Letters to the Editor
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Who's left?
The pendulum swings, apparently only in one direction.
O-08
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Robert Reich's next!!!
My favorite liberal economist, former Clinton Sec of Labor. Will announce tomorrow!!! I'd like to see Nunn and Reich in Obama's cabinet.
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Nunn in Obama's cabinet?
Let's just hope he's not made part of any commission to study gays in the military. Anyone remember his little TV bit down in the submarine from 1993?
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Superdelegate Momentum
Two more experienced, respected superdelegates (I think they are?) go Obama's way. What's more interesting with all the supers' endorsements isn't just keeping score between the candidates, but paying attention to who's endorsing whom, and their stated reasons why.
The only Superdelegate 'lead' Clinton had was with those who committed to her before this campaign really got going, arguably prematurely. I wonder how many of those early pledgers are now wishing they'd waited to see how the campaigns performed. Since the first of this year, Obama has earned 'super' support by at least a 2:1 margin over Clinton.
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Nunn and Nuclear Proliferation
If I had to pick a sole reason why I really like Obama it is due to his stance on nuclear weapon proliferation. Nunn co-sponsored the Comprehensive Threat Reduction program with Richard Lugar, the outspoken republican critic of the Iraq war.
This signals to me that Obama really is following the right path towards foreign policy advisors and we will see a real different approach to U.S. foreign policy when he is president. This is a great endorsement for anyone that has foreign policy at the top of their list of issues, which I am one.
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These two (three with Reich) are not superdelegates
FYI
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Blue Dog Dems for Obama is good news
This lends credence to the fact that Obama can form a coalition of disparate people. Sam Nunn should be in Hillary's camp. After all, he is a blue dog democrat.
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I Wonder..
..if this is an endorsement of Obama or a FU to the Clintons. Mind you, I work for Obama and welcome any support, but these guys are a little squirrelly.
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@adze13
Word has it that Sam Nunn's stance on gays in the military back in '93 was a big FU to Clinton for passing him over for SecDef.
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Big asset
Sam Nunn is exactly the kind of conservative that any (especially a more liberal) Democrat would be delighted to have on their team — he's principled, if somewhat benighted at times, intelligent, and independent of the taste for fascism among some of his ostensible fellow conservatives. He's a huge asset to any Democratic administration.
Most of all, he doesn't screw around when it comes to military matters — except, perhaps, when it comes to screwing around in the military. But hopefully time and tide (and retirement from service to his former constituents) have softened his stance.
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@captainlarab Sam Nunn and the submarine
I remember a stunt, and controversy, but not the details. What exactly did he do; how will it fit into this election cycle?
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Sam Nunn
opposed gays in the military and settle for Don't Ask Don't Tell
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Some background on Sam Nunn and the gay thing
This old letter to the editor sums it up best:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFD91738F935A15756C0A965958260&scp=3&sq=sam+nunn+gay+submarine&st=nyt
I know a gay veteran who was a sailor on that submarine back in 1993, when Sam Nunn came in with his TV cameras to prove why gays couldn't serve.
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I'm a former NYr and even I'm stumped why Bloomberg is important
Other than the Saloniks and KosKids who were practically promising a Bloomberg candidacy there are few in the US who even know who he is. And if they did, they'd hear "Jew who's the mayor of NYC - no thanks."
I think Saloniks are just green with envy that NYC has a better mayor than the Free Democratic People's Republic of SanFranistan.
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Keep it coming
Keep the negativity coming, Hillary. It's workout out just great -- for Obama.
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More background
Here's a great link with lots of documents regarding the March-July 1993 hearings on gays in the military. You'll see lots of familiar names, not just Nunn's. McCain, JCS Chair Colin Powell, General McPeak, Norman Schwarzkopf...they're all there.
http://dont.stanford.edu/hearings/hearings.htm
The hearings on "unit cohesion" in March 1993 were particularly interesting. Incidentally, the author of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, Charles Moskos, has been quoted in recent years as completely disowning the "unit cohesion" argument. In fact, what he said specifically, was "Fuck unit cohesion," his issue is, he just doesn't want to shower with gay guys.
I had just gotten back from a six-month tour in Kuwait with my air defense artillery battery and was assuming a platoon leader position when these jokers decided to have a hearing on whether I was fit to serve in the military.
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There is a Super Delegate Boren
David Boren, although he is a former Senator, is not a super delegate, he is currently serving as the President of the University of Oklahoma.
However, David Boren's son, Dan, is Oklahoma's only Democratic Congress member. Therefore he is a Super Delegate. So far, Dan Boren has not declared which candidate he is backing.
Some of us out here in this red state are betting that Dan will follow what Daddy David does.
He seems to vote exactly like his dad did. So, it could be another super delegate for Obama.
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It's over. Obama wins.
Just a few more days and Obama is the nominee.
Unless, of course, that video comes out of Obama throwing a kitten in front of a train.
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Clinton Slams Democratic Activists At Private Fundraiser
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celeste-fremon/clinton-slams-democratic_b_97484.html
At a small closed-door fundraiser after Super Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton blamed what she called the "activist base" of the Democratic Party -- and MoveOn.org in particular -- for many of her electoral defeats, saying activists had "flooded" state caucuses and "intimidated" her supporters, according to an audio recording of the event obtained by The Huffington Post.
"Moveon.org endorsed [Sen. Barack Obama] -- which is like a gusher of money that never seems to slow down," Clinton said to a meeting of donors. "We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party. MoveOn didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that's what we're dealing with. And you know they turn out in great numbers. And they are very driven by their view of our positions, and it's primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don't agree with them. They know I don't agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me."