On September 12, Barack Obama declared he was going to “take off the gloves” (at the least the fourth time he has made that claim this campaign season) and begin his campaign anew, dedicating himself to the home stretch with a renewed purpose and an eye on the November 4 prize. The “final stretch” was beginning, and, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe declared in an | Read More »
For a sense of how badly the Associated Press tried to twist some of Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) words on foreign policy from this evening’s interview with Charles Gibson, please bear with me through the following example. The police in this country are charged with enforcing laws – if an individual, say, murders one of their fellow men, then the police are expected (required) to | Read More »
“I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. “I feel we didn’t do enough.” Thus begins an article that today shares its seventh anniversary with another attack on the Pentagon — and, of course, on the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, the New York Times ran a fawning 2,000 word profile of Ayers, whose glamorous, high-profile history as a domestic terrorist during the | Read More »
That’s the word on the even more reclusive than usual leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Korea Herald, South Korea’s English-language daily, reports: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had surgery after suffering a stroke sometime after Aug. 14 and is recovering, officials at the nation’s top intelligence agency were quoted as saying yesterday in their report to the National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee. | Read More »
Moe has a far more extensive takedown of this just below this post. However, I felt the need to weigh in briefly with a couple graphics and an observation (besides the obvious, which is that the Left still hurtles wild-eyed accusations of “Bush Cult of Personality!” at us, while creating symbols, salutes, and charms and symbolically changing their middle names to match that of the | Read More »
UPDATE: They’re selling a button now. How nice. This morning, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) used his one minute on the floor of the House of Representatives to say the following: I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, um, that the parties have differences, but if you want Change, but if you want change, you want the Democratic party, uh, Barack Obama was a community organizer like | Read More »
The number of uninsured U.S. residents dropped by almost 2 million people in 2007, according to “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007(pdf),” a U.S. Census Bureau report released August 26. In 2006, 47 million people, or 15.8% of the population, were uninsured. In 2007, that number fell to 45.7 million, or 15.3% of the population. During that time, the number | Read More »
From the Hotline: McCain’s camp said this weekend that he viewed the gov’t takeover of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac [Ed.-This has been masterfully chronicled and analyzed by Francis Cianfrocca at RedState] “as distasteful but essential” (New York Times), while Obama said he would be “reviewing the details of the Treasury plan and monitoring its impact” (release). Allow me to translate the Obama response for you: “In | Read More »
As I recounted below, Barack Obama told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he considered joining the U.S. military after graduating high school, but decided against it because the U.S. wasn’t “engaged in an active military conflict at that point.” The full quote is as follows: You know, I actually did. I had to sign up for Selective Service when I graduated from high school. And I | Read More »
Asked by George Staphanopoulos this morning whether or not he had ever considered serving in the military, Democratic presidential nominee and freshman Senator from Illinois Barack Obama had the following to say: “You know, I actually did. I had to sign up for Selective Service when I graduated from high school. And I was growing up in Hawaii. And I have friends whose parents were | Read More »
“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.” That statement, from Sarah Palin’s convention speech last night, clearly did not sit well with the Obama campaign. The following email was sent to the Obama campaign’s email list at 5 this morning under campaign manager David Plouffe’s (rhymes with “Muff”) name: I wasn’t planning on sending | Read More »
Erick said it. Ben said it. Moe said it (and said even more than that). Now, it’s my turn to briefly comment on the Event of the Evening. I was fortunate enough to watch Sarah Palin’s convention speech from a seat inside the aptly-named XCel Energy Center tonight, and have but one thing to say: Mission Accomplished. Palin hit every topic and note she needed | Read More »
Re: Protest Video By the way, are those Guy Fawkes masks? Don’t they know that’s so 16th century?
Barack Obama shot off at the mouth at a Sunday evening speech in Michigan, saying the following: We are going to change our foreign policy, because I am tired of listening to folks who talk tough and act dumb. If John McCain wants to have a debate about foreign policy, I am happy to have that debate. If Barack Obama making recklessly aggressive statements and | Read More »
Sarah Palin Barack Obama Office being sought Vice President President of the United States and Leader of the Free World Full name Sarah Louise Heath Palin Barack Hussein Obama II Nickname Sarah Barracuda Barry Obama; “The One” Public opinion Smoking hot in a “naughty librarian” sort of way May be The Messiah Age 44 48 Children 5: two sons, three daughters 2: two daughters Religion/Church | Read More »
The Obama campaign was quick to respond to John McCain’s surprise selection of Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as his running mate, releasing this statement this morning: Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil | Read More »
The McCain store is selling stickers and buttons, seen at right (click for larger image), for the newly announced 2008 GOP ticket. Sharp, eh? I especially note the fact that McCain and Palin’s names are in the same font and the same color, representing their team attitude with regard to the campaign. The only thing that differentiates them is vertical positioning — as the presidential | Read More »
With a hat tip to RCP’s Tom Bevan, Democrats Ken Salazar and James Clyburn are testing out lines of attack against McCain’s apparent Veep nominee, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) — and, quite frankly, if this is the best they can do on a Friday morning, (a) they don’t have much to go on, and (b) their heads must still be spinning from the masterful job | Read More »
From The Hill: Several members of the media were seen cheering and clapping for Barack Obama as the Illinois senator accepted the Democratic nomination Thursday. Standing on the periphery of the football field serving as the Democratic convention floor, dozens of men and women wearing green media floor passes chanted along with the crowd. [...] Several others nearby screamed “woo” during some of Obama’s biggest | Read More »
Let’s take a look at a few images to see if we can figure out just what it is the DNC is going for with their pseudo-Classical facade on Obama’s stage tonight. Now, anybody who paid attention for more than five minutes in ancient history class can spot several defects in the facade if the intent was to make an architecturally correct Greek temple. The | Read More »
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