In Praise of Folly

I think we need a new word, McCainspeak, to describe the growing absurdity of the spin of his campaign . . . if the bill passes, it is my su...

When I watched the Palin interview, one issue that I thought she had resolved was the firing of Monegan. It appears even this might have bee...

So even Karl Rove has come around to say that the negative attack ads and the lies are too much. Hard to believe really. McCain is showing a...

McCain keeps the lying going strong: WALTERS: What is she going to reform specifically, senator? MCCAIN: Well, first of all, earmark spen...

A few years ago, President Clinton was on the daily show. He said that all one needed to be a democrat was to think. Little has changed in t...

John Mitchell of Talking Point Memo today argues that the press is starting to grow weary of the sleazy, lying campaign that McCain is runni...

A student of mine came into class today and handed me one of the infamous email charging Obama with numerous crimes and misdemeanors -- esse...

I watched much of the Democratic and Republican conventions and thought the former was wonderful and the later uninspired (particularly McCa...

McCain's speech was rather uninspiring last night, even to the crowd from what I could tell. There were moments of great energy, but ove...

Palin gave a very clever speech last night and the media loved it. As reported by the AP ( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/c...

I am listening to Joe Lieberman's speech right now stupefied by how this guy once ran as VP with Al Gore. How can someone so dramaticall...

As usual, the election is getting caught up in the spectacle and what is being lost is the central issue. It is unfortunate that Palin's...

Who cares, seems to be the answer. She's a women and in the increasingly cynical campaign of McCain that seems to be enough. Ms. Palin m...

I thought Obama's speech was extraordinary last night. He laid his claim to be president, showed a tough side and ability to take on McC...

From Today's Paper (Slate): The new poll puts Obama at 45 percent, three points ahead of his Republican rival. Obama's biggest pro...

As I feared, the negative strategy appears to be paying dividends. McCain has captured the lead: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/pl_nm/u...

Republicans have long complained of the "liberal" media and its bias against their platform and candidates. But as I have been wri...

I feel like a broken record on this point, but it is becoming increasingly clear the Republicans have nothing to offer the country except li...

To be fair, Hillary has been on the campaign trail working for Obama and gave a great concession speech. But the new Atlantic article that h...

August is arguably where both Gore and Kerry gave up their leads and began the process of losing the election. With Gore, the debates were r...

Obama delivered a powerful speech yesterday on oil dependence and a future energy policy ( http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/sta...

From the Board, at the New York Times yesterday afternoon: Mr. Obama called Mr. McCain on the ploy, saying, quite rightly, that the Republ...

To make up for my two day hiatus, here is another interesting article on McCain from of all sources the Wall Street Journal; an editorial by...

First the election: McCain's latest ad moves beyond the realm of understand, into the surreal -- arguing that Obama is just too popular ...

Thomas Shaller of Salon's War Room makes a point today worth considering -- can the relentless attack of McCain put a permanent dent in ...

Frank Rich has a great editorial in the New York Times today ( http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/opinion/27rich.html?th=&emc=th&page...

toward Texas from what I can tell. In less than a month the calls for civility, real talk on the issues and a different kind of presidential...

A War Room report in Salon today provides the latest inaccuracies propogated by the McCain: http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/07/2...

Obama emerged as a different kind of candidate, one that could transcend the politics of the past by both overcoming the battles of the 60s ...

From the New York Times this morning: “Every intelligence agency in the world believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” M...

It seems like the "liberal" media is at it again. Jonathan Chait from The New Republic has an article today that seems to discount...

The New Yorker cover has certainly caused an uproar in liberal camps in the past few days, based largely on two related trends in liberal/le...

Hillary Clinton has certainly been the recipient of a volume of hate and vitriol far beyond anything she ever warranted throughout her publi...

Do we really live in a post-ideological time? Is there such a thing as a post-ideological candidate? An article in the New Republic today ar...

A New York Times article today asks McCain to be more forthcoming on the real cost of his tax plan: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/busine...

A few days ago, the New York Times had an interesting article on potential sexism in the coverage of Hillary Clinton: http://www.nytimes.com...

Susan Faludi, of backlash fame, has an interesting piece in today's New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/opinion/15faludi.h...

An article in the New York Times today http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/us/politics/12rove.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin , tal...