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Charles Krauthammer is not having any of this creepy cultish Obama nonsense. In his new column, “Obama Casts His Spell” (that is the real headline), the Washington Post blowhard says he’s the only wrong-about-everything right-wing realist who can escape the bewitching African charms of this Democratic presidential “hopeful.” That means, somehow, that Barack Obama will “charm” his way into power. And then oh my god exactly 24 hours after President Hussein Obama is sworn in …. MORE »

“Cultural critic” James Wolcott, on his Vanity Fair blog, outlines why he voted for Hillary:

“Perhaps it’s my atheism at work but I found myself increasingly wary of and resistant to the salvational fervor of the Obama campaign, the idealistic zeal divorced from any particular policy or cause and chariot-driven by pure euphoria. I can picture President Hillary in the White House dealing with a recalcitrant Republican faction; I can’t picture President Obama in the same role because his summons to history and call to hope seems to transcend legislative maneuvers and horse-trading; his charisma is on a more ethereal plane, and I don’t look to politics for transcendence and self-certification.”

Why do you hate Love so much, Mr. Wolcott? [James Wolcott via Andrew Sullivan]

• Ken Lay predicted his own death! Just like Biggie Smalls and Martin Luther King! [Consumerist]

• Unless he didn’t, and is in Fiji right now. One of the two. [Dealing In Subterfuges]
• The name of the Dong. [Andrew Sullivan]
• We must reduce our dependence on foreign sources of kimchi! [Rude Cactus]
• Harold Ford of Tennessee - corruption so deep even Reuters can’t find it. [Sweetness & Light]
• James Wolcott is all about red meat and illegal fur - but draws the line at Honduran hookers. [James Wolcott]
• The lower you go in the Hookergate investigation the shadier the characters get. [TPM Muckraker]

James Wolcott, yesterday:

The most ludicrous thing [Brit] Hume said was that though this new information made Whittington’s condition more serious, it didn’t alter ‘the underlying facts of the case.’ It seems to me that if Whittington suffers permanent injury or dies from the accidental shooting, that would create an overlying fact that renders the ‘underlying facts’ irrelevant.

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