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DEFENSE OR OFFENSE?

I’m not sure that I agree with Kate‘s take that Hillary Clinton is only playing “defense,” as some of her new critiques of Barack Obama are not tit-for-tat responses to his critiques of her, but actual novel criticisms which should properly be considered offensive actions. That said, it is her defensive responses to his attacks […]

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BACK.

“The will be no loud bells,” says CNN debate moderator Wolf Blitzer, introducing the set-up. “No flashing lights.” No flashing lights, that is, except the twinkling of Hillary Clinton‘s eye. She’s back in business, and she’s feeling fine. “This pantsuit is asbestos tonight,” she jokes, replendent in a grey jacket and black shirt. “This has […]

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http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=6e01fdce-ad97-4dab-a07d-bf98dc52f681&p=1 But I do…

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=6e01fdce-ad97-4dab-a07d-bf98dc52f681&p=1 But I do want to take issue with it on three points. Crowley writes: “[T]hey killed off a negative GQ story on the campaign by threatening to stop cooperating with a separate Bill Clinton story the magazine had in the works.” I don’t think that’s correct. The editor of GQ killed that story, written […]

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LIGHTNING ROUND

Matt Stoller: “I spoke to a New York state party insider who told me that candidate numbers have been dropped ten points in local elections to be held [today] because of immigration, across all major voting blocs.” CNN reports that “Sen. Barack Obama has missed the most votes of any Democratic presidential hopeful in the […]

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the president has…

the president has been talking about world war 3 we should be reaching out aggressviely to our allies clinton i see economic sanctions as part of diplomacy. i think what were trying to do here is put pressure on the bush adm/ we will not permit him to take offensive action against iran….i think we […]

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SOME DISTINCTIONS WORTH MAKING.

One of the real weak spots within the resurgent progressive movement is the thinking of some of its eager young proponents on gender issues. In the course of kindly talking up my latest column for the magazine, which describes a trip to Eastern Iowa with John Edwards, MyDD’s resident pro-Edwards blogger David Mizner (MyDD has […]

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Ezra Klein’s sympathetic…

Ezra Klein‘s sympathetic item on Clinton and polarization is a bit surprising to me, given the way he chafed when I argued the exact same thing last February: It is true that Clinton has high unfavorable ratings among the voting public. But those who think some other candidate would be less objectionable are confusing cause […]

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THE SMEARS OF A CLOWN.

I honestly don’t see any difference between this and how the Rs were back in the ’90s when Clinton was in office. This is just the kind of crap that Clinton used to face, and what the next Democratic president will face for four to eight years. Some of the people in the blogosphere are […]

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