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Archive for October, 2008

“My Fellow Prisoners”

Blog: October 8th, 2008

Populist explanation: I guess McCain really does understand how the country feels after eight years of W. Ageist explanation: He doesn’t know where he is or what year it is. Fair explanation: He was a decent politician who found himself totally on the wrong side of history and (Hillary-like) is shredding his reputation and shedding [...]

26 days to go.

Blog: October 9th, 2008

The McCain campaign is now in full-on Mark-Penn-bonkers mode and is throwing everything they can at Obama. When McCain repeated his call for a steady hand at the tiller during the debate, it sounded like he was cutting an ad for Obama. McCain’s home-buyout plan – first unveiled during Tuesday night’s debate – was fully [...]

Hail Sarah


October 9th, 2008

Mob is my Co-pilot


October 10th, 2008

Up, up and a way


October 13th, 2008

God vs. God smackdown

Blog: October 14th, 2008

As the Republicans have set fire to the remaining shreds of their credibility as champions of limited-government and capitalism, their remaining supporters seem to be becoming transparently more zealous, bigoted and angry. TalkingPointsMemo has this gem… In case you missed it over the weekend, a minister who gave the invocation at a McCain rally in [...]

The last debate

Blog: October 15th, 2008

With 19 days to go before the election, Obama and McCain faced off for the last time. The debate format differed in two major respects: Bob Schieffer is moderating and while he’s friendly and a bit tenacious, he’s also had a man-crush on McCain for years. Schieffer’s old enough to remember when McCain was McCain. [...]

Beast Mastery


October 16th, 2008

Debate recap

Blog: October 16th, 2008

A brilliant find from Marc Ambinder…