On March 15, 2008, Markos Moulitsas talked Jake Tapper of ABC News about the pro-Hillary Clinton diarists’ boycott of DailyKos: First, these people should read up on the definition of ‘strike.’ What they’re doing is a ‘boycott.’ But whatever they call it, I think it’s great. It’s a big Internet, so I hope they find what they’re looking for. What a difference two days makes, as Kos fumes at length about

Probama: Roger Cohen Whoabama: Richard Cohen Vote for Obama: He’s fluxxy like the zeitgeist! If elected, Obama would be the first genuinely 21st-century leader. The China-Indonesia-Kenya-Britain-Hawaii web mirrors a world in flux. Of all the dopey reasons I’ve heard to vote for somebody, this may be the dopiest. Tom Bevan plucks this bit from David Mendell’s Obama book, From Promise to Power: But what truly struck Wright from that meeting

Excitable Andy is just so excitable that he could not wait for Barack Obama to give his speech on race issues before suggesting that anyone who does not buy it is a racist: Today will be a crucial day. It will be a day when we will discover if America’s racial environment – and the emotions and feelings and anger and fears that it entails – can allow for a

Posited healy, O-centric solar system in the 16th Century.

My friends are twats, and I’m in therapy.

MarkD commented this morning: Here we go again. New Jersey is just trying to knock NY out of the news. Look for a story about some NY pol with bestiality in the mix. Mmmm. Not quite: The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state’s new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs. In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53,

Generally, I’m a fan of Pal2Pal, so I was dismayed to see that Palatine Pal posted this representation of a “Leprechaun.”   It’s ludicrous that in this day and age a person of Irish ancestry should have to suffer such a patently offensive, cartoonish and inaccurate representation of Leprechauns. I mean, have we learned nothing?

In an otherwise sensible article concerning Obama’s relation to his church, Asian Times’ Spengler reaches a strange conclusion: Obama holds his own views close. But it seems unlikely that he would identify with the ideological fits of the black-power movement of the 1960s. Maybe. Weathermen, on the other hand . . .

best served cold: I’m betting Obama is just scared to death of the great Dan Collins and his propaganda machine. 

The Wall Street Journal’s Amy Chozick looks at the efforts by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to connect with Catholic voters in Pennsylvania, noting that Catholic voters in the Democratic campaign have generally favored Clinton, even in some states she lost: Some Catholic Democrats say that Sen. Clinton’s emphasis on specific solutions is similar to Catholic social teaching, which urges its followers to use the doctrine as a way of