Bookworm on May 23 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
John McCain threw Hagee under the bus today, which was either (a) politically wise or (b) a disgraceful bit of pandering, not even to his own base, but to the New York Times and Co. (and, yes, I know that his desire to placate the NYT is a problem, but every Republican this year seems [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2008 | Filed under: John McCain
One of Mr. Bookworm’s colleagues asked for my opinion of the “10 Things” list MoveOn.org did attacking John McCain. I fired off an email in response that is not polished (and is a little disorganized), but I think it hits the main points. What do you think?
1. John McCain voted against establishing a [...]
Bookworm on May 06 2008 | Filed under: Media matters
Yesterday, I read Frank Rich’s most recent NYT’s column (to which I will not link), in which he tried to excuse away Jeremiah Wright’s hate-filled diatribes by saying that, because of John Hagee’s allegedly anti-Catholic rants, conservatives having placed themselves in a glass house and barred from criticism. My desire to write a blog [...]
Bookworm on Apr 23 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
On the liberal side of the American political world, one of the lingering horrors of the McCarthy era is “guilt by association.” Certainly that was the lesson I, a young liberal, took away from teachings about that era. As I learned it, it wasn’t that the HUAC hearings were aimed at discovering genuine [...]
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