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Wednesday, October 15. 2008

A few Barrister links

Obama campaign hands press their talking points - before the debate. The press needs to know what to say. Coordination, ya know?

Obama looks like a president. I guess that's what counts. I think he looks like a GQ model.

Tim Blair on Devil Children

Good logic on private property. Wilkinson

Sowell on negative campaigning.

Regulation vs. deregulation. Tiger. Related: The Reregulation mantra.

Time to go "John Galt"? Dr. Helen

Carbon taxes and the Canadian election

Messiahs, mortals, and great men. Jules

Michelle on more Ohio vote fraud. JFK pulled these stunts too. It works, if the press is in your pocket.

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Oy! Slap my forehead and increase my prescription. From the WSJ "Best of the Web Today" e-mail:

Politico's Ben Smith reprints a disconcerting email he received from an unnamed Republican consultant, describing a focus group in "an upper-Midwestern state" that had just been shown an ad that was "no-holds-barred attack" on Barack Obama, "cut for an independent group, which hasn't aired." Quoting verbatim from the email:

The two most unreal moments of my professional life of watching focus groups:

54 year-old white male, voted Kerry '04, Bush '00, Dole '96, hunter, NASCAR fan...hard for Obama said: "I'm gonna hate him the minute I vote for him. He's gonna be a bad president. But I won't ever vote for another god-damn Republican. I want the government to take over all of Wall Street and bankers and the car companies and Wal-Mart run this county like we used to when Reagan was President."

The next was a woman, late 50s, Democrat but strongly pro-life. Loved B. and H. Clinton, loved Bush in 2000. "Well, I don't know much about this terrorist group Barack used to be in with that Weather guy but I'm sick of paying for health insurance at work and that's why I'm supporting Barack."

I felt like I was taking crazy pills. I sat on the other side of the glass and realized... this really is the Apocalypse. The Seventh Seal is broken and its time for eight years of pure, delicious crazy....
#1 Pajak on 2008-10-15 16:29 (Reply)

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