Eugene S. Robinson's Blog, page 5

Master of the Palin Affect

Not to spoil the fun, but Democrats shouldn't take the Republican Party's bitter internal warfare—and the inexperienced, flaky candidates who've emerged from the fray—as any kind of reassurance about November.

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Newt and the Closet Kenyan

Is Newt Gingrich just pretending to have lost his mind, or has he actually gone around the bend? His lunacy certainly seems genuine enough.

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A 'Framework' Seriously Bent

Just how corrupt is the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan? It should be clear by now that President Hamid Karzai doesn't want us to know.

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Haley Barbour's Ridiculous Story

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who may seek the Republican nomination for president, is trying to sell the biggest load of revisionist nonsense about race, politics and the South that I've ever heard. Ever.

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Our Quick-Fix Electorate

Voters appear to be so fed up with the Democrats that they're ready to toss them out in favor of the Republicans—for whom, according to those same polls, the nation has even greater contempt.

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The Ambiguity of War's End

Now that the Iraq war is over—for U.S. combat troops, at least—only one thing is clear about the outcome: We didn't win.

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