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This video, which assembles clips from McCain’s speech in Louisiana and political commentators’ reactions to it, speaks for itself. McCain tried to steal some of Obama’s spotlight by scheduling his own speech on the same night that Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for president. What actually resulted was an incredibly obvious — and unfavorable for McCain — comparison between the McCain speech and Obama’s uplifting and inspiring speech on the same night. McCain got his spotlight, but it ended up being a harsh one. Take a look.
Bob Herbert provides perspective on the significance of what this Democratic primary means in history. We have come a long way, and it’s worth pausing to recognize it.
This election year has been a testament to the many decades of work by men and women to build a more just America.
Given the depths to which America’s image has sunk globally, this was refreshing news.
LONDON, June 4 — For much of the world, Sen. Barack Obama’s victory in the Democratic primaries was a moment to admire the United States, at a time when the nation’s image abroad is in tatters.
I got my first detailed, in-depth look at the problems of the industrial farming complex when I read Michael Pollan’s eye-opening book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma (which I highly recommend). This NYT editorial cites two reports, one by the Pew Charitable Trust and one by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
As new reports make it clear, the efficiency of industrial animal production is an illusion, made possible by prisonlike confinement systems.
It’s sad but true. Anti-intellectualism is rampant. As Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason, explains in her NYT column, “Best Is the New Worst,” the word “elite” has been completely distorted for partisan purposes.
The word “elite,” once an accolade, has turned poisonous in American public life, as both the left and the right have twisted it into a code word meaning “not one of us.”
It’s a perverse thing to ridicule the attainment of education and expertise. I really have had a hard time grasping how this shift has happened. I guess I need to read Jacoby’s book. But for a nation that has an inherent (if arrogant) belief that it is the greatest in the world, why do so many of our people resent and distrust those among them who have acquired the knowledge required to make us succeed? read more | digg story
Hillary Clinton announced that her campaign would continue “…until every Martian voice is heard and respected.” Pointing out that, as of yet, no Martian delegates had been selected, “No one can say they have won the nomination until each and every state — red states, blue states and little green states, have been heard from!”
Clever premise, nicely timed with the landing of Phoenix on Mars, and then it gets even more “out there,” with Hillary Read the rest of this entry »
Roger Cohen’s NYT column, “The Obama Connection,” starts off with a play on Bill Clinton’s famous line from his first presidential campaign (“It’s the economy, stupid”): “It’s the networks, stupid.” Ironically, it’s Bill’s wife and heir-apparent, Hillary, who is implicitly the “stupid” one this time.
More than any other factor, it has been Barack Obama’s grasp of the central place of Internet-driven social networking that has propelled his campaign for the Democratic nomination into a seemingly unassailable lead over Hillary Clinton. Her campaign has been so 20th-century. His has been of the century we’re in.
As Joshua Green chronicles in an important piece in The Atlantic, Obama has used social networking and his user-friendly Web site to develop the money machine, and the youthful engagement, that has swept him forward.
If Hillary Clinton were to become Barack Obama’s vice president, would she take the back seat or would she just always be plotting, draining him of his magical powers?
I got my first detailed, in-depth look at the problems of the industrial farming complex when I read Michael Pollan’s eye-opening book, 
This is great satire in 
