President ’08
Historian Dale Light offers an interesting summary of how the candidates and their supporters view the country. One benefit of this interminable Democrat nomination process is that fundamental issues do get discussed — no I’m not talking about health care, or foreign policy, or the war, or any of those other transitory things; I’m talking…
… namely, the quality of his own presidency. From the Telegraph (UK): Standing in his cowboy boots on the back of a 1941 Ford pick-up truck in tiny Zebulon (population: 4,329), Bill Clinton bestowed on his wife Hillary what he perhaps considers the ultimate accolade. She would, he stated gallantly, be an even better president…
It looks like Hillary Clinton has the 10-point win that horserace analysts said she needed to keep going…
Camille Paglia writes in yesterday’s Telegraph: All women, on pain of excommunication from the feminist claque, must now support Hillary. Never mind her spotty record or her naked political expediency. Any woman with the temerity to endorse Barack Obama (as I do) is condemned as a “traitor” to her sex. “Gender is probably the most…
Like other conservatives, I’ve been amused by how Saints Bill and Hillary have transmogrified into untrustworthy and selfish snakes-in-the-grass in the eyes of so many of their former water-carriers. Along the way, we’ve learned that those who were once part of the media conspiracy arrayed against them in the ’90s are now taking their side…
Sir Elton, isn’t it possible that some people oppose Senator Clinton’s candidacy on the basis of issues and character and not because they hate women? And how can we resist flipping it around? In the unlikely event Condoleezza Rice ever runs for office, will you support her or will you be a misogynist? British pop…
Senator Hillary Clinton yesterday renewed her call for admission of the Michigan and Florida primary ballots. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday strengthened her pitch to allow disputed Democratic primaries in Michigan and Florida to be counted in the nominating contest, noting the vote totals had been officially recognized in each state. “Some say their votes…
In point of fact, if he were not running for President, Senator Barack Obama would have stayed. From the AP: Obama discussed his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on ABC’s “The View,” which was taped Thursday and aired Friday. Had the reverend not retired and had he not acknowledged that what he had said…
The illegal accessing of official government files possibly for political gain? Not good. Not good at all. Well, it’s a relief to know that the targets of this invasion of privacy – all candidates for the highly sensitive office of the President of the United States – are themselves above such scurrilous activity. Certainly this…
The following passage from Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism struck me as relevant to the (thankfully abated) speculation of Barack Obama’s assassination: On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. As if on cue, Dallas was christened “the city of hate.” A young TV reporter named Dan Rather heard a rumor that…