Politics
More campaign stupidity
The increasingly desperate, content-free right wing media are going to absurd lengths to make the electorate (who I pray are not nearly as stupid as the right owuld like to believe) believe Obama is Not One Of Us. From the Wall Street Journal – a NEWS piece, fergawdsakes, not one of their reptilian op-eds: ….in … Read more
Hope, popularity, and politics
Now, from across the aisle: WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH THESE PEOPLE? Is John McCain running for student body president at a junior high school? This is from Talking Points Memo: John McCain campaign manager Rick Davis: “Barack Obama has more fans across the world than Paris Hilton does.” How is it a … Read more
Another R for Obama
Larry Hunter in the New York Daily News: I’m a lifelong Republican – a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I served on Bob Dole’s presidential campaign team … Read more
Quote of the day
From Doug Otto, in semi-private correspondence: > The bottom line to me is that McCain = Bush And that’s the cliff where we all stand, peering over the side. Unfortunately, many in this country still have their doubts about gravity.
Stupid blog post.
What, only one? Amazingly stupid post by one Emily Freifeld, on a washpost political blog called Channel ’08: The 2008 Election on Video. The hundreds of comments provide an interesting cross-section of the blog-posting polity…
Hillary has become a Republican
The results of the Indiana primary may have rendered it moot, but Hillary Clinton lost me for good when George Stephanopoulos asked her to name a single economist who thinks a “gas tax holiday” would work, and she replied: “I’m not going to put my lot in with economists.” This country is in terrible, terrible … Read more
Relix article on Deadheads for Obama
Rich Simon’s report on yesterday’s press conference and show. I don’t know how “much sought-after” the Deadhead vote really is, but what the hey. I hope every Deadhead votes, regardless of who they vote for. Democracy works best when everybody participates.