So Much for a President Warren

It seems she is just a little too acquiescent to the same old Beltway bullshit as the rest of them.

As somebody in the comments noted, she would never have been allowed into the Senate in the first place if the elites thought she was any kind of real threat to them at all.

Bernie Sanders looks better and better all the time, but some commenters thought he was just as politically toothless as Warren.

Face it: Liberalism has been marginalized for the past thirty or so years thanks to neoliberal infiltration.

Damn this comment after the article is good:

The Democratic party has been a sad joke for so long these little hissy fits provide comedic relief for us "outside the beltway" types that recognize defeating capitalism (not reforming it) is requisite to any improvement in conditions. That the self censoring parameters of discussion is so banal is depressing and is really just a waste of everyone's time. With the Supreme Court now making a mockery of critical thinking, we've hit the trifecta of all three branches of government being a national embarrassment of self replicating mediocrity. There is no hope without vanquishing these jackasses with revolutionary tactics equal to their entrenched servitude to the ruling class.

Well, it was the late senator from Nebraska, Roman Hruska, who said mediocre people need representation:

When Senator Hruska addressed the Senate in March 1970, speaking on Judge Carswell's behalf, he asked why mediocrity should be a disqualification for high office.

''Even if he were mediocre,'' Mr. Hruska declared, ''there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance? We can't have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos.''

Now they are overrepresented in D.C.

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Having a group of male talking heads pontificate about abortion is like having a group of women talking about what it is like to have prostate cancer.

Media Follies

Does anybody want to refute my claim Barack Obama is nothing but a punching bag for the GOP and the result of endless manipulation of the primaries and caucuses? Now we are seeing a major change in attitude, once Obama was made the nominee. The shit-slinging will now begin in EARNEST.

Olbermann is an alleged shill for Obama. Matthews blathered on and on about Obama, although he is truly in the tank for John McCain.

The network certainly didn't care about the "partisan" tone of the coverage during the primaries. It was shit on the other candidates, especially Hillary Clinton, in order to pump up a truly weak candidate for the Democrats.

Olbermann's JOB was to shit all over Hillary Clinton to benefit the network's, the GOP's, and corporate America's ringer, Obama. There was no real principle there on his part. He was PAID to ruin Clinton's chances.

His job is over now, so he doesn't have to analyze anything anymore. Now we will get 24/7 trashing of the Democratic Party ticket by all of the networks and the rest of the traditional media.

It isn't just the regular newscasts, either, which have shifted focus. As this person wrote, the Sunday talk shows are displaying a distinct shift in attitude. It's as if this shift were right on cue. Of course it was and is.

I saw it coming. I wasn't afraid to write about it here.

Morning Joe and the Loudmouth

Naturally Chris Matthews tries to put his best spin on Obama's boring speech in Berlin yesterday:




Frankly Disney is more of a comparison; however, I don't like the "Obambi" nickname, for it is an insult to the memory of the great children's author Felix Salten (real name: Siegmund Salzmann).

Speaking of Bambi, I didn't know Whittaker Chambers actually did the translation of the 1923 novel from German to English.

And no, I will not make a comparison of Chambers and Salten to Ayers and Obama.

Matthews is a puke, but he has a point or two in this interview. I don't agree the election is close, but he is right about the Clinton crowd being pissed off and the Democratic Party being divided. I suppose you can say he is right McCain is playing the tortoise while Obama is playing the hare.

Now that the Media and the DNC

have gotten rid of the Clintons, or so they think, what should be done with them?





At least Matthews had enough decency not to put Sally Quinn on the panel.

Willie Brown said he would like to see Hillary Clinton campaign on Obama's behalf in states with a large Hispanic vote, including California and Nevada, and also campaign in Florida.

Florida's a gone goose after the Mouth and the DNC pulled their shit on Clinton close to two weeks ago.

Nevada is a lock for McCain. Period.

Hilary Rosen suggests Clinton should try and court women's support, even as women who supported her were screwed over. Game over, I'm afraid. Same with Obama using Bill Clinton.

I think it would be very hard, after all the shit the Obama campaign pulled on the Clintons, for them to just say let bygones be bygones and continue like nothing has happened. I can tell you many Clinton supporters aren't going to forget.

I Wouldn't

worry too much about MSNBC's obvious shilling for Barack Obama, Mr. Chotiner. The network, owned by General Electric, is REALLY not for a Democrat anyway. It, like most of the national media, is in the tank for John McCain. Just spend any time at all listening to Tim Russert or Chris Matthews. That should make it plainly clear where the bias actually is.

I Run

hot and cold with Salon's Joan Walsh, but she is right in defending Hillary Clinton:




And what is this bullshit about Clinton being Obama's VP? The primary hasn't been settled yet.

She nailed them about the email from the Obama camp on Clinton's remarks. "It's been deliberately misconstrued."

You bet. All one has to do is look at the complete video, which is still on this blog page, of Clinton's interview with the Argus Leader to know the truth.

What

are the medical implications of Senator Kennedy's diagnosis?




Bazell mentions glioblastoma as a possible diagnosis. Wikipedia has some info on it.

More from the New York Times:

Dr. John Golfinos, an associate professor of neurosurgery at the New York University Cancer Institute, said malignant glioma could be difficult to beat.

“Typically, the outlook is not that great for this disease,” said Dr. Golfinos.

Dr. Golfinos said he could not speak about Senator Kennedy’s case specifically, but in general, a patient’s prognosis depends on a number of factors, including age and a general description known as performance status. He said there is no common screening test to discover the presence of such a tumor, and that for most people who develop one, no cause is ever identified.

Although a large number of promising treatments have been developed in recent years, Dr. Golfinos said the long-term survival rates have not improved greatly so far.

“It is still a difficult one, so the prognosis has not improved that much,” he said.

Why Is It

Democrats keep shooting themselves in the ass when we could have had somebody like Joe Biden as the nominee?





This was from Hardball yesterday about our dictator's ridiculous remarks in Israel.

The Shrillness

from the punditocracy gets louder as Hillary Clinton refuses to quit, even as they all chatter about what her "end game" is:




What total assholes they are pushing an unelectable. And the public seems to agree with me about Clinton staying in the race.

In Addition to Have a Big Mouth,

Chris Matthews is blessed with an unabashed sexism, and that sexism has gone a long way for him in his career.

He, like Dick Morris and many others, have made a career out of trashing the Clintons so as to help him in his career.

Miscellaneous.

As far as I am concerned, the teen should have been allowed to rot in jail.
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Chris Matthews speaks his mind, but who in the hell has the eardrums to tolerate it?
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What in the hell is the matter with the Pulitzers when a no-talent like Bob Dylan is honored by them?

Two McCain Shills,

Matthews and Russert, discuss the Pennsylvania primary, a contest Clinton will almost certainly win:



Two gasbags for the price of one.

Campaign Follies.

It's pretty clear to anything thinking individual Barack Obama's campaign is a lost cause whether he admits it or not, but the trouble is his campaign has done major damage to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in the process.
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Don't expect Obama to give a major speech about his connections to Rezko.

He already lied about it in the South Carolina debate back in January.
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It seems Bill Richardson didn't think much of Obama's chances of winning the November elections not too long ago.

Chris Matthews talked about the subject today with Mrs. Alan Greenspan and Newsweek's resident shithead Howard Fineman:



And there's more.
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John Edwards says no to a VP slot and refuses to endorse either Democratic candidate.
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Is

Hillary Clinton going to fight to the finish because she believes she has a better shot against John McCain in November, or is she committing a scorched earth policy of denying the Audacity of Hype the nomination he so deserves?

Instead of you trying to figure it out for yourself, let Chris Matthews and his panel tell you what to think:




Naturally they shit all over Hillary Clinton.

Why, No Shit,

Chris. Of course McCain has had the media in his pocket, and that is the biggest reason why he is likely to be the next president.

Clinton or Obama or anybody else who may be the Democratic nominee will NEVER be able to get a fair shake from the media once the fall campaign starts:





When you've bought off the media in a corrupt relationship, as in unlimited access in return for favorable coverage, you have it made.

Earlier on Hardball,

Chris Matthews was talking with a panel, including the ubiquitous Pat Buchanan, about the Ferraro flap:

Chris Matthews

says he's sorry for trashing Hillary Clinton and will proceed with maligning John Edwards.

Okay, I made that last part up.

What a Worthless

asshole:



That prick is still pissed off he didn't get a job in the Clinton administration. This clip is beyond disgusting. It's been posted everywhere, and I decided to note it here.

He rather lets the cat out of the bag about the media whoring for Obama.

If Chris Matthews

were any more full of shit, he'd have to have an enema.

Stuff like the bullshit he said about an Obama win in Iowa is the reason I hate Obama's guts and will not vote for him under any circumstances. Obama actually believes the bullshit about him and thus continues on a campaign where he is sure to lose.

Obama doesn't have enough brains to realize that if the media is peddling his candidacy, that means they want him as the Republicans' ringer.