XDA (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
In an interesting article , Michael Kinsley describes why the Republicans could pull off a win at the top of the ballot in November. They jujitsu the opponents strengths into weakness, says Kinsley. Perhaps we do. Notice that Kinsley repeats two talking points that are not in fact true. The [Republicans] conjured up the Swift boat campaign and managed to turn Kerry's military...
Discriminations (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Michael Kinsley opposes “ class war ,” which he thinks would result from substituting affirmative action based on class for affirmative action based on race. Although he recognizes that “racial affirmative action is ... a raw sore on our body politic,” he does not explain why he believes class-based affirmative action would lead to “blood in the streets resentments” but race-based affirmative...
Riehl World View (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... If you search Time.com for "Bill Ayers" - aside from letters, you get a defense of Obama by Michael Kinsley in May . But if you dig a bit more, you'll find this by Charles Krauthammer from December 31, 2001 : The fire at ground zero burned for exactly 100 days, finally going out on Dec. 19. But not before it forged a new America. The old America made its final appearance just hours...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... have assumed "bragging rights" about their age and what they can still accomplish despite it, as Michael Kinsley wrote in The New Yorker in April. At a pool in downtown Los Angeles, Kinsley encountered a stranger who interrupted his laps long enough to say, "I'm 90 years old." The man, Richard Ibanez, a retired judge, died in November at age 97, but swam every morning until...
English Webster (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Convicted Of Charisma By Michael Kinsley Washington Post, 8/23/2008 Kinsley explains the Republican strategy for presidential elections. He says they don’t waste much time and energy probing the Democratic opponent’s weaknesses. Instead, they go after his biggest strength. So, in 2004 they attacked Kerry’s war service and in 1988 went after Dukakis’ populist appeal. Now the Republicans...
American Spectator (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Democrat elitists are sometimes too smart for their own good.
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
By Michael Kinsley Washington Post Saturday, August 23, 2008 "On Thursday, as the convention moves from the indoor Pepsi Center to Mile High, an open-air football stadium, Democrats will have to balance their desire to spotlight Obama's enthusiastic following with concern that images of a cheering throng will ratify Republican attacks on the candidate as a glitzy but untested celebrity."...
A Spork in the Drawer (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Writing in the WaPo, Michael Kinsley has discovered that the Republicans like to attack their opponents' strong points. Granted, everyone else figured this out a decade ago but let's allow Kinsley have his moment anyway. .
