Barack Obama Is Better Than You
Posted at 12:08am on May 14, 2008 "The Obama Rules"
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
Duly noted. And yes, there have been quite a spate of news stories piously reminding us of all the things we are not supposed to say about Senator Obama and all of the negative comments we are almost bound and obliged to say about Senator McCain. I don't blame the Obama campaign for trying to spin things their way, but I certainly have a problem with mainstream journalists who enable the narrative and then tell us in the very next breath that there is no such thing as ideological bias in journalism. Yeah right. Give credit to Vegas casinos when credit is due; at least the casinos are subtle when they try to stack the deck.
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Posted at 8:26am on May 13, 2008 The Obamacan Can
By absentee
The Political hacks at MoveOn.org recently teamed up with other hacks from a variety of disciplines, such as Ben Affleck ("acting"), Markos Moulitsas ("blogging"), Oliver Stone ("directing") and Eddie Vedder ("thinking") among others, to run a contest designed to get regular people to create their advertising for them. The contest, Obama in 30 Seconds, was judged by the above and other entertainment and media has-beens and also-rans, and was designed to find "really creative ads that will engage and enlighten viewers and help them understand the grassroots energy that's driving Barack Obama's campaign." MoveOn and I agree that, if anything in the political world requires explanation to be understood, it's the Obamanauts.
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Posted at 2:11am on Apr. 28, 2008 Shorter Barack Obama
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
"I am bipartisan because my language is more temperate than that of the people on Daily Kos."
Well, if that isn't a low bar, I don't know what is.
Posted at 12:29am on Apr. 16, 2008 The Stevensonian
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
George Will captures what appears to be the essence of the Obama campaign:
Obama may be the fulfillment of modern liberalism. Explaining why many working-class voters are "bitter," he said they "cling" to guns, religion and "antipathy to people who aren't like them" because of "frustrations." His implication was that their primitivism, superstition and bigotry are balm for resentments they feel because of America's grinding injustice.
By so speaking, Obama does fulfill liberalism's transformation since Franklin Roosevelt. What had been under FDR a celebration of America and the values of its working people has become a doctrine of condescension toward those people and the supposedly coarse and vulgar country that pleases them.
Read on . . .
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