The conventional wisdom on the Presidential election seems to point to the economic meltdown as the point in the season when Obama broke away from McCain in the polls and established himself as the definitive frontrunner. I couldn’t disagree more.
The point at which things fell apart for John McCain? September 24th, the first night of [...]
After watching this:
All I could think of was this:
The Dunning-Kruger effect is the phenomenon wherein people who have little knowledge (or skill) tend to think they know more (or have more skill) than they do, while others who have much more knowledge tend to think that they know less.
Incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own [...]
If you don’t know who Lawrence Lessig is, well, you’re no friend of mine. For the uninitiated, Lessig is among the preeminent thinkers, activists and legal minds in this great country. In essence, he’s wicked smaaaaaht.
Using the “Lessig Method”, he carefully and exhaustively lays out the case against Palin as VP and hints at the [...]
When it was announced that Sarah Palin would give her first interview to media toady Charlie Gibson, I had two thoughts. First, Charlie Gibson can come across as a condescending doofus as he looks down his nose at his interview subject and secondly, he had to tiptoe through the tulips to not offend the soft [...]
When my wife came home last night from a night out with her family, she shared an anecdote with me. Evidently, the topic of politics came up with her two sisters and Mother. One of my sisters-in-law remarked that there was no way she would vote for Obama and was glad Palin was added to [...]
It never ceases to amaze me that some of the best actual reporting on politics comes from guys who spend 90% of their time telling dick jokes. It’s nice to see someone do a little digging to highlight hypocrisy when it happens.
Thoughts on watching the speeches at the RNC tonight as I put lipstick on my neighbor’s pit bull…
- We’ll start with good ‘ol Mitt Romney. It would seem that Romney dusted off the trusty “tax and spend liberal” speech given at previous RNC’s since oh, about 1960. As I watched him say that the change [...]
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John Edwards ran a Presidential campaign on the idea of there being “Two Americas“, one America for the wealthy and one for the rest of us. He was right in some respects that we do live in a segregated economic market, but I think he didn’t hit on the issue of what the wall between [...]
All Hat, No Cattle
With night one of the RNC pretty much written off as a rainout due to Hurricane Gustav, tonight was the functional first night of the convention. Why not kick it off with a rousing speech from the least popular President in American history? Perhaps he could throw some crazy one liners out [...]
Since John McCain announced that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was his choice as a Vice Presidential running mate, many Republican talking heads have touted Palin’s role as Commander-In-Chief of the Alaska National Guard as prima facie evidence that she is ready to serve as the United States Commander-In-Chief.
Certainly, her command of an actual military unit [...]
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