Election fatigue open thread

Mon, 03/03/2008 - 6:54pm

Tired of hearing so much about the U.S. elections? Vent below. What important international stories are getting lost amid all the hubbub about Hillary and Barack?

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Darfur

by Lure D. Lou on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 8:40pm

Yesterday's NYT says that the janjaweed are back and that the Sudanese government is openly supporting ethnic cleansing. I guess having Samantha Power on his Foreign Policy team still isn't pushing the "problem from hell" on the front burner. Speaking of Africa:someone should ask Hilary what Lester Hyman is doing these days.

You know it's time to vote when....

by gawksquawk on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 9:38pm

There have been so many campaign commercials, the candidates have to use the same film in their attack and response ads.

Even Jack Nicholson is recycling his old movies.

No one thinks of the Texas Two Step as a dance anymore.

You volunteer to call a hundred people in Ohio for the Obama campaign. Half the numbers have either been disconnected, or have new owners.

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Democrats would be Wise...

by yuguri on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 11:32pm

Democrats would be wise to wrap this primary election up today. If Mrs. Clinton survives Tuesday, she will continue to campaign hard, trashing Mr. Obama at every opportunity, dividing the Democratic party and alienating Mr. Obama's new emerging youth constituency. In the event of a continuing primary, the eventual nominee may emerge bruised enough for Mr. McCain's largely empty rhetoric to actually hurt. Smart establishment Democrats should be doing everything in their power to wrap this up.

-Yuguri, in Mendocino

Affirmative action was

by sqwoday on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 3:02am

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets. Discuss.

Recession chatter

by jgarzik on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 4:26am

The US is in recession by “any common sense definition” of the word, Warren Buffett said on Monday.

Alan Greenspan told the Financial Times that “the rate of growth in economic activity is effectively zero”.
(link, FT.com).