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Jon Stewart has no writers right now, but he just does not need them. I will say, though, that America needs him.
- Eric Miller, millerec@etown.edu
Last night the Republican candidates happily put aside their differences to criticize Hillary Clinton. They’ve found something to rally around. The Democrats can take it away.
– Eric Miller, millerec@etown.edu
One of Sullivan’s readers sums it up:
The Clintons are like the arsonist firefighter in the movie Backdraft — using their political skills to create divisive and destructive fires in an attempt to dominate their opposition, and then immediately promoting themselves as the only firefighters that will put them out. They did it in the White House by making Bill’s indiscretions a partisan issue, and now they’re doing it with the gender and race issue. And it baffles me how willing Hillary supporters are to continue to participate in this cynical and destructive mechanism.
I’m a very politically interested Dem in a large family of moderate to conservative Republicans and Independants. I can, and have, made a good case with them for Obama, but there’s no way I can justify a Hillary nomination to myself, much less to them. If the Dems are short-sighted and suicidal enough to give a Hillary the nomination instead of seizing the opportunity with Obama to create a once-in-a-lifetime historical political realignment in this country, they can count me, my family, and many of my Dem friends out this Nov.
– Eric Miller, millerec@etown.edu
Here’s a piece linked to on the DFA site, by Jim Wallis. His point is a valid one – democratic voters weren’t asked about their ties to the evangelical community, republicans were, and the implication is that democrats are never evangelicals, so why bother to ask. It’s an incorrect assumption. Pollsters, pundits, and network news are not strong on “nuance.”
There are tons of democratic evangelicals in Lancaster County, and all of them know a thing or two about being marginalized.
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Just spent the afternoon with the DSC at the Lancaster Host, and I can say, with all the confidence of a professional pundit – I surveyed the parking lot bumper stickers – that the PA Dems will go strong for Barack Obama…
