while we are nationalizing businesses like aig and fannie mae and freddie mac and bear stearns, why don’t we just get it over with and nationalize the health care industry as well?
it’s ironically amusing to me that the bush administration now walks into the sunset having accomplished the most socialist acquisitions in american history. [...]
time’s take on the controversy surrounding mccain’s comments about prime minister zapatero:
the pain in spain falls mainly on mccain.
classic.
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watched her interview with charlie gibson last night. and i can now unequivocally say that charlie gibson is qualified to be vice president.
sarah palin? not so much.
as kirk and i watched, we kept saying that she sounded like she had been given canned answers to give based on keywords in the question. [...]
…is contained in this short post (with accompanying picture) by jake tapper:
The McCain campaign tells the media to stop intruding on the private life of the unmarried pregnant 17-year-old daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin while staging a photo op with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and the 17-year-old’s fiance, Levi Johnston.
talk about have your cake and [...]
here’s a name you may be hearing from in days to come. i learned about her via talking points memo…she has reported on alaska politics in the past and seems to know the lay of the land.
she’s now in wasilla and has a series of posts at the washington independent. she’s doing the thing [...]
in a must-read blog post about the desperately devious inanity of the mccain campaign’s newly-started “war on the media”, joe klein neatly summarizes what’s wrong [so far] with sarah palin:
Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local [...]
for the first time, obama has broken through the 50% support barrier, in gallup and other polls.
a post-convention bounce that will dissipate? maybe. but given that the polling time period includes the beginning of the paling of palin, i’m guessing that 50% may be a new low water mark for obama’s polling.
or at least [...]
from the daily show’s jon stewart:
“[Michelle Obama] must prove she loves America. As opposed to Republicans, who everyone knows love America…they just hate half the people living in it.”
—Jon Stewart
thank god we have this man to keep us all sane.
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whoda thunk i’d be typing that this morning? you figured bill clinton would be spot-on. but kerry hit on mccain hard, very hard, and more effectively, concisely, and entertainingly than anyone else i’ve seen thus far. and his self-deprecating humor was a bonus. from the huffington post article on the subject:
Kerry, his [...]
to my mind, she did exactly what she needed to do last night. she explained why she was in the race, she hit on the themes that excited her supporters, and she pivoted all that to believably encourage her supporters to support barack obama.
it was a great speech, and to my mind laid to [...]
the best speeches often happen out of prime time. even though i line up pretty well idealogically with dennis kucinich, i’m too practical to delude myself into thinking that someone like this could ultimately get elected. that’s a sad indictment of my crappy attitude and pessimism, but that’s how i feel.
but man what [...]
andrew sullivan thinks maybe, and he’s the biggest hillary hater on the planet:
Texting the selection of Hillary at 3 am this Saturday morning would be the coolest campaign gimmick of all time.
i’d go even further, and say that given we know that obama has made his choice, if we haven’t heard the pick in time [...]
my dream person? al gore.
oddly enough for me, i think that i’d be happy with hillary clinton as well. i’ve calmed down a bit over the last few weeks, and she’d be a great attack dog, which for me is the best quality a vice-president can have.
i like joe biden a lot, so i’d [...]
amen to this:
“If you think about the Midwest, think about right here, what we’ve got is all kind of towns that we could connect,” Obama said. “All of these cities are, they basically take in the air about 45 minutes to an hour to fly.”
“But by the time you get to the airport,” Obama continued, [...]
…when john mccain breaks 44% in a national poll.
obama leads mccain 47% to 41% in this recent poll.
there have also been some polls that show mccain in the lead.
what do they all have in common? obama goes up and down, but i haven’t seen him go lower than 45% in any poll. mccain [...]
New McCain Ad Bashes Obama for Not Visiting Troops Using Footage of Obama Visiting Troops.
via daily kos. there’s not much this guy can do right, is there?
there’s something to be said for voting for someone using the effectiveness and cohesion of their campaign organization as a criteria.
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the banality, bad planning, and hilarity of john mccain’s speech on tuesday has been discussed to death.
but i want to focus on one particular line that had kirk and me hooting with laughter.
and of course there’s a long hilarious discussion on digg.
hopefully by november this guy will, at a minimum, learn to read a teleprompter, [...]
could tomorrow be the day that hillary clinton withdraws from the race?
i’m watching this closely. as one of her constituents, i’m looking to see how she gets out of the race, and how well and strongly and effectively she supports obama. she really needs to be graceful, and supportive, and needs to do [...]
more accurately, it’s time for her to be made to go.
these latest remarks, citing robert kennedy’s assassination as a reason to stay in the race, are beyond the pale. you can’t tell me this was just a slip. nothing the clintons do is without purpose.
the superdelegates need to step up and end this [...]
…so i can vote for steve novick, who opens a beer with his hook hand in his campaign commercial. now there’s a politician i can get excited about.
plus oregon has great weather, lots of organic vegetables, and is a great place as long as you don’t leave portland or eugene.
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