Palin’s financial portfolio managed by Smith Barney - Think Progress (8/28/08):
Yesterday at the Democratic convention, a former Republican named Barney Smith — who lost his job because it was shipped overseas — spoke of the need for a “president who puts Barney Smith before Smith Barney.
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On the Wonk Room, Ben Furnas reports that Gov. Sarah […]
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get back to New Orleans for the third anniversary of Katrina as I was for the first and second, but I haven’t forgotten. And with Gustav bearing down, residents are in my thoughts today.
I feel a bit guilty because I’ll be shooting the Long Beach Blues Festival instead of […]
It appears that Barack Obama is set to say that Democrats are better than Republicans twice in one speech. This will increase his total for the last four years to two. I even briefly considered watching on TV.
Update 8:00pm PDT:
Impressive.
A few thoughts:
Had Obama’s pre convention stump speech been more like this, he’d be […]
Since the Democratic Primary really got underway, I’ve been trying to come up with a proper analogy to apply to the Obama campaign’s methods. I guess my visceral reaction to their messaging and branding got in the way of piecing together that analogy, but after kicking it around with a couple of our readers, […]
Felix Salmon:
There’s also good reason to believe that the private sector can and will be more efficient than the public sector when it comes to things like building highways. As Virginia Postrel noted back in 2004:
“Consider the choice between the immediate cost of building thicker roads in the first place and the long-term cost of […]
Bill Clinton:
And it is, to be fair to all the Americans who aren’t as hard-core Democrats as we, it’s a philosophy the American people never actually had a chance to see in action fully until 2001, when the Republicans finally gained control of both the White House and the Congress.
Then we saw what would happen […]
One of the weirdest political things to watch this summer was various and sundry Republican officials referencing the “fact” that China was drilling for oil off the coast of Florida with the help of Cuba. This wasn’t some weird Ron Paul fan club rumor, or backbench Congressmen trying to get in the game, it […]
Via TPM, MSNBC interviewed John Edwards‘ campaign manager David Bonior at the DNCC. Here’s the video:
I think Josh has it right, Bonior sounded very raw. He probably put in (and watched others put in) 20-hour days for more than a year in hopes of landing Edwards the nomination, only to learn after the […]
Obama speech stage resembles ancient Greek temple - Reuters (8/26/08):
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple.
The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set up at the 50-yard-line, the midpoint of Invesco Field, the stadium where […]
Kevin Drum
…the goal of this election shouldn’t be just to win, it should be to talk a big chunk of the electorate into becoming friendlier toward liberal goals and ideas. Not just friendlier toward change, but friendlier toward specifically liberal change. That means a public that, at least at the margins, is more convinced that […]
