Politics
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Jeremiah Wright on Moyers’ Show
I don’t know if it will make a difference, but Moyers’ interview with Jeremiah Wright on his show Friday provided a refreshing alternative to the kind of treatment this decent and deeply Christian man has been getting and will continue to get at the hands of political hatchet men. I hope it will be watched
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Pennsylvania (Updates 1-2)
This is getting to a point of pure facetiousness–looks like she’s just going to make it into double digits. Now she’ll get the money she needs to keep this going. It’s as if the election gods really are playing a joke on us. And so it continues to go on and on and on. It’s
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Tom Frank on Bittergate
Apparently Tom Frank is going to have a Wednesday column in the Wall Street Journal starting May 14. I thought this piece in the WSJ was pretty interesting. Closing paragraph: If Barack Obama or anyone else really cares to know what I think, I will simplify it all down to this. The landmark political fact
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Redbaiting’s Return? (Updated)
Looks like it. Kristol and Lieberman want you to believe Obama’s a Marxist, and Hillary’s newest ploy is to argue that Obama will be crucified by the GOP in the general when it starts exploiting his association with 70s radicals Wm. Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. We knew this kind of thing was coming. We knew
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Quotes of the Day: Digby, Berube (Updated: & Marshall)
The important thing to realize is that these themes have been completely internalized by the villagers. They really don’t even question it anymore, it’s completely natural to them. When you see George Stephanopoulos essentially explain that Democratic voters are choosing between an flaccid, unpatriotic "metrosexual" and a lying, delusional succubus, and it’s simply his job
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Pennsylvania Debate
Our liberal media at work. What else is there to say? Let’s hope the voters in PA send a message next week that they are sick of this kind of petty nonsense. UPDATE: And let’s hope there are no more of these so-called debates. They serve no purpose except to expose the presumptive Dem candidate
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Obama’s So-Called Gaffe III
Greenwald hits on the key to my vehement resistance to faulting Obama for his San Francisco comments: To accept the criticism of elitism accepts the premise that it should matter. This is a completely bogus narrative that the right has used to define Democratic candidates at least since the time of Dukakis. I have no
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Obama’s So-Called Gaffe II (Updated)
It’s a gaffe only in the sense of letting slip a truth most people think to radioactive to state in public. From Mahablog: It always amuses me when upper-class people with power and privilege start screeching about “elitism.” Today all manner of political, media and blogging elites — people with advanced degrees who’ve never been
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Obama’s So-Called Gaffe
Common sense doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what I think or you think. It matters how it plays in the media. The folks at CNN can sometimes surprise you. This time they get it right: Here’s Obama’s defense of comments. Again I think he handles it in exactly the right way. He refuses to let
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It’s Not about Yoo; It’s about Us
Greenwald makes the point about our all being responsible for the torture culture more forcefully and concisely than I did in my last post: . . . there is something deeply misleading — disturbingly self-justifying — about the stampede to depict John Yoo as some kind of singular, isolated aberration. It’s redolent of the scapegoating