It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these, so as I’m cleaning out the linkrot, I’ll multitask.
Flack thanks Rep. Jim Marshall for this. Too bad the same can’t be said to Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman.
has more on the Foundation for Defense of Democracies scandal, including video of one of the spots.
Also on Ubikan, 9 reasons in favor of political blogging. Good reasons all, and a good reminder of why we all do this. Mac people ignore the weird code burp in the middle of the post.
Chuck links to an interview with Michael Bieruit dissecting the Obama brand. I do so love me some Michael Bieruit.
John Lewis switches his support to Obama and aTypicalJoe reluctantly follows suit.
MediaMatters also thinks .
Jason blogs about the responsibility of blogging and somehow manages to use the words titular and denouement in the same post.
Comments on this Entry:
(JerryT on
Feb 28, 2008 7:48 AM)
Jason’s allowed to use words like that. I think he has like seven diplomas or something. Not mail order either.
(Jules on
Feb 28, 2008 8:41 AM)
RE: Jim Marshall
While I agree he and the other Democrats did the right thing by resigning, I suppose I have to ask the question of all of them and that is, when you lay down with dogs, why are you suprised to wake up with fleas?
DUH, they used you like the easy girl who wants to go to the prom.
Sorry, that line up Republicans was scary enough for me to realize a major pimp was in the making.
(innerredneckexposed on
Feb 28, 2008 9:51 AM)
“they used you like the easy girl who wants to go to the prom.”
Don’t judge me.
(Jules on
Feb 28, 2008 10:36 AM)
Wm. F Buckley famously said this:
“Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm to prevent common needle users, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of homosexuals.”
Assclown.
(innerredneckexposed on
Feb 28, 2008 11:17 AM)
Ill say this, the world is not better off sans WFB.
There may be several issues we disagree greatly on, but to claim that he wasn’t intellectually leagues ahead of pretty much every pundit today , he had a tone, respect, and manners that are lacking in pretty much every pundit today, he believed what he said, something that is lost upon pretty much every pundit today, he was not afraid to use wit and reason in his debates, something that, well, pretty much every pundit today doesn’t want to do.
(jac1975 on
Feb 28, 2008 11:41 AM)
I would argue that WFB’s wit, intelligence, and manners made him all the more dangerous due to the ideas he was pushing.
He was definitely a worthy adversary, but he also laid the seeds of the clusterf*ck that has been Bush The Son’s Presidency. His ideas, so genteel in their presentation, had their origins in preserving white, male, heterosexual power at any cost. That he was so intelligent makes it all the more disturbing the conclusions he reached on how the world should be.
I’m relieved that none of the pundits today who are his intellectual heirs and successors are his equal in intellect, wit, or manners. The world is a safer place for that fact, and for the fact that WFB is gone.
(CatherineAtlanta on
Feb 28, 2008 11:43 AM)
What jac1975 said.
(innerredneckexposed on
Feb 28, 2008 11:52 AM)
“but he also laid the seeds of the clusterf*ck that has been Bush The Son’s Presidency.”
This is not true. There is not a single resemblance between GWB’s “conservatism” and WFB’s conservatism.
“had their origins in preserving white, male, heterosexual power at any cost”
I disagree with this. Without speaking for the guy, I think that may be perceived as a sideeffect of his beliefs, I strongly doubt that his goal was to preserve WASP-ness, even though he was a WASC.
“I’m relieved that none of the pundits today who are his intellectual heirs and successors are his equal in intellect, wit, or manners.”
Yea see, now we have Ann Coulters and Rush Limbaughs and Koss and Moores who just want to shock, divide, shout, have no respect for others, no interest in promoting honesty, etc etc etc. The result of that style of politics is a deeply divided nation with no tolerance for opposing view points, and even larger, opposing ways of life. And you also get ****heads like me who are willing to pick fights rather than debate merits with political discussions.
So yea, I wish there were more erudite respectful pundits out there. But maybe its just me.
( on
Feb 28, 2008 12:52 PM)
I agree with innerredneck. What resonates about WFB to me is he seemed to have actually believed what he said, which would make him a rarity among today’s punditocracy. I don’t think Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter are sincere people.
(Jules on
Feb 28, 2008 3:45 PM)
Just how smart can a person be and still be a sexist, homophobic assclown, frankly he just a a better vocabulary to be demeaning with, not “smart”.
No doubt he was sincere, just like Huckabee is sincere when he busts a biblical reference on you to explain the earth is only 3,ooo years old.
I love that Gore Vidal is out living them all.
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