Glenn Greenwald’s Hissy Fit

As a candidate Barack Obama created a terrible box for himseslf.  He could placate his leftard base and abandon an effective war on terror, or he could placate his base, and thus imperil both the nation’s safety and his own

James at OTB:

Having initially been highly skeptical of Hillary Clinton’s appointment as Secretary of State, partly on the basis that she had neither diplomatic experience nor a diplomatic temperament, I feel obliged to pass on this observation from

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read on the ‘shere… Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.

• I shouldn’t have to tell you the amount of heat I’m taking for my stand on Unions. Boortz, today touches on this, too…

In war, and politics, everything is expendable.  It one time, BO needed the Trinity Baptist Church to establish his political blackness.  Well BO got his blackness and he has now thrown the Trinity Baptist Church under his campaign bus:

ABARDEEN,

You got to admit one thing about the Clintons.  They are persistent.   If their lies get exposed, they still keep on telling them.   In fact, Jake Tapper, ABC News, goes so far as to footnote, B.J.’s continuing lies about

• I wasn’t exactly goig through withdrawal symptoms over the weekend, while the site servers got moved physically… but damned near that. At least a dozen times I saw something that screamed out to be written up for the blog, and

Is Barack Obama a middle of the road, moderate, politician who can bring the two Americas of John Edwards together?   In a word, no!   However BO plays one on the campaign trail.    Kenneth P. Vogel, Polito,

During his first

• McQ has an examination of the money situation and Big Oil. Nice…. and worthy, but it doesn’t tell the rest of the taxation story. Note the comments. Sounds like I should be tapping that source from API that wrote me

Lots of stuff going on over the weekend, not a bit of it earthshaking, or unexpected.

• Like McQ at Q&O, I find myself watching closely thetrainwreck that is NORK.  You had to know this kind of thing was coming,

• Honorable Mention at OTB’s Caption Contest. You know, I wonder how many people didn’t get that one. I see Reader got one, too.
  
• Well, all the arguments about how Wrights views are not Obama’s, and that they’re not working

One Edward Wasserman writing in the Miami Herald argues,” We need online rules:”

As traditional news outfits migrate online to become dot-coms, one of their biggest headaches is how to adapt to the sprawling new frontier of public comment.

So, Obama is going to try to diffuse the race issue he has so far benefitted from. How? By giving a  speech. The trouble with that idea, of course, is that the speech comes almost directly on the heels of

Jersey’s ex governor, James McGreevey, almost makes New York’s ex governor, Eliot Spitzer, seem normal.   If what James McGreevey says is accurate, and in divorce honesty optional, the former first family of New Jersey were all pervs,   Fox News:

Interesting.

 RUSH: This is the fallout from the Spitzer stuff. Los Angeles Times today, columnist Patty Kelly: “Legalize Prostitution.” Yeah, now, wait. That’s just the headline. Listen to this. This is near the end of the peace. “Saying that all

• Snowing in Rochester at the moment. Nothing newsworthy about that, particularly, except that the line of snow as this is being written runs from north and east of here to the south southwest, all the way down to New Orleans.