I kinda want to watch HBO’s show tonight about the 2000 recount, but I just can’t subject myself to that. Now that we know the consequences, it’s just too painful to sit through.
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I just wish the Colbert Report had been on this week – my usual antidote to reading the news is to get lightly inebriated and watch Colbert with my boo. Er, not THE Booman, just my boo/man.
20/20 hindsight is too much to bear in this case.
I’m with you, Boo. It was bad enough in real life. If I watched it my head would probably explode like a cartoon thermometer.
I cannot watch it either. Living it was bad enough.
I want pictures from Mars!!! I’m waiting for Phoenix to send us some images!!
Phoenix landed safely – now just waiting for the next phase – an hour from now….
HURRAH! Now the search for water [and life] begins.
It’s just inconceivable to me that are planet is the only one that supports life. We can’t even figure out how molecules come alive. The best scientists can do is suggest that bacteria came here by meteor, and that’s how life came to be on this planet.
For all we know, there’s so much we have no clue about!
I know…we could be Martians?! 🙂
Nah, only James Carville.
I think Cheney is Plutonian, and Pluto was downgraded!!! LOL.
Why my husband has gone into radio silence the last 10 minutes. I’m talking, IMing him, emailing him and nothing. Keep in mind, he’s only in the next room. Last resort, is either the webcam or (gasp!) getting up.
Yeah – I guess that’s more a male thing than a female thing. But I have a science streak in me a mile wide. I’m fascinated by so much!!
We’ve learned a few things being married. He can track all the science stuff, I can track all the political stuff and then we have something to talk about. Otherwise, since I wake up before noon, he’d talk about stuff I had already read/heard about. But he’s breaking the contract…he’s getting into politics. He reads this site, TPM, DailyKos and other blogs regularly. It’s kinda cute when he sends me links to The Field or JJP that I had just finished reading.
Meh, being from Palm Beach County, I was surrounded by the whole thing. I still remember going to downtown West Palm for concerts right across from the big courthouse when it was going on. Don’t really care to relive it, thank you.
I couldn’t watch it either, even if I had HBO.
I’ve been looking forward to “Recount” for a month or two since they started promoting it so heavily. Laura Dern’s portrayal of Katherine Harris is hilarious, from what I’ve seen in previews.
I have no interest in watching it. I have a feeling it’s more for people who didn’t pay much attention then and never thought much more about it since. I do have to say that Laura Dern as Katherine Harris is brilliant casting.
Chris Matthews asked Kevin Spacey about Dern’s performance. “She underplays it,” he answered.
Can’t wait to see it!
I would like for the movie to be a success, but I can’t watch it either and I worry there are too many like me.
I don’t even think I will see War, Inc.
I can’t wait to watch. I have the script and it’s good. Can’t wait to see it. A friend is taping it for me – we’ll watch it next week.
Oh, I want to see War, Inc. Because I hope it gets the Bushies GOOD and I want to see them do it!!!!
MSNBC has a pretty interesting article on the people behind Obama’s campaign.
He really did assemble an awe-inspiring team. I knew Axelrod was good, being the guy who helped engineer John Edwards 1.0. This is on a whole different level, though. Defeating the Clintons has got to be one of the greatest upsets in American history.
I watched it and it waas very painful…I must say the cast was brilliant, but it tore open many wounds for me…WOW…….and now what is happening with Miss Hillary takes on an even more ghoulish energy…
Time for a martini
ConsortiumNews has a good article tonight about the Bush-Clinton (Bush-Clinton) bipartisanship. Here:
http://consortiumnews.com/2008/052508.html
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An excellent piece and accurate analysis of the political movement towards an Obama Presidency in 2009!
In this view, Bill Clinton essentially earned his bones with the Bush family in 1993 when he swept a dustbin full of Republican scandals under the rug – including the Iran-Contra Affair, Iraq-gate and the October Surprise question.
President Clinton may have thought he was being responsible and buying some bipartisan peace. But he actually cemented an incomplete and false history of the Reagan-Bush period, thus denying the American people a thorough understanding of what their government had done over those dozen years. [For details, see Robert Parry’s Secrecy & Privilege.]
Attack Machine
Clinton also freed up the Republican attack machine from playing defense for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, enabling it to go on the offensive against Clinton and his wife. In other words, Clinton’s acquiescence to the Reagan-Bush cover-ups proved to be both wrongheaded and shortsighted.
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Feeling a growing confidence about her inevitability, Clinton chose to reaffirm her hard-line credentials in a Sept. 26, 2007, vote on a resolution sponsored by neoconservative Sen. Joe Lieberman urging President Bush to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guard an international terrorist organization.
By voting with Lieberman, Clinton rejected warnings from Sen. Jim Webb, D-Virginia, that the resolution could pave the way to a wider war. Her vote also reminded many rank-and-file Democrats of her past support for Bush’s Iraq War resolution, causing them to give Obama another look.
On Dec. 17, 2007, a still-confident Bill Clinton offered voters a sense of what bipartisanship meant to Hillary Clinton. He announced that his wife’s first act in the White House would be to send him and George H.W. Bush on an around-the-world mission to explain that “America is open for business and cooperation again.”
BTW, a crucial error by Obama to miss the vote!
… Hillary voted for the measure, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd opposed it, and Barack Obama missed the vote. On the GOP side, John McCain missed the vote.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I agree, Obama should have backed up his criticism of Kyl – Liberman with a negative vote in the Senate. Kind of like sitting on the fence, is it not?
by Jane Smiley:
That’s one way of reconciling oneself with what happened.
Yup, best thing that could have happened.
Can I suggest she take herself to Iraq and explain that individually to the millions of people that are mourning parents, children and siblings? Or, if she can’t spring for the airfare, to the the ten of thousands of Americans doing the same?
Yes, she does seem to be in denial about the sheer scale of the damage that the Bushies have caused.
Still, she does make a good point, in that the Bush presidency may have accelerated changes (end of the Nixon-Reagan political realignment, decline of American empire) that would have taken longer had the 2000 election not been stolen.