McCain on Leno. Highlights: Observations: 1. The band plays "Everyday People." Why? There is a blue one who can't accept the green one For living with a fat one trying to be a skinny one And different strokes for …
Christopher Hitchens vents, post-election: And I found it pretty easy to cast a vote that told the Republican Party, for which I recommended a vote last time, not to try any of this shit again. No more McCarthy tactics; no more s…
As promised , I'm mining my archive -- beginning in late August -- to try to understand how I turned against John McCain. August 25: "Nicely done. I'm glad to see the return of the light touch," I say about an …
That's my writing project this morning, and it's going to take me a little while. This will correspond to the post I wrote in 2004 called "How Kerry lost me." It's different in that I'm writing it after…
Carl Cameron is on fire, spilling the dirt on Sarah Palin (and reducing Bill O'Reilly to near silence): [View video here .] Via Allahpundit , who comments: Unlike the first clip, this one does corroborate some of the details …
Sports Illustrated has the questions. Should there be college football playoffs? Obama says yes. ("I'm tired of all the confusion and controversy that boils over at the end of every college football season, and I think a…
Email from a reader, someone who blogs apolitically and sometimes comments here: I probably won't blab about this publicly, but I have to say -- if I thought deciding to vote for McCain in the end was tough, casting my vote i…
Mark Daniels smells a Machiavellian scheme: The fact is that Dick Cheney loathes John McCain. McCain went after the Bush Administration for what he saw as its incompetent conduct of the war in Iraq. Maybe even more unforgivable f…
Bill Kristol gives you some reasons why you should: 1. It would be a victory for an underdog.... 2. It would be a defeat for the establishment.... 3. It would be [anti-Bush].... 4. It would be a victory for freedom.... 5. A McCai…
Dan Eggen writes: [A]ccording to allies inside and outside the White House, Bush's mood remains buoyant and his attention is focused on the global financial collapse. In private meetings with business leaders, Bush has made a…
Reading about Rush Limbaugh and his besotted fondness for his kitty cat, I realized we don't hear anything about the presidential candidates' pets. Usually, you hear about the pets... Socks this, Barney that. King Timaho…
"... rather like modern corporations who give to charity and then try to reap PR benefits by hyping their altruism in their ads. Does stuff like this mean the gifts and phone call aren't 'good'? The answer depend…
Asks Jac, adding: "It's not a very good feeling, is it?" ADDED: I just noticed that the quote I chose to excerpt is not ostensibly pro-Obama. I liked it because of what it said about Bush. It really has been a dism…
Laying great emphasis on the treatment of Rashid Khalidi, John Judis condemns the McCain campaign: (Via Josh Marshall .) ADDED: More on Khalidi here : Mr. Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of Arab studies at Columbia, was born …
Have Barack Obama and John McCain turned up in your dreams? I've had one dream about each candidate now. A while back, Obama turned up in a dream. He was just a nice person who said hello. Last night, McCain finally turned up…
"... his gut reaction over Georgia—to warn Russia off immediately—was the right one. Yet on the great issue of the campaign, the financial crisis, he has seemed all at sea, emitting panic and indecision. Mr McCain has never …