These Impossible Days

I have a hard time taking these early debates very seriously. Usually the candidates play it safe at this point in the game and give broad answers such as, "all options are on the table," when asked about things like Iran. Don't get me wrong out of anyone currently in the race, I'm behind Obama. But I was a little disappointed with his answers regarding Iran.

I didn't catch the debates last night but Crooks and Liars has a couple of good clips for your viewing pleasure.

• Obama, Kucinich and Gravel Talk Iran
• Gravel: "Some of These People Frighten Me

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Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a 2008 presidential candidate, announced Wednesday that he was filing articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney. The grounds: that Cheney "purposely manipulated the intelligence process" and "fabricated a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" with the purpose of getting the public to support the invasion of Iraq.

But the big question of the day is will these charges have any legs to run on? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on the recording as saying that impeachment is "off the table," and the Democratic majority seems to have no desire to remove the Bush administration from office. Instead they hope to hold out until the 2008 election and take the White House back the good old-fashioned "democratic" way. The media also seems hellbent on making Kucinich out to be a left-wing nutjob.

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Senator Barack Obama has filed paperwork to form a presidential exploratory committee. According to a video statement that he released, come February 10, he will announce whether he will run for the office or not.

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