I’ve been wondering whether the whole Hillary for Secretary of State thing might just be a feint — floating her name to pay her back for services rendered — but after speaking to people in the know, I now think there’s a very real possibility she’ll be the pick.
It’s hard to deny that naming Clinton [...]

This man appears to be off his gourd.

John McWhorter had a characteristically thoughtful and serious piece on Obama’s election in Forbes a few days back. Don’t miss it. I’m sorry the Sun won’t be around to carry his column anymore, but it’s good to see Forbes running him, and I hope it’ll be a regular occurrence.
(The piece also contains a [...]

Dunno how I missed them before, but these self-deprecating parody Chicago Tribune fronts are a good laugh.

Earlier this evening, I passed at least a hundred people waiting in line in the dark in front of an office building at Farragut Square, two blocks from the White House. As I drew closer, I realized the predominately African-American crowd had gathered to buy copies of the day’s Washington Post, heralding Barack Obama’s election [...]

CNN reports:
Randy Scheunemann, a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain, was fired from the Arizona senator’s campaign last week for what one aide called “trashing” the campaign staff, three senior McCain advisers tell CNN.
One of the aides tells CNN that campaign manager Rick Davis fired Scheunemann after determining that he had been in direct [...]

Here we are thinking, ah, sweet relief, the election is over, and then something like this comes out:
The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown “foreign entity,” prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today.
At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology experts [...]

Bob Ray Sanders has one worth reading in today’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Barack Obama sailed to a resounding victory tonight.  This election is historic for all the reasons pundits have said.  It’s historic in its repudiation of the long and terrible legacy of racism.  It’s historic in its repudiation of a painful and counterproductive foreign policy.
But above all, and however you feel about it, it’s historic because [...]

Turnout suppressing rain across Colorado, Pennsylvania and Virginia—all battleground states.
Forecast: A Rovian conspiracy of cosmic proportions!

Via Ansible:
Michael Chabon explains the mood of the US Democratic National Convention in easy-to-understand terms as ‘like the change that might occur between the first and second volumes of some spectacular science fiction fantasy epic. / At the end of the first volume, after bitter struggle, Obama had claimed the presumptive nomination. We Fremen had [...]

Jacob makes some fair points again in the comments below. The Right has always had and, godwilling, always will have the advantage over the Left in the freedom to dissent department (or at least that’s what my cognitive bias asserts). Ramesh Ponnuru, for example, recently called Fukuyama the “most honorable and serious” of the Obamacons—pace [...]

I think Dan and pmm have fair points about Palin’s role in contributing to McCain’s unpopularity at this point, but in the end, I think Palin is mostly a distraction. If this election were a referendum on experience, Obama himself would be in trouble. What’s really at issue is judgment. Looking at polls on Iraq, [...]

This one counts, as Susan Gilmore of the Seattle Times writes:
When Jeanette Williams was living in a convalescent home, she always had a Barack Obama button affixed to her clothes. She was known there as the Obama Lady, said her daughter, Patty Kraniotis.
Before Mrs. Williams died Friday (Oct. 24) at age 94, of arterial disease, [...]

Pretty funny. (Hat tip: JL)

Nicholas Kristof makes light of an al-Qaeda supporter’s endorsement of John McCain in the U.S. presidential election:
“Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” read a commentary on a password-protected Islamist Web site that is closely linked to Al Qaeda and often disseminates the group’s propaganda.
There are two ways to read this: [...]

James Goldgeier thinks a President Obama would have just as tough a go of it as a President McCain would:
“There is an expectation by the Europeans that Barack Obama could come in as president and he is going to wave his magic wand and everything is going to be different,” said James Goldgeier, expert at [...]

Ordinarily, this would fall flat on its face, but these guys have accomplished a rare feat: repeating history first as farce, and second as tragedy:

Nothing like turning something you’d otherwise be inclined to urinate on into an original work of art. Duchamp would love YouTube… (Hat tip: JJ)

Charles Krauthammer has penned his endorsement of John McCain: 
The case for McCain is straightforward. The financial crisis has made us forget, or just blindly deny, how dangerous the world out there is. We have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism. An apocalyptic soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. A nuclear-armed Pakistan in danger of fragmentation. A rising Russia pushing [...]