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Sarah Palin as Homer Simpson -- the Liberal Elites' Worst Nightmare
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyMarveling at Sarah Palin's continued popularity, The New York Times' Frank Rich writes: "If logic applied to Palin's career trajectory, this month might have been judged dreadful for her." He goes on to note that some of the candidates Palin endorsed -- like Alaska's Joe Miller and Delaware's Christine O'Donnell -- lost. Rich then adds: "But logic doesn't apply to Palin. What might bring down other politicians only seems to make her stronger: the malapropisms and gaffes, the cut-and-run half-term governorship, family scandals, shameless lying and rapacious self-merchandising. In an angry ...
Will Tuesday's Elections Spell the End of the Tea Party?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 1) -- Though tea party-backed candidates are expected to win several elections this week and the movement has stolen much of the media spotlight for the past year, Tuesday may spell the end of the movement. That's at least according to Frank Rich, who makes a convincing case of such an outcome in his weekend New York Times column. Rich points out that the movement isn't as big as it has been portrayed in the media: There are only 647 tea party groups nationwide, most with fewer than 50 members, according to a new Washington Post study Rich cites. A CNN poll found that 2 percent of ...
Forty Years After Stonewall, That Lavender Hour Uncertain
By James Daubs - Politics DailyMonday night in the East Room of the White House, President Obama meets with gay and lesbian leaders to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. It represents the first time Stonewall has ever been officially recognized in the White House. Press secretary Robert Gibbs has said that no substantive announcements are expected at the reception. (The president will not, in other words, officially legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states; being a president and not, alas, a Supreme Leader, he has no authority to do so. Nor is he likely to apologize for his supposed foot-dragging on ...
Is Bush the 'Worst President We've Ever Had'?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyOver the weekend, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) made the following assertion on "Meet the Press":"I really do believe that President Bush is the worst president we've ever had."The "worst ever" title is a heady claim, of course. And to make it with any authority, you really need to know a thing or two about presidential history. US News & World Report asked a few historians which white guy stank up the office worst, and has come up with a handy All Time Bottom 10 List. While they decline to consider Bush's ultimate ranking--owing to the idea that not enough time has elapsed to ...
McCain Under Fire
By David Knowles - Politics DailyNearly every poll conducted in the wake of our nation's financial meltdown has been bad news for John McCain. His numbers began to drop early last week, when news of the $700 billion bailout started to sink in. Clearly, McCain's week-old pronouncement that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," wasn't meshing with the facts. If, as McCain's financial adviser, Phil Gramm insists, this recession is all in our heads, then why do the taxpayers need to pay nearly a trillion dollars in therapy bills? When McCain's pollsters let their man know of the ominous trend, the Arizona Senator did what ...
Does McCain Have a Problem With Women?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAccording to blogger and radio host Taylor Marsh, the answer is pretty clear. Monday's incident, in which John McCain volunteered his wife for a topless beauty contest at the Sturgis, South Dakota biker bash, is but one more instance of what Marsh sees as a pattern of sexist behavior from the Arizona Senator:Hello, all of you anti Obama zealots, got misogyny? That's your man, John McCain, a where's Pakistan?, Sunni or Shia - who cares?, bomb-bomb-bomb Iran, Take my wife topless please, kind of guy. You can add McCain offering up his wife for a topless contest to what John McCain once said ...
75,000 Dream in Portland
By David Knowles - Politics DailyOn the banks of Portland, Oregon's Willamette River this past Saturday, the largest crowd of this campaign season gathered to hear Barack Obama speak. According to Portland's Fire and Rescue chief, Duane Bray, a staggering 75,000 people packed Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Not a bad symbolic boost heading into Tuesday's Oregon primary. More symbols? As Frank Rich pointed out in his column this week, Obama, should he go on to become the party nominee, will deliver his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention exactly 45 years to the day that Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a ...
Pander-Fest '08
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe following definitions come to us from the Oxford English Dictionary:pander v. 1. trans. To act as a pander to: to minister to the gratification of (another's lust).2. To lay the pander, to sub-serve or minister to base passions, tendencies, or designs. For another dimension of just what it means to "pander," we might also consult a thesaurus and look up the word "politics." Yes, political campaigns are, by definition, all about ministering to the gratification of another's lusts. Paid political consultants are hired to locate our basest desires, so that each candidate can exploit them. It ...
The Not-so-Civil War
By David Knowles - Politics DailySuddenly, the cracks in the facade are apparent to anyone with eyes. With each passing day the Democratic party grows less and less structurally sound. While Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton continue their Civil War, John McCain's predicted rise is becoming a reality. Despite assurances by all the principle actors, party chiefs, and sympathetic pundits about huge Democratic fundraising advantages, overwhelming primary voter turnout, and the nation's steady disdain for all things Bush, it doesn't take a wild imagination to envision the Dem's doomsday scenario: A house divided against itself ...
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