About the Obama speech, as promised
• “Imagine the news stories that might follow if satellite accounts were published along with GDP figures: ‘GDP up; parents’ time with kids plummets.’ ‘GDP flat; education surges.’ ‘GDP and resource depletion both soar.’” [WorldChanging via BoingBoing] • “Of course it was wrong. I know that now. But when you show the people from the [...]
• “International Association of Time Travelers: Members’ Forum… ‘Freedomfighter69, as you are a new member, please read IATT Bulletin 1147 regarding the killing of Hitler before your next excursion. Failure to do so may result in your expulsion per Bylaw 223.’” [Abyss and Apex] • “Great Moments in Journalism: Hillary Was in White House on [...]
The Clinton campaign, there with the quotes you need — before you need them!: A report out of Michigan suggests that the legislation for a new vote is stalled while a proposal is being floated in Florida to address the situation there. [Looking for this.--amc] Below are statements attributable to me in case you’re tracking [...]
I was going to give John McCain a break on his Al Qaeda-Iran gaffe yesterday. After all, it wasn’t a Kinsleyian gaffe–the inadvertant blurting of an unacceptable truth–it was just a plain old slip of the tongue, a brain fart. Surely, McCain knows that Iran is Shi’ite and Al Qaeda is Sunni…and I’ve been pretty [...]
Whether or not you find the repeated use of what we called “scare quotes” in graduate school a sign of pique or merely snarky is up to readers. I do, however, look forward to these guys debating. “Senator Obama says that ending the war will not be easy, that ‘there will be dangers involved.’ Yet, [...]
You know, I am trying to believe there’s nothing weird about how I haven’t been getting regular invitations to the conference calls since I started giving them “close coverage,” but sometimes…. In any case, direct audio for today’s here.
One of the suggestions being made as a way out of this Florida/Michigan morass is simply to seat the delegates based on the actual vote. But is that fair, given that voters in those states had been told that the results wouldn’t count? How many Democrats decided not to vote as a result? Or decided [...]
Barack Obama’s Big Iraq speech–a day after his Big Race speech–is something of a mixed bag. He is still insisting that he can pull most US troops out of Iraq in 16 months, which his former advisor Samantha Power accurately described as “a best case scenario.” But the real value of Obama’s speech was his [...]
