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The Video Clip Jon Stewart Would Make if He Were a Republican
2 comments on The Video Clip Jon Stewart Would Make if He Were a RepublicanThis is brilliant — a compilation of near-identical sound bites from Obama’s campaign speeches in 2008 and 2012. Well worth a minute & 58 seconds of your time.
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Civil Rights, and the Intersection of Race and Sexual Orientation
Not long after the Presidential election last year, the Web Goddess and I had dinner with four of our closest friends, who happen to be a black couple and a lesbian couple. There was exactly…
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A Centrist Obama May Help Moderate the Democratic Party
Today’s edition of Obama Silver Lining Watch (hereafter OSLW) starts with a trip down memory lane. In my very first substantive post on this blog, way back in July 2008, I discussed how Obama was,…
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Minnesota: Not Heads or Tails, but Standing on Edge
Move over, Florida — Minnesota is making a strong bid for supremacy in the category of freakishly close electoral results. CNN reports today that Sen. Norm Coleman’s unofficial lead over unfunnyman Al Franken has shrunk…
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Bragging Rights vs. Governing Rights
Neo-neocon sparked a raucous conversation in the comments of a brief post about the followup to a mischievous Zogby poll that surveyed Obama voters about their level of knowledge of various statements, and reported that…
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McCain Gets More Gay Votes Than Bush
I meant to follow up in a more timely way on an earlier post about the conservative gay vote. From that earlier post: Along the same lines, I also want to note estimates that nearly…
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Bush Derangement Syndrome and the Surge
Peter Wehner, writing in Commentary, does the best job I have seen of chronicling the sordid history of liberal opposition to the surge. For paragraph after relentless paragraph he replays the mockery from the left,…
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Krauthammer Explains the Election
I’ve argued before that it is deeply ironic that the financial crisis benefited the Democrats this year, since the Democrats drove the reckless expansion of access to mortgages that led to the crisis, while Republicans…
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Evidence That Obama May Not Be a Socialist
Here’s hoping that whatever socialist tendencies President-elect Obama may have will be tempered by recognition of the success of his remarkably entrepreneurial, decentralized campaign. Bret Swanson floats this idea in today’s WSJ (free link), in…