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Stepping On Obama? 
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
I guess some of the McCain team believe that announcing his veep choice tonight as a way to step on Obama's acceptance speech is brilliant politics. I'm not sure that denying the first black candidate a clear shot at making his case on the anniversary of the March on Washington is such a great idea. It just looks cheap and a little desperate; and it robs the next morning of any real drama. But
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Don't Mention Honorable Campaigning
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
A sensitive McCain snaps at Time interviewers.
There's a theme that recurs in your books and your speeches, both about putting country first but also about honor. I wonder if you could define honor for us?
Read it in my books.
I've read your books.
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The Kerry Speech
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
Cable believed their pundits were more interesting than this speech. They made the wrong call:
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The Christianist Triumph At The GOP
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
The platform for the GOP will now include a total ban on even private funding for embryonic stem cell research:The 2008 Republican Platform Committee has finally
reached the finish line, but before it crossed it tripped up on the
issue of stem-cell research. W
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Malkin Award Nominee
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
"Barack Obama will be our first hip-hop president. I can only imagine how the world will embrace the leader of the free world when he introduces other foreign leaders with, "give it up for my man Vladimir." Giving "props" for joining us in a treaty. Or the first lady Michelle talking about "my man" the "daddy of my babies" when referring to the presi
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Tear Down That Wall!
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
A reader writes:Yeah, I get the allusions to Greek architecture as a link to the
birthplace of Democracy. I get the reference to the Greek revival
architecture used in our nation's capitol. But even as a diehard Obama
supporter, I beg of them to please rip those fucking things out and put
up a line of flags. They are setting the stage for another
celebrity/Messiah commercial,
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Pillars??
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Weigel, who has been stellar this week, addresses the fooferaw over Obama accepting the nomination in front of Greek columns:I have to wonder which campaign Obama is watching: the one where he's as popular as he was in early 2008, or the one where Republicans are taunting him like a caged animal for stuff-jus
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Quote For The Day II
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
"Look, I owe the American people an apology. If I had beaten the old man you’d've never heard of the kid and you wouldn't be in this mess. So it's all my fault and I feel that very, very strongly," - Michael Dukakis.
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Crossing The Commander-In-Chief Threshold
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Marc does some reporting:There's a debate about whether Hillary should have vouched for Obama's commander in chief credentials. Here is why, according to an aide, she did not. Had she done that, all the media would focus on is the disparity between her convention praise and h
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Typo Of The Day
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
"With some of tonight's speakers, especially Joe Biden, intending to
focus on foreign policy, McCain's camp focuses their attention on what
they portray as Obama's minimizing of the threat posed by Israel," - Jonathan Martin, Politico.
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Schweitzer On Energy
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Thank God for that. A bit of show-boating; a bit of invective; a couple of jokes; a good line or two; and a great sense of fun and passion. And it's so good to hear a political speech in America that finally names the "petro-dictators" as the enemy they are, and puts the question of energy as a critical part of national security. This is one of the most critical questions we face.
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An Interminable Yawn
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
A reader writes:To second your reaction, I will just say YAWN. Up until Mark Warner, I
thought I was watching rehearsals. I kept thinking: this is it? This is
the Obama Convention? Thank the Obama campaign for their now apparent genius in deciding to have Obama accept the nomination in front of
75,000 people; the excitement
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The Universality Of Michelle
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
A reader writes:
The letter you ran from that father identifies a distinct universal feeling that Michelle's speech captured. But, beyond speaking to mothers and fathers of various ages, the line about driving home from the hospital also spoke to another audience -- sons and daughters of various ages who, like Obama, felt an obligation to "to give [to their childre
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"Hard Work"
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
Mitt Romney is a bad thug, which is why he'd be a fatal choice for McCain. And so it was rather bizarre to hear him say that John McCain deserves all his houses/mansions/compounds because of the "hard work" of McCain and his wife. McCain, to my knowledge, has never had a private
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Dahlia On Michelle
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
Love it:
What I loved best about Michelle Obama's speech
tonight was that it was fearless, but in a very
different way from the fearlessness modeled by Hillary
Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. Here is a woman with a
degree from Harvard Law School, who could have talked
about law a
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Petraeus vs McCain
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
It's the difference between a sober empirical judgment and a hotheaded partisan boast. From Newsweek:
Petraeus is careful not to credit all the progress to the surge of U.S. troops in 2007. The sea change came last year from a series of movements now known as the Awakening. […] So would the Sunni Awa
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Twist The Knife
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
Part of Dan Conley's convention week agenda:The Dems made a huge mistake in 2004 by not bloodying up Zell Miller in Boston before he could attack them in New York. This time, Lieberman must be annihilated. I'd use Jim Webb or Wesley Clark to twist the knife into him.
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