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Policy, Not Race, Could Make Obama Great
Not to gloss over the remarkable achievement of America electing its first Black president, but the heavy focus we have seen misses the point of this election entirely. Barack Obama is set to lead this country out of one of the worst periods in its history. And he will do so slowly and steadily, with [...]
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Cup of Election Predictions
Since February I have been predicting a Democratic blow out. However, I am a Democrat. And a Mets fan. And a Jets fan. Let’s just say optimism isn’t my thing. So as we approach the moment of reckoning, I’m confident–but totally scared shitless. One similarly-minded friend of mine got mad at me because I kept [...]
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Bill Kristol on the Daily Show
Just before the four-minute mark is one of the weirdest exchanges I’ve ever seen. You can’t make this stuff up.
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Legacy, Not Just Presidency, on Line for McCain
John McCain could still easily be the next American president. Although behind in the polls, it’s pretty easy to come up with a mathematical formula for him to win the 270 electoral votes he would need. Yet the man who says he would “rather lose an election than lose a war” should be worrying about [...]
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Satire Beautiful Part of Free Speech
I’m back in New York right now. It’s only been a few days, but one of the delightful things you tend to forget is how important satire and political comedy are to a healthy society. Many of my Chinese friends correctly point out that people can be pretty brutal towards Chinese leaders in their personal [...]
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Palin Stealing from the Clintons?
Eager to see a hard-hitting interview with Sarah Palin, I decided to watch FOX News’ Sean Hannity grill her. A little way into it I heard a line that was bizarrely familiar. Talking about what critics have said about her, Governor Palin said:
The shots that perhaps our campaign is taking are nothing—it’s nothing compared to [...]
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Internals Strong for Obama
I have long suspected that the post-convention McCain bump in the polls would not last since. Now there is strong evidence that virtually the entirely based on a jump upon enthusiasm among hard-core GOPers and that, to paraphrase John McCain, the fundamentals of the Obama campaign are quite strong.
The NYTimes and CBS conducted a poll [...]
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The GOP on Inexperience and Female Candidates
Not sure how The Daily Show finds this stuff, but this is a pretty poignant sequence. Special thanks to Pop [and Sis] of Cha for the link:
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Combs Grows a Pair: McCain Should be Held to Same Standards
Alan Combs has been ridiculed as a tool of the right and for being Sean Hannity’s patsy. However, in the middle of a conversation about how former candidate John Edwards is unfit to be president for cheating on his wife, wimpy Combs suddenly breaks in and points out that McCain cheated on his wife too. [...]
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