Month: July 2008

McCain’s Silly Advantage on Foreign Affairs

Barack Obama has a 50-42 lead in the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, but he has some weaknesses. While 56 percent of respondents said Obama knows enough about world affairs to be a good president, 72 percent said so about...

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MoDo Attacks

MoDo weighs in on ComedyGate: At first blush, it would seem to be a positive for Obama that he is hard to mock. But on second thought, is it another sign that he’s trying so hard to be perfect that it’s stultifying? Or that...

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Open Thread

There must be something important going on in the world. Probably something no one in our corporate media deems worthy of covering. What might that be do you suppose? Whatever it is, rest assured Tom Friedman won’t know...

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Crabs In A Barrel

     There is a saying in the black community that blacks cannot improve as a people because like crabs in a barrel whenever one tries to climb out of the barrel the other ones will pull him back down. The...

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