... with others. I'm not saying he didn't waste some of his political capital here and there, but that doesn't explain the racial ugliness that seems to underlie much of it. Part of it is the VRWC. Even if you've never watched Glenn Beck - I never have - one inevitably has heard that "Obama hates white people" on someone's blog, and that he's "playing the race ...

... be too stupid, blind or malleable to think for themselves, so they must be nothing more than pawns. And who is doing the manipulating? Remember Hillary Clinton and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (VRWC)? Dickinson echoes and updates the familiar theme with this pack of assertions: "Call it the return of the Karl Rove playbook: The effort to mobilize the angriest fringe of the Republican ...

... . + Newmark's Door linked The Real Trouble with Afghanistan and Obama and I liked this comment: I am privileged to have a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Decoder Ring and, trust me, Esquire is not a VRWC member. + Personal Liberty Digest used the wrong verb for Tom in the following attribution: "China is looking for a landline connection to the Persian Gulf or endeavoring to create a ' ...

My friend David Denholm has passed along an interesting post on unions, the economy, and the purported vanishing middle class. I wanted to pass it along to al of you here. David’s blog can be found at David’s VRWC What vanishing middle class? -By David Denholm There is a constant refrain from union ...

A very short post for the centre right activists in the room. I spent a very productive couple of hours today with some members of the VRWC. We talked about the Auckland Council elections next year, including the mayoral race. The race for the baubles of office next year is going to be a simple left/right battle. I am on the right (and correct) side. Being on this side is going to ...

... these attacks will occur, and the only variance will be the internal details of the attack. If any Democrat wins the Presidency we'll have the crazy lunatic brigade of the VRWC trying to gin up a scandal where there is nothing there.... And a few months later in Steve Benen is making the same type of argument for Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) with regards to her cloture vote on healthcare: ...