tbogg.firedoglake.com - 8/26/2008
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High level Politico story conference
Politico :
As Democrats arrived here Sunday for a convention intended to promote party unity, mistrust and resentments continued to boil among top associates of presumptive nominee Barack Obama and his defeated rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
...The former president is disappointed, associates said ,....
...This is an especially sore point for ...
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paging mr. machiavelli...mr. prince machiavelli, please pick up a gop courtesy telephone
skippy the bush kangaroo —
tbogg nails the convention reporting by the media today over at fdl: reporting from the lockers by the girls gym and, omg! just, like, three days before the prom, this is tiffany. back to, like, you, heather.they are all gossip girls, insisting on creating the ...
One Last Magnificent Performance
Comments from Left Field —
... Hillary and Bill Clinton and their top supporters, I suspect it’s overplayed. The tone of the piece — starting with the overheated title (”Exclusive: Obama-Clinton Feud Reignites”) and continuing with Jim VandeHei’s stern video warning “Don’t buy it [claims of unity]; there is soooo much tension still between these two candidates.” — is that of a sportscaster at a hotly contested World Series game — or, as TBogg puts it, like the Gossip Girls “reporting from the lockers by the girls ...
Old Whine in New Glasses
I Am TRex —
... which, according to them, is “150% in the tank for Obama” and has become an arm of the Liberal Media Elites, never mind that Bill Kristol gets to pull his pud on their OpEd page every week. This declaration of war was made on a bile and invective filled conference call today, where McCrashypants’s campaign manager Steve Schmidt all but soiled himself with rage.
Trouble is, they’ve been to the well too many times on this one. Not even those Gossip Girls at the Politico are buying Schmidt’s soap this week: ...
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