I’ve Been Waiting For You
Ever since Hillary Rodham Clinton lost the Democratic nomination, it’s been a white-knuckled, sweating-bullets, minute-by-minute will-he-or-won’t-he-move-to-Obama tick-tock for America’s most respected...
View ArticleYou Will Learn To Genuflect And You Will Respect Me
Amazing what a relentless campaign of delegitimation and politicization yields. Jeff Stein finds that there’s a lot of CIA support for Obama: After years of derision and insults from neoconservatives...
View ArticleYou Just A Wee Bit Overconfident
I remember two things really clearly from four years ago. The first is when I saw the exits that showed Kerry winning Pennsylvania by 20 points. The second is when I saw George Bush the next morning...
View ArticleWatch Me Jumpstart
Last week I had lunch with a few friends and we talked about what we figured Obama would say in the infomercial. I thought he’d make a case for his first 100 days: explain what, in a time of crisis,...
View ArticleGreen Hell
Remember how I wrote earlier this month that Gen. David Petraeus’ public statements appeared to implicitly back Barack Obama’s foreign policy? Here’s another example. According to ABC, the incoming...
View ArticleWe Landed On A Field
To follow on my Washington Independent colleague Ari Melber’s post about Rachel Maddow’s interview with Obama, Maddow asked a very good question. Obama has consistently argued for a larger troop...
View ArticleLick A Shot For Barack Obama, Change Gon’ Come Or I’mma Buy The Whole Hood...
So here’s that non-Misfits headline I promised. I’m going to be at the Ft. Leavenworth counterinsurgency conference next week, which means I’ll be spending the election day amongst representatives of...
View ArticlePanic On The Streets Of Birmingham
Megan Carpentier and I figured that sometime around early afternoon tomorrow, tens of millions of liberals will begin a process of complete and total panic over the possibility of Obama losing. So we...
View ArticlePoor And Minorities Under Martial Law Strike Out At Authority
I voted early on Friday, since I’m about to board a plane to go to Ft. Leavenworth for a Washington Independent assignment. And while I waited on the hour-long line at One Judiciary Square in D.C. to...
View ArticleI’m Not Afraid Anymore
Way way back in the spring, when it became clear that the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay were going to render verdicts by the fall, a number of liberal friends worried in emails to me that the...
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