What the hell? I seriously thought it was a joke when I got back from teaching International Relations 503 for two hours to read this. He's been President for five minutes, and he is sort of more or less administering a couple of wars (which...
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In trying to break down the "Obama Should Denounce!" crowd into some subsets, I came up with the following five groups:Obama is being quiet because he thinks that US intervention.
This is clever.
I was impressed and was thinking about writing about it, and I may do so at some point, but not today. Some recommended thoughtful commentary:Hugo Schwyzer sees Isiah Berlin and likes it.Russell Arben Fox sees Rousseau and likes it.Mahablog sees Reinhold Neihbur and smart politics.
OK, I'm officially disappointed in my President. It was bad enough that he failed to decisively end Bush's extraordinary rendition program (claiming he'll only make sure it's no longer abused);.
The real scandal is that he ordered his burger medium well.
Given the near certainty that Barack Obama will announce the complete communization of the United States in his inaugural address, it would be irresponsible not to spend all morning at Circuit City buying discounted flat screen tvs and Blu-Ray players.
Eve Fairbanks and I diavlogged yesterday on, among other things, the critical issue of whether Barack Obama or George W. Bush more resembles Prince Hal of Henry IV parts 1.
Does this mean that Obama will try to have John Roberts arrested?
What Adam and Matt and Digby and everyone else said. The presence of Rick Warren is inexcusable; the guy is more dangerous than James Dobson, and at least six times as annoying.
This op-ed lists William Ayers as the author of "Fugitive Days" and "Race Course", but not of "Dreams of My Father"; that can't be right...
I think Ezra gets this right. Obama's primary campaign, in particular, was clearheaded, methodical and rational, focusing on delegates rather than "media cycles" and other mystical nonsense. With the Clinton.