Over at A Ku Indeed, Chris wrote a post about David Frum’s piece on the need to put some distance between Glenn Beck and the GOP. While Frum’s piece is helpful, it’s hard not to see conservatives-in-exile as lying in the bed made by years of disparaging government. But that’s not the point of this [...]
When President Obama took office in January, many Americans (including, of course, myself) breathed a sigh of relief. One of the big thoughts behind this sigh was that we had someone in charge of the executive branch who understood that government could be part of the solution to some of our domestic problems, particularly the [...]
I meet people all the time who a) have progressive views about public policy and b) fondly remember reading Ayn Rand’s books. I’ve always thought this tension could be explained by people forming preferences about books before they form preferences about political positions. But there is something interesting going on in the comments to this [...]
Ok, I swear this will be my last political post for at least a little while. As I twittered immediately afterward, I thought the speech was very strong. Insanely unfair, mocking, and inaccurate in a lot of places (particularly about taxes), but strong. Red meat for the base. I think McCain has lucked out so [...]
My preferences in the upcoming election are pretty clear on this blog, so odds are I don’t have glowing things to say about Obama’s opponent’s running mate. But how much did McCain know Palin before he picked her? Palin seems nice enough, and it’s good to see many more women at the center of the [...]
I have no privileged information, but lots of signs point to tomorrow’s Obama VP text message containing the name Biden. I haven’t always been Biden’s biggest fan, principally because of his past support for credit card companies and a very flawed bankruptcy bill. I liked the idea of Richardson, but there are rumors of skeletons [...]
It’s a little hard to be away from my home country this week. I have followed politics closely since before the 2001 elections when I thought that a little bit of Bush would be good for the country to get out of its system. I followed the intervening years, then the 2004 campaign like someone [...]
Yes, I know I should really be being in England and all, but I couldn’t resist three more remarks: Say that it really does go neck and neck with Clinton and Obama trading states throughout the primaries and Edwards sticking in it, pulling 10-20% out of the totals. (Or even, God forbid, Obama trailing a [...]
I suppose most of the people reading the blog at this point know that I support Barack Obama to win the Democratic nomination, though I’m not actually a Democrat or a Republican (I vote on issues, not arbitrary collections of people). And I’m actually very excited about a potential Obama candidacy. But I just have [...]
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