Lee on Nov 05 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics
Barack Obama has been president-elect for exactly one day and James Carville is already arguing for an inevitable Democratic majority for the next 40 years. Imagine predicting Jim’s claim to fame, the 1992 election, from the vantage of 1952, and you get a sense of the stupendous absurdity of this assessment in the light of [...]
Lee on Nov 03 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008
It occurs to me that the sequence of cocktails is the best political indicator I know of on election night. In 2004 I was attending a Democratic election party and early on everyone was drinking wine and martinis in stemware, or beer and soda in tall glasses. The ambiance befit the beverages: general levity and [...]
Lee on Sep 17 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Sarah Palin’s personal email account gets hacked by an anonymous operative and Farhad Manjoo blames Palin for “Rovian tactics.” Indifference to irony isn’t a new thing in Palin reporting, but there’s a certain amusement about the event in liberal circles which is amusing in itself. That is, if you have the imagination to picture the [...]
Lee on Aug 07 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008
(photo: WBEZ Chicago Public Radio | site)
Obama’s newish McSame style attack ad mocking McCain’s “original maverick” slogan is fairly good. As Ken Wheaton notes, all the time McCain had to spend trying to convince the GOP he was a loyal Republican, unfortunately produced a lot of pro-Bush statements on videotape. Also, I like the Rovian [...]
Lee on Jul 31 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Nancy Pelosi might have finally found a fig leaf for the Left — dying as it is for some form of tangible revenge against the Bush administration for allegedly ruining their lives. Unwilling (and frankly unable) to impeach Bush and Cheney, or throw half the administration into prison in medieval shackles, she’s dangling the possibility [...]
MichaelW on Feb 29 2008 | Filed under: Humor, Media, MichaelW's Page
Story here [via: Instapundit]
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