I do not want Jon Huntsman to be my President, but moments like this (along with the utter hopelessness of his merging victorious) are why I won't lose any sleep over it. This may be the single best debate moment of the year. And Mr. Huntsman has proven himself a proud American patriot. Jon Huntsman Rips Mitt Romney In NBC News/Facebook Debate | Mediaite www.mediaite.com
The Smartest Man in America casts great doubt on the Romney victory in Iowa. Winner of Iowa Caucus Still in Doubt fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com
Swimming through great pools of Santorum. TNR Staff: A Long List Of The Most Terrible Things Rick Santorum Has Ever Said | The New Republic www.tnr.com
Newt: "…there’s a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side…"
Gate: Who, pray tell (perhaps not the best choice of words), is the other side? Newt Gingrich: ‘There’s a Lot More Anti-Christian Bigotry Today Than There Is Concerning The Other S www.politickerny.com
Even the hard-right Jewish Press grudgingly admitted "President Obama…and his surrogates seem never to miss an opportunity to tout Mr. Obama’s undeniable support for Israel’s security…Obama, with some justification, told an audience of Reform Jews, “I am proud to say that no U.S. administration has done more in support of Israel’s security than ours. None. Don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise. It is a fact…. We’re going to keep standing with our Israeli friends and allies just as we’ve been doing when they needed us most…. I have not wavered and will not waver. The special bonds between our nations are ones that Americans hold dear…. They’re bonds that transcend partisan politics – or at least they should.”
Yet Republicans play guilt by Obama association games with Jewish voters to discredit local Democratic candidates.
Well guys, if you wanna play guilt by association, how about the fact that your two front-runners both said they would support anti "support for Israel's security," anti-Semitic filth in his profit making newsletters, 9/11 truther fellow traveler Ron Paul if he were the GOP nominee.
If there's any guilt by association, let us make the most of it!
The GOP's Albatross www.forward.com
Kinsley: "It seems to me that a Democratic president who gets us health care reform and tough new financial protection for consumers, who guides the economy through its roughest period in 80 years with moderate success (who could do better?), who ends our long war in Iraq and avenges the worst insult to our sovereignty since Pearl Harbor (as his Republican predecessor manifestly failed to do, despite a lot of noise and promises); a president who faced an opposition of really spectacular intransigence and downright meanness…that president deserves a bit more credit from the left than [Thomas] Frank is willing to give him." Pity The Billionaire — By Thomas Frank — Book Review www.nytimes.com
NONA THE ABOVE DEPARTMENT: Seemingly without realizing it, Nona Willis-Abramowitz answers her own question about why "independents" are not a viable political movement: they are not a movement, they are a meaningless catch-all term for "all over the map" and beyond the map. The Spoiler: Ron Paul and the Democracy that Sets Us Up to Fail – News – GOOD www.good.is
Kerrey's interest in the Cornhusker Senate Seat is a rare piece of good news for Harry Reid.
Keeping things in perspective, the good news is that the silver bullet for Nebraska is a man who was last interested in being Mayor of NYC.
Report: Kerrey considers Senate bid www.politico.com
Guest Editorial from a Surprising Place:
"We thought the outrageous incident involving an eight-year-old child being spat on by a haredi man because he didn't think she was modestly dressed was about as over the top as one could get.
We thought the outrageous incident involving an eight-year-old child being spat on by a haredi man because he didn’t think she was modestly dressed was about as over the top as one could get. But then came the demonstration in Jerusalem Saturday night in which extremist Orthodox Jews actually marched with yellow “Jude” armbands and also play-acted several infamous scenes of Jews in the throes of the horrors of the Holocaust.
The purpose of the costumes and the posturing was to draw parallels between what the Jews experienced at the hands of the Nazis and what haredim supposedly experience at the hands of an Israeli government they say is opposed to their standards of Judaism.
The analogy is an obvious obscenity and an unspeakable affront to the memories of the victims of the Holocaust, and as such is utterly unacceptable. It reflects a juvenile perception of human events and an extraordinary lack of sensitivity and judgment. It is also an example of an unfortunate development in Orthodox Jewish life as individuals with narrow agendas arrogate to themselves the right to speak for the faith – with impunity." An Obscenity In Jerusalem www.jewishpress.com
Clueless Observation of the week–The Courier Papers on the 27th SD:
"…but Republicans believe the heavily blue-leaning district is in play since Rep. Bob Turner (R–Sheepshead Bay) won a surprise victory there in 2010 after Rep. Anthony Weiner resigned in disgrace during a sexting scandal."
The 27th gave John McCain 57% of the vote–his second best Senate district in the State.
On what performance based metric does the Courier base the almost baseless observation that this is a "heavily blue-leaning district"?!?
Show me the numbers! Watch out: Here’s our 12 to watch in 2012 www.brooklyndaily.com