http://marccooper.com Sat, 10 May 2008 03:43:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I told you so, didn't I? I said a few days ago that I want Hillary and Bill to stay into this thing to the bitter end, that I want it to go right through Puerto Rico, right through the summer, and right onto the floor of the Democratic National ... http://marccooper.com/we-the-hard-working-white-people/ So what's up with Hillary? Everyone, including Madame Senator, knows very well she's hit the end of the line. Why the vow, then, to soldier on? No problem. Hillary --and Bill-- just think it's a nifty idea to hold the whole Democratic Party hostage for a few more weeks. Why not? ... http://marccooper.com/clintdone/ Tuesday night Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic nomination -- again. He did it the first time when weeks ago he racked up a dozen primary victories and built his insurmountable delegate lead. We've spent the last half-dozen weeks or so indulging in a Second Life fantasy that granted Hillary Clinton ... http://marccooper.com/its-all-over-now-baby-blue/ I'm gonna concur with Josh Marshall that Hillary Clinton has now taken her demagouging of the gas tax issue  over the edge of any reality. Now she promises to not only impose a levy on the oil companies this summer (somehow over the head of George W. Bush and the opposition ... http://marccooper.com/gas-bag/ I write to you from a Bay Area airport after spending some time at a New Media conference at Yahoo and then a few days visiting with my daughter. Before hitting the road tonight, I unfortunately caught the live broadcast of Hillary Clinton's speech to the Indiana Jeff-Jackson Dinner. Omigod. We ... http://marccooper.com/clinton-v-clinton/ Sorry that I've been rather quiet. But have been spending the last few days in Northern California at Yahoo headquarters attending the Newstools 2008 conference. It's been rather all consuming and has left no time for blogging. Was able, however, to help get out this great story  about Hillary Hack Sid ... http://marccooper.com/sid-vicious-strikes-again/ It was refreshing to see an angry but steady Barack Obama cut off Rev. Wright at his knees. I thought the tone was pitch perfect and -- absolutely justified, of course. Now, with a week to go before the May 6 primaries, and with Hillary pandering about a meaningless gas tax ... http://marccooper.com/obama-swings/ Granma always said no good deed goes unpunished. Just ask Barack Obama. He went through some painful contortions to not toss Reverend Jeremiah Wright off a pier last month and, instead, made his rather wonderful speech about race. His payback? Reverend Wright's rather horrifying, national magical mystery tour that erupted Monday ... http://marccooper.com/wright-and-wrong/ I'll be  on C-Span Book TV live today at 12 noon PST.  From The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, I'll be moderating a panel of four authors on California-centered biographies. Tune in or TiVo. http://marccooper.com/cooper-on-c-span-sunday/ No post-Pennsylvania bounce for HRC. Meanwhile, from Slate: http://marccooper.com/t-minus-12/ Cancel your cable news subscriptions, folks. Head-scratching time is over for you. I figure out for you What It All Means post-Pennsylvania. It's all contained in the below podcast/radio show from today's edition of "Air Talk" on Los Angeles-area public radio station KPCC. Host Larry Mantle had me on for ... http://marccooper.com/post-pennsylvania-what-it-all-means/     As the good tidings for Hillary Clinton came in Tuesday night, Philly Mayor Michael Nutter told an amped crowd of her supporters that, as far as he’s concerned, “a win is a win.” The Mayor is absolutely right. With a comfortable ten points of margin, Hillary Clinton handily ... http://marccooper.com/night-of-the-living-dead/ Zero hour in Pennsylvania. Or is it? We've had to somehow fill the gap of the  six weeks since the last primary, so we've sort of convinced ourselves that something momentous is about to happen Tuesday in Pennsylvania. Fact is, it's highly unlikely that the results of the voting will have ... http://marccooper.com/pennsylvania-zero-hour/ Perhaps the most depressing aspect of the still evolving collapse in Zimbabwe is the role of moral mute being played by the president of the region's great superpower -- Thabo Mbeki of South Africa. As my good pal Biped Twilight pointed out a week ago, if Mbeki had given the ... http://marccooper.com/dancing-with-a-dictator/ A week after Obama's "Bittergate" and in the spirit of equanimity, it is now Hillary's turn. A previously unrevelaed audio tape secured by our friend, colleague, journalist and blogger Celeste Fremon, captures Clinton telling a small group of funders that her real problem is... Democrats! You know, that pesky "activist base" ... http://marccooper.com/hillary-disparages-democratic-activism/ Here's my take on the shamefully shallow ABC-sponsored Obama/Clinton debate Wednesday night. http://marccooper.com/hillarys-commies/ I tried to stay out of the over-heated gusting that blew through the comments section of my previous post (below) on Bittergate.  Sorry to be a bit patronizing here, but what the heck. But I just love it when folks who have NO idea what they're talking about on a ... http://marccooper.com/closed-to-press-not-off-the-record/ ***Update***The latest updates on this story come from Jay Rosen, from The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.   As the editorial coordinator of HuffPost’s OffTheBus project, I had the privilege and responsibility of doing the final edit and ultimately approving for publication the web story Friday that has ... http://marccooper.com/inside-the-obama-guns-god-bitterness-storm/ Here's my opening shot. You know spring has come to Washington. Not just the cherry blossoms. But the flowering of all those pie charts and bar graphs lugged up Capitol Hill by General Petraeus. And then there's that unmistakeable whiff of cow dung in the morning air. Powered by Podbean.com Here's a ... http://marccooper.com/oh-no-were-podcasting/ Want to have some fun? Or, shall we say, something like fun -- but different. Then click here and paw through the droppings left on our comments door step by a flock of Hillaryite cyber-angels. Apparently, last night's post was circulated on some Clinton list-serve or another and, lo and ... http://marccooper.com/hills-angels/