Almost immediately after the venom-spewing session that was Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention wrapped, an email came across from David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager.  Here’s an excerpt:
Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack’s experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he [...]

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I once read that Arnold Schwarzenegger said he picked the Republican party over the Democratic party because they are winners. This was one of those nights when you were reminded why they often win. After a non-start to the Republican National Convention on Monday, and last night’s sometimes effective, but mostly lukewarm speeches from the [...]

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Why Rudy? Because in the world beyond America there still exist lots of Muslim people who are just totally crazy, who listen to strange music and wear strange clothes and mean to Do Us Harm. And isn’t that reason enough? Because we’re just shivering little people here in America, afraid of our own shadows. Because [...]

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Yesterday McCain called out Giuliani for equivocating on waterboarding, making the mayor seem exactly like the mayor— that is, like someone who will happily prattle on no matter how head fogged by politics and ideology and wishful thinking he may be on a topic.
McCain has served in the military and has, alone among the [...]

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The problem: there’s nothing about the neoRepublican field of candidates that’s refreshingly neo.

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Fighting off religious extremists and tyrannical dictators is so 2004. Rudy Giuliani says he’s ready to fend off space invaders. Notice, though, that he doesn’t seem a team player. He doesn’t say anything about rallying a “coalition of the mutually endangered” against the intergalactic enemy. He just says “we” as in “We’ll be ready for [...]

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It’s Thursday. You’re running for president. Do you know where you are and what your name is?

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Giuliani wants to privatize healthcare, “that’s how you drive prices down,” he says, likening access to medical technology to access to the iPhone (“that new iPod that can do everything.”) He’s convincing in part because he believes what he’s saying and because he can talk a stream of sentences our current president would have trouble [...]

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