The 527 of the Democratic Party (it's Green)

A Green Party member wrote this site (wrote other community sites, but they ignored it) and had another pro-Obama piece. You've probably seen those because a lot of people have.



Ted Glick was writing mash notes to Barack Obama. That may surprise readers of his previous "Progressive Beware" of Barack piece where he railed against Barack for his support of the nuclear industry and the laughable 'clean coal.' And it might be surprising for those who know that Teddy's a Green and really should be using his time to promote Green candidates. Or his planning to do multiple articles the last weekend before the general election?



I-Need-Attention Benjamin took her tired act to a Hillary Clinton event on Wednesday and still sobs that most of the press didn't identify her in the next day's write ups. Though she never fasted in the summer of 2006, she's always been starving for attention. What better way for a Communist, Green or Democrat (we're never sure what her party i.d. is from day to day) to do so than by screaming like a bag lady about the children of Iraq and Iran at Hillary? Don't hold your breath for Benjman to do the same with Barack.





What's really happening, as Betty's older sister likes to ask?



What's really happening is that the Green Party is demonstrating it is both idiotic and not a real national party.



They're using their limited space to sing the praises and encourage a political candidate from another party. Think hard and tell us what Democratic writer would be rooting for a Republican presidential candidate? Let's use the most generic of Democratic writers, Eric Alterman. Search your brain for his piece on Al Gore or John Kerry in 2000 or 2004 where he wrote in it, "I'm really rooting for Bully Boy." He never wrote those pieces because, whatever his other faults, Alterman's a Democrat and not a complete idiot.



It is idiotic for a Green to write mash notes to Barack.



For starters, there are Greens who will run statewide or municipal races and get little to no press so if the Green writers are so hard for something to write about, they could use this time period to promote candidates like Jason Wallace, an Iraq veteran running on the Green Party ticket for the 11th Congressional District in Illinois. Do they think Wallace and other candidates don't need the attention? Do they think they can wait until months from now to start promoting his candidacy?



Why the hell are Greens picking sides in a Democratic presidential race to begin with?



It's idiotic. The Democratic race for the presidential nomination has come down to two candidates currently locked in a dead heat: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. If you're a third party, you're supposedly hungry for votes. When Greens like Teddy write their I HEART Bambi pieces and rip apart Hillary, when they maintain that Barack will most likely receive the Democratic nomination, they should realize that they are telling any Hillary supporter, should she not receive the nomination, that they don't want their votes. They don't want the votes or the support.



Whichever candidate gets the nomination, there will be some people -- as there always are -- who will say, "I won't vote for ___." Their vote is up for grabs. Green 'leaders' have made it very clear that they are no different from other Hillary Haters and perfectly willing to utilize sexism and smear the first woman candidate for president the country's ever had who's stood a real chance at getting the nomination. Teddy and others love to dismiss her accomplishments and refer to her as "Billary." That's really sexist.



And sends a loud message that Green Party 'leaders' are ASSHOLES.



And dumb ones at that.



Last week, Gina and Krista polled The Common Ills community as to who they would support if Hillary didn't get the nomination and Cynthia McKinney should have had a lock on their votes. She didn't even poll 1%. Some optimists voted undecided (3%) because they were waiting for McKinney to finally disown Teddy's remarks that she was only running for 5% of the vote. 97% stated they would vote for Ralph Nader.



That could have been Cynthia's 97%. She lost it for two reasons. First, stating she was only running for 5% of the vote. Second, by the sexism in both her own campaign and the Green Party's. (Posting an endorsement by a man who's made it his business for over four decades now to smear and ridicule the feminist movement wasn't a wise move.)



People look for cues, they look for signals. And the signal the Green Party has sent by allowing their public losers to be its face has been "We're a Homophobic, Woman Hating Party."



Teddy Glick and I-Need-Attention Benjamin and the Green who e-mailed us have never, EVER called out Barack's use of homophobia to scare up votes in South Carolina. The White Mamas love to call out perceived racism but they ignore sexism and they ignore homophobia. Maybe they're "Green" because they're so full of s**t. We understand it does make the grass grow when used as fertilizer.



Nationally, the Green Party is a disgrace.



A smart party would have been looking to pick off the supporters of whomever does not get the nomination. Unless the Green Party is betting on that person being Hillary, they've played a bad hand, a losing hand, and, let's face it, as Joshua Frank has so often outlined, that's the only hand the national Green Party has to play.



What a pack of losers. When Jess finishes law school, he plans to, if he hasn't left the Green Party, look into legal challenges on a number of the leaders (Green who is e-mailing us, that's why Jess has no interest in talking on the phone with you). He feels they blew 2004 (and that's why he voted for Nader in 2004 and not the Green Party nominee). He feels they blew it by choice and he feels they're blowing 2008 by choice as well.



The rest of us? We can't figure out if they're working so damn hard to shoot themselves in the foot out of trickery or stupidity.



But we do know that a third party, a real one, doesn't exist to promote another political party. We do know that they don't gather support by attacking someone already under attack. We do know that hopping on a high horse to lecture about racism (and not notice the very real racism that has been at play in this campaign cycle) while ignoring overt and admitted homophobia as well as the very prevalent sexism only makes you look like the small-minded hypocrites you are. We do know that stating "most Whites are racists" isn't going to lead the majority of the population to your party.



The reality appears to be that Green media 'leaders' aren't really Greens out of any political party desires. They're 'Greens' because they're Democrats but they want to have a little superiority so they identify as Green. Come election day, they'll vote Democrat and continue to fraudulently (mis)lead the Green Party. Meanwhile actual Greens will wonder why the hell the party never achieves anything?



It's because of the 'leaders.' They're not wanting to build a political party. They want to run a Democratic 527 and pretend they're a political party to the grassroots while really they want to play mini-power brokers in the Democratic Party. "I can deliver X number of people!"



Two-party rule will never be broken by a 'third party' which is nothing but an auxiliary to the Democratic Party. When the Green membership gets fed up enough with their leaders allowing the party to play Democrats Little Sister, they may be able to be a real party. For now, it's all pretend and play acting.



Cynthia McKinney will most likely be their nominee. That's Ms. 5%. That's what she's running for, five percent of the vote, that's what she's defined as 'victory.' Dream small, Cynthia, dream small.



Back when McKinney used to boast that she would run a real race, there was some anger among community members over the fact that Ralph Nader's public flirtation with another run had some of the same Greens writing their 'Please reconsider Cynthia' columns months earlier in attempts to cajole her into reconsidering a run were suddenly dropping Cynthia like a hot potato and embracing Ralph. That did happen. They cheered Ralph like crazy.



Then Ralph, rightly as C.I. pointed out, announced he wasn't going to run on the Green national ticket. That's due to the fact that Ralph Nader wants to run a real campaign. He's not interested in the nonsense that Green 'leaders' are proposing each election cycle: Run for a tiny percent of the vote and don't tick off Big Brother Democratic Party.



But before Ralph made that announcement, when the rush from Cynthia to Ralph took place among Green 'voices,' we called it out here and noted that Cynthia was being treated like she just wasn't good enough. We noted the "she."



So it's really no surprise to see the Green 'leaders' and 'voices' make all their anti-woman statements about Hillary. It's really no surprise because they are a sack of s**t pack of sexists. Cynthia wasn't good enough for them if they could have Ralph. They couldn't have Ralph so they'll settle for Cynthia. And these same voices, who now want to pen column after column on Jeremiah Wright, while saying that it's a non-issue people should stop focusing on, never examined their own racism and sexism at play when they were trying to hump Ralph's leg mere months ago.



We loved the angry posts when Ralph announced his run and that he wasn't seeking the national Green Party's endorsement. We enjoyed their snit-fits. They had already made it clear that Cynthia McKinney, an African-American woman, wasn't good enough for them. Now it appears they're stuck with her. So maybe that's why they're so focused on praising Barack?



Unhappy with their own nominee, they want to lecture others about racism. They ought to look closely in the mirror at their own tired, pale faces before pointing the finger at anyone else.



Cynthia McKinney explored running for the Green Party nomination and then decided against it. When she did they publicly begged her to reconsider. The woman not only ran for the nomination, she switched her party affiliation from Democrat to Green. And yet when there was a chance (C.I. said, as they were drooling, that there was no chance Ralph would run for the national nomination) they could have Ralph, Cynthia was no longer good enough for them and they started penning their mash notes to Ralph. That was the perfect example of the intersection of racism and sexism. So maybe they should consider writing about their own issues because they clearly have a boatload of them.



Especially if you wrote publicly begging Cynthia to reconsider her decision not to run and then you wrote excited mash notes to Ralph publicly, you really have some explaining to do as to how that happened. So if you're serious that you think racism is an issue -- with "most Whites," but not yourself, you might consider writing about the racism and sexism you displayed when you thought the Green Party had a chance at Ralph and rushed to shove Cynthia to the side.



There are rumors that Cynthia's actually using the Green Party run to build another political party (the Reconstructionist Party), if so, good for her. After the way she was treated -- after being begged to run for the nomination -- she shouldn't trust her Green 'friends.'



Rank in file Greens need to, as Jess is doing, stop donating money to the party until the national leadership starts imposing some discipline. No Green 'voice' needs to be cheering on Barack Obama when the Greens will have their own political nominee. If all of the leaders aren't corrupt, they can demonstrate that by making it very clear that the Green Party is not supporting whomever the Democratic nominee is. But we think (including Jess) that the national party won't do a thing. We think that they're not a real political party.



They proved it in 2004 and you could have written that off as bad strategizing but they're already giving every indication that they intend to repeat their party destroying tactics of that cycle.



For the record Teddy couldn't even get the support of the people of New Jersey when running for office. We're not talking votes, we're talking donors. In fact, if you left out his family members across the United States, he had a problem getting donations period. He's a real loser, an established loser. At some point, if the Green Party wants to make clear that they don't set out to be losers, they might try presenting other voices to the public.





Coco Chanel famously said, "Dress shabbily and they remember the dress. Dress impeccably and they remember the woman." The same can be said of the public voices a party choose to utilize.

Remember Otto? The Nation appears to forget

Whether it's Egyptian bloggers or some other persecuted journalist around the world, The Nation magazine likes to pretend it cares. Their motto should be: "We pretend to care a lot."



Now if they really cared, you might ask, wouldn't they note that a journalist who was executed? Especially if the journalist had been a Nation contributor.



In fact, if you read The Nation, shouldn't you expect that a journalist who was executed, one whom the magazine published, would have their name trotted out from time to time?



Strangely, the name Otto Katz isn't enshrined at The Nation.



Maybe the current crew at The Nation would know him by the name of Rudolph Breda? That was one of his many aliases. Simon Katz? Otto Simon? Andre Simone? Anything ringing a bell because he was in and out of The Nation constantly and authored and co-authored many a piece including unsigned editorials. And, of course, the magazine's editor (and one-time owner) Freda Kirchwey was happily joining him at the Sherry Netherland to plan a magazine at one point. Soviet sympathetic, but we digress.



Otto Katz was a Communist. He was also a double or even triple agent. He was implicated in murder. He was frequently denied entry to the US but, when in the US, he could often be found living it up with The Nation. Strange that they would forget him today.



December 3, 1952 he was hanged in the then-Czecholsovlakia. He had gone there thinking he would be a big wheel, having done so much in service of the Communist Party in many countries (including the US, Mexico and France) but Stalin preferred that he be erased. (Not unlike The Nation.)



As a journalist (or propagandist, we'll get to it), Katz was part of a consortium that distributed pieces around the world. A Communist consortium. Other members included Julio Alvarez del Vayo and Louis Fischer. They aren't names that pop up in The Nation today but they wrote for the magazine as well.



Julio Alvarez del Vayo has been so completely vanished that even if you purchase the pricey digital archives subscription, you won't find his 1948 writing on Israel. (Check a bound volume and you will. It does exist.) Someone might want to ask the 'leadership' at the magazine why that is?



Another member of the consortium that The Nation published and tries to forget today was Louis Fisher. He wrote for the magazine from 1923 through 1945 and, get this, he left because Freda was too generous to Stalin.



There's a myth that The Nation refused to publish Communists during the McCarthy era. That's simply not true they were (and are) comfortable publishing Communists as long as the writer will stay in a political closet as so many of those at the top of the magazine over the years have done. We're happy to refute that left meme attacking the magazine as discriminating against all Communists. If it needs more refuting, we can leave the WWII era and bring it up, bit by bit, to today. The magazine lets that myth stand today and, in doing so, does a huge injustice to Kirchwey's strong work calling out McCarthyism and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. But they've always got a candidate to push and have to look 'presentable,' don't they? Might hurt their influence and 'popularity' if they didn't.



Katz was very popular. Not just with The Nation. He hob-nobbed with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and James Roosevelt (FDR's son). (And with Dorothy Parker, FBI informant and film director Fritz Lang, and many others including Marlene Dietrich who knew him by all of his many names.) None of that helped him when he was being tortured and forced to confess. None of that prevented his execution and, of course, none of that prevents The Nation from playing "Otto who?" today.



A year after Katz' execution, the historian Thedore Draper noted, "Otto belonged to the 'it might have happened' school of journalism. It did not matter whether anything was true; it was enough that it could or should have been true; this made it 'politically true' even if it had the misfortune never having happened." As Besty Reed so famously proved recently, that remains the operating principle at The Nation to this day.

Yes, they really are that stupid

Apparently taking a pause from plucking the hairs out of his ass crack, Air Berman contributed "Obama Under The Weather" (May 19th edition of, The Nation's whose table of contents blurb line is this: "The Clinton campaign, bolstered by gotcha-style media, has slandered Bill Ayers and the Chicago charity that shaped Barack Obama's activism." Slandered Bill Ayers?



Is this really where the pathetic magazine intends to go?



Yes, it only has propaganda to sell and Air's the perfect fit for that:





As part of a barrage of guilt-by-association questioning, co-moderator George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about his connection to another Woods Fund board member, Bill Ayers, a former '60s radical and ringleader of the Weather Underground.

[. . .]

Obama responded that he lives in the same neighborhood as Ayers on Chicago's South Side, did not exchange ideas with him on a regular basis and was only 8 when the Weather Underground was violently protesting the war.



First, let's deal with what Barack actually said. It's not that long. But Air summarizes it instead of quoting because he can be more creative via summary. Barack in that debate:



This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn't make much sense, George.



Now, note the moronic Barack said "from" and not "with." The Nation never fixed Bully Boy's grammar for him, they just laughed. But no one's supposed to notice how truly stupid Barack is. Need more clues? Barack called Bill Ayers an English professor when he is an EDUCATION professor. Air Berman write that Barack said Weather was violently protesting the war. Barack said no such thing, he said 40 years ago, while he was 8 years old, detestable acts were engaged in.



Barack's born in 1961. The group started in 1969 and he was eight years old at the time. But they were not a one year organization and they did multiple bombings. Their last known bombing is in September of 1975. Was Barack still eight years old? They bombed the Kennecott Corporation. The same year they bombed a bank in New York. Barack would be 14 in 1975 and living with his grandparents (by his choice) and his grandmother was a vice president in banking. Guess that sailed over his head? Maybe he was stoned on pot at the time? And, for the record, that bombing had nothing to do with Vietnam. The Weather's statement said it was in solidarity with Puerto Rican workers. The bombing of the Office of the California Attorney General (in 1974) wasn't about Vietnam either. It was "solidarity" with the terrorists in the Symbionese Liberation Army -- the six who had been killed. They're the thugs who kidnapped Patty Hearst and robbed banks. The year prior the SLA had shot dead Dr. Marcus Foster, African-American educator. For the 'crime' of? No crime. Just their twisted, sick minds.



When Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers turned themselves in, it was national news, BIG national news, and Barack was in college. Maybe he was too stoned to catch the week long coverage of that?



As for Barack's relationship with Dohrn and Ayers, Larry Johnson (No Quarter) has come the closet to nailing it down (he's not wrong, he's just either not found out everything or not published everything yet): "But Barack Obama is not just 'associated' with Bill Ayers. They have a relationship. Bill Ayers co-founded a foundation in Chicago and named Barack the Chairman. That is more than an association. It is a relationship that started in 1995 and Barack stayed in that job for eight years." Johnson isn't writing of Woods Fund, though Air wishes he was.



Yeah, Air Berman really is that stupid. Be really quiet and he'll return to plucking his butt crack hair.

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers. Hope you told you thanked your mother today. Maybe you couldn't?

If so, those are the breaks. And hey, it's not like you turned on her and told her you wanted to live with her wealty parents. It's not like you disowned her as an adult. It's not like you avoided her in your campaign (and life) to try to be something you're not. Cue up "I'm Living In Shame" by Diana Ross & the Supremes and dedicate it to Barack. Barack, it's not her fault your father was already married when he met your mother. It's not her fault that he believed in being married to many women at the same time. It's not her fault your father's father was the same way or that your father was, by all accounts, a no good drunk and abusive. She's not the one who abandoned you, that was your father. But you certainly took it out on her, didn't you?



This is Howard Wolfson's "HUBdate: Celebrating Mother’s Day" (HillaryClinton.com):



Mother's Day Celebration: Today Hillary and Chelsea celebrate Mother's Day in Grafton, WV, where the holiday originated 100 years ago.
A Mother's Day Wish: In a new video, Chelsea shares some of her fondest memories of her mother, and asks mothers across the country to share their mother’s day wishes with her. Watch here.
Why I Support Hillary: This Mother's Day, the deputy campaign counsel blogs, "It is because of my daughters that I understand what is at stake in this election, and why it is urgent and necessary that we choose for our country the leadership that we deserve...As a mother, what I wish most for my daughters is a bright future. For that, their country needs to get back on course." Read more.
Automatic Delegate Watch: Massachusetts delegate Arthur Powell yesterday announced his support for Hillary.
If You Read One Thing Today: In a Charleston Gazette op-ed today, Hillary writes, "For the past seven years, I know so many of you have felt invisible to our president -- holding your breath at the gas pump and the grocery checkout line; wondering what you'll do when health insurance disappears when a job does; seeing your loved ones who served our country in war ill-served when they return home. I am running for president to stand for you and fight for your dreams and your future." Read more.
"The Vote of a Lifetime" "To [Florence Steen], a woman born seven months before her gender won the right to vote in August 1920, seeing Clinton's name on a presidential ballot and marking her vote nearby was a dream realized …'She was very alert, very serious in studying the ballot,' [her daughter, Kathy] Kraus said. 'And when she marked it, she just kept circling and circling that mark with her pencil.'" Read more.
In Case You Missed It: Only one thing matters; winning the Presidency in November. Hillary Clinton has proven she is by far the strongest candidate and most likely to achieve that victory. How can she convince the Democratic Party delegates? Read more.
On Tap: Tomorrow, Hillary will attend events in Montgomery, Clear Fork, Logan, and Fairmont, West Virginia.


Howard Wolfson's Saturday "HUBdate: Strongest at the Top of the Ticket" (HillaryClinton.com):

Strongest at the Top of the Ticket: Several members of Congress released a letter yesterday to other Democrats touting their support for Hillary, saying she is the strongest candidate to have at the top of the ticket in the fall: "[W]e are convinced that Hillary Clinton has the vision, skills and commitment to make the changes our country needs. As Democrats who have run and won in competitive Congressional districts and battleground states, we believe that Hillary is best positioned to successfully lead the Democratic ticket in districts and states like ours around the country." Read more and more. Click here to view the Power Point presentation.
Automatic Delegate Watch: Yesterday, Texas Congressman Ciro Rodriguez and Pennsylvania Congressman Chris Carney endorsed Hillary. Said Rodriguez, "I believe Hillary Clinton has the experience, vision, and toughness to win a general election and can help expand our Democratic majority in Congress. Not only can she win, I am convinced that she will be a truly great President."
A Mother's Day Wish: In a new video, Chelsea shares some of her fondest memories of her mother, and asks mothers across the country to share their mother’s day wishes with her. Watch here.
Fourth Quarter: Ellen Malcolm writes in a Washington Post op-ed today: "Here we are in the fourth quarter of the nominating process and the game is too close to call...Why on earth should one candidate quit before the contest is finished? Democrats need not be so fainthearted..So why are some Democrats so afraid? We simply need to count every vote, let the remaining states have their say and see the process through to its conclusion." Read more.
WV Endorsement Watch: Former West Virginia Governor Hulett Smith and the State Senate Majority Leader Truman Chafin endorsed Hillary yesterday.
On the Air in OR and WV: In a new Oregon ad, U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson tell voters why they support Hillary. A West Virginia ad demonstrates Hillary's commitment to leveling the playing field against special interests and strengthening America’s middle class. Watch here and here.
Touting Health Care in OR: "Sen. Hillary Clinton used an hourlong visit with Doernbecher Children’s Hospital patients and their families Friday morning to push for her universal health care plan, which she called the ‘unfinished business’ of the nation." Read more.
Previewing Today: Hillary attends a Mother’s Day celebration with Chelsea in New York.

Highlights

This piece is written by Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude, Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix, Kat of Kat's Korner, Betty of Thomas Friedman is a Great Man, Mike of Mikey Likes It!, Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz, Ruth of Ruth's Report, Marcia of SICKOFITRADLZ and Wally of The Daily Jot. Unless otherwise noted, we picked all highlights.


"Cathy's Turn To Blubber" -- Betty's latest chapter. She says, "I delayed Wally, Cedric and C.I.!" She intended to post Saturday morning having gone through several drafts on Friday night but she read what she wrote that morning and "destested" it. She had a promised outing with the kids and no time to start from scratch. So she waited until the afternoon to begin working again. Wally, Cedric and C.I. (who were neither surprised nor angry) wait for her to post on Saturday before their writing goes up. If you read the latest chapter, you'll realize somethings are worth waiting for.

"Roasted Red Potatoes in the Kitchen" -- Trina's cooking and we don't just mean food. Amazing post. Read it and see why.

"No division, no worries for real feminism" -- If Betty hadn't been lating in posting, this never would have been written let alone posted. On Saturdays, early, early in the morning, C.I. does the entries for The Common Ills. They go up on Saturday after whomever is the last to post in the community. (C.I. includes "The following community sites have . . ." on Saturday which allows all sites a link.) When C.I.'s plane landed, Mike (who posts Saturday's entries for C.I.) called C.I. to say nothing was up yet and Betty was writing and thought it would be at least another hour. C.I. said scrap both entries written and "I'll do two as soon as we get back to the house." Mike said, "You want to do one right now? I'll type." C.I. said, "Want to go into the e-mails?" So Mike logged into that, saw Courtney's "IMPORTANT!!!!!" e-mail and read that to C.I. Mike says, "C.I. didn't realize it was going to be so long. I was told, 'Stop me when you're tired of typing.' I was typing as fast as I can and I'm a slow typer. I might have messed up a few things but that's how this one came about." It went up late Saturday (evening on the East Coast) and had it gone up sooner in the week it might have been the most requested highlight by readers of this site. As it is, it made it to the second most requested highlight. Although . . .

"The unathorized history of The Common Ills" -- Marcia's post might have beat it. This went up Friday night and is the third most requested highlight from readers of Third. Marcia's giving the history of The Common Ills community. And naming a lot of names. She intentionally put in "unauthorized." This is a really a strong, strong history (and great post) so be sure to check it out.

"Community coverage" -- And we'll bracket that with this entry by Marcia which really is the book-end to Friday's.

"george mcgovern, start worrying about the after-life" & "Pig George McGovern" -- Rebecca and Ruth weigh in on the idiot and damaging ("and damned fool," says Ruth right now) George McGovern.

"The shoot themselves in the foot crowd" -- Rebecca loves this post by Elaine and says, "As an environmentalist, let me say Lanie's 100% correct."

"McKinney has until Friday and then I'm done" -- Friday came and went and we are done. McKinney's running for president . . . Scratch that. She's running for 5% of the vote. It's the subject of this week's editorial.


"Tuesday and lots of raids" -- Mike thought he'd cover other topics while waiting for Tuesday's primary results. And he did. But then came the Barack supporter's stunt (Mayor of Gary Indiana) of clouding Hillary's victory in Indiana by refusing to turn over the votes until after the next morning's papers had gone to print. They robbed Hillary of her winning headline and they did so intentionally. Thugs. That's all Barack has: Cult Members & Thugs.


"The 1/4 candidate" & "THIS JUST IN! BARACK STILL STRUGGLES!" -- Cedric and Wally on Barack's attempts to 'create' a coalition.

Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Sunset Campaign" -- Isaaiah's comic from Sunday!

"Kat's Korner: This Kind Of Art" -- And we almost Kat's review of Carly's This Kind Of Love. It went up Sunday. That seems forever ago. Be sure to read this.



"Fight for Hillary, she's fighting for us" -- Speaking of Kat, unlike the press, Kat knows Hillary's still in the race.

"gas tax holiday" & "The poll" -- Rebecca and Ruth posting Monday and see if you can spot why we pair the two up here.


"I Hate The War" -- Most requested highlight. C.I.'s Thursday night entry. When Ty told us that, C.I. grumbled, "I don't even remember what I wrote and that was a few days ago." :D

"Oh, those liars" -- Kat on the Liars, the Haters and Trash.


"Hillary, Isaiah, Third" -- Mike breaks down Third and more!

"Politics as usual from Barack" & "THIS JUST IN! BAMBI CHAFES UNDER THE RULES!" -- Wait, he's not supposed to be making backdoor deals with the Teamsters about calling off the Justice Dept if he becomes president. These rules are tricky!

A note to our readers

Hey --
Another Sunday and we've got another edition.

Thank you to Dallas and everyone else who helped out:

The Third Estate Sunday Review's Dona, Jess, Ty, Ava and Jim,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
and Marcia SICKOFITRDLZ.

Here's what we've got:

Best statement of the week -- Hillary got a big laugh from the audience with this joke on ABC's This Week.

Editorial: The Unspeakable Barack Obama -- He's sinkable and he's sinking. Who will tell the people? Not Bill G whose head went soft and mushy when he went to The Nation.

TV: The Beauty & The Grump -- Bill Moyers angling for a nod from Ashton, who knew? Ava and C.I. return to what Moyers returned to Friday, his crime scene. Hard hitting and funny. My favorite line comes is the one that uses "locker room" -- I won't repeat it here in case anyone reads the note first.

Roundtable -- Illustrations by Betty's son. We think in the editing "I" got lost in one of Cedric's statements. We can't find it but we're pretty sure it got deleted. Our apologies.

Bully Boy's Endless Death Machine -- We rip-off C.I. (Jess' idea and C.I. agreed).

The Lies Of Life -- Will there be a part two? Maybe. We were mainly trying to have something completed because Ava and C.I. said, "If we do two pieces, we better not come back to find that everyone else partied while we were working." So we decided to go fictional.

Dear Betsy Reed -- Ava and C.I.'s second piece. Wonderful. We love it. Betsy poses as a 'feminist' and gets called out. She didn't really think she could get away with it, did she? She had to know she'd be called out. She's a lying loser who prevents women from being published in The Nation and now wants to pose as a 'feminist' in order to tear apart Hillary. I'll note that Ava and C.I. really were laughing at her lies. They find her ridiculous. She should be aware that this is them going after her with kids gloves. Next time it will not be so pretty. "Vag" and "vags" is from Juno which Rebecca made them watch late Friday night/Saturday morning. (They say check out Juno now that it's on DVD if you missed it at the movies.)

TV: The candidates quick take -- And we have a third piece. Ava and C.I. were begged, as we were editing, to write this. They hadn't planned to and didn't take notes. They call it a "quick take." "It is not a review, it is not a commentary," states Ava.

Campaigns -- Nader and Clinton. Again, we hope to have a Nader button illustration by next week. Hope.

Breaking Barack news -- While we were editing, Ava and C.I. pointed this out and we wrote it quickly. It's about the Meet The Press interview and we sold them on doing a third piece by stating, "You know come next Sunday, everyone's going to expect you to comment on the interviews otherwise." So to get it out of the way and not have anything to carry over to next weekend, they agreed.

Highlights -- Mike, Kat, Betty, Elaine, Rebecca, Marcia, Cedric, Ruth and Wally wrote this. We thank them for it.


-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.

Best statement of the week

In response to George Stephanopoulos comment that Rush Limbaugh telling Republicans to vote for her, "He's always had a crush on me."

Editorial: The Unspeakable Barack Obama

"Obama Faces Test in Asserting His Own Brand of Patriotism" screams the headline to Alec MacGillis' front page story on this morning's Washington Post. You got to wonder what the hell the DNC and the super delegates supporting Bambi are thinking? The Democratic Party is in the midst of a primary to determine who their presidential candidate will be and one of the last two nominees standing has a question mark next to "patriotic." They think this bodes well for the future?



Repeating, page one of today's Post. In today's Boston Globe, Mark Sendor writes in to ask how Barack Obama can be trusted noting: "If Obama has trouble handling the petty demagoguery of Wright, who just has a big mouth, how will he handle the truly dangerous demagoguery of tyrants such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who may back up their toxic views with violence and horrific weaponry?"



At CNN, John King analyzes recent polls and finds:



• Six in 10 Americans have an unfavorable opinion of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's former pastor, according to the latest CNN Opinion Research Corp. survey.
• Nearly four in 10 Americans (38 percent) have an unfavorable opinion of Obama in the latest CNN polling, up 10 percentage points from the beginning of the year.
• Half of Americans think a John McCain presidency would bring different policies than the Bush administration.
• And in a new Pew Research Center national survey, Clinton's lead among whites who didn't attend college has increased to 40 percentage points from 10 in March.



Meanwhile Barack's still trying to convince people he's not an elitist. When not insulting voters on campaign stops by propping a foot up on a table they're seated at (and flashing his crotch, we're sure John Nichols drools). And though he rarely misses a moment to insist that Jeremiah Wright is a dead issue (a point he insists upon making and remaking in interview after interview), the fact remains that when on Letterman to poke fun at himself last week, he avoided the topic.



Despite the non-stop slobbering by alleged 'journalists,' despite the non-stop smears against Hillary, Barack can't close the deal. No one's ever had an easier ride in a primary campaign and no one's ever repeatedly blown it so many times. But that's Barack, the L-O-S-E-R who will most likely drag the Democratic ticket down in November.



It really is all about him and you didn't have to catch all the coverage last week to grasp that. An article, the Today interview, his Tuesday statements about Wright, it all made clear that Barack finally broke with the man who damned the country over . . . his comments on Barack. And just think, it only took him twenty years (see Cedric & Wally's "Want an answer? Give him 20 years""THIS JUST IN! SUPERIOR JUDGEMENT?") and a personal insult to finally make a decision!



"How dare he?" was the subtext over and over. Wright said Barack was just a politician and heaven forbid anyone point out the Professional Virgin was in fact a politician of many years. It's easy to forget that fact since Barack's record is so sleight. And also because he still refuses to release his papers from when he was in the Illinois state legislature.



What about that? He claims he didn't have a full staff back then. It's all a mess, he tells the press. But isn't he the fundraiser supreme? Doesn't he have tons of money on hand? Seems like he could have used some of that to pay a few staffers to organize those records and release them, especially after he attempted to build a conspiracy around the Clintons' tax returns.



But that's Barack, holding others to a standard and expecting everyone to hold him to none. This is, after all, the candidate who's always whining about how unfair Hillary's campaign is. And his surrogates/thugs take to their keyboards to say, "She's ruining the race for the Democratic Party!"



They really mean she's risking his coronation.



If they were really concerned that either he or she could be hurt by the prolonged campaign, they'd be calling out Barack's latest comment that Hillary's "phony." You think the GOP won't run with that if she gets the nomination? "Even Barack Obama called her phony!" But his thugs only get their noses out of joint when it has to do with their lover-boy.



Barack's run a divisive campaign. He's nothing but pretty words (screw you, Betsy the Bimbo Reed). At least on top. Underneath, he's just another Chicago politician, raised to fight dirty, raised to smear. Just a new face on the Richard Daley political machine.



Hint, when your patriotism is so much in question that The Washington Post front-pages it, you're really not as electable as your thug machine works to make you appear. The bloom fell off the rose and all that's left are the Claire McCaskill's with their noses up Barack's ass swearing they smell lavender.



It's becoming obvious that the only scent wafting over Barack is failure. The only question left is how loony will the crazed White Mamas and Airy Boys of The Left go when the unspeakable starts getting spoken more loudly?