It’s Their Fault

My attempt to offer thoughtful and original news has panned out with a huge scoop. Not only is McCain an intemperate campaigner, but he is a reckless member of the BABYLONIAN BROTHERHOOD!
That’s right; while putty-natured humorists like Colbert jokingly compare McCain’s antics to a lizard, I have realized the truth: McCain was letting slip [...]

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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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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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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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It is ironic that, in a presidential election year with both racial and gender firsts, age will likely end up being the most important dividing line in the electorate. The Times looks at this phenomenon today, with a focus not on the generational dividing lines that I’ve concentrated on, but more on the general [...]

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A pretty devastating article about McCain’s treatment of his former wife, who he left after she became disfigured in a car accident.
Parents are still crazy.
A Dan Drezner essay on public intellectuals:
…the growth of blogs and other forms of online writing have partially reversed a trend that many have lamented:  what Russell Jacoby labeled the “professionalization [...]

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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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