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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.

The Cheney Endorsement

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nov 2 2008, 9:40 AM ET Comment

I've been informed that I can no longer use the term, Epic Fail,so I'll just say this, in a nutshell, is why these guys will lose. Who thinks the way to close the argument for McCain is to secure a Cheney endorsement? I would have loved to been in on that strategy meeting. Like, "Oh Obama's doing that Afromercial and is rallying with Clinton, but we've got something for them...."

These cats need to October Surprise harder. Plumbers with recording contracts? White-chicks who can't even execute the old Scottsboro boys joint? Aunts overstaying their welcome? These guys give good, decent tax-paying demagouges a bad name. They should be ashamed.




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