Forum: Diavlog comments
11-04-2008, 12:33 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 18,615
Re: McCain Post Mortem
Good post. Maybe you or someone can tell me why Mickey, who I admire, professes bemusement at John McCain for not using Rev. Wright material until now. Is Mickey's bemusement real? Surely McCain...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
11-03-2008, 08:11 PM
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Replies: 134
Views: 57,114
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Forum: Diavlog comments
10-28-2008, 04:49 PM
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Replies: 153
Views: 54,738
Re: Playing With Fire
Foobs, I too don't get the 'smart' appellation that Wonderment and others have applied to Palin. It's entirely possible that underneath all her apparent defects -- incuriosity, indifference to...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-18-2008, 02:35 PM
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Replies: 149
Views: 43,238
Re: Jane Hamsher for President!
I'm glad someone liked Jane's performance, but I found Hamsher far more effective in her recent diavlog with Althouse than I found her here. Just as Jim wouldn't answer her objection that the...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-07-2008, 07:28 PM
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Replies: 270
Views: 75,778
Re: Palin Fire
Do I have to say it again? She's a weak target and the fact that the she attracts so much attention says more about the detractors than it does about her. Let the other side nurture and keep its...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-07-2008, 04:03 PM
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Replies: 270
Views: 75,778
Re: Palin Fire
But as has been noted before in this thread, she voted for Gore. Take issue with actual arguments she makes, or don't. But making her a special object of mockery and scorn, when we've got Malkins...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-07-2008, 11:28 AM
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Replies: 270
Views: 75,778
Re: Palin Fire
And her vote for Al Gore would mean . . . ?
A lot of feminists soured on the Clintons when they became convinced that Bill was a serial sexual harasser. It's a valid opinion, if not one I share.
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-06-2008, 11:01 PM
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Replies: 270
Views: 75,778
Re: Palin Fire
I fully endorse drinking beer on the porch. I don't endorse the evangelical view (in my experience the specifically Southern Baptist view) that unwed pregnancy suggests a trashy family background....
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-06-2008, 08:18 PM
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Replies: 270
Views: 75,778
Re: Palin Fire
The Christian ethos I grew up with says that decent people aren't losers. Losers do things like drink beer on the porch, let their dogs run free, work intermittently and have children out of...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-06-2008, 07:19 PM
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Replies: 270
Views: 75,778
Re: Palin Fire
Oh, I don't blame Obama for Obama-girl so I'm hardly going to blame Althouse for her more rabid followers. I can see why a Michele Malkin would become the ante-muse of liberal males (to borrow from...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-06-2008, 06:29 PM
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Replies: 270
Views: 75,778
Re: Palin Fire
Palin is perhaps pulling in those 'leaners' who were never seriously going to give Obama a look. To win the true leaners, we'll have to somehow demonstrate that the last eight years is what you get...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-06-2008, 04:38 PM
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Replies: 270
Views: 75,778
Re: Palin Fire
While we're asking questions about Althouse's defenders, what does it say about her detractors that she voted for their favored candidate in the Democratic primary? That's not a flippant question. ...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-06-2008, 08:57 AM
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Replies: 270
Views: 75,778
Re: Palin Fire
Not caring how others -- at least some others -- perceive you is a sign of mental illness, not feminism. Althouse provokes reactions far disproportionate to anything she actually says. If the...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-06-2008, 08:50 AM
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Replies: 270
Views: 75,778
Re: Palin Fire
Believe me, I'd love a joke about her inconsistent standards. Or the fact she stayed up all night to dissect Reverend Wright's every utterance and inhalation when he talked to Bill Moyers (that was...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-05-2008, 10:34 PM
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Replies: 270
Views: 75,778
Re: Palin Fire
While I worship Jane Hamsher for demonstrating that Althouse seems to sometimes think that "liberal" is just another word for "vindictive nutjob with laptop", it's patently wrong to say that...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-03-2008, 08:29 PM
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Replies: 112
Views: 37,093
Re: Palin is dangerous: ignore her
Absolutely. I'm heartened that Team Obama has taken a hands-off attitude to Palin's personal life. The Culture War card is the only one that the GOP has left so let's keep the focus on the old...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-02-2008, 02:29 PM
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Replies: 203
Views: 82,495
Re: The Chess Game
Yep, in nominating Palin, McCain takes his best argument against Obama off the table. McCain's not stupid, so I assume that he thinks his pick will help keep the election on the terrain of clashing...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-15-2008, 09:46 AM
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Replies: 115
Views: 43,867
Re: Taking the Veil
I think there's a difference between being confrontational and being probing. I'm not being coy when I defended Jackie as giving a smart interview, but there are non-confrontational ways to ask if...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-14-2008, 03:05 PM
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Replies: 115
Views: 43,867
Re: Taking the Veil
It wasn't dumb at all, just incomplete. In fact, given how carefully Jackie in particular stepped around the various minefields, I'd say it was pretty smart.
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-14-2008, 01:27 PM
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Replies: 115
Views: 43,867
Re: Taking the Veil
It took a certain amount of courage on Jackie's part to talk about these matters at all, and a certain amount of courage on Sarah's to have personal preferences paraded like this. But, I take your...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-14-2008, 11:48 AM
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Replies: 105
Views: 52,931
Re: Immigration Nation
I agree with Drew: provide Dingalinks for your assertions. Though I'm more in favor of immigration than Krikorian is, I applaud his courteousness and deplore Dalmia's lack of same. If Dalmia...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-06-2008, 08:30 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 36,861
Re: The Rise of the Autocracies
Yes, many thanks to the Wondrous Wright for making this diavlog happen. I learned much and, yes, it's tedious to hear, but this diavlog reminded me of why I prefer liberal thinking, most of the...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-22-2008, 09:12 PM
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Replies: 80
Views: 30,157
How Megan became a Libertarian
The better Libertarians on Bloggingheads have been a relief. I listen to Brink Lindsay with careful attention because nothing but good sense flows from his mouth. And Megan at her best offers...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-17-2008, 09:54 AM
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Replies: 173
Views: 59,929
Re: The Skinny on Obesity
I like the calorie-posting law, too, and found that it influenced my choices when I was in NY recently. I couldn't believe what was in the burger I decided not to order. I can't help thinking that...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-17-2008, 09:28 AM
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Replies: 96
Views: 37,821
Re: I-Told-You-So Edition
Yes, I should have acknowledged your moderateness in my post. My apologies. Parents can be soooo obnoxious, waiting for non-parents to come into the state of grace they believe they've achieved. ...
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