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Same Old, Same Old
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] From my uh, mirthful column on Obama today: The winds at the Democrats backs are hurricane-force gales, and yet there s Obama holding steady, like a young Dan Rather in his schoolgirl rain slicker, immobile and unmovable. Ask the typical Obama supporter why this should be so and you ll get a range of answers. Some just stare at the poll numbers the way my late basset hound would look at me when I tried to feed him a grape: with pure unblinking incomprehension. Others act like the guy who sits alone with his shopping bags at the public library, muttering about Fox News ...

The Voice Of The People
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... elitist canard, and the earnest Ivy League interns at some liberal magazine have burst into laughter, offering the appropriate bons mots from Balzac at the preposterousness of such a suggestion, saying: 'Don’t you conservatives understand? Democrats care about the little guy. They’re on the side of the proletariat — I mean workers — and as Obama has so eloquently put it, if the workers would only stop clinging to their silly sky god and guns, they’d understand that,'" Jonah Goldberg, NRO. ...

MCCAIN AS MORE JACKSONIAN: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOP JONAH GOLDBERG BY ER, UM... 9 MONTHS!
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — GOLDBERG YESTERDAY: Psephologist and columnist Michael Barone noticed during the primaries that, with the exception of the black vote, Obama’s support within the Democratic party is comprised almost entirely of cultural liberals. He dubbed this intra-Democratic split a divide between “academics and Jacksonians.” The Jacksonians are working-class, culturally conservative whites. The academics are the same people who formed the base for Howard Dean, Bill Bradley, Michael Dukakis, Gary Hart, George McGovern, and other successful presidents in the anti-matter universe ...

CARNIVAL OF THE INSANITIES - August 24th
Dr. Sanity — ... its likely it won't be included-- unless it just happens to fit in with one of the COTI themes for the week. Also, a link back to the Carnival if your submitted post is included would be appreciated...and some extremely harsh penalties await those who do not comply with this simple and reasonable request! REMEMBER, THERE ARE SO MANY INSANITIES AND SO LITTLE TIME!!! 1. The Obamamatons? Half-cocked? No change? I'd say, definitely no change. And, leading the Clinton whining ...