Though I can appreciate critiques of Obama for being too willing to accommodate the more conservative forces within his own party, and while I'm hardly enamored of the direction that some of this administration's big ticket items are heading, comparing Barack Obama to Booker T....
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In other news, Joe Lieberman is still a national embarrassment.
It's nice to see so many wingnuts lifting Helen Thomas -- the recipient of so much of their loathing over the years -- and bearing her aloft on their shoulders.
Condoleeza Rice explaining why the use of harsh interrogation techniques was justified against Al Qaeda suspects, but not World War II German POWs: With all due respect, Nazi Germany never attacked the homeland of the United StatesIn fact, the German Kriegsmarine sank approximately 600 US...
Seriously:Illinois' embattled but defiant governor turned to the history books to describe the emotional strain on him and his family, comparing his arrest last month to Japan's attack on Pearl.
Yglesias:Meanwhile, if we launch a war with Russia — which would seem to be the point of busting out the analogy — then how are we going to find the.
The conquest of Germany and Japan was not, in the largest sense, motivated by the belief that the German and Japanese people needed to be liberated from tyranny. We were happy enough to "liberate" them, but surely the Soviet Union was far more tyrannical than...
I can't think of a recent presidential campaign that's been characterized by as many terrible historical analogies as this one. From Obama's evocations of Ronald Reagan, to McCain's addled nonsense.