Politics::Election2008: June 2008 Archives
Creative Minority Report: Photo Essay of Obama by Objective Press
"The heavens opened and the Spirit descended upon Obamessiah like a dove...." (Via Crunchy Con.)
Daily Kos: OK-Sen: Baseline poll
Inhofe 53, Rice 31: Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (who insists on spelling Inhofe with an extra "f") commissioned a poll for the Oklahoma Senate race between likely nominees Republican U. S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and Democrat State Sen. Andrew Rice. Zúniga is hopeful that Rice will be able to outperform Obama in the state. (McCain leads Obama 52-38.) He notes that the DSCC may send 10 workers to help Rice.
ToddSeavey.com: Retro-Journal: Picking the Lesser of Two Evils in Early 2004
Seavey writes to his fellow libertarians: "In an idealized right/left political world (which is not the one we live in, admittedly), the right has an obnoxious but short list of things it'd like to control -- basically, some aspects of sex (that are largely unpolicable anyway) -- while the terrifying, blandly totalitarian list of things the left would like to tax, regulate, or otherwise control is literally endless: There is simply no form of human behavior, from telecommunications to medicine to home-building to car manufacture to the use of food coloring, that the left does not see as benefiting from increased regulation. The left is where libertarian hopes, weak at the best of times, go to die. If readers want to do me a favor, in fact, vow never to speak sympathetically of the left in my presence ever again."
The Audacity of Death - WSJ.com
"According to Barack Obama, Gianna Jessen shouldn't exist." Miss Jessen, 31, was born alive after an attempted saline abortion. Had the abortionist been present when her mother went into labor, she would have been killed. Obama twice voted against recognizing the personhood of babies born alive after attempted abortions. Jessen says of Obama, "I really hope the American people will have their eyes wide open and choose to be discerning. . . . He is extreme, extreme, extreme."
Daniel Allott writes, "And [Obama] promises, 'the first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act,' which would overturn hundreds of federal and state laws limiting abortion, including the federal ban on partial-birth abortion and bans on public funding of abortion."
Atlas Shrugs: Obama's Mythical Intelligence
Yes, says Atlas reader Carolyn, Barack Obama was president of Harvard Law Review, but, no, his undistinguished year does not justify the aura of brilliance which everyone assumes Mr. 57 States possesses. (Via Ron Coleman, whowrites of Obama and Bill Clinton, "But neither of them can in any way be credited as having demonstrated a genius for anything other than achievement of that ambition.")
Slublog: The Shops - a set on Flickr
Slublog's classic Photoshopped political parodies, as seen on Ace of Spades HQ.
The Comeback Id: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
In a fascinating look at Bill Clinton in retirement, former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry says this about his former boss and the new media: "All of this stuff, the blogging and the YouTubing and the way in which everything is instantaneously available: I tell you, until you get out there and are actually dealing with the consequences--having what you just said as you were walking out the door [all over the Internet], that's brand-new to him." (Via Rod Dreher.) UPDATE: Conservative Intelligencer adds: "The Clintons were OLD MEDIA darlings. Clinton mesmerized America with his magical BS during a time when both the Internet and Republican alternative media were in their infancy. The Clinton song and dance was a simple one -- stonewall tough questions and then lie, lie, lie. It worked more often than not. The Clinton magic doesn't work any more because we're in a New Media era."
