August 2005 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31       Jul   Sep ABOUT EA ABOUT ROB   TOPICS WE DISCUSS HERE: HOME RANTS BOOKS NOISE COMIX LINKS AND BUDDIES ARTWORK THE RAVEN INTERLUDE   SALON BLOG RANKINGS BLOG UPDATES EA REFERERS TECHNORATI         < £ Salon Bloggers & > Rate Me on BlogHop.com! help? Is my Blog HOT or NOT? Click here to visit Blogster.Net - Top Blogs! Blogroll Me!	Saturday, August 27, 2005 Win or Go Home - The Official Version As denizens of the political blogosphere no doubt already know, a major Dem has thrown down the "win or leave" gauntlet to the President, in a formulation that echoes my post on the subject from Monday. The major Dem is 2004 Presidential contender Wesley Clark, a likely candidate in 2008 whose stock just went up a great deal as a result of staking a firm and coherent position on the war. And just to head off the anticipated line of objection, Clark is, in my experience, broadly respected in the Democratic Party and would likely have won the nomination over Kerry last year if he had either declared his candidacy earlier, or had held some kind of elected office. Hardly any Democrat has a bad thing to say about his political ideology. The doubts within the Democratic Party were over Clark's political experience and viability, vis a vis an established figure like John Kerry. Mark A. R. Kleinman explicitly ties Clark's message to the "win or leave" meme in a great post yesterday, while Digby at Hullabaloo zeroes in on the unspoken central tenet of Clark's thesis: that Bush is unwilling or incapable of actually doing what needs to be done in Iraq, so withdrawal is the only option by default. This was captured in my piece with the parenthetical aside that of course Bush won't make this choice,  so advocating for a theoretical victory scenario in contrast to immediate withdrawal is a free pass for Democrats. 11:44:31 AM    Emphasize This! [] © Copyright 2005 Rob Salkowitz. Last update: 9/1/2005; 12:32:53 PM. Emphasis Added Theme designed by Andrew Lueck and Rob Salkowitz.	GUILT BY ASSOCIATION Those with the excellent taste to link to Emphasis Added. Orcinus Mark A.R. Kleinman South Knox Bubba Busy Busy Busy Scott Rosenberg Rayne Today Pesky the Rat Dave Pollard Two Glasses Filchyboy FIONA Marijo's Nashvlog Real Art (and politics and culture) Real Live Preacher Fried Green Al-Qaedas Dr. Omed Perils of Caffeine in the Evening Love During Wartime Ojo Caliente Rush Limbaughtomy Why Your Wife Won't Have Sex... Clever Title Goes Here Different Strings Paulapalooza Avuncular Spectator Suburban Guerilla Codex Religion-Related Injuries Little Hippocrat Live from the Nuke Free Zone Modulator Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart No Code Catnmus I Protest Shouting at the Rain Idiot Wind Brent's Polemics Le Pretre Noir Yet Another Damn Blog Dick Jones' Patteran Pages Andrew Bayer Seablogs Bread Crumbs Kitsap Pundit     Gone but not forgotten: The Raven Patriotically Incorrect Barbaric Yawp Wall of Paul   If you would like to be on this honored list, add a link to Emphasis Added in your blogroll and drop me a line.   RELIABLE SOURCES Big Media, Bloglords, Media Watchdogs, news and opinion cites I frequent, comment on and recommend. ADVOCATES Daily Kos Atrios/Eschaton Josh Marshall Talking Points Memo Kevin Drum/Political Animal Matt Yglesias MyDD Left Coaster Hulabaloo (Digby's Blog) Corrente Brad Delong Sadly, No Altercation Steve Gilliard Oliver Willis No More Mr. Nice Blog The Shrill Blog Rude Pundit Dave Sirota Michael Berube The Blogging of the President Max Speak! Liberal Oasis Open Source Politics Crooked Timber   AUTHORITIES: Juan Cole Taegan Goddard Donkey Rising/Ruy Teixera Ernie the Attorney Media Matters Factcheck.org   AGGREGATORS: Tapped The American Street Cursor Arts and Letters Daily New Republic Online BuzzFlash Slate The Gadflyer   INDISPENSABLE: The Daily Howler Paul Krugman Nathan Newman   CONTRARIAN PERSPECTIVES Reasonable conservatives, libertarians, and wingers I like, or stuff I read to find out what the Dark Side is up to. Secular Blasphemy Jacqueline Passey Happy Carpenter Tacitus Reason American Conservative Weekly Standard National Review Online Opinion Journal (WSJ) Red State Christopher Hitchens USS Clueless (Den Beste) The Economist   AVOCATIONS & OBSESSIONS Various amusements in areas that interest me. COMICS-RELATED: Neil Gaiman Peter David Mark Evanier The Beat Grant Morrison Warren Ellis Will Eisner Denis Kitchen Agency Comicartville Ellen Forney San Diego Comic-Con Exhibit A Press Z-CULT FM   BASEBALL: The USS Mariner Baseball Prospectus   MUSIC: Dragnet Records/A-Frames John Wesley Harding Laura Cantrell   FRIENDS & MISC. Scala House Press SuperSonicSoul