Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
You have to Frank Rich's op-eed column in the NYT today, " The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama ." It's a great wrap on the bigotry and fearmongering promoted by the Republican ticket that has resulted in the social piranhas of The Base surfacing, teeth bared, dripping with bloody chum. Some voters told reporters that they didn't want Obama to run, let alone win, should his very presence...
monochrom (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Frank Rich's excellent column about "fear". All's fair in politics. John McCain and Sarah Palin have every right to bring up William Ayers, even if his connection to Obama is minor, even if Ayers's Weather Underground history dates back to Obama's childhood, even if establishment Republicans and Democrats alike have collaborated with the present-day Ayers in educational reform. But it's...
Dialog International (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
For the past week many of us have been horrified at the new tactics of the McCain campaign that have transformed the political events into a series of KuKluxKlan rallies. New York Times columnist Frank Rich has a terrifice piece...
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Rich's column suggests that McCain-Palin's rhetoric is risking the assasination of Sen. Obama. His evidence:...
enrevanche (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... in the Senate, Elizabeth Dole, is looking like a goner . "The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama" (Frank Rich, New York Times , 12 October 2008)
English Webster (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Op-Ed Columnist - The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama - NYTimes.com From the start, there have always been two separate but equal questions about race in this election. Is there still enough racism in America to prevent a black man from being elected president no matter what? And, will Republicans play the race card? The jury is out on the first question until Nov. 4. But we now have the unambiguous...
MyQuest (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
In the NYTimes, Frank Rich writes a disturbing piece about the growing use of racial/rascist rhetoric by the GOP: But we’re not at Election Day yet, and if voters are to have their final say, both America and Obama have to get there safely. The McCain campaign has crossed the line between tough negative campaigning and inciting vigilantism, and each day the mob howls louder. The onus...
JammieWearingFool (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
The logical conclusion of a big lie gone viral.What makes them different, and what has pumped up the Weimar-like rage at McCain-Palin rallies, is the violent escalation in rhetoric, especially (though not exclusively) by Palin. Obama “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist.” He is “palling around with terrorists” (note the plural noun). Obama is “not a man who
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
IF you think way back to the start of this marathon campaign, back when it seemed preposterous that any black man could be a serious presidential contender, then you remember the biggest fear about Barack Obama: a crazy person might take a shot at him. Some voters told reporters that they didn't want Obama to run, let alone win, should his very presence unleash the demons who have stalked America from...
The West Virginia Rebel's Blog (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Frank Rich gets it : Now even the dimmest bloviators have figured out that Americans are riveted by the color green, not black — as in money, not energy. Voters are looking for a leader who might help rescue them, not a reckless gambler whose lurching responses to the economic meltdown (a campaign “suspension,” a mortgage-buyout stunt that changes daily) are as unhinged as his wanderings...
California Progress Report (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
By Clint Reilly Forget the exhausted claims of “liberal bias”; the Times has a serious smugness problem on its hands. Even I – a life-long Democrat, Obama supporter, Times subscriber and daily reader – find the paper’s pomposity and orthodoxy difficult to stomach. An October 1 column on the Times...
Andrew Bolt (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The New York Times’s Frank Rich finds a fresh fault in Sarah Palin: But there’s a steady unnerving undertone to Palin’s utterances,
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
... serious column in America's newspaper of record? And yet, that is the paranoid picture that Frank Rich paints today in Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain . Annotated excerpts: [T]he 2008 election is now an Obama-Palin race . . . and the only person who doesn’t seem to know it is Mr. Past, poor old John McCain. Watch in horror, as the scheming woman plots behind the muddled McCain's back!...
The Richmond Democrat (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Frank Rich has a must-read Op-Ed in today's New York Times. Here is just a small excerpt: We are not a nation of whiners, as Phil Gramm would have it, but the G.O.P. is now the party of whiners. That rebranding became official when Republican House leaders moaned that a routine partisan speech by Nancy Pelosi had turned their members against the bailout bill. As the stock market fell...
