National Security

Thus far, it seems that Obama's been true to his word about maintaining a post ideological "team of rivals". The National Security Team is no different.

Not sure how I feel about Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, but, at the end of the day, I'll feel a hell of a lot better about it than who McCain would've picked.

The (New) New Deal

The thing I don't believe many folks have understood about the historic nature of Obama's run is that, for all of this glossy newness, it is very much a repudiation of the the New Left, the left that came to prominence in the 1960's, and the left that the G.O.P have been chafing themselves gleeful on ever since. What Obama, and his vision, and those of us who worked for him, see as the future is not the paisley light show platitudes, bourgoisie revolution-with GUITARS- that characterize the vague recollections of so many of the principal players, now as stale as the next day's roaches, but something else, something considerably more ancient and sepia toned, more Woody Guthrie than MC5, which takes the energy and moral authority that prompted the sixties without its silly, classist excesses.

What American needs now is a New Deal.

I Am The Greatest

still recovering, but I haven't forgotten...

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Peanut Butter and Communism

Barack Obama and everything he learned about dialectical materialism, he learned in Kindergarten.

Hilarious.