Wouldn't It Be Nice . . . (a fantasy)

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Saturday November 01, 2008 · 12:05 PM PDT

2008/11/01 · 12:05

Part of everyone's frustration with McPalin is not the fact that they're running a sleazy, indefensibly crooked campaign which is short on policy and strong on defamation. That's self-evident. What's maddening is that for once, just once, we'd love to see someone in the campaign tell the truth about something (apart from "If we keep talking about the economy. John McCain loses"). Let's close our eyes and imagine what that might be like. . .

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What IS Rick Davis thinking right about now?

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What IS Rick Davis thinking right about now?

"I wonder if ACORN is hiring?"

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"Would it help if I sent Barack a 'Just Kidding' candygram?"

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"How awkward will that 1/21 phone call be from Juneau to the White House?"

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"How can people in the NRA's pocket not have a loaded handgun nearby?"

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"How hard would it be to fake a video of Michelle Obama doing Bin-Laden?"

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Why it's wrong to want to hurt 'Undecideds'

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 6:49 AM PDT

2008/10/30 · 06:49

Let's be honest - Over the course of American history, both the Republicans and the Democrats have put up some pretty sorry candidates for president of the United States. On some occasions, though a staunch Democrat, I have pulled the lever for a candidate with little enthusiasm. This year is quite different. I believe in my heart that the consequences of choosing one party over another have never been so clear - or so clearly demonstrated - in the history of presidential politics.

In the midst of the rabid partisan struggle now underway for the presidency, there are the principals (candidates), enemy combatants (partisans), and there are the 'Undecideds'. These are people who, despite every effort over the last year or so to educate them on the issues, the candidates' stances on them, and the unbelievably high stakes involved in this election, have still (allegedly) been unable to make up their minds who to vote for. To those of us who are policy wonks, political junkies, or otherwise more civic-minded than a common amoeba, this attitude is incomprehensible.

Hellertonian

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Tuesday October 28, 2008 · 8:23 AM PDT

2008/10/28 · 08:23

Few things have intrigued me more about the current election cycle than references to the Republican Party's 'base'. John McCain apparently is not well-liked by it. Sarah Palin is adored by it. The base does not respond well to intellectual appeals, nor to statistics, nor to logic. The base is more of a meat and potatoes animal. It loves to clap when opponents are accused of anti-American behavior and beliefs. The base roars when potbellied local sheriffs introduce McCain or Palin with short riffs decrying the politics of Barack "HOO-SAYN" Obama. The base is not happy that the mainstream media elite have the temerity to question the "You betcha", "gosh darnit", down-to-earth folksy image of Sarah Palin upon learning that she's benefited from a $150,000 couture makeover courtesy of the RNC.

But just what is the Republican base?

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 9:19 AM PDT

2008/10/21 · 09:19

Back in college, a hundred or so years ago, I was a political science major. One of the fascinating things I learned about was something called the "Dolchstosslegende" which arose in pre-Nazi Germany between 1918 and the Second World War. So why does that have anything to do with the 2008 elections? Read on, gentle reader - it's a lot more relevant than you might think.

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