Clinton-Gore ’08
Wherein the last two Democrats elected to be President come to Florida to campaign for (hopefully) the next Democratic President.
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About emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
Entries by emptywheel
Don’t You Hate When Your Plumber Is a No-Show on Your Appointment?
/50 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelOnly, when you get blown off by repairmen, there aren’t 6,000 people and the national press watching.
Fukuyama Endorses Obama; Slams McPrickly, Dick & Bush
/67 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hollinger International/by emptywheelEven the neocon nuts are fleeing John McCain and his campaign of shame. The latest surfer from the right to catch the Obama wave to the White House is Francis Fukuyama. That’s right, the guy who literally wrote The End Of History has figured out that Barack Obama is history in the making and John McCain is simply ancient and erratic history.
Defeat Mormon Hate: Defeat Prop 8
/105 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelPlease give to defeat Prop 8.
The Palin Industry
/105 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election, Hollinger International/by emptywheelI don’t buy that Sarah Palin will be the Republican nominee for President in 2012.
I understand why the right has grasped Palin with such enthusiasm.
Senate Tea Leaves
/128 Comments/in Bingo/by emptywheelA new Hill piece talks about some of the changes that will come if Obama does win the Presidency.
McCain, Don’t You Think A Surge Might Have Been Better BEFORE People Voted?
/32 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelGood for John McCain to finally start defending the states he needs to win. But don’t you think it would have been better to do so before a quarter of voters in those states had already voted?
Did I Mention Bush Is Preparing His Pardon Pen?
/20 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelJohn McCain has called on Uncle Toobz to resign (ignoring, of course, that he may be guilty of the same crime himself), Mitch McConnell has piled on, and even Sarah Palin has decided it is safe to take on her mentor.
But the Bush Administration? Dana Perino’s no comment sounds remarkably like the “no comment”s we got just before Bush commuted Scooter Libby’s sentence.
BREAKING NEWS: Arizona Officially Within Two Points!
/69 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelWell, the preliminary word is in from Dr. Bruce Merrill, the last word in Arizona polling. Hold onto your hats folks, we got us a neck and neck horserace! The new poll, in it’s entirety, is to be released tonight at 7:00 pm local Arizona time and has McCain up by two little itty bitty points: McCain 46% Obama 44%
McCain Only Wants to Sit with the Cool Kids on the Bus
/49 Comments/in 2008 Presidential Election/by emptywheelRobert Draper’s blog on the McCain campaign offers more delectable morsels than his NYT piece.