Miscellaneous

Benazir Bhutto

By jeremyblachman

Apparently she's on the cover of this week's Parade magazine supplement.  Except they went to press before she was assassinated and the magazine makes no reference to it.  Oops.  Read more here.  It's pretty insane.  Like, someone should be fired insane.  Really.

I almost wrote a post after watching the Democratic debate last night.  And again after watching the Republican debate tonight.  But I realized I have nothing to add to the discussion.  I am moved by none of the candidates, and yet can see almost all of them having a viable chance to win and not being complete disasters.  After watching the debates, if I was playing Primary God, I would think we should end up with a McCain / Obama contest.  But it's not like I think Romney / Clinton would really be a substantively different pair of choices.  I guess what struck me watching each debate is that it seems like as far as policy positions most of the Republicans basically agree with each other (with the notable exception being Huckabee's flat tax, I guess), and most of the Democrats basically agree with each other.  Obviously there are nuances, but it definitely seems like they agree more than they disagree and it's all coming down to personality and the intangible factors.

Full post as published by Jeremy Blachman's Brand New Weblog on January 06, 2008 (boomark / email).