Author: Yoda

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2008/06/indy-party-waits-for-bloomberg.html

State Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay, who set up a national network in hopes that Bloomberg would run for president, said he’s now waiting for the mayor’s nod before putting that operation to work for someone else.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/07/13/2008-07-13_mayor_bloombergs_pals_can_count_on_him_a.html

New York Times story link:

His first general election ad, boosted by a large media buy in swing states this month, was all about war. It invoked his Vietnam heroism and tried to have it both ways on Iraq by at once presenting Mr. McCain as a stay-the-course warrior and taking a (timid) swipe at President Bush. “Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war,” Mr. McCain said in his voice-over. That unnamed fool would be our cowboy president, who in March told American troops how he envied their “in some ways romantic” task of “confronting danger.”

From the Boston Globe –

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/11/mccain_ad_asserts_his_hatred_of_war/

By Sasha Issenberg, Globe Staff  |  June 11, 2008

WASHINGTON – John McCain, who credits his defiant defense of the Iraq war for his comeback victory in the Republican primaries, is using his first major television ad of the general election to show his dovish side.

"Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war," McCain says over mournful strings against a bleak backdrop, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. "I hate war, and I know how terrible its costs are."

The following appeared on politico.com:

After McCain said last year that Rumsfeld, Cheney’s friend and mentor in the Ford administration, would “go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history,” the vice president made plain his displeasure.

“I just fundamentally disagree with John,” Cheney told ABC News in an interview. “John said some nasty things about me the other day, and then next time he saw me, ran over to me and apologized. Maybe he’ll apologize to Rumsfeld.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/06/06/khalid-sheik-mohammed-on-same-sex-marriage-value-of-counsel/?mod=googlenews_wsj

For the past five years, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been under the care of federal civilian and military employees who have taken an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

The experience apparently has not enamored him of the document. At his arraignment here Thursday, the alleged 9/11 mastermind said he would not accept any attorney, even a fellow Muslim, “who is sworn to your American constitution.”

Displaying a surprising understanding of such concepts as federalism and dual sovereignty, Mohammed referenced recent decisions by state courts in California and Massachusetts under the powers reserved to them under the Tenth Amendment.

Friday’s New York Times profiles Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard on her major role as an advisor and flack for John McCain.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/us/politics/06fiorina.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

The story notes that she was fired by HP, paid $42 million to walk away and is “widely criticized for mismanaging one of Silicon Valley’s legendary companies.”

Fiorina defended her tenure at HP by saying –

http://www.uticaod.com/election2008/x43066911/Independence-endorsement-goes-to-Hanna

The state Independence Party has dropped U.S. Rep. Michael Arcuri from its endorsement roster and thrown its support to his opponent.

At the announcement at Hotel Utica, the party’s state Vice Chairman John Dote said … Arcuri said in 2006 that he would work to get U.S. troops out of Iraq, but they were still there.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2008/06/indy-party-waits-for-bloomberg.html

 State Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay, who set up a national network in hopes that Bloomberg would run for president, said he’s now waiting for the mayor’s nod before putting that operation to work for someone else. News and Opinion

Of the numerous things Rudy Giuliani did that I disliked, possibly the worst was his habit of using slurring critics and others by using past “criminal” behavior.

The most notorious instance was his illegal leaking of the sealed juvenile record of Patrick Dorismond, a completely innocent man killed by NYC police officers. But that was not the only time Rudy did this.

I was surprised on Sunday to see the Bloomberg administration is now behaving in a similar way.

The Daily News printed the following –

As someone who has blogged for over year that Mike Bloomberg was not a serious candidate for President, I’m happy that the local press has now decided that Mike saying in print the same thing he has said out loud for two years, that he was not going to run, means that he is not going to run.

However now that one farce has ended a new one has started.

We will now be bombarded with endless stories about who Mike will support for President.

Today’s NY Sun starts the new mania by interviewing Bloomberg pollster Doug Schoen, who as part of the PR blitz for his latest book, talked about a bunch of other thing Mike could do to help a Presidential candidate.