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More on the debate

Friday, April 18, 2008

A few more thoughts about Wednesday’s debate. First, I find it surprising that anyone finds it surprising that ABC sought out the flag pin lady. I knew it as soon as I saw her. That they left such easily followed footprints is just a sign of their arrogance, but also, I believe, of the fact […]

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Distractions on notice

Friday, April 18, 2008

Absolute best Colbert ever last night. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama were all on. Even John McCain made a brief (taped) appearance, napping at the state of the Union. Here’s Barack: Colbert’s a true patriot. How sick is this country when the most responsible journalists on television work for the Comedy Channel?

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ABC Hits New Low

Thursday, April 17, 2008

I’m a bit late to the feast, a function of my blogging schedule, but I might as well add my voice to the chorus of folks condemning ABC for the conduct of the “debate” last night. Maybe it was a sixth sense, but I didn’t watch it in real time. I recorded it on my […]

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One more reason to support Obama

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

This blog seriously cuts into my reading time. My stack of Christmas books is only beginning to dwindle. I just finished Paul Krugman’s Conscience of a Liberal, which, of course, I heartily recommend. Unlike the Great Unraveling, it is not merely a collection of his columns. Krugman appears to be a Hillary supporter, primarily, I […]

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I’m not writing about Hillary

Sunday, April 13, 2008

I am not a good enough writer to express the outrage I feel as Hillary Clinton attempts to insure a McCain victory in the fall. The Democrats are notoriously undisciplined, but no one has undermined a competitor in this fashion since Humphrey did a similar sort of number on McGovern in 1972. McGovern probably would […]

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What we’re up against, part 2 of …

Friday, April 11, 2008

This is the most absurd anti-Democrat spin I’ve heard of to date: Now they’re making up weird new rules as they go along. Here’s the money quote from the video: And it’s just one of those sort of weird things. You know, when the owner of the diner says, “Here, have some coffee,” you say, […]

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Garry Wills on Lincoln and Obama

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Garry Wills is one of my favorite writers. In the most recent New York Review of Books he makes the case that the best comparison to Obama’s recent speech on race is to Lincoln’s Cooper Union Speech, not to JFK’s speech on religion or FDR’s First Inaugural. Wills points out that both men faced similar […]

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New Moveon Video

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNqiAgE1kw[/youtube]

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Revising and expanding my remarks

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Yesterday I mentioned that McCain might find it easier still to get away with the lies that he tells about Iraq if he could keep some basic stuff, like the difference between Shiite and Sunni straight. He put his ignorance on display when he confused Sunni and Shiite yet again in his questions to Bush’s […]

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Keeping the players straight

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

According to an email I received today from Howard Dean (we go way back, he emails me almost every day) John McCain once again mixed up Shiites and Sunnis, proving once again that he is as much of an expert on the region as George Bush or Bill Kristol, who more than once told us, […]

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