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Tag Archives: politics

9 months to go?

April
2008

Saint Frank’s column today notices how we are all turning our back on Iraq, even the most passionate among us. But it’s not sustainable. General Petraeus and Mr. Crocker define victory as “sustainable security” in Iraq. But both Colin Powell … Continue reading

On the campaign trail

April
2008

NYT has a nice piece about the absurdity of the campaign trail. People are asking the candidates about all kinds of shit like whether to get rid of the penny and the dollar bill and trying to make them eat … Continue reading

Obama won Texas?

April
2008

Remember when Hillary won Texas and Ohio? NBC News has allocated the remaining nine Texas caucus delegates, 7-2, in favor of Obama. That means the Illinois senator has won the most delegates, 99-94, as a result of both the Texas … Continue reading

My Fellow Americans

March
2008

My fellow Americans, By the end of today, American, Australian and British forces will have launched a large scale invasion of Iraq – a country in the Middle East about which you know very little. We have tried, over the … Continue reading

Nuance

March
2008

S’funny. I thought Obama’s speech was pretty good – not magnificent, but pretty good. But the press, left, right, all over, are all saying how it was the best speech since Kennedy’s. The word of the day is nuanced. Apparently, … Continue reading

The Audacity of Data

February
2008

A nice antidote, in The National Review, to the Obama is all speech and no policies people. Despite Obama’s reputation for grandiose rhetoric and utopian hope-mongering, the Obamanauts aren’t radicals–far from it. They’re pragmatists–people who, when an existing paradigm clashes … Continue reading