We have long spoken of Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy as a Rorshach of sorts — a blank slate, if you will, upon which his supporters and opponents (yes, good faith ones do exist) project their own thoughts, feelings, and desires. Some see Obama’s candidacy as a chance for a new sort of politics made up of hope and change, which can earn back some international | Read More »
The promised Text Message from Barack, which was purported to be a way of having supporters be “the first to know” who he was “introducing to the world” as the campaign’s VP pick (funny, I’d heard of Joe Biden before this — several times, in fact, like when he said Obama was a dangerous candidate for POTUS because he’d need “on the job training,” when | Read More »
Obama and Biden together can be the “Split Iraq into Three Unsustainable and Indefensible States and Withdraw All U.S. Troops by March 2008″ ticket. One word for that: FAIL.
h/t Mark Hemingway From a New York Times magazine piece on Obama: “If you talk to Warren [Buffett], he’ll tell you his preference is not to meddle in the economy at all — let the market work, however way it’s going to work, and then just tax the heck out of people at the end and just redistribute it,” Obama said. “That way you’re not | Read More »
According to a Denver Fox affiliate, Democrat conventioneers are such potheads that enforcing state anti-weed laws would create an extremely volatile atmosphere in Denver next week (as though more fuel was needed for the current Democratic brushfire). Democrat Mayor John Hickenlooper and several of his cronies on City Council and in the “only enforce the laws other people break” crowd had hoped the influx of | Read More »
The Obama campaign sent an email yesterday that contained the following passage: From the beginning, this campaign has depended on ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Grassroots supporters like you have brought us this far, but after the convention, we’ll be heading into the final stretch. That’s why on Labor Day Weekend, right after the convention, we need everyone to take part in a nationwide Weekend | Read More »
Let’s raise a glass to our own Erick Erickson, who just PWN3D Alan Colmes and some former Gephardt staffer on the issue of Barack Obama’s support of infanticide. Video will be here as soon as it’s available…and it’s here! Part 1: Part 2:
In its never-ending quest to appear “objective” and “unbiased,” the MSM — this time in the form of the AFP — is reprising its popular saddling of the term War on Terror with “quotes” (you know, to make it clear that they‘re not weighing in on whether this actually is, you know, a War on Terror) by referring to the Russian invasion of Georgia in | Read More »
Poor Jake Tapper. The guy is one of the hardest-working reporters out there this election season, and how does he get thanked for his efforts? With comments like this one: When are you going to go after McCain’s lies in his new 2 new ads, and the other lies released in his previous ads? Or every other minor statement that McCain makes, or his questionable | Read More »
Update-8/16@1004CDT: Don’t you hate it when you have a great idea for a title or sub after you’ve already published a post/column/article? I realized this morning I should have subtitled this post, “Set the Obama Reality Distortion Field to ‘Bush Hater=Bush Ally’.” Now that would have been clever As my friend and colleague streiff detailed Friday morning, the Obama campaign was apparently so spooked by | Read More »
Ross Douthat at The Atlantic posits that our current obligations in the War on Terror should at very least cause policymakers and military authorities to think very carefully before wading into the Russo-Georgian conflict in any meaningful way. One side effect of entering into a “proxy war with Russia,” says Douthat, is that we would run the risk of the Bear “mak[ing] things harder for | Read More »
Rasmussen released a poll yesterday that found 61% of Americans say Congress “should vote on offshore drilling [for oil] right now.” The report said: Six out of 10 Americans (61%) say Congress should return to Washington immediately to vote on lifting the ban on offshore oil drilling, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. But voters overwhelmingly expect Congress to adjourn this year | Read More »
I can’t help but wonder if the author wandered out of the theater during the penultimate scene, considering it disproves at least half of his thesis, which appears to consist of “This movie is terrible because there is a nihilistic villain and everybody gives up their principles.” I wonder if this guy made it through Star Wars Eps. IV thorough the first 95% of VI | Read More »
Rep. Mike Conaway checks in from the Capitol, where he is participating in the Republican refusal to go on paid vacation while America is in a growing energy crisis.
A number of Republicans will be taking to the floor tomorrow, despite the fact the House is officially in a five-week recess, to continue what Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) is calling a “historic effort to free Americans for generations to come from dependence on foreign oil.” Last Friday’s spontaneous uprising garnered both media attention and the ire of Democrat leaders, who responded to the GOP’s | Read More »
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), House Chief Deputy Minority Whip, has been asked to provide “personal documents” to McCain vice presidential vetters, according to a report made this afternoon. “Cantor through a spokesman declined to comment,” said the AP report. “McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said the campaign would have ‘no comment on anything related to the vice presidential issue.’” Further, McCain representatives neither confirmed nor denied | Read More »
When the Democrats canceled yesterday’s scheduled debate on solutions to the energy crisis, voted for early adjournment, and fled the Beltway for their posh five-week paid vacation destinations, they had no idea the House floor, in their absence, would be turned into the location of a rousing symbolic action by their GOP counterparts. When wind of the growing protest reached the Speaker’s office, Nancy Pelosi | Read More »
Frankly, I’m not sure what’s bigger news here: that Barack Obama predictably bolted rightward on another issue whose righty position focus-groups and polls far better than its lefty counterpart, or that the Associated Press actually reported the shift and called it that. From the article (h/t Stephen Halsey): Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil | Read More »
Update@4:43pm CDT: A House contact sends the following: It’s over. Ended with people shouting USA! USA! USA! UPDATE at 3:15 CDT by Erick: From another insider: Rep. Bishop just gave an impassioned speech as to why high energy prices affect the poor. High energy prices for the rich are “just a nuisance” but the poor can’t afford food. It is easy for Nancy Pelosi to | Read More »
Only to an addled mind could the McCain advertisement below, which compares Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton in terms of experience, qualification to lead, and sheer celebrity, be conceived as race-baiting. Unfortunately, the New York Times and their fellow Obama-at-any-cost diehards are just addled enough to try to make that argument. Today the Times‘ editorial board wrote: The presumptive Republican nominee has | Read More »
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