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Quoted: Rei Ayaname 3D 30 Vote(s)

If you want your diabetes-inducing dose of premature nostalgia from this election, just click the link and read the rest of this blog entry.

Quoted: I have a confession to make. I did not vote for Barack Obama today. I've openly supported Obama since March. But I didn't vote for him today.

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Mission accomplished!

Greg Easterbrook proves he sucks at writing about politics as much as he does at writing about sports.

Quoted: The Democratic National Committee recently ran an ad blasting John McCain for saying the country is "better off" than in 2000. Yet, arguably, except as regards the Iraq war, Mr. McCain's statement is true.

Yes, 'tis but a flesh wound indeed.

Quoted: Unemployment is 5.5%, low by historical standards; income is rising slightly ahead of inflation; housing prices are down, but the typical house is still worth a third more than in 2000; 94% of Americans do not have threatened mortgages, and of those who do, most will keep their homes.

Thats historically low when you include all of American History, but historically high if you look at the past 30 years. And the last time 6% of the country was in foreclosure was in the months leading up to the stock market crash that caused The Great Depression.

Quoted: Sure, gas prices are up, the dollar is weak and credit is tight – but these are complaints at the margin of a mainly healthy society.

Of course, who needs money, gas or credit? Those are such marginal items that you may as well call them luxury items.

Much of what he writes beyond this makes sense, but these are pretty terrible examples to prove how "things aren't so bad".

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good column

Quoted: Another hyperbolic, conservative rant about liberals in academia? Perhaps I should confess my biases. I do dislike extremism of the Left and of the Right. But I have never been conservative enough to vote for a Republican presidential nominee. And the academics whose growing power and abuses of power concern me are far to the left of almost all congressional Democrats.

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Keith Olbermann perfectly very eloquently addresses many of the inconsistencies that the Clinton campaign has had over the past 6 weeks.

Quoted: Keith's Special Comment March 12, 2008 on Geraldine Ferraro's comments.