photogetty imagesever since john mccain picked sarah palin as his running mate and his poll numbers soared and then quickly tanked his team has experienced a set of slowbutsteady defections by some of americas most prominent conservative voices. it really began with andrew sullivan the conservative atlantic blogger who has been waiting in the jacuzzi for obama for months now. but hes been joined r... [Show More]
moving day polls Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Oct 14 2008 16:38:24
natasha and i are deep in the throes of moving so i wont be able to blog much until later tonight. for now however here is a polling roundup threadpresidential nationalarg 5 up 1battleground 13 up 5gallup expanded 10 evengallup traditional 6 down 1hotline 6 evenrasmussen 5 even though really 6 and up 1research 2000 11 down 1zogby 6 up 2obamas national lead now 8.5 largest ever. ibd and la times la... [Show More]
given the remarkable assertion here that the left is insane offensive and totally without moral restraint whereas the right is beyond compare as scions of civil discourse and any evidence to the contrary of either is utterly nonrepresentative let me offer some counterexamples culled from sources that i believe we can indeed reach consensus on as representing the mainstream right.
obama had a gay l... [Show More]
debtor nation Post Source: federalistpaupers.com Posted: Oct 14 2008 03:51:40
tom bevan has a worthwhile post with an astounding graphic.
that doesnt seem sustainable. there comes a point at which you can no longer borrow your way out of problems....... [Show More]
crossposted at enough is enough virginiacan anyone remember a campaign bouncing from place to place like that of john mccain in just the past few weeks the mccain camp has made an unqualified and overtly political pick for vp suspended his campaign to save the economy embarked on savage attacks on barack obama and then backed off on them announced a housing plan that everyone hates announced some ... [Show More]
its not over Post Source: www.johannorberg.net Posted: Oct 13 2008 21:53:59
i dont understand why people pay so much attention to swings up and down on the stock exchange in the super short run if they dont plan to buy or sell right now. probably they have trouble finding excitement in their life. times justin fox writes about why we shouldnt exaggerate the implication of the rally today
...we can learn very little about the future direction of the market from which di... [Show More]
nonsense of the day Post Source: www.meatyreads.com Posted: Oct 13 2008 19:45:18
via the curious capitalist
when last i checked the dow was up 6.9 and the sp 7.5 in reaction to paul krugman getting the economics nobel before trading began this morning. in london the ftse ended the trading day up 8.26 and in frankfurt the dax was up 11.4.
this is just so wrongheaded. markets are not up because of krugman. markets are up in anticipation of apples announcement of their new laptop... [Show More]
unbelievable Post Source: www.theseminal.com Posted: Oct 13 2008 19:18:59
sam stein over at the huffington post puts it well
the progressive group health care for america now is up with a new spot whacking john mccain for proposing a health care policy that voters cant even believe is real. the ad takes responses from the groups previous focus group testing during which voters were read various mccain proposals and turns them on the senator.
its true mccains health ca... [Show More]
playing with fire
a number of people are afraid that the ugly tactics of the mccainpalin campaign are going to incite violence maybe assassination. joe klein andrew sullivan mccains former adviser john weavereven the ultimate sobersided moderate david gergen last night on cnn. i hope theyre wrong. its a big leap from hateful talking points and shouted epithets to vigilantism and the lone gunman. ... [Show More]
sarah palins future soninlaw levi johnston breaks his muchdecried media silence to set the record straight with the associated press...
of barack obama he says i dont know anything about him. he seems like a good guy. i like him.
of sarah palin he says i just hope she wins. shes my future motherinlaw. she better win.
of his girlfriend bristol palin he says we were planning on getting married a lon... [Show More]
clarence schmidts house of mirrors was a strange mansion with a labyrinth of passageways leading to spaces covered in aluminum foil paint flowers wood and shards of mirrors. it burned in the 7ps but the woodstock house is featured in my mirrored hope beryl sokoloffs short film....... [Show More]
finally somebodys going to film this book. ive been whining forever about the absence of a forever war movie. now according to variety by way of aint it cool its in the works with the redoubtable apparently indestructible ridley scott directing.
the plot summary they give is typically lame and distorted in the manner of hollywood pitch meetings since time immemorial
book revolves around a so... [Show More]
exhuming mccarthy Post Source: www.spectrecollie.com Posted: Oct 13 2008 06:52:50
over the past couple of days theres been a good bit of attention towards the change in tone of the presidential campaign more specifically the mccain campaign. mccain denounces pitchforkwavers announces the time magazine blog. and obama thanks mccain for admonishing reporters.
the incident in question is a campaign rally in which mccain told his supporters to be respectful of obama reassuring one ... [Show More]
the mccain campaigns decision to start emphasising that a vote for mccain is a vote for divided government is a smart move. there are a considerable number of independent voters who are tempted by obama but would have second thoughts about the democrats running the show in washington without any checks on them.
but once again mccains lack of a message is a hindrance to him. he needs to be able t... [Show More]
the game of professional investment is intolerably boring and overexacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct whilst he who has it must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll. john maynard keynes general theory of employment interest and money...... [Show More]
from setrak at naranjastan cones this
this is a disturbing way to rally the volunteers on behalf of senator mccain and governor palin
in an article for time magazine karen tumulty provides us with a disturbing behindthescenes look at the mccain ground game.
with so much at stake ......... [Show More]
obama Post Source: www.crazyontap.com Posted: Oct 12 2008 15:01:22
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former reagan political adviser ed rollins likened todays landscape to that in 1980 when voters were angry at president jimmy carter and the democrats and turned to reagan in droves once they felt comfortable with the idea of him as president.
barack has met the threshold rollins said. once reagan met the threshold people wante... [Show More]
frank rich is no bleeding heart liberal. but even he has had enough of the blantant attempts to incite violence against barack obama by the current rethuglican candidates.
at mccainpalin rallies the raucous and insistent cries of treason and terrorist and kill him and off with his head as well as the uninhibited slinging of racial epithets are actually something new in a campaign that has seen alm... [Show More]
author peter drysdale
in his latest piece on the north korean issue hitoshi tanaka formerly japans deputy minister of foreign affairs and former prime minister koizumis chief negotiator on north korean affairs goes to the nub of the problem between tokyo and washington thatathreatened to stallapresident bushs delisting north korea as a terrorist state a step that was critical to locking down progr... [Show More]
ana marie cox heard arab terrorist. josh marshall is reserving judgement. the uptakeaoffers a postgame interview with the speaker herself.abut one way to judge whether the woman at the oct. 10 rally in lakeville minn. told sen. john mccain that sen. barack obama isamerely an arab or alternatively an arab terrorist is to watch video clips from the event for the reactions of people in the crowd who ... [Show More]
frank rich in top form
the terrorist barack hussein obama
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by frank rich
fred r. conradthe new york times
frank rich
october 11 2008
if you think way back to the start of this marathon campaign back when it seemed preposterous that any black man could be a serious presidential contender then you remember the biggest... [Show More]
according to cnn
the united states on saturday removed north korea from its list of states that sponsor terrorism state department spokesman sean mccormack said.
mccormack said the united states and north korea had reached agreement on an number of important verification measures of north koreas nuclear program.
every element of verification that we sought is included in this package mccormack ... [Show More]
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