Only in America. Mostly.

• "I mean, he's young and I think people would take us more seriously with Iraq and everything...Personally, I think we're either going to have a woman president or we're going to have a black president, which are both amazing. Right now it's time for change, and I think both of them are great. But [Obama] is cool. I just think he's cool.” [E !Online]

• "[A]s we get deeper into the primary calendar, increasingly so, this ‘what the Republicans will do' line has become more of a simulacrum, or a license, if you will, to do what Republicans actually do do. That is to say, to grab for political advantage by peddling stereotypes about Democrats and liberals that are really no less offensive than the ones we're talking about about Americans from small town and rural America." [Josh]

• "This use of 'misspeak' is of American origin." [The NYer]

• "The trend over the past 50 years is clear: those voters with incomes in the lower third of the distribution have been trending Democratic. Among working class voters overall, the trend from 1952 to now is positive for Democrats." [Ambers]

• "It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess." [Weber] (Thanks, BG.)