The New Republic

I was thinking a little bit more about Geraldine Ferraro's sisterly defense of Hillary Clinton, and it really is kind of shocking she'd make it. That's becase when Ferraro ran for veep in 1984, she actually was subjected to some borderline--and sometimes outright--sexist remarks. READ MORE >>

On the heels of its box office smash Politics of Parsing video, the Edwards campaign has issued a "correction"--which is really just a way of keep the anti-Hillary ball rolling.   READ MORE >>

I have no idea why the Clinton campaign wants to go back to a year that wasn't a very good one for Democrats, but in the last few days Hillary has not only rolled out Walter Mondale to give her his endorsement, she's turned to Fritz's old runningmate to play the gender card for her. From today's NYT: READ MORE >>

Sticking with the theme of anti-Hillary videos, this one from the Edwards campaign--which continues to beat the 'politics of parsing' drum--is pretty effective. A couple minor qualms: Couldn't the Edwards people have found a way to leave Russert out of it? And I think the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' music would have made for a better soundtrack. --Jason Zengerle  READ MORE >>

Following up on Mike's point over on the Stump about Hillary's new victim posture--and his question about whether it will play in a presidential election--I see, via TPM, that Obama is taking this issue head-on. Here's a snippet from an interview he did this morning on NBC:   READ MORE >>

From an email statement sent out by Edwards campaign communications director Chris Kofinis: "All the distractions in the world won’t undo the fact that on Tuesday night millions of Americans saw John Edwards speak honestly and directly, while Senator Clinton once again took multiple positions on multiple issues. We understand that the Clinton campaign isn’t happy about that, but instead of smoke and mirrors, how about some truth-telling? Forty-eight hours after the debate, we have lots of excuses, but we still don’t have a yes or no answer to a yes or no question. READ MORE >>

This Washington Post article about a bunch of recently released internal memos Donald Rumsfeld wrote while he was Secretary of Defense has a lot of good bits. (And how could it not? According to the article, Rumsfeld wrote 20 to 60 of these memos, called "snowflakes," a day. That's a lot of material to choose from.) But, for my money, this is the best one: READ MORE >>

I noticed that no one here has noted the passing of Robert Goulet. Maybe it's kind of sad that for a good number of people--including me--his greatest legacy will be some college basketball commercials he did for a cable sports network. But when you watch the actual commercials again, you realize it's not such a bad legacy after all. READ MORE >>

It looks like Bill Richardson is first in line. From the AP: Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson says he regrets the negative tone taken by 2 of his rivals in their criticism of front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton. The New Mexico governor has chided Barack Obama and John Edwards in their efforts to portray Clinton as beholden to special interests. READ MORE >>

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