Imagine if they’d been this amiable for the last four months. That was the campaign we were supposed to have.
From NY Times Magazine’s 10-page long Will Gun-Totting, Churchgoing White Guys Pull the Lever for Barack Obama?: “Normally, in political campaigns, you hope people get to know you and then decide to vote for you; Obama now believed that perhaps only the inverse was possible. Once, he might have thought that if he could only [...]
Here’s Christopher Buckley explaining why he bowed out of National Review: “Within hours of my endorsement [for Obama] it became clear that [the conservative] National Review had a serious problem on its hands. So the next morning, I thought the only decent thing to do would be to offer to resign my column there. This [...]
From the New York Observer’s Be Logical, Captain!: “Leonard Nimoy approves of Barack Obama’s emotional detachment and logical approach to campaigning. ‘He is measured and stable,’ said Mr. Nimoy, who played Mr. Spock on Star Trek…‘It’s true that he has an intellect that works for him, he handles difficult problems with aplomb.’…Mr. McCain, of course, [...]
From Reuter’s Obama buys half-hour of network primetime: “Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of primetime television on CBS and NBC, sources confirmed Thursday. The Obama campaign is producing a nationwide pitch to voters that will air on at least two broadcast networks. The ad will run Wednesday, October 29, at 8 p.m. — less [...]
Firs there was Klosterman’s Brief History of the 21st Century; now there’s Cracked’s An Interview with McCain and Obama (In the Year 2012).
From Sen. Obama’s March 2007 Letter to Paulson and Bernanke: “There is grave concern in low-income communities about a potential coming wave of foreclosures. Because regulators are partly responsible for creating the environment that is leading to rising rates of home foreclosure in the subprime mortgage market, I urge you immediately to convene a homeownership [...]
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