by Sasha
I thought McCain was going to run as a maverick, a man of the people? Well lookee here, Rove’s people come on board and things just keep getting uglier. The most recent video is so far over the top that even I’m shocked. It’s here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6bc9e_obamaone1

It is 100% about Obama as messiah, […]

by Sasha
Josh recently pointed out that McCain’s sense of humor increases his likeability, suggesting that this might have a positive impact on 5 percent of the voters. It seems that folks are turning up some of those “jokes,” (besides the one about his wife painting herself like a trollop, of course). I think […]

This year’s election is either a sea change of historic proportions or Obama is going to get clocked like McGovern and Dukakis. There is no middle ground. The spinmeisters in McCain’s, Hilla’s and the MSM are starting to roll the electoral college dice and they’re coming up snake-eyes for Obama. That doesn’t […]

Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen asserts that all political systems present themselves as fair. But “fair” can mean either of two very different things: one citizen-one vote or one  dollar (or share or other currency unit)-one vote. Both models are currently popular. One is the basis of democratically elected government; the other is the basis […]

Read all about it on Raising Kaine.

Once we had a President who told us that, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Now we have one campaign that echoes that message of hope, while the other plays on our fears, trying to persuade us that we need an all-powerful Mommy to take care of us.
The sad thing […]

Keith Olbermann in his inimitable style let it fly regarding the Clinton campaign. And as a (former) Clinton supporter, I share his outrage and can’t disagree with a word he said. For those who have read my posts over the years, one of the common threads is my absolute contempt for the Democratic […]

I can’t think of a more dangerous strategy than Hillary Clinton aligning herself with John McCain in hopes of knocking off Obama.  According to Clinton:
“I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know […]

I have a love/hate relationship with NY Times columnist, David Brooks. I think he’s a very articulate and observant social critic (loved his wry ’90s book, Bobos in Paradise), and an absolutely brain-addled political commentator. But he’s parsed the differences between Clinton and Obama in an interesting way:
“For people raised on Jane Jacobs, […]

The Dem race has degenerated into something out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Hillary invades the French castle with her Trojan Rabbit forgetting to put her men inside. Obama farts in her general direction and catapults cows over the wall. Meanwhile the media has played this like it’s a perpetual […]