Xander ,'Chosen'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Newly victorious progressives can snicker and dismiss them, but that popular vote was too close for my comfort, and we dismiss those millions to our peril.
Maybe, but I thought 6 % points is generally considered a fairly big gap as these things go. That's probably better than half the elections in the past century. Certainly those in recent memory.
ooh, stealth Natter turnover! Top 50??
The press conference killed me! The dog question came up and I loved his answer. Weighing Malia's allergies with the desire for a shelter dog ("a mutt like me"--OOOF).
The sentiment stands.
It's one of my favorite quotes, because I get so pissed off about this constant "tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts." It's up there with Oliver Wendell Holmes' statement that the most important principle is "the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."
OMG I love that man. I am totally fangurlling the P-EOTUS.
I was sitting here thinking "The future president is speaking and I have no desire to throw something at the radio. How wonderful!"
Maybe, but I thought 6 % points is generally considered a fairly big gap as these things go. That's probably better than half the elections in the past century. Certainly those in recent memory.
In 1988, Bush beat Dukakis by nearly 8% in the popular vote and with an electoral landslide. That was the last election without an incumbent before Bush the lesser.
Aw.crap. I lost my NYT link to the conservatives saying that the moderates have ruined the party.
Doh.
Totally missed the end of Natter 61*. Oh well, it has been a busy week with the election nationally and homecoming at the school.
Woo Hoo for being in the Top 100!
Saxby Chambliss, who compared triple-amputee Max Cleland to Bin Ladin, is playing the 9/11 card again [link] I guess I'd better see if there's something I can volunteer for for the runoff.
There really should be a law like Godwin's law about using 9/11 in an argument. The Guiliani law, maybe. "Any sufficiently contentious competition between liberals and conservatives will eventually show pictures of the towers."