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Council speak 05/30/08

The council has spoken.

Winning a tiebreaker decided by the Watcher, Bookworm Room finishes first among the council members for Why Jews Are Right To Suspect Obama's Advisers. It's an excellent reminder of what to worry about in face of an organized campaign to label anyone who doesn't support Sen. Obama as parochial, ignorant or just plain racist.

I was the council member who was tied for "Dear Mr. Hoyt."

Third place was also tie (but not broken) between the Glittering Eye's Strange Device, a review of God and Gold by Walter Russell Mead and In which it gets worse by Done with Mirror. I guess you could say that those two posts represented the best and the worst of American thought.

If you're a blogger and you like what you see, please consider submitting your own post to the competition. Just follow the rules here.

watcher's council.

On the non-council side the winning entry was Kaboom's Deep Thoughts with Biggie Smalls, the views of an Iraqi translator. The runner up was a tie between my nominee Return to Sender by IowaHawk and Over red coffee cans and cigarettes, ruminations about Sen. Obama's views of diplomacy, by the Paragraph Farmer.

Congratulations to all the winners!