- William Gibson: Undecided Voters – I look at these people and can't quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention?
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. "Can I interest you in the chicken?" she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of shit with broken glass in it?"
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.'
- Cartype : Chrysler Celebrates 25th Anniversary of the Minivan –
- infochimps.org: Map of Newspaper Endorsements for 2008 US Election –
- The 10 Signs of Intellectual Honesty | The Design Matrix – When it comes to just about any topic, it seems as if the public discourse on the internet is dominated by rhetoric and propaganda. People are either selling products or ideology. In fact, just because someone may come across as calm and knowledgeable does not mean you should let your guard down and trust what they say. What you need to look for is a track record of intellectual honesty.
- The McCain Mutiny – The Daily Beast – Of course almost all the shots come from consultants and hacks who didn’t get hired, or were fired by the McCain campaign. Or were part of some past presidential campaign in which they still revel in the glory and clink toasts to one another as if they cured the measles. Many of these people, who profess to “love McCain,” are firing blistering shots at the campaign through the press, which serves only one purpose. And it ain’t to help McCain.
- Why Obama Staffers Are Secretly Worried, and Other Dispatches from the Campaign Trail – The Daily Beast – “The Obama officials are very cautious,” says an attendee at the Austin meeting. “They want comfortable margins in place just in case. They are looking at three to six percentage points as a possible Bradley effect. Before they consider a state comfortable, they want it outside the polling margins. They think the Bradley effect could be as large as six—maybe even seven—percentage points, but they don’t really know.”
- Firedoglake » Banks “We have better things to do with that money you gave us than lend it out” – In other words, as long as banks are being allowed to buy up failed competitors for cents on the dollar, they're going to keep their powder dry and not lend. Add to that that they don't much want to lend going into a horrible recession, and that many of them don't look too liquid even after the bailout, and not only aren't they going to lend, they're going to keep contracting credit.
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