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Oct 08Saturday afternoon housekeeping.
I was going to post about Republican true believers’ desperation and my theory that McCain and Palin are actively trying to provoke the assassination of Barack Obama, but Caroline beat me to it. I’ll just add a quote from a McCain aide, who said “Sometimes people just do what they want.”
A few days late, but FiveThirtyEight hypothesizes that (aside from assassination) only Osama bin Laden coming out for Obama could swing this election:
While bin Laden is many things, he is not hopelessly unintelligent. He knew that his video would help Bush’s bid for re-election, even if – or precisely because – the immediate reaction from voters (and far too many pundits) was that his intentions were the exact opposite. Somehow, we as a nation took the statements of the world’s most heinous and duplicitous man at face value.
When it came to the 2004 election, bin Laden was neither pro-Bush nor pro-Kerry. He was pro-war. And whichever candidate was most likely to sustain, or even escalate, that war was his man. That candidate was clearly George W. Bush, which meant it was time to turn on the cameras and burn a DVD.
Lastly, it turns out that Palin’s vindictive streak hasn’t been exaggerated.
Investigator Stephen Branchflower found evidence that Palin actively joined her husband, Todd, in pursuing a personal vendetta against the trooper and that she used state employees to try to settle a score in a bitter family feud.
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