Wednesday-Night

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May 16
John McCain Trades Straight Talk for Unadulterated Fantasy
Arianna Huffington: In a speech this morning, John McCain hopped into an imaginary time machine and took us all to the year 2013, offering a sneak peek of what the world will look like at the end of his first term as President. And what a wonderful world it will be: “The Iraq War has been won”; Osama bin Laden has been captured or killed; the economy is “robust”; “the world food crisis has ended”; and “health care has become more accessible.” There’s only one problem: it’s pure, unadulterated fantasy. The political equivalent of the trippy tour the Beatles gave us in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds — only instead of rocking horse people eating marshmallow pies, we get “a functioning democracy” in Iraq. More
May 8
Big Rewards Await Clinton If She Ends Campaign Now<
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made
(TIME) It was … a journey she had begun with what appeared to be insurmountable advantages, which evaporated one by one as the campaign dragged on far longer than anyone could have anticipated. She made at least five big mistakes, each of which compounded the others
May 7 , 2008
The Nominees Emerge, Hobbled
By David Brooks
Here are two things we learned tonight. First, Barack Obama is going to almost certainly be the Democratic nominee. He’s withstood seven weeks of bad news and he still exceeded expectations.
The second thing we learned is that this general election is going to look nothing like the last two. Those elections were base mobilization elections. The candidates did little to upset party orthodoxy or move dramatically toward the center. That won’t work this time.
Pundits declare the race over
IHT - Very early Wednesday morning, after many voters had already gone to sleep, the conventional wisdom of the elite political pundit class that resides on television shifted hard, and possibly irretrievably, against Senator Hillary Clinton’s continued viability as a presidential candidate.
April 24
First a Tense Talk With Clinton, Then Richardson Backs Obama
February 1, 2008
Bloomberg Will Not Be Running For President
On Thursday Jan. 31st, After a good bit of speculation, Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that he is not a candidate for president and will stay that way and finish out his term as Mayor of New York City.
January 30
Giuliani’s disastrous strategy
(The Guardian) In truth, history will show the unconventional, and ultimately catastrophic, strategy to be one of the biggest miscalculations in US campaign history - and one that has brought Giuliani’s ambitions to be the 44th US president to a humiliating end.
January 23
Clinton or Obama? Why Not Both?
(Spiegel online) Conventional wisdom says that candidates for the White House should choose their opposite as a running mate. But with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama generating excitement among Democrats, why not put them on the same ticket?
December 15, 2007
President Mike?
(Forbes) Folks close to New York City’s twice-elected mayor suggest that he’s made up his mind to end one of the city’s long-running rumors and become an Independent candidate for president.