Call off the dogs

The New York Times congratulates Sen. Clinton by calling her to "call off the dogs":

Who Let the Dogs Out?

Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.

If nothing else, self interest should push her in that direction. Mrs. Clinton did not get the big win in Pennsylvania that she needed to challenge the calculus of the Democratic race. It is true that Senator Barack Obama outspent her 2-to-1. But Mrs. Clinton and her advisers should mainly blame themselves, because, as the political operatives say, they went heavily negative and ended up squandering a good part of what was once a 20-point lead....


It is getting to be time for the superdelegates to do what the Democrats had in mind when they created superdelegates: settle a bloody race that cannot be won at the ballot box. Mrs. Clinton once had a big lead among the party elders, but has been steadily losing it, in large part because of her negative campaign. If she is ever to have a hope of persuading these most loyal of Democrats to come back to her side, let alone win over the larger body of voters, she has to call off the dogs.

Global Food Crisis

The sudden food inflation is causing real hardships for poor people across the globe. The dramatic increase in grain prices puts a lot of pressures on families making $2/day or less.

Global Food Crunch

Baby Boomers Against McCain

Don't trust anyone over 70!

Pope blames American culture for Catholic Problems

It's no irony that Ratzinger stood next to Bush while he blamed America's "depravity" for his church raping boys. With a straight face, while wearing designer Prada shoes that cost more than an average Peruvian family's income, he said that promiscuity in America forced priests to rape boys.

Of course, he made no mention of his own role in sheltering those priests, or of him shipping Cardinal Law to Rome to a cushy sinecure far away from the legal troubles he caused in the US. Instead of doing time in prison where he belongs, Law is now serving as head of La Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, where he officiated at a funeral service for Pope John Paul II.

To put this in perspective, if a high school principal had learned that a teacher had molested a student, and the principal merely transferred the teacher to another class to cover up the scandal, that principal would be in prison today. Instead, Cardinal Law is living La Dolce Vita in Rome. Ratzinger is like the Superintendent telling the parents of those abused children that if the kids weren't dressed so sluttily, the teachers wouldn't have raped them.


Blaming the Victims

Barack Obama in Raleigh, NC

Just brush off the negativity.

TPMtv: Stupidest Guy on Earth Speaks Out

By his logic, the US should invade China, because it poses more of a threat to us than Iraq ever did.

Bosnia and Back Again, starring Sen. Hillary Clinton-TRAILER

A tale of lies and contradictions.

Gore Updates Slideshow on Climate Crisis

Al Gore updated his Oscar and Noble Prize winning slideshow to demonstrate the dramatic disappearance of the Polar Ice Caps, which may be gone by Summer 2013.


Gore Talks Climate Crisis

The Buck Keeps Going

Bush finally unveils his plan for Iraq: Pass the buck.

After 5 years of no post-invasion plans, Bush has finally revealed that his intention all along was to do nothing productive. He expects the future president, McCain or Obama, to solve it for him.

Truman: The buck stops here!
Bush: It ain't my problem!

Bush Passes the Buck

Obama criticizes Iraq war on 1/18/05 at Rice conf. hearing

Contrast Obama's insights with Rice's canned statements. Who would you rather have running our foreign policy?

Worst...President....EVER

Bush has stated multiple times that "history will vindicate" his presidency. For that to happen, he will have to wait for at least one new generation of historians.

A survey of his contemporary historians shows they are less than impressed with him. A full 98% chose "failure" when asked if his Presidency was a success or failure. When asked who was the worst president, 61% stated "Bush". In contrast, in 2004, only 12% rated him "worst ever".

“It would be difficult to identify a President who, facing major international and domestic crises, has failed in both as clearly as President Bush,” concluded one respondent. “His domestic policies,” another noted, “have had the cumulative effect of shoring up a semi-permanent aristocracy of capital that dwarfs the aristocracy of land against which the founding fathers rebelled; of encouraging a mindless retreat from science and rationalism; and of crippling the nation’s economic base.”

All in all, it maybe a long time before history books sing Bush's praises, unless the Texas Board of Education selects them all.

Worst President Ever

McCain flunks Iraq Current Events Quiz

Last week McCain demonstrated that he did not know the difference between a Sunni and Shiite. He also falsely accused Iran of training Al Qaeda, which even Joe Lieberman corrected him on.

This week, he is confused about the cease-fire, stating that Al Sadr asked for it and calling that a victory, when in fact Maliki asked for it. By McCain's logic, that makes Sadr the winner in this round. The fact that Iran is the key player in this, not the US, underscores who the defeat of Saddam Hussein has weakened US influence in the region and strengthened Iran.

If McCain is going to make Iraq his primary issue, he should at least get the basic concepts done. He has already admitted that "economics isn't his thing". He has demonstrated that even he cannot live by the McCain-Feingold law. Now he is demonstrating that foreign policy "isn't his thing." For a guy with 30 years in Washington, he seems pretty out of touch and out of his depth.