Per aspera

Well… the best way for them to move past this is for Manny to put Youkilis on the ticket as his VP. If he doesn’t, I’m buying a Yankees hat.
Girl Power, commenting on Boston.com’s Extra Bases blog, in reference to a story about Manny Ramirez and Kevin Youklis getting heated with each other in the dugout last night.

I’ve heard a disturbing number of people, all of whom I know to be otherwise sane, tell me that they think John McCain would make a good President, or even tell me that they might vote for him. This is nuts. He would be an awful President. Of course, you wouldn’t know […]

The only thing more annoying than Joe Lieberman himself is his conceit, which many people indulge out of habit, that he is some kind of “centrist.”  Perhaps if we think of the political spectrum as a series of rings surrounding a cavernous abyss (or perhaps a pit like the Sarlaac), then Lieberman and McCain can fairly […]

Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s voting for Obama in New York:
I know perfectly well that Obama, for all his idealism, is well inside the “centrist” consensus on how America ought to conduct itself in the world. He was against the Iraq war from the start, and that means a lot to me, but he’s also not someone […]

Via Graham, this is a rather impressive collection of celebrities singing along to one of the most impressive speeches a politician has made in my lifetime.

I’m voting in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, which is the first election with national implications since 2001, when I moved up to Massachusetts, in which my vote might actually […]

Both from LGM, both concerning the mesmerizing campaign of Benito Giuliani.
My question is this: if Giuliani does indeed endorse McCain, will he and Joe Lieberman have to fight it out for biggest asshole on the McCain campaign trail? And who would win?
-Bean, discussing what may be the mightiest gathering of Men of Principle in our […]

Awesome post about Obama, Clinton, and South Carolina at Jack and Jill Politics.
The Media’s Three-Fifth’s Compromise
What upset me was the dismissiveness towards the South Carolina Primary.
A prevailing attitude comprised of, if Barack Obama wins South Carolina:
1. He only won because he’s Black
2. It doesn’t REALLY count as a win because of the sizeable […]

Caroline Kennedy’s Political Romanticism
She says that Obama could be a president like her father. I assume that means that he’ll be overrated, not that he’ll bring us to the brink of nuclear war.
Ramesh Ponnuru at NRO. The guy’s an asshole, but in this case* funny is funny.
(via Matt Yglesias)
*The most important feature of this […]

I have nothing interesting to say, so I’m going to link you to interesting things others are saying:
Glenn Greenwald describes Your Harry Reid-led Senate in action:
Harry Reid — who has (a) done more than any other individual to ensure that Bush’s demands for telecom immunity and warrantless eavesdropping powers will be met in full and […]

Since I didn’t post yesterday, making my planned week of daily posts a success for exactly one day, I’ll give you two today.
Here then is a link I’ve been meaning to post, to a review by Rick Perlstein of Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography of an Anti-war Icon, by Mary Hershberger. A little […]

All my Michigan Democratic peeps (do I have any Michigan Democratic peeps?), you know what to do.
(I believe this was all Kos’ idea)
(via Making Light)

When it comes to health care, conservatives use policy the way pick-up artists use astrology: It’s something to talk about while they try to screw you.

-Ezra Klein

If Obama does get the nomination, Alan Keyes is going to be invited to spend a lot more time on television.  Probably Al Sharpton, too.

Atrios describes perfectly, in my opinion, the Democratic frontrunners:
Shorter Candidates
Obama: The system sucks, but I’m so awesome that it’ll melt away before me.
Edwards: The system sucks, and we’re gonna have to fight like hell to destroy it.
Clinton: The system sucks, and I know how to work within it more than anyone.
I still like Edwards, […]

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