What Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Looks like:
Sloppy money management and big debts.
Backbiting and infighting
Advisors who work against the interests of the campaign
Campaign directors who say one thing in 2004 and the exact opposite in 2008.
Saber-rattling and threatening other countries with harsh and unnecessary rhetoric
A First Laddie (his term, not mine) with his own legacy to [...]
Be afraid. Then be angry, and start pushing back. Joe Lauria writes:
Iran is next. Lieberman set up Petraeus to testify last week that Iranian-backed groups are murdering hundreds of American servicemen in Iraq. On Friday Gates called Iran’s influence in Iraq “malign” and Bush said if Iran keeps meddling in Iraq “then we’ll deal with [...]
Just in case you had doubts, please note the following, slipped into today’s news between bitter leaves:
35 Firms OK’d to Bid on Iraq Oil Deals
The office listed 35 companies that it said were qualified. They include, among others, BP PLC, Chevron Corp2., Exxon Mobil Corp1., Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Lukoil Holdings, China National Petroleum Corp., [...]
Predictably, right in the middle of the posturing and positioning to make the case for aggression toward Iran, a press release from NCR-Iran claiming 6,000 new centrifuges installed at Natanz.
Political posturing intended to bolster Bush lunacy. That’s all. Back to regularly scheduled programming.
Technorati Tags: NCR Iran, Natanz, nuclear, posturing, propaganda
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Being watched by the likes of the Bush Administration:
Intelligence centers run by states across the country have access to personal information about millions of Americans, including unlisted cellphone numbers, insurance claims, driver’s license photographs and credit reports, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.
One center also has access to top-secret [...]
There’s a lot of breast-beating in the blogosphere this past week about how many were wrong about the war in Iraq, and why. I especially appreciated John Cole’s candid and honest confession:
I thought I would list what I got wrong:
Everything.
And I don’t say that to provide people with an easy way to beat [...]
