check out http://www.factcheck.org to get a summary and analysis.

Wow. All in all, if I were an American presidential candidate, I’d prefer to be denounced by Hamas.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h6j8Dre7jUyJpxvaCMx2edrqtvaQD9035JNG3

Currently on my night table –

Amy Chua – Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance — And Why They Fail. Off the hook!

Christoper Bracey – Saviors or Sellouts: The Promise and Peril of Black Conservatism, from Booker T to Condi Rice. Good stuff!

That is all.

Can someone explain to me what Dilanian is saying. I’m confused. Isn’t there a big difference between an employee of a company raising money for a presidential candidate on that employee’s own time and an employee’s company donating money to a presidential candidate’s campaign.

In other words, Obama has fundraisers who work for law firms (and I guess these law firms are lobbyists), and Dilanian in USA Today is saying there is no difference between a law firm giving money to a campaign and an employee raising money.

This is crazy. I work at a college. Is he saying that my fundraising efforts for Obama constitute lobbyist money from colleges?

And then today I see this article:

Chelsea Clinton is Hillary’s new weapon

Yeah, yeah, whatever. Actually, I had a co-worker in her early 30s who was pretty laid-back about the whole election thing but she said, pretty early on “Chelsea scares me!” Don’t know what that was about exactly, but there it is.

(I also think it’s funny that Chelsea works for a hedge fund.)

because they are stuck in stages 1-3 (3+ / 0-)

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of the 5 stages of grief.

1. Denial: “It can’t be happening.” (I am not losing!)

2. Anger: “Why me? It’s not fair.” (Caucuses are unfair! Bill Richardson is a Judas!)

3. Bargaining: “Just let me live to see my children graduate.” (Maybe he can be my veep? Maybe the superdelegates will save me?)

Once Hillary starts looking depressed, you will know she is on her way to acceptance.

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If you love Bush, Vote John McCain ’08

by biscobosco on Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 10:20:50 PM PDT

McCain was seen as a better steward of the economy than either Democrat despite their repeated criticism of his economic credentials. He led Obama by 3 points and Clinton by 5 points on the question of who would best manage the economy.

Many thoughts and prayers to Senator Specter and his family. He’s a good man, and has served PA and the country honorably.
I wish him all the comfort and peace.

All I can say is, “Barack … brotha you married well. Very well.”

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Related observation by my students (7+ / 0-)

My High School Juniors have an essential question all year long: What does it mean to be an American?

This question is the lens through which all our literature, writing, and Socratic Seminars must be looked through.

As an English teacher – well, more of a Humanities teacher because I can’t separate the Social Studies out of it – I further have a huge Social Justice bent.

My Juniors have been following the presidential race.

One student made this observation: Obama, if elected, HAS to keep his word. Why? Because, he’ll be the first. If he screws up, he screws up for everyone else.

The rest of my students picked up on that idea. They see it deeper than that. He has to conduct himself well throughout. He understands what his breaking the ceiling really means – and it’s an awesome responsibility – and he accepts it.

Clinton on the other hand just wants to break the ceiling. She just wants to be the first. She doesn’t much grasp or seem to care about how she does it or the long term reprocussions of her actions.

In other words, my students believe that – and I could cite a litany of instances – Clinton has done more harm than good to women seeking power. They’re not convinced that the damage is complete. She could still exit magnanimously and lift Obama up and be the heroine and be gracious…

But right now, my students see Clinton as having taken women one step forward and two steps back.

I have a child due in May. I don’t know the sex. If it turns out to be a daughter, I hope to be able to look her in the eye and tell her that she really CAN be president some day – that there are no more double standards out there. But, my fear is that this hypothetical daughter and my actual neices rely on the ego of a short sighted power driven woman who right now seems bent on destruction.

We have discussed here about Obama being Jackie Robinson, and all that means. It’s interesting that these students pick up on that and understand that.

Hillpatine COULD HAVE BEEN a female Jackie Robinson, but she just doesn’t understand what that means, because it’s always ALL ABOUT HER. And the only time it’s about ‘Women’, it’s when she’s pimping the White Woman Victim Card to get votes.

Deconstructing Hillary NC “Jewel” ad

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jgV6-R80B4lnQEWi3llZ9Y5s4PRg

Watt and Price were former Edwards Superdelegates

I Don’t Want Yoo to Show Them the Way :Which presidential candidate would exercise the most self-restraint?

1. I am cutting class people because I spend to much time on internet blogs like JJP and I forgot to complete the rough draft for my senior thesis=/

2. Truthseeker I voted 100 for obama and 100 for rev.wright!!!

They wrote as a con for Wright:
“Infusing radical politics and language into your sermons to work up the crowd? Acceptable. Referring to the “goddamn” United States as the “U.S. of KKK. A.” and claiming 9/11 was the result of corrupt U.S. policy? Not so much. “

That is not what he said. Why the distortion of his words…I swear ppl please get real.

3. I missed Michelle Obama on the Colbert Report. I will watch the video.

4. The Pope is in town.

5. I was thinking about Bruce Springsteen just the other day when someone used his song against Obama and his Obama’s preacher. It’s nice to see that he endorsed him!!! Obama 08

6. Not a really eventful day but I am enjoying the idea of a daily open thread!! If I find anything, I will be back to report.

Obama is also meeting with 50 American Jewish leaders in Philadelphia this morning.

The meeting will include rabbis, professional leaders and lay leaders. An Obama aide says that the goal of the meeting will be to introduce Obama to the Jewish community and re-affirm his strong support for Israel.

Three papers: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Bucks County Courier-Times and the Patriot News endorses