Links With Your Coffee - Friday
- DIRECT eNewsletter for Democrats
- Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark
It's about time
.Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark is the third in an annual series of conversations: an ongoing project to foster and promote the use of reason in formulating social policy.
- Where’s My Personal Shopper? » Mad Kane's Political Madness
- McCain's hero Teddy Roosevelt was more socialist than Obama. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
McCain can call Obama a socialist or he can call Teddy Roosevelt his hero. He can't do both.
Imagine that instead of telling Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher that "when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody," Barack Obama had said the following:
We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. It is not even enough that it should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community. … The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size, acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and … a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion, and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.
- A Critic’s Notebook: Verbage: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
- 3quarksdaily
- The Satirical Political Report -John McCain Sings: NOW Crazy, After All These Years
I met my old Party
In the gutter last night
They seemed so glad to see my …
Running mate
And we talked about my sell-out
And we drank to spreading fears
NOW crazy, after all these years
Oh, right-wing crazy after all these years - Fix Pick: McCain Campaign Post-Mortem - The Fix
- xkcd - A Webcomic - Actuarial
- John Hodgman Aims to Alarm | Indecision2008 | Comedy Central
- Michele Bachmann Versus Paul Wellstone
- Steve Bell on John McCain and Sarah Palin's floundering campaign | World news | The Guardian
Comments
For fans of Ron Howard, and the Fonz:
http://zaphodforpresident.com/2008/10/24/ron-howard-endorses-obama/
True, but this is nothing new. Those on the left who hate Obama claim that he is too conservative. Those on the right who hate Obama claim that he is a 'socialist'. Apparently the majority of independents don't believe these lies.
JoAnn, I don't think obama's or mccain's politics has anything to do with conservatism, let Their politics, whether they know it or not and whether they like it or not, is that of narrow business interests. They are only where they are because they have submitted to these interests.
let alone socialism, I meant to say
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