75 thoughts on “Barack: ‘Obama Out’”

  1. Gotta ask: Aren’t the Media members who skip affairs like this upholding good journalistic practices compared to those who do attend? I know the Press in Washington is notoriously close to its’ sources & the lifeblood of Power is rumor, scandal, schmoozing …. but someone has to stand back & say guys, this ain’t kosher. Do Journalists get shunned if they don’t sell out? Do they know how bad this looks to us common folks? Plays into the distrust of the Establishment. Do they even care…

     

  2. nothing like midlife changes, whether for a prez or a horse.  may mr. o be as productive after he leaves the big derby in d.c. as this winner described by courier journal yesterday:

    Roughly 2 1/2 months into his stud career, American Pharoah continues to go about his business with the low maintenance and high returns that characterized his racing. Friday, Ashford’s Scott Calder said the first Triple Crown winner since 1978 already has more than 90 mares in foal –a rate exceeding one per day — after about 130 breeding sessions. Kentucky’s 214 active stallions were breed to an average of 80.7 mares in 2015, according to data compiled by The Jockey Club. If some of American Pharoah’s conquests have been made at a discount to his published stud fee of $200,000, his stud service proceeds have quickly outstripped his $8.6 million in racetrack earnings.

    ….the rookie stallion Ashford Stud 2016 Breeders’ Handbook advertises as, “The eighth wonder of the world.”

     

  3. For all those interested in the genealogy of Thorobreds, be assured their matings and results are not only recorded but pored over by aficionados looking for that little edge to add to their luck on dirt or turf.

    To find out the five previous generations of a horse, visit the All Breed Pedigree site.  At the top left, type in the name of a horse.  For genealogy only this is a free site and rather interesting.

     

  4. Take your choice of recipes for the DERBY PIE to go with your mint julep though there may be a lawsuit on the horizon.

    What’s Inside A Derby Pie?

    One variation on whatever you call it:

    Ingredients

    1/2 (14.1-ounce) package refrigerated piecrusts
    1 1/2 cups chopped toasted pecans
    1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate morsels
    1 cup dark corn syrup
    1/2 cup granulated sugar
    1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

    1/4 cup bourbon or water
    4 large eggs
    1/4 cup butter, melted
    2 teaspoons plain white cornmeal
    2 teaspoons vanilla extract
    1/2 teaspoon table salt

    Preparation

    Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Fit piecrust into a 9-inch deep-dish pie plate according to package directions; fold edges under, and crimp. Sprinkle pecans and chocolate evenly onto bottom of piecrust.

    Stir together corn syrup and next 3 ingredients in a large saucepan, and bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook, stirring constantly, 3 minutes. Remove from heat.

    Whisk together eggs and next 4 ingredients. Gradually whisk one-fourth of hot corn syrup mixture into egg mixture; add to remaining hot corn syrup mixture, whisking constantly. Pour filling into prepared piecrust.

    Bake at 325° for 55 minutes or until set; cool pie completely on a wire rack (about one hour).

  5. Jamie44,

    We used to make a Kentucky D***y Day Pie that was basically chocolate chip cookie dough baked in a pie shell. Had to serve it warm for the maximum yummy quotient.

  6. We’ve discussed this before, but this election is really making it very plain that jobs are gone not because they are being shipped overseas but because they have been eliminated entirely.  Here are five more about to join the Dodo.

  7. forgot to give the link to that  courier journal story on American pharaoh.  here’s some more of that article which btw has some nice pictures of him and his new home:

    Richard Barry’s fear was that sex might bring out the beast in American Pharoah; that a racehorse renowned for his gentle disposition would develop an edgier personality in the breeding shed.

    “I was a little worried when he started breeding the mares, as his testosterone levels went up, that he might get a bit more aggressive,” Ashford Stud’s stallion manager said. “But it really hasn’t happened.

    “You normally see a little bit of a change. They don’t become savage or anything like that, but they’re stallions. You have to treat them as such. But so far, he’s been bomb-proof. Long may it last.”

  8. craig, last thread you said:  Why not just add a monument for Union war dead? Perfect for a border state.
    https://t.co/N9Dzjyankx 

    which I wondered about too. why not just change or add another title to these statues to read “tribute to all soldiers both union and confederate who fought in civil war”…  anyway, you may be interested in critter candidate corley’s new cause written up today in courier journal:

    A Republican candidate for Congress wants to stop Mayor Greg Fischer and University of Louisville President James Ramsey from removing the controversial Confederate monument from the school’s campus.

    “It is a political version of book burning,” Everett Corley, a real estate agent, said in an interview Sunday evening. “And the fact is, I’m not in favor of book burning.”

  11. One does need to put these memorials into the proper  context from which they came. In this case a movement across the South in the late 19th century. So perhaps instead of a memorial to union soldiers,  we include another aspect of the movement that created the memorial.  In this case a sculpture representing a lynched Negro and a family of whites having a picnic celebrating the event.

     

    Jack

  12. Pat

    Are you suggesting that Mr O be put out to stud?

    I think Mrs. O may have something to say about that type of productivity.

    };-)

     

    Jack

  14. SJWNY, in my early journalism days I went to those dinners but gradually began to see them as you describe, quit going. The New York Times has boycotted them for several years, but that hardly started a trend.

  15. So has American Pharoah started smoking after sex, or does he just steam a little if it’s chilly?

  17. Bernie’s efforts in Indiana haven’t helped his chances according to fivethiryeight’s analysis. Kinda makes his plea for superdelegates switching ring a little hollower if 538’s odds are right.  Especially following the upset he predicted in PA in the Aclea primary.

  19. Wow Jack…  that baby is cute… I’d be more worried about mama bear showing up.

    I started taking my bird feeders in at dusk about 6 weeks ago.  Because of warm weather the bears woke up early this spring.

    OMG… they’ve turned American Pharoah into a sex fiend!

     

  22. Did Trump play the “Card” card?

    its becoming a regular Mustang Sally of political/media rhetoric.

  25. Obviously that horse hasn’t heard that large family’s are out of fashion.☺

  27. I think the confederate war memorials should be handled thusly:

    One opulent memorial may be placed where it is visible to those entering each legislative branch of state government. No confederate flags should be associated with these monuments as that insurrection failed and we remain one nation. The monuments should remind legislators of that fact.

    Monuments may also be placed at cemeteries of confederate war dead. These soldiers answered the call issued by the leaders they trusted as Americans have always done. Provided there are no Union dead in the cemetery, I would not be offended if the confederate flag was displayed at half-staff adjacent to the monument.

    At this point in time, the sight of the monument should conjure-up a variety of emotions—pride, hatred, love of The South, its been 150-years,already. When I see the monument in front of our state house in Columbia, I invariably think of these two lines from Shelley’s poem:
    My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

  34. Flatus, nuance is a dish best served cold with a nice white wine. Reds are simply too rough.

  36. Doing a little math noodling, setting aside for now the 520 unpledged delegates who back Hillary, Hillary can win enough pledged delegates to win the nomination by winning 73% of the remaining 1016 pledged delegates (She has won 1645 pledged delegates and needs 737 to reach 2382).  Bernie can’t win enough pledged delegates to win the nomination unless he can figure out how to win 1064 of the remaining 1016 pledged delegates, or 104%. Throw in the unpledged delegates who’ve committed to him and he still comes up 10 short (of course if you were to do that, he’d be blown away by the unpledged delegates who back Hillary).  Bernie, enjoy the next couple months before you get to Philly.

  37. I was thinking it was something like spumante. Goes well both with smartass and sturgeone.

  38. For a long time I was a regular smartass, then I found myself to be quite irregular…..

  39. I like my nuance fried in bacon grease…  tastes just like chicken.

    maybe a little grits and greens on the side

  42. Jamie, we learned that during training for my first Army specialty, guided missiles propellants and explosives specialist. The result of mixing hyperbole and nuance is a hypergolic reaction, much like mixing aniline and red fuming nitric acid.

  43. Today’s PPP polls undercut Bernie’s best candidate argument – he does better against trump in Ohio by 1 point, is the same against Cruz and worse by 8 against Kasich (who won’t be running, so….) Of course those results aren’t consistent with the NBC/WSJ/Marist Indiana polls released yesterday.  Gotta love polls, dontcha? I’m sure some polls tell us something – too bad ya can’t figure it out until the process is over.

  44. cbs news coverage on seattle may day protesters.  am afraid scenes like this will feed into the drumpsters scare tactics. also looking like the work of  political dirty-tricksters were the blackclad masked demonstrators.  lee Atwater work.

     

    and here’s cnn coverage: May Day protests in Seattle turned violent on Sunday, as protesters lit fireworks and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at police, Seattle Police said.
    After a peaceful march was held earlier in the day, nine people were arrested and five officers were injured in the clashes, according to police.
    Seattle Mayor Ed Murray thanked police for their “extraordinary work” in a statement.
    “It is unfortunate and deeply regrettable that in a city that goes to incredible lengths to respect First Amendment rights, there are some who disregard our values and engage in senseless acts of violence and property destruction,” he said. “My thoughts are with the officers who were injured.”

  45. Obama:

    “You got to admit it, though, Hillary trying to appeal to young voters is a little like your relative who just signed up for Facebook. ‘Dear America, did you get my poke? It didn’t appear on your wall. Not sure I’m using this right. Love, Aunt Hillary’.”

    Well, “Aunt Hillary,” heard the joke, and had this Twitter retort:

    @potus Nice job last night. Aunt Hillary approves. #WHCD -H

    — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 1, 2016

  47. Pogo – (From OT) We are all cousins at some point.  I just wondered how closely after reading BB’s post.  Just a question.

    Not ready to do a mic drop yet: Bernie

  48. OD
    If those brown-shirted fascists migrate down to your area, don’t confront them, please, please, please.

  49. Jamie – While it is true that there are too many people, and, some jobs no longer exist, many jobs were sent to other counties.

    Just ask my friend whose hubby worked at Maytag in Iowa, my friend whose company outsourced a huge number of admin jobs to India last year, and, the people in my company who saw their manufacturing jobs shipped to Mexico.

    It isn’t just one reason, these trade deals have not been beneficial to the American middle class.

  51. Blue, can’t imagine any are related closely enough that it would be of much interest, but then again, on e never knows.

  52. Blue

    And Mexico is now having problems because so many of those jobs have now shipped off to China and every other country that will pay even less money for labor.  Maytag doesn’t really care.  Almost everyone in the US has a washing machine.  The growth market is in the undeveloped world so there is no real need to build here.

    It is all a matter of supply and demand.  The supply is human beings.  The demand is jobs.  Too many people and too few jobs.  This condition has been getting steadily worse for almost a half century.  The Western developed nations have been able to hide it with welfare and workfare programs, sending women to work to lower salary averages, subsidizing corporations with tax rebates in trade for hiring, replacing Social Security deposits with worthless paper and so on.

    More and more and families now have multiple generations living in them in order to have multiple earners to keep them afloat.  Following WW II the US had most of the world market as a customer because almost no one else was in a position to build and sell.  Now we have very little of it in the face of huge growing markets in Asia.

    None of the above is political for the simple reason that none of the political parties can do that much about it. I do believe we stand a better chance with the Democrats but even that is no guarantee.

     

  53. Ah…the myths of the middle class, globalization and free trade causing our problems.  The media has been flooded with Clintonian myths about free trade and how it has killed the democratic party and the middle class.  More BS.  Instead, while everyone is tweeting on their smart phones made overseas, you can point the finger at guys like Jobs.  Obama tried to understand why he had a hand in killing manufacturing jobs for products we use every day.  He also killed a few other industries in the process.  Free trade…goes both ways and it is not only manufacturing, but FOOD.  I think I will order Chinese tonight…just look in my freezer.

  54. BW

    That’s about it.  Manufacturing will be done where it can be done fastest, cheapest and with access to the most customers.  The tightrope being walked is that you can’t totally destroy the US economy and still have a major power in competition with the other major powers in the globe … Something needs to be done to create added value for the American worker.  That involves infrastructure and all the service jobs that used to be volunteer, but how much can you raise taxes to support them as viable career paths in what amounts to a “gig economy” continuous short term employment that will still support a family.

     

  55. A huge amount of food already comes into the US from other countries.  California that used to be the bread basket of the US is now pretty well paved over and all of the tree fruit is coming in from Mexico and South America.  The Colorado is being drained for the lettuce fields among other uses in the deserts of Arizona where people never were really meant to live in any numbers larger than a small tribe.

     

     

  57. We are having really nice weather so I took my Hillary signs to Portland yesterday and Salem this morning.  People have been very friendly…much less negative reaction than in 2008.

    There is barely a campaign by anyone here.  Ballots arrived in the mail over the past few days so many thousands are being sent in each day.

  58. There are anecdotes, then there is data
    Some hard data on US Manufacturing
    Notice that manufacturing took a hard hit because of the great recession but has finally recovered in spite of the severe head winds of a strong dollar, so yes working class folks are pissed because it has been a long time coming.
    But notice that the trade deals don’t even show up on the graph.

  59. from the Oregonian an interesting alternative to eliz warren as veep:

    …former Obama communication director Anita Dunn has an “unconventional choice” she’d like to suggest to Clinton: Sheryl Sandberg.

    That’s right, the 46-year-old Facebook chief operating officer, “Lean In” author, feminist activist and philanthropist.

    Sandberg has never run for office, but she is articulate, appealing and media savvy. And she does have experience in government: she worked for then-U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers — her Harvard mentor — during the Bill Clinton administration. She also was an economist at the World Bank and an executive at Google before moving to Mark Zuckerberg’s ubiquitous and influential creation — which is ubiquitous and influential in no small part because of Sandberg. Forbes magazine wrote that Sandberg “helped the social network scale globally, go public and expand digital revenue.”

    Would Clinton be willing to make such a daring choice for vice president? This is certainly the political season for unorthodox approaches. But the more pertinent question is whether Sandberg would accept the offer? [….]

    But surely it would be difficult for Sandberg to turn down the opportunity to make U.S. political history with the first all-woman major-party ticket. Promoting women is one of the great passions of her life.

    She has decried how women leaders are held to unfair, often nonsensical standards and expected to act like men. She said she spent much of her early career “never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know … fitting in is not helping us.”

    She also might prove to be the antidote to Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s macho bluster. With her own sterling C.V., she conceivably could undercut one of the reality-TV star’s chief selling points: his business career. “Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression,” she told ABC in 2014. “Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.”

  60. well, if the big dawg’s fodder for judging the importance of a candidate’s spouse, then the media should also be looking at mrs. drumpf. here’s a taste of what the new Yorker has to say on that subject:

    Kati Marton, in “Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History,” argues that, in a time when the Presidency entails significant physical isolation, the role of the First Spouse—the first person the President speaks to in the morning and the last at night—is crucial. Marton defines the Presidency as a two-person job, a live/work gig that, combining executive and ceremonial roles, necessarily replicates aspects of the royal court. “If we suddenly had as First Lady a model, whom we would look to for fashion tips alone, that would be a transformative moment, and I think with serious consequences,” Marton told me recently. “If the President has got a smart, plugged-in partner who can get his attention and tell him what’s going on in the land, and when he’s being an idiot, as the best ones have been able to do, that is in our interest. Everybody else serves at his pleasure.” A passive First Spouse, Marton said, can hurt not only her husband but the nation. Melania Trump, she added, would be “the least experienced and the least prepared First Lady in history.
    If we take the office of First Lady seriously, then it’s worth trying to figure out who Melania is as a person, versus a product to be placed. The most thorough biographical account is “Melania Trump: The Inside Story,” a book by Bojan Požar and Igor Omerza that has been available, in English, on Kindle since mid-February. (A print version will appear in June.) Požar is Slovenia’s leading gossip columnist. Omerza is a former politician and publisher. They have turned over every pebble in Novo Mesto and Sevnica and Ljubljana and beyond….

  61. Jack

    Manufacturing may be on the rise, but we would need to dig into the numbers to see if the jobs are rising as well.  Technology and robotics have made it possible to manufacture without the necessity of using actual live people for a lot of the functions that used to be a guarantee of employment for a life on the assembly line.

     

  62. The Clinton campaign announced today that President Bill Clinton will be campaigning for Hillary in Portland and Bend this Thursday.  I hope the Portland event will be at a time I can attend.

  63. Oregon Democrat,

    I attended a Clinton/Gore Rally the afternoon of August 24,1992, not far from where I live. President William Jefferson Clinton has magnetism & the skill to be thinking one step ahead, firing up the crowd better than anyone I’ve witnessed. It wasn’t a speech. It was an experience.

    Good Luck to you & I hope you can attend.

     

     

  64. Manufacturing is one of those things that make MBA’s a lot of money.  When, or not, is it time to send the assembly line over the water?  Is the price difference great enough?  My favorite is toilets from South America.  How could the labor cost be so different?  In U.S. the process is cheap because it is automated.  If it was not dumping, then why import the heavy, ceramic commodes?

    Give me a good old fashioned “Made In America” throne.  Of course it might be a bush in North Carolina.

  65. Any competent MBA will tell you that a hand in the bush is worth two on the bird.

  66. No Bernie, the superdelegates won’t bail you out

    Markos Moulitsas

    ” After getting his ass whooped last Tuesday (losing the popular vote by ~764,000 on the day), Bernie Sanders issued a statement saying he was continuing in the race to amass delegates to impact policy at the convention: “This campaign is going to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with as many delegates as possible to fight for a progressive party platform.” That was fine. If his supporters wanted to fund that effort, there was no reason for him not to continue fighting for greater influence at the convention. But to win? It seemed as if his campaign’s delusion was over. But alas, that wasn’t the case.

  67. Confident Trump Mocks Fiorina Fall in Indiana
    by ALEXANDRA JAFFE

    “CARMEL, Ind. — Donald Trump on Monday jokingly called opponent Ted Cruz “cruel” for not helping Carly Fiorina after a fall at a campaign event Sunday, telling the crowd “even I would’ve helped her!”
    “Wow, that’s really cruel,” Trump said at a rally in Carmel, Ind., drawing laughter from the crowd.

  69. No more funerals in no Korea !

    king kim closes last means of escape.

  70. Ask and you shall recieve.

    The plung in job loss took place from 2001 to 2010. Then reversed itself and is trending up the last 5 years.

    But boy did it plunge under Bush II

  71. Kind of interesting that Bernie who decries the role of money in politics is only staying in the race because he has money

  74. Rachel Maddow on why Clinton stands out: ‘She’s more like a president than any other candidate’
    Michele Corriston

    “She looks really intently with me when I’m asking her a question, because she doesn’t know where it’s going. And she knows it’s something she hasn’t been asked before. She has really, really, really bright blue eyes, and she like tractor-beams you,” she added with a laugh.
    Maddow, 43, had moments like that while moderating a town hall with Clinton, 68, on Monday. On Sandyland, she pinpointed what she believes sets Clinton apart from other politicians.
    “The one thing I will say that’s totally different about her than other candidates I have interviewed is that she’s more like a president than any other candidate,” she said. “When you talk to her, it is like you are interviewing somebody who is already president. She talks the way that [Bill] Clinton did when he was president. She talks the way that Obama does now that he’s president. There’s something about her experience that makes her basically behave in a presidential manner.”

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