Scariest Thought of the Night
ArchPundit
Mike Barnicle suggesting him and Ben Ginsberg doing things together in the Biblical sense.
October 2004
Blago Dreams
Blagojevich said later he thinks the dream reflects his worries about security in the wake of the Springfield shooting and Obama’s commanding lead in the polls over Keyes.
How does making sure he looks good next to Barack relate to security? Other than the realization that one politician in Illinois currently has what it takes to make it on the national stage.
Keyes has some Momentum…
The lead is down to 45 points by Obama.
In reality, different methodology can account for the difference between 17 or 24 for Keyes. Most likely, Barack Obama is headed towards the largest margin of victory in a US Senate race in the State of Illinois. Obama’s numbers at 69 percent of the vote is solid across several polls.
“It’s not clear to me that I want Alan Keyes telling me what it means to be a Christian,” Obama said.
Not clear? It’s very clear I don’t want Keyes telling me what it is to be a Christian.
Ken Redfield makes one mistake though:
“Our politics tend to be pretty pragmatic,” said Kent Redfield, political scientist at the University of Illinois at Springfield. “We’d rather fight about roads and bridges . . . than (the issue of) whether we should have gay marriage.”
No, we want to fight over who builds roads and bridges.
Brutal Crane Column
From Brian Slupski of the Northwest Herald
My wife wants me to run for Congress.
She loves scuba diving, which usually involves a trip to a sunny island locale. And apparently, plenty of congressional work gets done in places such as Costa Rica, Antigua, Barbados, and Boca Raton, Fla.
At least that’s the case with 8th District Congressman Phil Crane.
It gets worse (perhaps better). The Stakeholder takes it on too.
A Confession
I like Joe Scarborough when he is doing analysis and the lighthearted stuff–not on his show. He is incredibly astute at horse race analysis when he’s in that mode (seldom seen on his show) and is a guy you’d like to have a beer with.
He’s having a hard time seeing why the polling isn’t with the pundits on who won the VP debate. Kos has some breakdowns, but my take is that the chattering class–or clattering in the case of those of ‘us’ who use keyboards–like the combat so the Cheney performance was very strong if you want to see two guys go after each other. On the other hand, voters first decide by who the support, but the non-committeds like sunny optimism and that’s John Edwards. I’m pretty sure no one has ever said Dick Cheney is sunny and optimistic.
And I’m not drinking vodka–just Fat Tire Beer–a fine, environmentally friendly brew.
Never Met?
Define met? The thing here is that it was an effective line and clearly scripted from practice. If a bunch of bloggers can figure this out, why didn’t Cheney?
Video from the DNC on the 9/11 Cheney Lie
I’m not going to try and be ‘fair’ to the guy after he was called on this on CNBC before and he still said it tonight after asserting the connection previously:
Just a Question
If the Iraqis are better off….as the administration claims, then why would their casualties be relevant to calculation? They’d be losing more if we weren’t there…no?