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Day: March 6, 2008

McCain Gets an Unexpected Endorsement

From Hillary Clinton.

“I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think it’s imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold,” the New York senator told reporters crowded into an infant’s bedroom-sized hotel conference room in Washington.

“I believe that I’ve done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you’ll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy,” she said.

Calling McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee a good friend and a “distinguished man with a great history of service to our country,” Clinton said, “Both of us will be on that stage having crossed that threshold. That is a critical criterion for the next Democratic nominee to deal with.”

This whole “experience” thing is maddening to me. I just think it’s amazing that Hillary can claim with a straight face that she has anywhere near the experience of John McCain. She’s been a U.S. Senator for 7 years. Ok, maybe there’s some real time there. But, let’s look past that. She was the wife of a president for 8 years. The wife of a state governor for 12 years. An amateur trader/investor for 2 years. The wife of a state attorney general for 2 years. A lawyer for a few years.

Contrast this with John McCain. He’s been a U.S. Senator for 21 years. A U.S. Congressman for 4 years. A businessman for 2.5 years. He was in the U.S. Navy for 22 years, including 5.5 years as a POW.

Seems to me Hillary’s spent most of her life being a wife. And how successful has that been? Let’s ask Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, or Marilyn Jo Jenkins. I’m sure they all have quite an opinion as to how great a wife Hillary has been.

If Obama has any brains at all, he’ll immediately pull a full court press on Hillary’s proclamation of equal experience with John McCain. It’s a farce.

MORE: Ann Coulter suggests Hillary would do better to stand by another man.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Experience, Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers, Marilyn Jo Jenkins

iPhone: Now Worth Every Penny

I’m browsing the sites live blogging the Apple iPhone SDK press conference and what do I see?

Wait for it.

Microsoft Exchange support for email. (Cue the Geek Cheer!)

“We have licensed the ActiveSync protocol to build directly into the iPhone,” Schiller says. That’s a huge request from their customers.

With ActiveSync, the iPhone talks directly to Exchange. So the iPhone will get push e-mail, push calendaring, push contacts, global access lists, and remote wipe, all while talking to Exchange. And it’s built into the existing applications — mail goes into the same Mail program, calendar into the same Calendar, and so on.

In all seriousness – this must have feature will soon be available for all of us iPhone users who worked in an environment that is heavily littered with Microsoft Enterprise applications. We’ve been limited to IMAP and POP up til now, and while these ‘work’, they’re not the real thing. Exchange support for the iPhone will be the killer app.

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Apple, iPhone, Microsoft Exchange, Mobile Computing, Mobie Email, Email

IED in Time Square

By now you’ve no doubt heard about the improvised explosive device that was detonated in front of the U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Time Square. The blast occurred at 3:43 AM, the one time of the night when the famed Time Square is virtually empty. Some throughout the blogosphere are claiming this was a coordinated protest over military recruitment. Still others are calling it a plot born from leftist groups like Code Pink. I’m not so sure. What seems clear though is that the bombers didn’t intend to kill anyone, according to an analysis of pictures taken at the scene.

Oh, and here’s a surprise – the moonbats think the whole thing was a right wing plot.

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Time Square, New York City, IED, U.S. Army