Comments on: McDictator

By: The Goldfarb Variations

The Goldfarb Variations — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:12:22 +0000

[...] going to have to take Reihan Salam’s side against Radley Balko in the recent dust up over the McCain campaign’s hiring of Weekly Standard blogger Michael [...]

By: old

old — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:29:29 +0000

Who the hell would hire a blogger for anything? I thought the ads on their sidebars paid them handsomely!

By: Outside The Beltway | OTB

Outside The Beltway | OTB — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:10:49 +0000

Goldfarb and McCain…

Yesterday’s announcement that Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb is taking a leave of absence “to serve as deputy communications director of the McCain campaign” has been greeted with surprising interest from bloggers across the…

By: chris horton

chris horton — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:14:03 +0000

Good one Jozef! And you KNOW it was raw milk to boot! If it’s good enough for George……..

By: Zeb

Zeb — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:04:59 +0000

Nando,
I like being a word usage Nazi, so here you go. Substituting “two” for “to” is not a grammar mistake, it is a word choice (or more likely spelling) mistake.

By: annemg

annemg — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:22:46 +0000

I kind of like the idea of dairies of the Constitutional Convention. In all seriousness… the idea that the founding fathers felt that the president should have near-dictatorial powers with respect to anything at all is nothing short of ludicrous. It makes me wonder if perhaps Goldfarb is reading the history of the wrong country.

By: Nando

Nando — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:16:28 +0000

John McCain just hired the Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb two be his number-two communications guy

Radley, I hate to be a grammar nazi, but you used the wrong form of “to” in your first sentence (you added a “w”).

On the subject matter, this guy is pretty out there in right field. At least he isn’t a lobbyist, LOL

By: Jozef

Jozef — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:20:26 +0000

“by any reasonable reading of the Constitution, Federalist Papers, or dairies of the Constitutional Convention”

So the founding fathers spent the convention drinking milk? Or did they do any “Got Milk” adverts instead of writing the Constitution?