HBO’s “John Adams”. Both educational and inspiring, and beautifully filmed.
Plus, Laura Linney was born to play Abigail Adams.
Must See TV
Morning Visitor
It’s apparently a saw-whet owl, and it’s been sitting there hanging around all morning.
UPDATE: The bird was sitting on a mouse it had caught, and after sleeping and eating, it flew away, leaving part of a mouse corpse in my pine tree.
UPDATE: And now it’s back, sleeping in the pine tree, somewhat higher up with its back to me. Beautiful little bird.
UPDATE: The owl stayed in our tree all day, sleeping and eating. I was able to view it quite closely from the upstairs window. When we closed up the drapes at dusk it was still there, but by morning it had moved on. I feel honored to have played innkeeper for this beautiful bird.
The Media Loves McCain
Loves, loves, loves him. And his ribs too.
Personally I think every reporter who was there should be fired.
Pro-Torture
Keep in mind that McCain voted against this bill as well.
Bush to veto ban on waterboarding
Harsh tactics help fight terrorism, he saysPresident Bush is to veto legislation Saturday meant to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics and will argue that the agency needs to use tougher methods than the U.S. military to wrest information from terrorism suspects, administration officials said.
No matter what they say, their actions prove that McCain and Bush are both objectively pro-torture.
Good Question
For Gygax
Dems Rising
From Gallup Polls:
GOP Identification in 2007 Lowest in Last Two Decades
The percentage of Americans who identified as Republicans in 2007 is the lowest of any of the 20 calendar years since 1988 that Gallup has conducted its interviewing primarily by telephone. An average of 27.7% of Americans identified as Republicans, based on more than 26,000 Gallup interviews in 2007. The previous low in Republican identification was 28.1% in 1999….
Already Behind
No matter who our candidate is, McCain is losing.
McCain Trails Clinton, Obama in New Poll
GOP Candidate’s Age a Factor for More Than a Quarter SurveyedArizona Sen. John McCain kicks off his general election campaign trailing both potential Democratic nominees in hypothetical matchups, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama leads McCain, who captured the delegates needed to claim the Republican nomination Tuesday night, by 12 percentage points among all adults in the poll.; Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) enjoys a six-point lead over the presumptive GOP nominee. Both Democrats are buoyed by moderates and independents in the head-to-heads and benefit from sustained negative public assessments of President Bush and the war in Iraq….
McSame Old Thing
I like this ad, being run by a new Democratic advocacy group, the Campaign to Defend America (which doesn’t seem to have a web site yet).
Numbers, One Last Time
It won’t make sense to run this comparison beyond today, but one last time I note for the record that the Democrats pulled more than twice as many voters to the polls as the Republicans did. Take a look.
| Total Votes by Party | |
| Democrats | 5,395,134 |
| Republicans | 2,497,854 |
| Total Votes by Candidate | |
| Clinton | 2,816,010 |
| Obama | 2,487,028 |
| McCain | 1,382,609 |
| Huckabee | 855,658 |
Numbers scrounged from the USA Today Vote Totals Page, and include all four states, but primaries only, not caucus numbers (Republicans didn’t caucus last night).