Brian at Iowa Voice is following all the developments of today’s all-important straw poll activities in Ames. He’s got a lot of updates and video clips, and I presume will be posting the results from the straw poll shortly.
Last December, when the hype over a potential Obama presidential candidacy was reaching fever pitch, I wrote about the ‘moderate’ myth surrounding the Illinois Senator. In that post, I noted that the media’s painting him as a ‘middle of the road’ candidate didn’t square at all with his actual record, a record put him solidly in the liberal Democrat camp.
The Bush-hating anti-war (but ‘troop supporting’) moonbats in the blogosphere are having a field day with recent remarks Mitt Romney made in response to a question about whether or not any of his five sons are enlisted. Here’s the story, via AP:
In other words, even though they can’t ‘make’ Silky Phoney black or a woman, he can still adequately represent their needs, according to implications made by Elizabeth Edwards on press coverage of Obama and Hillary vs. her husband’s press coverage. This is also the strong implication we get when we hear and read from other Democrats talking about how John Edwards supposedly knows more about women’s issues than Hillary or can better represent black people than Barack Obama.
Amanda Carpenter has a mini-recap of what was said at a “special session” of YearlyKos where Hillary Clinton sat down to talk to the “Kossacks”:
