Obama for America
Good morning, #nerdland! (Or good afternoon, if you're in the UK. We don't assume here at "MHP.")
Here's what we're reading:
- President Obama doesn't appear to be sitting out next week's Michigan Republican primary. He released a new ad, "Made in America," highlighting the auto bailout. Read more here, here, and here.
- As much as we may love cars, we hate paying for the gas to run them. Newt Gingrich promised to lower gas prices to $2.50 per gallon. While the President will hawk his energy policy in Florida, can the government even do what Gingrich claims?
- Mitt Romney's fundraising is becoming a(nother) weak spot in his campaign. Good thing for Citizens United, right?
- On that topic, Gingrich's Super PAC benefactor Sheldon Adelson was profiled in Forbes. The lack of Super PAC oversight was noted in today's Los Angeles Times. Meanwhile, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared on "The Colbert Report" last night to promote campaign finance reform.
- A federal judge appointed by George W. Bush yesterday ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.
- The Detroit Free Press offered this lukewarm endorsement of Mitt Romney. I'm being kind.
- Former presidential candidate Jon Huntsman wants "None of the Above" -- he pushed for a third party this morning on Morning Joe.
- The now-former ESPN editor who was fired over his "chink in the armor" headline about Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin attempts to explain in a really long tweet.
- Is yesterday's groundbreaking for the new Smithsonian museum of African American history a symbol of a new Presidential approach to African Americans?
- Being against gay marriage has ensured that New Mexico governor Susana Martinez will need a new hairstylist.
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Great ad, list a major accomplish that GOP policies would have prevented.
@MHP (pls. classify as fan-mail) : Your debut was awesome!!! (bar the occasional technical mishap) I only watch TRMS (Chris Matthews is too enthusiastic for me, Ed Show is a talking points galore) and was pleasantly surprised to see you and Chris Hayes break out. But while I still TiVo "UP", I have not even found time to watch it because I spend that time digesting every minute of MHP. At long last, a show dissecting social issues. Please tell me that's your angle. Please... I think many people are starved for that. Keep up the good work. Will keep tuning in. Like the blog style; concise updates. Am not a heavy reader.
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Everyone has a crush on Mary Ann (MHP). Hayes is the professor, Ed Schultz is the Skipper, and Sheldon Adelson is Mr. Howell. Grechen Carlson is Ginger. Peggy Noonan is Mrs. Howell, and we are all Gilligan.
Huntsman thinks a third party is the solution to the duopoly of power held by the GOP and the Dems? Talk of a third parties is no solution and Huntsman is either a coward or a fool not to talk about our antiquated voting scheme. Until there is a method where citizens can accurately indicate their first, second and third etc. choices among candidates in a preferential voting scheme, then any third party will split the vote, defeating the end of the political end of the spectrum the 3rd party candidate purports to represent.
If MHPshow truly wants to earn the title of nerdland, then they ought to dive into the dilemma Huntsman is trying to address, examining the mechanics of preferential voting- how proponents claim it would change the dynamics of the duopoly on power by the two parties. Examine where it is used (Australia, Oakland, presidents of Ireland, India, House of Lords), and what its critics have to say.
pres. obama did say it wasn't going to take 2or 3 years nor 4 to turn this economy around and he all so said it's going to get worse befor it get better. so you know what i'm going to stand behind him. and if they think buddy roemer are going to do something he's not. he didn't do nothing in baton rouge. he must be going to talk that .... like the other republican doing. the rich just don't want to be tax.