Author: BooMan

Will McCain Announce His Vee-Pee?

There are a lot of rumors swirling around that John McCain will announce Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal as his running mate on Thursday. A lot of it is being driven by Bob Novak, but it is also being driven by the mere fact...

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The Self-Defeating Culture of the Netroots

If the Netroots enables ordinary citizens to get around the traditional political, economic, and media gatekeepers, its also true that the denizens of the Blogosphere are so fiercely egalitarian and anti-elitist that they resist...

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Gavin Newsom on Political Blogging

I left Austin too early on Sunday to see San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s appearance. But fortunately SF Gate has a review, including Newsom’s thoughts on blogging. If you had any doubt that Newsom was a...

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Open Thread

Obama’s foreign trip seems to be creating a buzzsaw (kind of like when the rotors come off a helicopter or your fan-belt breaks) that is just chewing up the McCain campaign. McCain’s rebuttal is so anemic that the...

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Iraq, Hagel, and Reed

The AP is reporting that the Iraqi government met with Barack Obama today and then reiterated that they want us out of their country on Obama’s basic timeline. Iraq’s government spokesman is hopeful that U.S. combat...

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