Monthly Archives: September 2008
Oblunder
Coming from Chicago, Barack Obama should know better: If you try to bring nuance to a knife fight, you’re going to bleed to death. Time and again during their first debate, Senator Obama was served one Quayle-Bentsen moment after another, … Continue reading
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Artful Codger
Sensationalist photographer Jill Greenberg got herself in a whole mess of controversy last week and lost her paycheck besides when she forced The Atlantic to issue an apology, after Greenberg posted photos from her shoot with Senator John McCain and … Continue reading
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Swerved Fresh Daily
Remember just a handful or two of months ago where Barack Obama was inspiring US Festival-sized crowds and ruling every magazine cover? Well, those halcyon days are gone. At least they were before I went out for my last cigarette. … Continue reading
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Smear Factor
Last night when I was watching footage of the 9/11 attacks, I already knew what Rachel Maddow admitted this afternoon that she knew last night during her new MSNBC program but was prohibited by her bosses from disclosing: That after … Continue reading
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Is There A Doctrine In The House?
Fortunately, the country hasn’t promised her a Rose Garden yet. Team McCain, Sarah Palin’s advisers, and even many of her Democratic detractors have been deliberately setting the bar low for her these past few weeks, lest she happens to somehow … Continue reading
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Obamnesia
Props to John McCain. In a mystifying twist since he picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate, he made everyone forget about the skinny upstart from Chicago who used to fill the stadiums and owned the weekly … Continue reading
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Can’t Stop The Music
The best telegenic moments don’t get much better than when they have a great theme song, and political imagemakers are slavish in their pursuit of the ultimate auditory accompaniment to their elegantly crafted closeups for their candidates. No one hit … Continue reading
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McShamed
ST. PAUL – The good news for George Bush is that he has most of his autumn freed up. When Bush decided that his administration was getting too much heat from having Karl Rove around, he decided to hand his … Continue reading
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Sarah Sneers
ST. PAUL – No one really expected she’d be a shrinking violet. Sarah Palin proved to be every bit the fighter that early news reports and anecdotal accounts have indicated she’d be. Politics may be a bloodsport, but Campaign 2008 … Continue reading
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Pod Squad
ST. PAUL – God bless the good people of the Twin Cities, but this isn’t the kind of party that’s worth a plane ticket and a motel room. The first full night of the GOP Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul was … Continue reading
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