Rob Christensen, just another hack writer? ...

The completion of a three year pilot program set up by John Edwards is morphed by Rob Christensen into a case to attack Edwards' reputation. Christensen writes in the second paragraph:

Edwards' presidential hopes have evaporated. And he recently informed Greene County officials that he would end the pilot program at Greene Central High School.

Funny how those two sentences are tied together neither by facts nor logic. It's not until much later in the article that we learn that this program was established as a three year pilot program. The apparent success of the program seems unimportant to Christensen. After all, providing opportunities and encouraging the education of all America's young'uns is the last thing the GOP would look forward to.

Is Rob Christensen just another good little 'staff writter' doing his imperialist GOP duty by turning the completion of a successful pilot program into a cement block aimed at John Edwards?

Yesterday's QUOTES ...

Researchers are reporting that the ocean's biological deserts have been expanding, and they are growing much faster than global warming models predict.
... But [the top two quintiles] get 58% of the money. The bottom two quintiles, which are the place you’d most expect to have an impact, get only 21% of the money. ...

And I suppose that it may be true that this was the best Nancy Pelosi could get. But I just can’t bring myself to celebrate.
... I think the best line of the day had to be John Edwards saying that Clinton and Obama had brought their "New York and Chicago style of politics" to South Carolina."...
For a person running as a "clean" politician, on a campaign of Hope, Change and OptimismTM, [Obama's] brand of politics is fundamentally ugly (something that has been evident for many months). Given that dynamic, he feels quite comfortable routinely distorting the positions or words of Sen. Clinton with impunity in order to mislead voters, because he knows that the traditional media will more often than not parrot his talking points and trash the Clintons rather than call him on his egregious behavior.

Edwards, Obama, Clinton ...

Blog for Arizona links to this cartoon which capsulizes my concern about Obama's stated 'make nice' philosophy. Obama is not always that 'nice' to his opponents. To me it seems that people who espouse this approach often use it selectively as a way to avoid handling critical problems often to the detriment of the very people who were depending on them.

Make nice isn't my approach to life and personality cults make me very uncomfortable. Fairness, competence and accountability are more appealing to me. Right now we have none of these working for us in the US government. I'm not sure just adding 'make nice' to the mess we are in will amount to much.

Obama and Clinton appear to have cleaned up their who's-the-racist act so Obama, who appeared to be campaigning like a Republican against one of his own party, is not currently on my 'will not vote for' list.

Since the title of the post mentions Edwards I'll add that I started out prefering him. Now it's between Edwards and Clinton and I'm not sure which would be best. I just don't think Obama is the best of the three. I'd prefer he stay in the Senate and try again in 8 years. We should be able to understand him better by then.

Presidential Townhall ...

This is the full question and answer session at MoveOn.org's Presidential Virtual Town Hall video at PoliticsTV.com.

I found it interesting that Obama did not say in this video that if Bushie vetoes the bill the Senate would just approve a version of the bill without the constraints that the administration does not want in the bill. In fact he says something very different, though also very involved, than has been discussed around and about (like at dailyKOS).

Sometimes the Tucson Citizens gets it right ...

Tucson Citizen Our Opinion: Cancer and races

... Together, the Edwardses have decided to continue John Edwards' campaign for the nomination.

Critics have said the family needs to get its priorities straight. Leave the campaign trail. Concentrate on family. Get right with God. (That last one comes from the ever-helpful St. Rush of Limbaugh.)

All of the suggestions are offered with the best of intentions. But they're all variations on the same theme: Go home and wait to die.

Elizabeth Edwards doesn't want to do that. She feels fine, she knows her family better than anyone and she wants to continue the race. She wants to make the same life choices everyone else does. She wants to accomplish something she feels strongly about. ...

Creepy Katie

Katie Couric, another media hack.

Except for Keith Olbermann are there any news 'hosts' that do not interview Democrats using Republican attack points? Attack points aren't issues. They are intended to obscure the issues and the facts.

The Edwards basically answered that same question over and over again in this video clip on Crooks and Liars. They did very well. I don't know where they get the patience with these creeps.

Creepy Katie kept asking the same Republican attack points over and over while implying that they weren't 'her' questions but some unnamed 'they.' She can't even quote who's spouting this stuff.