November 16, 2008
CNN reports: Eighty percent of Americans think rudeness is a serious national problem, but 99 percent of the same people say that they themselves are not rude.Funny!Anyway, I believe the Obama presidency will contribute to making Americans more polite and courteous. The new president is a classy ...
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If we are to believe the Washington Post, the Iraqis are so useless that their security forces don't have a prayer. The message from this article is let's just leave them behind and get the hell out of Iraq. These security forces are sectarian, they drive too fast, and so on. Sure Iraq's a little be...
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I haven’t yet had a chance to search for turnout figures state-by-state and to look at whether battleground states had noticeably higher turnout (or experienced a greater % increase in turnout since 2004) compared to non-competitive states. However, what I have found is a neat post on 538 u...
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(Thanks to Daily Kos for the round-up) “Attention passengers: The Straight Talk Express is no longer in service. … Barack Obama is our new president. I think I speak for everybody when I say, ‘Anybody mind if he starts a little early?’ … At the end of the night, the ele...
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The election of Barack Obama is historic in many ways, most significantly in the progression along the troubled history of race in the United States. On Tuesday, Americans turned out in record numbers to give Obama a decisive win and vault the first African-American into the highest office in that ...
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Writing for The Daily Beast, Scott Hornton displays an incredible lack of understanding of the role of columnists compared to journalists. In his latest column, “Palin’s Mole at The Times,” Hornton argues that Bill Kristol was instrumental in convincing Sen. John McCain and his mos...
go to article »November 15, 2008
Let battle commence! Ah. Wait. It already has commenced. Rachel Maddow reveals what’s going on in the Republican party right now - and where they may be headed next (the wilderness is thissaway!): ...
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Obama is off and running in his post-election plans. He's announced that Rahm Emanuel will be his chief of staff. Despite promises of transcending party lines and working across the aisle, Emanuel signals a decisively partisan start. But don't take my word, take Paul Begala's statement about Eman...
go to article »November 13, 2008
The election is over. Barack Obama won. John McCain lost. You’d think that Sarah Palin would go home, tail between the legs, and do what she is paid to do: govern Alaska. But I don’t think she’s had a nanosecond available for governing. Instead of retreating from the spotlight, she seems...
go to article »November 11, 2008
Our congrats to the new President-elect Mr. Barack Obama, who made history by becoming the first African-American to lead America. Our wishes to Mr. John McCain, who came close in popular votes in spite of everything stacked against him. Obama's younger feel combined with the economic crisis and unp...
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