Good Reads

by Natasha Chart, Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 02:57:01 PM EST

Hullaballoo: Digby on Obama and Reagan. Dday is glad the at-large precincts in Nevada are going to be set up for Strip workers. Huckabee's Christian Reconstructionist ties.

Corrente: Obama's right turns. Nezua branches out.

Jack and Jill Politics: Applause for the success of the at-large caucuses. John Conyers looks to block vote caging. Huckabee, the squirrel fryer.

Emptywheel: Judge not entertained by CIA claims that interrogation tapes that recorded detainee torture weren't relevant to an investigation on interrogation methods. Iraq's government is too disorganized to spend money, and you've got to know that a government that can't even spend money is hardly a government at all. The White House is missing a lot of emails and can't seem to keep their story straight about it.

DailyKos (aka, The Great Orange Satan): New Hampshire Senate candidate Jay Buckey talks about his proposal for a national security levy on oil. The Crandall Canyon mine, operated by Murray Energy, collapsed and killed 6 mine workers and 3 rescuers because Murray Energy took out the pillars supporting the roof.

Cliff Schecter: Tom DeLay knocks McCain. Huckabee thinks being gay is like pedophilia or bestiality. Why is CNN putting that lying sleazeball, Ralph Reed on the teevee like he's a respectable authority figure.

Juan Cole: The Lebanese press on Bush's tour of the Mideast. Basra police chief denies Iran role in Iraqi unrest. Women confer in Baghdad to protest the wave of murders targeting women for alleged improprieties.

TomDispatch: Dancing on the corpse of Iraq. Reports from the heart of the Zapatista insurgency in Chiapas, Mexico.

The Seminal: A pop quiz on Latin American politics that I totally failed, but so would much of the responsible media. In Pakistan, war breaks out in Waziristan between the army and the Taliban, while the Shiite community is reeling from a mosque bombing. A proposal for social capitalism, a step up from today's version of corporate responsibility. A news roundup on FISA, global warming news, etc.

Pandagon: The government wants your email. More on the attempt to gin up a war with Iran. John Boehner, still a moron. An original Swiftboat creep goes after Obama with a racist attack so blatant that I can hardly believe it's real. Abortion is a 1st amendment issue.

Shakesville: A bitch is politically involved. Maybe people would like Hillary Clinton more if she didn't care about winning the presidency. Memo to Democrats, media, people in general: Ronald Reagan is no one to imitate. Romney got him some lobbyists, oh yes, but is confused about it. Bush's economy is so solid that it needs a lot of stimulus, and we all know how much solid things need more stimulus.




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Re: Good Reads (none / 0)

Thanks for the shout out Natasha!

There are some pretty crazy happenings around the world in the last few days. Those who haven't read the Juan Cole piece on the Arab press reaction to Bush really should.


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by J Ro on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 03:29:39 PM EST

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Read it. Cole is seldom off the mark.

This is quite a confusing review of world events otherwise, which only makes clear that it's a confused, crazy world. It is probably correct.

I see that the Hillaryites are getting away with calling Obama a Republican now. Did anyone think to review his statements about Kennedy? All we heard is that Reagan had a vision, which was jumped on like a cat on a mouse. Glad the mainstream media is not taking up this blogosphere hoax.


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by shergald on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 04:59:11 PM EST
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Re: Good Reads (none / 0)

Thanks for the linkage, Natasha!


by Shakes on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 04:04:23 PM EST

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I must say that MyDD is now a joke. I've been an avid reader for over a year and as of today MyDD is off my list. It's been overun with this weird Hillary Borg. People like Natasha  etc. When you visit Kos or Open Left you can at least find reasoned discussion of the candidates and issues. What put me over the edge was the fact you passed over the very next post on Digby's site:

"leading the village by their collective snouts"

Natasha and the rest of the Hillary campaign workers on this site are officially "The Village." Adios MyDD, it's been real.


by pallewog on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 04:05:28 PM EST

Over the top (none / 0)

I agree that this list of links is troubling but your insults are absurd.
by Big Tent Democrat on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 04:58:22 PM EST
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Re: Good Reads (none / 0)

first..pallewog..if you have been an avid reader for as long as you say, there were only two times you felt moved to comment?(yes I looked it up)

Thanks for these links..I have neglected some of these too long..

as a side note..as Bushworld is collapsing so rapidly my inner paranoia is starting to flicker..
but there is hope
however,; after viewing this I feel better
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in _the_know_is_the_government


"If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud"...Arlo Guthrie
by nogo war on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 04:15:45 PM EST

GBCW to somebody else's blog is pathetic (none / 0)

And nogo war points out how pathetic it is. What are we dealing with, here? The online version of Chicago ward heelers? Is there walking around money?

Anyhow, Natasha, thanks for the link. And it seems like Obama's dog whistle to the Republicans on Social Security is working out for him, too, so there's more good news!


by lambertstrether on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 04:28:03 PM EST

Natasha, thanks for posting this. (none / 0)


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by Jay Buckey on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 04:46:46 PM EST

Natasha (none / 0)

You are great but your links are questionable in that there is a lot of Obama critiques linked there. I loved all of those posts on Obama and Reagan but I think this Link Thread is bad form. I think you should at least add a lot of defense of Obama like Ezra and Matt Yglesias on Reagan.
by Big Tent Democrat on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 04:57:32 PM EST

Re: Natasha (none / 0)

I can kind of see your point, but then, I didn't get into this uncompensated, life-eating hobby in order to be fair and balanced. Not my goal. I definitely didn't get into it to be a booster for postpartisanship.

I didn't like what Obama said. I've heard plenty of justifications for it and they all sound like BS to me. Nor is this the first time this sort of argument has come up regarding him. Nor does he have the most progressive policies of even the pair of him and Clinton. As I said over at my own blog ...

I'm reminded of a quote I heard in a Tony Blair speech but haven't been able to track down, where he tells a story from right after Labour's first victory against the Tories that made him PM. He said that he was talking to one of his compatriots who said something like, 'Now we've won, we can ditch all the Third Way/New Labour talk and do what we really believe in.' And Blair responded, 'But I really do believe it,' by which he meant the triangulating, third way rhetoric he'd used during the campaign.

Everyone who defends Obama to me tells me some version of how he won't really be like the words that come out of his mouth. The words that praise Republicans in their own terms and bash progressives in conservative terms. The words that implicitly say that postpartisanship means the Republicans were right all along. Or in other words, trust him, he's a liar.

No sale.


by Natasha Chart on Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 04:23:41 AM EST
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Re: Natasha (none / 0)

And dammit, if he wins, I will hope every day that I'm wrong.


by Natasha Chart on Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 04:26:00 AM EST
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