Yearly Archives 2008

From the NYT Op-Ed page: The Spitzer scandal has completely undermined my confidence as a voter. You pull the lever for your feisty clean-up-the-government candidate with years and years of experience putting the bad guys in jail, and it turns out he’s into high-risk, high-priced hookups. Or, if we go back to the Rudy Giuliani era, he has a meltdown and calls a press conference to announce he’s divorcing his wife so he can marry his mistress. No more electing prosecutors to high office, people. Too high strung. How can you guarantee that a candidate isn’t going to go all weird on you 14 months into the job? It’s not that we expect perfection, or even good performance. ... However, although Spitzer has been in New York politics for years and years, I never ever heard a single person say, “What if it turns out he’s paying for $1,000-an-hour call…

I did a quick analysis of who was who among my Facebook friends. Here's what I found: FACEBOOK FRIENDS 181 FRIENDS THROUGH WORK 74% FRIENDS NOT THROUGH WORK 26% MEN 50% WOMEN 51% FRIENDS FOR KEEPS 27% ABSOLUTELY INDISPENSABLE FRIENDS 6% "NEUTRALS" & ACQUAINTANCES 15% "FACEBOOK IS CLOSE ENOUGH FOR ME" 3% PEOPLE I'VE BEEN ON A DATE WITH 6% PEOPLE I WOULD GO ON A DATE WITH 14% COLLEAGUES I'VE NEVER MET IN PERSON 5% STRANGERS WHO FRIENDED ME 4%

"If anyone should be suggesting vice presidential candidates, it should be him, Obama said. "'With all due respect. I won twice as many states as Sen. Clinton. I've won more of the popular vote than Sen. Clinton. I have more delegates than Sen. Clinton. So, I don't know how somebody who's in second place is offering vice presidency to the person who's in first place,' he said. "Obama also said the Clinton campaign was 'hoodwinking' voters when it suggested he was not ready to be president while also floating the possibility of a joint Clinton-Obama ticket. 'I don't understand,' he said. 'If I'm not ready, how is it that you think I should be such a great vice president?'" More from CNN ... | Video of it ... UPDATE: The NYC tabs do a nice job sometimes, but there's no one like the Brits for snappy headlines, e.g., Obama spurns…

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