Editorial - So Little Time, So Much Damage - NYTimes.com
in list: Good election postmortems 2008
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Obama Is the New Reagan - The Daily Beast
in list: Good election postmortems 2008
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Editorial - So Little Time, So Much Damage - NYTimes.com
in list: Good election postmortems 2008
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Nicholas Kristof, "The Endorsement From Hell (op-ed)," New York Times (Oct. 25, 2008), on al-Qaeda's "endorsement" of McCain
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Lou Zickar, "As Obama channels Reagan, the real McCain vanishes," Chicago Tribune (Oct. 19, 2008)
A really interesting piece of commentary about the relationship between politics and charisma. The author is a long-time Reagan Republican who's considering a vote for Obama because, to him, he represents the kind of idealism, commitment, and values he saw embodied in Reagan in 1980, whereas McCain, at least in his current political incarnation, represents cynicism, manipulation, and "politics-as-usual."
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The Associated Press: Study: Peers, not profs, influence student views
A study finds that, while college faculty tend to be more liberal than the general population, college students' political beliefs are more strongly influenced by their peers than by their teachers. Intuitively this makes a lot of sense to me given my sense of a culture gap between faculty and students at many institutions.
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Arugula, the salad green of America-hating elitist professor types!
I knew there had to be a story on this somewhere. Arugula, the salad green of elitists, America haters, and "pointy-headed professor types" everywhere. But what evidence do we really have that Obama eats un-American arugula, as McCain's campaign manager Brian Rogers has frequently alleged?
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newsobserver.com | All politics is arugula this year
I knew there had to be a story on this somewhere. Arugula, the salad green of elitists and "pointy-headed professor types" everywhere.
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John Gray: A shattering moment in America's fall from power | Comment is free | The Observer
Thoughts on the broader meaning of the U.S. financial meltdown.
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Frank Schaeffer: Sarah Palin: America's Lipstick Fascist
Don't dismiss Frank Schaeffer's scathing comments on Palin. His conservative bonafides are about as good as they get. Seen on @melmcbride 's Twitter stream.
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Anne Lamott on grief, despair, and the 2008 presidential election | Salon Life
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The Biggest Scandal of McCain's Career is Relevant Today | PEEK | AlterNet
My impression is that many McCain supporters think Obama's connection to Bill Ayers is a major campaign issue but that McCain's involvement in the Keating Five affair isn't relevant. I don't understand this logic.
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Peter Steinfels, "The Audacity of Claiming the Last Word on This Word," New York Times (Sept. 13, 2008) - on the media's use of word "orthodoxy"
Interesting short piece. Permalink: http://snipr.com/3qo0g
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Paul Krugman, "Blizzard of Lies," New York Times (Sept. 11, 2008) - commentary on the McCain-Palin campaign's tactics
Permalink: http://snipr.com/3puux
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Dr. Deepak Chopra vs. Sarah Palin (?!) | elephant journal
Interesting...
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Factchecking Palin, By Hilzoy - CBS News
What? A political speech that doesn't actually tell the whole truth?
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The Washington Independent ยป The Reform Candidate? (on Sarah Palin)
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Nation & World | Reflections on Palin from a Christian in Wasilla | Seattle Times Newspaper
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