Taylor Marsh’s anti-Obama blog is running an ad comparing Sen. Obama to Mussolini.
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And Glenn Reynolds loves him for it (like a moth to a flame, brothers in arms). This is what a small yet vocal sector of the liberal blogosphere has turned into. Nice.
UPDATE: Reynolds links, ignores (of course) my criticism of him and implies that the entire liberal blogosphere has been like this. He, as usual, doesn’t have the guts to explicitly say that. He never does.
The guy who has been trying to cultivate his position as the self-styled New Republic of the blogosphere gets some return fire from Eric Alterman.
If he doesn’t get the Democratic nomination for the senate, instead of supporting the candidate, Joe Leiberman plans to take his ball and run as an independent. Nice.
His campaign tells the faithful (who the hell are the Lieberman faithful, and how much meds do they take?) to go forth and hit the online polls to stop the “extreme lefties” from voting for Lowell Weicker. Spoken like a true Republican.
I heard this from a source who’s in a position to know this kind of thing (one of the rare occasions I get to play the “DC insider” card) a few months ago, so the idea that Lieberman is angling for the Secretary of Defense job by being Bush’s sock puppy is not out of the realm of the possible. Look, the guy got shafted by his own party the last two years (oh for the days of Joementum!), and has obviously hit his electoral glass ceiling, so an easily confirmed cabinet position is clearly worth Lieberman’s remaining integrity.
Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware
I and some other journalists had lunch with Senator Joe Lieberman the other day and we listened to him talking about Iraq. Either Senator Lieberman is so divorced from reality that he’s completely lost the plot or he knows he’s spinning a line. Because one of my colleagues turned to me in the middle of this lunch and said he’s not talking about any country I’ve ever been to and yet he was talking about Iraq, the very country where we were sitting.
Joe Lieberman writes in The Wall Street Journal that we should just stay the Bush course in Iraq, and that everything there is just awesome. Man, just become a Republican and get it over with, Lieberman.
Just sickening from Joe Lieberman
National Journal, a weekly Washington magazine covering politics and government, asked 101 members of Congress and 137 lobbyists, former government officials and other political insiders which Democrat in Congress they most admire.
The answer: the Connecticut senator who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2004.
Of the 89 Republicans who responded, 35 percent picked Lieberman, National Journal reported in its Nov. 11 edition.
Every week on Fox News Sunday, Juan Williams allows Brit Hume to dress him down verbally on national television. Speaking not just as a progressive, but as a man, is Williams ever going to fight back?
Jesus. (Not to mention Hume’s impression of a modern day Bull Connor)
The only thing I hate as much as right-wing cons is dumb Democrats, and when folks on the left do dumb things like Steve Gilliard did here - it pisses me off. Look, Michael Steele is a sock puppet for the Republican party and even if you think he is a shill for conservative bigots (as I happen to believe) - the best response is not doctoring a “Sambo” photo off him. Frankly, its among the dumbest responses you can come up with and even stupider to call the campaign of a Democrat weak for wanting their ad pulled from your, frankly, 2nd grade level rhetoric.
We’re going to beat Michael Steele in November like the phony that he is, but not by being idiots about it.
Alex DeLarge takes Jarvis out to the woodshed.
This amoral rationalization by Jarvis has the added quality of morbid stupidity, and not only because it assumes such an argument is politically workable. In addition, Jarvis stupidly assumes that Bush anticipated an insurgency, and could therefore have explained it in advance, when all evidence points to the contrary Bush expected a docile, thankful Iraq. Bereft of any analytical capacity, Jarvis buys into the “flypaper” theory of Iraq, that a destabilized and anarchic Iraq is in our national interest and makes us safer; a theory which is little more than a post hoc rationalization for a completely incompetent plan which failed to anticipate or plan for any unrest at all, once Iraq’s major combat units were defeated. In short, Jarvis is weirdly arguing that Bush should have made excuses for a screw up he failed to anticipate.
According to Jeff Jarvis, the tragedy of the Downing Street memo isn’t that George Bush and his administration selectively edited data in order to plunge America into war and sacrifice the lives of 1,700 members of the military. No, sir, in the Park Avenue chardonnay-sipping world of “liberalism” that Jeff Jarvis inhabits - the one in which he gets invited to all the fun get togethers with his conservative pals because he’s one of the “reasonable” liberals, the big tragedy of the Downing Street Memo and the Iraq war is… public relations.
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