Category Archives: General Election

The Iran Elections, Raw Intelligence, and the Rat List

I’m starting The Rat List – a collection of Twitter users disseminating incorrect or blatantly propagandistic information.

17 June, 2009 – 1:39 am | By Josh Berthume | Posted in Foreign Policy, General Election, International Affairs, News and Media | Comments (0)

New Weapons

Telling it like it is, by Andrew Sullivan: Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father …

5 November, 2008 – 3:38 pm | By Josh Berthume | Posted in American Politics, General Election, War On Terror | Comments (0)

By the Sword

Years from now, it is unlikely that anyone other than people like me (re: people with a professional interest in terrorism) will care much about this example of backfired fear-mongering, but I think it is incredibly salient to the Right’s totally ridiculous assertions about how Obama is a secret Muslim terrorist. McCain and Palin raise …

22 October, 2008 – 3:07 pm | By Josh Berthume | Posted in Foreign Policy, General Election, War On Terror | Comments (2)

A Horrendous Beating with a Smile and a Nod

I can barely believe what I’ve just seen. John McCain, more or less, seethed and blinked his way to certain political ignominy. John McCain wanted to get Hillary Clinton’s voters the whole time, and tonight he blew that apart with his meltdown – and totally ghoulish – response on abortion and women’s health. He wanted …

15 October, 2008 – 10:37 pm | By Josh Berthume | Posted in American Politics, General Election | Comments (0)

All Over But The Crying

Embedded video from CNN Video

14 October, 2008 – 2:33 pm | By Josh Berthume | Posted in American Politics, General Election | Comments (1)

Little More Than an Angry, Panicked Mob

How are things going? John Weaver, McCain’s former top strategist, said top Republicans have a responsibility to temper this behavior. “People need to understand, for moral reasons and the protection of our civil society, the differences with Sen. Obama are ideological, based on clear differences on policy and a lack of experience compared to Sen. …

13 October, 2008 – 1:16 am | By Josh Berthume | Posted in American Politics, General Election | Comments (0)

The System Works

Who else is totally convinced that the McCain campaign totally vetted Sarah Palin totally for everything?

11 October, 2008 – 4:51 pm | By Josh Berthume | Posted in American Politics, General Election | Comments (0)