Flashback to Biden laying into Bush and McCain on Iraq and arguing for his federated plan:
Archive for August, 2008
The Biden Plan
Posted in Uncategorized on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What Palin Tells Us About McCain
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I said below that McCain almost looks silly in focusing more on the election in November than on the governing that would follow come January. Ezra Klein at The American Prospect says something similar:
This was, for McCain, a major decision. And we can learn from it. And here’s what even his supporters must admit: Country [...]
Still Thinkin About Palin
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What exactly does one say about the Palin pick?
The pros of the pick? While I’m still not convinced the Hillary ladies are satisfied with just any politician who has a vagina, I do think Palin could mobilize otherwise disinterested conservatives, women chief among them. She’s pro-union, another heretofore unrealized metric for Republicans, and her husband’s [...]
Who?
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
McCain just chose Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. I went to the kitchen to get more coffee and by the time I got back, Palin it was.
What the F? Who is this Sarah Palin? Turns out she’s the second coming of Harriet Myers. Or William F. Buckley’s wet dream.
She’s a [...]
Morning After
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A moving and pointed speech last night. Obama covered every issue of importance and got real specific with taxes, energy, foreign policy and McCain’s multifarious flaws. A year ago I was criticizing Obama for not getting specific and losing himself in “rhetorical flights of fancy,” as I said. Last night I was digging on the [...]
Convention
Posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday night, Hillary, resplendent in tangerine, rocked the house. Seriously, IMHO, Hillary’s best speech ever. Then the Phillies fought their way to a 8-7 win over the Mets to take first place in the NL East. I woke up yesterday morning feeling like Obama was ready to be sworn in and the Phillies had just [...]
Keep it Real, Dora
Posted in Uncategorized on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Remember when Tina Fey called Dora the Explorer a “carpet-muncher” on SNL? Apparently Nickelodeon remembers too. This is un-fucking-believable:
Dora the Explorer, the wide-eyed cartoon character adored by young children around the world, is facing a makeover amid competition from older, racier rivals.
Nickelodeon, the children’s television network owned by Viacom, has been discussing a redesign of [...]
Scrappy Kid from Scranton
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday was a trip. By around mid-morning about everyone I know who’s listened to me talk at all in the last 19 months called or texted to gauge my excitement over the Biden pick. I was already riding high when Biden and Obama took the stage in Springfield, Illinois — land of Lincoln — at [...]
And the 3:18 AM Text Says…
Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Congratulations!
Posted in Uncategorized on August 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And now for an un-Biden interlude: Congratulations to Rainy and Leonard, who got married this past week out on the Oregon coast. Rainy and Leonard, you guys are beautiful and I love love love this picture from the wedding:
So illustrative! I feel like I was there. Rainy sipping Chablis, pinky out, pontificating on some NPR [...]
When You Are Not Alone…
Posted in Uncategorized on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BIDENWATCH: Ultimate Edition
Posted in Uncategorized on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rumor has it Obama will announce his VP pick tomorrow. And eeeeveryone’s looking at Biden:
MSNBC:
He is a lively and feisty if unpredictable campaigner with working-class roots and a street-level feel for the hot spots of the globe — which he can use to go toe-to-toe with Sen. John McCain.
New York Times:
Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of [...]
BIDENWATCH
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Joe Biden has his say about Georgia in the Financial Times of London today:
It is too soon to know with certainty who was responsible for the initial outbreak of violence in South Ossetia, but the war that began there is no longer about Georgia’s breakaway regions or Russian peacekeepers.
By acting disproportionately with a full scale [...]
Edwards
Posted in Uncategorized on August 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
John Edwards. Wow.
Will’s right — the timing was impeccable. Not only did the story break on Friday, but on the first day of the Olympics. Right in the midday duldrum between the opening ceremonies happening in Beijing, and the airing of the ceremonies here in the US. ABC’s Nightline interview conveniently eased viewers from Olympic [...]
OLYMPICS
Posted in Uncategorized on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This BBC Sport Olympic Monkey says it all:
Slightly cooler than America’s own Exxon/Hilton/Coca-Cola/McDonalds sponsorship.
Seriously?
Posted in Uncategorized on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Screenshot from McCain ad on Drudge mocking Obama’s advice to fill your tires in order to save on gas. No matter that this is actually good advice or that Obama’s actually got a thick energy plan that isn’t premised on drilling the shit out of the oceans and the nature.
Besides, I think I’d like a [...]
Solzhenitsyn
Posted in Uncategorized on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alexander Solzhenitsyn died at 89 today. From the BBC:
Solzhenitsyn served as a Soviet artillery officer in World War II and was decorated for his courage but in 1945 was denounced for criticising Stalin in a letter.
He spent the next eight years in the Soviet prison system, or Gulag, before being internally exiled to Kazakhstan, [...]
