The future of this country is looking brighter and brighter by the day.... [More]
February 12, 2008
February 13, 2008
Mr. McCain, Welcome To Your New Corner
Having spent the better part of the last three months boxing Hillary Clinton into a rhetorical corner, Obama used last night's victory speech to start working on Sen. McCain. With... [More]
More On Obama's Victory Speech
It wasn't just significant because of the way he began to take on McCain. It was also big because of the way he began to bring around some of his... [More]
Shifting The Center
Here's Matt Y's take on something I just wrote about: Most people, by contrast, are relatively open to persuasion -- if the argument is made by a persuasive figure. And... [More]
February 14, 2008
Obama's Economic Policy Speech
Can't find the video yet, but here are the highlights: ยท Protecting Homeowners: Obama has proposed a fund to offer direct relief to victims of mortgage fraud and would ease... [More]
February 15, 2008
Speeches v. Solutions
Hillary Clinton apparently has a new line of attack on Obama: Speeches don't put food on the table. Speeches don't fill up your tank, or fill up your prescription, or... [More]
Why Does Charles Krauthammer Hate Ronald Reagan?
Very odd column today from Krauthammer. An excerpt: There's no better path to success than getting people to buy a free commodity. Like the genius who figured out how to... [More]
February 17, 2008
Warriors
Glenn Greenwald follows up Friday's brilliantly sarcastic "Jihadis Throw A Wild Bash Over the Protect America Act" with another scorcher: "The Fun and Excitement of Civilization Wars (fought from afar)."... [More]
February 18, 2008
Sen. Obama Defends Hope
This may be one of his best yet. Of all of the attacks leveled by the Clintons, this seems to me to be the most pathetic. Attacking hope? Attacking inspiration?... [More]
Slinging Stupidity
Today seems to be the day the Clinton campaign is determined to expose their stupidity. If their Texas primacaucus cluelessness wasn't enough to convince you, this should do the trick.... [More]
February 19, 2008
LiveBlogging McCain's Victory Speech
Some thoughts as I watch McCain's speech: McCain on the upcoming general election campaign: "will we heed appeals for change that ignore the lessons of history and lack confidence in... [More]
LiveBlogging Clinton's "I've Lost Ten In a Row" Concession "I'm Not Even Going To Acknowledge I've Lost Again" Speech
First off, the tone of crowd is very high-pitched. The room is very clearly filled with a crowd made up almost entirely of women. If this was anything other than... [More]
February 20, 2008
The Triumph Of Narrative
Paul Waldman has an absolute must-read column over at TAP, I've long argued, both here and elsewhere, that there are few things more important than politics than narrative, and that... [More]
February 27, 2008
We Are The Ones... = Be The Change...
Andrew Sullivan on Obama's "we Are the ones we have been waiting for": There's an element of messianic self-regard about the sentence. And I sure hope Obama doesn't get too... [More]
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