Month: July 2008
Dwight Eisenhower, letter to Ngo Dinh Diem, released 11 July 1959:I extend to you my congratulations and sincere good wishes on the occasion of your fifth anniversary as national leader.
Nate Silver, 6/25: If the media believes that Barack Obama is ahead by 5 points, then if a new poll comes out next week showing him ahead by 3, it.
....um, so my effort to embed video evidently failed. Just watch it hereEr, it's fake apparently, and I'm behind the curve. Never mind.
Shorter Verbatim TIDOS Yankee:The Copperheads of today's Democratic Party color themselves "progressives" for championing the abandonment of a group of people (slightly lighter in skin tone than the last time).
There seems to be some debate about whether Clinton's laudable vote against the FISA bill was politically motivated or not. Obviously, this is unknowable, although I suspect that she would.
Senator John McCain might not actually be technically eligible to be President. But it's only a little thing called the Constitution. Which is only, it seems, important to the GOP.
Via Jesse Auguste, the late Clinton campaign's turn to reactionary populism has produced a hilarious denouement courtesy of inevitably moronic PUMAs. A Clinton fundraiser claims on (natch) Fox News:This is.
Here, for instance.