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if there’s one thing that might have made a clinton supporter out of me, it would’ve been this:

[Obama] ended up voting for what he called “an improved but imperfect bill” after backing a failed attempt earlier in the day to strip the immunity provision from the bill through an amendment… Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, who had battled Mr. Obama for the nomination, voted against the [FISA] bill.

of course, had she won the nomination, i’m guessing hillary too might have felt differently about FISA — especially knowing she’d be next in line to take those fancy new executive powers out for a spin. still, at least she’s able to mimic the basic postures of leadership, which is more than i can say today for the other guy. “improved but imperfect”?? way to set the bar higher, mister reform candidate.

obama won’t take the oath of office for another six months — it is way too early for buyer’s remorse to be setting in.

This morning’s news of Iran testing missiles weighs a bit heavy on the mind as I write this. This story over on the Washington Post doesn’t help. When asked how he felt about increasing exports to Iran under the Bush Administration, McCain smirked as the reporter pointed out that the largest export was cigarettes. “Maybe it’s a way of killing them?”, he chuckled. Then, forgetting how many years it’d been since he done something for the umpteenth time, turned to his chief Internet officer for fact checking… (youTube videos below the fold) (more…)

You know, it’s time to admit I was wrong. Way, way back, before being hacked, before moving over to wordpress, back when stickybuffalo was a big brown page with a shoutbox, there was some discussion of Apple’s switch from PowerPC processors to Intel processors. As I recall, I was pretty much against the move, seeing it as a bad omen for Apple’s independence. But I was wrong.

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