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Althouse - Oct 5, 2008
"Turns out one of Barack’s earliest supporters is a man who, according to The New York Times, and they are hardly ever wrong, was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, launched a campaign of bombings …
Also tagged: terrorism, patriotism, nyt, sarah palin, obama, ayers
Althouse - Oct 2, 2008
Writes Michelle Cottle in TNR. Ha ha ha. I get it. What a hilarious idea for political humor! You pick a religion that the candidate has some past relationship to, then you pick some aspect of it that seems ridiculous …
Also tagged: islam, comedy, religion, christianity, sarah palin, michelle cottle
Althouse - Sep 30, 2008
Call it a "rescue." That might work. "It's a rescue of Main Street America." Sigh. blog advertising blog advertising
Also tagged: mccain, financial markets, lameness
Althouse - Sep 28, 2008
Freud, from a book of aphorisms that I've been reading, very slowly, for years. Collected and categorized by W.H. Auden (and some other guy). Look, the whole thing is on line here. I love aphorisms. I wish I could …
Althouse - Sep 23, 2008
"... and really do the work of convincing people that that's the right position -- if you take your great oratorical skills and just keep repeating 'I'm a uniter, not a divider,' plus several boilerplate predictions …
Also tagged: obama, bob wright, jac, racial politics
Althouse - Sep 23, 2008
John M. Broder on Obama: Some of his chief strengths — his facility with words, his wry detachment, his reasoning skills, his youthful cool — have not always served him well and may pose significant …
Althouse - Sep 21, 2008
A sentence that was just deleted from Barack Obama's website page about Social Security. Noted by Peter Bray, who asks: "Is he trying to stoke anxiety about his position on Social Security?" My thoughts: 1. Raising …
Also tagged: language, economics, social security, obama, aging
Althouse - Sep 20, 2008
According to Mark Leibovich in the NYT. The evidence? You got me. I read the whole article. Didn't notice any butchering. Yet Joltin’ Joe has also become a fascinating Off Broadway spectacle in his own right. He is a …
Also tagged: rush limbaugh, mccain, biden, bodily fluids, rove, body parts, colmes, mark leibovich
Althouse - Sep 19, 2008
In this WSJ editorial: The malignant aspect of this is that Mr. Obama and his advisers know exactly what they are doing. They had to listen to both monologues or read the transcripts. They then had to pick the …
Also tagged: advertising, comedy, immigration, rush limbaugh, obama, ed morrissey, racial politics
Althouse - Sep 18, 2008
Video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Excerpts. Commentary: 1. TBogg mocks Palin's speech. She does chatter through a lot of phrases that often don't hang together as sentences. And she gets words wrong, saying "lack" for …
Also tagged: andrew sullivan, pig, sarah palin, sean hannity