Tuesday, October 28, 2008  Stupid but fair questions for Biden
on socialism  A foolish journalist asked attack-dog questions of
Joe Biden recently, asking whether Obama's positions were
socialist and comparing them to Karl Marx. The questions were
stupid because they assume some bright line exists between
socialism and the redistributionist aspects of American policy
that have been in place since the Great Depression. However,
it's fair to take public statements and critique them. An unfair
question would've been to use made-up evidence from wingnuts
that Obama is a secret socialist as the basis of an accusation.
It was inappropriate for the Obama campaign to cut off access to
that TV station, and I wish American politicians were forced to
tolerate the same level of persistent questioning that you see
in Britain.  OTOH, the same newscaster only asked McCain why he
was insufficiently negative about Obama, so she's a piece of
work.  Monday, October 27, 2008  Rauch's "perverse voting" =
contrarian = stupid  The