This is really frustrating.

A Councilwoman (and Clinton Campaign Manager) is taping news interviews calling Barack Obama an ‘Empty Suit’ and saying that ‘...anything can happen...’ between now and the convention.

Does anyone have an idea when the petulant madness of this primary will end?

Below is an excerpt of a local blog covering the story.

Prominent Democrats Still Trashing Barack Obama

...and by that title I mean, do we really need the role of ‘super delegate’ in our primary process or should we agree to kill it off?

If there’s one thing I come away with from this primary cycle is that ‘super delegates’ don’t seem to bring too much to the table; and what they do bring seems to extend the pain rather than relieve it. Of course maybe if they were required to actually make a decision during the process, I might feel different.

With that in mind, I sent a very oblique Email to the local party list serve and hinted that maybe, just maybe-we can do this thing without super delegates.

In any case here’s my view. Read or don’t read; but don’t just be acerbic because it not your cup of tea.

Wow, what a whacky story.

(CNN) -- Police in Israel are investigating the burning of hundreds of New Testaments in a city near Tel Aviv, an incident that has alarmed advocates of religious freedom.

Investigators plan to review photographs and footage showing "a fairly large" number of New Testaments being torched this month in the city of Or-Yehuda, a police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, said Wednesday.

Update: I failed to note that the burning was not ordered by the mayor- just the confiscation of the Bibles. I've changed the title to reflect this.

Update 2: Please go read the original article and draw your own conclusions. 'Huge misunderstanding' or 'a failure to anticipate the PR image of something'; it's your call.

In my mind the biggest mistake John Kerry made during his election bid was when he let the media narrative get away from him and allowed the Swift Boat smear to go unanswered. His failure to act decisively and with full force allowed that ugly smear to gain a foothold in the public mind.

And now I think Obama faces a similar challenge with Liz Trotta’s ‘wink and a nod’ to wingnuts every in saying-
a) Osama = Obama
b) Killing both would be a win-win for republicans

Republicans in the state of Kentucky are still feeling the heat from the scalding they received from Kentucky Democratic Blogs and whistleblowers, which helped to bring down a corrupt republican governor.

This is their answer.

An unrepentant Limbaugh/Hannity Republican, whom I have worked with for years, has informed me that he plans to vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election- because she’s more conservative than John McCain.

He was serious.

There are a legion of websites on the net that claim to keep up with the Intelligence world; but one in particular wonders out loud at the unusual amount of Secret Service protection surrounding Barak Obama.

What do they know that we don’t?

Edit:

It's been pointed out to me that this has been posted already- please disregard.

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My wife reads Hollywood gossip just for the humor of it, but when I saw this article looking over her shoulder I almost spewed the monitor with coffee...

According to these folks, Trent Lott is resigning because he's Gay.

Too funny; too stupid; too silly (you fill in the blank) not to share.

Well that's the official view of Representative Jim Gooch, a Kentucky State Legislator who used his positon as Chairman of the interim joint Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee to hold a government hearing on the topic where he-

A. Refused to invite any scientist who warns of Global Warming
B. Only invited those who claim Global Warming in junk science.

Pardon me while I gag... more after the jump.

Kentucky College Dem's aren't waitng to leap into the battle for 2008- they've fired their first Salvo and it's a doozey.

Great job, everybody- keep up the good work!

How come no one else has noticed this?

RNC Chairman Mike Duncan couldn't even win his own county for an incumbent republican governor.

In Kentucky.

Think about that.

You know, ugly rumors these days have a way of tunring out to be true. Well here's a doozey- Pelosi and the House leaders threw Stark under the bus and forced him to apologize.

Apologize or the censure passes- nice friends, huh?

Amendment to the Constitution
Military Leadership Act

George Bush; Dan Quayle; Dick Cheney and John Ashcroft just to name a few; the gallery of privileged individuals who avoided combat by virtue of personal influence is as infamous as it is long; but now the increasing cavalier polices of the United States threatens to destroy one of the finest military organizations in the History of the world, ultimately putting our entire nation at peril.

There is a solution- but the ‘politics as usual’ crowd isn’t going to like it. Simply put we need a permanent Draft amendment; but a Draft so specific that military adventurism will no longer be a pain-free option for those who are elected to lead. A Draft that requires the Legislative and Executive branches to provide their children anytime they decide to send our children to war.

Gazing into the crystal ball, the next step I see for the GOP- prerequisite open statements of heterosexuality by office holders, and a ban on gay/lesbian membership in the republican party.

It’s been years in the making- the GOP party plank of intolerance for gay/lesbian Americans- and now it’s come home to roost in spades. Though the republicans have taken pains over the years to promote their homophobia as much as they could short of a statement that they were ‘building camps to affect a final solution’, they have in reality created a situation from which they cannot move forward without fundamentally damaging their party, and here’s why...

Well, that's what they're telling me.

Anyone else get an Email like this?

The Bush Administration is appointing Judge Reggie Walton of the Scotter Libby Trial to the FISA court.

I'm not sure what to make of this other than the administration has been so burned by the DOJ Scandal that they're not even going to tempt fate by putting up someone who might draw attention to their appointment.

Walton, on the face of things, looks to be a good choice for this position.

I can't help but wonder if the Justice Department is worried about getting caught behind the 8 ball on this one. They're going to 'investigate' before the real investigation begins.

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Domestic Spying Program to Get Internal Review
By JASON RYAN

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, 2006 — The Justice Department's inspector general has informed the Judiciary and Intelligence committees of both the House and Senate that he will begin a review of the controversial NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program.

In a letter to the committees, Inspector General Glenn Fine wrote that the review would be to examine the Justice Department's "controls and use of information related to the program and the department's compliance with legal requirements governing the program."

I'm not sure that this can be interpreted in too many different ways- it reads to me like the republican source in this article is saying Foley was not the only 'problem' congressman they have.

"A former senior Republican official in Congress says Foley was one of a handful of members and staff whose behavior with pages was being closely watched."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/...