tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post3383842591698249979..comments2024-03-09T03:20:20.004-05:00Comments on Tenured Radical: Briefly NotedTenured Radicalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-77007036582284165162008-02-05T00:21:00.000-05:002008-02-05T00:21:00.000-05:00From the article:In “The Gentleman From New York,”...From the article:<BR/><BR/><I>In “The Gentleman From New York,” a biography of Mr. Moynihan, Godfrey Hodgson wrote: “Privately, the senator’s wife had not hidden her impression that Hillary Clinton ‘didn’t get it,’ meaning that she didn’t understand how either the Senate or the senator worked.”<BR/><BR/>He wrote that the Moynihans were impressed with Mrs. Clinton’s “intelligence and candor,” but that even on the eve of the July 1999 visit to the farm, Mrs. Moynihan had reservations about using her home as a public launching pad.<BR/><BR/>“I’ve never made a circus for Pat, and I’m not going to make a circus for her,” Mrs. Moynihan was quoted as saying.<BR/><BR/>Mrs. Moynihan said she did not notify the Clinton campaign of her decision, but in her statement said that Mrs. Clinton had “become a very good senator.”<BR/><BR/>On its Web site Wednesday, The New York Post endorsed Mr. Obama, saying he “represents a fresh start” while Mrs. Clinton “and her husband, stand for déjà vu all over again, a return to the opportunistic, scandal-scarred, morally muddled years of the almost infinitely self-indulgent Clinton co-presidency.”</I>Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-10318106090906236842008-02-04T15:16:00.000-05:002008-02-04T15:16:00.000-05:00"Moynihan's widow backs Obama."At least it wasn't ..."Moynihan's widow backs Obama."<BR/><BR/>At least it wasn't Moynihan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-89540553030870336972008-01-31T17:52:00.000-05:002008-01-31T17:52:00.000-05:00Moynihan's widow backs Obama<A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31moynihan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin" REL="nofollow">Moynihan's widow backs Obama</A>Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-35907153528441676492008-01-30T21:18:00.000-05:002008-01-30T21:18:00.000-05:005:32 PM EST wrote: "No offense, but I think you ma...5:32 PM EST wrote: <BR/><BR/>"No offense, but I think you may be overestimating him."<BR/><BR/><BR/>Would you do me a favor and go over my post at 9:19 PM EST and let me know exactly how I have "overestimat[ed] him"? <BR/><BR/>I will be happy to respond to your response in detail, if you oblige me this request. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-12944074115193950472008-01-30T17:32:00.000-05:002008-01-30T17:32:00.000-05:00"I think you underestimate Barack Obama."No offens..."I think you underestimate Barack Obama."<BR/><BR/>No offense, but I think you may be overestimating him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-36041902228025093112008-01-30T08:36:00.000-05:002008-01-30T08:36:00.000-05:00Dear anonymous,I notice a great many things. Parti...Dear anonymous,<BR/><BR/>I notice a great many things. Particularly that Obama seems to be working hard to get *hostility* out of politics. So chill, why don't you? Or if you can't chill, don't be anonymous and take responsibility for your tone. It's one thing for debrah to be bombastic -- it's her role in life -- but leaving her (slightly more subdued than usual) post up is not an invitation to others to insult me.<BR/><BR/>I think all these comparisons are silly. I hope Obama doesn't have skeletons in the closet, but frankly most people who have had long and interesting lives do, and what is a skeleton to one person is just an interesting piece of personal history to another. <BR/><BR/>And there was nothing stupid about Clinton putting gays in the military at the front of his agenda in 1993-- it was a deeply honorable thing to do, given that it was a campaign promise to gays, who turned out in large numbers to support him. And I say this although I myself am not one of those people who would start reforming society by creating more opportunities for queers in the military. <BR/><BR/>TRTenured Radicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-373932694337148352008-01-29T21:19:00.000-05:002008-01-29T21:19:00.000-05:00Have you noticed that the 2008 Barack Obama has fe...Have you noticed that the 2008 Barack Obama has fewer skeletons in his closet than the 1992 Bill Clinton? Have you noticed that Barack Obama is more judicious and less impulsive than the 1992 Bill Clinton? <BR/><BR/>Do you think Barack Obama hasn't studied the history of the Presidency? <BR/><BR/>Do you think Barack Obama is stupid enough to begin his Washington agenda with an issue like gays in the military? <BR/><BR/>I think you underestimate Barack Obama. And Krugman underestimates his readers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-20227807340399121752008-01-29T14:57:00.000-05:002008-01-29T14:57:00.000-05:00This post has really made me want to start posting...This post has really made me want to start posting tenure meetings on youtube...LumpenProfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11424425909102486647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-40287623716043244802008-01-29T12:50:00.000-05:002008-01-29T12:50:00.000-05:00this seems like a strange thing to criticize, actu...this seems like a strange thing to criticize, actually.<BR/><BR/>it is neither here nor there....Clinton seems to know exactly what she will do "on day one" and possibly for the duration of her presidency but somehow this is no less discomforting. <BR/><BR/>is it not impressive that, despite policy differences, Obama has proven able to mobilize broad support? it is true, he seems far closer to Bill C. than Hillary C., and perhaps that carries with it some unwanted baggage.<BR/><BR/>the country has moved so far to the right, edwards doesn't have a chance....Clinton promises to polarize in ways that go far deeper than Obama. <BR/><BR/>i'm just sayin.gwoertendykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00542058287462910446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-32196091536202403492008-01-28T21:11:00.000-05:002008-01-28T21:11:00.000-05:00Opening such debates to a public that is only rare...Opening such debates to a public that is only rarely connected to the reality of international politics and considerations? Is he insane? Will his supporters (obviously, no, I'm not one) buy that? You may be right that he's not that naive, but are his supporters?Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10849272391043604637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-3775569575917681012008-01-28T16:31:00.000-05:002008-01-28T16:31:00.000-05:00I think the key here is "repeated by the media." K...I think the key here is "repeated by the media." Krugman is right about what happened to Clinton in 1992, and, as if in a gigantic overcorrection, the media paralyzed itself for the first five years of the Bush administration, terrified that someone would label it "unpatriotic." Media outlets willingly repeated absurd lies fed to them by the White House in the name of "fairness," never commenting on inconsistencies or changes in stories (the only one to note those was Jon Stewart on _The Daily Show_). <BR/><BR/>The singular triumph of the Bush administration has been its brilliant handling of the press, at least until someone woke the press up a couple of years back. The Republicans will pull the same stunts again, and whoever the candidate is will have to deal with them, but let's hope that the media can bring a little skepticism and objectivity this time, not to mention an attention span longer than that of a goldfish.undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-45587410189592746432008-01-28T13:39:00.000-05:002008-01-28T13:39:00.000-05:00there have been less strange things on youtube ;Pthere have been less strange things on youtube ;PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-33132388888377756252008-01-28T11:50:00.000-05:002008-01-28T11:50:00.000-05:00Questions for the ClintonsObama will obliterate th...<A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/opinion/26herbert.html" REL="nofollow">Questions for the Clintons</A><BR/><BR/>Obama will obliterate those bottom-feeding cretins.<BR/><BR/>There is a G/d!Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.com