Palin: McCain Invented FDIC!

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 8:30 PM PDT

2008/09/30 · 20:30

OMG!! John McCain's got this great idea!! Just ask Sarah Palin. You see, what John thought up is this. You know how everyone's worried about their life savings right now? Well, what we could do is create an organization that insures all our bank deposits. That's right!! Its brilliant!! And John McCain thought it up. That's what she told Hugh Hewitt. Follow me after the jump.

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Friday November 05, 2004 · 6:18 AM PST

2004/11/05 · 06:18

It may have been a happy accident that I wrote my post on a new Democratic language before I'd seen the conventional wisdom emerging about the role of "values" in the Bush win. The danger of ranting without the benefit of American TV pundits, I suppose. Yes, I may just be wrong that "terrorism" was what won it. Then again, I may not be. TAPPED's Matthew Yglesias on the "values theory":

The main basis of that analysis seems to be the rather striking fact that "moral values" were the number one issue of the largest bloc of the electorate. That, however, strikes me as a statistical artifact caused by the exit pollsters' decision to list "Iraq" and "terrorism" as two separate issues rather than, as they did in 2000, as a unified national-security or foreign-policy issue. Put the two together and you get a 34 percent bloc -- larger than the 22 percent for moral values, and larger than the combined 32 percent for the Democratic strong points on jobs, health care, and the economy.

Let's not start the next Great Awakening just yet...

Nurturing Words

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 1:43 PM PST

2004/11/04 · 13:43

Happy to have a conversation going with Lifer, who has expectedly smart things to say about my post on crafting a new Democratic vocabulary. He's right that we need to be careful about our frames. I'm not sure, though, that "freedom" counts as a "warrior word," at least not necessarily. If it does, we're in worse shape than I thought.

On his point about forgetting the last two decades: systematically defining freedom as nondomination, as best as I can tell, started with Pettit and Skinner in 1997 and 1998. Whatever successes and failures the left's had in the language "tug-of-war" (warrior-word alert), I'm not sure it's ever gone after the big fish like freedom. Am I right on this?

Nurturers fish, right?

WE NEED A NEW LANGUAGE: Letter to Mom from England

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 3:33 AM PST

2004/11/04 · 03:33

Soon after Kerry conceded, my 54-year old mom e-mailed me from the DC suburbs with a fearful and dejected letter. The following is my reply, which I thought Kos folks might like to consider. Please comment and recommend.

Mom, don't forget that whatever else you think about the pope, he did condemn the Iraq war as unjust. [A lifelong Roman Catholic, she's mad at the Church for playing politics]. Having stayed up far later than I'm accustomed to last night [I'm in England], I thought I'd try to go to bed early tonight. But no luck. I keep thinking about the 60 million people who voted Bush. 60 million! Yes, 56 million voted Kerry, but there are 60 million people for whom Bush makes the most sense. What makes it most frustrating to me is that Kerry ran such a good race -- he was right on the issues, better in the debates, and relentless on Bush's many, many failures. You're right that he would have made a very good -- possibly even great -- president. Yet there's 60 million people who thought not. Read More

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