Making the candidate

Where’d Palin come from?  Lost in the bad press, McCathyism, and populist chicanery is the fascinating story of how Little Miss Wasilla charmed the pants off the Republican intellectual establishment*
*(Take the phrase under advisement when this fool is allowed onto the reservation.)
Jane Mayer of the New Yorker magazine, (now with more racism!) uncovers the gory [...]

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dear white people

Carmen explains (much more clearly than I ever could) why working-class white people should be disgusted with the utter contempt John McCain has for them.

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And now a word from the Jew who doesn’t understand finance

All this financial stuff is above my pay grade.  If any commenters want to debate the economics of the bailout, it’s all yours.  But a few unconnected thoughts first:
1)  It’s the politics, stupid.  One thing I did see coming, no one in a tight re-election race was voting for this $700 billion boondoggle.  Voting against [...]

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Bi-partisan press conferences

The campaigns are currently wrapping up negotiations on format for the upcoming Presidential debates.  The New York Times reports:
“The Obama and McCain campaigns have agreed to an unusual free-flowing format for the three televised presidential debates which begin Friday, but the McCain camp fought for and won a much more structured approach for the questioning [...]

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Tim Wise, mostly right

Tim Wise is a sharp, incisive, southern Jewish anti-racist writer. Which is why the right people make anti-semitic attacks on him. (Seriously? The “big nose” line from David Horowitz? What, is “Horowitz” his stage name? Paragons of Aryan manhood, all of you…)
But that’s a tangent. Point is, at least [...]

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And she would know, cont.

This was just a few days ago.  But it gets better:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.
Luckily, she has a strong, policy-driven rationale for her endorsement:
“This is a hard [...]

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l33t ism

pwned!
Once again the media reminds us that Democratic oligarchs feed on the bones of peasant babies.  This time, it’s Jon Decker of Reuters speaking on MSNBC:
“For Joe Biden, I — you know, not that he’s not folksy, but I don’t think it helps his case when he’s making the argument on economic issues wearing French [...]

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And she would know

Didn’t get around to posting this one last week.  Just check out the byline on this anti-Obama editorial:
Democrats Need to Shake The ‘Elitist’ Tag
By LYNN FORESTER DE ROTHSCHILD
Wall Street Journal
September 11, 2008; Page A13
It’s troubling that Obama can’t relate to such hard workin’ blue-collar ‘murricans.

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the sociology of shot gun weddings

Prompted by the epic love of Levi and Bristol, liberal media giant New York Times examines the realities of teen marriage from a sociological perspective.
Its actually a good article about the abysmal chances of teen marriage with some solid insight on intersection of age, class and ethnicity.
Both Dr. Sternheimer and Dr. Wilcox said that the [...]

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well played, Jon, well played

Somewhere in Minneapolis/St. Paul whereabouts the GOP is having its convention.
On a somewhat sadder note, my semester starts tomorrow. I will try to post substantive things as frequently as possible, but forgive me if I am not on my A Game. Wish me luck and, um, go Patriots.

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