Sunday Open Thread [6.10.12]
Delaware Democratic Convention Open Thread
The convention is taking place right now in Dover. The convention has already brought us some the surprising news of Mitch Crane's endorsement. The rest of the convention will be devoted to selecting delegates to the National Convention in Charlotte later this summer. Then tonight, the Jeffereson-Jackson Dinner will be held, with Newark Mayor Cory Booker giving the keynote speech.
Please use this thread for any more news, and as your open thread for the day.
Thursday Open Thread [6.7.12]
Atrios posits a simple topic:
America is richer than it has ever been and can no longer afford the things that it used to.Discuss.
Wednesday Open Thread [6/6/12]
Your Wednesday Open Thread. Sorry this is late.
Monday Open Thread [6.4.12]
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tells the San Francisco Chronicle she is "upbeat about the prospects for a female president in her lifetime, namely her friend Hillary Rodham Clinton."
"Why wouldn't she run? She's a magnificent secretary of state. She's our shot."
Friday Open Thread [6.1.12]
I got nothing today, how about you?
Wednesday Open Thread [5.30.12]
Romney's iPhone campaign app misspells "America." Can you imagine the shitstorm and conservative freakout if President Obama had done so?
Tuesday Open Thread [5.29.12]
Bill Maher has the antidote to Birtherism.
Saturday Open Thread [5.26.12]
US President Barack Obama receives a painting of Air Force One from the US Air Force class of 2012 during their graduation ceremony at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on May 23, 2012. By Jewel Samad /AFP/GettyImages.
Friday Open Thread [5.25.12]
There is a special place in Hell for people like this:
Thursday Open Thread [5.24.12]
Here are some oldie but goodie negative cartoons about JFK. I love this kind of historical stuff, because it serves to remind us that, despite the popular notion that in the good old days Democrats and Republicans got along and did not hate each other, politics has always been nasty. In the election of 1884, charges of illegitimate children and affairs dogged Grover Cleveland. "Ma Ma Where's my Pa? Gone to the White House Ha Ha Ha."