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Bobo's Premature Ejaculation
Rising Hegemon —
D'oh! The Palin pick allows McCain to run the way he wants to — not as the old goat running against the fresh upstart, but as the crusader for virtue I'd write something snarky, but really, why embellish a statement so perfectly and profoundly hilarious?
Brooks and Dickerson cast skeptical eye on Palin
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
David Brooks and John Dickerson, two of the shrewdest McCain-watchers out there, have interesting pieces up today raising questions about the Arizonan's selection of Sarah Palin.
Brooks:
My worry about Palin is that she shares McCain’s primary weakness — that she has a tendency to substitute a moral philosophy for a political philosophy.
There are some issues where the most important job is to rally the armies of decency against the armies of corruption: Confronting Putin, tackling earmarks and reforming the process of ...
Brooks:
Matthew Yglesias —
... I wish David Brooks would elaborate on this: “There simply aren’t enough Republican experts left to staff an administration, so he will have to throw together a hodgepodge with independents and Democrats.” ...
The Lies of Sarah Palin
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Bob Somerby correctly notes that Palin's extravagant claim that she "told Congress thanks but no thanks on that Bridge to Nowhere" is simply an "outright lie." And this is true not only in the sense that she was for it before she was against it, but also because by the time she become governor Congress had given up the earmark. Her self-praise was simply nonsense. And this lie might seem rather consequential, given that her fictitious opposition to federal pork is central to justifying McCain's selection (cf. David Brooks.) And this isn't even getting into the fact that she's still using federal pork to build a road to nowhere. And yet, Palin's lie ...
Tinfoil topper time
Neptunus Lex —
Put aside the types of tactics required to succeed in politics “the Chicago way”, a rather unsavory circle of past associates, a lack of executive experience and foreign policy expertise, a minimal record of legislative accomplishment, a voting record that is about as far left as it’s possible to be without spilling over into Gus Hall territory and the propensity to call unrelated professional females “sweetie” - put aside all that, I say - and the most unsavory aspect of Barack Obama’s candidacy may well be the mad, and frankly ugly passions swirling among his fringier supporters. It hardly seems fair - after all, to quote Joe Biden, the ...
POLITICS: More Than Just The Mayor
Baseball Crank —
... *David Brooks on why McCain likes Palin and the shortcomings of their combined ticket. Brooks is nothing if not a guy who knows McCain's mind. An excellent read despite the horrifying implication that Brooks thinks Robert Gates should have been McCain's running mate. ...
"Thrill-seeking personality"
The Reality-Based Community —
... As an explanation for youthful drug use or crime, often useful. As a recommendation for a potential President, from a friendly scribe , not so much. The name of the game is not, after all, "Grand Theft Auto." Posted at ...
David Fiderer: David Brooks' Lies on Healthcare Reform: An Incomplete List
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Before he attacked Obama as a liberal elitist, Brooks
touted
Sarah Palin as the embodiment of reform. Brooks designated the Alaska
governor as, “the
rarest of creatures, an American politician who sees the world as [John
McCain]
does. Like McCain, Palin does not seem to have an explicit governing
philosophy. Her background is socially conservative, but she has not
pushed
that as governor of Alaska. She seems to find it easier to work with
liberal Democrats than the mandarins in her own party. Instead, she
seems to
get up in the morning to root out corruption.” ...
