It’s Their Fault

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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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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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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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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Let’s look at how the Times screws up its portrayal of McCain and Obama every day, in an arena that journalists are supposed to be obsessed with (and that is perhaps more influential than any content): language. It’s the one place where fairness can be judged, and one in which the Times’s susceptibility to [...]

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Post-Boomer election? McCain doesn’t want that. Michael Scherer discusses the Boomer politics exemplified in McCain’s new ad in Swampland, and Andrew Sullivan has reactions.
Scherer:
In some ways, this is a predictable theme. Every presidential election since Vietnam has, in some ways, been a retread of the 1960s culture war.
[McCain's] new ad tries [...]

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In keeping with yesterdays post about service jobs needing to become more visible… today Barack Obama spoke in Colorado Springs about careers in public service, and how the U.S. needs to expand options for those willing to serve. From the Colorado Independent:
Obama called for an expansion of the AmeriCorps program by 250,000 people, [...]

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Dennis Prager today has an pretty annoying column in which he says that youth supported movements are often naive and narcissistic (based on just two examples from the same time period), and uses that observation to proclaim that he therefore distrusts Obama. While his leap from distrusting historical youth movements to distrusting Obama’s [...]

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Andrew Sullivan and Ezra Klein point out the relevance of the boomer parents vs. their kids age gap. From Sullivan, who very much understands the generational differences at work:
…I have a feeling that the generational narrative of this campaign from here on out will be a very powerful one. It isn’t that one [...]

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Okay, the term may be a bit much, but the facts are pretty shocking. According to CNN,
Relying on Census Bureau figures…after adjusting for inflation, men in their 30s in 2004 had a median income of about $35,000 per year, for a 12 percent drop compared with $40,000 per year for men in the same [...]

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