use the suffering of our troops to attack health care for all of us seems to be the only response Malkin has on the hearings so far that has America riveted today. Nice job in supporting the troops.
Update: And to think she just won the Accuracy in Media award at CPAC.. which just goes to show you how truly rock-bottom CPAC has become.
Posted by: Wlater Reed is all about privatization | March 5, 2007 5:54 PM
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Iran, the target for the next Bush preemptive attack; Congress remains in a state of mental paralysis
By Michael Payne
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Last Nov. 7, the American electorate stated in the clearest terms that "enough is enough, we want change and we want it now."
Bush and Cheney not only have ignored that loud and powerful voice but they now have even more ambitious plans for dominating the Middle East. The new Democratic majority is still searching for its identity and is feverishly trying to pass non-binding resolutions. It stands the chance of being blindsided by a preemptive attack on Iran.
Iran is now directly in the crosshairs of this war machine, and this Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, cannot seem to address this potential disaster, even when the future of America and the entire world is at stake. They did not have the foresight to prevent the first Iraq debacle and they are now on course to make the same mistakes again relative to Iran. Let there be no doubt that the American people now, after almost four years of enduring a catastrophic foreign policy, want to bring an end to this incompetence and madness.
The GOP in Congress has now begun the process of committing political suicide in the 2008 elections. This gang of completely tone-deaf Republicans, which the American electorate chastised in the November 2006 elections, has learned not one single lesson from the beating that was administered to them. Instead of listening, absorbing how the vast majority of Americans now feel about the direction America has taken and their anger over the insane Iraq war, they have decided to yet again to "stay the course " and go down with the decider-in-chief. In doing so, these thickheaded disciples of war face political suicide in 2008 when many GOP senators and representatives come up for re-election. The American electorate will be waiting, ready to administer another well-deserved beating. These GOP lemmings are ready to go over the Iraq cliff following their delusional drum major.
Each day I read more and more articles in which knowledgeable Middle East journalists and analysts are predicting that this administration is poised to attack Iran in the very near future. This unimaginable, unthinkable event, if it happens, will: 1. Ignite a massive Middle East conflagration and 2. Congress will then have no choice whatsoever but to initiate impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush, for certain, and quite possibly against the de facto president of the United States, Dick Cheney.
Cheney, the puppeteer-in-chief, and Bush the puppet decider continue to thumb their noses at the entire nation, which they no longer serve but are hell-bent on dominating. They now have most clearly stated that they will not only continue to stay the course but that they will escalate it as they see fit, no matter what the Congress or the American people desire. Cheney has said that they will not be stopped.
As they see Iraq completely coming apart, and our military slowly, but surely, being decimated by the never-ending deployments and re-deployments, Bush & Co. are showing signs of panic. Their dreams and plans of controlling the rich resources of the Middle East are now in a state of disarray and extreme danger of totally failing. The virus of the Vietnam experience has now infected their Iraq adventure and so, in a repetition of history, they will not only stay the course, but they will up the ante. These reckless, oil-thirsty gamblers are totally jeopardizing the future of the entire Middle East, the United States and, yes, the entire world.
As we know, when a powerful animal is mortally wounded and cornered, it becomes extremely dangerous. And so this totally incompetent, but now decidedly wounded, cabal of neocons sets it sights on Iran, the next Saddam-like bogeyman, the next obvious target for the Bush doctrine of preemptive war. We are now watching the Bush & Co. propaganda machine of misinformation revving up, fabricating the same type of reasons for attacking Iran that they used to justify the attack on Iraq. They are trying to plant the same insidious seeds into the mind of America that they planted prior to the invasion and occupation in Iraq. We are now continually hearing all about Iran's plans to develop WMD, i.e., nuclear weapons, their involvement in furnishing weapons to the Iraq insurgency, and of their goal to destroy Israel. And so, "we must prepare to strike Iran before they strike us. We have to fight them over there so that we do not have to fight them here." Can the 30 percent of Americans that still support Bush & Cheney, those we refer to as "sheeple," continue to feed at the trough of slime, lies and smokescreens?
This is déjà vu all over again as Bush & Co. are on course to repeat history. They will repeat history as Captain G.W. Bush of the modern-day SS Titanic steers this nation directly into the field of icebergs and brazenly states, "Full speed ahead, damn the icebergs, damn the opinions of the American electorate and the entire world," as he stays the course, escalates it and forces America and the world into a disaster of the worst magnitude.
It now appears with each passing day that an attack on Iran, while unfathomable to the 70 percent or so of Americans who no longer support Bush in any way, could take place in the next month or two. Already positioned in the Persian Gulf is the U.S. aircraft carrier group, the Dwight D. Eisenhower, while a second battle group, the John C. Stennis, has just arrived. Newsweek reports that a third carrier group will soon leave for that region. Just recently Bush nominated Admiral William J. Fallon for the position of commander of U.S. Middle East forces. Fallon, an expert in Naval air and amphibious operations, was initially a strange choice to lead a ground war, but now we understand his entry upon the scene completely. All the pieces are rapidly being put into place. Iran is clearly in the crosshairs.
If that catastrophic preemptive event happens, then I predict that the American people will completely erupt, the slow-moving turtle-like Democratic majority will finally say, "Enough is enough," the lemming-like Republicans will completely cave in, and, without a doubt, impeachment proceedings will be initiated for Bush. As the Middle East then explodes into a hellfire, there will be no more time to initiate futile debates, and political maneuvering will end when America and Congress will act and act quickly. Impeachment proceedings will be brought against Bush and, hopefully, a group of Republican senators will head for the White House to give this completely failed leader an ultimatum: resign or face sure impeachment, just as a group of senators did with Nixon in the Watergate scandal.
Let's hope that this nightmare scenario never takes place, for if it does, we will witness a war like nothing we have ever seen or even imagined. We do not need this, the world does not need this and so it must be stopped, but how? I know not what it will take to motivate Congress to somehow rise up and stop this next act of insanity before it begins. If the Democrats can somehow convince enough Republicans to support legislation to ban any action against Iran without congressional approval, it would be a major step to sidestep disaster. However, Bush & Co. have shown in many other actions that they will not be stopped by anyone, so this monumental disaster could be on the way.
Even if this nightmare scenario is followed by impeachment or resignation, the damage will have been done and the Middle East will erupt in flames. This will be a total no-win situation with no good way to stop a massive regional war, as those whose lust for oil cannot be satiated will never back off. And as the situation escalates, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey and possibly others nations in that region will have no choice but to take sides, be it siding with Sunnis or with Shiites. There will be no winner, only losers, as the world will be at the brink of World War III.
Is this U.S. Congress a modern-day version of the German Reichstag, the governing body that watched in silence and total submission as a powerful war machine was assembled and then launched those preemptive attacks that led to the horror of World War II?
Posted by: che | March 5, 2007 5:53 PM
kingofzouk would be hilarious if he weren't so dangerously misguided. i can't wait to hear him spin how the newest exploding bomb (killing at least 24) in baghdad shows that bush is right all along.
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 5:51 PM
Nice try, King. The Shiites have been told to lay low until the "surge" runs its course. Only a KoolAid drinking Bush cultist could possibly find optimism in that reality.
From today's NYT:
Although more than 115,000 U.S. troops have been in Iraq for the last four years, about 3.8 million Iraqis have fled their homes and at least 50,000 Iraqis are fleeing each month. It would be nice to think the surge of troops to Baghdad would help to staunch the flow. But with only one-third of the new troops on duty at any given time in a city of 6 million people, they will have no more success deterring the militias intent on carving out homogeneous Shiite or Sunni neighborhoods than U.S. forces have had to date.
And another 20 die and 65 wounded in just one bombing in Baghdad today. WooHoo! Mission Accomplished!
I say we follow the Brits lead and cut and run. Cheney said the Brits can leave because they were "successful". If being successful means you simply declare victory and go home, let's do it! Bush-Cheney said all along we'd stand down as the Iraqis stand up. Only now, thanks to the Brits, have we learned we can stand down when the Iraqi insurgents stand up!
Posted by: filmex | March 5, 2007 5:43 PM
Full moon tonight.
Posted by: kingofzouk | March 5, 2007 5:42 PM
reply to:"This is my problem with Rudy. The Patriot Act and NSA surveillance is in no way, shape, or form akin to prosecuting the mafia. Why?"( Pokerwolf at March 5, 2007 09:23 AM).
Since Italian fascism and my liaison officers to the descendants of count Ciano and General Kesselring we are in the fight against mafia and the Jewish standing-violonist "Rudy"[Venetia Guilia[ni]] of Adolphe Hitler and Eva Braun.
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Posted by: mat mil | March 5, 2007 5:34 PM
Obama has a great chance to win. Kerry was a stiff and he lost by one state, Ohio. Obama will energize black voters in the South like nothing that's been seen since the Civil Rights movement.
Meanwhile, the Southwest is the fastest growing region in the country, with Nevada being the most union-friendly state this side of New Jersey, and both Arizona and Colorado are trending Blue. And in that the Latino population is the fastest growing demographic in the country, when the Southwest goes Obama, especially if it's an Obama-Richardson ticket, the Neo-Confederacy can secede once and for all, and it won't make a rats-behind difference to anyone.
Meanwhile the GOP will try and sell a three-time married New York liberal who is considered a hero simply because he didn't hide in a mountain on 9-11 like Bush the Coward-Hearted.
Once the country gets a gander at both his questionable business dealings and his judgment of choosing corrupt tools like Bernard Kerik, the jig will be up. The fact that the Bush administration took Rudy's advice and placed Kerik in charge of training Iraqi policemen tells you exactly why no Iraqi policemen have been trained.
Yet, Rudy is superior to John McCain, a onetime admirable man who is now known as the king-of-the-flip-floppers, and ridiculed as the only guy in the country who is to the right of Bush on the Iraq war folly. And in that he'd be approaching 73 when not-elected, who needs that.
And then there's Romney, whose great-grandfather had five wives, as many as Rudy and McCain combined, only he had them all at once.
Oh yeah, the Dems are really running scared from this group of characters! *L*
Posted by: filmex | March 5, 2007 5:33 PM
It hasn't been reported on widely, but murders in Baghdad are down 70%, attacks are down 80%, Mahdi Army chief Moqtada al-Sadr has reportedly made off for Iran, and many Baghdadis who had fled the violence now feel it's safe enough to return.
This turnaround in Baghdad is confirmed at home by the media's near-deafening silence.
Even some discordant voices in the media are starting to wonder what's happening. Time magazine worries that it's "Quiet in Baghdad. Too quiet." That's right -- a dramatic reduction in violence is actually bad news.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PatrickRuffini/2007/02/24/shhhh_the_surge_is_working
what will you dimwits do when we win in Iraq, prove global warming is natural and not scary, save social security, fix education and retire ted Kennedy? It's all Bush's fault. If you had an attention span longer than that of a knat, perhaps you might understand the ways of the world better.
Posted by: kingofzouk | March 5, 2007 5:30 PM
Oh I see, you've been listening to James Dobson again. So,, do you think 'the debate over global warming is a tool of Satan' too? You as nutty as thesse folks? I'm not surprised.
'Once again, the hard-core Religious Right has gone on the attack, orchestrating a new campaign to advance their Far Right political views. In a letter to the chairman of the National Evangelical Association Board, James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Gary Bauer, and their cohorts claim that "The existence of global warming and its implications for mankind is a subject of heated controversy throughout the world." And even more bizarre, there was another report this morning that in his sermon last Sunday, Jerry Falwell claimed the debate over global warming is a tool of Satan being used to distract churches from their primary focus of preaching the gospel.
Falwell, Dobson, and their friends are wrong, and this time their attack shows just how far outside the evangelical mainstream the Religious Right's views have become.
The truth, which almost everyone except them acknowledges, is there is little reasonable doubt left about the threat posed to the earth by climate change. There is an international consensus among scientists, religious leaders, business leaders, and economists that we must act, and act now, to preserve a world for our children. Just a month ago, the leading international network of climate change scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, concluded for the first time that global warming is "unequivocal" and that it is with 90% certainty due to human activity.'
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 5:21 PM
'Meanwhile, top U.S. intelligence officials disclosed that the deployment of Iraqi forces into Baghdad under President Bush's new plan to stabilize Iraq is running behind schedule and that all of the units sent so far have arrived under strength, some by more than half.'
Posted by: Lara | March 5, 2007 5:18 PM
Zouk, One can only hope that you and others who enable big oil have ocean-front properties.
Posted by: Truth Hunter | March 5, 2007 5:17 PM
More Faux Science f rom zouk. He probably gets it from Faux News.
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 5:16 PM
'Both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will give speeches in the next few days on the war on terrorism, to the applause of Republicans who say the White House needs to be more aggressive in selling the successes in Iraq.'
The successes? Omigod. ROFLOL. More taxpayer money spent on PR and propaganda.
'Recently he was spotted in the Republican cloakroom talking with South Carolina's Lindsey Graham about reforming Social Security. '
The sleazebag Lieberman, who's hiding in the closet talking about privatizing Social Security for the benefit of his lobbyists wife's clients, the financial induistry. What a coincidence. What a surprise.
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 5:15 PM
evidence of green fraud is mounting for those who prefer to think for themselves.
"The UN report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was published in February. At the time it was promoted as being backed by more than 2,000 of the world's leading scientists.
But Professor Paul Reiter, of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, said it was a "sham" given that this list included the names of scientists who disagreed with its findings.
Professor Reiter, an expert in malaria, said his name was removed from an assessment only when he threatened legal action against the panel.
"That is how they make it seem that all the top scientists are agreed," he said. "It's not true."
Posted by: kingofzouk | March 5, 2007 5:07 PM
Scientific `consensus' on global warming doesn't exist
Another religion falls to facts:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16836601.htm
Posted by: kingofzouk | March 5, 2007 5:05 PM
Golgi... Given the Godlike status the GOP assigned to Reagan and how easily he won elections, don't think the kids thing(or even divorce)flies... Patty was estranged, Michael hurting, Ron struggling out in left field while Maureen labored mightly for attention.
Predict Rudy will trip himself up tempermentally.
And Hillary.... for shame.... agree the "black face" phony routine was lame. Would like to hear the opinion of a black voter.
Posted by: Trutlh Hunter | March 5, 2007 5:04 PM
zouk is so hilarious. i have never seen anyone with so little substance take themselves so seriously. he def3nds rudy being a bad father -- coz maybe that cuts a little too close to him.
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 5:01 PM
Your analogy is flawed. Democratic activists don't like Hillary; she's too moderate and is seen as phony. Obama is much more popular among the idealists, though he's not the clear favorite like Dean was. A lot of Hillary's support is from people who believe she's the most electable.
Considering that, it would be more accurate to say that Obama is Dean and Hillary is Kerry. That analogy still has some problems, but it's far closer to the truth.
Posted by: Blarg | March 5, 2007 4:57 PM
'Disgusting, abusive, demeaning, denigrating --yesterday HRC in black face doing a jigdoll routine was highly offensive not only to Negroes but to all the rest of us.'
WTF is this loony babbling about?
'If you lose on the issues, this is what you have left. the ugliest face of the blogosphere seems to inhabit this place today.'
yeah that's right -- you're here.
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 4:56 PM
I bet Faux News would pay for that kind of in depth analysis of the Dems Zouk.
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 4:54 PM
Won't Hillary experience the same thing that happened to Dean? the Dems who actually want to win the office, and not the idealists who would be happy to go down fighting, realize that Hillary won't win. they jump ship to someone who is electable. but is Obama electable with the perception of no experience? a lost cause for all you Dems. consider 2016.
Posted by: kingofzouk | March 5, 2007 4:52 PM
for the last time stop impersonating me lib. its you that dont have any ideals
Posted by: kingofzouk | March 5, 2007 4:51 PM
given the accuracy or lack thereof of polling at this point, i think she might be in a tight race already.
Posted by: meuphys | March 5, 2007 4:45 PM
Pdoggie -
No kidding. Somebody is going to be having kittens.
I just hope she does not go so berserk that her overall candidacy will have caused cumulative harm to women politicians as a group.
Posted by: Golgi | March 5, 2007 4:45 PM
If these pros keep validating the Obama campaigns chances, and if the over the top HRC campaign reaction to Geffen is any indication, what the heck is it gonna be like if she finds herself in a tight race a few months down the road?
Posted by: Pdoggie | March 5, 2007 4:41 PM
Hm, this Giuliani kid thing sounds possibly serious.
In some earlier day's Fix I brushed off comments that voters and especially women voters would be turned off by Giuliani's philandering (I said something like "why would most women care, he's not their husband" or something like that).
But this thing with his children has a different feel to it. A not a good sign sort of feel.
Compare with Democrats' tolerance of Bill C & all his women - Bill C is apparently a good dad, Chelsea learned a lot from him, and voters liked how close they were as a father-daughter pair.
Could there be something about the analogy of a president being the father of his country?
Who wants a bad dad? Not me...
Am I just spouting nonsense here or do you sense there is something to it?
Posted by: Golgi | March 5, 2007 4:38 PM
mountain man - but obama is not kerry. kerry essentially allowed himself to lose.
obama's campaign is picking up some speed.
Posted by: meuphys | March 5, 2007 4:35 PM
Not bad, but 03/04 was a different time. In IA 04 nobody was attacking Kerry because his campaign was doing so badly everyone else had written him off. Kerry only came up when people got so sick of all the negative attacks on the frontrunners. This time he'll have to deal with an overwhelming assualt of negative ads that Kerry never saw until the general.
Posted by: mountain man | March 5, 2007 4:26 PM
Margolis' primary television was excellent... If he signs on with Obama, Barack better keep him on through the General Election.
http://www.solidpolitics.com
Posted by: William | March 5, 2007 4:06 PM
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how about it chris???? I am not for supression or filtering but intellectual property is another thing.
the word is ideas. Libs have plenty of ideals, coward. see how vapid my shadow is? I have been mimicked before and the usurper was left in the dustbin of ideas. If you ever come up with one, let us know. I won't hold my breath.
Posted by: kingofzouk | March 5, 2007 3:58 PM
All you people who have never had a problem with your teenager or young adult don't have to vote for Rudy.
If you lose on the issues, this is what you have left. the ugliest face of the blogosphere seems to inhabit this place today. You're true personna is why even the ultra-left elected Libs are ignoring you so soon after an election. you are not winning any new friends.
when we voted out free-spending GOPs, we didn't imply we wanted loony Libs, we want tight-wad GOPS. Get the message yet?
Posted by: kingofzouk | March 5, 2007 3:51 PM
what no witty comebacks impostor? i thought so. you dems have no ideals of your own.
Posted by: kingofzouk | March 5, 2007 3:45 PM
stop using my name you lib traitor
Posted by: king of zouk | March 5, 2007 3:41 PM
Now ignorant coward is using my moniker. I wonder what I will say later today? It doesn't even sound like me. how juvenile. but predictable given the nature of the intellect involved.
Posted by: kingofzouk | March 5, 2007 3:39 PM
ha ha ha that was funny, thats why libs will never win.
Posted by: king of zouk | March 5, 2007 3:30 PM
Disgusting, abusive, demeaning, denigrating --yesterday HRC in black face doing a jigdoll routine was highly offensive not only to Negroes but to all the rest of us. Her performance enacted before a group she can buy or regards as ignorant was disgusting. What will her routine be when she confronts the Latino voters? She will have to change from black face.
Posted by: leo l. castillo | March 5, 2007 3:27 PM
I am starting to question Obama's outsider street cred with all of these Democratic establishment types that keep jumping on to his campaign. But I guess it shows they think he can win.
Posted by: Andy R | March 5, 2007 3:22 PM
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani asked for "privacy" Monday in dealing with what the Republican presidential hopeful called "difficulties" between him and his 21 year-old son.
Giuliani's comments came after his son Andrew, a Duke University sophomore, told the New York Times in an interview published Saturday that he was trying to make amends with his famous father after not speaking to him for a "decent amount of time."
"There€™s obviously a little problem that exists between me and his wife," Andrew Giuliani told the New York Times. "And we’re trying to figure that out. But as of right now it’s not working so well.
A fixture in Giuliani's past political campaigns, Andrew Giuliani told the New York Times he would not become involved in his father's presidential bid.'
he doesn't even speak to his kids.
Posted by: family values? | March 5, 2007 3:16 PM
Which is why they all come up with the same DC cliches.
Posted by: | March 5, 2007 3:10 PM
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Hillary Clinton blew her chance as she was supposed to have been in the race year 2004,her time is up!We need new face ...For sure she represents the old politics and i do feel nothing gonna change with her,by ademocratic