WHERE TO GO

One of the best sites on the web is Cursor. Fine selection of articles, easy access to the major papers and magazines of the world and the top blogs. In fact if I had to do the stranded on a desert island gig I think I’d go for Cursor as it accesses about 80 per cent of my reading. It is however a mite naïve, suffering I suspect from the Daily Kos syndrome. In 2004, such a long time ago, in fact in 2003, Daily Kos got behind Dean and learned the hard ways of politics when Dean fell, or was pushed, at the post. Then when Dean accepted the post as Party boss the wind seemed to come out of Daily Kos’s sails. Kossack’s could make or break a candidate back then and their endorsement carried big votes and big money.
Cursor never had the political or financial clout, though I note they are raising money at a goodly rate and pray they continue to expand, but they seem to be hitching their wagon overmuch to Obama and are bound to be disappointed. Fact is, even if Obama gets the pre-selection and prevails, which he should given his opponent, McCain, knows nothing of economics, is happy for the war in Iraq to go 100 years and recently said “Basra doesn’t count”, he will disappoint. Or be killed. In fact given the 25% of Americans who must be stark staring mad, they still support Bush, Obama would be best appointing Hillary as VP in the hope the lunatics will have second thoughts about doing him in. Rather like old man Bush going for Dan Quayle, figuring the Dems. would not dare impeach him over Iranamuck and have the nation face the ignominy of a President Quayle. People actually believed that at the time.
But that McCain must know something I’m in the dark over. Basra don’t count. Why, in Gods name, did we go to war.

McCAIN NOR ABLE
But McCain gets away with it. He’s Teflon coated. Like all the Republicans the White House Press Corp. Inc. just can’t love him enough. It got sickening the other day when they went after poor Chelsea over, of all things, Monica’s dress. I mean. What about McCain leaving his first wife dying to head off with a blond streak of misery with a few million bucks in her sky rocket? No attention to his admitted economic illiteracy, his personal life is sacrosanct and he doesn’t give a flying fuck about what should be one of the most important oil centers of the world. It is also a place where US troops might well be dying very soon. Blood and oil, you’d think he'd move there. But the press has dropped Iraq almost completely. Even the serious news reports barely mentioned the battle of Basra so, I guess, McCain is taking his prompts from corporate America. Basra doesn’t matter. If there is no reporting there is no accountability. The Democrats seem to be allowing Iraq to slip from the electoral map as well. I don’t get it. This is a sure fire winner especially in red states where the boys who are dying come from. They should be out in Kansas pounding the pulpits and demanding the boys and girls come home. Trees are falling in the forest and no-one hears.

MOVEMENTS
AP reports Clinton with 250 superdelegates, Obama 218. Overall, Obama has 1,634 delegates to Clinton's 1,500. With Hillary leading with the superdelegates 250 to 218.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced her support for Obama on Monday. That followed endorsements by Pennsylvania Sen. Robert Casey and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. Also yesterday former Indiana congressman Lee Hamilton, the top Democrat on the 9/11 Commission, and all round well known and liked Democrat, endorsed him. This is panning out opposite to how one would have thought at Christmas. Then, if the race got close, one might have expected the old hands to gather around William Jefferson Clinton’s wife. Richardson clearly anguished over the choice but the party heavyweights have thought long and hard and Hillary has been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
The whole dog and pony show is made for political junkies with states that have never had any say in political anointment - North Carolina, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, Montana and South Dakota, plus Puerto Rico and Guam — being wooed, or about to be subject to love-ins, a process which will not harm the party one bit but adds to the attraction.