President ’08
For those interested in campaign tactical theory (I assume there is such a thing), the blogs Classical Values and Belmont Club both critique the “community organizer” Barack Obama for not doing a good job of adhering to Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” And Simon at CV offers a helpful analogy apt for this contest between…
Has anybody else gotten the sense that the Obamanation has the interesting effect of highlighting how extensively the zany intellectual clichés from the academic Left are ingrained in the liberal/Democrat movement? Consider Victor Davis Hanson’s post aptly titled “Postmodern Architecture”: What was stunning about the NY Times’ Bob Herbert’s charge that the McCain campaign, in…
Some of you asked for it, so what the heck. Herewith are the “good things about McCain” list from a conservative perspective, gathered by your intrepid parrot of the right wing machine. Also with new and improved suggestions! 1) Judges — is an explanation needed? Sure, there could be a Souter lurking there, but we…
Now c’mon, that’s gotta make you chuckle a little bit…
You know those small portrait pictures that newspapers include with stories after they’ve continued from the first page — so that the reader can gain the context quickly from the familiar faces? Well, seeing Obama’s and Britney’s pictures accompanying the same story in today’s Providence Journal, I wondered how many papers around the country have…
Trying to undermine your opponents credibility is one thing. What can McCain do to make himself something other than the Unbama? David Ignatius thinks McCain should get back to his roots as the “maverick.” When he says he preferred political defeat for himself to military defeat for his country, he is telling the truth. With…
Andrew Malcolm wonders where the Obama mojo is and, after reciting all of the reasons why he should be way ahead, finally stumbles on the root cause of doubt amongst much of the electorate: Obama’s…a legislator who’s been in Washington three years now, two of them as a member of a Democratic-controlled Congress that was…
Now is the time on Sprockets when we Dance!
Via N4N
At a conference call for bloggers, I was able to ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Bob Barr about his views on global warming, an area where I had criticized him last week for some seeming inconsistencies. Here is candidate Barr’s answer…Although I certainly do not believe that there is anything approaching a clear linkage between CO2…
Statements such as this suggest that Obama (probably among many Democrats and some Republicans) either doesn’t think comprehensively when it comes to strategy or is anxious to diminish America’s importance as an agent for change: … the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” contended that the decline was brought about not…