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  • Texas Election Fever

    Even though John McCain’s presidential campaign is struggling in large parts of the country, he has a comfortable lead in the Lone Star State. Texans don’t like Barack Obama. They are suspicious of him… WASHINGTON — A University of Texas poll to be released today shows Republican presidential candidate John McCain and GOP Sen. John…

  • Joe “No Show”

    John McCain’s latest campaign prop and middle east advisor, Joe the Plumber who is not really a plumber, let down his sponsor today. He didn’t show up at a rally in Ohio and McCain futilely called on the absent non-plumber to show himself and fire up the crowd. Apparently, Maverick John and Show Boater Joe had…

  • Hockey Mama for Obama

    Another heartfelt, operatic endorsement of Obama. (link: Sujatha)

  • A Time to Rally (Sujatha)

    (Cross-posted from Fluff’ n’ Stuff) I nearly talked myself out of it quite successfully. I hate crowds and queues, I get migraines when I have to be in enclosed spaces for more than a couple of hours, couldn’t manage the timing with the kids getting back from school, they were going to cover the event…

  • Post-Restoration Poetry and Campaign 2008 (Dean)

    Stanley Fish is famous for taking seemingly gratuitously extreme, provocative positions for the sake of aggravating his readers, many of whom wrongly associate him with a bland, outmoded flavor of so-called postmodern "thought." (That’s a topic for another day’s post.) His occasional columns in the New York Times typically generate polar responses in the comments…

  • “A long-buried scandal may taint a giant’s reputation” (Dean)

    I wish I were more familiar with the works of Milan Kundera, one of whose books I read approximately fourteen thousand years ago when Philip Roth compiled a series for Penguin of then unfamiliar Eastern European writers. This story reminds me of the lingering disgrace of literary theorist Paul de Man, whose "palling around" with…

  • The Prescience of Howard Dean (Anna)

    "White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals on the back ought to be voting with us, and not [Republicans], because their kids don’t have health insurance either, and their kids need better schools too." –Howard Dean, February 2003 "We have working white families in the South voting for tax…

  • Straight Talk (Joe)

    In the last debate, the candidates were asked if they would consider nominating someone to the Supreme Court who supported abortion rights. In a sentence that would grammatically make Palin proud, he responded, "I would consider anyone in their qualifications. I do not believe that someone who has supported Roe v. Wade that would be…

  • Wait, he’s black now? (Joe)

    According to Giblets: yes. FACT! Barack Obama and sixties radical Bill Ayers were both associated with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a radical education foundation whose radical goal is to radically educate black children by educating them… while they are still black. FACT! Barack Obama spent twenty years in the same church as radically black pastor…

  • The Election Of The Gods

    Now its not just McCain vs Obama but also the Christian God vs Allah / Buddha / Vishnu!

  • Who Is “That One”? (Joe)

    Apparently he is "a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as President of the United States."  Or so says John McCain. One interesting thing about that Boston Globe article: it sure looks as if John McCain corrected a supporter’s assertion that Obama is "an Arab" — i.e.,…

  • Who won the debate? – “That one.” (Sujatha)

    I think  this article by Mary Lyon mirrors my impressions quite well on the presidential debate last night, and saves me the trouble of having to write in detail about it.

  • It’s Down to Obama and McCain, Now (Joe)

    I think Jack Balkin is absolutely correct in his assessment of the VP debate.  This is probably a mild victory for the Obama campaign.  Sarah Palin was picked to help push McCain over the top.  For a while, it seemed as if people might actually vote for the, as she called it, Palin-McCain ticket because…

  • Setting up the stage for tonight’s debate

    The wingnuts are crying "foul" even before tonight’s debate has taken place. If Palin does well, it will be because she is smarter than the liberal media gave her credit for. If she tanks the blame goes to ….. moderator Gwen Ifill! If the Democrats were crafty about strategery, they would invite Tina Fey, in…