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 [...]
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 [...]
September 12, 2008 – 11:23 am
From NY Times’s Obama Plans Sharper Tone as Party Frets: “Senator Barack Obama will intensify his assault against Senator John McCain, with new television advertisements and more forceful attacks by the candidate and surrogates beginning Friday morning, as he confronts an invigorated Republican presidential ticket and increasing nervousness in the Democratic ranks.”
September 11, 2008 – 03:08 pm
From Boston.com’s Unfit to stand so close to presidency: “It’s conceivable that a 72-year-old hot head who has had four bouts of cancer might not make it through his first term as president, leaving the country in the hands of a person whom McCain (a former POW) met one time. One time! I’ve spent more [...]
September 9, 2008 – 04:44 pm
From Salon’’s About that McCain poll “bounce”: Don’t panic — yet: “Before full-bore panic sets in on the left [due to McCain's poll bounce], I would offer several caveats: First, that these are still surveys taken in the glow of the St. Paul convention…. Second, all of the immediate post-Republican convention polling is heavily skewed [...]
September 6, 2008 – 02:41 pm
From LA Progressive’s Why I Won’t Vote for John McCain: “People often ask if I was a Prisoner of War with John McCain. My answer is always ‘No, John McCain was a POW with me.’ The reason is I was there for 8 years and John got there 2 ½ years later, so he was [...]
September 3, 2008 – 10:23 pm
Republicans! It’s not about commitment to America! We all understand that McCain is committed to America. It’s not about that! It’s about making wise decisions.
Of course, your argument — or I should say, Guiliani’s argument — about Obama’s votes of “present,” and how executives aren’t allowed to vote “present.” That’s a fair argument.
But the [...]
September 2, 2008 – 10:41 pm
I’m listening to former senator Fred Thompson’s speech right now, and as you would expect from a professional actor, it sounds pretty good. But here’s the thing. Along with the rest of the Republicans, he’s trying to make this election about “character,” with Sen. McCain’s P.O.W. experience as the ultimate benchmark of any question of [...]
August 29, 2008 – 01:34 pm
From the NY Times’ McCain Chooses Palin as Running Mate: “In a surprise move, Senator John McCain announced here Friday that he had chosen Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate, shaking up the political world at a time when his campaign has been trying to attract women, especially disaffected supporters of Senator [...]
August 28, 2008 – 09:51 am
From AlterNet’s What a McCain Victory Could Mean: “Another casualty of McCain’s endless Middle East wars, which soon could include Iran, would almost surely be America’s volunteer army. Though McCain officially opposes a restoration of the draft, it is nearly impossible to envision how his multiple wars could be waged without one…In many ways, a [...]
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