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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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:
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
On May 16, Barack Obama bravely declared that he would debate John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee “anywhere, anytime.” “If John McCain wants to meet me anywhere, anytime, to have a debate about our respective policies in Iraq, in Iran, in the Middle East or around the world, that is a conversation I am happy to have,” said Obama to an adoring audience of “reporters” | Read More »
Barack Obama’s campaign strategy of purposely distorting his opponent’s statements, then running for cover claiming that he is being “attacked,” was on full display today at a Springfield, Missouri campaign stop. “[A]nxieties seem to be growing with each passing day,” said Obama, taking a page from the oldest book that Democratic politics-as-usual has to offer (the one in which the sky is always falling, and | Read More »
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