Yes We Can #1 (triptych)
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Barack Obama on Overthinking It
Analysis: Obama Plan Raises Taxes For Many Plumbers
Joe the Plumber was singled out in the last Presidential debate for his assertion that Obama’s tax plan would raise taxes on his future plumbing business. In fact, a careful analysis of Obama’s plan shows that almost all plumbers, particularly … Continued
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Dripping with American Pride
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Political coverage no longer exists. Instead, we have electoral process fanfic
And it’s not even *good* fanfic. Obama and Palin are Mary Sues, the pair of them. Let me be clear: Obama and Palin, the human beings, are as complex and irreducible as any other human beings. But Obama and Palin, … Continued
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In search of the legendary Undecideds
If political news was drugs, I’d probably be in Betty Ford right now. Or dead of a massive overdose. I read way way too many blogs, both for the articles that buttress up my own opinions, and the ones that … Continued
Obama-Biden: The Buddy Cop Movie
Young, disciplined rookie who plays by the book gets paired with a loose cannon grizzled veteran. Haven’t I seen this one before? Obama-Biden: clearly the Democratic Party kingmakers were out to make the perfect Buddy Cop pairing for this fall’s … Continued
Dungeons & Democrats
Robert Mugabe may be a Fighter, but is Barack Obama a 6525th level cleric? Because that’s apparently what it would take to cast a “World Racial Healing Spell.” That’s right, the worlds of politics and Dungeons and Dragons have collided … Continued
The End of Black Politics. The Beginning of iBlack Politics.
This week’s New York Times Magazine prominently features an article on Barack Obama and the supposed “End of Black Politics,” but before I could starting reading it, I couldn’t help noticing something familiar about the picture that accompanied the article. … Continued
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The New Yorker thinks you don’t get it.
Hendrik Herzberg, who is some sort of editor at The New Yorker (though that shadowy cabal never ever publishes a masthead, so aside from Remnick, it’s kind of unclear what everyone does), and my very, very favorite political columnist in … Continued
Sunday Comics: Speaking of Politics and Humor
Sean Tevis, who is running for State Rep in Kansas, had a brilliant idea to raise campaign funds: become viral on the Internet by doing an xkcd parody. And it’s funnier than xkcd has been recently, which is an added … Continued
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