All entries for Thursday 01 February 2007

Race for 2008: Dick Morris says…

Dick Morris ran Bill Clinton’s re-election campaign in 1996. He’s since turned on his former boss, and even more so on his former boss’s wife. He gave a speech on Wednesday at the offices of Americans for Tax Reform:

• Although Barack Obama is an “exciting phenomenon,” he is the equivalent of “political stem cells: You can make him into any tissue you want.”

• “It is in the national interest that, if there is a Democratic president, that it not be Hillary.”

• “The Republican field is like the New York Yankees: They’ve got a pitching rotation of really great names who are 45 years old and who probably won Cy Young Awards when they were younger. But they’ll have a sore arm by the World Series and will end up on the [disabled list]. Republicans need to look to the minor leagues.”

• He laid out the political future: “Hillary will be the next president, and she’ll be the worst president we’ve ever seen.” No matter what happens, the situation in Iraq will “assure that the GOP gets massacred in 2008 congressional elections.” In 2010, the Republicans will take back the Congress — “Hillary will give Republicans the same gift she gave them in 1994” — and they’ll win the presidency in 2012, but thanks to demographic shifts favoring Republicans (namely the rising Hispanic and African-American populations), “that will be the last Republican president we’ll ever see.”

From Examiner.com

Christopher Doidge : 01 Feb 2007 14:44 |  Tags: Barack Obama Dick Morris Elections Hillary Clinton Race For 2008 United States |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Why don't the Home Office like 'paedo–pals'?

A good report on The First Post on ‘paedo-pals’, the very crude term for circles of support which have managed to bring sex offenders’ re-offending rates down to zero. Why it hasn’t been extended is a mystery.

Christopher Doidge : 01 Feb 2007 11:23 |  Tags: Home Office News Paedophiles |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Race for 2008: Democrats start bitching already

Senator Joe Biden announced he was running for the Democrat nomination yesterday.

And then promptly put his foot firmly in it. On his rival, Barack Obama, he said:

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”

This went down like a lead balloon, and highlights how carefully people will have to tiptoe around the ‘race issue’ over the next two years. Because Joe Biden clearly didn’t mean he was clean-rather-than-unwashed. One of Obama’s most obvious characteristics is that he’s clean, rather than dirtied by the American political system. He’s new to it. He’s been a Senator for under three years. He’s fresh.

But that’s not how Biden’s remarks go down. And it’ll probably be his only notable contribution to the campaign, even though it was completely innocuous.

Christopher Doidge : 01 Feb 2007 09:33 |  Tags: Elections Race For 2008 United States |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem