Archive for the 'Election 2008' Category



Undecided Voters

Everyone is talking about the undecided voter. As I write this, I’m watching a line graph on CNN track the impressions of “uncommitted Ohio voters.”
I’m pretty sure my father has already made this point, but I’ll reiterate: if you don’t know who you’re going to vote for by now, you don’t possess enough philosophical sophistication [...]

Debates

[9:57] Obama is talking about my “right” to health care (McCain may have referred to it that way as well - I can’t remember). I want someone to provide for me the philosophical basis of that assertion. Tell me why we ought to tack “health care” on to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness [...]

In Defense of Sarah Palin

While I’m almost certain this point has been made elsewhere, having failed to hear it in the general press, I am compelled to make it here: the only reason anybody has taken notice of Sarah Palin’s daughter, her husband’s tryst with the Alaskan Independence Party, or her dismissal of Walter Monegan is because no one [...]

…and I’m already experiencing mental fatigue every time I hear a talking head employ the term “gravitas.”






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