Following up on an item from the weekend, the Washington Post, for reasons that defy comprehension, published a 1,700-word thought piece yesterday on women in America being dumb, shallow, and generally kind of pathetic. The author, Charlotte Allen, made her spectacularly dumb case with the kind of nonsense one might expect from a misogynistic child […]
Update: This post has been updated, expanded, and broken down by category. I’m delighted the NYT noticed. Senator John McCain likes to present himself as the candidate of the “Straight Talk Express” who does not pander to voters or change his positions with the political breeze. But the fine print of his record in the […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Who’s likely to win in Ohio tomorrow is anybody’s guess, but Quinnipiac has Clinton leading Obama by four, 49% to 45%. Quinnipiac showed Clinton up by 11 a week ago. Zogby, meanwhile, […]
John McCain’s single biggest problem as a presidential candidate is that he’s effectively offering the public four more years of Bush/Cheney. His second biggest problem as a presidential candidate is a consistent habit of saying whatever random thought pops into his head, which he invariably contradicts shortly thereafter. Two weeks ago, for example, ABC’s George […]
In general, there are two ways to challenge John McCain’s credibility on military and national security issues. The first is to concede that McCain has a fairly lengthy background in these issues, but that experience is ultimately of little value because he’s fundamentally wrong about the major challenges the U.S. faces in today’s world. We […]
I can appreciate that this is an emotional issue for some people, but if we limit ourselves to evidence and science, it looks like we have yet another issue in which John McCain doesn’t know what he’s talking about. At a town hall meeting Friday in Texas, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., declared that “there’s strong […]
The buzz in political circles this morning seems to be this 22-second clip from Hillary Clinton’s appearance on “60 Minutes” last night, when CBS’s Steve Kroft asked for the senator’s thoughts on the lies being circulated about Barack Obama being some kind of secret Muslim. As Ben Smith noted, Clinton denied that she believes Obama […]
For the last several years, the conservative line on the economy was relatively straightforward: the economy was great, but the mean ol’ mainstream media refused to tell anyone about it, in part because news outlets were obsessed with Iraq. Now, apparently, the conservative line has shifted. The economy, they say, is still great, but the […]
It’s literally hard to believe that the Washington Post published a 1,700-word opinion piece about women being dumb. This is, after all, the 21st century, and reasonable, sensible people like to believe feminism has made at least some strides towards equality between the genders. And yet, there it is, in black and white. Charlotte Allen, […]
A couple of weeks ago, when the Clinton campaign circled March 4 on its calendar, the thinking was that Texas and Ohio would save Hillary Clinton — they’d serve as firewall states that prevented Barack Obama from ending this contest once and for all. Big wins in these two states, where polls showed her with […]