Posts under ‘Politics’

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, who should know better, was caught by an open mic yesterday  making demonstrably false statements — Sarah Palin is “no genius,” for example.
Rendell also said that Arizona Governor and Homeland Security Secretary-nominee Janet Napolitano is perfect for the job because she has no family, “no life” and can devote “literally 19, [...]

Sarah Palin’s supporters have wasted no time in setting up an exclamation mark-filled website encouraging the Alaska governor to run for president in 2012:

Thank you for visiting the official Sarah Palin For President 2012 website!

This site was created after the 2008 election and has quickly become the most visited Sarah Palin website. We have grown [...]

Barack Obama went to the White House to talk with President Bush today. The historic meeting:

MSNBC’s less interesting coverage:
 

In December 1992, as Bill Clinton was assembling his cabinet, he took a moment to respond to feminist complaints about a supposed lack of high-level female appointments:
In an unusually candid discussion yesterday, Clinton said he was particularly unhappy that two of his appointees – Laura D’Andrea Tyson as chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisors and Carol [...]

Unlike a lot of Democrats, I like Little Green Footballs.  Charles Johnson is a terrific writer and is simply not wrong about the existence of serious and ongoing threats from the Arab and Islamic world toward the US, Israel, Europe, and others.
But come on — settle on a message already. On the one hand, Islamist [...]

Jed Lewison put together this extraordinary video of election night, from state-by-state projections to parts of Obama’s victory speech.  I didn’t watch any of Fox News’ coverage, so it’s remarkable to see just how depressed their reporters and anchors were as the evening wore on. Does anyone actually believe that Fox is a straight news outfit? [...]

When a judge looks at an opposing lawyer and goes to town on him, it’s best to remain silent.  Any lawyer who has ever been in a courtroom has been on both sides of that kind of thing. It’s no fun when it happens to you, but golly it’s satisfying to watch it happen to [...]

This morning, I spoke to a (white) friend who immigrated to the US from South Africa.  He tells me that he’s having trouble deciding which meant more to him, his vote for Barack Obama or the one he cast  in 1994 for Nelson Mandela.

I’ve been more or less speechless all night.  A couple of weeks ago, Janice suggested I load up this clip for election night, so I did.  Frank Rich beat me to the punch in a column last week, but it’s still incredibly moving to watch this tonight:

From my brother in Brooklyn: