She’s not ready
“While watching the Sarah Palin interview with Charlie Gibson Thursday night, and the coverage of the Palin phenomenon in general, I’ve gotten the scary feeling, for the first time in my life, that dimwittedness is not just on the march in the U.S., but that it might actually prevail.
Job description: Community organizer
The SZ yesterday translated “community organizer” as “Sozialarbeiter”, i.e. a social worker. Sorry, but that’s wrong.
Taking a gamble on Sarah Palin
Noone could accuse McCain of not having courage in his choice of VP. Riding on his heroism in Vietnam, he’s an unconventional conservative who acts like he’s not a politician at all. Everything he says seems unstudied, inviting trust. Too bad that although his style is liberal and he can’t stand Bush, he would essentially […]
Barack Obama acceptance speech
The New York Times has a great interactive site dedicated to Senator Obama’s brilliant, content-rich and highly motivating speech, with the video and the text side by side. Oh, man: Politics has never been more exciting.
Obama commits a faux pas
Senator Barack Obama accepted the democratic nomination “with great humility” … on a stage with a rather grandiose ancient Greek colonnade.
Hillary: No way, no how, no McCain
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to unite the Democrats at the DNC. She referred to the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution that gave women the right to vote in 1920 and quoted Harriet Tubman, the anti-slavery activist who began the Underground Railroad and told the fugitives, “Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a […]
Ted Kennedy
Senator Edward Kennedy is suffering from a malignant brain tumor. Nevertheless, he came to the Democratic National Convention in Denver to unite the divided party, speaking out for health care as a basic right, and not a privilege. He’s an inspiring old lion of a senator who has spent his political career redeeming the great […]
