Last thoughts before the caucus
It will be hilarious to watch the out-of-touch pundits talk through their asses today. This morning, CBS's Jeff Greenfield was the latest to describe John Edwards anti-corporate campaign rhetoric as "angry," but in doing so, he attempted a contrast to Iowa's 4-term Democratic Senator Tom Harkin, claiming that Harkin, the first Democrat in the state to be even re-elected one time to the Senate, has a "softer" touch on the stump. Huh? Harkin wishes he had Edwards' deft touch on the stump. Harkin has always been a rough-edged populist, but his long-time electoral success in one of America's "purple" states challenges the corporate media notion that voters are turned off by a populist progressive who stands for something.---
For you Ron Paul acolytes, here's an enlightening article about your man from the pages of the New Republic. I think Tucker Carlson's capable of being a damn good reporter. He was the man who exposed then-Governor Bush's mocking of Texas death-row inmate Karla Faye Tucker when she pleaded to him for clemency in 1999-- (sneering, "Please don't kill me.") And I really enjoyed an article he wrote for Esquire magazine a few years back in which he traveled to Liberia with Al Sharpton, Cornel West, and some members of the Nation of Islam. You're on your own to find it.
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Did you catch this story last week? Possibly a new low in Clinton stonewalling tactics. They're maniacal about press control, and it seems the candidate's campaign still hasn't learned a thing from the failure of her ultra-secret health care initiative in 1993. Dick Cheney would be proud.
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The Hillarys are already pre-spinning tonight's results. Their campaign has the feel of a sophisticated operation, I'll give them that. Everything from the phasing out of the question and answer sessions at the rallies to the smearing of Obama on his long-ago drug use by Clinton staff underlings. You've got to work overtime on these details when your candidate has no inner-core.
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The new Iowa voter registration forms are available on-line. The Greens and Libertarians are listed not as "parties," but as "non-party political organizations." Can you keep that straight?
posted by CM @ 9:28 AM
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