Excellent comment btw.

Obama's list of anti-progressive policies is unfortunately much longer, but they can't be mentioned too often.

A

If Hillary manages to seal the deal, or steal the deal... perhaps you would consider adding the Green Party convention to your list?

Hard to see how a "left-leaning blog" can maintain credibility without, y'know, reporting on what the Left is up to... and if Bernie is out, Jill Stein could well cross that 5% threshold for matching funds in November and become a factor in the results.

Heck, the Libertarian Party convention would round out the pack nicely given your self description in "About Chris" if I remember correctly.

And, somehow I'd bet you wouldn't need much luck to get either of those credentials.

So, I'm not making a viability argument here for November, just pointing out some of the other options voters actually have that suffer from neglect from the inside the bubble crowd.
Ahem.

A

Barack Obama and The Democrat Party...

that part's kinda true. when the supposedly liberal president doubles the drone strikes and covert ops, doubles the secret spying on our own citizens and punishes whistle-blowers, multiplies the corporate hand-outs, ramps up deportations and the war on drugs, creates incentives for privatization of schools and even more high-stakes testing, and various other pro-corporate, anti-populist actions, people tend to feel hopeless enough to believe pretty much anyone who speaks to their disillusionment, no matter how loopy.

i've long maintained that obama has been a very average president - like taft, hayes, van buren or what have you, he's done quite a bit of good as well as quite a bit of not so good. with all the weight of the hopes people had put in him, an underwhelmed and malleable electorate was practically a foregone conclusion.

JL

Damn, I keep losing a year.. I actually thought at first it was 2005.. Then I came around to the idea that it was 2006.. :D

I am so cornfused.. :D

Michale

And, once again, the anger and virulence of the Democrat Party supporters is (are??) ignored..

This is exactly why proclamations such as this have to be taken with a huge grain of salt..

Because it's obvious that it's nothing more than biased ideology talking..

Michale

The answer to the first part AND the second part of that question is simple..

Barack Obama and The Democrat Party...

A right direction for the country and a competent government would have prevented a Trump candidacy...

Michale

1. Trump isn't going to win, right?
2. What is wrong with America - how can Trump be winning?

(Note: a lot of people from other countries are unfamiliar with the concept of primaries and think Trump is going to be President because he is currently in the lead.)

I point out that Trump has 40% of 30% = 12% of the voters, and ask if they think Britain also has a 12% loony contingent (sorry Michale). They start to get the point, but say that their loonies aren't as angry and virulent as the Trump supporters.

BTW, everybody I've talked to, regardless of political persuasion (i.e. Labor, UKIP or Conservative) think Obama is the best President we've had in their lifetimes. They think he is cool, funny and sensible, and are worried about anybody replacing him.

When I started this blog, I began by posting all my old HuffPost columns. So there are indeed articles from 2006 here, but the blog itself started in 2007.

nypoet22 [11] & Michale [12] -

Hmmm... let's see... what date did you post that?

Heh.

-CW

If you do get in on the action...(I have had the good fortune to be paid for my services at both)

You really should check out the scene at the delegate transportation stops, especially right before the larger sessions. It will provide you with some interesting insight.

My dude, I am so glad to see you are starting to come around.

I do however think you are being to easy on the HRC. I hope that president trump sends HRC off to build the wall for her crimes and when she drops the last brick in place she is on the mexican side without a passport.

i know hillary is your hero, but she belongs in prison, and i hope president trump sends her there!

JL

I know, right!!! :D

But, I have it on good information that Comey met with Hillary and resolved the whole email issue..

Comey's office will be issuing not a recommendation but an apology to Hillary...

Michale

JL

Another piece of pen related Tom Foolery from Stephen Colbert who is having the time of his life.

:D

Michale

http://www.imprintitems.com/custom/10613482

amadán Aibreáin y'all.

http://www.onlinesciencemall.com/bomb-explosion-pen-and-notepad-by-kikkerland.html

Bound to get a smile out of Mr. Trump and his gorilla shaped security team.

I still dispute the timeline..

Far be it from me to tell you your history, but I have found CW.COM commentaries from Sep of 2006 when I joined up here...

Anywho, good luck on the convention!! :D

Michale

I actually almost included Bush in the list, due to the article I wrote in his defense after his initial bad response to the "what would you do if you knew what you know now" question:

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/05/12/dont-mention-the-war/

("Don't mention the war!") But I thought the Pamela Geller article was more recent and more relevant.

-CW

to be brutally honest, i think one of the individuals most deserving of this is jeb bush. i mean sure, he stands on the opposite side of just about every issue as i do, and was probably instrumental in the 2000 election being as divisive as it was. but in the here and now, he was the republican candidate i most respected, as well as (based on politifact) the second most factually accurate candidate of either party.

JL

First time someone reacted with hostility. Two ladies at grocery store. Well-dressed, white-haired. Turns out the older of the two was in her 90's. The other looked like her daughter, in her late 60's.

What did they think of the election season so far?

"I don't!" snapped the younger one, frowning at me and turning away.

Her mother smiled at me, much more friendly, and just said: "We don't pay attention. You just take it as it comes, take it as it comes. And since I'm in my nineties I think I know something about that."

At pet store later: thirty-something white man.

What did he think? He spoke in sentence fragments, never mentioning names -- he could almost be talking about either Trump or Bernie, although I think he meant Trump. (Should've asked, huh?)

"Volatile. That's how I'd describe it. One day he's up, next day he's down. Coattails -- who knows? The convention is going to be interesting. Looking forward to the primary season being over. He's attracted a bunch of people who don't normally vote. I don't think they understand how things work."

Good luck!

I remember starting to read your posts during the Bush years -- what a breath of fresh air they were. Congrats on 10 years!