Mostly Election-Related Blogwatch
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Jack Carter (Jimmy Carter’s son) onNovember 4th and Obama’s Hereafter.
Ta-Nehisi Coates urges liberals to quit worrying about Obama already, while Rod Dreher thinks TNC’s post has some lessons for conservatives in defeat. That thought occurred to me as well, especially since I’m seeing some of conservative bloggers starting to make the same mistake that progressives have made in defeat – the “we’re losing because we haven’t been angry enough” mistake. Obama shows that winning isn’t so much about being sure you fight the election angry as about being sure you fight the election smart.
Also, via Rod Dreher, 109-year-old daughter of a slave votes for Obama.
For the record, though Andrew Sullivan’s right that Sarah Palin should do the normal candidate thing and release her medical records already, I think he’s being more than a little silly with his “pregnancy” obsession about Trig. What, is Bristol supposed to have given birth to a special needs child and then gone out and gotten pregnant again practically immediately? But I’ll still pass on his Sarah Palin: Schlemile? link to a column at Jewcy.
Also, for the record, the strip club Sarah Palin lookalike contest and the “Nailin’ Palin” porn flick by Larry Flynt (which advertises a threeway with Hillary Clinton and Condoleeza Rice lookalikes, the better to offend people across the spectrum, if they weren’t already offended by the whole premise) are both in really bad taste.
Meanwhile the Economist finally gets around to endorsing Obama (I guess they weren’t worried about influencing early voters – then again, I suspect the Economist does its presidential endorsements more to put its views on the record than out of a real expectation of having a big influence on US elections).