Margaret and Helen
I don’t know if this blog is really written by an 82 year old woman living in Texas writing to her friend in Maine, who had to have her blog …
A new low in anti-intellectualism
Sarah Palin is a pathetic, mush-for-brains dolt. I used to think she was monumentally dumb and incurious, but had political instincts that could compensate enough for her to succeed in …
GOTV videos get personal
Moveon.org has come up with a cool tool to get out the vote — videos than contain the viewer’s name as the deadbeat non-voter who caused McCain to win by …
Commander in Chief
In a wider discussion of the media’s long-time idolization of John McCain, Glenn Greenwald made this very important point about the militarization of our culture. If I could be granted …
The problem with McCain-Palin, condensed
Mccain and Palin and their ilk don’t laugh. They patronize. They don’t smile, they snicker. They don’t debate, they denigrate. They don’t talk, they condescend. They don’t argue, they ridicule. There is a nastiness, a mean-spiritedness, a smug certitude, and a profound and baseless arrogance seething from both of them. These aren’t leaders. They’re not even grownups.
John McCain calls for civility in campaign
Giving credit where due, I just saw a clip on CNN where John McCain sought to push back against his supporters’ calling Obama a terrorist, “Arab’ and related personal attacks …
In his own words: Anti-McCain ad going viral
Transcript in this Daily Kos diary, along with the day-long discussion about getting it on the air in swing states. Truthandhope.org has been helping such grassroots video work get the …
Straight talk on economy — from Obama
(transcript of video here) Obama spoke about the current economic crisis in Colorado yesterday; video and text of speech as prepared at link. And, for those who keep saying that …
Black Monday
Perfect framing for this attack of McCain’s cluelessness on the economy on this historic day: played on Fox News, with the tanking numbers from Wall Street on the visual beside …