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Yesterday, the intertubes were abuzz over an ad congressional candidate Nikki Tinker is running against incumbent Steve Cohen. Cohen, you may remember, is the Congressman who tried to join the Congressional Black Caucus but was refused because he is white. He recently sponsored a House resolution apologizing for slavery on behalf of the U.S. Government, […]

Personally, I don’t think that McCain‘s Britney ad was edited to make Obama look like Hitler. But it’s a little disingenuous for Daniel Larison to argue, seconded by Ross Douthat, that there is either no basis for liberals thinking that conservatives would try to make an implicit comparison. After all, it was Ross who said […]

Just to offer some further thoughts on Tim’s post about the Washington Post’s profile of McCain today, I couldn’t help but notice this little line, with its implied comparison to his opponent: McCain is a figure from an old-fashioned America that is out of fashion in our most cosmopolitan precincts — the America of “Gunsmoke” […]

I think Josh Marshall is misinterpreting McCain’s new anti-Obama ad when he compares it to the infamous anti-Harold Ford Jr. ads that played on racist fears of miscegenation (ya’ll sure showed him!). Ross Douthat is also missing the point of the ad by viewing it as having no racial subtext whatsoever. The underlying phenomenon McCain […]

Dana Milbank writes that Obama has become “the presumptuous nominee” adding that his biggest opponent “may not be Republican John McCain but rather his own hubris.” To support this assertion, Milbank the part of a quote where Obama says “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions,” leaving […]