From George Will’s McCain Loses His Head: “It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can [...]
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A Friendly Reminder
September 22, 2008 – 01:34 pm
Original artwork by David Rosen
Debates:
September 26, 2008: Presidential debate with foreign policy focus, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
October 2, 2008: Vice Presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
October 7, 2008: Presidential debate in a town hall format, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
October 15, 2008: Presidential debate with domestic policy focus, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
Each debate will [...]
Heart Gone Rosen
September 22, 2008 – 09:23 am
Make sure you check out Heart’s (as in the band who wrote “Barracuda”’s) Fuck You John Mccain letter. It’s as if they took a page from the writing stylings of our own lovely Dave.
These are the people who want to run the US for four more years
September 19, 2008 – 02:47 pm
From James Moore’s A Nation of Village Idiots: “Let’s just consider the money. The public bailout of insurance giant (becoming a dwarf) AIG is estimated at $85 billion. According to one report, that’s more than the Bush administration spent on Aid to Families with Dependent Children during his entire time in office. That amount of [...]
Well, maybe it’s because he’s a liar.
September 18, 2008 – 03:01 pm
From TIME’s John McCain and the Lying Game: “It’s gotten so intense that we in the media have slipped our normal rules as well. Usually when a candidate tells something less than the truth, we mince words. We use euphemisms like mendacity and inaccuracy … or, as the Associated Press put it, ‘McCain’s claims skirt [...]
Thanks Doc, Can I Have Another?
September 16, 2008 – 10:28 pm
From Bob Herbert’s McCain’s Radical Agenda: “A study coming out Tuesday from scholars at Columbia, Harvard, Purdue and Michigan projects that 20 million Americans who have employment-based health insurance would lose it under the McCain plan. There is nothing secret about Senator McCain’s far-reaching proposals, but they haven’t gotten much attention because the chatter in [...]
Fantastic Article on John McCain
September 16, 2008 – 03:01 am
It’s no secret that I am a supporter of Sen. Obama. I have donated to his campaign and I have unwavering faith that he will be a better president than Sen. John McCain.
It’s also no secret that I support a full withdrawal from Iraq. I once supported a rapid withdrawal, but on most days, I [...]
And getting sadder
September 15, 2008 – 11:49 am
From Slate’s What Would David Foster Wallace Make of McCain 2008: “‘[T]he likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics,’ Wallace writes, ‘is that modern politicians make us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about. It’s way easier to roll your [...]
Another reason why we want a “community organizer” and not a lone “maverick”
September 12, 2008 – 01:00 pm
From David Brook’s The Social Animal: “What emerges [from contemporary research] is not a picture of self-creating individuals gloriously free from one another, but of autonomous creatures deeply interconnected with one another. Recent Republican Party doctrine has emphasized the power of the individual, but underestimates the importance of connections, relationships, institutions and social filaments that [...]
