The New Republic

After perusing that list of articles....I can say without hesitation that TNR IS SO GAY FOR BARACK OBAMA.

I noticed, though, that you forgot to include the Sean Wilenz article accusing Barack Obama of systematically playing the race card IN A CONSPIRACY THE LIKES OF WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE THE DAWN OF (etc.......).

Could you link to that? My roommate forgot to pick up toilet paper at the store this week and I was thinking of printing it out.

- virginiacentrist

May 8, 2008 at 9:44am

Archives?  The archives actually work?

- tnmats

May 8, 2008 at 10:27am

V: The Wilentz piece is in there. Check again.

- tnr1.com

May 8, 2008 at 11:01am

What we really need now is a clamoring for a third party candidate.  One with a real energy policy (right now "no gas tax repeal" substitutes for sanity -- talk about the lesser of three evils) and isn't going to pass the tragedy that "green card amnesty" would be on American workers in their first year.  One who doesn't acquiesse to the gutting of voter power in America known as gerrymandering.  One who won't commit us to being in Iraq forever but also realizes that every friggin military person in Iraq rejects the Dems "political pressure" argument and that a pullout now will lead to Sunni ethnic cleansing and expodentially more civilian deaths that the world will blame us for regardless of whose "face" is in the White House?  

- Lymon1

May 8, 2008 at 11:54am

Ugh. I see it now.

I love this magazine, but that piece was just shameless. And now we find out that Wilentz is on Syd Blumenthal's email list where he sends out right-wing hit pieces.

You know, I had a Clintonite (actually very close to the former first lady) tell me (just yesterday) that it would soon be revealed that Barack Obama had used coke and giving oral sex to a man in 1999.  These people have no shame - none whatsoever.

- virginiacentrist

May 8, 2008 at 12:00pm

Lymon -

I'm with you on the amnesty thing. I'm still holding out hope that Democrats will somehow pass tough enforcement legislation and put off amnesty for a few more years until the borders are a bit more secure...

- virginiacentrist

May 8, 2008 at 12:02pm

VC -- this was Mickey Kaus' rationale for endorsing Clinton -- that Obama and McCain would surely get amnesty passed (Obama has promissed it within 9 months), but that Clinton would be incapable of getting the bipartisan cooperation necessary.  "Vote Hillary -- she won't get it done" was his motto.  The irony is that the nation's first African-American president will be the one to put the boot to the throat of the African-American underclass.  

I don't think it's really a border security thing, though.  You implement a secure ID system, then you make it a felony to hire illegal immigrants (with an Arizona like death penalty for corporations that do so -- two strikes and you're out or somesuch).  Give competitors the right to private enforcement and nobody in their right mind would hire an illegal immigrant.  Create a needs-exemption for certain industries like farming (but not meat packing).  And voila -- you recreate demand for unskilled American workers that existed in the late 1990's, the only time since reconstruction when African-Americans gained economically at a faster pace as American society.

- Lymon1

May 8, 2008 at 1:09pm