Category: The Dish

Some worrying data.

A flare-up as AP reporter Glen Johnson calls Mitt Romney on a bald-faced lie. More, please. The endless untruths out of Romney’s mouth need to be addressed.

This YouTube made me fall in love with Ezra Levant. Go get ’em, baby!

Giuliani’s new ad promises to tax cut his way out of a recession.

The lesson from Michigan.

After Clinton mistakenly said he already had, he gets in line with the machine.

David Brooks makes a point about the Nevada debate that’s worth revisiting:

"The third thing that happened is that Hillary Clinton and John Edwards disgraced themselves in the minds of debate-watchers everywhere. At some point in each campaign, candidates are asked to name their greatest weakness. Only the lamest political hacks answer that question this way: Goshdarn it, I just care too much. I am too impatient for good things to happen. Giving that answer is an insult to the art of politics. And yet Edwards and Clinton both gave that answer. They didn’t even give artfully disguised versions of that answer. They gave the straight, unsubtle kindergarten version of that answer. Obama, honestly, admitted that he’s bad at organizing his paperwork. Truly, here is a man willing to stand for change."

And Clinton has used that moment of candor since as a way to imply that Obama is unready for the presidency. God, she’s slimy. At least this campaign has revealed that to those of you with ’90s amnesia.

One European gets it:

European conservatives should, like many of their American cousins, hope not only for an Obama nomination, but also for his election on November 4th. It has been difficult to present a strong case for conservatism in Europe, partly because of the Bush administration. But Obama could change that; a charismatic and broadly supported president with ideas similar to Burkean philosophy would lend credibility to conservatism everywhere. Four more years of partisan trench warfare won’t.

NPod:

"…tens of millions would indeed die, but Israel—despite the decimation of its civilian population and the destruction of its major cities—would survive, even if just barely, as a functioning society."

Dr Strangelove’s General Buck Turgidson:

"I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed — tops. Depending on the breaks."

Enjoy.

"Reagan was a psychotic man who nearly blew up the world and used paranoia and fear to change our culture and government in horrible ways.  He also wasn’t particularly popular, though as a politician, he’s worth admiring for his raw political skill.  Conservative ideology is based on greed and fear.  There’s no such thing as a good conservative leader, period.  It is a fundamentally bankrupt, corrupt, and fraudulent ideology, and there is nothing laudable about people like Reagan who tap into the worst of America," – Matt Stoller, Open Left.