Comments on Today in Presidential Politics; Or, 15 Days Until the Iowa Caucuses
Wait, where's President Gore's Christmas video?
Well?
Ok, Glenn Greenwald is totally my online boyfriend:
"It is very striking how little [John] Edwards' substantive critique of our political system has penetrated into the national discourse. That's because the centerpiece of his campaign is a critique that is a full frontal assault on our political establishment. His argument is not merely that the political system needs reform, but that it is corrupt at its core -- "rigged" in favor of large corporate interests and their lobbyists, who literally write our laws and control the Congress. Anyone paying even casual attention to the extraordinary bipartisan effort on behalf of telecom immunity, and so many other issues driven almost exclusively by lobbyists, cannot reasonably dispute this critique.
Yet because that argument indicts the same Beltway culture of which our political journalists are an integral part, and further attacks the system's power brokers who are the friends, sources, and peers of those journalists, they instinctively react with confusion, scorn and hostility towards Edwards' campaign."
The Atlantic video is good, horserace-y, but good
P.S. Ron Paul has a hot grand?daughter
Why does Gail Collins still have a job? At the NYT, no less?
With a family that big, he's one or two layoffs or market crashes away from turning blue-collar liberal.
@5 he can just use the children in his mills
Aren't the Iowa caucuses in 14 days?
Why do people still bother giving Drudge's site hits almost a decade after he leaked the Lewinsky "story"?
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