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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

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By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sep 11 2008, 6:39 PM ET Comment

Is anyone else watching the Sarah Palin interview? Wow...She sounds like she has no clue. 

UPDATE: Let me be clear. This isn't simply liberal crowing--in fact, I think any liberal crowing about this is missing the point. This is not about strong disagreements on policy--this is about listening to someone who has no handle on the facts, and thus can't even really disagree. This woman could be president. She seemed to have utterly no idea what the Bush Doctrine even was. Amazing.

UPDATE #2
Wow what a mangling of Lincoln. That's not even close to what she said. I'm off the fence on Palin, if I ever was. That was an incredibly ignorant interview. She is way scarier than Dick Cheney. She seems to have at best a pedestrian understanding of foreign policy. Incredible.




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