10:23 Biden is rolling again. Just hope people are still watching.
10:22 “[John McCain] is the man that we need to leave, lead…” –Sarah Palin
10:21 Joe Biden says maybe it’s his “excessive passion?” How self-flagellatory. (sp.?)
10:19 “Shining city on a hill”… attributed to Ronald Reagan by Gov. Palin. I [...]

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I want to make a plug, both shameless and, considering the (lamentable) title of my blog, counterintuitive. This weekend is the fall meeting of the Colloquium on the American Founding, and there are a few talks on the docket that would be of interest to folks of all political stripes. These talks are usually pretty [...]

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Maureen Dowd has an unusually readable column on the Op-Ed page of today’s New York Times. That’s possibly because, as she claims in the introductory paragraph, she didn’t write it. The conversation she imagines between Barack Obama and (fictional, sadly) President Josiah Bartlet of Aaron Sorkin’s lamentably term-limited NBC drama The West Wing contains some [...]

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This is me. This is me trying to resist mentioning Sarah Palin.
See how long that lasted?
But I want to talk about Palin in the context in which she appears to have been picked: as a fresh, young face in the Republican party; a candidate of change, if you’re into that sort of thing. More generally, [...]

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Well, I have to admit that it’s a little funny how much coverage an essentially meaningless primary is getting tonight. Sure, Obama is losing really, really badly in West Virginia (like, totally, really badly), but it seemed all week as though all the media outlets had agreed that WV and on were just show contests. [...]

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Sorry for the Slate obsession. But I love that they did this. If you’re freaking out as much as I am about Gary, Indiana, get on it.
[Update, 1:04 a.m.] Eric Schultz gives his math below. Union County is all out, and there are 7,000 or so residents, which translates to 1900-3800 votes and a likely [...]

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A couple of dumb Op-Eds in this morning’s New York Times: one by Bill Kristol, which is actually not that dumb, but includes this infuriating remark:
Some voters might think it would have been nice if Obama had been as angry in March at Wright’s disrespect to the United States of America as he was in [...]

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….They deserve each other.
While scrolling down the Huffington Post’s homepage I read the following headline last night, a link to an International Herald Tribune article: “Hillary’s Next Must-Win: Indiana.”
A few things I know are true:
1) It’s more or less impossible for Clinton to catch up in pledged delegates. But the less ground she gains in [...]

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As usual, the best political commentary this week took place on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Of course, we’re talking about this whole “bitter/cling” flap, and the emergent accusations of Barack Obama’s “elitism.” John Stewart’s take (at 7:25) is precise and priceless. To the presidential candidates: “If you don’t actually think you’re better [...]

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