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Let’s start with a little Bill Maher.

It would appear that the world is more fucked up than what many might have thought (also, Al Gore sighting).

If we saw this comfortable in his skin Joe Biden during his campaign to be president, maybe people would have actually voted for him.

However, let’s ask the very angry Michael Ware as to the substance of the new Iraq hearings. Though it’s difficult to suggest that anything groundbreaking was achieved, and in all honesty it was surprisingly similar to last year’s appearance, with the notable difference of members of the Democratic party appearing to have spines. My party has been dragging their collective feet for too long, and I’m happy to see a little evidence that they’re actually pissed. Most of the country is pissed, and that’s how we got a Democratic majority. Let’s give them a reason to keep it.

Andrew Sullivan might well be generally speaking conservative, but he’s also a man of conscience (and all the while not fitting in with the bulk of conservatives, for reasons varying from superficial to substantive, though I’ll leave you to do a bit of reading if you care to learn more… he’s an insanely active blogger). Things like this, are reasons I like this man although I don’t always agree with him.

Kos argues the opposite of what I would suggest, that Clinton’s continued presence is actually helping Obama in the long run. I can see the argument that it makes him more able to weather a potential storm, but I still don’t see the advantage of John McCain being able to pull direct quotes of Hillary basically suggesting that McCain would be a better president than Obama, and even if that’s not what the intent was, in sound bite politics, it would be very easy to make that assertion anyway. If she manages to play herself into Ralph Nader status in the next couple of months, than perhaps it would be easier to brush off that sort of attack.

Here’s a scathing criticism of Hillary Clinton. I’m not overly familiar with the author, but it’s a good read.

61% of historians say Bush is worst ever. How do you top that headline? Also bonus points for the photo they used in this article.

Here is an interesting article concerning young Obama supporters. I have been consistently impressed with how well oiled the Obama machine is. That it extends to trying to convince your parents is something I wasn’t aware of, though if you drink the Koolaid on his candidacy, it would appear that you’ll talk to anyone and everyone about him. I remember having discussions with Obama supporters when I was wearing my Edwards button (one of which is still rocking out on my backpack), and they are certainly an enthusiastic bunch. I guess I’m by default an Obama supporter at this point, but I still think of myself as an Edwards guy.

That people still pay Pat Buchanan to talk is another thing I find consistently impressive. He’s a moron and he treats who disagree with him with the furthest thing from respect. He’s insane where a guy like Tucker Carlson is somewhat more reserved.

Clinton has been extremely intellectually dishonest lately with regards to Obama and her own positions on Iraq. Here’s an article which while interesting, I’d say proceed with caution. It slowed firefox to a crawl for a few minutes (to the point that I was briefly worried about the program crashing).

Here’s a nice clip of Edwards stuff basically suggesting he can’t endorse Clinton. I don’t believe he’s planning to endorse at all. I do think his play is to be an influence with regards to moving the party forward once there’s a decision to be made. He’s trying to remind people that either Clinton or Obama would be good as president (though what he’s really saying in my estimation is that those who suggest they would vote for McCain if their candidate loses should seriously reconsider that position for the good of the country… he might have been overly subtle for the sort of person who sees McCain as the logical second choice, but I like what it appears that he’s trying to do, though I long ago drank the Koolaid on Edwards). Man, that was a long parenthetical.

I wish America could get to the point that Europe is currently sitting at with regards to sex scandals. Namely that sex in and of itself is not a scandal. It takes something like a Nazi theme to propel sex to scandal level in Europe and I feel like this is an area where we could learn something from the Europeans (though in all fairness not the only area).

Another editorial focusing on Clinton. Though there is a third battleground which was not mentioned in this article. Clinton vs. delegate mathematics. She won’t take the lead by June and I don’t see the superdelegates overturning the will of the people (except for maybe that twat 20 year old who somehow became one of the party elite who can put down one vote which is the equivalent to something like 10,000 regular democratic voters… I’m sure you’ve seen him on maybe Dan Abrams before his show got revamped or maybe the Daily Show).

Cristopher Hitchens is an ass. If I want to hear from a militant Atheist (a viewpoint I do try to give a decent amount of reading although as an Agnostic I don’t tend to think it passes the provable test, it’s not something that encourages people to hate people for certain reasons so it is my religion of choice) I’ll turn to Richard Dawkins. Also, anyone want to explain the attempted joke to me? I’ve got nothing.

John Kerry is someone I like hearing from every now and again. I think I wouldn’t mind seeing a VP Kerry.

Rachel Maddow filling in on Olbermann’s show last Friday reminded me it’s been a few weeks since I’ve stated that she needs a show. Something like Olbermann, Abrams, than Maddow. That would be glorious.

Anyway, I’m out.