Adam Serwer

Satyam at Think Progress notes a new bill introduced by Republican Congressman Walter Jones, a former Iraq war supporter, that would require the Department of Defense to allow media access to ceremonies honoring military fallen military personnel. This is likely to frustrate war supporters whose case is best made by limiting knowledge of the costs […]

Ben Smith has an important caveat regarding those military donations to Barack Obama. The Obama campaign announced today that it has 2 million individual donors, which is likely many times more than the McCain campaign has. So I suspect Obama outnumbers McCain in every single demographic: soldiers and civilians, but also old and young, and […]

As amusing as it might be to think of the existential panic that Lou Dobbs and Bill O’Reilly will be thrown into after reading that the U.S. will be a “majority-minority” nation by 2050, I think the tone of the New York Times article is a bit misleading: The census calculates that by 2042, Americans […]

During the Democratic primary, Chris Matthews asked if Barack Obama could “connect with regular people” or just “people who come from the African-American community and from the people who have college or advanced degrees.” But a recent poll taken by the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation reveals that Obama has more support among hunters and fishers than […]

Yesterday, John McCain, staunch advocate of the invasion of Iraq, proudly declared yesterday that “in the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations.” That someone who seems to constantly be advocating for the invasion of other nations should make such a statement strikes me as more than a little odd, but clearly I’m in the […]

It seems that McCain thinks he’s already President of the United States and is sending his own “delegation” to Georgia consisting of Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator Joe Lieberman. (Why not Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson? They are after all, the only Senators who could say “We are all Georgians now” and mean it literally.) […]

Peter Beinart on Barack Obama and Colin Powell: Think about it this way: Many of the voters who right now won’t vote for Obama because he’s black would probably vote for Colin Powell even though he’s black. That’s because they don’t see Powell as a racial redistributionist, a guy who would favor his community at […]

Some Obama fans are concerned about the supposed book tour that Jeremiah Wright will be taking this October to promote his new book, as reported by John Heilmann in New York Magazine this month. This would be fantastically bad news for Obama if it was true, given that voters will be conclusively making up their […]

John McCain, speaking to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, trying his best to turn Russia’s invasion of Georgia into 9/11: “I know I speak for every American when I say to him, today, we are all Georgians,” I think I speak for most Americans when I say: “Does he mean the state?” In all seriousness, if […]

The McCain campaign could not be more obvious with this web ad. To my knowledge, it isn’t slated to run anywhere but on the internets, where it can properly whip up liberals into a frenzy about its flagrantly obvious racial undertones. Democrats, and the Obama campaign especially, should avoid taking the bait. It is plainly […]