This just in via my sturdy Google Reader feed:
Who do you want to vote for? Who do you want to represent our country on the world stage? Who is less scary? Who is more trustworthy? Who is more statesmanlike and leaderly? Who do you want taking that 3:00AM phone call? Who do you want [...]
Worth a listen for a chuckle: what if Joe the Plumber could unclog the economic mess?
Imagining ‘Joe The Plumber: The Epic’ : NPR
Sometimes that 15 minutes of fame turns into an hour. Satirists Bruce Kluger and David Slavin present the promo for a fictional epic called Joe the Plumber — it’s the story about [...]
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I was just telling my sister in an email about listening to this story about Obama’s political beginnings. He’s disappointed not a few progressives and reformers in Chicago for not taking on “Chicago Machine politics,” or from “getting along” just enough to get elected. But he’s inspired a whole lot of people, too. Sometimes surprisingly [...]
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