Russ McBee

Back in late February or early March, it was increasingly clear that McCain and Obama would be their parties' nominees. At that time, I firmly believed Obama could not beat McCain; I felt that he could have beaten any other Republican, but that McCain's appeal to the center would be impossible for Obama to overcome. I believed this so strongly, ...

I've never linked to RedState before, since it's just such an enormous waste of electrons and brain cells, but every once in a while, a post comes along that is so blazingly and hilariously self-delusional that it cannot be allowed to pass without remark. Some goofball named Dan Perrin has posted seven reasons why he thinks McCain will ...

Obama gave his ''closing argument'' speech yesterday, and it's powerful stuff: Meanwhile, the Bush White House (which McCain has supported over 90 percent of the time) is hard at work, frantically trying to destroy the environment as quickly as possible. Here's the closing argument against four more years of the most destructive president in US ...

Regarding the 2008 Republican platform, Chris Kelly said this: See, the problem here, for most Republican politicians, is that the platform is horrifying. A catalogue of revenge dreams and power fantasies, impossible and illegal, most of them involving women and scourging. It's the portrait in the attic of what Republican rule would look like, ...

Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) is finishing his final term in Congress, after losing his primary earlier this year. He's become disillusioned with his own party, and he has some less-than-charitable things to say about the GOP: We're in this bad place as a country because of the evangelicals, the neocons, the nasty, bitter and mean ... very clever ...

A group called Science Debate 2008 sent a list of questions about science and technology policy to Barack Obama and John McCain, covering such topics as science education, stem cell research, the politicization of science, space exploration, and numerous other topics. Both candidates responded to the list of fourteen questions; their answers are ...

This week's TennViews roundup of Tennessee liberal bloggers is three roundups in one: the first is on the Democratic National Convention, the second is on McCain's bizarre choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate, and the third is a roundup of everything else. Go here and see what everyone's been talking about this week.

Since about February, I've done my level best to ignore this presidential campaign, and this week, I'm doing my best to ignore the Democratic Convention. The horrible choices of candidates and the scripted pageant happening in Denver have stripped this election of any optimism I might have once held about the next four years. The outcome of this ...