The wink comes home to roost
Obama employs a sharp sword in the final week.
That connection between disgust and morality – John McCain clearly crosses the line
I've written previously about that penchant of many conservatives to base their moral sense on visceral disgust. As psychologist Jonathan Haidt has demonstrated, this connection is much more readily made by conservatives than by progressives (also, see here). It is in that context that I must confess that I felt…
If Karl Rove ran the Democrat’s campaign . . .
If Karl Rove ran the Democrat's campaign, his ads aimed at John McCain would look something like this: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEmPZoRVRII&eurl=http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/[/youtube] I spotted this ad at Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish.
One national news outlet (MSNBC) hammers McCain’s sleazy ad
It happened twice on MSNBC, triggered by John McCain's latest tactic: an ad suggesting that Barack Obama was dissing the troops when it is clear that John McCain is dissing the troops through his legislative actions. As the commentator from Air America makes clear, there is a big difference between…