I think we could staff an alternate government with all the politicians that have been caught with their pants down or otherwise similar misgivings...

Dann, Vitter, Spitzer, Craig, my own Congressman...Vito Fossella, etc. The list seems to be endless.

Posted at May 14, 2008 11:46 AM in response to All Muck Is Local: Animal House

That poll must have been taken only on the South Shore of the island.

Personally, I would love to see Vito run again. If he does, he will be the easiest of the GOP candidates to take down. Other local GOP pols- our DA, Dan Donovan, State Senator Andy Lanza, or City Councilman Jim Oddo are light years better than anything Vito ever was or could be.

If Vito runs again, look for the Democrats to take back NY-13 for the first time in about 30 years.

Posted at May 11, 2008 10:16 AM in response to Fossella Friend: He's Planning To Run Again

One good thing though...

If there is one issue that will help unite the Democratic Party after a nominee is chosen Obama becomes the nominee, it will be the Federal bench- especially the Supreme Court.

No matter how much Hillary fans will be disappointed, the overwhelming majority will not turn the SCOTUS and other federal courts over to loons like Brownback and Olson. I can see Brownback thinking Hagee would make a good justice!

Posted at May 6, 2008 4:39 PM in response to Obama's Big Indiana Stronghold Turning Out Heavily

The problem that Obama has is that he is new.

Yes, we know him now having watched him certainly for the last 14 to 15 months. Yet, average Americans 1) do not pay nearly as close attention to politics as pretty much anyone who reads blogs, etc. and 2) many of them are afraid of new things.

He is certainly the youngest looking candidate in a decades, even though Bill Clinton was actually younger in 1992 than Obama is today.

He is black. Enough said there. I'm sure we all know people who wouldn't vote for a minority of any sort for president even if that person was a Medal of Honor winner, cured the common cold, and built those people a new home. There are enough of those people who, more because of ignorance than rascism, just cannot bring themselves to vote for a black man.

Next, when you try to run a campaign of hope, unity, above board, and all those other good things, it becomes a bit harder to attack your opponent because than you look like a hypocrite. Unfortunately, as we have seen since the days of Lee Atwater, negative campaigning works.

Most Obama supporters don't have a problem with most of Hillary's proposals- although her nuclear umbrella for the entire Middle East is insane- we have a problem with her.

We know that more than 50% of American simply WILL NOT vote for her. She is the most polarizing figure in American political history- with maybe the exception of Abraham Lincoln (that comparison requires some thought).

She simply can not win in November...and she and her supporters are the only ones who do not realize that.

If she becomes the nominee...and loses, I can't wait to hear the griping from all the old white women who are her base. But when the GOP evicerates Social Security in a McCain presidency, then we can look those senior citizens in the face when they look for some one to blame... tell them to look in the mirror.

Posted at April 23, 2008 9:04 AM in response to Obama has a problem.

As far as I'm concerned the woman is an idiot.

Sure, I have sympathies for the inordinate amount of bad luck she and her husband have had to deal with, but you get to ask a major presidential candidate a question on national television and you ask about a PIN!!!???

I'm sorry, but it is so assinine that if she had actually done that, I wouldn't think it was possible for someone to be so stupid.

Second, I really want to know how Hillary has struggled? She was brought up in a very nice home in PA and then Chicago. She went to excellent schools- Wesselyan (sp?) and Yale Law. Sure she has had to deal with Bill's infidelities- but does that entitle her to the White House?

Finally, does she think that for all her problems the GOP really gives a rat's ass about her? If she thinks that there are GOP policies out there that will help her, then she is even dumber and more ignorant than I originally thought.

Because they consistantly vote for politicians who work against their interests, people like McCab deserve the government we have. They are too stupid and too ignorant to understand something good even if they trip over it.

Posted at April 19, 2008 11:09 PM in response to Why Nash McCabe Makes Barack Obama's Point

Come on, what utter nonsense.

Hillary lies, YES, BLOODY LIES all over the place about bringing peace to Ireland, sniper fire in Bosnia, and G-d knows what else...and all you can do is play boogey man with a minister based on three minutes of sermons?

YOUR CANDIDATE LIED!!!!

MY CANDIDATE'S MINISTER SAID BAD THINGS.

Posted at April 1, 2008 8:46 PM in response to Harold Ickes Confirms That Wright Is Key Topic In Discussions With Super-Delegates

It is crap like this that almost- and I can't believe I saying- that the Clinton plane just crashes.

Yea, crashes.

I know it horrible,miserable, disgusting thing to hope for.

But the filth, the crap, the lies, the twisting of truth, the twisting of EVERYTHING, but the Clinton campaign is just endless.

There has to be a group of superdelegates with half a brain should come out, announce to the world the horrific, racist, disgusting crap coming out of the Clinton campaign and say ENOUGH!!! Oh, and we're voting for Obama.

Hillary- don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way.

I'm so fed up with this insanity.

Posted at April 1, 2008 8:12 PM in response to Harold Ickes Confirms That Wright Is Key Topic In Discussions With Super-Delegates

Can we get this updated?

It's now a 10 point lead for Obama!

woo hoo...

Posted at March 30, 2008 3:09 PM in response to Gallup: Obama Up 7 Points Over Hillary

While this may be true and HRC will not give in no matter what happens in the remaining contests, her candidacy will deteriorate into irrelavancy.

She will run out of money. She will run out of supporters- mainly big name ones.

She will continue to run on fumes while the party, the people, and of course, the media comes together around Obama.

In short, she would look like not much more than Mike Huckabee did until McCain finally hit his magic number.

Posted at March 28, 2008 11:15 AM in response to Report: Hillary Won't Quit Race

Obama disenfranchised MI and FL?!!??!!

Are you effin' kidding?!!

That was the fault of those state's Dem parties and their legislatures. They knew the rules. They knew the penalities.

We NEVER heard ONE word of protest from Hillary about it until she realized she was losing this race.

So stop with the twisting and turning of the truth.

Barack Obama is responsible for bringing millions of new Democrats to the polls for the first time in their lives. He is responsible for getting more people to realize the power of the vote than anyone in recent history.

Posted at March 26, 2008 6:15 AM in response to Hillary Supporters: Why Are You Letting Her Do This?