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Philip’s Complaint, or Liberal political thinking in a nutshell

Bookworm on Feb 09 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Climate change, Identity politics

I’ve never been able to read Philip Roth’s novels because I cannot stand his navel gazing (or should I say penis-gazing?) characters. They are, for me, profoundly uninteresting — I find them infantile and narcissistic in their concerns. Perhaps my the problem with his writing is his thinking. Why do I say this? Because [...]

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Eating our own *UPDATED*

Bookworm on Jan 29 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Conservative ideology, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Identity politics, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Rudy Giuliani

I caught a minute of Mike Gallagher today, and he was talking about the fact that Republicans are more critical of Republican candidates than Democrats are critical of Democratic candidates. It occurred to me that, at least in this election cycle, that may be because there are real, substantive differences between the Republican candidates. [...]

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Showing you can fight like a normal person

Bookworm on Oct 05 2007 | Filed under: Media matters, Political correctness, Presidential elections

One of the things candidates cannot afford to be seen as is vicious. Nevertheless, especially in unstable, dangerous times, we want our candidates to be strong. Writing at Red State, Erick believes that the Republican candidates would do well to show a little strength in dealing with Chris Matthews, who is currently slated [...]

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