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Party Like It's 2008 [SLNYTOE] Almost every wrong prediction about this election cycle has come from those trying to force the round peg of this year's campaign into the square holes of past political wars. That's why race keeps being portrayed as dooming Mr. Obama - surely Jeremiah Wright = Willie Horton ! - no matter what the voters say to the contrary.
Found 4 days, 7 hours, 36 minutes, and 27 seconds ago
talkleft.com
In arguing that Barack Obama is a shoo-in in November, Frank Rich makes a strange case:
[T]his isn't 2004, and the fixation on that one demographic in the Clinton-Obama contest has obscured the big picture. The rise in black voters and young voters of all races in Democratic primaries is re-weighting the electorate. Look, for instance, at Ohio, the crucial swing state that Mr. Kerry lost by 119,000 votes four years ago. . . . Voters under 30 (up by some 245,000 voters) accounted for 16 percent, up from 9 in 2004.
Found 4 days, 11 hours, 41 minutes, and 14 seconds ago
huffingtonpost.com
This Sunday, Frank Rich reported some of the most exciting news that has appeared on the pages of the New York Times in a very long time. According to Rich, Americans are on the verge of transcending the racial and cultural rifts that divided them for centuries. There simply...
Found 3 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes, and 23 seconds ago
rogerlsimon.com
Or perhaps more fairly... Fuddy-duddy minds, simple answers.
Frank Rich writes in yet another endless column today: "For five years boomers have been asking, "Why are the kids not in the streets screaming about the war the way we were?" The simple answer: no draft."
How about an even simpler answer? Different war.
Of course, you'll never see anything like that out of Rich whose entire weltanschauung hasn't changed a jot since he heard his first Crosby, Stills & Nash album. How conservative, in the true sense, is that!
Found 4 days, 11 hours, 40 minutes, and 57 seconds ago
smirkingchimp.com
This Sunday, Frank Rich reported some of the most exciting news that has appeared on the pages of the New York Times in a very long time. According to Rich, Americans are on the verge of transcending the racial and cultural rifts that divided them for centuries. There simply aren't "enough racists of any class in America, let alone in swing states, to determine the results come fall," the former theater critic insisted. This statement is so true that Rich did not even need to bolster it with actual statistical evidence.
Found 3 days, 9 hours, 12 minutes, and 19 seconds ago
trueblueliberal.com
By Rich Frank
Another weekly do-or-die primary battle, another round of wildly predicted "game changers" that collapsed in the locker room.
Hillary Clinton's attempt to impersonate a Nascar-lovin', gun-totin', economist-bashin' populist went bust: Asked which candidate most "shares your values," voters in both North Carolina and Indiana exit polls opted instead for the elite and condescending arugula-eater. Bill Clinton's small-town barnstorming tour, hailed as a revival of old-time Bubba bonhomie, proved to be yet another sabotage of his wife, whipping up false expectations for her disastrous showing in North Carolina.
Found 4 days, 11 hours, 40 minutes, and 37 seconds ago
hoffmania.com
And
yet, paradoxically, there is a heartening undertow: we know the page
will turn. For all the anger and angst over the war and the economy,
for all the campaign's acrimony, the anticipation of ending the Bush
era is palpable, countering the defeatist mood. The repressed sliver of
joy beneath the national gloom can be seen in the record registration numbers of new voters and the over-the-top turnout in Democratic primaries.
Found 4 days, 15 hours, 43 minutes, and 4 seconds ago
voxverax.blogspot.com
(Continued here.)
Found 4 days, 15 hours, 42 minutes, and 31 seconds ago
barkbarkwoofwoof.blogspot.com
- It's Not What You Thought It Would Be : Frank Rich says that the rest of the campaign won't be like any other one we've seen. This is not 1968, when the country was so divided over race and war that cities and campuses exploded in violence. If you have any doubts, just look (to take a recent example) at the restrained response by New Yorkers, protestors included, to the acquittal of three police officers in the 50-bullet shooting death of an unarmed black man, Sean Bell.
Found 4 days, 14 hours, 49 minutes, and 1 second ago
prairieweather.typepad.com
A few conservatives do realize the game has changed. George Will wrote last week that Mr. Obama was Reaganesque in the stylistic sense that "his manner lulls his adversaries into underestimating his sheer toughness - the tempered steel beneath the sleek suits." John and Cindy McCain get it too, which is why both last week made a point (he on "The Daily Show," she on "Today") of condemning negative campaigning. But even if Mr. McCain keeps his word and stops trying to portray Mr. Obama as the man from Hamas, he can't disown the Limbaugh axis of right-wing race-mongering.
Found 4 days, 14 hours, 48 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
spacetimecurves.blogspot.com
Frank Rich espouses what most are thinking :
Found 4 days, 13 hours, 52 minutes, and 50 seconds ago
hanssuter.typepad.com
Party Like It's 2008 - New York Times :
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molinedemocraticmaverick.blogspot.com
In his column in today's New York Times Frank Rich, purporting to explain what has been happening in the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, had this to say
Found 4 days, 11 hours, 39 minutes, and 8 seconds ago
nettertainment.blogspot.com
Here's the core reason why Hillary lost : her Iraq War vote. Profile in expediency, if not cowardice. It revealed everything about her core.
Found 4 days, 11 hours, 38 minutes, and 47 seconds ago
politics.propeller.com
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Found 4 days, 11 hours, 38 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
blogrevolution.com
Party Like It's 2008
Found 4 days, 10 hours, 29 minutes, and 10 seconds ago
incertus.blogspot.com
This year, all of these factors strongly favor the Democrats. Indeed, the Democratic Party hasn't enjoyed this favorable a political environment since 1964. Robert Erikson, a political scientist at Columbia, tells me: "It would be difficult to find any serious indicator that does not point to a Democratic victory in 2008." Frank Rich, in his column today , also takes a look at the differences between this race and previous ones. This is not 1968, when the country was so divided over race and war that cities and campuses exploded in violence.
Found 4 days, 10 hours, 29 minutes, and 4 seconds ago
welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com
As Frank Rich tells us this morning in his byline, this isn't 1968. In fact, with the way the world has changed just since the last general election, it's hard to believe that it's even 2008. Nothing is as it seems or ought to be. As Rich reminds us, we're about as far from 1968 as can be imagined, the year Dan Rather got knocked on his ass at the Democratic National Convention and of the Chicago Seven.
Found 4 days, 10 hours, 29 minutes, and 24 seconds ago
joeirvin.blogspot.com
THIS Frank Rich column in the New York Times drew several hundred comments - if you care to read them.
Found 3 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes, and 52 seconds ago
odonnellweb.com
Party Like It's 2008 - New York Times
Found 3 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes, and 51 seconds ago
seablogger.com
I hate to say this, but I agree with Frank Rich today. Hillary Clinton is done. Barak Obama will be the Democratic nominee, and he has a real chance to slip past McCain. The public wants "change." People have forgotten that change can be inimical, even when times already seem bad. The economy is growing, albeit slowly. The Iraq war is virtually won, albeit belatedly. We are not at war elsewhere, yet. But we will be, if we elect our very own Neville Chamberlain.
Found 3 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes, and 38 seconds ago
donkeyod.wordpress.com
By FRANK RICH
ANOTHER weekly do-or-die primary battle, another round of wildly predicted "game changers" that collapsed in the locker room.
Hillary Clinton's attempt to impersonate a Nascar-lovin', gun-totin', economist-bashin' populist went bust: Asked which candidate most "shares your values," voters in both North Carolina and Indiana exit polls opted instead for the elite and condescending arugula-eater. Bill Clinton's small-town barnstorming tour, hailed as a revival of old-time Bubba bonhomie, proved to be yet another sabotage of his wife, whipping up false expectations for her disastrous showing in North Carolina.
Found 3 days, 10 hours, 14 minutes, and 30 seconds ago
ianwestbrook.blogspot.com
If the corporate media do not get it, the Clinton's in this frame pushing blindly on, do not get it either. A paradigm change, if but glimpsed darkly through a broken mirror, is a wonder to behold, if it can be perceived. And Obama does seem to perceive the larger pattern, the wider framework when he identifies climate change as the defining moment for human history and for our planet. If human history is to continue nothing will condemn Bush more, not even the crimes in Iraq, than he and his like minded conspirators that blinded themselves to peril now confronting human history and the actions that must be taken.
Found 3 days, 10 hours, 14 minutes, and 11 seconds ago
freedemocracy.blogspot.com
For five years boomers have been asking, "Why are the kids not in the streets screaming about the war the way we were?" The simple answer: no draft. But as Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais show in "Millennial Makeover," their book about the post-1982 American generation, that energy has been plowed into quieter social activism and grand-scale social networking, often linked on the same Web page.
Found 4 days, 19 hours, 55 minutes, and 5 seconds ago
multi-medium.net
For five years boomers have been asking, "Why are the kids not in the streets screaming about the war the way we were?" The simple answer: no draft. But as Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais show in "Millennial Makeover," their book about the post-1982 American generation, that energy has been plowed into quieter social activism and grand-scale social networking, often linked on the same Web page.
Found 4 days, 11 hours, 8 minutes, and 6 seconds ago
dane101.net
The media needs to stop repeating this :
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buzzflash.net
The Myth of the Iranian Sanctuary - by Scott Ritter
Found 106 days, 4 hours, 16 minutes, and 28 seconds ago
baystateliberal.blogspot.com
That's why people are registering in record numbers to vote in Democratic primaries (the small number of Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" bloviating bitter-enders notwithstanding.) There's far more at stake here than Jeremiah Wright's Rants.
Found 4 days, 10 hours, 2 minutes, and 8 seconds ago
hippieperspective.blogspot.com
This sounds like a cool, albeit boring, job and it's a major factor in Obama's victory in the primary race.
Found 4 days, 6 hours, 43 minutes, and 54 seconds ago
granny-doc.dailykos.com
The Frank Rich column in yesterdays NYT was, of course, the first coherent statement of the tension between reality and the media that was nagging me.
Leading off with the observation:
ANOTHER weekly do-or-die primary battle, another round of wildly predicted "game changers" that collapsed in the locker room.
Mr. Rich scratches the itch, the nagging feeling we have all had that everything we are hearing and reading about the Democratic Primary is just slightly off center.
Found 3 days, 10 hours, 13 minutes, and 25 seconds ago
mrod.wordpress.com
Frank Rich says:
This is not 1968, when the country was so divided over race and war that cities and campuses exploded in violence. If you have any doubts, just look (to take a recent example) at the restrained response by New Yorkers, protestors included, to the acquittal of three police officers in the 50-bullet shooting death of an unarmed black man, Sean Bell.
This is not 1988, when a Democratic liberal from Massachusetts of modest political skills could be easily clobbered by racist ads and an incumbent vice president running for the Gipper's third term.
Found 3 days, 10 hours, 13 minutes, and 41 seconds ago
roadkillrefugee.wordpress.com
WaPo/The Trail : Hillary's fixation on low income, under-educated, older women voters has given short shrift to another large group of voters: middle class independent voters. Oregon is full of them and they are in Obama's camp (as many have been in other states).
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