RNC 2008

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Inside The Belly Of The Beast

Progressives should be both encouraged and wary about what Rick Perlstein experienced firsthand at the Republican National Convention. In my interview with Perlstein for my LiberalOasis radio show, he contrasts his visit to St. more »


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St. Paul: Parting Thoughts

At a panel discussion hosted by Campaign for America's Future at Golden's Deli, an alternative progressive space during the Republican convention, Bernie Horn and I arrived at intriguingly different hypotheses about why the Republican convention went down the way it did. more »

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St. Paul Notes (Final Notebook Dump)

• That "JUST SAY NO TO B.O." bumper sticker with the picture of Barack that I mentioned yesterday? I asked one of the vendors selling it, "Isn't it a little juvenile to say your political opponent smells?" Answer: "Well, maybe he does. You never know." more »

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Sarah's America (two)

Here's another NIXONLAND parallel. In 1966 George Wallace, when he couldn't run for governor again because of Alabama law, decided to run his wife Lurleen instead. more »

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Sarah's America

I love this bit from a September 2 Wall Street Journal article about Wasilla, Alaska, under the Sarah Palin regime:

Wasilla has neither a planning nor a zoning board, and it shows. “The box stores and businesses are king,” says Curt Menard, mayor of Matanuska-Susitna Borough, which includes Wasilla. The town “is a wild, wild West show, in the development sense.” more »

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St. Paul Notes (VIII Is Enough!)

Last night's liveblogging was an Intertubular freak; the Xcel Center is supposed to be a wifi-free zone during the proceedings, but somehow the gods smiled on your humble correspondent, and I got a couple of hours to throw up some posts. Then, like a summer rain, it was over before you could blink. But I kept on liveblogging the old-fashioned way--in my Moleskin notebooks. more »

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Alaska Hockey Notes

I'm sufficiently bored to start cruising Proquest Newsstand for references to the Republican running mate's future son-in-law, Levi Johnston. Perlstein shoots, Perlstein scores!

Wasilla hockey enters break on a hot streak; [State Final Edition]

Copyright The McClatchy Company Dec 23, 2007 more »

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St. Paul Notes (Lucky VII)

TR on the video screen gets no applause, nor his founding of the National Parks Service.

Who's "acclaimed inger and songwriter Rachael Lampa?" Others seem as baffled as I, save for the fourteen people in the Ohio delegation clapping along. (Ms. Lampa, it arrives, sings like a mouse, only more out of tune.) more »

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St. Paul Notes (VI)

Third person of color on the podium, a South Asian adoptee.

I keep waiting for someone from the New York Times to come and kick me out of their seat, but they're apparently somewhere else, doing something more exciting. Like defrosting the refrigerator.

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St. Paul Notes (V)

Second black man of the evening. A preacher.

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