As Adam notes, there’s only about one degree of separation between John McCain and long-ignored domestic terrorist William Ayers, in the form of Leonore Annenberg, a newly announced McCain supporter and the chair and president of the Annenberg Foundation, which created the infamously subversive Chicago Annenberg Challenge, on whose board Obama and Ayers met. But, […]
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Sympathy for McCain
Negative campaigning has destroyed the McCain brand. But it was always more fragile than McCain had let himself believe.
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Is the Republican Alliance Finally Breaking?
The rebellion of House Republicans last Thursday was more than a tactic to help John McCain. It may have been the beginning of the end of the political deal that has defined the last three decades.
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We’re All Chicagoans Now
From our October print issue: For those of us who have been skeptical of choice as a principle for government programs, it’s time to stop fighting.
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Alone in the Arena
The Republican National Convention was a stripped down, lackluster affair. John McCain showed that he stands alone, without a party, and without a real agenda.
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PALIN AS 90s FLASHBACK.
I misunderestimated Governor Palin in two respects. First, I expected her inexperience on a national stage would show through more in her coming-out speech. I don’t need to add to the hours of tv commentary in noting that she handled herself, the crowd, the text, and her own story in a confident and, at times, […]
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THE PALIN CHOICE IS THE REPUBLICAN PARADOX.
It goes without saying that the absurd selection of Sarah Palin to be John McCain‘s running mate is most interesting for what it says about McCain: Impulsive, daring, irresponsible, unable in the end to stand up for himself. But it says even more about the state of the Republican Party. The gleeful exclusion Monday night […]
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PALIN DIDN’T OPPOSE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE.
It seems to be totally untrue that, as Sarah Palin claimed in her speech in Dayton earlier today, she opposed the “Bridge to Nowhere.” Rather, after federal funding was cut off, she decided not to replace it with state funds. There’s no indication that she opposed the federal earmark. Her final statement was, “Much of […]
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Democrats in Daylight
The convention is all about party unity — so does it matter that everyone is still hanging out with his or her usual ideological cohorts?
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Learning to Love Biden’s Big Mouth
The voluble manner of Obama’s VP pick is in fact the mark of a man who has mastered a subject and wants nothing more than to share it with you — at length.