Palin Lies About Hearing Biden!
Andrew Sullivan is seeing mendacity in the most innocent places, such as Sarah Palin's line yesterday that she was looking forward to finally meeting Joe Biden because, "I've been hearing about his Senate speeches since I was in, like, second grade." Two things: when Palin was in Second Grade, Biden hadn't been elected to the Senate. And when she was in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 1, 2008 16:02
Gwen Ifill, Pro-Obama Author, Debate Moderator
There's a minor hubbub brewing over the fact that Gwen Ifill, who will once again moderate the vice presidential debate, is publishing a pro-Obama book shortly after the election, apparently unbeknownst to the McCain-Palin campaign. Questions are being raised about the objectivity of Thursday's vice presidential debate moderator after news surfaced that she is releasing a new book promoting Barack Obama ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 1, 2008 15:05
Has Palin Out-Qualyed Quayle?
Dan Qualye was, rather unfairly in my view, a national joke. From very shortly after George H.W. Bush picked a rising star senator from Indiana that few outside his home state had ever heard of to be his vice presidential running mate in 1988, Quayle became the butt of late night comics, "Saturday Night Live," and other culture-setting institutions and ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 29, 2008 10:46
McCain’s POW Get Out of Jail Free Card
Boyd Garrett, a retired sailor and SERE school graduate has all the respect in the world for what John McCain went through at the Hanoi Hilton. But enough is enough. Noting Team McCain's comical comeback to attacks on how many houses the candidate owns --"This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years -- ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 23, 2008 08:15
John McCain’s Houses
How rich and out of touch with ordinary American working stiffs is John McCain? Why, he doesn't even know how many houses he owns! This story, published by The Politico, is now the top story on Memeorandum. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own. "I think — I'll ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 21, 2008 12:59
John McCain: Shadow President?
John McCain is taking advantage of Barack Obama's "foreign vacation" in Hawaii and using the crisis in Georgia to showcase his foreign policy prowess. He's dispatched his minions, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, to Georgia. TPM's Greg Sargent figures, The idea is to showcase himself as a man of action during a time of international crisis and to remind people that the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 14, 2008 08:47
Munich Revisited: Is Putin Hitler?
Andrew Sullivan lambasts John McCain's bellicosity on Russia as displayed in his "Today We Are All Georgians" speech: Sully retorts: All of this is quite potty. Russia is no longer the Soviet Union. You'd think conservatives would understand this distinction. There is a difference between totalitarian states seeking world expansion and authoritarian petro-states in demographic collapse bullying neighboring states because of perceived ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 13, 2008 11:48
Attack Politics Nothing New
Andrew Sullivan posts some reader quotes from the election of 1800, pitting John Adams against his ostensible vice president, Thomas Jefferson. As those who have studied such things already knew, they aren't pretty. There are an alarming number that sound like they came straight from this election: Adams was mocked for being old. Jefferson was considered a man of the people ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 5, 2008 06:51
Judge Judy Republicans
Andrew Sullivan, who successfully coined the term "South Park Republicans," is trying out a new one: "Judge Judy Republicans." He does so in a persuasive response to a new book by his Atlantic colleagues Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam. I think that moniker is a little more fitting - if a little less marketable - for Ross' and Reihan's hoped-for constituency ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 14, 2008 16:01
Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama’s Cohones
Jesse Jackson's statement that Barack Obama's "talking down to black people" makes him so angry that he "wants to cut his nuts out" has caused quite the stir. Charles Hurt of the NY Post has the most concise report: In a vulgar tirade caught on tape by Fox News, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said he wanted to "cut his [Barack Obama's] nuts ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 10, 2008 07:14
