Long Time, No Post

I know, it's been a while since I've posted here. I've been posting a lot over at the Moderate Voice as one of the few center-right voices. I've also been trying a tandem post thing at the Square Deal, but don't know how long that will last. Here are a few examples of what I've been doing:

• John McCain, Sarah Palin and Gay Rights

• Sarah Palin on Hot-Button Issues

• GOP and Diversity

I haven't decided if I'm going to start blogging here again, but I just might. Stay tuned.

Obama-Drama and the McCain Drain

Just a couple of interesting articles:

• John B. Judis thinks that Obama's "new-politics" is looking more like the old McGovern coalition and that might spell trouble in November.
• Salon's Walter Shapiro has an article that Obama is having trouble closing the deal with Democrats.

On the Republican side. You'd think John McCain would be doing rather well with Hillary and Obama fighting each other. You'd think wrong.

• Jonathan Cohn thinks Democrats need to chill about all the intraparty fighting going on. His reason. Just look at McCain's poll numbers.
• Ross Douthat agrees.

Life Imitates Art and Visa Versa

A few bloggers and other media folk have noticed that this presidential campaign seems to strangley follow the last two seasons of NBC's The West Wing, where a fictional presidential campaign took place. According to Slate, the similarities of the character Matt Santos, an idealistic Latino congressman from Texas and Senator Barak Obama is not by accident. Check out this video from Slate to learn more.


I feel the need to go to a store and buy those last two seasons.

Myers-Briggs: The Presidential Edition

Emily Yoffee has an article up about the personalities of Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama and John McCain. If you've ever done Myers-Briggs, you will understand it.

For the record my personality type is INTJ.