Rachel Is Right

For reasons unknown (as in the sense of entirely known), Rachel Maddow drives the RWS™, and those who love them, crazy. Threats to their intellect and sexuality aside, the problem is that she's both tough and factual. Snarky? Yeah, that too. But always factual. And in addition to differing from the RWS™ in those important ways, she's also SANE!!! Not to mention that her piece sort of harks back to this.

Anyone find anything not factual, not sensible in what she says? Especially her concluding remarks?

Journalist. Candidate. Intelligent Interview

If you want to see an interview by a thoughtful and intelligent journalist, and responses by an intelligent and thoughtful candidate, look below. For those of you who might be less inclined to appreciate it, I warn that the first couple minutes are a little snarky. But Rachel Maddow is what we need in our media people: smart, informed, straightforward. These interviews are, in my opinion, the best I've ever seen: good and substantive questions on serious subjects. How nice it would be if they were all like that. In my opinion, there's much to admire in Senator Obama's answers: depth, intelligence, bipartisanship. Would that people could see it. It's hard for me to believe that if skeptics would allow themselves a moment of openness, they'd not be impressed that THIS is what we need in a president. Not ideologic. Not hyperpartisan. Pragmatic, knowledgeable, direct. The choice, to me, is clear as mountain water.

We haven't had someone like this in the White House for what seems like ever. If only our politics allowed people to observe, rather than react.