Okay, even on his worst day, a President Obama is better than a President McCain. This doesn’t mean people on the left should drink the Obama Kool-Aid. In the last week alone, Sen. Obama has done three things to piss me off and delay writing that check. In no particular order, they are:
Went against an [...]
What Hunter and Natasha said.
It’s going to be a looooong fall.
Watch this:
It was refreshing for Toobin to outright call Clinton dishonest. And Cafferty’s incredulousness over the whole affair is well put. In what we like to call “the real world,” people ARE mad as hell, and they not only know they’ve been screwed, but WHO’S been doing the screwing. Obama is [...]
Holy shit, this was a fantastic speech.
I’m not ashamed to say I teared up a bit on this one. Normally I’m pretty cynical about politics and speeches in general. One doesn’t stay a political scientist for long and not, at least to some degree. But I’ll admit: what I heard in [...]
Digby has a great article on the important difference between transactional and transformational politics over at Campaign for America’s Future’s “Blog for Our Future.” Here’s the money quote from the end of the article:
Cramped transactional politics should not be used as a definition of progressivism. While they are a necessary part of the system, they [...]
So, the NYT ran a story yesterday comparing Obama to a Mac and Clinton to a PC.
This feels about right to me. There is something very Mac-ish about Obama, though it’s difficult to put my finger on. The NYT article is discussing the styles of their websites and other campaign web presences, but I think [...]
For all you aspiring bloggers out there who wonder how to get press credentials to cover the Democratic nominating convention, DailyKos has a great post explaining this process, with links to supporting material. Very informative, and I hope at least one of our Kentucky blogs will be there.
I’ve actually found the CNN/YouTube Debate to be an interesting step forward in terms of citizen participation in the debates process. To be certain, the weirder YouTube questions were selected out by CNN, but the ones that made it through were pretty interesting. I also think my wife’s Favorite Reporter (Anderson Cooper) did a pretty [...]
