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McCain on ACORN
All part of the Big Lie, it seems. ACORN is acting responsibly — it is weeding out bogus voter registrations. It is not engaging in voter fraud. And yet mad dogs at McCain-Palin rallies are calling ACORN “the scum of the earth.” For registering voters.
Election rap
With my friend Kevin “Sugar” Shand providing the beats…
“We meet at a moment of great uncertainty”
[Click to enlarge photo.] Barack Obama happened to be in Philadelphia for a series of rallies on the very day I was scheduled to canvass. So I spent my Saturday morning as part of a big, enthralled crowd and heard him speak in the flesh. (I caught the entire thing on video but the file’s too long for YouTube, so
Philly bound
I’m heading back to Philly in a few hours, to catch Anthony Braxton’s two shows and to canvass for Obama in the white working-class area of Tacony, right near my cruddy storage space. A strange part of town. The owner of the storage warehouse has McCain stickers plastered all over his office. So this should be interesting. At least the
McCain-Palin: stoking hatred
Not unlike a wife beater, John McCain engages in despicable behavior and apologizes the next day. He feels awful, just awful about it. He has a proven track record, by his own admission, of doing the wrong thing, time and again. When McCain loses this election we’ll probably hear him go through this ritual repentance once again. For anyone who
Ayers PS
Inevitably, a “Support Bill Ayers” website has sprung up, with over a thousand academics signing on to a statement that Ayers “participated passionately in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, as did hundreds of thousands of Americans.” Matt Yglesias and Michael Tomasky strenuously object, and good for them. As I’ve already argued, Ayers and his comrades did
Scapegoating the black and poor
Daniel Gross explodes the right’s endlessly repeated notion that making loans more accessible to minorities, through liberal initiatives such as the Community Reinvestment Act, is the root cause of the current meltdown: I await the Krauthammer column in which he points out the specific provision of the Community Reinvestment Act that forced Bear Stearns to run with an absurd leverage