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Don't Call It A Comeback....

Obama Campaign Caught In Watergate-Like Scandal

ERIE, Pa. -- Could this be the big Obama blunder Hillary Clinton desperately has been praying will torpedo her more popular rival for 2008 Class President of Democrat High and allow her to grab the nomination despite her reputation as "teacher's pet"?

The Erie (Pa.), Times-News reports today that an Obama supporter recently showed up at Clinton's Erie campaign office and "passed himself off as a Clinton supporter." The Times-News published the following official comments from the Clinton camp:

Clinton spokesman Mark Nevins criticized the Obama supporter's tactics. "I just think it's atrocious that a campaign that sort of defines itself as the new way is engaging in the politics of Richard Nixon and Gordon Liddy," he said.

Nevins added that he didn't think he was overstating the matter by comparing the incident to Watergate.

In what could be a futile damage-control attempt, "... an Obama spokesman said the campaigner was acting on his own, and was asked to leave the campaign after news of the incident surfaced."

View the full story here:

http://goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080329/NEWS02/803290384/0/ETN

A Penny For My Thoughts -- Courtesy of Mr. Cent

I'm working on a new column I hope to post later this week. In the meantime, check out this priceless piece from The Huffington Post of John McLaughlin (The McLaughlin Report on PBS) discussing the merits of rapper 50 Cent.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/13/john-mclaughlin-offers-cr_n_81271.html

The Ron Paul Phenomenon

lib•er•tar•ian
n. 1. a person who believes in the doctrine of the freedom of the will

2. a person who believes in full individual freedom of thought, expression and action

3. a freewheeling rebel who hates wiretaps, loves Ron Paul and is redirecting politics

(Headline appearing in The Washington Post, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2007)

Read an interesting article in today's The Washington Post about about the surprisingly strong following Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul continues to generate. Here are a few paragraphs from the article that offer as good an explanation as any I've seen:

So Paul's challenge represents a not-so-lonely GOP revival of unabashed libertarianism. All his major Republican competitors want to double down on Bush's wars; none is stressing any limited-government themes, apart from half-hearted promises to prune pork and tinker on the margins of Social Security.

College kids (a key bloc of Paul's support) have seen no recent evidence that the GOP has anything to do with libertarianism. Yet there's no reason to believe that Democrats will do anything useful about the government intrusion that so many young people abhor: the drug war, federal bans on same-sex marriage, online poker prohibitions, open-ended deployments in Iraq.

This is the mile-wide gap in the Maginot line of "serious" Washington politics. Undergrads aren't the only ones weary of war and moralizing, and more interested in exploring new frontiers of technology and culture than in heeding the stale noise coming from inside the Beltway.

More than at any other time over the past two decades, Americans are hungering for the politics and freewheeling fun of libertarianism. And with the dreary prospect of a Giuliani vs. Clinton death match in 2008, that hunger is likely to grow even faster than the size of the federal government or the casualty toll in Iraq. Ron Paul may lose next year's battle -- though not without a memorable fight -- but the laissez-faire agitators he has helped energize will find themselves at the leading edge of American politics and culture for years to come.

Here's the link to the full article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112301299.html?nav=hcmodule

Blame It On Bert Returns!

Like a bad nightmare - he's back... Blame It On Bert