To paraphrase Lord Acton, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Just ask President Bush’s kidnap-and-torture victims.
Slate on Bush
10 April 2008
4 April 2008
McCain claims he voted against an MLK holiday because of ignorance about “the issue”, as if he needed position papers and highly paid lobbyists to explain to him what Dr. Martin Luther King meant to our nation.
Daily Kos on McCain
7 March 2008
In an odd way, there may be more at stake in the Democratic primary than there would be in a Clinton vs. McCain general election.
Marginal Revolution on The Election
15 February 2008
Ah, McCain represents the politics of hope, whereas Obama is all about depression and darkness. Thank you, WSJ, for straightening me out on that. I was in danger of believing my lying eyes.
Daily Kos on WSJ
6 February 2008
If religion and religious ideas are going to be more publicly discussed, candidates and their supporters will have to accustom themselves to the free expression of doctrines contrary to their own, in particular to irreligious perspectives.
John Allen Paulos (ABC) on Religion in Politics