Acknowledging the Race Chasm, Deafening Silence on Analyst story, Superdelegates: Threat or Menace, Developing the Green Zone
Acknowledging the Race Chasm. David Sirota looks the race issue in the face. Obama wins white states because race isn't an issue, and he wins black states because he gets 90% of the black vote. What about inbetween? Sirota calls the states with between 7% and 16% black votes the Race Chasm. Since he didn't publish the underling data, I've looked up the Census bureau numbers. Guess which states are in the gap? Kentucky, Oklahoma, Indiana, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, New Jersey, Michigan, Florida, Illinois, Arkansas, New York. In short, a perfect list of the battleground states the Democrats must take to win the election.
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Deafening Silence On Analyst Story
What we should hear (but won't) on Meet the Press
Tim Russert: So tell us Brian Williams, why did you allow all of these "experts" who were in fact Pentagon flacks to masquerade as independent military experts on the NBC News broadcasts for which you were and are Managing Editor?
Brian Williams: That's a good question Tim. Another good question is why did you swallow hook line and sinker and repeat everything these "experts" and others (for example Dick Cheney) were saying.
Russert: Good question Brian. We'll be right back after these messages.
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Superdelegates: Threat or Menace?
Self-described "old friend" of McCain who McCain said he took "pleasure" in meeting planned to murder a journalist (though the intended victim was not physically harmed)
Susan Estrich [strategist during the masterful 1988 campaign of former president Michael Dukakis]: Beware What You Wish For. Present for the birth of the superdelegate idea, attacking it still, since she equates "superdelegate" with "middle-aged white guy." Me, I am as big a feminist as you will ever meet (credentials available on request), but I equate superdelegate with "someone who has managed to get himself elected, either to public office or the Democratic National Committee." Who do we want selecting our nominees: wild-eyed radicals (and no, Susan, that doesn't just mean women) or men and women with skin in the game, who want a nominee who both wins and enables them to run successfully for re-election. I liked the idea of superdelegate then, and I like it now.
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Developing The Green Zone
How much did the taxpayers spend so this officer could work on a development plan? Who decided to let him spend his time on this rather than on fighting enemies or preparing to fight?
US-backed plan sees shiny future for embattled Green Zone.
Green Zone makeover? US blueprint looks beyond war to envision high-end hub in Baghdad
BRADLEY BROOKS and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
AP News
May 04, 2008 13:25 EST
Forget the rocket attacks, concrete blast walls and lack of a sewer system. Now try to imagine luxury hotels, a shopping center and even condos in the heart of Baghdad.
That's all part of a five-year development "dream list" — or what some dub an improbable fantasy — to transform the U.S.-protected Green Zone from a walled fortress into a centerpiece for Baghdad's future.
Briefs
- Can Shrub and Shooter count as high as "4" as in 4th Amendment? Lawyers for Guantánamo Inmates Accuse U.S. of Eavesdropping
- Experts fear escape of 1918 flu from lab
- Military and Homeland Security Dictate Who Lives And Who Dies In A Pandemic [Triage is an important and time-honored response to overwhelming disaster. What is disturbing here is who gets to make the life-or-death decisions, and on what basis]
- Why is it that sauce for the Democratic goose is never sauce for the Republican gander? I anxiously await McCain's denunciation. First Hagee (physically embraced by McCain at endorsement speech), now a man who planned a murder (which did not occur): As media pounces on Obama relationships, McCain gets a pass
- When Dr. Comes Marching Home Again. Supporters of enhanced interrogation in Iraq. Do you want them treating you? I don't.
- Shocking: Peggy Noonan almost makes sense. Of course this Bush speechwriter's real agenda is to help the Democrats. Right. Just like Rush. This also just in: fox offers advice coop security advice to hens.
