Political discourse in this country being in the state it’s in, I was only mildly surprised to find this post at feministe, the latter part of which pretends to encapsulate the argument I made in response to the Chicago Tribune’s ridiculous essay about racial victimhood and who, in essence, can lay claim to it. Writes Jill (for a post she shoehorns into the categories “Assholes, Racism” — as if Jill

The Politico reports that John McCain’s campaign and others in the GOP think Barack Obama’s campaign is speaking in “code” as part of an attempt to highlight his age: Obama aides deny any strategy to highlight age, and Obama, 46, himself told reporters last month that age should not be a factor. Indeed, he used to compliment McCain’s “half-century of service” to the country as a Vietnam War veteran and a

A commenter with a fondness for science-fiction writes: why does it drive u into a frenzy that ppl believe in O and admire him? The short answer is that it doesn’t, though it strikes me as somewhat irrational and disproportionate to his supposed public accomplishments. From June 1985 to May 1988, Obama was a community organizer with the Developing Communities Project in Chicago, working primarily to organize a housing project called Altgeld Gardens. 

Keith Olbermann may be the longest of long shots to replace the late Tim Russert as the host of NBC’s Meet The Press, but that will not matter in the grand scheme of things for NBC News.  Two pieces from bastions of the establishment media tell the tale. Yesterday’s New York Times featured a piece by David Carr on the larger meaning of Russert’s death, titled “In Mourning for a