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In the past few weeks, I have been noting the remarkable resistance to Obama among Kentuckians, including Democrats, and the polling data by region support the anecdotal evidence supplied by George Packer in a recent post. Opposition to Obama has deepened in just the last two weeks, especially in eastern Kentucky, where Clinton led by [...]
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The title of James’ post on Georgia, responding to Freddy’s post from earlier in the week, pretty well sums up my response to this line of criticism from Jonathan Kulick. There are several problems with Kulick’s view of why Americans and NATO should stand up for Georgia, beginning with the strange idea that “freedom and [...]
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Perhaps I was not clear in my earlier post, but I seem to have given the impression that I think that Southerners never supported foreign wars and were never involved in the development of American nationalism. Very plainly, I don’t think that, and based on what I have written before about nationalism, expansionism and expansionist wars I [...]
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At Taki’s Magazine, I have a few new posts from the last two weeks. There should be a couple more up in the next day or so.
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While Ross is right that McCain’s symbolic moves are going to be insufficient, I would remind him that Mr. Bush spoke to the NAACP’s national meeting when he was a candidate in 2000. For his trouble, he received 8% of the black vote and before that he saw the NAACP run that charming ad associating Bush with [...]
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I am not terribly interested in saying that much more about Obama and Wright, so here are some final comments. It has been talked to death, and Obama has finally made his public break with the pastor. For a lot of people who have turned sharply against Obama since March, this is too little and at [...]
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In Pennsylvania, Obama did everything conceivable to win over Clinton’s working-class voters. ~David Brooks
Yes, he did everything, except offer those voters some concrete proposal that seemed likely to address their concerns and serve their interests. Brooks’ column does a good job showing the divisions created by differing levels of education, and he could push this [...]
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There is, however, somebody who would fill that bill and therefore be a near-perfect pick for McCain: Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman. ~Stuart Rothenburg
When I was in Washington for CPAC, my colleagues were talking about the possibility of McCain-Lieberman, and I laughed at them. I believe my exact words were, “That would be insane.” So, right [...]
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While it does betray a certain intellectual bankruptcy, the mainstream conservative fixation on Wright is so strong because Wright offended against Americanism, which is far more serious to this sort than anything to do with race one way or another. Incidentally, this is also why I think the charges of “race-baiting” in ads being played in local [...]
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As the descendant of “communitarian Yankees” and “unsophisticated” Scots-Irish alike, I found this Michael Hirsh item whining about the alleged Southern domination of American politics (no, this is not a joke) to be one of the worst things I have read all year. Here is the Yankee-as-besieged-enlightener morality tale:
This region was heavily settled by Scots-Irish [...]
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