Month: February 2008
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Maureen Dowd misquotes Hillary on Obama
Maureen Dowd Sunday: Hillary says Obama is “all hat and no cattle.” You’d think she’d want to avoid cattle metaphors, so as not to rile up those with a past beef about her sketchy windfall on cattle futures. She could simply say he’s all cage and no bird. Via Bob Somerby, what Hillary actually said:
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Bill Kristol hits the airport bookstore
It took David Brooks four years to write his first New York Times column about a random book he found on his way to catch a plane: Last week, while driving from a campaign event in Keene, N.H., I stumbled upon a used bookstore that I hadn’t seen since I was a teenager. I stopped
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Russert brings back the “Capital Gang”
It’s great to see Tim Russert using his position as moderator of “Meet the Press” to bring some new voices into the Sunday show world. Oh wait… Then we reunited the renowned “Capital Gang” for some insights and analysis on this extraordinary campaign. With us, Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg News, Al Hunt of Bloomberg News,
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Obama v. Allen?
From the troubling counterfactual department: What if George Allen was the presumptive GOP nominee right now? Many Republicans have lamented that he would have been the candidate with the greatest appeal to the different wings of the party. But he also has an ugly history on racial issues that could have made a general election
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Obama post cited in the Inquirer
My post breaking down state-level support for Barack Obama is cited by Jonathan Last in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer (where we had a Spinsanity column back in 2004): None of this is to say Obama cannot win white votes, too. His victories in quite-white Iowa, Minnesota and North Dakota all prove that. But those are caucus
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Ann Althouse on Eric Alterman
For those of you who enjoyed this, this, and this, see Ann Althouse for another example of Eric Alterman dissembling in his attacks on a critic. Pretty soon he’s going to be busting out his resume…
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Bob Somerby the psychiatrist
One of my biggest problems with modern punditry is the way that commentators repeatedly accuse their opponents of being mentally ill. I’ve been writing about it since this piece on Spinsanity back in 2001. The worst offender is Charles Krauthammer, an actual psychiatrist who repeatedly accuses his opponents of mental illness, but there are many
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Klein & Gingrich on Democratic unity
When Ezra Klein and Newt Gingrich agree, watch out! Klein wrote the following on his blog yesterday about the threat that Hillary Clinton’s new superdelegate strategy will rip the party apart: Put another way: If Hillary Clinton does not win delegates out of a majority of contested primaries and caucuses, her aides are willing to
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The McCain “Maverick Myth”
Paul Waldman has another take on John McCain’s exaggerated “maverick” persona: But is John McCain really a maverick? A look beyond the media’s repetition of the word at McCain’s actual record suggests that the answer is no. In fact, McCain is a reliable conservative, and if not a perfectly loyal Republican, at least a reasonably
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WSJ notes “Juan McCain”
The Wall Street Journal editorial board, which opposes efforts to crack down on immigration, notes the ugly nickname for John McCain that I flagged a couple weeks ago: The Arizona Senator will never please the talk-radio and Internet voices who now refer to him as “Juan McCain.” He shouldn’t try. Most Americans agree with him.