President ’08
Jerry Landay provides an inkling as to why the Left is so viciously anxious to destroy any successful minorities who do not carry its water: They scuttle a semantic game that otherwise allows disagreement to be portrayed as bigotry. Consider: Race determined the primary outcome in three industrial swing states. Hillary Clinton, a white, won…
Setting aside for a moment how the MSM has made itself an all-but-formal part of the Obama presidential campaign team, there is another undiscussed angle to how Obama became his party’s nominee for President. Remember a decade ago how we were told Bill Clinton’s improper behavior with Monica Lewinsky was a “private” matter which had…
What is so unsettling about Barack Obama? Jay Nordlinger says: …What’s depressing, to a person like me, is that Obama has mastered the trick of coming off as perfectly moderate — even when your career and thought have been very different. Listening to Obama last night, you would have taken him to be a Sam…
We’ve all seen movies or TV shows in which the unlikely, different-from-the-norm character somehow acquires a position of influence. (For some reason the mid-’80s classics Brewster’s Millions and Protocol spring to mind.) And it always seems so utterly natural when they convey their charmingly naive selves with perfect ease when the plot puts them before…
Some of us had an initial positive impression of Sarah Palin. At the same time, we acknowledged that only time would tell whether she could cut it on the national stage. Her selection also brought out into full public view again the political agenda of the feminists and Left as the attempts to destroy Palin…
Something witty may be retrofitted into this space later. UPDATE: I like this new more aggressive Jim Lehrer. Where’s he been for his last 30 years of interviews?
Irwin Stelzer writes New Capitalism: Market capitalism in the United States will never be the same: No matter what deal is finally cut between Hank Paulson, the Democrats, and unhappy conservative Republicans, or even if no deal at all is finally worked out, market capitalism as practiced in the United States will never be the…
I took the Anchor Rising Slot with with Matt Allen on 630AM/99.7FM WPRO last night to talk about John McCain’s return to work, this week, and Barack Obama’s pledge to debate. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
From Drudge: MCCAIN SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN TO FOCUS ON ECONOMY; WANTS DEBATE DELAY Wed Sept 24 2008 14:58:02 ET McCain: America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system. We must pass legislation to address this crisis. If we do not, credit will dry up, with devastating consequences for our economy. People will no…
This week has been the latest version of the perfect storm on why it seems appropriate to say, how about we punt on all the presidential candidates and press the REDO button. John McCain George Will
