Archive for August 28th, 2008
The McCain Veep Pick
- filed under Misc.
I shared my thoughts on John McCain’s Veep pick at the New Republic’s site. Bottom line — it will tell the American people much about whether he is a real maverick.
Hearing from a Hero
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Out of the blue I got an email from one of my musical heroes, Dave Allen of the Gang of Four. Turns out he read about the blog on the LA Times site. For a couple of years all I listened to were the Clash and the Gang of Four — two bands that wore their politics on their sleeves, challanged the status quo, and fused mission and music in a way that was never preachy and frequently danceable. If you have heard Franz Ferdinand you know what the Gang of Four sounded like; spiky guitars girded by driving funk. The Gang of Four did it first, better, and with (to use a phrase in the spirit of Democratic unity) the fierce urgency of now.
Turns out Dave Allen has a great blog that I highly recommend, and here is one of their classics, “At home he’s a tourist.”
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Unity Accomplished
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The dominant storyline heading into this convention was division and dischord among Democrats. And while some analysis and reporting of party rifts may have been overblown, Democrats did have work to do to during this last week to heal wounds drawn during a contentious 18 month primary fight.
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