Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 11, 2024
We’re gonna start our review of the Campaign Finance reports tomorrow. We will update a lot in the coming days. However, the Big Story is right there for everyone to see: I can safely say that at no time in Delaware campaign history has there been such an influx of Third Party money into our […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 10, 2024
Oh, man. Got my work cut out for me next week as we wade through the campaign finance reports. I start today, though, with a blank canvas (oops, almost spelled it canvass, which is what I’m doing after I write this Open Thread and get caffeinated). Let’s color it in. ‘Dog Bites Man’ Headline: The […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 9, 2024
Just A Note Before We Go…Onto Something Other Than The Attempted Swift-Boating Of Tim Walz. Two notes, actually. The guy who swift-boated John Kerry is the same guy trying to pull the same dirty trick on Walz: The common denominator in both efforts: Trump campaign co-manager Chris LaCivita. LaCivita played a key role in the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 8, 2024
Vance Tries To Swift-Boat Walz. Could work. Nobody thought it would work against John Kerry either: Speaking in Michigan, Donald Trump’s Republican running mate said: “You know what really bothers me about Tim Walz? When the United States Marine Corps … asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it. I […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024
Reaction to Kamala Harris’ selection of Tim Walz as her running mate has been widely praised. Most pundits have cited his mien, best summed up by Harold Meyerson of the American Prospect as “Hubert Humphrey without Vietnam.” Walz’s happy warrior style reminded me of Humphrey, too, but I’d say “with a sharper tongue.” Ol’ Hubert […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024
Kamala Harris will name her choice for vice president today. Because American politics is essentially sports for the athletically disinclined, the bookies have Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pulling slightly ahead of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as the betting favorite, and that’s considered a news story. A couple of bad days for the stock markets was […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 5, 2024
Who Will It Be? Who Do You Want It To Be? I want it to be that folksy Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz. I think it will be Joel Shapiro. So that James Carville can gloat about owning the libs. I hate that beady-eyed sumbitch. This is the Open Thread, so predict away! Bangladeshi PM […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 4, 2024
The Agony And Joy Of Defeat. You really thought I’d miss this story?: French athlete Anthony Ammiratiwas getting in his own way at the Summer 2024 Olympics. The 21-year-old pole vaulter missed out on the chance to win an Olympic medal on Saturday, Aug. 3, after he missed his target height when his crotch got caught […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 3, 2024
Has Trump Become Fat Elvis? Who am I to say no?: He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him, cutting the very prisoner deal with President Biden that Trump said a few weeks ago the Russian dictator […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 2, 2024
If you only listen to one of the Rev’s podcasts this year, make it this one. This is why Erik Raser-Schramm is one of my favorite people of all-time. Check it out. Biden Finalized Prisoner Swap While Withdrawing From Presidential Race. A truly great accomplishment, quite an example of compartmentalization: For a president who pledged […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Everyone knows the story of the emperor’s new clothes, but I think they miss the point of it. As Hans Christian Andersen told it, two con-men told the king their cloth was invisible to stupid people, so everyone pretended they saw it to avoid appearing stupid. It took a child to blurt out that he […]
DL Open Thread Monday, July 29, 2024
I was assured several days ago that Republicans would welcome a race against Kamala Harris because they had lots of ways to attack her. So far the attacks have been off-the-bottom-shelf specials noting that, hmm, let’s see…Apparently she’s a woman and she’s Black, so she slept her way to the top when she wasn’t being […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 28, 2024
Been watching the political attack ads, interrupted, albeit briefly, by the Olympics. Can we simply recognize the fact that the Delaware Way denizens are just pushing their chips all in on Bethany Hall Long’s candidacy? They’ve become the Democratic equivalents of MAGAts in that they are now overlooking what is clearly criminal behavior in order […]
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