harpers.org - 10/27/2008
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In a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin told the crowd that an Obama presidency would present the specter of a socialist state in which fundamental American freedoms are undermined. Let’s go to the video: . . .
harpers.org - 10/29/2008
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harpers.org —
The last weeks of every presidential campaign I
can remember bring out the crazies. Candidates are reviled...
as “racists,” “Nazis,” “Communists,” and the like. But this year the process has gotten nuttier and more malicious than usual. Perhaps it is a ...
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SCOTT HORTON—The New McCarthyism
harpers.org - 10/27/2008
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harpers.org —
In a sense, a presidential campaign provides the
ultimate test of the mettle of the political punditry....
Does the pundit simply disintegrate into political hackery by reciting the talking points of the campaign to which he is beholden? That temptation ...
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SCOTT HORTON—Best of the ’08 Campaign III: Best National ...
realclearpolitics.com - 10/24/2008
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realclearpolitics.com —
October 23, 2008 Long National Nightmare By Steven
Stark Last night, I woke up in a sweat....
I'd had a very bizarre dream . . . NOVEMBER 5 -- There was Wilson over Hughes. And, of course, Truman over Dewey. But there's never been a surprise in ...
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Palin's Nightmare
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Maybe she should have stayed awake the past eight years.
McCain Sends Out Team Blather To Change The Subject…Again
Firedoglake —
... Right down the hill and over the cliff to the intersection of Inanity Lane and Dipshit Boulevard. That's where we're headed, my friends.
Rep. Heather Wilson, on CNN's Late Edition, was grasping at hair clubs to change the subject from the craptastic serial failures, piss poor judgment and rudderless, smarm-filled, self-inflicted implosion of a clown car that is Team McCain. Truly, the desperation is reaching critical crass: ...
Don't Fear Obama, Sarah
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Scott Horton consoles Palin and tells her not to worry about socialism. After all, Bush crossed that bridge a long time ago.
Andy McCarthy on Stanley Kurtz’s “Singularly Stellar” Service To the Nation
Comments from Left Field —
... Scott Horton had some words of comfort for Sarah Palin when she expressed the same concern for Americans’ “freedoms” in an Obama administration, and I think they may help allay some of Andy McCarthy’s fears about our “liberty and security” should Obama become president (name substitution mine): ...
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