Nice Little Campaign You Got Here. Be A Shame If Something Happened...
23 May 2008 12:18 pm
Courtesy of my friends over at TPM. Clinton really has the worse sort of power here. Her threat isn't based on holding out any sector of the voting populace, it's based on simply making things hard for Obama. I think he has to resist. Seems like he is too, given that folks are describing the talks as "difficult." Especially with threats like this in the air.
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"Give me the Veep spot. Or the Democratic Party gets it."
I don't think that bargaining strategy is going to work on Obama. He's not intimidated by the Clintons.
I'm not sure why the whole party has to be held hostage to her ambitions. People talk about what Obama is going to have to offer her to keep the Clintons satisfied and keep them from using their influence within the party to make trouble for his presidency (like a Supreme Court appointment, Senate majority leader, etc).
I say no one should allow themselves to be bullied by power-hungry politicians. 8 years of that has been quite enough.
She's proven that she's vicious and untrustworthy, and interested only in increasing her own political power. Obama needs to choose somebody who will work with him as a true partner. She doesn't fit the bill.
Here's a piece no one cared about. Meh, whatever, probably the most enjoyable article I did during my stint at TIME. Premiered a month before I got laid-off. The nail in the coffin? Ya think?
Here's me going after Al. I didn't so much have a problem with him, as I had a problem with media acting like this dude was the go-to guy for everything black.
This was my first real story at time. I was writing for the Business section, a real change of direction for me. At any rate, it's about Wal-Mart's attempts to colonize the inner-city. As much as I enjoyed this piece, I mostly enjoyed going out to Chicago, which is a beautiful, beautiful city.
This a piece I did about the cops just outside our nation capitol, in Prince George's County, a few years back. I wanted to offer a counter to the dumb, conventional wisdom that if you paint your police force black, you could eradicate police brutality. In fact, Prince George's--one of the richest, blackest counties in the country--also had one of the most brutal police force's in the country.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
"Give me the Veep spot. Or the Democratic Party gets it."
I don't think that bargaining strategy is going to work on Obama. He's not intimidated by the Clintons.
I'm not sure why the whole party has to be held hostage to her ambitions. People talk about what Obama is going to have to offer her to keep the Clintons satisfied and keep them from using their influence within the party to make trouble for his presidency (like a Supreme Court appointment, Senate majority leader, etc).
I say no one should allow themselves to be bullied by power-hungry politicians. 8 years of that has been quite enough.
Posted by Breukelyne | May 23, 2008 1:30 PM