Archive for October, 2012
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Sunday Open Thread [10.14.12]
Today is the day Austrian extreme sky diver Felix Baumgartner is planning his record-breaking jump. They estimate that his jump will take about half an hour to get back to Earth during this afternoon’s 120,000-foot skydive attempt. You can see the live coverage here:
How important is the top of the ticket? Very important.
A contact with access to a lot of polling data on statewide races reported that Obama’s performance was so bad at the first debate that he dinged all the statewide dems to the tune of two to three percentage points. In Delaware we are lucky. That 2 to 3 percent will not amount to much […]
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New Matt Denn Ad
I have to just second everything said about Denn’s attentiveness to small businesses. Especially the workers comp. That was huge.
Saturday Open Thread [10.13.12]
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Happy freezing Saturday! Everyone seems focused on the Bodenwiser story today, but PainesMe has reminded us that if we are not doing what we can to elect Jane Hovington today, we are missing an awesome opportunity.
Bodenweiser suspends campaign
So Eric Bodenweiser has informed State Republican Party Chairman John Sigler via email!!!! yesterday that he was suspending his campaign for personal reasons.
Those personal considerations and distractions are most likely the rumors that are now the subject of a police investigation. And for the first time, a news organization finally hints at those rumors:
Duke Brooks, a spokesman for the Sussex County Republican Committee, said committee members learned about two weeks ago of rumors involving allegations of serious criminal conduct by Bodenweiser about 20 years ago.
Hopefully this odious man named Eric Bodenweiser is gone from our politics forever. And hopefully Christine O’Donnell and her insane group of Teabaggers currently running the Republican Party in this state are gone too. But if they insist, despite this humiliation, to continue inflecting our body politic with their cancer, then next time hopefully they will more fully vet their candidates.
Hilarious hi-jinx of Delaware’s .01 percenters
Five chiefs of staff and one ex-governor came together at a Wilmington Rotary club meeting pull the curtain back on the recent governors and themselves during a panel discussion. Mike Castle was the moderator. I’ll let Celia Cohen pick it up there. …Castle asked for a funny story and got one from (du Pont’s chief […]
QOTD — Is the Dog Whistling Working?
We already know how they work this scab. The routine invocation of President Obama (even trying to smear those who support him) as the Other isn’t even debatable. Take a look at this picture and tell me what you think:
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There Were Some BFD Statements Last Night
Lost in all the in depth pundit discussion of body language and water consumption is the fact that Paul Ryan made some very interesting statements last night.
Friday Open Thread [10.12.12]
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Having slept on it, and read this morning’s ruminations from near and far, I haven’t had any blazing new insights on last night’s vice-presidential debate, but am convinced more than ever that Biden’s performance, whatever its effect on swing voters, dispelled a dark cloud over the Democratic tribe. And that’s not just because it might have interrupted Romney’s “momentum” or countered the president’s “loss” last week.
In retrospect, what dispirited an awful lot of Democrats about the first presidential debate was that it emblemized the fear that in an intense, high-stakes battle with an ascendant and radicalized conservative movement, progressive elected officials just didn’t have the willingness or ability to make a full and passionate case for their own cause. That was at the heart of criticisms not only of the president’s demeanor, but also of his many missed opportunities to rebut Romney and expose the rickety substructure of the mendacious self-presentation Moderate Mitt was attempting. And this is obviously a complaint that’s been just under the surface of mixed progressive attitudes towards Obama and many other Democratic leaders for years now.
Damn straight. We want fighters. The President let us down last week but he can recover. I know he is not as fiery as Biden and has a more measured “keep cool and calm” temperament, but the moment calls for righteous indignation and a fervent defense of all the good he has done. He is the most accomplished President since President Roosevelt. That is not spin, that is the fact. He needs to forcefully defend all he has done and will continue to do. He failed last week but hopefully he was taking notes on Air Force One while he was watching his Vice President fillet Congressman Ryan. Sure we don’t expect Biden’s laughter and eye rolls and the Biden Smile. But we expect the Obama smile and the patented Obama “That’s Not True.” I can hear it being said forcibly in my mind because the President has said it before. Now is not the time for politeness. Or kindness. If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are going to lie they need to be called on it repeatedly.
By the way, here is a pic of the President on Air Force One watching the debate:
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