TBogg:

I know that we’re all supposed to join hands and pull together for a greater more progressive tomorrow and yadda yadda yadda…. but when it comes to Hillary Clinton, fuck that noise. My contempt for her has reached the Lieberman line.

There is one thing that I truly believe in and that is fairness. You may not like the rules, but once you agree to them, you play by them. Hillary Clinton can’t even manage to do someting as simple as that.

The Lieberman Line — Classic.

Clintonista counterpoint:

Delegates should be thinking about one thing and one thing only and it’s not the rules.

Oh yes she did:

Clinton compares the Florida and Michigan fight to civil rights movement.

Hillary Clinton compared her effort to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to epic American struggles, including those to free the slaves and win the right to vote for blacks and women.

“This work to extend the franchise to all of our citizens is a core mission of the modern Democratic party,” she said. “From signing the Voting Rights Act and fighting racial discrimination at the ballot box to lowering the voting age so those old enough to fight and die in war would have the right to choose their commander in chief, to fighting for multi-lingual ballots so you can make your voice heard no matter what language you speak.”

Just appalling. There ought to a law similar to Godwin’s law when self-interested egomaniacs invoke the civil rights movement to further their own obsessive quests for power.

Call it “Sharpton’s Law,” or something.

Rocky!!! Rocky!!! Rocky!!!

Here’s hoping for the knockout …

Hillary has an explanation about why video of her landing in Bosnia doesn’t show her dodging sniper fire:

Sen. Hillary Clinton said she “misspoke” last week when she gave a dramatic description of her arrival in Bosnia 12 years ago, recounting a landing under sniper fire.

Clinton was responding to a question Monday from the Philadelphia Daily News’ editorial board about video footage of the event that contradicted her assertion that her group “ran with our heads down” from the plane to avoid sniper fire at the Tuzla Air Base.

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“I say a lot of things — millions of words a day — so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement,” she said.

A misstatement? She meant to say “I casually stood on the tarmac and pretended to kiss a little girl” but accidentally said “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

She should have just said she “misremembered” the whole thing. Happens all the time — just ask Roger Clemens.

Larry David on the new, Cheney-esque incarnation of Hillary Rodham Clinton:

How is it that she became the one who’s perceived as more equipped to answer that 3 a.m. call than the unflappable Obama? He, with the ice in his veins, who doesn’t panic when he’s losing or get too giddy when he’s winning, who’s as comfortable in his own skin as she’s uncomfortable in hers. There have been times in this campaign when she seemed so unhinged that I worried she’d actually kill herself if she lost. Every day, she reminds me more and more of Adele H., who also had an obsession that drove her insane.

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I watched, transfixed, as she took the 3 a.m. call…and I was afraid…very afraid. Suddenly, I realized the last thing this country needs is that woman anywhere near a phone. I don’t care if it’s 3 a.m. or 10 p.m. or any other time. I don’t want her talking to Putin, I don’t want her talking to Kim Jong Il, I don’t want her talking to my nephew. She needs a long rest. She needs to put on a sarong and some sun block and get away from things for a while, a nice beach somewhere — somewhere far away, where there are…no phones.

Rasmussen Reports: 42% Want McCain to Answer 3:00 a.m. Phone Call

Before Hillary Clinton was declared the winner in Texas, most American voters had read, seen, or heard about her 3:00 a.m. telephone commercial. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 43% had seen at least part of the commercial which was played incessantly on news networks and other outlets for days. Another 16% had heard something about it and the overwhelming majority (81%) correctly identified Hillary Clinton as the candidate whose campaign ran the commercial (see the commercial).

The commercial was credited as one factor enabling Clinton to turn her campaign around in Texas last week. But, 42% of all voters said the person they’d most want to answer the phone was John McCain. Among all voters, 25% picked Clinton and another 25% named Obama as the person they’d want in the White House when a foreign policy crisis call arrived.

I suppose this only shows the obvious: A Democrat playing into Republican bread-and-butter fear-pimping is eminently self-defeating, and trying to make “experience to be Commander in Chief” the key metric in the Presidential campaign is not very smart either, when the Republican Candidate has 26 years in Congress to your 8, and more than 20 years service in the military to your none.

Serving on WalMart’s board isn’t going to compare all well with that graduating from Annapolis and serving in the United States Navy.

Clinton has almost singlehandedly framed an issue which is sure to be one of the chief GOP bludgeons against the Democratic nominee in November. You’re doing a heckuva job, Hillarie.

Being a selfish, stupid, short-sighted and Cheney-esque fearmonger is no way to go through life, Senator Clinton.

. . . . But in these cases
We still have judgment here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poison’d chalice
To our own lips.

Via TS at Putz, we hear that Hugh Mantits has been overheard saying:

Senator Obama is Jimmy Carter, without the experience. Carter, without the United States Naval Academy education.

It seems Hewitt is distressed at Obama’s having to attend community colleges like Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard (where he earned his J.D. magna cum laude) rather than Annapolis.

As for “the experience,” I think George Bush proved definitively that a short stint as governor of a redneck state doesn’t prepare one overmuch for the responsibilities of being President of the United States.

As for the anti-cassandric qualities of Hewitt, well, TS has already nailed that one: “This is like an Al Gore endorsement times infinity.”

Barack Obama Raises the Dead (SFGATE)

If Sen. Barack Obama wants to bring America together again, what better way than getting the Grateful Dead back together again?

The famously feuding surviving members of the band showed up Monday night for an primary-eve Obama rally at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, the first time since 2004 that former bandmates Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart have performed together.

Sitting under a sign with the familiar skull and lightning bolt emblem that read “Deadheads for Obama ‘08,” the three living Dead all agreed the Illinois Democrat was their man. They said the fourth member, drummer Bill Kreutzmann, also was an Obama supporter and would have joined the party except for a previous engagement in Hawaii.

“I think that we all knew Obama was the guy for us, but we hadn’t talked about it because we’d all been doing our own thing,” said bassist Lesh, whose 18-year-old son, Brian, has been working as an Obama volunteer.

“We knew instinctively, intuitively that we were all together on this. We came together, and we’re doing it,” said guitarist Weir, who wore an Obama button pinned to the lapel of his sport coat.

Photo:Rolling Stone

The Set List

DEAD HEADS FOR OBAMA
The Warfield
San Francisco, CA
February 4, 2008

I.
Playing in the Band*>Brown-Eyed Women†, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo†>New Minglewood Blues*, Come Together*

II. (Acoustic)
Deep Elem Blues, Friend of the Devil, Deal, Ripple

III.
China Cat Sunflower*†>The Wheel*†>The Other One*>Sugaree* Eyes of the World*†>Throwin’ Stones*>Iko Iko>*†>Playing reprise*†

E. U.S. Blues*†%

Bob Weir, guitar and vocals; Phil Lesh, bass and vocals; Mickey Hart, drums and vocals; John Molo, drums; Jackie Greene, guitar, keyboards and vocals; Steve Molitz, keyboards and vocals.

* with Mark Karan, guitar; †with Barry Sless, pedal steel guitar; %with Hippie Bill, flag
(Courtesy Dead.net)