It’s Their Fault

Apparently now a Republican mouthpiece, here’s the New York Times: the headline and lead on the nytimes.com website article about Obama’s speech:
Campaigning Starts With Running Mates in Tow
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY 18 minutes ago
John McCain’s choice of running mate was a surprise, and — as designed by Mr. McCain’s advisers — eclipsed the [...]

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I’d probably work a bit longer on it, but you’ll get the gist…
I’d love to see Katie Couric analyze this one.

Tonight you will be hearing about our candidate’s many strengths, our party’s vision for America, and our plan to win this election. You’ll also be hearing some attacks: on the failure of the incumbent [...]

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I don’t usually post tech recommendations, but these are all pretty cool.

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I really like the Biden pick. Though it certainly has its political advantages, it primarily shows me that Obama is a politician who has truly overcome Boomer-style politics. Beyond all the meaningless media speculation and campaigning about “what this pick means” and “symbolizes” in terms of getting Obama elected, what matter to [...]

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I just had this terrifying vision…
It would be the height of Boomer style politics.  Totally irrelevant to any kind of policy/ideological coherence, purely ambition driven, the height of cynicism, a disaster to the United States in nearly every way.
…and they would win by a gigantic margin.
The thought that such a grossly cynical ticket would overrun [...]

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From Wiki:

Bennett Brauer was played by Chris Farley. In each appearance, Brauer provided commentary for Kevin Nealon’s Weekend Update, vividly describing his poor hygiene, his lack of social grace, and his anger towards the viewers for preferring other photogenic commentators to him. Brauer would make regular use of finger quotes to emphasize every point he [...]

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If you call this magic (thanks to flowing data):

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Below find the transcript of an enlightening chat with a reader.
Me: i think there’s a good chance obama has settled on clinton for VP.
Itstheirfault.com Reader: no f—ing way. that would be the WORST move EVER
Me: i don’t know…he could be thinking that the main case against hil was that it fires up the [...]

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A great Economist article.
I think in a couple decades, though, we’ll be saying the endowment effect is obsolete. It seems like only a matter of time: at least when it comes to media, we are moving confidently and happily from “possessing” media (CDs, DVDs, etc.) to having universal access to a sort of shared [...]

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Some Google search results:

“Obama Slams McCain” - 33,900 hits
“McCain Slams Obama” - 315,000 hits

“Obama Pummels McCain” - 8
“McCain Pummels Obama” -247

“Obama reacts to McCain” - 387
“McCain reacts to Obama” - 127

“Obama defends against” - 55
“McCain defends against” - 4

“Obama cowers” - 215
“McCain Cowers” - 19

Sure McCain is running a more attack-oriented campaign, but these are [...]

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