Barack Obama
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See Glenn Greenwald and Daniel Larison. Read more
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Andrew Bacevich writes that we need a wholesale repudiation of the Bush legacy in foreign policy – preventive war, “enhanced” interrogation, the metastasizing national security state, the black hole version of the executive that draws all power to itself, etc. McCain, with minor modifications, represents a continuation of the Bush legacy. It falls, then, to Read more
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Britain’s Labour Party needs to reinvent itself as a new liberal party. Obama vs. McCain on climate and energy policy – not the same. Animals as gentically modified drug machines. Is Google re-wiring our brains? Obama: what kind of liberal? Read more
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Antiwar.com’s Justin Raimondo has recanted his earlier support for Obama in light of the latter’s recent speech to AIPAC where he, among other things, called Iran the greatest threat to world peace and vowed to do whatever it takes to prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons. Lots of antiwar people have been drawn to Obama, Read more
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Surprisingly, two debates have largely occupied the newly live American Conservative blog: one about what exactly constitutes “paleoconservatism” and one about whether conservatives should support Barack Obama for president. The two debates are intertwined in that several of the TAC writers seem uncertain whether paleos should continue to think of themselves as a dissident minority Read more
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It may just be a quirk of this drawn-out primary season, but as a native of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, I’m happy to see some attention finally being paid to the state’s political complexity. Here’s a NY Times piece about Barack Obama trying to learn to speak Pennsylvanian by bringing his celestial rhetoric down Read more
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The other day I blogged about the comments from esteemed religious historian Martin Marty on Jeremiah Wright’s ministry that Nicholas Kristof quoted in a recent column. Well, Marty has penned an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education on the matter here. Read more
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Jeremy has an interesting post putting some of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s more controversial remarks in context–including theological context; something the mainstream media is particularly bad at. Which is not to say that those comments are above critique, but that our definition of “mainstream” political discourse is perhaps rather narrow. Read more
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One noteworthy fact mentioned in this Nicholas Kristof column on the Obama/Jeremiah Wright brouhaha is that, apparently, noted religious historian and veritable dean of American mainline Lutheranism Martin Marty is a longtime associate of Wright’s: Many well-meaning Americans perceive Mr. Wright as fundamentally a hate-monger who preaches antagonism toward whites. But those who know his Read more
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Andrew Bacevich offers a cold-blooded argument for an Obama presidency. The key point is that electing Obama will serve as a repudiation of the Iraq war and, to a lesser extent, the imperial trajectory of which it’s a key part. This, Bacevich thinks, could set the stage for a revival of “genuine conservatism,” which he Read more
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