Thinking Over Things I Wish I'd Said

Between going to bed late last night after work and getting up - late - this morning to do it all again, I needed a break.  But I haven't been completely out of it... just behind the curve.  Here are a few things I wish I'd said:

• Zuzu (who I really admire, and haven't linked to before) goes in depth on the NARAL national endorsement that's exposed the deep rift among women's organizations in lefty politics. I was as surprised as anyone by their decision to back Obama... but even more intrigued by the fallout and blowback, which probably has more longer term implications. Anyway, go read it, especially if you care about the politics of pro-choice politics.
• Armando (a/k/a Big Tent Democrat) over at TalkLeft writes the long overdue takedown of the extremely broken Democratic presidential selection process. One of the most disheartening aspects of the primary season, for me, has been the Obama supporter types (that means you, Kos-sians) who would otherwise find this primary season appalling looking the other way because their guy is in the (narrow) lead because of arcania and minutiae. Gary over at Riverdaughter adds the interesting wrinkle that Cokie Roberts had the guts to say something very similar.
• Also at Talk Left, BTD takes on the Charles Blow "Appalachia Argument" that appeared today in the Times. These are my thoughts, exactly. And I would have said it too... if I hadn't been serving coffee at the time. :)
• And, yet again, props to Andrew Sullivan - who, while totally in the tank for Obama, has the integrity on his key issue... gay marriage... to acknowledge that Obama's position and rhetoric, even after the California decision, is dreadful.  And while guest blogger A. Serwer makes excuses over at TAPPED, I'd say Sullivan has it right: it's reasonable to expect a politician with the lefty cred Obama is supposed to have to be braver on this issue than he has been... or at least call his overly safe approach what it is... pure politics. And cowardly.

Now I'm off to sleep single in a single bed. I've been the one sleeping all alone for a long, long time. ;)

(PS J in Baltimore... did you ever notice that Barbara Mandrell sounds like Toni Tenille?)

Comments

[jinbaltimore]

Speaking? Singing? or both?

[Redstar]

Did you really link to Sleeping Single in a Double Bed? My mom was a HUGE Mandrell fan when I was growing up.