Slog - Comments on The Morning News http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369 In Iraq: Car bombs and gunmen kill more than 50. In Guantanamo: US charges six for alleged involvement in 9/11. In Zurich: Four important paintings stolen. Rejected: Microsoft's Yahoo takeover bid. Clinton: Staff change "not significant." Obama: Narrowly leading McCain in latest nationwide poll. Huckabee: Not backing down. Gates: Endorses delay of troop reductions.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:00:25 -0800 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:53:46 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by cdc Love the headline on Talking Points Memo right now: Huckabee: Washington State Like Soviet Russia.

]]> cdc http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933778 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933778 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:18:22 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave the best news today is that he wont consider being VP.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933786 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933786 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:22:05 -0800 Comment by fixies kill Erica hasn't posted about bicycles for a while. That would be a nice change of pace for her.

]]> fixies kill http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933815 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933815 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:34:41 -0800 Comment by Reality Check Hey ECB!

Good to see you still posting! Though I see you no longer are so gusto on the HRC thing.

Kinda took the wind out of your proverbial sails huh?

Sucks realizing that Billary isn't such the "unifying Democratic nominee" you so super duper wished everyone else thought she was huh?

Nice that you get to supplant your usual vitriol on HRC with the Morning Line. At least focusing on this stuff will help ease your bruised ego I guess...

Reality Check

]]> Reality Check http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933816 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933816 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:35:25 -0800 Comment by cressona With the outburst of Slog activity over the weekend, Erica was notable by her absence. Now, when she resurfaces, it's with a late and, to say the least, laconic "Morning News" post.

My only explanation is that some time over the weekend, Erica's spirit left her body, leaving it a zombie-like husk, and entered the body of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Someone needs to exorcise that spirit from Krugman ASAP:

I won’t try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody. I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. We’ve already had that from the Bush administration — remember Operation Flight Suit? We really don’t want to go there again.

Yeah, you heard it right. Obama supporters have cornered the market on venom. In other words, we're all Hillary haters. And Obama's entire campaign = "Missioned Accomplished."

]]> cressona http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933819 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933819 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:36:28 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger @4, HA HA HA HA HA!! ROTFLMAO!!!! HA HA HA HA!!!!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933820 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933820 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:37:15 -0800 Comment by Clint “not significant.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

]]> Clint http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933821 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933821 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:37:42 -0800 Comment by Queen_of_Sleaze @2: No shit... That was a big fear of mine.

]]> Queen_of_Sleaze http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933822 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933822 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:38:05 -0800 Comment by Queen_of_Sleaze @2: No shit... That was a big fear of mine.

]]> Queen_of_Sleaze http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933825 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933825 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:38:59 -0800 Comment by cressona Any link to the news that BO won't consider VP?

]]> cressona http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933844 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933844 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:49:00 -0800 Comment by tsm None of them ever say they'll consider VP. Edwards's standard response in 2004 was "I'm running for president here." Things will change when someone formally wins the nom.

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933856 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933856 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:54:06 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Obama's not stupid enough to take VP and Hillary's not stupid enough to offer it to him.


@5,

Is Krugman on the Clintons' payroll?

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933868 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933868 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:02:00 -0800 Comment by ghostlawns I would love to hear ECB's testimony of how her caucus went.

]]> ghostlawns http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933930 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933930 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:35:39 -0800 Comment by Cascadian I think Obama should offer Krugman a job as an adviser on his economic team, once he's nominated. Krugman's smart, and on economic issues his critiques of Obama are usually pretty on target. It would defuse a potential critic, get him some good advice, and underscore that Obama's willing to listen to people who disagree with him.

]]> Cascadian http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933941 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933941 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:41:36 -0800 Comment by tsm @13 - we already know ECB's tale of caucus woe. It was her and two other brave old elderly women meekly standing in the Clinton corner, one of whom was in a wheelchair and had only three days left to live, while at the other side of the room stood a barrage of angry, violent twentysomething male Obama supporters brandishing tar and feathers and vegetables to hurl at them, and who screamed "BELIEVE IN HOPE, BITCHES!!!" over and over as ECB politely attempted to defend their candidate. The brutish Obamatons then went into full lynch-mob mode. Results in her precinct: Obama 23,423 delegates, Clinton -3.

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933969 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c933969 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:52:56 -0800 Comment by ECB Actually, I didn't post because I was busy having a weekend. But cute speculation about my ego, as always.

]]> ECB http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934017 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934017 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:05:29 -0800 Comment by Gitai I can't believe you're all still bitching at ECB. Did you not notice anything else? Bush is charging 9/11 plotters. What happened to his belief that doing so would endanger American interests?

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934023 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934023 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:07:41 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle You missed that Sen. Obama already came out against Gates not bringing the troops from the fake surge (classic military definition, a surge can't be a multi-year operation) today.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934050 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934050 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:18:24 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Attacking Erica with this kind of obnoxious sore-winner bullshit is less attractive than her Clinton advocacy, by a wide margin. Knock it off.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934054 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934054 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:20:01 -0800 Comment by Mickymse Agreed with Fnarf!

Knock it off, people. There's nothing wrong with supporting someone else for Prez, no matter how much you disagree with her.

]]> Mickymse http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934095 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934095 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:34:44 -0800 Comment by COMTE What? No mention of a possible breakthrough in the Writer's Guild strike?

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/02/09/writers-reach-tentative-deal-with-producers/

At least Hump will be happy about that one...

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934284 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934284 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:09:13 -0800 Comment by raindrop Cindy McCain has shared her delightful recipes! Try her Rosemary Chicken Breasts and Warm Spinach Salad with Bacon.

]]> raindrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934447 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934447 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:29:57 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @19 - I agree with Fnarf. And I sent her a VD Day stranger ad from all of us who like her writing.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934492 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934492 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:52:05 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Agreed with Will, Fnarf, Gitai. You're acting like The Hills was the repub nominee. Not good for the party, kids.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934564 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_369#c934564 News Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:53:46 -0800