Archive for March, 2008
A Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
Time for a pop quiz. See if you can accurately match the attack on Barack Obama with the right wing Republican attacker. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge: Barack Hussein Obama is a secret Muslim (which a Gallup poll this week revealed is the belief of 10% of American voters) Barack Obama spent most of the 1970s [...]
Is Brilliant Good Enough?
Yesterday in Philadelphia, Barack Obama gave a brilliant speech that will be studied as a landmark whether or not he becomes president. The speech was a gem — a thoughtful, respectful, and honest treatment of America’s least tractable issue (and a topic that cannot be articulated honestly in most countries). His talk on race and [...]
The Clinton Campaign Clarifies: “He’s Not That Black, Right?”
In less than two minutes this PSA parody "Don’t Even Think of a Black Man" exposes Hillary’s carefully cultivated racism and George Lakoff’s moronic tome Don’t Even Think of an Elephant that has hugely influenced many Clintonistas. Way funnier than SNL. Update: the JamKid notes that this MSNBC video commentary by Kieth Olbermann is making [...]
Claiming that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle.
Obama’s problem, as David Brooks points out here, is that his campaign is predicated on his ability to inspire a grass-roots movement with a new kind of leadership. Obama has built his entire campaign on this theory. He’s run against negativity and cheap-shot campaigning. He’s claimed that there’s an “awakening” in this country — [...]
