"This was the voice of moderation until 13 Sept, 2025"
by Katherine Oh, this isn’t cool: A vow to give the boot to criminal aliens has become an almost daily part of the New York senator’s presidential campaign spiel on overhauling the immigration system. "Anybody who committed a crime in this country or in the country they came from has to be deported immediately, with … Read more
by hilzoy (1) As has already been noted in comments, Ted Kennedy will endorse Obama on Monday. Backstory here. Marc Ambinder is reporting that Kathleen Sebelius will endorse him on Tuesday. [UPDATE: Missed this, earlier: “The disclosure also comes the same weekend that the House’s highest-ranking Latino, California Rep. Xavier Becerra, also announced that he … Read more
by hilzoy There’s a peculiar post up at Bizarro World, cleverly called: Democrats: The Party Of The Klan?, which pretty conclusively demonstrates that Erick, who wrote it, actually does live in an alternate universe: “They are always claiming that Republicans are racist, but it is looking more and more like the Democratic Party, to its … Read more
by publius From a purely rational perspective, it’s odd that so many conservative pundits (commenters, etc.) find Obama so much preferable to Clinton. On everything from national security to trade to domestic economics, I suspect a Clinton administration would be far more to their liking than an Obama one. Clinton contempt, however, is not exactly … Read more
by publius Josh Marshall poses a challenge: “try to explain this”: Seems pretty clear to me — Clinton is implying that Obama won because he’s black, just like Jackson did. And, his larger implication is that this victory doesn’t matter for that reason. Now, he seems to catch himself halfway through, but the implication seems … Read more
by hilzoy The major networks have called the South Carolina primary for Obama. I don’t know what the final margins are, though I just heard it described as a “rout” on MSNBC. Given the exit polls and a bit of quick math, Obama has to have gotten over 50% of the vote, while Clinton and … Read more
by hilzoy I’m with Josh Marshall on Hillary Clinton’s attempt to get the Michigan and Florida delegates seated: “The Clinton camp really needs to be shut down on this new gambit of theirs to muscle the party and the other candidates into seating the Michigan and Florida delegate slates. And let me be very clear … Read more
by publius Though non-DC people may not care about this, I noticed in the Post that the FTA has abruptly reversed course on running the Metro (subway) line out to Dulles. This extension would, of course, help on a number of fronts. Not only would it make traveling to Dulles easier (which is miserable via … Read more
by hilzoy This is too perfect not to share. Via Steve Benen, Tim Noah at Slate, quoting a forthcoming book by Jacob Weisberg: “In an April 1995 memo, Bush invited his staff to come to his office to look at a painting. … The picture is a Western scene of a cowboy riding up a … Read more
by Katherine "What is your view of the first Clinton administration’s practice of "extraordinary rendition"? Anyone reading the comments knows I support Obama in the primaries. But this isn’t a cheap "gotcha" question. I honestly don’t know the answer. As far as I can tell, Clinton has been asked about rendition exactly once during this … Read more