- Maureen Dowd: Even when I agree with her she really doesn't make sense much of the time. I can't tell if she's drinking too much of not enough. Here is today's entree, you decide.
- Thomas Friedman: Now here is one guy that thinks he is a lot smarter and a lot more important than he is. You can read today's fast food here and give him an ego score; 1 = very humble, 5 = head is about to explode.
- Michael Kinsley: I don't have much to complain about here. His commentary, The Right's Kind of Activism is well thought out and on the money. It's worth a read.
- David Broder: 'Darkness'? Hardly is down to earth reality check with a great slam of Maureen Dowd. It covers the same subject as my pundit of the week so you will have to go read it yourself.
And my Pundit of the week is John F. Sugg who's column FISHWRAPPER appears in the Atlanta weekly Creative Loafing. His piece, 'We shall see the reign of witches pass over' is an upbeat view of the current situation from the left side of the aisle, and if he can be an upbeat lefty in Atlanta he is someone who should be read.
Hidden somewhere in the results of the Nov. 2 election, there is an ocean of hope.
If, for example, only 18- to 29-year-olds had voted, many of George Bush's red states would have been swamped by blue ink, and John Kerry would have won the Electoral College 375-163.
Bravo for youth. I think their numbers will explode with blue when the military draft blows down their necks, as it surely will, and they note that the sons and daughters of the military-evaders currently in power somehow aren't wearing uniforms.
Or maybe there's hope in the fact that 56 million people rejected the "war president," and the margin of victory was the slimmest for an incumbent since 1916. The me-too media fell over themselves with pandering repetition that Bush had scored the highest vote in history. But few in the press were brave enough to focus on the record vote against Bush -- and for Kerry, the man derided by his opponents as the "most liberal" senator.
America has truly been divided by the Republican strategy of fear and lies. Now, more than ever, the people are willing to embrace the label of liberalism. That can't be bad.
Amid the angst over Bush's victory, I received an epiphany "from an unlikely source, gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, who rallied the faithful with an e-mail stating: "Their army is how much bigger than mine? Three percent? Well, shucks, Bubba. Now is the time to establish a network and an attitude."
I've got the attitude. It's called resistance. Now, we need to build the network.
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Our friend Bolo Boffin reminds us that Michael Moore has pointed out the statistics on the youth vote. The MSM was wrong, they did vote.
Michael Moore's got links to stats about the youth vote: I had slammed them too, but looks like I was wrong. For the first time since 18 years olds got the vote, the 18-29 bracket had a majority show up at the polls, over 51%. And they voted for Kerry 54% to 44% Bush.
ReplyDeleteMakes me think they're the ticket to the 2006 election.