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We’ll start with Christopher Hitchens wall-to-wall Hill-Bill-bashfest, this time taking on the latest Clintonian race-card play. Frankly, at the end of the day, other than the Clintons’ willingness to destroy a fellow Democrat to win (and let’s face it, this is an endemic problem among most Democrats, who’d rather crucify or burn internal apostates than even argue with Republicans, let alone stand up to them), the policy and even stylistic differences between Sens. Clinton and Obama are at best superficial. Sure, Obama has a better speaking voice and seems more inspiring to many, but to be fair… I think we...

[Ed. note: this is an exceedingly rare “guest post”.] Hi there. If you think I’m the real blogger here, you are mistaken. Although I am thinking about starting my own blog, I really don’t know anything about politics, other than what I hear from my Daddy (who my Mommy tells me is very, very bitter.) I guess I could write my blog about what goes on in my world– a world in which my Daddy wouldn’t last 5 minutes. For one thing, I’d like to see him keep his tamagachi alive for more than an hour. For another, my Daddy...

CNN is projecting that Barack Obama has won the South Carolina primary, and won it big. Stay tuned to see how the bigger Barack’s margin of victory is, the more certain that it will still be spun as a major win for Hillary Clinton, despite her likely distant second place or possibly even third place finish. Our old friend Dick Morris kind of hints at just how this might happen. I’m not calling February 5 “Superfund Tuesday” for no reason, boys and girls: “It’s the Clintons, stupid.”

Words not often associated with Bill or Hillary Clinton… indeed, “restoring honor and integrity to the White House” was the rallying cry of George W. Bush in his campaign against boy scout and demigod, the sainted Al Gore, only to replace the Clinton Administration with not only one of the most incompetent Administration in our lifetimes, but probably the single most cynical and morally debauched in American history, and one that will leave so much perhaps irremediable damage in its wake. Anyway, where was I? Oh yes… Bill and Hill are at it again, trying to pull the ultimate switcheroo...

I could speak about the latest chapter in the sorry saga of the U.S. citizen chosen as “the demonstration project for the elected dictatorshipTM”, Jose Padilla, sentenced to 17 1/2 years more for a nebulous role in a nebulous plot where the jury heard the words “al Qaeda” and “Osama bin Laden” a lot… but Andy Worthington does it far more succinctly than I. The most important case of our life times will now be appealed, and perhaps, no one will pay heed to the fact that all a President needs is enough public hysteria, and he can pick any...

The stock markets in Europe and Asia… duly collapsed, to the tune of around 5%, 7%, declines… which are expected to be reflected in a 3%, 4% decline or thereabouts in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and other American markets tomorrow. And finally, a debate worthy of the name… Let the fur fly, Senators! I feel a little bad for Edwards… but then, third place sucks. Especially in a two-way race. Something to amuse us while we watch our net worths circle the drain, as the government we’re stuck with for the next 364, 365 days is utterly clueless about...

To be fair, it’s a leap year… 366 days… 20 January 2009 at 12 noon– someone who isn’t George W. Bush will be sworn in as the next President of the United States. Whether it’s Clinton or Obama (who now duel it out as to who “won Nevada”… since it seems Sen. Clinton won more votes, but Sen. Obama won more delegates)… well, with any luck at all, one of them will be there at inauguration, or possibly even both (Clinton/Obama in ’08? Obama/Clinton in ’08?)… Meanwhile, Romney won the GOP side in NV, McCain won in SC (Huck just...

As we go into today’s NV caucuses for the Dems (and the SC primary for the Republicans… the Dems will be there… Tuesday?)… Sen. Barack Obama is forced into having to directly challenge the hot and cold running smears coming at him from the Clinton camp. It’s not quite “no more Mr. Nice Guy”… but after whatever-it-was-that-worked-for-her-in-NH… the Obama team simply cannot take anything for granted any longer. In short, transcendent campaign or no, the nitty gritty cheap shots from the Clinton campaign (and now, from the Edwards camp) must be rebutted. A sea-change? Or just a reality check? Well,...

The Baltimore Sun gives us this discussion of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the preacher at Barack Obama’s church, Trinity United in Chicago. The candidate himself regards Rev. Wright as his “spiritual mentor”, and supposedly, BHO’s book title “the audacity of hope” is a phrase originating with Wright. One TD friend recently e-mailed to let me know just how huge a liability Wright’s association with Obama was and will likely become as we move on. Maybe so, but this BaltSun article, at least, is unconvincing on that score. Yes, Wright has the traditional watermarks enabling one to accuse him of anti-semitism...

And so native son Mitt Romney pulls out all the stops to win the GOP Michigan primary, around 39% to McCain’s 30% and Huck’s 16%. Not a terrible surprise, though McCain’s last big chance to put it away before Super-Duper Tuesday is gone, and without the Michigan Mo’, Huck looks good in South Carolina, and just a little later in Florida, Rudy is somehow still in it (God help us all). If Democrats would rather face Mitt in November than McCain, this probably helped that scenario. Who knows where we go now. On the other hand, running quite literally unopposed...