A Knight in Dragonland

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and [...]

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BJ Stone asks … what the hell happened to John McCain?
Answer – hubris, the same tragic flaw that felled Achilles in the Iliad.
John McCain is no Achilles. He didn’t stand a chance against the overwhelming power of his own ego.

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I’m still watching the presidential debate, but my jaw dropped earlier and I had to post on this …
Did anyone else hear John McCain acknowledge that the Bush administration supported the torture of prisoners? He cited his opposition to the torture of prisoners as an example of an area where he opposed President Bush.
D’oh!!!
Addendum: [...]

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What we are witnessing may be the greatest destruction of financial wealth that the world has ever seen — paper losses measured in the trillions of dollars. Corporate wealth. Oil wealth. Real estate wealth. Bank wealth. Private-equity wealth. Hedge fund wealth. Pension wealth. It’s a painful reminder that, when you strip away all the complexity [...]

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What does it say about your presidential campaign when Karl Rove, he of the black “love child” rumors during the 2000 South Carolina Republican primary, thinks you’ve gone too far?

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A “culture of ethical failure” pervades the Bush administration. This time those words were used to describe the atmosphere at the Interior Department, where the departmental inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, recently reported astonishing levels of corruption. A section of the department in charge of collecting oil & gas royalties indulged in a [...]

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Jon Stewart and the folks at the Daily Show expose the blatant hypocrisy of the GOP’s mouthpieces.
Sarah Palin Gender Card from the Daily Show
Hilarious and painfully sad at the same time.

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So, Governor Palin … you fought against the Bridge to Nowhere?
Not so much.

Picture > 1000 words.
Hat Tip: Andrew Sullivan, via Ben Smith.

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This was about marketing not governing; hiring for appearance not competence. And they did it – without apparent irony – on the anniversary of Katrina as another hurricane threatens. From from being a reversal of the Bush administration’s worst instincts, McCain seems intent on recreating it – as farce.
Andrew Sullivan
We have had two big presidential [...]

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In the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations.

John McCain

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One of the main criticisms I’ve heard from Republicans (and Clintonistas, for that matter) regarding Barack Obama is that he offers charisma and flowery rhetoric but little in the way of substance. His world-view is naive, and the change he offers is overflowing with hyperbole. That’s complete bull in my opinion, but the [...]

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Hillary Clinton = The Kurgan?
Hat Tip: Matthew Yglesias.

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We don’t need another Ivy League-educated knucklehead.
Quote regarding Barack Obama (Harvard Law 1991) from Lou Dobbs (Harvard class of 1967).
IMO, Dobbus Bombasticus needs to retire his large elitist, racist, & xenophobic butt to his 300 acre ranch in Sussex County, New Jersey (91st wealthiest out of 3141 counties in America).  I’m tired of this pretentious [...]

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ABC’s April 16th Democratic presidential debate was one of the most miserable pieces of journalism I have ever witnessed.  Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos should be ashamed and humiliated to have been a part of this fiasco.
Money Quote from Senator Barack Obama (from the New York Times):
We set a new record because it took us [...]

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Andrew Sullivan sums up Hillary Clinton’s “distinguished record” and disintegrating presidential campaign nicely:
The record is that the senator’s one single attempt at policy implementation – healthcare reform – was an enormous failure in which her own arrogance, secrecy and paranoia derailed universal healthcare for a decade. On the most critical foreign policy decision of her [...]

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