Timothy Egan’s post on the NY Times Blog captures some noteworthy facts on Tuesday’s election. It begins “[g]uess who won Joe the Plumber’s vote. Not Joe the symbol and unlicensed tax-dodger coming soon to a garage sale near you, but the ral people about $42,000 a year, the median income for plumbers and pipefitters. Barack [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
It has been many years* since I cast a vote for the President-elect. I have watched my candidates concede, accepted that I was out of step with the electoral vote, and taken four more years of the other guy.
Not tonight. I am amazed and pleasantly stunned. Barack Obama is President-elect.
Incredible.
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*I voted for Clinton in ‘92 [...]
A large part of John McCain’s media persona is his reputation for “Straight Talk.” This video shows McCain flatly contradicting and lying about his own prior statements: McCain’s YouTube Problem. As troubling as his dissembling is McCain’s palpable discomfort in dealing economic issues. He is scarily out of his depth.
A week [...]
Monday, February 25, 2008
An article today addresses a fear that I’ve had, and that is shared by many who lived through the assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy–is Barack Obama more vulnerable to threats of harm than other politicians? The hope and optimism that are central to Obama’s appeal echo the tone and [...]
The New York Times reports today that Democratic presidential candidates raised $80 million in the quarter ended 6/30, while Republicans raised less than $50 million. It’s just three months in a long campaign but to someone accustomed to a large Republican advantage in fundraising for national campaigns in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s this [...]
Peter Beinart’s column in The New Republic on Joe Biden’s foot-in-mouth remark last week about Barack Obama argues that “[s]tupid, insensitive remarks shouldn’t sink political candidacies unless they bespeak some larger animus.” Unlike George Allen’s macaca moment, uttered by a politician with (in Beinart’s words) “a long history of racist sympathies,” Biden’s senate career [...]
