racists for obama?

Wow. This is one of the more memorable things I’ve read lately. And there’s been a lot.
 
So a canvasser goes to a woman’s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she’s planning to vote for. She isn’t sure, has to ask her husband who she’s voting for. Husband is off in another [...]

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enough with the ACORN bogeyman already [updated]

Thank you to the New York Times for setting the record straight–and for those who have been suckered by the right-wing b.s. about this, for god’s sake, do your homework. The ACORN issue is so obviously a nonstarter, particularly the Obama connection, and comes up every year that Republicans want to discredit the voters most likely to [...]

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strange days, indeed: agreeing with david brooks again

Brooks comes out with more than grudging respect for Obama. Very interesting full op-ed here.
 
. . . He doesn’t have F.D.R.’s joyful nature or Reagan’s happy outlook, but he is analytical. That’s why this William Ayers business doesn’t stick. He may be liberal, but he is never wild. His family is bourgeois. His instinct is to [...]

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paul krugman: let’s get fiscal

I really wanted to post the whole thing, but restrained myself. Please read it here:
 
Will the next administration do what’s needed to deal with the economic slump? Not if Mr. McCain pulls off an upset. What we need right now is more government spending — but when Mr. McCain was asked in one of the [...]

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joe biden repudiates palin’s “pro-america” insult

Thank you, Joe. I was so disgusted by her earlier comment today, as reported by the Washington Post (h/t Jed Report):
 
Palin also made a point of mentioning that she loved to visit the “pro-America” areas of the country, of which North Carolina is one. No word on which states she views as unpatriotic.
 

more about “Joe Biden [...]

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sarah palin, destroyer of economies

Alright, alright, it might be a tad bit of hyperbole, but hey, consider it tit-for-tat right back at those Republicans who have been engaging in such outrageous distortions of Palin’s record (not to mention Obama’s, on the other side). If she’s a fiscal conservative, we’ve got a bridge in Ketchikan to sell you. Palin is fiscally conservative in the [...]

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yet another conservative endorses obama

Goodness, are we starting to hit our “when it rains it pours” stride? (Still waiting on you, Colin Powell!) Jack Tapper at ABC News has excerpted more of the forthcoming Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed here, which Mr. Smerconish released to him in advance of publication. (h/t Jed Report)
 
On his talk show on WPHT today, conservative Philadelphian Michael Smerconish [...]

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chicago tribune endorses obama

First time the paper has endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate–and dear lord, it’s been around since the 19th century. The comment about McCain offering an unconditional victory in Iraq almost made me spew my coffee (beverages and political reading do not seem to mix well this election season), but otherwise it was a palatable read. [...]

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nate silver: scrap the squigglies, aka debate dial-test results

Fun as so many found them to watch (although I preferred me my C-SPAN), and high though CNN’s ratings were, Nate makes excellent points about the downside of this newest debate-watching phenomenon. A couple excerpts from the longer post here, which is definitely worth the whole read:
 
It’s not that the squiggly lines aren’t fun to watch. [...]

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palin: don’t talk to me, and don’t talk to my supporters, either

Dear Lord. This just in from Andrew Sullivan:
 
We know that Palin refuses to have a press conference, or to allow even follow-up questions from Alaskan reporters on Troopergate, when she simply flatly denied reality. Now she has persuaded the secret service to bar reporters from even interviewing her supporters. Milbank:
 

In cooperation with the Palin campaign, [...]

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