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St Paddy's Day Mental Health Break
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on March 17, 2008
I've posted this in previous years, and I'll post it again:
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Obama Won The Day
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on February 06, 2008
That's the calculation of the networks at this point, it seems. A narrow victory:The Obama camp projects topping Clinton by nine delegates, 845 to 836.NBC News, which is projecting delegates based on the Democratic Party's complex formula, figures Obama will wind up with 840 to 849 delegates, versus 829 to 838 for Clinton. But it allows the Obama camp to point out - correctly - that...
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A Republican For Obama
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on February 10, 2008
A commenter on Ben Smith's blog tells it like it is:Boo! Im a Republican. Yes, you have found yourself in the company of a man who wears button down Oxfords, who flies his flag every holiday and prides himself in a neatly mowed lawn. But something happened in the last few years that has brought me here to this campaign... my party changed. Where once was a belief in the power of the...
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A Synthesizer, Not A Divider
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on February 15, 2008
The rather banal view of "bringing people together" is such a cliche and so clumsy a phrase when describing Barack Obama's history of coalition politics. Jeff Rosen, who seems almost as smitten as I am, describes (reg req.) one such Obama moment:After Obama was elected to the Illinois state Senate in 1996, he defended individual rights in a way that might have marginalized him: He joined only...
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Dear Chris Matthews: Please Do Your Job
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by hilzoy on February 20, 2008
by hilzoyLast night, Texas State Senator Kirk Watson, an Obama supporter, was embarrassed on national TV when he couldn't name any of Obama's legislative achievements. (He wrote what I think is a pretty decent and disarming account of it here.) David Kurtz, for whom I normally have enormous respect, writes:"I suspect this is a bit of a Rorschach test. Depending on your perspective,...
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Clinton Undefeated In Uncontested Elections
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Patrick Appel on February 21, 2008
[Patrick Appel]This comment over at the Plank is priceless: This just goes to show that Obama only wins in states thathold contested elections. Sure, he wins big in caucus states, he winsbig in primary states, he wins big when turnout is low, and he wins bigwith record-high turnout. But what the Obama-worshipping media isoverlooking is that in each of the 25 state contests Obama has won sofar,...
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Webb For Obama Veep?
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on May 02, 2008
Many readers like the idea. A typical email:Makes a ton of sense,subject to the caveat (is he a loose cannon?) that you noted. Hereinforces Obama's "Iraq" and "change" messages; has national securitycred (was Reagan's Navy Secretary) without being an old insider;clearly has the testicular fortitude to be an attack-dog whennecessary, yet (as a former Republican) can claim to be...
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Obamacon-Leaning
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on May 08, 2008
A reader writes:My dad's been a hardcore Republican for decades. I grew up in a Mississippi household that worshipped Reagan in the 80's and despised Clinton in the 90's. I strayed from that pretty early on, but maybe not as far as I thought. I got this email from my dad last night:"I have to say, Obama is a great speaker. He is extremely charismatic and likeable, and I like him so...
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Quote For The Day
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Shared by spavis this is my big problem with her. even if you have good policy goals (and i agree with hers), if you're inflexible you'll never get anything accomplished."I respect Hillary supporters because they haven't had the chance toget to know her like I have. She does not have the political skills ofher husband. Or Barack. You need somebody who can bring peopletogether. She...
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