Tag Archives: New Mexico

An Appeal to Undecided Voters: Closing Argument for Barack Obama

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A Humbug?: Sarah Palin Still Hasn’t Given a Press Conference—or Done the Sunday Press Shows—and We Vote Tuesday!

We are now in the LAST weekend of the presidential campaign season and something extraordinarily corrosive to our democracy has occurred: Sarah Palin, despite the gravity of the office that she is running for, has managed to avoid giving a press … Continue reading

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What It Will Feel Like the Day After The Election (I Hope)

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I Made a Homemade “Obama 08” Sign, and Somebody Stole It. Now I’ve Painted “Obama 08” in My Frontyard Tree. They Can’t Steal My Tree, Can They?

Below is my first sign, which I put up this weekend, and was stolen a few days later. Notice the tree behind the sign, and its smooth bark. That’s where I put my second sign, this morning, after somebody violated my right … Continue reading

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TPM’s State of the Race with Just 14 Days to Go

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Best Ad of the Campaign Season

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The Authoritarian Right Waiting to Enter a Palin Rally: The Level of Paranoia, Hysteria, Racism, and Irrationality on Display Here is Truly Breathtaking

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John McCain, in Debate #3, Channels Dr. Strangelove

In debate #3, all that John McCain blinking, and goofy smiling, and weird expressions, and lost trains of thought, and tense high-held shoulders, recalled (for me) Dr. Strangelove. I think McCain is officially done:

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Who Is Barack Obama, John?: What McCain Giveth With His Far-Right Hand, He Taketh Away With His Left

Eh, which message is coming from the real John McCain?

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A “one man terror cell” with terrorist “bloodlines”: Talking to Hysterical People in Line for a McCain-Palin Rally

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Two Interesting “Takes” on Debate #2 Between Obama and McCain

Two of the debate observers quoted at Andrew Sullivan’s blog: Ezra Klein: Tonight was supposed to be John McCain’s night, but it was the first clear debate win Obama has scored over the course of this campaign — including the … Continue reading

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McCain v. Obama Townhall in Tennessee: Live Blogging the 2nd Presidential Debate

5:57 Pacific Time: Before this gets started, my guess is that McCain will do poorly. 5:58 I think that Obama unnerves him, and while McCain is good in these “townhall” venues when he is alone, I suspect that standing alongside Obama … Continue reading

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All We Are Saying Is “Give Calm a Chance”

 And And reason too.

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Hear a Crowd Member Call Obama a “Terrorist” and Watch John McCain Not Correct Him, But Go With It. The McCain-Palin Campaign is Obviously Imploding

Menacing and hysterical. And McCain goes with it. How sad and pathetic.

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Cuts in Medicare!: Has John McCain Just Given Up on Florida? The New Republic Reports Today That His Campaign Says It Will Pay for His Health Care Plan Through “Cuts in Medicare”

How do you campaign on cuts in Medicare—and win Florida? The New Republic article is here: http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/06/mccain-i-m-not-raising-taxes-i-m-cutting-medicare.aspx

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Republican John McCain Says He Wants to “Turn the Page” on All This Economy Talk in The Last Weeks of The Campaign, and Launch Swift-Boat Style Attacks on Barack Obama. Here is Barack Obama’s Retort.

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The Winking Coquette: Sarah Palin Does Not Represent the Apogee of Feminism—But Its Gross Mockery

A reader at Andrew Sullivan’s blog raises this question: I just want to ask: can anyone, anyone, imagine Condoleeza Rice or Margaret Thatcher or even Hillary Clinton for God’s sake, winking at the nation and/or being coquettish in any national … Continue reading

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Flailin’ Palin: Katie Couric’s Devastating Line of Questioning on the Supreme Court Turns Sarah Palin into “Flailin’ Palin”—Someone Who Shows Herself Unable to Talk About Any Supreme Court Case Except the Single One That She Knows, Roe v. Wade

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Lines of Poetry Dedicated to John McCain: The Beginning of William Wordsworth’s “Intimations of Immortality”

In the first 2008 presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, McCain started the debate by announcing, without the least trace of Republican irony, and with deep regret and soberness (as if he were about to well up with tears), … Continue reading

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Who’s Presidential Now?: In the First 2008 Presidential Debate, McCain Suggests that Obama’s Imprudent to Say Publicly That He Would Go After Terrorists Over the Pakistani Border, and Obama Zings McCain for His Lack of Seriousness

Barack Obama appeared very presidential throughout the first debate, and I thought that this was an especially effective moment for him: And here’s McCain singing “Bomb Bomb Iran”:

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