The Hall of Fire

Edwards has explicitly stated that he would not accept an offer to be on the ticket from either Clinton or Obama. Whether he would stick by that, I don't know, but that is what he said.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Cerin. That is helpful to me. I was just listening to part of the NPR show On Point, and one of the guests was making the point that race is a two-edged sword in this election. It provides some obvious challenges to Obama, of course, as we have seen with the Rev. Wr...

What an excellent (and widely disregarded in the media) observation, Faramond.

An editorial from the New York Times, which has endorsed Clinton: Sen. Clinton and the Campaign Published: May 9, 2008 There is a lot of talk that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now fated to lose the Democratic nomination and should pull out of the race. We believe it is her right to stay in the ...

I want to make something clear, in case it hasn't been made clear already. I agree with Cerin that the Michigan and Florida situation has been horribly bungled by the DNC, and that it never should have come to the point that it has. But it has. Where we differ (if I understand correctly) is what wou...

tinwë , I saw that too. Very disappointing. It is one thing to want to carry on and fight until the end; that is admirable. That kind of rhetoric (in my opinion) does not reflect well on her. Speaking of things that don't reflect well on her, here is a copy of the "open letter" that she s...

I'm at a total loss for words.

Obama picked up two more superdelegates today, including one that switched from Clinton. According to ABC News, Obama has now taken the lead in superdelegates. Other news organizations still have Clinton with a lead of varying amounts (which seems odd to me, but I don't pretend to understand politic...

Cerin, would you agree with this statement: "The best result would be if Michigan and Florida's delegates are seated in a way that does not unfairly influence the result of the election"? Obama picked up two more superdelegates today, by the way. He is now only seven behind Clinton in the ...

I think we are overlooking an important point here: that Hillary's arguments can be both self-interested and correct. I've heard both sides of the coin argued here in this thread - that it would be bad for the party if those delegations were seated because it would upend the decision of the nationa...

He has never argued that superdelegates should be prohibited from voting contrary to the popular vote, delegate count, etc. He has only argued that it would be wrong for them to do so, because it would damage the party. I don't think so. I think the Obama camp has aggressively pushed the idea that ...

I see a big difference. Obama has never argued that any rules should be changed. He has never argued that superdelegates should be prohibited from voting contrary to the popular vote, delegate count, etc. He has only argued that it would be wrong for them to do so, because it would damage the party....

The polls don't support the notion that Democratic voters in Florida are so outraged that they are going to flock to McCain or not vote. For whatever that is worth.

Faramond is absolutely right. Solicitr, you are out of line. Personal attacks and insults against our members are strictly against our by-laws.

Cross-posted with Prim's shirriff's note

Thank you very much for that post, V-dude. Very interesting. I'm not entirely sure how much it addresses my question (beyond a kind of "because we said so" sort of answer :P) but it might help me understand why we went this route instead of the route I proposed. So was the legal reasoning...

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yov, you did see that I answered your question, yes?

I'm going to respond to yov's previous question (reiterated by Ax) by giving a brief history of how the employment relationship has been viewed by the American legal system. I hasten to point out that this post doesn't reflect my views of how things should be, only how they are (okay, it's possible ...

It is likely either true, or very close to true. As you know the Republicans have a mish-mash of different rules for different states, some of them proportional like the Democrats use, some of them winner take or all, and some of them a complicated mix of them. I believe that many of the bigger stat...

That's actually quite a good (if elitist) point, Ax. Looking at from a fully cynical point of view, Richardson has the advantage of being Hispanic and therefore being attractive to other Hispanics, but not seeming Hispanic, and therefore not being off-putting to the group who are less tolerant of pe...