Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Saturday, August 23, 2008

One House, One Spouse, Obama/Biden 08

By Libby



All of Blogtopia has weighed in on Biden and I've posted at The Impolitic already, so I'll just recap the positives on an unexciting but pragmatic pick.



Lefties are not wildly excited but neither are they unduly alarmed. I'm hearing their parents like the choice and it's moving the senior citizens towards support of the ticket. I'm also hearing he has a decent voting record on women's rights and he did apologize for supporting the AUMF. Further, he hasn't parlayed his many years inside the Beltway into a personal fortune. He's one of the poorest politicians, he donated his $800,000 in speaking honoria to charity, and his wife hasn't made money on their political connections. She's a schoolteacher.



Biden also teaches constitutional law and his understanding of foreign policy is pretty unassailable. But the clip below demonstrates what some are viewing as a potential timebomb, but I think is his strongest positive. His outspokeness.



He's a fighter and he'll be able to strike back against the GOP smear machine in ways that Obama can't. On the balance, I'm thinking they're going to make a formidable ticket. And by the way, if you like the title of this post, you can get the bumper sticker here. [links via Atrios and Ellroon]



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  1. bbbustardAugust 23, 2008 at 9:59 AM

    Neat idea - but I think you forget that Biden is on spouse number two. The first died in a car crash shortly after he first won elective office.

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  2. LibbyAugust 23, 2008 at 12:02 PM

    I didn't forget bb, but if you wait five years after you're widowed to remarry, instead of dumping your first wife for a better model, it still sort of counts as one spouse at a time and either way, both only have one house.

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  3. NikolausAugust 24, 2008 at 10:38 AM

    With the smart selection of Joe Biden as VP candidate by Barack Obama, there is a clear choice now for America on economics, empathy and ethics:
    One House, One Spouse, Obama/Biden 08.
    http://www.cafepress.com/politics2go

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