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Alison Weil

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  • : Fort Lauderdale Florida
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  • : To Kill a Mockingbird The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • : "to those whom much has been given, much is expected"

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  • "Sorry" seems to be the toughest word--

    One of the more disturbing points about Hillary Clinton's statements Friday to the Argus Ledger - is that when the Senator appeared in front of the vegatable aisle in a local supermarket - she failed to take responisbility for what...more »

    Posted on May 25, 2008 2:03 PM

  • Why Women will and must support Barack Obama in November

    John Paul Stevens Born April 20, 1920 (age 87)Ruth Bader GinsburgBorn March 15, 1933 (age 75)Antonin ScaliaBorn March 11, 1936 (age 72) Anthony KennedyBorn July 23, 1936 (age 71)Stephen BreyerBorn August 15, 1938 (age 69)David SouterBorn September 17, 1939 (age...more »

    Posted on May 16, 2008 9:16 PM

  • Rocky or Gandhi? VOTE NOW

    What does this country need in a leader?Let's look at today -President Bush today had a Press Conference about the economy and basically blamed CongressHe wasn't even finished speaking when Nancy Pelosi issued the democratic response - blaming President BushThis...more »

    Posted on April 29, 2008 7:48 PM

  • VETTING

    from Matt Ygelsias -- "It's worth noting that Hendrick Hertzberg (New Yorker) is absolutely right to say that it's just not true that Hillary Clinton has already been vetted, she "has not, in fact, survived the worst that the Republican...more »

    Posted on April 27, 2008 6:03 PM

  • Hoosiers - the ball is in your court

    They needed a second chance to finish first. That's the tagline from the 1986 movie "Hoosiers"-The story of the improbable 1954 Indiana High School basketball team than went all the way to the State ChampionshipAnd this is where we...more »

    Posted on April 26, 2008 4:55 PM

  • you are now entering THE TWILIGHT ZONE

    double click and start the journey---http://www.tk421.net/gallery/sounds/twilight.wav"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow...more »

    Posted on April 24, 2008 10:50 PM

  • Hillary Clinton: D- New PORK

    The Queen of Pork Nobody doles out taxpayer money like Hillary Clinton — or rakes in as much campaign cash from the companies she does favors for http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20306341/the_queen_of_pork/printOne missing piece of info from this article - Magic Johnson is on...more »

    Posted on April 23, 2008 7:48 PM

  • The race is about race

    To put it bluntly:"lets call a spade a spade"The race is all about race.When Sen Hillary Clinton secretly tells super delegates that Sen Obama cannot win - what is the implied tought is "America will never vote for a black man".That's what...more »

    Posted on April 20, 2008 12:03 PM

  • The DECLINE OF THE DEMOCRATS: it's not elitist - it's timidity

    This morning;s HuffPo has an article by Miles Mogulescu asking where are this country's democratic leaders - whether they did or did not endorse either candidate--Where are they leaving Barack Obama - with only Bob Casey speaking up - as...more »

    Posted on April 15, 2008 9:38 AM

  • NAME THAT ELITIST!! come an play!

    Join me for the new game that's all the rageNAME THAT ELITIST!!!To play: enter a name of someone who has labeled Barack Obama an elitist in the past four days, some short background, and a short reason why your pick should make...more »

    Posted on April 14, 2008 11:20 PM

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  • I agree completely

    alison

    Posted at May 25, 2008 3:17 PM in response to Some Further Thought on the A-Word Gaffe

  • Completely disagree

    It was always unlikely Obama would select Hillary Clinton as VP -- now it is impossible

    That is the only positive outcome from Friday's comments

    The saying goes "Hillary Clinton" sucks all the air of the room -- she will likely need to leave the Senate as she will never win a private vote for Majority Leader now either

    I think she needs her own fiefdom - like a University President -- This way she can continue to creat her own reality and everything she "rules" over is forced to accept her version of reality

    It is really sad - Sen Clinton hurt herself, her family name, her party and if she does not bow out June 3rd and stop the May 31st baloney (and I am a Florida resident) - she will have a great deal of responsibility for the NOv election

    I believe Sen Obama will win at any rate in Nov - but the Clintons will not be forgiven for making this so much more difficult than it should be

    Posted at May 25, 2008 3:15 PM in response to A Hollywood Ending: Offer the Unity Ticket NOW.

  • I think the posters should clarify there age/reference of this

    I was 15 when RFK was shot and was devastated

    There is no defense of Hillary Clinton - who was in her 20's at the time - brigning this up

    NONE

    Gwen Ifill this am on MTP said it very well "Politicians should NEVER say the words Assassination or Hitler"

    It never works

    Posted at May 25, 2008 3:11 PM in response to In Defense of Hillary Clinton

  • Hillary was an early "triangulator"

    She worked for:
    Goldwater
    Rockefeller
    Melvin Laird
    McGovern

    and that was just in 1968
    Always putting ambition and hedging bets against principle and moral courage

    As we have now learned Hillary named the now infamous "WAR ROOM" maybe the Clinton strategy started with the Rodham brain?

    And that is NOT a compliment

    The major problem with Bill and Hillary is that they were ALWAYS the smartest people in the room

    Until now that is

    Posted at May 25, 2008 2:41 PM in response to I was wrrrr..... I was wrrrrr.... I was wrrrrr....

  • the next best choice = NEST

    like Truthiness--

    Posted at May 18, 2008 11:15 AM in response to Why Women will and must support Barack Obama in November

  • The NYT put the weight of the "paper of record" behind their hometown senator before super tuesday - when it mattered most

    What you see now is their disappointment as well as the voice of individual columnists who are disappointed with the polarizing and negative campaign Sen Clinton had sunk to before the NC/Indiana decisions

    What you are seeing is a newspaper who supported Sen Clinton but being realists now accept and know that Sen Obama will be the Democratic nominee and they have their eye on November

    This is something all democrats should be doing
    Focusing on McCain and a Novemeber victory for Barack Obama

    The primary is over and even Sen Clinton knows this - it's time everyone who wants this country to have change and move forward gather together in support of the nest POTUS - Barack Obama

    Posted at May 18, 2008 10:52 AM in response to NYT Turns on its Readers

  • wwstaebler

    I am VERY concerned about the court for many reasons - you are correct

    I am concerned about business regulations (or lack there of), I am concerned about civil right or infringement of), I am concerned about the unbelievably arrogant Antonin Scalia as the strongest voice on the court - with a weak Chief Justice - and having a Scalia majority determine this country's judicial course

    I worry for my children - and everyone else's children as well

    But the main point of the post - was for the uber Hillary supporters to stop saying they are going to vote for McCain -- If they are true Hillary supporters and respect her record on women's rights and women's issues, then there is no issue more pressing than the potential imminent overturnning of Roe V Wade (or Griswald or whatever anyone wants to refer to)

    If women care about women's issues they can be disappointed this will not be the year for a woman president BUT that should not change their point of view on the issues

    And Barack Obama is the nest choice for that
    alison

    Posted at May 18, 2008 10:47 AM in response to Why Women will and must support Barack Obama in November

  • what about the Clinton supporter who invited Rev Wright to speak at the National Press Club?

    That os FAR worse and you don't see the Obama people crying over it-- because all these connections are tangential

    Hillary has way more unsavory connections than Obama ever could- the man is trying to elevate the discourse-- it's the Clinton campaign continually throwing mud via surrogates (see the Sidney Blumetnal piece??)

    puh-leese
    It the throwing mud race - Clinton wins hands down

    Posted at May 2, 2008 3:34 PM in response to LIBEL: Obama campaigners caught spreading altered video that libels Team Clinton '92 with fake racial slurs

  • This time Blitzer was right -- Hillary is pandering and she knows it

    She is taking money from the infrastructure fund which will save the average driver $30 and cost the country @200.0 jobs -- gee which is better??

    Pander or Poverty?

    The so called windfall profit tax she will use to pay for this? She forgot to mention that will likely never happen (deifnitely never happen under Bush and maybe with a dem pres and a 60% congress majority maybe - but that is a big maybe and a long way in the future?)

    Sorry poster this time you got it wrong

    (Besides- Obama central tenet of his energy plan is an oil company windfall profut tax --)

    Posted at April 29, 2008 8:34 PM in response to Blitzer Lies on CNN

  • I agree 100000%

    Posted at April 29, 2008 7:50 PM in response to Superdelegates to blame for enabling destructive campaign

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