Author: BooMan

Open Thread

I don’t see much news that I find very interesting right now. I actually take that to be a good sign. I think it is a shame, but hardly surprising, that the GOP is descending into self-recrimination and self-purging. But I...

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A Scheduling Wish List

There’s three weeks left and I’m sure that Barack and Michelle Obama, and Joe Biden have already developed their tentative schedules for the home-stretch. But I want to offer some campaigning suggestions. These are...

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Please Don’t Throw Us in the Briar Patch

Why did Obama, Biden, campaign spokespeople, and bloggers all decide last week to taunt John McCain over his lack of courage in the last debate? It’s a variation on the old Brer Rabbit fairy tale about the Briar Patch....

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Sand Gets in Your Eyes

We’ve hit the three-week mark and a new strange and sad phase of this political campaign. We’ve reached the stage where you can make any kind out of outlandish attack and your opponent and the media have little time...

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Grateful Dead at State College

I’m headed for State College, PA (home of the Penn State Nittany Lions) to see the Grateful Dead perform a benefit-concert in Barack Obama’s behalf. It’s hard to believe it has been seventeen years since I last...

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