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12
Sep

Back to Obama

A Sullivan reader makes a good point: The McCain campaign has managed to get liberal blogs constantly talking about McCain-Palin, rather than Obama-Biden. “Yesterday Obama gave a fantastic interview at the Service Forum. Did the liberal blogs even cover this? No. He gave a great speech on the trail. Are his town halls even posted or excerpted? No. […] The liberal

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12
Sep

Memo to Palin

11
Sep

Remembering

It is September 11 and the McCain campaign has us all ranting about lipstick on a pig. Think about that. Last year, to mark this anniversary, I posted a passage from Amitav Ghosh’s 1988 novel The Shadow Lines. I’d like to do so again. — The Shadow Lines is a semifictional account of anti-Muslim communal violence in Calcutta in 1964.

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11
Sep

Lipstick traces

Larry King has Arianna Huffington, lying sack of shit Ari Fleischer and complete moron Chuck Norris on his show, and he’s milking lipstick-gate for all it’s worth. Get this: Fleischer conceded that Obama was not referring to Palin with the lipstick remark, but since the audience laughed, clearly they must have taken it that way. The audience laughed because it was

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10
Sep

Hypocrites, damned hypocrites

Via Marc Cooper — this is a book by John McCain’s former press secretary. No-spin era. Yep.

10
Sep

Savaging Palin

Dan Savage isn’t just a sex advice columnist, he’s one of America’s sharpest minds on sexual politics. His take on Palin? Away he goes: […] As the adoptive parent of a child born to a pair of unwed teenagers, I’m certainly not in favor of abortion in all circumstances. But I believe that it’s a choice teenagers should be able

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10
Sep

Jazz for Obama

October 1 at 92nd Street Y. Here for details!

10
Sep

McCain’s shamelessness

The Republican crybaby brigade is claiming Barack Obama meant the phrase “lipstick on a pig” as an attack on Sarah Palin, when he clearly didn’t. Here’s video of McCain using the same exact phrase in May.