Daily Archives: October 23, 2008

The Gaff That Does McCain In?: On Thursday, Sarah Palin Declined to Call Abortion Clinic Bombers Terrorists

I think that Sarah Palin may have just committed a gaff that effectively takes Bill Ayers’s acts of domestic terrorism off the table as a campaign issue. And Ayers is about the last campaign issue in McCain’s arsenal. Now, each … Continue reading

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Hey Richard, What if You’re Wrong?

Richard Dawkins, after talking to an audience about his book, The God Delusion, is asked a simple question: “What if you’re wrong?” Here’s Dawkins’s answer:

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A Break from the Election Drama: Keeping Life in Perspective

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We Stand On The Crossroads Of History. Are You Engaged—or a Spectator on the Sidelines?

Barack Obama’s website link is here. Go now. Do something.  This is our time. This is our moment.

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With Just 11 Days to Go Before the Election, FiveThirtyEight.com Says That McCain Has Just Had His WORST Polling Day of the Year

Source: FiveThirtyEight.com These poll numbers, released Oct. 23rd (yesterday), must be alarming to McCain-Palin strategists. And it is now Oct. 24th, which means that McCain has just eleven days to turn the numbers around. But not even Montana seems securely locked … Continue reading

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This is America in Our Time

To see why Barack Obama is on his way to winning Virginia, click here.

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Another Conservative Jumps Ship: Scott McClellan, Bush’s Former Press Sec’y, Says He’s Backing Obama

CNN: Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary who sharply criticized President Bush in his memoir last spring, told CNN Thursday he’s voting for Barack Obama.

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Image of the Grandma (When She Was Young) That Barack Obama Has Gone to Hawaii to See

 His Grandma is quite attractive, and I see that a lot of Barack Obama’s facial features are shared with his grandfather. Note especially the ears and long face.

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No on Proposition 8: An Articulate Endorsement of Gay Marriage in California by the Conservative Orange County Register

Money quote: Our preference would be for the government not to be involved in marriage, the most fundamental of institutions in a civil society. Why two people who want to be married should be required to get a license from … Continue reading

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Sarah Palin “quite plainly lacks intellectual curiosity”: Christopher Hitchens on What a Candidate’s Relationship to Books Says About Her (or Him)

Christopher Hitchens in Slate this week: The problem with Gov. Palin is not that she lacks experience. It’s that she quite plainly lacks intellectual curiosity. It is not snobbish to harbor grave doubts about somebody who seems uninterested in reading … Continue reading

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Colin Powell on Religious Bigotry Directed Toward Muslims as Such

“Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with a seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing he or she could be president? Yet I have heard senior members … Continue reading

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Why Barack Obama is On His Way to Winning Virginia

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“I want to fly into your airspace”: Two Young Russians Do a Campaign Song for Sarah Palin

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Now Only Rich Kids Can Dress Up as Sarah Palin for Halloween

Source: Sage Stossel. Cindy McCain. She can afford to go to a Halloween Party as Sarah Palin.

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“End our reputation as the assholes of the universe”: Sarah Silverman on the 2008 Election—and the Importance of Florida

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Barack Dancing

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My Favorite Commercial of the Campaign Season

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Opie and Andy Griffith & Richie and the Fonz: Ron Howard Makes an Obama Ad. See It Here

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Sarah Palin’s Enemies List: The VP Candidate Gets Snippy Over a Conservative National Review Commentator’s Evaluation of Her

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Keep Hope Alive: Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) Sings a Song That Embodies (at Least for Me) Barack Obama’s Candidacy

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