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You Say that Like It's a Bad Thing
Obsidian Wings —
... by Eric Martin
Joe Klein saw what I saw: Pundits tend to be a lagging indicator. This is particularly true at the end of a political pendulum swing. We've been conditioned by thirty years of certain arguments working--and John McCain made most of them last night against Barack Obama: you're going to raise our taxes, you're going to spend more money, you want to negotiate with bad guys, you're associated somehow--the associations have gotten more tenuous over time--with countercultural and unAmerican activities.
Again, these ...
You Say that Like It's a Bad Thing
Newshoggers.com —
... by Eric Martin
Joe Klein saw what I saw: Pundits tend to be a lagging indicator. This is particularly true at the end of a political pendulum swing. We've been conditioned by thirty years of certain arguments working--and John McCain made most of them last night against Barack Obama: you're going to raise our taxes, you're going to spend more money, you want to negotiate with bad guys, you're associated somehow--the associations have gotten more tenuous over time--with countercultural and unAmerican activities.
Again, these ...
Time's Klein Has a Dream: 'Liberal' No Longer Being 4-Letter Word
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
Time's Joe Klein is giddy. Convinced Sen. Barack Obama is barreling down the straightaway towards the electoral finish line with Sen. McCain choking on his dust, Mr. Anonymous is cheering the promise of big government and wealth redistribution, seeing an Obama victory as a mandate for LBJ-like big government activism.
From his October 16 "Swampland" blog entry (emphasis mine):
[McCain] spoke in Reagan-era shorthand. He thought that merely invoking the magic words "spread the wealth" and "class warfare" ...
Added nutritional information
The Sideshow —
... had given a head-pat to, of all people, Joe Klein, who has done exactly what I wanted: "He thought that merely invoking the magic words 'spread the wealth' and 'class warfare' he could neutralize Obama. But those words and phrases seem anachronistic, almost vestigial now. [...] We have had 30 years of class warfare, in which the wealthy strip-mined the middle class. The wealth has been 'spread' upward." ...
Reflections on the third Obama-McCain debate
The Reaction —
... For more on this, in a related way, see Joe Klein, who has an excellent post up at Time's Swampland: "Pundits tend to be a lagging indicator. This is particularly true at the end of a political pendulum swing. We've been conditioned by thirty years of certain arguments working -- and John McCain made most of them last night against Barack Obama." Read the whole thing. In brief: Many journalists are "trapped in the assumptions of the past," and hence unable to see things clearly in the here and now. And so many of them have bought into the old-style attacks ...
Reflections on the Third Obama-McCain Debate
The Moderate Voice —
... For more on this, in a related way, see Joe Klein, who has an excellent post up at Time’s Swampland: “Pundits tend to be a lagging indicator. This is particularly true at the end of a political pendulum swing. We’ve been conditioned by thirty years of certain arguments working — and John McCain made most of them last night against Barack Obama.” Read the whole thing. In brief: Many journalists are “trapped in the assumptions of the past,” and hence unable to see things clearly in the here and now. And so many of them have bought ...
Jared Bernstein: Ideology Takes a Breather, Maybe
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
You have to dig awfully deep to find something good to say about the economic turmoil swirling around us. These are painful times, and as is often the case, the many are paying the price for the recklessness of the few.
Yet if we play our cards right, some deeply embedded and highly destructive ideology may collapse just as hard as an overleveraged investment bank. And the fact that this possibility is occurring a mere few weeks before an historical election...well, all I'm saying is that we may be looking at a valuable silver lining to the storm clouds hovering overhead.
What is ideology anyway, and what's so bad about it? The dictionary says that ...
