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As a working class hero myself, I totally see what he is talking about. No Easy Way Out was always completely underrated IMO. Men…

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The Harvard Human Rights Journal has a critique of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 which McCain sponsored and which is the basis for McCain's argument that torture is already illegal.…

So McCain doesn't vote against the waterboarding ban.

don't rely on Sullivan's interpretation – have a read of what McCain actually says which is at the bottom of the post. His view is that torure is already illegal under current statutes. (which is what many critics of Bush have been…

...pressing for Democrats to seat the disputed delegations from Florida and Michigan, who held their primaries in January in defiance of Democratic Party rules.

This is a little misleading. The issue would have to be put before the rules committee who would then make a decision. It's not in defiance…

With every delegate precious, Mrs. Clinton’s advisers also made it clear that they were prepared to take a number of potentially incendiary steps to build up Mrs. Clinton’s count. Top among these, her aides said, is pressing for Democrats to seat the disputed delegations from Florida and…

But neither of them can admit it before they've lost....

If you really want to win, and voters are closely split...…

My older boy is a confirmed Obama fan, and ventured the other day that "African American people are just smarter at the job than women."

If only Cleopatra Jones were running!

Because I'm far too busy and important to do my own research, can someone please tell me what the likelihood…

The whole shtick about "human rights" is that they apply to all... with no preference or discrimination...

The categories we often think about that shouldnt be…

I think it's one of the reasons I don't like a federation not having more control. Being gay/non-white/an immigrant/female can be a completely different experience from one state to the other

Hum... there might be one or two gay couples legally married in the Commonwealth of Mass. who are pleased…

I wonder if Hillary will get a chance to clear her good name in this area, since the name "Clinton" is attached to two explicitly homophobic pieces…

I am in contact with a few US lesbian feminists, most of whom are pretty critical of both Obama and Clinton. They tend to say neither would fix the broken state of US politics, as they are both…

It largely has ... and CNN has called Maryland for Obama and McCain, with 0% of the votes counted :-)

Damn, who do I call in Atlanta for the Lotto numbers. :)

Meanwhile, if CNN's Virginia exit poll pans out...

It largely has ... and CNN has called Maryland for Obama and McCain, with 0% of the votes counted :-)

Or you pick the rat-bastard you'd rather have down the hall where their potential for trouble-making is limited. About the only reason I can see for Eisenhower selecting Richard Nixon.

And then when it was his turn, Nixon picked Spiro Agnew.

This was a ratchet effect which could only go…

my opinion of McCain will take a serious nosedrive if he starts singing from that hymnbook

Funny you should mention singing.

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And look at the field there were running against Eisenhower for the nomination in 1952 — including California Governor Earl Warren, who resigned the next year to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. (A move Eisenhower allegedly described as ""the biggest damned-fool mistake I ever made.") It's pretty…

Skill set seems often to be a secondary (or lower) consideration.

Except for the incumbent.

I understand that, traditionally, the Deputy is chosen to fill the skill gap of the President...

Or you pick the rat-bastard you'd rather have down the hall where their potential for trouble-making is limited. About the only reason I can see for Eisenhower selecting Richard Nixon. Apart from their anti-Communist…

Skill set seems often to be a secondary (or lower) consideration.

Because I'm far too busy and important to do my own research, can someone please tell me what the likelihood of Clinton taking Obama for VP or vice versa is, depending on who wins the nomination?

I understand that, traditionally, the Deputy is chosen to fill the skill gap of…

If you can play the guitar, perhaps we could get a gig

Can I play the guitar? I don't know – I've never tried.

It hardly matters in any case. No vote... even though the eventual winner of the US election will happily declare herself to be the leader of the free world.

If you can play the guitar, perhaps we could get a gig playing one of the innagural balls. After that Grammy…

Now that McCain's pretty much sewn-up the GOP nomination, Dems will have to be thinking which candidate presents the best alternative? An alternative candidate or a non-alternative? Perhaps that's a little unkind to Clinton but on several issues, McCain and Clinton occupy similar territory.…

It hardly matters in any case. No vote... even though the eventual winner of the…

Interestingly for me, all the vox-pops I've seen unerringly refer to Obama's cross party appeal and maybe this is why he's doing so well since Super Tues?

Well, to be fair to Clinton she does have those vital endorsements from Coulter and Limbaugh. :) Your mileage may vary on whether…

Perhaps Graeme can advise if the remaining primaries permit independents to vote for Dems?

As best as I can figure it, the remaining races are:

Open primaries:
Idaho
Indiana
Mississippi
Montana
Rhode Island (semi-closed)
Vermont
Virginia
Washington (already held caucuses)
Wisconsin

Closed primaries:
D.C.
Kentucky
Maryland
Nebraska
North Carolina
Ohio…

Hillary vs. Obama?

This post says it all.

Hells bells this is good writing! Thanks Deborah, this blog looks like a great read.

Obama's obvious charisma and passion are enormously attractive but surely no one thinks that he writes all his own material? Surely no one thinks MLK, JFK or…

Obama supports the complete repeal of DOMA. Clinton doesn't. I don't have a clue where she stands on 'don't ask, don't tell', because it seems to morph depending on the time of day and which fundraiser she's at.

I don't think you need to be a gay man to think…

This post says it all.

Thanks. I do look at his record – and I've got say this as a gay man. Obama supports the complete repeal of DOMA. Clinton doesn't. I don't have a clue where she stands on 'don't ask, don't tell', because it seems to morph depending…

This post says it all.

As a very dear sparring partner from a politics list I'm on — and a self-described 'raging lesbian-feminist liberal from your nightmares' — tersely puts it:

"Yes, but not her."

Now there's a weird coincidence. I woman I worked for, a while back, and a raging hetro who herself once…

Still would like to see a woman President, though, eh?

As a very dear sparring partner from a politics list I'm on — and a self-described 'raging lesbian-feminist liberal from your nightmares' — tersely puts it:

"Yes, but not her."

Is McCain able?

And if he were your brother would you be game to be his keeper?

Either support the 'new broom' (Obama), or the 'smart political operator by virtue of having had a lifetimes involvment in it' (Clinton).

No mention of ethnicity…

"African American people are just smarter at the job than women." Where to start parsing that one??

Hee! It's so right on in one way, and so horribly reactionary in another!

Obama backed off the death penalty thing slightly, Tim, in saying something about the most heinous crimes deserving the…

Also, in what I've seen, Barack and his wife talk about unity a lot, whereas Hillary says things like

I am ready to go toe to toe…