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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Friday, August 22, 2008

VP Biden? (Update: Obama Confims Biden Pick)

By Ron Beasley



Well it looks like Obama's choice for VP is Joe Biden.  Now I have a lot of problems with Joe Biden - think bankruptcy bill for starters.  That said he is the best choice.  The overwhelming issue is not so much who occupies the White House but who doesn't.  John McCain is a dangerous angry old man who thinks war is the answer for everything. Joe Biden gives Obama strength in areas where he is lacking.  No one can question Joe Biden's experience but more important is the fact the Biden is a bull dog and at this point that's what the Obama campaign needs.



Update (by Cernig) Yep, it's Biden. Memeorandum is full of comment on Obama's choice and this is likely the only story that's going to be heard today.



I have to agree with Ron's remarks. Biden's not a perfect choice for a leftie like me - and yes, that bankruptcy bill still rankles - but since Obama isn't a leftie either it's a good choice for him. Biden is one of the very few Dems who can go on FOX and make them quake in their shoes. He's even more of a real Straight talk Express in such circumstances than McCain's myth makes "Eight Houses" out to be.



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  1. EarlAugust 22, 2008 at 6:53 PM

    So at the last minute Barack loses message discipline?
    Regardless of everyone saying it, I still have my doubts.
    Of course, I can't help that...

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