Puppy-loyal and wholly inoffensive
From Esquire’s The Man Who Made Obama: “Campaign manager David Plouffe got the first black president elected. Now he’s moving on to something even more difficult, and potentially more important.” [Hat tip to Adam for the link]
Bill Ayers Speaks
From Bill Ayers’ The Real Bill Ayers: “In the recently concluded presidential race, I was unwillingly thrust upon the stage and asked to play a role in a profoundly dishonest drama. I refused, and here’s why.”
Ain’t That The Truth
From the Onion’s Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress: “Carrying a majority of the popular vote, Obama did especially well among women and young voters, who polls showed were particularly sensitive to the current climate of everything being fucked. Another contributing factor to Obama’s victory, political experts said, may have been the growing [...]
French for Thank You
From Le Monde’s Sorry we can’t, par Robert Solé: “Sorry. No column today. The keyboard is not responding. History is a page being turned. Three words on the screen: ‘Yes we can.’ While it is impossible to joke with genocide or disaster, it is equally impossible to joke with an event that makes you weep [...]
The Gavel Factor
From Glenn Greenwald’s Three huge, immediate reasons to be happy about last night: “John Paul Stevens is 88, Ruth Bader Ginsberg is 75, David Souter is 68, and all are expected to leave the Supreme Court in the next four years.”
Stepping Up
From the AP’s Voter turnout best in generations, maybe a century: “It looks like 136.6 million Americans will have voted for president this election, based on 88 percent of the country’s precincts tallied and projections for absentee ballots, said Michael McDonald of George Mason University. Using his methods, that would give 2008 a 64.1 percent [...]
It Begins
Yes, We Will.
Must-See Obama
From the Opinionator’s Political Prime-Time: “Obama’s 30-minute primetime infomercial was seen by 33.6 million viewers across seven networks — including CBS, NBC, Fox, Univision, MSNBC, BET and TV One. That’s 70% more people than watched the conclusion of the World Series on Fox (19.8 million).”
Friday’s Challenge: Say something nice about “the other guy.”
From CNN’s If you can’t (or can) say anything nice. . .:
“We were noticing something as we did this: The people, whether they supported McCain or Obama, seemed to be in a little better mood — in an observably more pleasant frame of mind — after they were urged to say something nice about [...]
The rise of Couric, Maddow and Brown
From Salon’s The Ladies of the Nightly News: “While pondering the meaning of this year’s 18 million cracks in the White House ceiling, we might easily have missed the shower of shards falling from other glass domes, like those atop television newsrooms. In the final weeks of October, days before what many consider the most [...]
