Primary Season Silliness

Primary Season Silliness – Obama Attacks Unions, Emily’s List…

The video has nothing to do with the post, but Nat King Cole had such pipes I couldn’t resist. Doing lots of holiday stuff today in between everything else going on. Anyway…

It’s officially the holidays, with some thinking people aren’t paying attention. This happened before.

Bill
Clinton nails it.

Later, Clinton remarked that “some people just don’t like a strong woman, I guess.” Hillary Clinton “is very firm,” he said. “Part of what you need in a president people find more unsettling in a woman than a man, maybe.” … ..

Truer words were never spoken.

On another note, friend Greg Sargent over at TPM has a post pointing out another factor in the primary. Stupidity and lazy reporting by CNN, though when you click on the link there is not an article to be found any longer. But here’s the URL header: “clinton-announces-new-bill-one-day-after-edwards-challenge/. They put up an article about Clinton announcing a minimum wage plan, when she’s been working for a minimum wage fairness forever. As for TPM, Sargent’s headline on his post takes off on the CNN piece: Hillary Announces Minimum Wage Hike Bill One Day After Edwards Challenge. However, on the TPM home page it reads like this: Is Edwards Pushing Hillary to the Left? Let me answer that: no. The honest truth is that people are just spent, burnt out, exhausted, so things are getting sloppy. This primary season leading up to Iowa has been a killer. Watch out for screwy headlines and wacky stories over the holiday week to come.

We’ll try to keep things in perspective even while ho-ho-ho-ing and enjoying the festivities.

Oh, and any blogger who has a good post, please send me your links this holiday week, especially if it’s primary ’08 oriented, or about Iraq.

Thinking of the troops today. Blessings go out to their families. We’ll never be able to thank them for what they sacrifice.

UPDATE VII: Joe Conason: Why conservatives love Barack Obama – Clinton haters who think the Illinois senator can beat Hillary support him now, but their affection will fade if he gets the nomination.

UPDATE VI: Do I need to say anything other than ERIPOSTE? It’s a take down on the NTY hit piece on the Clinton Foundation. Read and learn.

UPDATE V: MoveOn.org raises $300,000 for the troops.

UPDATE IV: Daily Howler takes Chris Matthews to the shed. As reader PamelaB said to MA_Blue, well, it’s in the comments, but it has to do with Mel Gibson and Jesus.

UPDATE III: Via reader MA_Blue, a DK post: Earth to Obama – Unions MADE this Party. That’s for sure. The DK poster cites a post from Mark Halperin quoting a mailer from Obama that busts the campaign out. Obama attacks unions as “special interests” who are giving to Clinton and Edwards:

“Right now groups supporting Hillary Clinton and John Edwards are flooding Iowa and the other early states with millions of dollars in paid ads, phone calls, and mailings. Some of it is negative and even deceptive, and a lot of it is paid for by huge, unregulated contributions from special interests. Taking on these groups isn’t just a matter of setting the record straight about me or my positions. It’s about proving that a new kind of campaign — funded by ordinary people who want something better for all of us — can defeat the same tired, old political textbook that so many Americans just don’t trust anymore.”

UPDATE II: A good one from reader Grey in a previous post: A Wrinkle in Her Campaign.

UPDATE: One group with a site and page worth mentioning has placed a progressive wide BlogAd. ONE has videos of all the candidates. Check it out, because in the Christmas season it’s always good to remember how fortunate we are as Americans, and the reality of what many in the world face today, which is just staying alive amidst crushing poverty. But least we forget, some of that poverty resides in our own country. It’s hard to fathom.