Good session last night on Rachel English’s Late Debate on RTÉ Radio 1…though not much of a chance to get a dialogue going with Niall O’Dowd, who really needed to be asked how much Kool Aid he’d already quaffed in the Clinton bunker. Niall Stanage, who’s been doing some really good stuff at the New [...]

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Bitter, much?
The Washington Post columnist Marie Cocco shares the aftertaste some feminists (though not, apparently, Naral) are feeling about Hillary Clinton’s all-but-failed presidential bid (John Edwards turned up at the end of the party to turn out the lights; roundup of effects from the blogger who had the scoop hours early), including this choice tidbit:
I [...]

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Today is the Day of Jubilee. It’s over. (Probably.)
Matt Drudge went first. Then Tim Russert, Chuck Todd, then Pat Buchanan and Karl Rove. Then Politico’s Ben Smith.
Clinton has cancelled her public schedule for today.
Ben Smith gets to the deep logic of why the race is over. By withstanding six weeks of Freak [...]

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We’re so fond of Slate.com’s discovery of the widget - and this particular deathwatch - that we thought we’d give it our support. Yeah, we know it’s cheesy. And the analysis could be better. But when the boat finally sinks beneath the waves, it’ll be like the credits finally rolling on that horror film with [...]

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Seriously. Is it irony to announce your anti-poverty czar plan the same day everybody learns that there are only 14,000 people in America who made more than you in the past 8 years? Or is it just the Clintons?
My favourite bits - the $475,000 in one day for two speeches in Canada, and the [...]

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Samantha Power is half right. Hillary isn’t a monster. But she is displaying the unkillable quality of something far worse:

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Cross-posted from Telegraph Brassneck:
Samantha Power, the Irish-born foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama and self-proclaimed “genocide chick”, expects she’ll get the “guillotine” from the Obama campaign today after calling Hillary Clinton “a monster”, she told an interviewer on state-owned RTÉ radio in Dublin this morning.

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Quick-moving meme of the day…Obama’s lips say no. But his fans say…maybe?
Would this mean the end of identity politics as we know it?
FWIW, I’m thinking…no…and a long fight is good.

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How can you not love Slate?

Came for the breezy, smart-but-funny analysis of John Dickerson about last night. Stayed for the wonderful column by Jeff Greenfield that will keep me smiling til Obama’s nomination - the Rosetta Stone of American presidential politics: Bugs Bunny always defeats Daffy Duck. Even if posted at an odd time - [...]

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So, with skills only slightly better than a dart-throwing chimp (I slept soundly the night of the New Hampshire primary - doh) here’s the predictions for today’s primaries:
Ohio - Clinton +6
Texas - Clinton +1
Vermont - Obama +25
Rhode Island - Clinton +7

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