Posts in Elsewhere, Politics
Don’t fall for it (Comments)
Got another one of those email scams today… (via)
The push to “other-ize” Obama (Comments)
From the NY Times:
“Just imagine for a moment if it were the black candidate in this election, rather than the white candidate, who was born in Central America, was an indifferent churchgoer, had graduated near the bottom of his university class, had dumped his first wife, had regularly displayed an explosive and profane temper, and [...]
The Former Publisher of the National Review on Obama (Comments)
Wick Allison, formerly of the uber-conservative National Review, says:
“Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment [...]
The House of Cards (Comments)
It breaks my heart that people laughed so much at him during the debates and campaigning.
Putting a sweater on someone with a cold can help. Putting a sweater on someone with leprosy…not so much. We want people to solve our economic problems, but aren’t willing to confront the fact that maybe, just maybe, our [...]
Even Richard Cohen Sees It (Comments)
Cohen, long one of McCain’s admirers, says:
“What impressed me most about McCain was the effect he had on his audiences, particularly young people. When he talked about service to a cause greater than oneself, he struck a chord. He expressed his message in words, but he packaged it in the McCain story — that man, [...]
Conservative Republicans…For Obama (Comments)
From We Are Out Here (on the admittedly very left-leaning Daily Kos):
“We are out here – the Republicans or ex-Republicans who will no longer tolerate the racist, despicable slime machine that the right wing and the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign has become. I know, for I am one of them. I am not [...]
Lipstick on a pig (Comments)
I’m amazed that McCain has a 4 point lead right now. Utterly amazed. I don’t agree with Obama on a lot of issues – many people don’t. But the man refuses to treat us like idiots. He’s taking a risk that people will actually realize that the political “debate” we tend to have is insipid [...]
The Day After (Comments)
Why the media should apologize
And…
Rock and a hard place (Comments)
How would you navigate this situation? You don’t visit a mosque and the Muslim community feels slighted. You do visit a mosque and Fox News convinces a bunch of people you’re posing as a Christian but secretly want to destroy America from the inside with your radical fundamentalist agenda.
