Wednesday Reads
Posted: November 17, 2010 Filed under: morning reads | Tags: Dubya Library, GM IPO, Murkowski v Demint, Obama triangulation, Plum Line, QE2, Richard Wolffe 59 Comments
Good Morning!!!
So we finally have the triangulation word and President Obama used in the same sentence by liberal groups. Ya think ? This is the Headline from The Hill: ‘Angry left to Obama: Stop caving on agenda’.
Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and an outspoken critic of the White House, said liberal anger has less to do with fears of a Clintonian move to the middle by Obama and more with a misreading of the election results by the administration.
The White House “fundamentally” doesn’t get that “the only way to get Republicans to deal in good faith is to fight them, crush them and teach a lesson that if Republicans are on the wrong side of an issue there will be consequences … so it makes sense to negotiate,” Green said.
“Right now, every time Republicans are on the opposite side of an issue from the public, it’s the Democrats who cave and talk about ‘compromise.’ It’s ridiculous.”
While the White House declined to comment for this story, Obama’s remarks since the election indicate that pursuing compromise with Republicans, including on the tax issue, will be one of his top priorities moving forward.
So, they couldn’t make a point without a little dash of CDS thrown in for good measure. Could they?
Here’s an interesting commentary on the economy by UCLA economist Roger Farmer at the FT. The economist forum there is a notorious hang out for all bow tie and spectacles set. He’s got an interesting suggestion here. Rather than buy Treasury bonds for QE2, the Fed should consider buying stocks.
US consumers and business investors reduced spending in 2008 because the value of houses, factories and machines plummeted. The housing bubble burst and the stock market fell at the same time. Currently, investors hold more than a trillion dollars in excess reserves at the Fed because they are afraid of a repeat performance.
QE is widely perceived to be the same thing as increasing the money supply. But it is not. Mr Bernanke has argued that the first round of QE was effective because it increased stock market wealth. That is an argument I have made in previous opinion pieces in the FT and two recent books. When people feel richer, they spend more. That creates jobs.
But the current problem is not that the stock market is undervalued. The Dow is now back at the level it attained immediately before the 2008 crisis. The problem is that investors are fleeing from risk and are demanding safe assets. The Fed is uniquely positioned to provide a safe haven for investors by buying risky securities from the public and replacing them with interest bearing deposits at the Fed.
What kind of risky assets should the Fed buy? Mr Bernanke plans to purchase treasury bonds. The Bernanke plan could prove costly when inflation reappears because the price of treasury bonds will fall when interest rates rise. And when the Fed loses money, its political independence will be compromised. That is why a better plan would be to buy stocks. This policy would provide a more effective exit strategy, since, when inflation reappears, dividends and stock prices will rise and rather than lose money, the Fed will stand to make substantial gains.
Notice that he says that QE2 is not the same as printing money. It’s not because the FED’s trying to prime the credit/investment channel, not the real sector directly. It can’t do that. Another interesting thing in the works is the GM IPO. It seems strange to call GM stock an initial public offering, but post bankruptcy it is what it is. The New GM is not the Old GM legally, but has it changed all of its old GM ways? The U.S. Treasury Department and the United Auto Workers’ retiree health-care trust want to sell more of their stock so this IPO looks to be huge. It would be interesting to see the FED mop up some of these, wouldn’t it?
The IPO, scheduled for tomorrow, will help Chief Executive Officer Dan Akerson return some of the $49.5 billion GM received in a taxpayer bailout last year. The Treasury, which is taking a loss on its portion of the sale, will break even only if the shares climb at least 50 percent, Bloomberg data shows.
“Treasury is confident demand is there for these shares to get soaked up,” said Michael Yoshikami, who oversees $1 billion at YCMNet Advisors in Walnut Creek, California. “It makes a lot of sense for them to do this because we’re already talking about shares going out at a price that is far above what everybody thought would be in demand.”
The IPO would be the second-largest in U.S. history, after Visa Inc.’s $19.7 billion sale in March 2008, and comes 16 months after GM emerged from bankruptcy. The biggest U.S. automaker also increased a preferred stock offering to $4 billion today, $1 billion more than it had planned.
Let’s see what the market does with these things today and see if our dollars were wisely invested in Detroit.
Here’s some interesting Republican infighting between Lisa Murkowski and Jim Demint via Politico. She’s got some fighting words for him.
“I think some of the Republicans in the Congress feel pretty strongly that he and his actions potentially cost us the majority by encouraging candidates that ended up not being electable,” Murkowski told POLITICO outside her Senate office. “And I think Delaware is a pretty good example of that, and I think there’re some folks that feel that DeMint’s actions didn’t necessarily help the Republican majority.”
Murkowski suggested the South Carolina conservative and favorite of the tea party seemed more interested in bolstering his own political standing rather than that of the Republican Party.
“So the real question is, what’s his desire?” she said. “Does he want to help the Republican majority, or is he on his own agenda, his own initiative?”
Asked what she believed the answer was, Murkowksi said: “I think he’s out for his own initiative.”
Fight on little wingnuts, fight on!! It can only help the things we care about. Now if only Obama would just take advantage of the infighting and not cave in to their demands before they have shown they are able to deliver anything but sloppy nasty verbiage.
The Plum line at WAPO is going over Richard Wolffe’s book Revival and reporting on all the juicy bits including this on Rahmbo. Rahm didn’t want any thing to do with bi-partanship and he warned that Health Care Reform would be Waterloo. This is an excerpt from the book quoted by Greg Sargent.
From page 102:
Unlike his boss, Emanuel wasn’t interested in looking reasonable with Republicans; he wanted to look victorious. He didn’t care much for uniting red and blue America; he wanted blue America to beat its red rival…
Obama was prepared to sacrifice time and political capital to make his policy bipartisan and more ambitious; Emanuel believed Obama did not have that luxury. “Time is your commodity. That answers everything,” Emanuel said. “But a lot of us thought we didn’t have the amount of time that was being dedicated. If you abandon the bipartisan talks you get blamed. He still wanted to try to achieve it that way. But that’s one of a series of things you can look back on and be a genius about.
“My job as chief of staff is to give him 180-degree advice. He hired me, as he asked, to learn from the past, or to use my knowledge from my time in Congress and in the Clinton administration. Watching ’94, watching ’97 when we did kids’ health care, and then studying Medicare, what were the lessons? The lesson about time as a commodity is not mine, it’s Lyndon Johnson’s. You got X amount of time; you gotta use it.”
There’s more in an another thread on an exchange between Grassley and Obama on removing the public option from the bill. I guess I may have to buy this book. I know Bostonboomer’s been looking for it to add to her Kindle.
Wolffe reports that Obama got into a testy exchange with Senator Chuck Grassley, in which the President flatly asked Grassley if he could support health reform if the public option were dropped and he got everything he wanted. Grassley, in effect, said: Nope. And he told a top Obama adviser the same.
The key is that this exchange occurred early on in the process, and the quest for bipartisan support for health reform continued anyway. The tale begins on page 70, when top Obama adviser Nancy DeParle met with Grassley to ask for his support amid the health care wars in the summer of 2009:
Just before [Grassley] returned to Iowa, he met with DeParle for another strategy session.
“If we do everything and resolve all the policy issues the way you want, with no public plan, do you think you’ll be able to support the bill?”
Grassley looked away. “I don’t know.”
Grassley went to the Oval Office for a similar conversation with the president and his fellow Republican and Democratic negotiators. He asked Obama to say publicly that he would sign a bill without a public option of a government-run plan. Grassley believed this would be a reasonable, minimal demonstration of Obama’s desire for a bipartisan deal. But the president declined to confront his own party base so explicitly. Obama asked Grassley the same question DeParle had posed: With every concession he wanted, could he support the bill?
“Probably not.”
“Why not?” asked an exasperated Obama.
“Because I’d have to have a number of Republicans,” said Grassley. “I’m not going to be the third of three Republicans. I’ve defined a bipartisan bill as broad-based support.”
Cheney and Dubya think the tide is turning in their favor. This is from CBS and it’s about the ground breaking for the Dubya Library in Dallas. I still wonder what’s going in there and now I’m going to wonder if it wasn’t all lifted from other places. I can’t believe we’ll all have memories that are that short no matter how much they want Jeb as their next president.
Cheney said that Mr. Bush, whose approval rating upon leaving office was just 22 percent, always understood that “judgments are a little more measured” with the passage of time. He added that Americans “can tell a decent, goodhearted stand up guy when they see him.”
Cheney lauded Mr. Bush as a president who refused “to put on airs,” stating that he was thrilled to find that the most powerful person he knew was “among the least pretentious.” He said Mr. Bush was someone who could “walk with kings, yet keep the common touch,” added that “there were no affectations about him at all – he treats everyone as an equal.”
He spoke admiringly of Mr. Bush’s actions in the wake of the Sept. 11th attacks, telling the former president that “because you were determined to throw back the enemy, we did not suffer another 9/11 or something even worse.”
Okay, now I feel like we should donate copies of “The Pet Goat” when the thing opens just as a reminder.
So, I’m a Nielson family this week and I haven’t turned on the TV once. Some big contributor to pop culture I’ve turned out to be. Actually, I think there’s some pretty good reasons that I avoid the thing. I’m linking you to one PSA that I’d rather not see. It’s a train wreck. I’m not going to put the Youtube up here because I have bodhisattva vows that include being compassionate to sentient being. It’s Bristol Palin and The Situation discussing abstinence and safe sex. Neither can act. Neither are attractive in my book. Warning. You will need eyeball bleach and ear wash if you go over there. There’s gratuitous use of the word situation and icky nick names. Please put all sharp items in a safe place before venturing over there. Do not have any liquid in your mouth.
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With Obama a move to the middle would be MORE progressive, not less.
Exactly! Obama’s been slinking to the right while doing the POTUS equivalent of voting “present” all the time.
Would we have it so good as we did under Bill Clinton!
Today is shaping up to be an interesting day in Congress. Zombie HR 3808 dealing with robosigners is back in the House and Paycheck Fairness Act in Senate.
My DEAR GOD, I have been shell shocked, as even I can’t believe the lack of spine on this President in regards to defending the working class people of America. I can’t believe he was outright SELLING US OUT by talking the Public Option off the table, then the Medicare Buy In.
Nancy Pelosi is only out for herself, I truly believe this, because how else could she support this approach of principles be damned, let the people die approach to Health Care Reform?
Before he started SELLING US OUT, I had a good insurance plan, after his negotiations I have a costly PINTO INSURANCE PLAN, with a MEDICATION DEDUCTIBLE at the same cost as my prior insurance. Every month when I look at that bill I think of Obama and how he betrayed the Democratic base and I also think of Nancy Pelosi and wonder how they can say they are for the working people?
I honestly don’t know what kind of insurance plan I will have next July, and I am planning on find a way to buy my medications by way of Canada, that country with less money, that provides Universal Coverage for its citizens.
I need coffee and I need to go pray that this wolfe in sheep clothing who sold us out for a couple of coins of silver, develops some insight and doesn’t run in 2012. If Obama does, he and Nancy Pelosi should run as Republicans, representing Wall Street, the Insurance Industry and Big Oil.
Cheney claims that Bush
I’m sure he’s right. As I’m sure they can tell the opposite too!
Bush suddenly showing up everywhere promoting “his” book only reminded me, as I’m sure it did others, what a mean, smallminded, repulsive person he is.
I had almost forgotten just how much I detest him. Thanks to the man himself for reminding me!
Gee, did I miss some thing? Maybe the think like bear commercials; there is Beer and there is beer light, but the light one still gets you drunk.
He left the country with TWO NEVER ENDING WARS, the economy collapse and working people in America had not joined the other Western Countries in having Universal Health Coverage for its people.
I guess if they repeat patriot, patriot, they are counting on people forgetting about his PET GOAT moment and how he didn’t notice the economy collapsing until it was hurling over a cliff.
Me too. I hope Bush goes away and never shows his face in public again!
If they really want Jeb at 1600, it would be best
if they kept W busy cutting brush somewhere and out of sight ! Ugh
“As I’m sure they can tell the opposite too!”
I can!
I intend to follow W’s sales via Amazon:
Decision Points by George W. Bush……………………………..# 1
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney………..# 2
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 by Mark Twain, el al….#6
We’ll see what happens “with the passage of time.”
Sigh. Can there be no safe haven for those of us who bear Palin and her bunch no ill feelings but really wish they’d stop sucking up all the oxygen? Breaking News: Sarah Palin’s show on TLC got the highest ratings for TLC. Breaking News: Willow called some guy critical of her sister a name that was a gay slur. Breaking News: Bristol Palin will advance to the finals on DWTS. Breaking News: Lisa Murkowski doesn’t like Sarah Palin(actually the term intellectually incurious was bandied but whatever). I mean 1 in 8 people in our country are food insecure and yet somehow the Palin’s life seem to have become a more pressing issue of discussion everywhere. It’s like I’m being forced to watch some reality show play out without the ability to switch the channel.
Yes, I would like to discuss if people have noticed that the loafs of bread have shrunk yet the price hasn’t? Yup, I understand you completely here as I have to purchase staple foods as part of my work.
This will likely piss you off like it did me.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CompanyFocus/why-food-bills-are-heading-higher.aspx
Hey, you and I will be paying more to feed our families but that shouldn’t matter because what matters is that Wall Street can profit off you and I having to pay more to feed our families.
F’ers- I hope the whole friggin’ lot of them roll snake eyes and are forced to find a job working for minimum wage.
In some countries (THIRD WORLD ONES) they place limits of how much the the price of food staples can rise, for example the ‘Tortilla, Rice and Potato’ as these staples will keep the poor alive and not hungry when food prices rise. I just found it odd when I went to a local store for quick staple purchases and the bread had shrunk, but the price hadn’t. When I went to the big biz outlet, much to my horror, the bread there had shrunk too and the price remained the same.
So, I guess we might have to invest in a bread maker and start making the bread?
Back when the first part of the Depression hit, in 2008, I remember going into the store to buy hot dog buns. My partner makes most of our bread himself, but we both do like sausages on buns…
The price had gone up, overnight, 30 cents. I had kind of expected a rise, but 30 cents? The things had only cost 99 cents before that, so the price went up 1/3, overnight.
I thought, well at least the quality is the same. Heh. Now they are still 1.29$ but they taste like sawdust and they are stale before you buy them. So, we are learning to make hot dog buns. And I’m very thankful we have that luxury.
I totally agree with you about Sarah Palin et al but also feel like that about “news” in general.
I guess they figure the news is too depressing to report or something.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/17-Million-American-Families-Struggle-to-Put-Food-on-the-Table-5830
1 in 4 in this country is reliant on the federal government for help purchasing food. 25%. That statistic is mind numbing. How in the friggin’ world can we be discussing tax cuts for people who have incomes over 5 times the median income when 1 in 4 people can’t even buy food on their own? It’s obscene and surreal.
The Federal government is too busy helping the banksters make people homeless.
That number is stunning; something is wrong and you’re right it’s obscene that our oh-so-concerned media is obsessed with the Palins when this is happening:
Frankly, I’m so sick of hearing about Palin that I leave the room if anything about her comes on TV or radio. And I have to leave the room a lot.
Lets see – Bush declared a war on false pretenses, bungled the war in iraq ( how can anyone call it success), missed Osama Bin Laden in Tora Bora, has completely dimished the military, appointed Chris Cox to SEC to diminish the financial regulation, started with a near zero deficit and left us with record deficits and debt, left the economy in shambles and transitioned us to a debtor nation status. How can history look at that favorabley. What did he do positively?
Then the Democrats elected Obama who has compromised bumbled things in a similar fashion. Bush III. So will he learn and fight or are we in for another show of withering spine.
Our economic and physical resources are on the way down. The question is, will we manage that in a orderly fashion or completely bungle that. The Tea Party represents a legitimate complaint, but it has been taken over by a radical organization. It should be interesting to watch their newly elected people and will they be taken over by the likes of Jim DeMint who is another Tom Delay. It will be interesting to see what Move On does. Will the Democratic donors continue?
Buy popcorn and settle back and enjoy. Let the idiots exend their energy and then pick up the pieces.
What a mess
Huffington is floating Bloomberg and Scarbourogh run. That could work
I’d rather eat soap.
Years ago I was working on a project to teach urban families, especially teen families how to cook, how to buy food and how to budget for what you plan to eat. Most don’t utilize their budget wisely because we have lost the traditions and some can’t make a soup from scratch to save their lives. Most packaged food is expensive and canned food has too high a content of sodium. So, the most effective way to feed a family is going to be by cooking from scratch and finding some creative buying strategies.
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Soap, not soup(I like soup, particularly the homemade stuff).
I’m not a Bloomberg or Scarborough fan, hence my pronouncement.
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Oops it nested in the wrong spot I was bacfolk food prices. :blush:
It’s sad but I was talking to a neighbor and I was saying to her that our generation (She’s in her late forties while I’m in my early)was the first generation to have TV dinners and all those meal helpers in a box so many of us grew up thinking that was good enough when it came to cooking. It wasn’t until this generation they started telling us that trans fats were horrendous for us and they were in practically everything to create shelf stability.
I have some great sites I go to to help me with meal planning and cooking primarily from scratch. I am fortunate though. I have the luxury of being a full time home economist. There are many women out there that go from one minimum wage to the next to support their families and barely have time to meal plan or cook from scratch even if they had the means to buy the food.
While I too am so fortunate enough to be able to stay home, I take four buses weekly to see my Mom however and I know exactly what you mean. Because I see people try and catch some rest on the bus while traveling between jobs. And I see them ( mostly women )get off at night with the bag of KFC because it’s also their job to ” make “dinner. It’s a matter of energy and time…. rare ingredients in minimum wage land. These women cook special things ( meals from scratch) for special days,( I have over heard them and they speak about it as many would about a wonderful trip somewhere ) when they have time off….that’s not a regular weekday.
I’d rather slit my throat.
You mean Bloomberg would stop being NYC mayor for life?
LOL!
Don’t you dare try to pawn him off the way TX did with W?
Does anyone know if anyone has done any kind of whip count for the Paycheck Fairness Act?
You’d think women’s groups like NOW or Emily’s List would have a whip count prominently displayed to go along with their plea to call your Senators but if they have one I can’t find it.
The only group I can see that’s really following this closely is the ACLU. I put a link up to their plea in the morning news yesterday. (Downthread)
I am not advocating Bloomberg and Scarbourogh, but would hold the option. The Democratic and Republican candidates could be in the “none of the above category”
They miay be the only option to shake up the system.
Joe has a dead intern problem that should prevent him from being a real contender.
I certainly know how you feel, but imo Bloomberg and Scarbourogh are the system .
Not an option for me. I’ll write someone in. I’m refuse to choose between bad, really bad and worse at this point and I refuse to contribute to the decline of my country and the rise of the Corporate State of America.
I can’t believe we’ll all have memories that are that short no matter how much they want Jeb as their next president.
But remember this is the crowd who said they don’t wait on consensus reality… they create their own reality…lol!
As for the TV…lord. My husband and I have always had dinner in front of the TV…just a habit of 20 years…now we are staring to eat at the table! Because there is truly nothing to watch . We never had so many channels and so little to watch. I feel it’s all out takes from Jerry Springer’s Green room surveillance camera or Survivor. Even the cooking and home channels at night are a form of Survivor…. then there the endless commercials ….where someone getting hurt is “funny” …please
Maybe I should read Wolffe’s book. It sounds like Emanuel might have left because Obama wouldn’t listen to him either. We know he listens to Valerie Jarrett, but who else? Axelrod and Gibbs? Axelrod is leaving soon too.
I’m confused – is this a new book or the one published the summer of 2009?
New book.
It’s a new one.
Adam Green,…. said liberal anger has less to do with fears of a Clintonian move to the middle by Obama and more with a misreading of the election results by the administration
They keep saying “Clinton” when discussing Obama’s continual move to the right because they can’t bring themselves to say the truth…Obama is Bush 3.5
He left the Clintonian shores the last time his debate contribution was “what Hillary said’
I love your blog. I’ve added it to my favorite bookmarks and subscribed in a reader. Looking forward to reading more posts by you. Thanks.
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So – what is wrong with Bloomberg? I agree Joe has the dead office worker and let me add to the fire, he and Mika are awful close – especially on the trips.
Aren’t both of them married?
That said, we need to hold our powder dry on all third party candidates. A big name and a fresh look could be enough to split both parties
There are a lot of things wrong with Bloomberg.
I started reading the Wolffe book. He writes in a very simple-minded style and includes effusive praise for Obama on every page. It’s a little hard to take so far.
BB: Here’s a book you should try for on your kindle. I’m so curious I’m about to buy it for my holiday read.
Review from The Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/17460578
Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art, & Arson in the Convents of Italy. By Craig Monson. University of Chicago Press; 264 pages
What’s the matter with art, music and lesbian love? Medieval convents were full of women who wished to escape marriage and mandatory sexual service to males and live, work, study with (and yes, love) women. Many convents were forcibly dissolved in the 16th century and their inhabitants forced into marriage or prostitution. Read A Passion for Friends by Janice Raymond.
http://tinyurl.com/24wnnmj These are the results of today’s vote in the Senate re/The Paycheck Fairness Act.
Not one of those supposed moderate elephant women (Snowe, Collins or Murkowski) voted Yes to invoke Cloture (a ridiculous system). Snowe and Collins voted No and the other Alaska wonder, Murkowski (who just won the race over Miller) didn’t vote. Snowe and Collins continue to underwhelm me. The GOP moderates are as cowardly as many of the current crop Liberal Dems.
Oh, and with no surprise, one Dem voted No. Any guesses? No surprise. The loathsome Ben Nelson. I don’t understand why this wanker is a Dem. Just switch party’s already.
As much as I am weary of the Dem party for their recent behavior, I loathe the Republican Party and all the stench and rot they represent in their 15th Century thinking and philosophy.
Ani got a book deal!! Congratulations to her! And you’ll never guess what it’s about? Sexism in campaigns and the 2008 campaign!
Woo hoo. Congrats to her!
Edited: That sounds sort of sarcastic, which is not what I meant. I really do mean, congratulations. I look forward to reading the book.
? I wasn’t reading the sarcasm. Hope I don’t sound sarcastic below.
Hoo Woo! Yeah, congrats to her!
I’d like to read that book. I feel the same way as her about the sexism in campaigns, the 2008 primary and everywhere else.
Kat, did I tell you I like the new look of your blog?
Also, don’t be offended or anything, but it reminds me of you in that it looks sort of like a scratched up blackboard.
Thanks. I just liked the look of it for some reason.
I don’t know who she is but I do now and after reading what she had to say in that link, that is one book I have now put on my list to buy when it is available.
With all the current crop of books on the market about the 2008 Primary/Election, only Rebecca Traister’s book dealt with any depth the sexism and misogyny in the 2008 primary/general election although she is an interchangeable Hillary/Obama person and contends that there is very little light between both which is a load of crap. She was one of those who said at first she would never vote for HRC because of the vote she took w/AUMF. It was only after she saw all of the sexism HRC was subject to that she changed her mind about casting a vote for her although she spent a lot of time making up her mind in the voting both between HRC and Obama. Not the HRC voter that I could relate to in this regard. So, although hers is the first book (that I know of) to deal wth the sexism and misogyny in the primary/gen election, it wasn’t the book I was looking for to satisfy me because of what I saw as an HRC supporter from the start.
This woman’s write up sold me on buying her book. Thanks for this link, Dak.
All of what she mentioned brought back that time as if it were happening now and I’m having a flashback of anger having read all of what she wrote about in that link.
For me, two events especially stand out in my mind one another example of the hate fest from the media and the other was the continued shenanigans from the Obama faction of the Dem party.
The first was the Debate that occurred in October 2007 at Drexel University where Tim Russert abused his power as moderator and as many noted became HRC’s additional political opponent. It was after that debate that I realized how the deck was stacked against her by the media at least. And, it was the first time I saw how horrific John Edwards was along with Obama who let John lead the wolf pack attacking HRC at every turn but it was wank stain Russert who “inspired” their ganging up on her. I was so boiling mad after that debate. I’ve been watching POTUS debates since Mondale/Ferraro ran against Reagan/Buish and I’ve never had such a reaction of pure unadulterated rage. That was the birthday for me when I became radicalized in my support for HRC. Like Ani, I supported HRC because of her wonkishness and her political principles (although she is more conservative than I am in foreign policy) and because she was fighter and given her history, I knew she would fight for me and my family and all American families. Her being a woman was the icing on the cake for me. She was just the right person at the right time to be POTUS. And, the only one, imo.
The second event is the mind-numbing and tragic events of May 31st, 2008 when the Dem Rules Committee met and the Obama thugs did their dirty deed.
Any book about the 2008 Primary that doesn’t include these events and in an accurate and complete way is an incomplete history. And, thus far I have been disappointed (understatement) with what I’ve read in books about the 2008 Primary.
Given this woman’s history as an HRC supporter and what she went through with the rest of us, I am certain that these two events will be highlights in her book. Looking forward to reading it.
Please keep us up to date on it’s release. Thanks, Dak.
She writes for NQ and she’s one of the few folks I can take reading over there. Plus, the commenters seem like they’re all hateful Republicans these days.