Reid pisses me off with his shameless spun excuses for dropping the bill. Democrats, once again dropping us like a hot potato when their precious Iraq compromise doesn't have the votes because they haven't worked well enough for them? Impossible, I say!

I have to say that Hill is good at presenting herself with grace and charisma and shows that you can disagree without being disagreeable. That smack down of Edwards was actually pretty good and didn't come off petty as a lot of the attacks against her have.

I just noticed I posted on the wrong comment thread *blushes*, got carried away by the thrill that someone actually bothered to mention such news, when most have remained discreetly shut up about it.

Actually, that Nevada event and the allegations accompanying it have not been confirmed; please, refrain from regurgitating unconfirmed conspiracy theories. I know they may be fun to throw around just for the sake of mobilizing people through cheap appeals to emotion, but such tactics are dishonest and have no place in a blog like this one. Furthermore, to tear someone down, you must be aiming at their character; exploiting shamelessly the unfaithfulness of a husband to rip at her character is not a legitimate form of tearing down. I should not be needing to mention also how pitifully sexist it is to evaluate a woman by the actions of her husband.

The NY Times blog posted this video by edwards-- split screen of Hilary "parsing"

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/edwards-issues-video-critical-of-clinton/

Civics 101.2

Just before the Vegas debate the Heir Apparent got some more dividends from the gift that keeps on giving…

On his final morning in the White House, January 1st, 2001 Bill granted the last of his 140 presidential pardons and 36 commutations. Three more recipients of these notorious last minute pardons ‘given’ by Bill Clinton minutes before leaving office made large to the presidential campaign Hillary Clinton," according to campaign finance records examined by ABC News.

One of Clinton’s most notorious pardons was uberrich Marc Rich, aka Marc David Reich, a financier and international commodities swindler who fled the US while being prosecuted on charges of tax evasion and illegally making oil deals with Iran during the hostage crisis.

There's nothing illegal about this; the Congress is run by the hand puppets of the uberrich and Republicans and Democrats burn with a bipartisan zeal to protect their contributions from lobbyists, criminals, and big business. For both parties of the ruling rich it’s business usual.

Clinton refused to pardon Leonard Peltier a leader of the American Indian Movement falsely convicted of killing two FBI agents attacking an Indian reservation in 1975 or hundreds of other prisoners of conscience.

Clinton’s probable opponent in the Presidential race will be Rudolph Giuliani had a similar scandal break this week. His aide Bernie Kerik, who Giuliani proposed as Secretary of Homeland Security is mixed up in a new scandal. Judith Regan a book publisher sued FAUX News claiming that they told her to lie to the Feds investigating Kerik’s nomination about her affair him. The lawsuit asserts that the Fox News wanted to cover Giuliani, then planning this run for the White House. Kerik’s been charged with 16 counts of mail and tax fraud, corruption and lying on forms submitted to be Homeland Security Secretary, accepting more than $250,000 in free apartment renovations from a company with alleged ties to organized crime, and using a downtown Manhattan apartment intended for use by 9/11 rescue workers for sexual trysts. If Giuliani wins Kerik walks.

The gory details include pardons for Clintons cocaine dealing brother Roger Clinton, his business partner Susan McDougal who went to prison rather than testify in the Whitewater investigation, former CIA Director John Deutch, Clintons former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros, former Navaho Nation chief Peter MacDonald, impeached for taking bribes and kickbacks and Clintons cocaine dealing brother Roger Clinton.

As ‘Deepthroat’ famously said “Follow the Money.” He was talking about a Republican criminal, Nixon who was pardoned by a Republican President but his advice equally to the Democrats as well.

In her remarks at the Vegas debate Her Royal Highness, Heir Apparent Hillary gobsmacked her Democratic opponents, commoners all. She majestically accused them of ‘throwing mud’ and reading ‘from the Republican playbook’.

Hillary Clinton runs on Bill Clinton’s record and tries to put a stop to discussion of her own. Look at her website for verification that she unashamedly runs on Bill Clinton’s record. Does this make her a misogynist too? Examine her votes for war, her pigheaded opposition to samesex marriage, her union busting and the fact that both Pat Robertson and Rupert Murdoch approve of her and you’ll see why she want suppress discussion of her record. It’s entirely correct to question her about DOMA, DADT and NAFTA if she herself runs on Bill Clinton’s record. It’s retarded to describe that as sexist behavior.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=3866786&page=1
www.usdoj.gov/pardon/clintonpardon_grants.htm

What exactly does this post specifically, or your intra-party biases generally, have to do with gay rights?

I come to this site for a reason, and this isn't it.

I think one of Bilerico's strong points is that the topics discussed reach beyond "gay rights." The gay rights platform at times becomes very stifling and frequently redundant. Moving beyond (or maybe around it is a better word) is a good thing.

I've always had respect for John Edwards, and I still think he's a good guy, but his campaign, of late, has desperately tried anything to bolster his poll numbers, which in the end is only sinking him lower and lower. Senator Edwards is trying to figure out which of the Americas (what are we up to now? 5?) might throw him a bone and give him an advantage in the primaries, but none of them are taking him up on his offer.

As one of the debate moderators pointed out, Senator Edwards loves to accuse his opponents of changing their minds, but neglects to see that he is very well positioned to be criticized for exactly the same thing.

Clinton showed Edwards AND Obama to be, in the end, woefully inexperienced candidates who are not yet ready to occupy the Oval Office . . . especially during a time when knowing what you're doing is more important than ever before.