Liberal Democratic Politics, Discussion and Snark

Last week the press was in a furor over supposed “near gaffes” by Democrats, all the while ignoring the fact that John McCain doesn’t even know the difference between Sunni’s and Shi’ites. There is a reason why TV ratings are in decline and newspaper circulation and ad revenues are down. People can tell when they’re being fed a load of horse shit.

Here’s a nice summary of the media’s abject laziness (and GOP’edness) from Firedoglake:

Things that the US press freaked out over last week:

– OMG! Hillary lied about a sick woman! (Not really, as it turns out.)

– OMG! Barack was picking on people! (Not really, as it turns out.)

Things that the US press did not freak out over:

– John McCain’s breaking campaign finance law (though they did a number of pieces on public financing of political campaigns).

– John McCain’s constant stream of gaffes, lies, and worse (though they did play up a McCain attack on a non-gaffe by Obama).

The more and more crap that American’s get shoveled into their eyeballs by the corporate owned media, the more and more turned off they are, the less informed they become, and the more likely they are to end up voting for a complete asshole who thinks torture should be legal.

In the latest Quinnipiac poll, Obama is edging up on Hillary in Pennsylvania.

In this latest survey, one of the biggest shifts is among women who went from 54 - 37 percent for Clinton April 2 to 54 - 41 percent for her today. A look at other groups shows:

* White voters for Clinton 56 - 38 percent, down from 59 - 34 percent last week.
* Black voters back Obama 75 - 17 percent, compared to 73 - 11 percent.
* Men are for Obama 48 - 44 percent, compared to a 46 - 46 percent tie last week.
* Voters under 45 go with Obama 55 - 40, while older voters back Clinton 55 - 38 percent.
“With two weeks to go, Sen. Barack Obama is knocking on the door of a major political upset in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Obama is not only building on his own constituencies, but is taking away voters in Sen. Hillary Clinton’s strongest areas - whites including white women, voters in the key swing Philadelphia suburbs and those who say the economy is the most important issue in the campaign,” said Clay F. Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

I wonder what the Clinton campaign will say once they pull a Memphis and blow the lead in the final two minutes? At this point it is truly flummoxing that Hillary Clinton is staying in the race. Even with the pundits blowing a hard wind at her back, the possibility of her actually winning the election will only serve to sunder the Democratic Party and hand the election to Senator McSame.

Not to mention the fact that the Clinton campaign is a comedy of errors, and if the old adage holds true that the administration will be run like the campaign, I don’t think anyone really wants to sit around and watch that unfold.

Well, we already knew that the Bush Administration was a bunch of criminals, but here’s the proof that they knew it and tried to make it okay:

The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president’s ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such statutes.

This particular memo was penned by John C. Yoo, then a deputy in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. John C. Yoo is the Administration’s architect of torture. There is zero way to make this funny or lighthearted. John Yoo is unamerican and deserves to be held responsible for destroying our constitution, our national dignity and our standing in the world. Not to mention all of the crimes committed in Liberty’s name due to his vicious pen.

Well it certainly looks like James “the mean parrot” Carville has been sufficiently kicked in the pants by Bill Richardson. Talk about civility, something of which Mr. Carville (squawk) has apparently no knowledge. Here’s what Bill Richardson had to say about Carville:

Barack Obama supporter Gov. Bill Richardson, D-New Mexico, responded on Sunday to controversial comments by James Carville, saying that he would not “stoop to Carville’s level.”

It’s amazing how irrelevant one-time political guru James Carville has become these days.

“I haven’t gotten into the gutter on this. And you know, I’m not going to stoop to Carville’s level. I barely know the guy in the first place,” Richardson told Bob Scheiffer on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

In other words: ‘Who said what about me? Whatever.’ Haha!