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Maverick Ambition

21:16 09 Oct 2008. Updated: 17:32 28 Jan 2009

This Rolling Stone demolition job on John McCain is long, rather detailed, and replete with quotations from many sources. It doesn’t paint a pretty picture, but it’s absolutely worth reading.
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How Hard Were They Trying?

23:30 07 Oct 2008. Updated: 17:32 28 Jan 2009

Apparently, at a recent Sarah Palin rally in Florida, Palin’s handlers kept reporters not merely away from Palin, but away from her supporters:

When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn’t allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written.
tampabay.com, 06 Oct 2008

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Obligatory Debate Post

21:08 26 Sep 2008. Updated: 17:41 28 Jan 2009

So I did watch the first Presidential debate this evening, with some friends at work. It was more or less what I expected—a somewhat blustery McCain, and a smooth Obama. It seemed as if Obama was a lot better at getting his digs in, and at working the obviously scripted attacks into the flow of the debate, while McCain at times seemed to be inserting them almost at random, and clinging to them ferociously.
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Obama/Biden

23:59 24 Aug 2008. Updated: 17:55 28 Jan 2009

When I hear the name Joe Biden, I don’t have good impressions. I think of a long-term Democrat who’s thoroughly absorbed into the party machine, and into the ruling machine. For the detail work, though, I’ll leave you in the capable hands of Jonathan Schwarz, Dennis Perrin, and Radley Balko (who I don’t read regularly, but whose commentary on Biden and the “Drug War” seems solid).

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On Cindy McCain

19:54 22 Aug 2008. Updated: 17:55 28 Jan 2009

The New Republic has an interesting article on how John McCain, as a political creature, emerged—essentially, he married his political ambitions to those of his second wife’s family. There aren’t huge shockers about Cindy McCain in the article (it’s not like the piece Vanity Fair did on Judi Giuliani), but as a background piece on McCain and people like him, it’s quite good.

In addition, Glenn Greenwald does the necessary work on contrasting how right-wing commentators treat some men who marry into wealth differently from others.

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Obamaism

20:17 17 Jul 2008. Updated: 18:09 28 Jan 2009

I think this Black Agenda Report article, “Where Obamaism Seems to be Going”, is a good summary of the some of problems with Obama’s policies.
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McCain’s Downward Spiral

20:22 14 Jul 2008. Updated: 18:10 28 Jan 2009

Both major US Presidential candidates have been doing highly objectionable things recently, but wow, McCain is really something.
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Obama Keeps the Faith

08:22 01 Jul 2008. Updated: 18:17 28 Jan 2009

Faith-based programs, that is. Excoriated by progressives and the left, Bush’s attempt to funnel money to his constituents, undermine the concept that the state should consider caring for people a priority, and throw in a bunch of free publicity for churches has now been embraced by the Democratic presidential candidate.
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