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eamseneca Commented on It's Not About Race, Dammit by The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

2009-07-25T22:43:12Z

Since the legal end has been talked to death, let's talk politics. Obama usually has pretty good antennae for race issues. Did they fail him this time or, is Obama playing a distraction game of his own. Right wing culture warriors are a pretty predictable bunch and Obama handed them a big piece of pie. I'm not so sure this wasn't carefully planned.

eamseneca Commented on Attention All Anti-Hope And Optimismites: Arabs and Muslims Impressed With Obama by steve katz

2009-04-09T03:33:34Z

Bush's biggest foreign policy mistake (of many) was to alienate Arab moderates. Obama knows that our security depends on having someone to work with on Muslim street.

eamseneca recommended Deep Thought by Josh Marshall

2009-01-19T05:46:53Z

eamseneca Commented on AIPAC Goes Ballistic: Says It Is "Outraged" & Blasts Bush for Supporting Ceasefire by M.J. Rosenberg

2009-01-10T18:22:32Z

I think your quote is from AIPAC's statement which Rosenberg excerpted. Those sentences are AIPAC's, not Rosenberg's. It certainly isn't "MJR propaganda." I think you and Rosenberg don't disagree on this point.

eamseneca Commented on Election 2008 Scorecard - Below the Radar Winners by netcrawler08

2008-11-10T20:18:52Z

Excellent post

I would add Five Thirty Eight.com to the winner's circle. An obscure pair of baseball statistics nerds created the best poll-summary site on the web and got semi-famous in the process. Nervous dems clicked hourly just to keep up with the latest. Weeks ahead of Nov. 4th, they called a E.C. blowout for Obama and calmed millions of nerves world wide.

eamseneca Commented on Worst Campaign Ever by The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

2008-11-01T03:48:48Z

McCain has run a impressively poor campaign. Palin was his biggest mistake but he made many others. I honestly don't understand why he did what he did. He won the nomination because of his independence from Bush and then decided to embrace and promote many of W's most horrible ideas. Running a Rovian campaign when most Americans think Rovianism got us into this mess in the first place.

I haven't seen Obama's ground game at work, but from all I've read and heard it is impressive. McCain's appears to be marginal.

It would have been tough for any Republican this year, but I think a better candidate would have made this contest much closer at this stage. I think now McCain can win only through voter fraud.

eamseneca Commented on New Poll: Jewish Vote for Obama Approaching 70% and Growing by M.J. Rosenberg

2008-10-20T20:16:56Z

Is it hard to convert?
My fellow Christians are embarrassing me these days.

eamseneca Commented on Colin Powell Salutes Muslim Americans in Obama Endorsement by eades

2008-10-20T05:37:12Z

I think Powell knows that in 2003 he demonstrated too much loyalty and not enough courage. Today he partially reversed that. Endorsing Obama was a pretty politically safe thing to do, but defending the patriotism of Muslim Americans was courageous and classy. He should be at least as admired for today's action, as he is criticized for his U.N. speech 5 years ago.

eamseneca Commented on A Pundit's Day of Reckoning -- and Ours by Jim Sleeper

2008-10-14T04:18:03Z

Good column Jim. Thanks.

I usually love Ellen but I find smarmy kinda sexy. I can't agree with her here though. Brooks matters for all the reasons you replied. He merits careful the scrutiny you provided. That said, I still love Ellen.

As for Brooks, I think he writes something sensible every fourth or fifth column. The rest is right-wing noise. The Palin comeback piece is one glaring example, but my favorite is still the pathetic piece he wrote after ABC's last Obama-Clinton debate admonishing we liberals not to whine about the blatantly biased performance of Gibson and Stephanopolous.

I don't know why Brooks continues to play the water boy for the right wing, but I'm glad to see that, at the moment, the water is getting a little too heavy.

eamseneca recommended Why Talk to Them When You Can Work for Them? by Josh Marshall

2008-05-15T21:17:27Z