Bill Kristol is apparently losing some ambition. Whereas in the past he would eagerly rewrite the McCain/Palin talking points, now he’s content to transcribe them directly from his phone calls with Palin.
Link: slacktivist: Rebel without a map
On McCain's maverickiness "His opposition to his own party thus seemed less about the substance of each case than about his own willingness, or eagerness, to take a maverick stance. This was sadly demonstrated in each of the instances mentioned here by McCain's eventual willingness to get back in line, ultimately supporting the very positions on torture, stem-cell research and (less absolutely) climate change that he had previously opposed. Having re-established his maverick credentials in each case, his agenda was complete and he was willing to yield the substance and the principle at stake on each of those issues."
Link: slacktivist on McCain and the payroll tax
"To accuse the senator of such staggering ignorance seems to me even more insulting than to assume the simpler, more logical explanation -- that he's just a bastard who doesn't give a rip about the actual day-to-day expenses of working families and that he is willing to say the most ridiculous and absurd lies if he thinks it might improve his standing in the polls."
Link: alicublog: Goon Squad
On the rabid proliferation of the Ayers story by rightwing columnists who, inconceivably, ought to be better than that. These boys and girls are writers and editors at a prestigious magazine, yet they can be dragooned into this service as easily as felons into a road gang ... In the end they're all just low-level employees of the Ministry of Truth."
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- This article is dated Monday October 6, 2008 and is posted to politics, with tags election kristol mccain nutjobs obama palin
Everyday people
Just plain folksy:
The McCains also own three 2000 NEV Gem electric vehicles, which are bubble-shaped cars popular in retirement communities.
Only the Cadillac is registered in the candidate’s name. Cindy McCain’s name is on 11 vehicles, though not the one she actually drives. That car, a Lexus, is registered to her family’s beer-distributor business and is outfitted with personalized plates that read MS BUD.
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- This article is dated Monday September 22, 2008 and is posted to politics, with tags cars fabulous mccain rich
Shorter David Brooks
Two in twenty-four hours? I know, I know…
Shorter David Brooks: “Okay, I admit that the Palin pick was a cynical ploy of the most base and misleading kind, but that’s still no excuse for anyone else to say so.”
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- This article is dated Tuesday September 16, 2008 and is posted to politics, with tags brooks mccain nutjobs obama palin
Shorter William Kristol
Go easy on me, because I don’t do this very often:
“Sarah Palin: Finally, a chick I’m happy to identify as a feminist."
Bonus insider-intellectual cheap poetry reductionism for quoting from “Prufrock.”
Double-bonus bizarro-world protesters-are-dirty moral equivalence from the comments!
The left burns bras, throws paint on fur coats, puts colored condoms on display at art shows, send Ward Churchill and Cindy Sheehan out, break windows, scream hate filled name calling.
The right does have it’s occasional Abotion clinic bomber as well. But the left seems to encourage their hateful side.
Sweet.
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- This article is dated Monday September 15, 2008 and is posted to politics, with tags kristol mccain nutcases obama palin
Community Organizing
META: Insert blog post here mocking the mockery of community organizing. End it with something snappy, like, jackasses.
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- This article is dated Thursday September 4, 2008 and is posted to politics, America , with tags jackasses mccain
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