Josh Marshall connects the dots: Seems like almost every day now there’s a McCain-Palin rally where the campaign has the candidates introduced by someone who hits on “Barack Hussein Obama”. . . . After the fifth or sixth time you pretty much know [it's] on the orders of the campaign. It is obviously with tacit [...]
Archive for October 8th, 2008
Good Point
Posted in General, News & Current Events, Politics, Religion on October 8, 2008 | Comments Off
This didn’t take long, now, did it? UPDATE: As quickly as it went up, it came back down. Image is still visible here, and I’ll also post below:
NPR Fact-Checks the Debate
Posted in Politics on October 8, 2008 | Comments Off
Nothing new here, really, but worth checking out anyway.
Patriotism That Matters
Posted in Culture, Economics, Energy, Foreign Policy, General, News & Current Events, Politics, Taxes on October 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Holy crap! Who’s been putting what in Tom Friedman’s Wheaties? After years of self-congratulatory “big idea” drivel and smug sooth-saying, I’ve noticed that Friedman seems to have been returning to real, thought-out, argumentative analysis lately. And today he apparently woke up with whatever strange, crippling monkey he’s been carrying around all this time finally off [...]
Debate Thoughts
Posted in General, Politics on October 8, 2008 | Comments Off
Nothing earth shattering came out of this. Obama probably had a small win, but McCain certainly did nothing to help himself. “That one”? McCain really, really holds Obama in contempt. McCain’s plan to buy mortgages was an interesting moments in that 1)it is already in the bailout package and 2) it is a pretty clear [...]