Did you know that some Republicans, like Sen. John McCain for instance, are unhappy with President Obama and his leftist agenda? News at 11! Your PostBourgie-approved reading material from the weekend: 1. In her exhausting and depressing essay in this month’s edition of The Atlantic, author Sandra Tsing Loh makes a compelling case that the Read More
This post is cross-posted over at my place. Over at Slate, Emily Bazelon has a good overview of Obama and McCain’s respective positions on executive power. The short story is that although both senators have promised to step back from the executive overreaches of Bush’s presidency, neither has been completely willing to completely go back to the Read More
This is a little late, but the BBC is reporting that John McCain has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate: At 44, she is younger than Barack Obama and is credited with reforms during her first term, but she is relatively unknown in US politics. Mr McCain is due to present her Read More
We’ve been trying to figure out if this is, you know, delightfully amateurish. Or intentionally awful. Or unintentionally awful.
John McCain is left-handed. So is Barack Obama. If those two end up going on to be their party’s nominees, we’d be assured our eighth lefty president. Going back thirty years, only two presidents have been righties — Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush. The rest — Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Read More
The New York Times editorial page threw its endorsements for the Democratic and Republican nominations behind Hillary Clinton and John McCain, respectively. The editorial page says it is impressed by Clinton’s experience and wonkishness (though it asks her to have Bill Clinton back off. The McCain endorsement trumpeted the Arizona Senator’s ability to reach across Read More
In the storm of even-less-concealed-than-usual animosity that was last night’s CNN Democratic presidential debate, John Edwards seemed determined to play the role of calm, expensively-coiffured port. His tsk-tsking, goody two-shoes though it may have been, reflected what a lot of us were thinking. John Edwards wanted his competitors to stop bickering and start addressing some Read More
