Expelled Exposed
There’s an awful anti-evolution moving coming out, called Expelled. Click on the link to get the facts on the movie, which purports to be about how poor, Intelligent Design “scientists” can’t get a word in edgewise because the actual scientists don’t believe a word they say.
My Lack of Posts
Well, I don’t really know why I’m not posting. Commenter JAK thought it was because I didn’t know who to support in the primary. In truth, I’ve been for Obama since Iowa, but I think Clinton is certainly a capable and smart person. She suffers, however, from being overly cautious (hence her early support of the war, and early opposition to any sort of withdrawl timeline), and being surrounded with a host of bad advisors.
Obama has been running a 50-state, small-donor, people-based campaign – whereas Hillary seems has made a habit of dismissing any if all states Obama wins as not counting, either because Democrats haven’t won them in Novembers past, or because they are caucuses. Furthermore, after agreeing that Michigan and Florida should not count, now she wants to change the rules and somehow make their rogue primaries count.
It’s all somewhat ridiculous, and the Clinton campaign seems determined to seize the nomination, not by winning contests and delegates, but with some sort of party-rifting super delegate coup – which simply is not going to happen. So, Obama will be the nominee, in the end. Clinton’s inevitably strategy – she didn’t seem to have any plans to fight on after Super Tuesday – in general wouldn’t make me feel optimistic about her campaign for the fall anyway.
The real problem, however, is not the Clinton campaign but a media that is more interested in Obama’s bowling score than the the Bush Administration’s radicalism. Or a media that continues to call McCain a “centrist” and a “maverick.” Or that ignores McCain’s flip-flops on everything from the Bush tax cuts to tobacco, or that refers to McCain’s repeated statement that Iran is training al Qaeda (they are not) as a “gaffe”, if they mentioned it at all.
Also, since this has become sort of uber-post, if you really want to see the lengths the Bush Administration will go to in the name of executive power, listen to the 2 stories in this episode of This American Life.
