When debating with Obama supporters, including an ongoing exchange with a smart and swell fellow who isn’t glazy eyed, I often hear my concerns about Obama’s accommodationist rhetoric characterized like I’m expecting Obama to be foaming-at-the-mouth assaultive. As if there is no possible posture other than that and The Likable One’s full-frontal embrace of GOP frames.

I share my latest reply in that thread:

Obama supporters routinely mischaracterize a position like mine, like I’m asking him to echo the title of Al Franken’s fictitious book, “I Fucking Hate Those Rightwing Motherfuckers.”  Read more 

John Edwards:

“When you think about what Ronald Reagan did to the American people, to the middle class to the working people,” said Edwards.

“He was openly – openly – intolerant of unions and the right to organize. He openly fought against the union and the organized labor movement in this country. He openly did extraordinary damage to the middle class and working people, created a tax structure that favored the very wealthiest Americans and caused the middle class and working people to struggle every single day. The destruction of the environment, you know, eliminating regulation of companies that were polluting and doing extraordinary damage to the environment.”

“I can promise you this: this president will never use Ronald Reagan as an example for change.”  Read more 

Patti Davis on the hunting for a blood-red, righteous, and Reaganesque November:

Can’t we just leave the ducks, the rabbits, the deer alone, and focus on a world that is aching with strife, that is weighed down by wars and conflicts, not to mention disease and hunger in vast stretches of Africa? Can’t we go back to respecting the privacy of religious faith and stop using God as a campaign tool? And can’t we please, please, please admit that imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery; it’s just an indication that the imitator is going through a serious identity crisis.

Typed in from the Guardian, week of 11/16/2007:

A governmental audit of the Ronald Reagan presidential library and museum has failed to account for 80,000 to 100,000 items of White House memorabilia. Auditors the disapperances from the complex in Simi Valley, near Los Angeles, indicated the “near universal” breakdown of security.

Hey, freedom’s untidy!  Read more