Obama promises FDR-like experimentation during second Great Depression

    I guess the private sector was doing fine then too, since the poor got to hear periodic fireside chats on the latest anti-business experiment Last night during his indoor speech accepting the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in Charlotte, we finally got the non-Hope & Change truth from Barack Obama: And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve | Read More »

    The Big Lie from Democrats’ Big Creep

    America has never been a “you’re on your own, winner take all” society By most accounts, former President Bill Clinton delivered a rousing speech last night in Charlotte nominating President Barack Obama for re-election at the Democratic National Convention. Clinton summed up the choice Americans will face on Election Day, thusly: “The most important question is, what kind of country do you want to live in? | Read More »

    The Big Creep: Not only isn’t Obama, Bill Clinton; neither is Bill Clinton

    DNC threatens to out Black & White TV the RNC with tonight’s Der Schliekmeister rerun Even before my Summer of 2001 conservative epiphany after 18 years a Democratic Party official, I used to chastise fellow Democrats for emphasizing President Bill Clinton’s glib wit on TV as the main reason for their support. The presidency is not a TV show, I would urge. No, politicians should | Read More »

    Democrats, primarily, caused the recession and prevent a real recovery

    But didn’t Democrat Obama inherit “the mess” from Republican Bush and haven’t congressional Republicans obstructed Obama’s recovery agenda? This is how a Democratic Party, with no Gene McCarthy (pictured), feels compelled to frame re-election issues given a failed incumbent with no record of popular achievements to run on. At least LBJ declined to run and Ted Kennedy challenged Carter in 1980, but I digress. It | Read More »