Feeling melancholy today
And by melancholy I mean the second definition on this page.
Lamest.NYT.Attack.Ever.
They devoted plenty of pages criticizing how Republicans were launching harsh attacks on Barack Obama in the days, weeks, and months leading up to the election. What are they doing now? Taking shots at Republicans for … being gracious after Obama’s win on Tuesday.
WaPo admits pro-Obama bias
Ed Morrissey unloads this morning on WaPo ombudsman Deborah Howell’s analysis of election coverage from her paper over the last year. Make sure to read Ed’s full post to get a good idea of just how lopsided the coverage was in favor of Obama – not only that, but Ms. Howell admitted the WaPo flat out fell down on the job as it related to digging into Joe Biden’s past like they did Gov. Sarah Palin’s.
Obama’s first big day as president-elect
Today Obama held a presser (transcript here) on the economic crisis and discussed some of the plans he’ll try to implement to bring the economy out of the funk it’s in right now. Frankly, he looked like a deer in headlights. In the process, he made a ‘joke’ of sorts about seances and Nancy Reagan (and he said it after a remark he made about consulting with presidents who were “still living“) that didn’t go over well, for which he has apologized to her personally. I’ll cut him a break on it because he looked like a bundle of nerves. I would too if I had that thin of a resume and I’d just been elected president. Time for responsibility. No more “present” votes. No more skipping out on important votes due to “campaign responsibilities.”
More on the McCain-Palin campaign infighting
Last night on her CNN show “No Bias, No Bull,” Campbell Brown went off on the anonymous sources in the McCain campaign who are trying to trash Gov. Sarah Palin, noting that some of the allegations being reported were “patently false”:
Friday/Weekend open thread
I shall be back this evening, ya’ll.