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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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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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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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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John McCain is a maverick! How can I tell? Well, aside from the fact that he tells people he picked Sarah Palin as his vice presidential choice. No one had thought of the half-term Alaskan governor. So he’s a maverick! (Although picking Joe Lieberman, something he thought was the best choice, and in the process [...]
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The surprise vice presidential pick of Sarah Palin by John McCain told us a lot about the campaign, much of it concerning. The first and most obvious, is that most of his strategy has become trying to convince Hillary supporters to switch over to him. Rudy has been going on radio and television shows trying [...]
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