andrew sullivan c/d

They both seem like children to me no matter who they are arguing with.

oh plz.

Good God. The utter lack of engagement with the arguments of a book that has yet to be published is revealing - and the deployment of personal matters as a way to smear someone is exactly the same tactic as Jeffrey Goldberg's abuse of private matters, like his version of a conversation we once had

that's what this is all about. sullivan is embarrassed bc goldberg spilled the beans that his conversion on israel was about his love for obama. doesn't everyone already know that sullivan seems to know frightfully little about israel, middle east, etc and switches his opinion based on the political climate? dude's entire shtick these days is practically, "i used to believe X but now i believe the total opposite."

I'm sure I'm the last person still interested in any of this, but Sullivan in never-never land today:

"...like Joe Klein, I'm beginning to think that Eric Fehrnstrom's description of his own candidate as an Etch-A-Sketch, capable of erasing anything he has believed or said in the past instantly, is close to a disqualifying comment."

Ignoring for a second that the election is still 7-8 months away, ignoring whatever accidental truth there is to what the guy said, and ignoring that he posted this on a day where Obama reminded everyone of his own problems in that area, should he maybe take into consideration that it was something said by somebody on the campaign, not Romney himself? Disqualifying comment? "I'm suspending my campaign as of today; someone who works for me said something stupid."

Later on in the same post, he accidentally returns to reality: "But what does it say about Obama's strength that he's still polling only four or five points over this gaffe-prone robot?"

This is precisely why Etch-a-Sketch was funny exactly two seconds. A campaign aide made a remark that Reinforced A Narrative? really?

I can see where the story will make Romney needlessly squirm some more during the nomination. (Gingrich has a good ad up today.) Trying to carry the story over into the general seems silly to me.

Today on the Dish, Andrew wondered if America was on the road to post-Obamacare single payer while we detailed the specific path down that route, noted the somewhat circumscribed role of the mandate, guessed at whether the Medicad expansion would get thrown out by SCOTUS, cautioned against seeing the Constitution in black-and-white, developed a timeline for hearing the Court's decision, compared Obama's fight with the Court to Bush's, and forecasted the negative consequences of the mandate's defeat for Obama's reelection campaign.

he wondered, noted, guessed, cautioned, developed, compared, and forecasted. what a renaissance man!

so boring lately

so is this guy like a lutheran now or what

http://feministing.com/files/2012/05/newsweek.jpg

Yes, I am ready to eat jellyfish.

http://media.salon.com/2012/05/sullivan-460x307.jpg

what a fuckwit

Honestly, considering he could've died of AIDS as a wunderkind, it's great to see him bald and grey.

haven't read his blog in months and much happier for it, i think

uh, he's been bald since before he was placing ads for sex (while decrying gay promiscuity). xp

Posted on the Marriage to Alfred thread.... G.G. chronicles Sullivan's move from indifference toward Obama's "evolution" to full-on Daddy weeping:

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/14/andrew_sullivans_father_figure/

yeah I finally pulled him out (lol) of my reader & have been happier too, though I guess less knowledgable about the hott blogggg topics of the day. the news these days, it happens too fast.

This guy's such a courtier.

first black president (clinton edition)/first gay president is such a grossly cute way to talk abt things

besides i thought lincoln was the first gay president

Buchanan

This guy's such a courtier.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 14, 2012 1:58 PM (2 days ago)

He seems to have been saddended by this judgment. (Well, not yours specifically but imagine if.)

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/05/pressuring-the-president.html

I closed that window yesterday, unwilling to be moved by the 0.0004456 of a percentage separating Glenn Greenwald and Sully's views on sodomy and civil liberties.

But but but the splitting of hairs

Friedersdorf shakes his head. It's a fair review: why Sully is infuriating yet so readable.

Will Wilkinson as well:

http://bigthink.com/ideas/does-andrew-sullivans-obamaphilia-make-sense

And Sullivan responds and etc:

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/05/pressuring-the-president-ctd.html

lol that url does-andrew-sullivans-obamaphilia-make-sense

Spurred on by all the bad news for Obama last week, Sullivan has been in overdrive the last two or three days. It's June 11--I do believe he's headed for some sort of meltdown if Obama starts consistently running behind in the polls.

it's either that or posts with headlines like "Can Beagles Be Trained to Parachute?"

Wishin' and hopin':

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/06/the-core-reality-of-this-campaign.html

Skipping how Romney measures up against normal campaign legerdemain--I imagine he's worse than most, although not all that much worse--I'm quite sure Nixon in '72 (and probably '68, too) takes that prize with room to spare.

Yes, I take major exception to Romney being the most mendacious of candidates. He's got serious competition.

man this guy is really all about foreskins

Headline today: How Hot Is Hell?

Still taking time out for the occasional View from Bain Capital Your Window.

Tom Hardy says he experimented with gay sex. There are rumors that he played Bane in the latest Batman movie. I have to say: I couldn't tell. And couldn't understand almost anything he said. What a steaming pile of crap that movie was.

I know I've been the only person waiting for this:

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/paul-ryan-vs-fiscal-conservatism.html

"But he is, in some ways, a pellucidly bright plant bred in the conservative movement's hydroponic greenhouse." Exactly--that's why his ears are big and his clothes don't fit.

Some nicely turned phrases by Sullivan in that post. Maybe he had extra time to work on it over his vacation. It's a more persuasive conservative dis on Ryan than the David Stockman op-ed that ran in the NY Times last week.

Sez he's planning on attending Burning Man next year:

After years of nagging by my most relentless partner in crime, I've agreed to go next year. In an RV.

oh for jesus sake

Anyone who had the BurningMan - Hillary4Prez quinella yesterday, don't forget to stop by the window to collect.

NSFW

haha damn dude

Jesus. I'm in a public place reading that, kind of not noticing the giant picture everyone around me can see...

But a question: If someone is that out of touch with reality, why are they given jobs as analysts in television or the newspapers? If a dentist drilled into your forehead rather than your tooth, he'd be accountable. Those paid handsomely to examine the American social and political landscape can miss by the same mile and blithely carry on as if nothing had happened.

Agreed (he's specifically talking about George Will). But didn't Sullivan himself flat-out declare that Obama was finished after the first debate?

lol @ this dude of all people saying this

Write to him and tell him that! He'd happily publish it as a Dissent of the Day. xp

I might, though I'm pretty sure he'd say the same thing he always says: he's a blogger, not an analyst, and his job is to write down his immediate reactions unfiltered. That's his umbrella explanation for everything.

Andrew Sullivan is the unfrozen caveman lawyer of bloggers

this fucking guy

But he just got RE-ELECTED. It's a classic time for magnanimity - and yet he began the critical negotiations by poking the defeated GOP in the eye. This is not the new politics. It's the old partisanship. I hope it works. I fear it won't.

re Obama's new belligerence.

I just heard David Brooks on NPR saying something similar: deep down GOP realizes Obama has a mandate to raise taxes on the rich, but they need some time to get their head around it, so Obama needs to be gentle with them.

"I can't believe he's acting like the president he said he was going to be!"