reputation

Troubling impressions of the Obama campaign from Denver:

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. —CHARLES A. BEARD

Rep. Jim Cooper, on of the first politicians of note to formally endorse Barack Obama in May 2007, shares his thoughts:

Tennessee doesn’t require sex offenders to register with the state’s sex crime registry if their conviction came while they were minors. On its face it makes sense. The justice system has a bias toward protecting children’s identities.

by Gail Kerr, The Tennessean, August 17, 2008

I don’t often read blogs written by young conservatives, because being an undergrad and being a conservative seems so depressingly borning, like you sit around all day checking your stocks and tut-tutting at the women still wearing white shoes after Labor Day.

Katherine Miller admires the TNGOP’s preference for making their own rules:

Central Intelligence Agency’s former Deputy Chief of Clandestine Operations Robert Richer says a forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery and probably came from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a new transcript.
“I would probably stand on my, basically, my reputation and [...]