No, but the fact that he called his wife a cunt in front of reporters suggests that he is ...

Posted at September 26, 2008 12:14 PM in response to Obama's Chances Rise In Three Deep-Red States

What's the difference if you do? This is exactly the strategy your side has been using for years now. Remember all those earnest Fox reporters and their "do you denounce Harry Belafonte's remarks" nonsense from a couple years back? Same fucking thing.

Posted at September 18, 2008 1:37 PM in response to Poll: Obama Holding Up Well Under Attacks On His Character

Actually, when you factor in Nader, Barr and McKinney, Obama actually leads in Florida (O48% - M46%). I think that's a promising sign.

Posted at September 17, 2008 6:01 PM in response to New Polls Show Deadlocked Race In Key States

That's why the word "seemed" is in there. It's an opinion. If he said they actually were caught off-guard, he'd need a quote to back it up.

Not too challenging.

Posted at September 17, 2008 9:53 AM in response to In Two-Minute Ad, Obama Directly Addresses Voters About The Economy

Good point about Reagan - however, he really didn't need to spend a lot of time convincing Americans that Carter was incompetent. They already believed that, more or less. Obama still has to make sure the "incompetent" tag sticks to McCain, because it's not at all clear that voters regard him that way yet.

However, I think this is a good ad that offers a positive, thoughtful vision of the future. Hopefully it will be heard above the noise of lipsticks and BlackBerries.

Posted at September 17, 2008 9:51 AM in response to In Two-Minute Ad, Obama Directly Addresses Voters About The Economy

It will go like this: "He has a PhD in economics and was a professor at Texas A&M University. If you can't trust a smart guy like an economics professor at a good, old-fashioned American school like TAMU, who can you trust?"

Of course, it's all bullshit, as some of my old economics professors never knew Thing One about how the world *really* works, but a lot of people will buy it.

Posted at September 16, 2008 1:46 PM in response to Obama Keeps Hitting McCain On The Economy

Not even close to the same thing. 9/11 was an external disruption that was relatively easy to recover from; this exposes the entire financial system for the scam that it has become over the last several years, and threatens to bring it all crumbling down.

Posted at September 16, 2008 1:40 PM in response to Obama Keeps Hitting McCain On The Economy

Her absolutely boilerplate non-answer in response to the other big FP gaffe - "Bush doctrine? You mean his world view, right?" - shows that she hasn't really thought much about foreign policy at all. It was clear from this interview that she'd been given a few position points to memorize and rehearse, and that's exactly what she did. She's a foreign policy lightweight.

Posted at September 12, 2008 4:31 PM in response to Stupid Muckity Muck: Josh Marshall Pretends He Understands FP

I wonder if publicly saying Bitney was fired for poor job performance qualifies as slander (or libel, if it was a written statement). I guess if they can produce evaluations that back them up, they'd be on safer ground, but . . .

Posted at September 10, 2008 2:48 PM in response to Palin Fired Aide Who Dated Wife of Todd's Friend

How do you guys manage with partisan electoral commissions?

What's the alternative? How would you rid our electoral commissions of partisanship?

And not just overt partisanship - I mean all partisanship.

Posted at September 10, 2008 9:09 AM in response to GOP Officials Plotting To Rig Race For Mississippi Senate Seat?